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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1903
Page
3
The piece examines how fashion arises from Paris, noting designers, embroidery, and fabrics create endless variations on similar outlines. It observes women tire of repeats yet Paris clings to one idea, until demand shifts toward novelty and the industry strains to deliver.
An overweight woman with six children and an elderly mother board a city electric car. She loses a pocketbook and then the transfers. After a frantic search, a fellow passenger suggests the pocketbook is in the bag with cucumbers, where it is finally found. A man remarks on women’s absent mindedness.
A tale explains the surname Kara meaning black linked to Kara George founder of the Karageorgevic dynasty. George Petrovitch, a prominent Serbian farmer, sent beehives to his sister. her mother seized two hives, provoking Petrovitch to dash one on her head, earning the nickname Kara George meaning Black George or you villain.
A concert manager notes a wide gap between a violinist and a fiddler, saying the difference is enormous from 600 to 5000 dollars a week. Washington Star quote.
The fragment offers no clear event persons or organizations to summarize. It mentions toes and neighborhood protection in unclear context, yielding insufficient concrete details for a news card.
Paris fashion studios push tight fitting waists and new corsets, pairing with straighter fronts and harmony skirts. Designers forecast lower full skirts, refined fabrics, and a wave of trims, braids, and pearls as women embrace a new, simpler yet elegant silhouette.
Thomas Edison argues there is no worker as mechanical as the telegraph operator. In a Cincinnati story recounted by the New York Times he recalls a night when operators received Lincoln’s shooting news with blank faces, revealing their mechanized handling of information.
Alderman Schilling of Milwaukee mocked the city council by proposing a naptha lamp to help residents see the electric lamp already suspended there. The measure was referred to committees in Philadelphia Ledger report.
Miss Anna B. Davis of Keokuk captured the state ladies golf title, with Mrs W E Statler runner up. A large gallery followed the match as rivalries from the state tournament added edge. In the men’s championship Maxwell of the Golf and Country Club beat Kimball, and J G Berryhill Jr defeated Guinand.
Train No 1 struck an unknown man about two miles west of Stockton while he walked along the track ignoring whistle warnings. The 70 year old laborer died instantly. body sent to Wilton for inquest with Coroner Norton. likely to be buried at the state medical college in Iowa City after unidentifiable verdict.
Chas F Noble, living in Chariton, has located his brother after forty seven years. The brothers grew up together but separated. They exchanged letters intermittently until correspondence ceased. Noble ran an ad in a daily paper seeking information about his brother and the latter’s daughter. A Michigan townswoman saw the notice and wrote to Noble.
George Coy, leader of a Black Hills moonshining gang, stood shackled at the Milwaukee depot awaiting transport to Sioux Falls penitentiary for a two year term. Deputies Carleton and Belding captured the group at Edgemont after seizing about eighty gallons of distillers bound for Newcastle Wyoming. The liquor tested at Deadwood showed 94 proof, proving the gang's skill.
Italian laborer F. Annello of the Northwestern track gang crawled under cars at Center street crossing and was killed when wheels passed over his head. Workmen attacked the train crew believing them to blame, with knives and revolvers drawn. officers intervened to stop the train and rescue the crew.
Perry September 12 5 000 people attended the Greene Guthrie Dallas old settlers picnic Major Charles Mackenzie delivered an oration on Fifty Years in Iowa Judge Z A Church and Hon Albert Head of Jefferson were among other speakers the event highlighted local history and community ties
In Cresco Miss Georgia Morse and Frank W. Foye, prominent locals, fled to Ridgeway and then boarded a train to Madison to marry. The Morse father opposed the match, claiming control of family affairs. The elopement has become a popular topic as townsfolk wonder when peace will return.
The Kossuth county board of supervisors approves new policies charging banks a minimum interest rate on county deposits and covers the cost of the county treasurer’s surety bond. These moves mark a shift from prior practice of banks earning from county funds without charge.
Haggard and nervous father Bernard Sittig, grieving his 10 year old son Richard, in Sioux City to pursue investigations into the Sand Hill lake road shooting. He plans a damage suit against Maurice Venmarter and Johnson Williamson or their parents, alleged to have fired the stray bullet.
Ottumwa reports two wealthy neighboring farmers in Chariton area clashed after long running disputes. Jesse Caviness shot C. E. Dows, who lies near death from the wound. Caviness surrendered claiming self defense.
Waterloo separated couple Charles S. Bickley and Miss Helen Hull of Chicago wed in Waterloo following a year ago romance sparked by a C. G. W. train wreck near Dewar. Hull escaped injury, a rescuer arranged transport, and the couple married after meeting in Waterloo.
Discharges in bankruptcy were issued to the following named persons by Judge Shiras of the federal court Eastern Division Joseph Miller Monmouth Wallace Pollard Farley Frank W Morrison Waterloo Cedar Rapids Division Adelbert D Wood Union Christian Eckles Cedar Rapids Joseph Swain Iowa City Helen M Slaker Marion
A readable fragment lists individuals and firms by division and city including Central Division members John R Hopkins Raleigh Roell Blank Woden Henry Garbuck Eagle Grove Henry Johnson Lake City Henry Bruer Ellington John Hoak Corwith Frant M Daniels Corwith Jerry Bickley Estherville Schuyler BP Cummings Woden Claudine Buer Hartley Olof Johnston Primghar Western Division John Grubbs Sioux City Wm Funk Montgomery Spencer Boiler Works Sioux City John G Smith Sioux City Ernest Martenan LeMars Samuel Agranoff Sioux City among others.
Ida Grove Sept 11 Mrs Marguerite Schumax 66 living three miles west of Galva died after committing suicide in her bed using a razor. She had suffered rheumatism for six years and persuaded a young girl to fetch the weapon before taking her own life by cutting an artery and bleeding to death.
E S Ellsworth returned from Dolliver Iowa with a valuable photo owned by A A Wells the pioneer of Iowa Falls. The image shows the log cabin built by Benj T Talbott one of the first settlers on the site now covered by Iowa Falls. The cabin stood south of today’s Illinois Central depot with a stone chimney on the exterior. The Talbott homestead barn still stands nearby. Talbott came from Michigan in 1851 and his wife was Iowa Falls’ first white woman resident.
Fire in the basement of Lowry and Syler store endangers Prophetstown Iowa causing about $50,000 in damage. Goods and building valued at $15,000 burned, along with multiple other buildings and stock losses. Special trains from Clinton Sterling and Erie sent fire companies to help.
The Iowa conference of the Methodist church opened with nearly 300 preachers and laymen. J Westey Botter was elected secretary T S Poole treasurer and Elias Handy statistical secretary. Committees organized. no business beyond that. Dr A George spoke on Sunday schools and W N Hall preached an educational sermon. M B C Mason urged negro advancement at the Freedmen's Aid anniversary. Ministers' appointments will be announced Monday.
Ex County Superintendent M Hedge’s brother Porter Hedge dies at his Lincoln Nebraska home. Once a gardener and later a businessman and attorney in Lincoln he was a prominent real estate man. His death brings sorrow to Mahaska county friends and the Hedge family.
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