Lantern club formed to avoid lamp posts on dark nights
A brief Monroe Mirror notes a lantern club organized at Prairie City to prevent running into lamp posts on dark nights. The item also lists assorted local visits, people traveling to Pella Ames Kellogg Boulder Sheldon Orange City and more, plus an ad for Pape's Diapepsin offering relief from indigestion and stomach misery.
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Smouse Barr
Des Moines
Prairie City
L. Colyn
Pella
Emma Husted
A. Kling
Anne Breen
Otley
Tommy Livingston
Ames
Agricultural College
Thos. Webb
Ida County
Morgan Carter
Jane Roush
C. A. Caulkins
Kellogg
Lucile Bernard
Boulder
Colorado
J.a.macdonald
Louise Gaass
Harriet Rietveld
Marie MacDonald
Mrs. Johnson
Wm. Johnson
Sheldon
Orange City
Ed Rinemuth
Monroe Mirror
Stomach Distress Promoted In Household Ad
An old advertisement urges families to keep Diapepsin for sudden indigestion. It claims the remedy digests any meal and relieves sour stomach within five minutes. It warns loss of appetite and heartburn as signs of indigestion and directs asking a pharmacist for a 50 cent supply.
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Pape
Knoxville
Co. A. Moody
Iowa
Ninety and Nine Hymn Singled Out As Sankey Inspiration
Rev Dr Locke recounts in the Brooklyn Eagle how Ira D. Sankey improvised the music for Ninety and Nine after finding The Lost Sheep in a Scotch paper. Moody asked for the song in Edinburgh after Sankey sang it, tears flowing among Moody, Sankey, and the audience. Sankey said he sang it as God gave it to him and never altered a note.
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Ira D. Sankey
Cgc. E. Locke
Mr. Sankey
Dr. Locke
Brooklyn Eagle
Edinburgh
Mr. Moody
Cycle of Fashions and Woman’s Role in Society
excerpt discusses fashion cycles and social morality, arguing that progress replaces outdated trends yet women remain judged by male standards. It critiques denial of women’s public voice and hints at legal penalties for women serving in public houses due to moral perceptions created by men.
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B. A. Ross
Bottled Heat for Winter
Heat is handy in curing a score of ailments and with a hot water bottle you have reliable warmth. Toothache neuralgia cramps or deep seated pain respond to persistent heat. A hot water bottle is indispensable in every home. Worth several times their cost as a foot warmer for frosty nights. Our stock is complete with all the best obtainable at the asked prices.
Women’s Work in the World and the Home’s Pull
Appleton's Magazine discusses the rise of women earning wages and entering professions once dominated by men, yet asserts that most women still fulfill roles as wives and mothers. It notes tradeoffs of economic independence, mentions women physicians and nurses whose lives embody service, and laments loss of home firelight as the core of womanly destiny.
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Appleton
How He Fooled the Pirates In Long Island Harbor
A guest questions a boat owner in a Long Island harbor about a fresh water engine. The owner explains the device and hints at past incidents of theft and deception involving boats. The fragment suggests a cautionary tale about scam or trickery at sea.
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Long Island
Akiiner
Mind Your P s and Q s Origin in Dance and Piracy
A historian notes how the phrase mind your P s and Q s arose from French dancing masters who taught careful footwork from Louis XIV era through the revolution. He contrasts this with harbor pirates who rely on skill to steal boats, jokingly noting his own boat’s fresh water engine as a defense.
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Martel
Louis XIV
Washington Apples Fame in Europe Sparks Emigration
Ernest Panu of Helsingfors Finland arrived in Seattle and studied Washington fruit regions in Yakima and Wenatchee valleys to gauge conditions for potential emigration. He notes Washington's fame in Europe and fruit growing as a lure for discontented Europeans seeking new opportunities.
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Washington
Europe
Ernest Panu
Helsingfors
Finland
Seattle
Yakima
Wenatche
Seattle Times
Special legislative rate offer ends April 25
The Capital reports a special rate of 75 cents during the Legislature. The 250 rate for yearly subscriptions will positively close January 30. Do not neglect this if you wish to receive The Capital.
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Scott
G. A. Vandermeulen & Co
Pella Markets
Monroe
Plainview
Hale County
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E van Howeling
Des Moines Capital
A. W. DE Bruyn
Buerkens
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