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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
6
Auction advertised for Thursday October 24, 1901, at 10 a.m. features 2 full head of horses including four year olds, drivers, draft colts, older mares and two branded draft teams. Notes credit terms of 12 months with interest forfeited if late. cash discount 5 percent. Auctioneers J H Hand and F A McMurray listed.
The Chicago Great Western Railway sells round trip excursion tickets to San Francisco from Sept 19 to Nov 15 for 50 dollars with return. Portland route adds nine dollars. Stopovers allowed. Agents including J P Elmer and John Y Calahan listed for details. Also Nickel Plate Road offers 15 and 20 day round trips from date of sale with sleeping car service.
Travel excitement and change of food often bring diarrhoea. Do not leave home without Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by Wagley and Smead, druggists.
The Chicago Great Western Railway announces very low rate tickets to Buffalo with return options three times per week. Interested travelers should inquire at any Great Western Agent or contact J P Elmer, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, for details. Subscribe for the RECORD.
Offer includes $13 to Buffalo Pan-American via Nickel Plate Road daily with 15 day limit, 20 day tickets at $16 for round trip, 5 day tickets at $6 for round trip on Tue Thu Sat. through service to New York and Boston with lowest available rates. For details contact John Y. Calahan General Agent 111 Adams St Chicago.
Henderson Grimett suffered partial paralysis and loss of movement in an arm and side. After two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, he was nearly cured. The maker cites other cures for partial paralysis and promotes it for rheumatism sprains and bruises. Sold by Wagley Smead.
Those who desire to purchase their winter supply of Potatoes should call on the undersigned all have a fine lot of fine Rural New Yorkers Cons H Porter.
Trains listed for east and west routes include Mail and Express, Flyer Express, Fast Express, and Local Passenger with daily or except-day operation notes. Timetables show station stops at Newton Monroe Des Moines Valley Prairie City Monroe Fairmount and other towns, with arrival and departure times and branches to Grinnell and Chicago Great Western lines.
A San Francisco justice of the peace claims Read and Murdoch drank together in Cincinnati in 1864 and wrote Sheridan's Ride under drunken inspiration. Whitelaw Reid presents a rival Ohio-based tale of Murdoch prompting Read to compose the poem for a wartime benefit. The piece ends noting Murdoch's stirring Pike's opera house delivery.
A Kentuckian revises a classic tale about Uncle Rastus and a baked possum. While the man sleeps, a neighbor sneaks in, takes only a plate full of bones and grease, and leaves Rastus with smeared lips and face. He proclaims the possum dinner proves there is less fullness than ever before.
Lawrence, earl of Ferrers, a distant Washington relative, killed his steward Johnson in a fit of temper. He stood trial by peers before the House of Lords, was condemned to be hanged at Tyburn, and, seeking mercy, had appeals fail. Ferrers faced the execution with bravado and chose a silken cord for the ceremony.
British officers in the Transvaal share a humorous anecdote about Kitchener and Boer general Botha after a fruitless peace conference. Botha quips he must go and soon boards a train, then loots a Delagoa line train two days later, illustrating Boer audacity.
In English courts a miner who lost a leg and was lent a cork limb by the Miner's Friendly Society has died and the limb was buried with him. The society now seeks exhumation to reclaim the limb, arguing it was a loan not a gift. The widow opposes any exhumation, and a suit proceeds.
Coins at the mint are struck not moulded. Moulded coins shrink in cooling, and size variations help identify base coinage.
Homeseekers Excursions will sell tickets to western points on October 15 November 5 19 and December. One fare plus two dollars for round trip. For information apply to any Great Western agent or J P Elmer GPA Chicago. Free sample of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets at Wagley Smead drug store. Regular size 25c. Huebinger Surveying Map Co will have proofs of towns and townships ready for inspection on October 28 29 at the Recorder's office Newton. Call to examine plots and help correct errors.
Westbrook and Geise on the west side announce a fine stock of Gunther s candies and Purity chocolates, described as the finest candies to be found anywhere.
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