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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
5
The notice lists Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul routes with mixed freight and passenger times. It includes daily and freight stops such as 7:40 am, 2:15 pm, 4:15 am, 5:15 pm, 6:35 pm, and 6:20 pm. Agent J W Jacobs is noted for the schedule.
A reflective note on fast passing days and the coming New Year. Personal mentions include Jas Harkins, J J Neil, W E Kent, and Frank Nottis with local ads for Foppe’s Pioneer Store and Eldredge’s Leader Store. Community notices urge subscription renewals and bank loan options.
Local items include Frances Gardner vacationing at Fort Dodge, C K Ellis buying Col Warren’s property, and various visits and calls around town. News covers sales at Eldredge and Knapp stores, Christmas gatherings, new residences, deaths in Sioux City and Alcester, and a mix of ads and human-interest snippets.
A collection of oddities cites dissolving ink with sugar, English borough freedoms as mere compliments, a village church offertory in a bell-titted bag, and a professor’s salt layer calc. It notes Vienna’s boundary growth, Jamaica’s life tree resilience, Quito’s hat etiquette, and a fear of cold from bare heads.
The text traces the origins of various foods and dishes. It explains Earl of Sandwich, Mulligatawney from pepper water, Waffle from water and honeycomb, Hominy from Indian term parched corn, Gooseberry fool from gooseberry foule, Force meat from farce, Blanc-mange meaning white food, Succotash from Narragansett m sickquatash, Charlotte from charlyt, chocolate russe from Russian charlotte, and gumbo as okra soup known as gumbo in the south.
A fragmentary Irish maid notes the unsettled weather with sun and clouds. The text mentions a quarterly notice and a Farm Elevator meeting at 2 p m, with attendees urged to attend. A thank you card expresses gratitude for support after a baby's death, dated January 1 by G A Dunham.
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