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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1898
Page
5
Perry Iowa community page reports visitors and residents, church events, lectures, and upcoming entertainments. Notables include W.G Birdsall in Des Moines, Lafe Young on Santiago lecture at the Opera House, and Florence Buckingham’s Florence Concert Company at Jamaica. Also mentions sales, repairs, and farming news with civic notices and travel plans.
Perry rejoices as Company B with Fs Dodge Cherokee and Sioux City units return by special train after long camps and illness rumors. Families greet them on a packed depot platform, with a 30 day furlough before muster-out. Rosters note Capt McKean Lieuts Parmenter Donhue and many privates. several sick or discharged remain. Iowa Day travel offer listed at end.
A pair of men robbed dress goods from Henness Co. in the noon hour. Geo Watson was captured, tried for petit larceny, and jailed for thirty days. the other thief was chased to the pump house and later sent away after town officials rounded up twelve hobos. Separate item notes YMCA course tickets on sale with Boston Ladies Symphony Orchestra as opening act and a lineup of acts through March.
The Des Moines Northern and Western failed to draw buyers for a $2.50 Omaha excursion, selling 131 tickets on a ten-coach train. Milwaukee forces a rate of $3 for the 90 mile haul, leaving theDes Moines line to cover $65 plus the trip back to Des Moines.
The three Holmes brothers from Brooklyn and this city confronted their father T. Holmes WT HH I and Bert Holmes with a handsome gold headed cane, beating him on his eightyeth birthday. The incident drew quiet concern as the elderly father is hoped to remain in the town for years to come.
Public notice from Winsos & Freason Perry Iowa stating that from Sept 1 1898 only embalmers with a State Board of Health diploma may ship bodies by rail if dead from infectious diseases including diphtheria scarlet fever glanders anthrax leprosy typhoid fever puerperal fever erysipelas consumption measles and whooping cough. The firm holds the diploma and offers embalming services per law.
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