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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1898
Page
12
Local grocer advertises a line of Good Things with reduced prices on sorghum sardines flour coffee tea potatoes maple syrup and soap. Highlights include Northern flour at $1.25 per bag and coffee now 10 to 30 cents per package. Emphasizes clean stock and best groceries in town.
London reports Spain seeks an armistice to discuss peace terms with the United States. The World’s Santiago dispatch adds Austria will stay neutral and Emperor Franz Joseph upholds his word. Shafter forwards Spanish capitulation figures and relief plans for starving troops. General Gomez says U.S. President McKinley will direct any further actions.
A schedule lists events at the Normal including readings by Cora Mel Patten in Chicago on Aug 2, lectures on Aug 3 by Hon Henry Sabin in Des Moines and Aug 10 by Gen James B Weaver in Colfax, and other talks by Minnie A Howe and R G Young in Des Moines and Rock Island. Also an ad for Weeks Laxative Quinine Tablets from Wagley & Smead promises no cure no pay.
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