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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1901
Page
7
The Record offers a fine display of fancy stationery in Newton with wedding and society invitations, announcements, ball programs, birth notices, menus, dance invitations, and advertising cards at moderate prices.
The passage discusses French dowry practices driving low birth rates, with critics arguing social conventions hinder marriage and population growth. It contrasts European dynamics with wartime concerns, noting Belgian Italian German and Swiss migrations as a response to France's demographic trends. A separate anecdote from the Cleveland Plain Dealer recounts a dog theft ruse where a man profits by discovering stolen pets.
A fragmented collection of vaudeville and market tales. The Little Boy Blue quarrels with Bo Peep over publicity and morals, while a Philadelphia broker wallows in cotton losses as a cheerful youth jokes about cotton. The piece blends fable and financial anecdote with dated newspaper voice.
Late night conversation and muffled voices fill a parlor as a gas meter ticks and a newspaper daily edition looms. A fit man from the Daily Bute mentions delaying an expected morning paper while a restless household contemplates the next day.
A forthcoming publishers' confession is scheduled for 1904 in Milan. The brief notice notes the event and location without further details.
An ad touts Rocky Mountain Tea as boosting appeal of listless girls into marriageable women. It cites a Martinsburg W Va patient cured by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, plus Dr King’s New Life Pills as effective for headaches and stamina. Also notes new wedding stationery line and subscription offer for the RECORD.
A garbled timetable lists mail and express routes with going west and east divisions. It includes freight and passenger services, connections at Newton and Monroe, with daily and Sunday exceptions. The fragment notes rates and times for Des Moines Valley Division and Northhound lines, plus local stops such as Prairie, Fairmount, and Bos. Kennedy Pharmacy advertises a horses tonic.
A collage of small ads and notices: Laxative Bromo Quin ine product claim on boxes. Neel's Bakery groceries and meat at the Hub. rent signs and fresh oysters at Neel's Bakery. offer to mail the Record and Poultry News from Lincoln Nebraska. travel ads for California tours via Chicago Great Western Railway and Santa Fe Route with Pullman cars. Homeseekers' Excursion by Iowa Central Railway every first and third Tuesday to Oklahoma and Texas Oil Fields. banked note about free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets by Wagley and Smead druggists.
Martin announces his withdrawal from hog trading and plans to devote all effort to purchasing rags, rubber, bones, tron, brass, copper, zinc, lead, and similar goods for cash. Bergman Bros. & McKinley will weigh the goods and he will call for them after notification by post office.
W right ready to repair pumps and wind mills bore or drill wells. A 40 foot tower and geared mill erected for 40 dollars. A 40 foot force pump priced at 11 dollars 75 cents. New stock of harness. Repairing done meat and quick. Always get my prices I can save you money.
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