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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
6
Prairie City presses announces Carrie Winte opens a millinery shop called MIL on the second door northwest of the square, offering hats and headwear. Local customers invited to visit the new storefront and browse arrivals.
A crowded column catalogs school term notes and travels, weddings, and local incidents. Mrs C A Winter accepts barter for millinery, Miss Helen Itiheldafter and Maude Shankland are mentioned with teaching and visits, Halloween events spark joy and mischief, and a death case prompts an inquest. Community ties are shown through fairs, church events, and personal notices across Prairie City and nearby.
A Pall Mall Gazette report details a miner named George Hughes who learned from natives of a mammoth graveyard on the Yu kon river area. Skeletons lie on a frozen plain with tusks buried in other remains. Other sightings occur on Sixty Mile Creek and Bosuza creek as prospectors chase tusks amid arctic gold fields.
A list of notable assassinations and killings cited with varied dates and figures from European and Asian history. Names include Michael of Servia, Abdul Aziz of Turkey, Daniel of Montenegro, Archbishop Denis Affre, Mehemet Ali Pasha, Ferdinand Duke of Parma, Rossi Pellegrino, Spencer Percival, Charles Duke of Berri, Kotzebue, and others.
Ex governor Thomas T. Crittenden recounts a Kansas City boy who claimed to be Jesse James Jr seeking work in his office. The youth proved honest and later rose to run a division at Armour’s packing house. Also recounts Mozart and the Requiem tale with a fatal finishing twist.
A fragmentary exchange shows Grace and a suitor arguing over romance and sacrifice. The terse dialogue hints at pride, affection, and a clash of romantic ideals without resolving the dispute.
In a South Dakota reminiscence, a colonel recalls a hot campaign to win a Congress nomination aided by a bold expose. The home paper rushed a two day pre election edition, a cannon stove in the office overheated and melted lead, tar and turpentine ran, forcing the crew to flee as the press burned and the pivotal coup failed.
Breathitt County constable Wooten, repeatedly shot during raids, ordered a bulletproof three ply steel ring undershirt from Cincinnati. The garment withstood a Forty four caliber Winchester from fifty yards, leaving Wooten certain moonshiners must aim at his head to kill him.
Local ads promote a new surrey at a livery barn and call for trying the vehicle for a pleasant drive. Mrs Eva Fays millinery markets latest styles. Folders also note a house for rent and a poultry cash buyer at W E Hough Poultry House.
Beginning Saturday October 23 the Iowa Central in conjunction with the A T and 8 F Ry runs a through first class tourist car to Los Angeles via Kansas City and the A T and 8 F. Tickets are five to five fifty per berth with porter in attendance and all classes honored. Reservations through agents or Thomas P Barry.
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