Jasper County Treasurer Balance Sheet 1897 Interim Report
Jasper County Iowa financial excerpt covering Jan 4 1897 to June 1 1897. State Fund, School Fund, Apportionment Fund, Poor Fund details show cash on hand, refunds, tax collections, and vouchers paid. Totals include 34,314 82 in receipts and disbursements, with final certify by Treasurer Willett Howard on June 7 1897.
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Jasper County
Iowa
Wm. Charlesworth
Tne Roberts
Willett Howard
Tigaeures
Sch'l Fund
F Fisk
Bateman
Sam Hutsell
Farmac
Feeble Minded Institute
Orphan Home
Eoes County
Winter navigation on Lake Michigan continues year round
The article discusses continuous winter navigation on Lake Michigan with steamers moving across the lake and along the west shore. It notes the early attempts by the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad and Engelmann Transport, the rise of car ferries that operate despite ice, and the debate over ice breaking freighters for Superior and lower lake routes. Major obstacles include costly ice breaking, dangerous ice floes, interlake canals, and frequent heavy snowstorms that hinder visibility.
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Lake Michigan
Translake
Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad Company
Engelmann Transportation Company
Straits of Mackinac
Lake Superior
Lower Lake
Great Lakes
Interlake
Menominee
Lake
Michigan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Carl Schurz Praises Steinway Heir at Funeral Address
The obituary passage recalls Carl Schurz delivering a funeral oration for William Steinway, head of the Steinway piano family. Schurz extols the deceased as a model of useful living, rich yet unenvied, generous with wealth, and devoted to broad welfare. He lauds a liberal heart and universal brotherhood.
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Carl Schurz
William Steinway
Wrorkman
Schurz
Cranky Passenger Provokes Clerk Over Time Table
A city ticket office anecdote recalls a short man with a beard asking for a timetable. The clerk retorts with a curt question, then gives a timetable and the man leaves. The clerk quips that the man would complain even if a conductor said please.
Demand for Electricity Works Reaches Libraries
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes growing demand for electricity literature as a modern science. It compares current English to ancient forms and mentions the Bank of England employing about 1,100 people with a total annual salary bill (including pensions) near £390,000.
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Pittsburg
Bank of England
The Inconsistent Sex in The Quilting Bee
In J. J. Heaton's The Quilting Bee a speaker recalls a newborn baby and the joy of a child learning to speak and walk. The fragment expresses hopeful anticipation and a hint of longing as the baby grows, with vivid affection and family dynamics implied.
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Tam
J. J. Heaton
A Lesson In Economics From A Washington Angel
A Washington woman lectures a young man on frugality, mocking messenger fees and suggesting thrifty alternatives to courtly gestures. She touts flowers or candy with small notes as economical ways to win affection, and the young man ends up sending a 50 cent bouquet as thanks. Washington Star.
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Washington
Jove
Washington Star
Roman epicurean excess in ancient banquets and delicacies
A New York Post item recounts how Roman gourmets valued costly dishes and exotic birds. It notes peacocks dusted with diamonds or gold, parrots tongues used as words, and the pheneceptrix from northern Scotland as a prized delicacy, with preparations centering on tongues and brains as hors d oeuvres.
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Nero
Pheneceptrix
Ptarm
Point of View on Fashion and Health in Gown Debate
In a Philadelphia Times excerpt a dressmaker argues from a hygienic health perspective while a beauty insists style matters, and the exchange shifts to whether fashion can be discussed in common sense terms. The Washington Star quotes Uncle Eben criticizing boastful charity as a sign of lacking sense, and a broader line notes that a life begun to be more serious leads to a truer living.
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Philadelphia Times
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State Fund
Bridge Fund
Insane Fund
Soldiers’ Relief Fund
Teachers
Institute Fund
School Book Fund
Domestic Animal Fund
Mais
Ain
Uncle Eben
Eben
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