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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
2
A jumble of quotes and musings touches on tax reform, agriculture, family life, and schooling. It questions authority, notes the perils of debt, and contrasts old and new methods while debating discipline, ladders of progress, and the place of tradition in modern life.
The article notes canal abandonment due to railway competition, costing about 60 million dollars, predicting canals will fade from American transport. It contrasts wealth and work ethic via Roger Whitman, a millionaire's son choosing toil over luxury, as he trains with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad for 50 a month.
A tale recounts a poor woman with a severely bitten arm cared for by a house surgeon. While dressing the wound the surgeon asks what creature bit her, remarking the bite seems too small for a horse yet too large for a dog.
The Iowa commission selects designs for Shiloh battle memorials. The State Monument will be a seventy five foot column topped by an eagle, with Fame inscribed on granite and oak laurel motifs. Regimental monuments will be modest, not over ten feet tall, cost capped at two thousand dollars each.
State of King case hinges on whether an escape from Anamosa penitentiary’s quarry counts as breaking and escaping or mere escaping. The record recounts a natural cave reveal after inmates vanished during work, with a guard around the site and later capture in Salt Lake City.
The Des Moines river bridge once signaled by Kate Shelley during a deadly flood is being bypassed by a new cutoff. Once hailed for her bravery, Shelley’s cottage near Moingona is now visible from the abandoned crossing as trains reroute miles away. Public memory fades as the old act is left behind.
Rural delivery officials plan to renew work in southern Iowa within weeks to expand rural free delivery. After last season, work halted before finishing, with a proposed 14 million dollar appropriation to extend service nationwide. The department intends to push funds into thickly settled rural areas east of the Colorado Wyoming line, aiming to serve nearly every farm in Iowa within a year.
Gov. Shaw appointed thirty Iowa delegates for the International Mining Conference to be held in Boise City on July 23. The roster includes William J. Miller West Liberty W B Ballard Des Moines James W. Miller Des Moines James A Campbell Ottumwa John Verner Oskaloosa Lloyd Davis Des Moines Alex Cargavel Centerville W W Oliver Centerville HB Waterman Ottumwa P C Boston Muchakinock S T Meservey Fort Dodge J M Christy Des Moines J Id Stout Des Moines John Owens Beacon J N Lewis Hitman H L Byers Lucas Prof Samuel W Beyer Ames Prof Samuel Galvin Ames W H Norton Mr Vernon Thos A Harding Des Moines J H Foster Bain Des Moines James Wilson Centerville Calvin W Copp Adair John L Tilton Indianola A A Green Stone City Frederick Semmek Davenport J G Bartyh… Des Moines Henry A Collins Worth County F H Canfield Boone
A fragmentary dialogue shows a daughter recounting an unwanted kiss and her father urging firm refusal. The jagged text suggests a humorous or satirical item from London Wit Bits, noting the daughter’s reply about being told to say no and the suitor’s question about anger.
A massive blaze swept through Tucksonville Florida destroying 143 blocks and causing about 10.5 million dollars in damage. The fire began at the Cleveland Wiber Company fiber plant and spread through Beaver Ashley and Church streets toward Hogan's Creek, destroying churches and majorpublic buildings including the municipal and county facilities. Relief pours in from Atlanta Charleston Detroit New York Boston Chicago and others as plans for reconstruction and funding are discussed.
Rev. Weward Phillips of St. Gabriel's Church Hazelton Pa had disappeared from his home two weeks earlier. A body found Thursday night in a Ninth Avenue New York City building has been identified as the priest. Police suspect murder and have arrested Skirh Stanley a massage operator whose rooms the body was found in. The priest had been away from Hazelton for about two weeks on vacation.
Mrs Lyman J Gage wife of the Secretary of the Treasury died at 9 30 pm Friday at their Washington DC home The immediate cause was heart failure following a grip attack She was conscious until near the end Present were her husband Mrs Pierce of Evanston Ill Dr Johnston and a trained nurse She had been ill since March 12 while visiting her daughter at Evanston and after returning to Washington relapsed Mrs Gage aged from Albany N Y had been in Washington since marriage to Lloyd Gage and later to Lyman J Gage Their life together followed a long family affair with hardship and devotion among public duties.
Edwin I. Uhl died at his Waldheim home near Grand Rapids Michigan at 922 Friday evening after a long illness. Born August 14 1841 in Rush New York he rose from Washtenaw County prosecutor to Grand Rapids mayor and a prominent Democrat. He served as assistant Secretary of State under Grover Cleveland and later as US ambassador to Berlin before returning to Grand Rapids where he remained active in politics.
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