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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1916
Page
8
A confused passage recounts a domestic scene where Mrs Brown and others discuss a lottery and a quarrel over public frictions. The text mentions a spouse and a heated exchange about the lottery, with fragmentary dialogue and unclear causal details.
A garbled OCR passage describes people in a Pittsburgh park eating and joking with a waitress. The text becomes nonsensical with phrases like devil’s food and walnuts cake, ending with unreadable quotes and referencing a Brant.
An unintelligible fragment describes a dispute over ownership of an eight something. The text mentions a defense and a furtive listening context, but the overall meaning remains unclear and incomplete. No clear persons, places, or institutions are identifiable.
A fragmentary humorous column by a self described routine young old male correspondent recounts chatter on topics from war to Chesterton and Shaw, with a hint of Emmanuel movement and personal musings, ending with an advertisement for Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.
A farmer and his wife boast about their six month old son Roland despite a year of farm misfortunes including sick corn pigs with ear disease hollow cabbages and an appendicitis scare. They joke that he has never smoked a cigarette or touched alcohol, then worry about the future while their provider Tolak teases about the boy's future.
Sir Henry Lucy recounts a charming tale of the Inte Canon Ringer who loves children. He attends a party for children in disguise, leaving his coat downstairs and entering the drawing room on hands and knees. A dead silence meets his masked guests as he imitates sounds amid the children’s poetry and merriment.
Plans progress for Iowa State College herd and student judging team to compete at the International Live Stock Show in Chicago December 2 and 3. Sixty head entered include twenty fat steers fifteen hogs twenty five wethers and six draft horses and colts. Hogs and steers to be sold at a fancy price. sheep and horses returned to the college farms. A student judging team will represent the college amid stock judging exams and class work awaits final team selection.
The adoption of a new Ames city government form could bridge rift between city proper residents and Fourth Warders, potentially blocking their secession. A severance petition sits in District Court awaiting court powers, with committees backing either commission or city manager systems.
County overseer Shirley proposes a legislative change to require jailed bootleggers to support their families while in custody. She seeks an industry program funded by the bootleggers to offset county maintenance costs, replacing rock piles with work credits.
Reports from China Soq claim District Attorney CHne warns drastic action as jobbers in foodstuffs push prices across Illinois Iowa and other midwest states backed by the Justice Department. The probe covers milk bread flour wheat and related items amid coal shortages and rising coal prices. Drake Law Dean Evans resigns after ten years at Des Moines. He began as secretary in 1906 and became dean in 1910 with no successor chosen yet.
J J Hotz, a well known contractor and longtime public servant in Towa City, died at his home after months of declining health. He had been a prominent local figure for many years.
Sioux City banks report a monthly record clearings total of 23,079,383.08 for the just closed month surpassing the prior mark. The 1916 ten month total at the local clearing house stands at 188,587,339.11, signaling a record year.
Des Moines reports a looming coal shortage as winter nears due to scarce railroad cars. Shippers warn limited car storage and high demand may drive coal prices up when extreme cold arrives. Proposals discussed include higher demurrage and incentives for faster unloading. eastern lines are keeping western cars longer.
Cedar Rapids area college students pledged 20900 dollars of a 150000 fund to aid Y M C A international committee's religious work among European war prisoners. Nine college presidents and state college associations spoke with David H R Porter, YMCA North America executive secretary. Porter notes town colleges lead state giving, with 3060000 prisoners estimated for the effort as first association work among them.
Grinnell College President J. T. Main was injured when an Interurban car collided with a freight train at Myers crossing, fifteen miles south of Cedar Rapids. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and was taken to a local hospital. The Interurban was traveling from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City at the time of the accident.
The herd of thoroughbred cattle owned by BW Kretscher and Sandy Hill Farm south of Mount Vernon was sold to Warren T Cray of Kentland for 400 dollars per head. Kretscher shipped cattle to seventeen states during four years of operation, commanding exceptional prices.
Police say Elmer Sanders in jail for bootlegging led to the arrest of J G Brinegar Des Moines George Kruse Duncombe and Oliver Metzer Fort Dodge. The four men are charged with belonging to a gang tied to several robberies in small Iowa towns recently.
John Moyer sues Joseph Mochal and wife in district court at Montezuma over a farm mortgage dispute. The suit claims a feed and mortgage was nullified after F. X. Moyer allegedly sold land to the Mochels for 175 dollars per acre, though value was about 225 dollars.
Grinnell college plans three new men's dormitories on the proposed quadrangle. The structures will house 139 men and feed twice that number, with construction starting soon and finishing late next summer.
Cedar Rapids city council authorized J. D. Kennedy, commissioner of finance, to import and sell potatoes to consumers for cash with a limit of ten bushels per buyer in an effort to ease high living costs.
Des Moines report from the state Highway Commission lists October auto accidents with eighteen killed and 648 injured. The bulletin notes several fatal incidents at railroad crossings and four persons killed in September rail crossings.
Charles Erickson known as the potato king was acquitted in Des Moines municipal court on two counts of violating state weights and measures law. He was accused by W B Barney state food and dairy commissioner of selling dirt with potatoes and later over selling Diet in a large shipment.
A notice urges households to cut high priced meats and favor Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti. It promotes a free cook book from Skinner Mfg. Co. in Omaha Nebraska detailing a hundred ways to prepare the pasta as a nutritious, economical option for women.
A-So Tompkincg Chorkins exchange hints of thrift as Mr Be Theompkins directs Chorkins to be economical. Mr A- oou praises the contractor who sent cri n ars to ministers seeking their lowest ceremony estimates.
A newly married couple move into a bungalow in a new development near New York. The real estate agent notes an electric car runs from the property to the railway station. The car, akin to the Soonerville trolley, is crewed by a conductor and a motor man who mingle with patrons. The bride’s mother visits and remarks that her daughter greets the line’s conductors familiar to her.
Mrs B A OzGoop of Roxbury Massachusetts suffered from displacement causing bearing down pains backache and sluggish liver. After medical treatment failed she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recovered to good health. She endorses the remedy and invites others to write for confidential advice from the Pinkham Co Lynn Massachusetts.
A fragmented reflection questions a mysterious man who killed a goose and hid a golden eye. The speaker speculates that greed and obsession with casting greater value provoked the act as the bird offered odd metal instead of eggs. Life is a dream in this world and the next.
An old time health anecdote promotes kidney cleansing and ceramic eliminators. It urges avoiding meat and excess salt or alcohol, drinking water, and using a pill from Dr. Pierce of Buffalo, claiming it dissolves uric acid and relieves rheumatic symptoms. Send 10 cents for a trial package to prove potency.
A clipping notes North Dakota has 64 million dollars in land designated for school endowment. It references seasonal imagery and an inquiry about trees in summer and winter, but the readable fact centers on the state's endowment amount and purpose for education funding.
Mrs Sarah Berthold of Des Moines says she suffered extended back pain nervous exhaustion and side pains labeled as a woman’s trouble until using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. After about a year she recovered strength and health and recommends the remedy to other women. Sold by nearly all druggists.
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