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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
2
The document is a dated line from the official paper of Percy Iowa issued Friday May 12 1899. It likely serves as a legal notice or city report page header and reflects local civic publishing practices of the period. The fragment identifies the publishers Carrell and Zerwekh and the city and date.
The piece recounts heated discussions at a Chicago meeting about McKinley and expansion, noting crowd turmoil, misheard lines, and shifting political loyalties. It lambastes administration defenders as copper heads while praising loyalist rhetoric and predicting political storms around Philippine policy and electoral shifts.
Oscod Zexwekh buys half interest in Perry Advertiser and Roscoe Zerwekh joins as office foreman. Sam Carrell sells half to Berwekh. Papers note the firm name becomes Carrell and Zerwekh and foresee strengthened plant and continued prosperity. Local papers praise the exchange and welcome the new partnership.
The provided OCR fragment is incoherent and lacks identifiable people organizations places or events. It cannot yield a meaningful historical news item without additional legible details.
The May issue of Garter’s Monthly, a ten cent Chicago magazine edited by Opie, features Weltmerism the New Era in Healing. It reviews the Weltmer Method of Magnetic Healing, notes 70,000 patients treated since its three years of practice, and claims distant treatment via prescribed systems.
On the last day of the term the court granted two divorces amid rumors of infidelity. Ralph Exroy and Mary tied by divorce, and Maggie Byers separated from Ci ar Byers. Later in the day Mr and Mrs Joy celebrated a renewed marriage at home, followed by Byers and Mrs Byers also remarrying. Reconciliations are reported, with plans to live together, ending a dramatic chapter in the town's social history.
List of unclaimed mail in Perry Iowa for the week ending May 9. Names include Crawford, Reed Crabb, Phillips Anna, Roberts Mrs K, Riley W H L, Simpson Miss Alta. Persons calling for letters must say advertised. Frank M. Horxs postmaster.
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