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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1899
Page
6
Notices show a candidate for Jasper county representative to be chosen by delegates at the upcoming Republican County Convention. Also advertised are local sales, a baby medicine claim, and rail excursion fares for summer meetings.
Passenger train schedules including Mail and Express east and west routes. Monroe and Newton branches show arrival and departure times. Des Moines Valley and Chicago Great Western lines list northsouth services with daily and Sunday exceptions.
A quirky column in a folksy voice blends aphorisms and humorous observations. It muses on pessimism, memory, social labels, nature, debt, theft, and virtue, using a playful rural vernacular to reflect on daily life and community.
A collage of quirky lines and jokes about a talking bicycle, a living skeleton, humorous domestic exchanges, and satirical remarks on change, money and marriage. The piece plays on rapid-fire riffs and humorous character banter with playful wordplay and absurd scenarios.
A Michigan inventor attaches oars with a socket and ball bearing plate to form a secure step. A patent adds a V shaped door slot to lift elevator doors automatically via a car projection. A new scale shows excess baggage weight with a dial aligned to a 150 pound zero to indicate overage.
A collection of brief items reports two thirds of US commercial paper losing grace periods, London set to import Chinese maid fashion, New South Wales population 1,346,240 with a 100,000 male majority, Australia praised for town beauty, peak human altitude 16,500 feet harming health, France storing 200,000 tons of coal at Toulon since 1898 for war, Court of St James headquartered at St James Palace, and an estimate that over Christian era about 4,000,000,000 shamans perished in war.
A compilation of court opinions and statutory rulings on political conventions delegation of nominating power, ballot irregularities, party representation, vaccination police power, and responsibility for injuries when boarding or starting a vehicle. It cites White v Sanderson, Phillips v Gallagher, Morris v Columbus, Scott v Keane, Higgins v Berg, Runge v Anderson, Louisville & Nashville Co v Hale, and related authorities, noting methods for ballot computation and safeguards for party tickets and public health authority.
A compact sermon-like collection argues that bigotry crosses faith lines and meditation aids memory. It urges embracing trials as stepping stones, submitting burdens to Christ, and avoiding hollow religious appearances while advocating honest living and witness to God's glory.
Dialogue filled with domestic and classroom humor shows Mrs Enpeck rebuking a proposal, a clever Bobby answering his own question about the smartest boy, a scene shift request from a stage manager, a theater proprietor chiding staff, and a jeweler’s alphabet engraving mix up. The yarn also notes the first American captain general of Cuba as Andrew Jackson.
Property in Jasper county totaling 315 acres with first class improvements is for sale cheaply. Also a good house and three Newton lots offered via E. M. Wilson. Includes a promotional note for Rocky Mountain Tea and a mass ad for subscriptions and fancy stationery services. An anecdote promotes Electric Bitters for illnesses and female ailments with a local druggist.
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