12 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1898
Page
1
A 19th century feature extols merchant Eldredge of the Leader Store for replacing kerosene lamps with an acetylene lighting system. It highlights acetylene’s sunlike quality, higher brightness, safety, minimal heat, and lack of odor, praising improved store illumination and customer service.
The outline highlights tobacco company entertainment, Spain's reply in Selsin Tey, dangers of the Manila voyage, and Iowa themes on page eight. It lists treaty talks, Uncle Sam terms acceptance, General Miles's plans, pumps investigation, revised revenue ratings, and a Jacksonville governor visit. Also noted: Cuba’s president to Melville, a fire destroying Bismarck, and a newspaper subscription dispute with a legal view. Plus omnibus expos show, including Grand Court turning and many named days. Captain Sigsbee now commands Texas. Philip to Mare Island yard.
Poverty sociable at the home of M.23 on Tuesday evening August 16 invites ladies to attend dressed in their own clothes. Auction items include kaliko dresses hats belts and jewelry with grand prizes and refreshments served in a genuine hard time style. All are cordially invited to come and enjoy themselves.
A Mason City Republican column reports a novel soil problem in northern Iowa where long feeding of cereal crops left fields overly fertile. Small grains fail as rank growth chokes seed production while corn thrives. Remedies include seeding denser and mowing when crops rise to eight inches to prevent seed stock formation. A note adds that sugar water can ease hunger in food-deficient states.
The article extols the pivotal role of women in community well being and progress, praising noble mothers and reformers while condemning meddling critics. It contrasts heroic charitable women with golden age praise for a faithful homemaker, then shifts to a vivid Iowa farm scene of bumper harvests and abundance.
Professor Duncan principal of Inwood schools for three years died Tuesday morning at Camp Thomas Chickamauga. He served with Company K of the 52nd Infantry Volunteers. His body was sent to Inwood for pickup by the local Odd Fellows lodge. The funeral is planned for tomorrow, then burial at his former home in Emmetsburg.
The Fairview Observer notes J. E. Hazlett, brother of the Hazlet boys, starts the Liberator, a new populist paper at Jefferson in Union County. It praises John Hazlett as a fine newspaperman and wishes him success in the venture. Also mentions a good corn spring wheat harvest with no blight or rust as northern Iowa reports a plump No.2 spring berry.
A fragmented prose fragment hints at a day spent with nature and domestic life. It mentions a keeper and meals and reflects on language and memory. The text reads like a poet’s reminiscence about everyday tasks and speech.
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