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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1903
Page
7
Traveling women seek pleasure resorts and city trips as fall fashions emerge. Brown in deep shades tops the palette with a chic brown taffeta traveling frock featuring panel patterns and cobweb embroidery. Blues, purples, and long linen coats with ornate buttons forecast widely worn styles through late autumn.
A wealthy man laments the burden of inflated prices from dentists, bootmakers, doctors, and lawyers, noting how his status invites higher bills. He describes seeking second opinions to avoid being fleeced and reflects on the constant need to secure contracts in black and white.
A Philadelphia Record quote recalls a shopper who hides his identity to force fair prices. He explains leaving his carriage several blocks away to buy a horse, noting dealers grow angry when a well known millionaire hides who he is. The piece casts doubt on public bargaining norms.
Philip D Armour received a long jetter from an agent describing trade conditions as rain was needed in the travel region. Despite pages on weather and crop woes, no orders came and merchants replied concisely to the question of how they viewed rain. The reply: dry up, old man, dry up.
The German empress last year awarded gold crosses and diplomas to 176 women servants who had served the same family for forty years.
The article notes women turning to darned buckskin waistsets and table pieces using two to three colored cottons for decorative bands and squares inspired by Bulgarian motifs. It previews fall lace collars, epaulette shoulders, and cape styles, plus new embroidery turnover sets and travel garments with practical silhouettes and bright braid trims.
Connecticut highway commissioner James H. McDonald recalls travels through 168 towns where hosts offer codfish at lunch. He jokes he has eaten enough to help New England fisheries and jokes about becoming a pillar of salt like Lot’s wife. He prefers codfish swimming.
Jacob C. Johnson of Fairhaven Connecticut is called the last survivor of Commodore Perry’s 1853 Japan expedition, and James Gilland of Altoona Pennsylvania, now 73, is noted as having been with Commodore Petty before and during the entire voyage.
Fort Madison Iowa Sept 1 Marshal Rider of Donnelson Iowa shot and killed Dave Blackburn formerly marshal of Donnelson in the street after a quarrel in a saloon Blackburn resisted arrest Rider surrendered and is jailed for the shooting The case involves a former town marshal and an in street confrontation.
The Ackley electric light and heating plant changed hands for 20000 dollars. St Paul real estate firm sold it to R. W. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio, and D. J. Smith of Central City, Colorado. The brothers, experienced in electrical work, take charge of the plant and its connected heating system.
The Wright county Church of Christ convention met in Clarion with a program of addresses by leading denomination members in the county and state. State Secretary Aninette Newcomer of Des Moines and Rev. B. S. Denny will speak, with sermons by C. H. Mattox T. A. Lindenmeyer of Goldfield and Ralph Callaway of Eagle Grove.
In Cedar Falls a Cedar River park Old Settlers meeting was held despite damp ground and bad weather. Robert Spear delivered the main address, Mrs Geo Clark sang a solo, and the group noted fewer deaths in the past year among members.
Sioux City dispatch reports at the interstate live stock fair Parkerfield after winning the second and third heats in the 2:35 pace collapsed and died during the fourth heat. Results list Ada P. first Major Dent second Miss Vance third Handsome Harry fourth in 2:12 1-4. In the half mile and repeat class Tiburon won with Red second and Pug It third finishing in about 50 1-4 seconds.
Creston September report says over a thousand people from four Burlington trains were held up by washouts. Hotels and eateries were fully packed and many passengers slept in cars and depots until a train could move them west. Farm lands flooded and crop conditions deteriorated.
Town Falls September 1 describes an auction sale of debtor accounts from the Britt Tribune. Editor N. Bailey has advertised the first batch of delinquents and will proceed Tuesday to sell the accounts to the highest bidder. Debts range from a few dollars to 265 dollars and involve subscribers in many states.
Fort Dodge reports J. J. Scanlon, believing his son was murdered in Detroit a fortnight earlier, plans to travel there to investigate. He recalls a nightmare of two violent men and a fatal railroad death between Detroit and Durand. Detroit police found nothing in the boy’s clothes. The boy received a Catholic burial in Michigan.
In the Bellevue and Maquoketa region about 30 miles north of Clinton rattlesnakes are reported abundant. A.Ralston killed twenty two rattlers while harvesting hay on a twenty acre field. A woman at Bellevue and a girl near Green Island were bitten by snakes during berry picking and egg gathering. High water is blamed for driving snakes from river rocks earlier in the summer.
Two local weddings were solemnized in Red Oak with Dr MceCussey of Glenwood wed to Miss Nel He Tanner of the city and Miss Bessie Combs of Red Oak married to H H Cate of Anita Elliott. The item also notes events from Aug 21 to Aug 31 including a Methodist conference shift, a Nourban reunion, a fatal rail incident near Clairstown, a mill opening by Great Western Cereal Co., and various fires and electric plant transfers.
Clayton county faces a legal challenge as County Attorney T M Davidson files a petition against the county board alleging illegal purchase of fifty acres for the county insane asylum at $4000. The case targets the board ahead of the September term. The asylum serves forty one inmates and grows its cultivated land to meet staples for the institution. Superintendent L L Halverson runs the facility praised by the state inspector as one of the best of its kind.
The Hon. William J. Moir and his wife of Eldora plan their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. Moir, about fifty years a practicing Iowa lawyer, has served as mayor thrice and was an early 1870s legislator. A renowned after dinner speaker, he has long influenced Republican politics and knows many Iowa governors since the 1850s. Born in Scotland, he lived in Canada and Indiana, where he ran a bank and managed the county’s only opera house, and for four decades has been treasurer of the local Odd Fellows lodge.
In Clinton on August 28 Hannah Deer dies after learning via the son of her fiancé of a private matter at Fred Iritz home. Charles Pent, son of John Pent, exposed the information at supper causing hysterics. The physician ruled a broken heart as the cause. Pent and his son were grief stricken and could not attend the funeral.
Onawa, Aug. 238-T. M. Logan, pioneer of Harrison county who laid out the town of Logan and gave it its name, died at Centralia Missouri where he had resided lately. Senator Logan represented Harrison Crawford and Monona counties one term and was a longtime influential politician in Western Iowa. He was formerly wealthy and a political power in Harrison County.
Des Moines city area reports 65 year old William Thomas, a miner in No 6 coal mine, died when slate fell in his room. The accident’s cause is not known. His brother was killed in the same mine by slate two years earlier.
Georgetown Kentucky August 29 Caleb Powers finished his defense as the state closed its argument at 9 35 Friday night. The case went to the jury which then reported no agreement after an hour of deliberation.
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