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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1902
Page
6
Daily railway schedules list east and west routes from various divisions including Monro e Branch and Des Moines Valley Division. Key services cover mail and express, fast trains, locals, and passenger runs with times for Prairie City Fairmount Monroe Newton Grinnell Baxter Valeria and related stops. Advertising for Bigelow grocery accompanies the timetable.
Notice of reduced annual clubbing rates for subscriptions to the Record. Advertises low rates with several prominent papers and magazines including The Kansas City Star, Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines papers, The Homestead, The Poultry Farmer, and Youth's Companion, encouraging readers to obtain rates through the Record and pay a year ahead.
Iowa Central will sell homeseekers excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of January and February 12 to destinations across Iowa Minnesota Montana Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas and the South Southeast and Southwest at one rate plus 2 for the round trip with a final return limit of 21 days The Iowa Central markets itself as a leading short line to the North Northwest West South and Southwest with first class equipment through chair cars and sleeping cars and fast time For full information contact ticket agents or Geo S Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa feb28
Marshall T R Phillips warns dog owners to prepare for the tax collection starting February first. The notice appears amid travel ads promoting California Limited train service via Iowa Central and Santa Fe routes with rates and booklets available through Geo S Batty GP&T A in Marshalltown Iowa. Neels Bakery advertises hot coffee and frozen confections. Newton Art Studio partners with Rhoads wall paper and paint. Meredith & Son announce 80 acre Newton farm and vacant lots for sale. Patty Shells and seafood items advertised at Neels.
A column highlights Patti promoting billiards for singers and notes Florence Miller assisting her ill real estate father in Bloomington. It celebrates Fraulein Tiburcius as Berlin’s first woman doctor since 1876, and reports pensions for Breckinridge’s widow, 76, plus a $1,350 back payment. It also profiles foreign ladies, garden tastes, a German poetess waitress, and civic honors for women in Canada and several U.S. towns with noted female treasurers and a Colorado election result.
Payment by the principal of part of the contract price is a ratification of the agent s act in making the contract. A person who procures another to write a letter for him is presumed to know its contents when the recipient acts. A contract may be enforced against the real principal even if the contract states it is by the agent. Whether authorization occurred before or after execution, ratification can validate. The burden is on the party seeking to bind the principal to prove agency and authority.
The text notes sap contains sugar in about 200 tree species, with lifespans from 250 years for Patcis to 2,880 years for yew. It describes a watering method placing water at the roots by perforated tin can. It identifies New Jersey's largest tree as a white oak near Mickelton, Gloucester County, 95 feet tall with a 7 ft 10 in trunk and 118 ft branch spread, predating colonization.
Practical kitchen notes offer methods to prevent sugar from boiling over by greasing the pan. It also suggests dipping cold meat slices in beaten eggs then cracker crumbs before frying. A baked apple variation uses twelve large apples filled with sugar butter and nutmeg, baked and served on a dish iced with cake icing.
Towa claims more banks and larger deposits than ever. Tennessee bars employing children under 14 in mines factories and workshops under a new law. Minnesota enacts an inheritance tax law replacing unconstitutional features with a 5 percent rate on collateral and 1 percent on direct inheritances, with a $5,000 exemption.
A Chicago Inter Ocean account of a conductor quipping about a five dollar gold piece found in a passenger’s purse. The frazzled traveler argues over whether the coin is genuine as the car exits the tunnel. A sharp exchange ends with the conductor admitting he is no orator.
In a Times-Democrat anecdote a New Orleans doctor recalls a nervous patient who mistook abdominal pain for appendicitis. The physician notes the pain location and humorously admits mislabeling the side, yet the man later eats dinner in the same hotel.
The obituary notes Robert Louis Stevenson as an enthusiast in all undertakings, arguing that true authorship comes from fully engaging in life and games. A tale from his stepdaughter Isabel Strong recalls him urging a boy playing boat on a sofa to swim at least, illustrating his belief in immersion and effort.
Jones recalls an elderly woman visiting the office claiming a quarter tax was paid when records show it unpaid. He quips that his only mistake was marriage. She retorts that his wife made that mistake, eliciting a wry exchange from the Detroit Free Press.
A Victorian voice recalls a poet asking if they will be missed, written in violet ink on gilt paper. The editor, tossing the manuscript aside, whispers that those who miss him should not be trusted with a gun again, capturing a mordant editorial edge.
A Chicago Times-Herald quote describes a tall man as the busiest person in the establishment whose duty is to see whether others are working. The remark highlights oversight and discipline within a business setting.
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