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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
5
Prices listed for produce grain and provisions with per pound and per bushel figures. Hogs cattle and other livestock show indicated per hundredweight and per pound prices.
Rail timetables list westbound freight and passenger departures from Monroe and Des Moines Valley Division. Newton, Monroe, Fairmount, Prairie City shown with multiple No. and B. trains, including fast mail and limited stops. Eastern and western routes indicate daily and Sunday exceptions in a compact period voice.
Fragmentary timetable lists Iowa Central routes East and West with arrival times at stations like Newton Sully New Sharon Oskaloosa and Ottumwa. It includes passenger numbers and miscellaneous notes on local trains No 1 2 3 4 and accommodation locals for daytime and evening runs.
Fragmentary OCR shows mixed times and station names Baxter Valeria and Vareriags. Entries list southbound No. 3 No. s and northbound No. 2 4 6 82 with times like 6 67 p.m. 11:29 a.m. and 10:19 a.m. Ambiguous schedule lines lack coherent context or dates.
The well known oculist of Des Moines will be in Newton Friday July 2 1897 with Mr L B Westbrook to treat and operate diseases of the eye ear nose and throat. Glasses perfectly fitmen.
The list catalogues claims for a poor farm and related official costs including coroner inquests, witnesses, jurors, bridge work, jail goods, and goods for the poor. It names numerous individuals with roles such as clerk coroner, juror, wit, overseer, and auction or work items, plus a note about a dramatic bee incident and upcoming Edison projection at the opera house. The piece also advertises the Lehigh Valley fast train and teases a McClure's feature on William R George's Boys' Republic.
The page lists numerous land transfers in Independence and surrounding townships, detailing grantees and parcels in multiple sec tions and additions. It also reports Bertha Foley's fall from a Tremont dining room skylight in Marshalltown, injuring only minorly, and separate bee incidents in Cedar Rapids involving a resident and Louis Horsky capturing swarms near a street junction.
An illustrated pamphlet promotes the Great Rockieland Route to Colorado for tourist travel with low fare dates June 39th July 1 2 and 3 through klaple Leaf Agents. Mention JOHN SEBASTIAN G P A and Chicago Great Western Railway alongside local booster notices. Also includes testimonials for Chamberlain products and local bakery and druggist ads.
Mixed tea 25c at Burne Piles Piles Piles. Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment cures Bleeding Ulcerated and Itching Piles. Absorbs tumors, relieves itching instantly, acts as a poultice. Prepared only for Piles and nothing else. Every box guaranteed. Sold by druggists or mail 50c and 1.00 per box. Sold by H J Skiff Druggist Newton Iowa.
William Webber versus Chatrina Van Ringelenstein et al and a special execution directs sale of various parcels in sections 22 23 27 township 79 range 17 west of the 5th P M Iowa to satisfy a April 1897 judgment. Sheriff D R Tripp sets June 26 1897 as sale date at the east door of the Newton courthouse cash in hand. Clements Arnold attorneys. Date of first publication June 18 1897.
Town Central Ry P O Minneapolis tickets on sale July 4 for a round trip fare plus fifty cents. Young People's Christian Union National Convention Detroit July 6 13 offers one fare round trip via Chicago Great Western Railway Maple Leaf Route. Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised by families including A W Potter Indy. Toledo hosts American Whist League Congress July 5 10 with fare and one third certificate plan. Wagley Smead sell remedy. testimonials from E C Atkins Con Indianapolis praising Chamberlains Colic Diarrhea Remedy.
A compact newspaper notice lists Burns' rolled oats cracked wheat and other cereal foods alongside Tennant's All Solid Drinks and Fours tash No Suds.
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