Prairie City Press notices and local tales
Miron Sparks departs for Indianola to study music leaving a class of thirty pupils and active church engagement. Epworth League hosts and a surprise Modern Woodmen supper follow. Local family events include visits, new births, sales, a horse accident, and theft involving Daly from Brockett’s farm. A series of light vignettes and jokes closes with an ad for the Standard American Encyclopedia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miron Sparks
Indianola
Miron
Epworth League
Humorous exam answers from drift of notices and tales
A collage of quotes and anecdotes from Westminster Gazette and Punch, noting humorous pupil exam responses and domestic scenes. Stray Stories and Tid Bits contribute short vignettes on officials, servants, and lawyers, with a playful digression about Uncle Tom and a fear of plum pudding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Gen. Storrs
Train Tar and Profanity in Fragmented Dialogue
A jumble of quotation snippets from multiple papers scenes includes a lean passenger deeming profanity as the greatest evil due to inadequacy, a fat passenger sharing his pass is at home, a private love confession, a state attorney probing the sausage trust, and Charlie admiring a striking gaze, all stitched from Indiana and Cleveland papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
New York Weekly Tribune
the Record
Curable Heart Disease Offer Promises Free Treatment Trial
An advertisement for Dr. Franklin Miles claims a complete heart disease cure with a free trial offer. It details symptoms treated, 24 years of study, and promises free two and a half dollars worth of treatment to afflicted readers. Includes testimonial snippets and a sale notice for farm livestock with auction terms at Griggs farm, Newton area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Frank Smith
Chicago
Franklin Miles
Corner State
Adams Chicago
Public Auction on Farm Near Reasner
Public sale at my farm two miles southeast of Reasner begins at 1 PM Thursday October 12 1899. Items include 15 head Duroc Jersey hogs 50 shoats sows bred from immense stock four horses a span of draft mares one draft horse a gelding 1400 pounds a mare 1200 pounds six years old one draft suckling colt 400 bushels of corn and other items. Terms 12 months without interest on sums over $10 if paid when due otherwise 8 percent from date 5 percent off for cash. Auctioneers C E McBrive M A McCorp. Ladies Home Journal subscriptions offered under special terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griggs Farm
Newton
Monroe
Wilson Station
Rock Island Railroad
Reasner
C. E. McBrive
M. A. McCorp
Auc
Paradise Valley South Platte for Farmer and Stock Raiser
South Platte Valley in Colorado is pitched as a region of lush fields and easy irrigation with alfalfa wheat corn oats and vegetables plus fruit orchards. The notice promotes excursions with round trip fares from Chicago and Northwestern or Union Pacific agents to Bayer Colorado on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. John F. Allbee Newton Iowa is the contact for information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Platte Valley
Col
Colorado
Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific Alway
Bayer
Colo
John F. Allbee
Newton
Iowa
Proof of Will for Celia B Keenan Deceased
Notice announces the will of Celia B Keenan will be proved October 16 1899 in Jasper County Iowa District Court with Clerk H Kappte and Deputy A H Brows and attorneys Meredith & Oca listed. Also mentions RETO EY cakes ingredients and Newton kitchen quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celia B. Keenan
District Court
Jasper County
Iowa
H. Kappte
A. H. Brows
Meredith & Oca
Newton
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the Prairie City Press
Fies
Carrie White
Béiter
Square
C.C. Woodard
P. E
Frank Woodard
Nebraska
Frank Davis
Mr. Davis
Mise Hattie DeFrank
Dea Moines
Pella
John Vandermast Jr
Asa Vandermast
Andy Yuill
Anson Hanes
H. A. Geer
California
Missouri
John Butters
Kate Kating
Washington
Union Hall
Becca Woolford
Parker
Dode Eliott
Prairie Bell
Brockett
Daly
Mr. B
Mr. Brockett
Yaamma
Tommy
Mrs. Banks
Cox
Harper's Bazar
Fuddy
Ben Thayer
Addie Moore
Duddy
Boston Transcript
Bull
Bear
Dunbar
Millonaire
Muggins
Henny Beck
Smallberg
Pittsburg
Chronicle-Tel Graphong
Gushwell
Gift of the People
Puck
Bridget
Brooklyn Lit
Rush
Cleveland
Dr. Ayer
Westminster Gazette
Ogilvie
Scotland
Dominie
Mrs. Gimp
Mr. Gimp
Briggs
New York
Sausage Trust
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Charlie
Jeanve
Franklin Mills, M. D
LL. B
Ladies Home Journal
Boston
N. W. Cor. Square
THE
Record
Leland Hotel
Michigan and
Jackson Boulevards
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