City to hold public hearing on sewer improvements in 1915
City Clerk A C Kuyper notes a meeting on September date 1915 in the Council Chamber at 7 30 PM to hear objections to a proposed sanitary sewer project. The plan lists numerous 8 and 10 inch vitrified pipes across many streets with manholes flush tanks and accessories and assigns costs to abutting property per benefits.
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Sai City
Pella
Iowa
Center of Peace
East Third Streets
East Third Street
University Street
Huber Street
Oskaloosa Street
Third
Oskaloosa Streets
Oskaloosa and
Clark Streets
Clark Street
South Street
Main
South Streets
East Second Street
South
Broadway Streets
Broadway
West First Street
Independence
West First
Independence Streets
Independence Street
Center of
East First Streets
East First Street
Blac Streets
Liberty Street
Center East Third
Liberty Streets
Oskaloosa
East Third
Liberty T
Washington
Washington Street
Center Broadway
Center
Franklin
West Third Street
West Third Streets
West Third
Columbus Streets
Columbus Street
O. P
West Fourth Street
West Fourth
Franklin Streets
Franklin Street
West Fifth Streets
West Fifth Street
Fifth Street
West Fifth
West Fourth Streets
Washington Streets
West Second and
Extention Streets
Extention Street
Manion Streets
Marion Avenue
Addition ‘Street
Addition Street
Addition Streets
West Second Street
Addition
West Second Streets
West First Streets
West First and
Broadway Street
Extension
A. C. Kuyper
The Cigarmakers Ambitions and Daily Tobacco Privilege
A fragmented note describes Cuban cigarmakers receiving six high grade cigars each morning from their employer for personal use as they perform a day’s work. The passage hints at preferences for newspapers and novels alongside this perk, though the text is incomplete.
The Havana tobacco industry and slave labor echoes
The text notes Havana tobacco workers earning nearly 250000 yearly, with a firm head offering to surrender his factory if workers rolled cigars themselves. It then surveys Slav history, contrasting Mongol and Turkish influences on Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian cultures with Latin Slavs who joined crusades and Renaissance thought.
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Havana
Godfrey de Bouillon
Literary Digest
The Loon a Good Diver and Sleep Habits
The loon excels as a diver and earns its livelihood by it. It is swift and can stay underwater for long periods. While diving it uses both wings and feet and travels hundreds of yards. The loon, like other waterfowl, sleeps on the water with head tucked under its wing.
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Anne
Russia
Neva
Travel memories and a speaking of character
A Louisville Courier-Journal voice notes a traveler returning with views from foreign places including photos of himself on London Bridge the Leaning Tower of Pisa and near pyramids. A Baltimore American remark questions spotless character citing ink spilt on one.
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London Bridge
Pisa
Louisville Courier-Journal
Baltimore American
Looking Backward and Witty Snippets in The Post
A collage of quips and anecdotes including quotes from the Pittsburgh Post and Plutarch. Mrs Crossdyke explains preferring Saturday servants for train and dinner reasons. A joke about a dentist and laughing gas follows, reflecting light humor and dated tone.
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Pittsburgh Post
Escaping Comanches Beneath Texan Skies in 1868
In 1868 a 30-man hunting party crossed the Texas frontier near New Mexico and Indian Territory. I rode ahead, dodging five Comanches and slept while they searched. Morning revealed I had befriended them, then I led a one-man breakout, survived a night-long stand, and returned to the camp with the bodies of fallen men bearing Lincoln era medals.
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Texas
New Mexico
Indian Territory
Custer
Thunder Cloud
Lincoln
Tnctions
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Priair
London Express
Nile
New York Times
Plutarch
Ine
Kuypers
M. Quad