Mild recollections from Humboldt and Hardy towns
The Humboldt area notes a quiet election for school directors, new Humboldt band uniforms, and local visits by Arch Wackley deputy sheriff and others. Reports include births, illnesses, and deaths, with community updates on snow, corm picking halts, farm work plans, and social gatherings in Hardy and Rutland regions.
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Humboldt
Messers Notestive
Winters
James
Rutland News
Little Urchie Philips
Dr. Arndt
Obituary notices Hart and Winter families in Iowa
Ann Briggs born in Ancaster England January 16 129 and died in Hardy Iowa October 1899 aged 76 years one month sixteen days. Her husband Charles Winter survives with eight children. They lived in An caster England Amz arvon WL Hum boldt County Iowa before her death. The notice includes thanks to friends, a WCTU meeting notice, and assorted local items about real estate transfers ads and community notices in Monona Wright and Humboldt counties.
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Ann Briggs
Ancaster
England
Hardy
Iowa
Charles” Winter
America
Amzarvon
Humboldt County
M. E. Charsh
Hudboldt
Wif
Charyes
Monona County
Wright County
Iowa Valley Press
R. W. Strong
Grapevine Telegraph
Keeler
Strong
Butterfield
Wis Mongoose Experience in Chicago Tribune
A Chicago Tribune clip describes a man who fell for a fake mongoose lure. He shipped the creature for exhibition, hired an artist, and staged a tropical scene. When crowds gathered, the supposed beast remained hidden in straw, leaving officials puzzled by the camouflage and the hoax.
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Collester
Bain
Snr
Leopard and pan chase endanger Himalayan leopard tale
A Kaila woman on a rock ledge hurls boiling water from a pan toward a leopard below. The pan, bouncing and rolling, drives the big cat down the ravine through miles of terrain. The leopard avoids the pan’s fiery threat but the pursuit ends with the pan tumbling away, leaving the animal unharmed but startled.
Lightning rods stir conflicting views in Chicago News
A nephew questions why Uncle Josh keeps lightning rods on the house and barn. The old man admits they may not protect but argue they deter lightning peddlers, reflecting lingering debate in Chicago News.
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Josh
Chicago News
Feeding Hotel Help At Waldorf Astoria Breakfast Tally
The Waldorf Astoria in New York begins each day by preparing breakfast for 1,200 employees. The earliest rising guests are served as the staff start their day, with a humorous note on the routine life in the hotel. The piece includes a Boston Transcript quip and a Medion Record joke about financial woes and marriage to a doctor.
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T.U
Still
Congress
Philippines
Manilla
Bik
Rejes
Waldorf- Astoria
New York
Sugar beet sugar production expansion in United States
Sugar production has revived despite the Spanish war impact. Michigan New York California and Minnesota run new factories. Eighteen factories operate at a capacity of 12600 tons daily with eight more planned for 1894. Iowa proves profitable for sugar beets in northern two thirds, enabling domestic sugar and potential regional exports.
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United States
Michigan
New York
California
Minnesota
She Hots
Nebraska
Colorado
Ames
Lowa
Towa
Iowa
Carrié
Waterko
Cedar City
Clear Lake
Ndt
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W. H. Heywood
Olden & Son
Headquarters For Trade
Bulletin
Renwick Toles
Nate Jr. Toft
Mason
Bode
Visi
Johr Zechfel
Arch Wackley
Eric Ericson
Emmetsberg
E. Sterffecher
LaVerne
Humboltut
C. .H. Long
Mable
Clarion
Kegley
Cedar Rapids
Will Clausen
Chris Nelson
Home Mission Circle
Alice Plumley
Luni
Clerion
Nate Loobey
John Overbaugh
S. W
Philip Gates
Knights and Ladies of Security
K. A. Corbin
E. E. Robinson
Mrs. O.E. Hart
HB. Cole
The
Democrat
Lem Davis
Lem
Holmes
Mamie Abrahamson
Sumner
Dayton Township
Ada Yarnell
Norway Township
I. B. Cole
Count Talstoy
Cosmopolitan
Tolstoy
Pasternak
Hs. Cole
Forest City
Kelley
John Anderson
Iowa Experiment Station
C.¥. Curtiss
North-Western Line
Chicago & North‘Western R’y
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