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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1900
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes describe time tables between Chicago and Sioux Falls, mentioning freight and passenger concepts. Names such as Beck and Passan appear as uncertain references. The text notes daily passenger flows and schedules with unclear timing details.
A collage of town notices and ads from Rock Valley. Local prompts urge advertising in The Box, road and sidewalk fixes, and new subscribers. Mentions snow, storm windows, a Yeoman meeting, football at Sheldon High, farm loans, and a charity donation to Galveston. Also notes a political election summary page and local business promotions.
Local items report hard coal demand, draymen hustling, and a farmer audience for T. J. Lickel ads. Community notices praise humor, a window theft at Leader store, mail delivery plans, and Mrs. M. Hurd dressmaking. Auctioneers Fuller and Look advertise farm stock sales. Home water pipe care urged, plus talks on Christian Science and Thanksgiving services. Sidewalk repairs and apple crop boasts from western New York appear, with Baldwins selling for thousands. Auction ads close with Barred Plymouth Rock cockrels for sale in Iowa.
Notice to settle all debts to M Fouhs. Call and pay by cash or note by December 1 due to increased expenses. Named party M Fouuss. Cash or note required to avoid further action.
The Hawarden meeting of the Professional Teachers' Association, originally for November 16 and 17, is postponed to December 7 and 8. The venue moves from Hawarden to Alton. Senator Hubbard expresses confidence in the Hollands, noting in a letter that the election scene is nearly complete.
Sunday sermons and community notes fill the column. Preacher Rev. J Huizenga spoke at Archer as locals share visits, travels, teaching assignments, and social calls across Rock Valley Sheldon Hull Inwood Sioux City Hawarden and Omaha.
Wallace's Farmer praises Walpole Brothers herd of Shorthorns begun with fine cows and strong herd bulls. A daughter of Dick Taylor 18509 and Maggie Stone's Delight bred by Pliny Nichols and sired by Renick Geneva is mentioned. Maggie Stone, a standout cow selling for 1475, underscores the family's careful purchasing and steady additions to the herd. The article notes the value of Golden Aberdeen offspring from this line to any herd and urges attention from Shorthorn enthusiasts.
From Asuncion, a consul appeals for American export of axes to Paraguay noting Paraguesé men are wood choppers and their children sew. Trees are so abundant that only top steel axes will cut them, with Paraguay buying about $4,000 worth of axes yearly priced from eight to eighty eight dollars per dozen in Paraguayan paper.
An old advertisement advises dosing infants and small children with a medical emulsion to improve nourishment. It suggests quarter to half teaspoonfuls in a baby's bottle, and half to a full teaspoonful for larger children, mixed in milk, claiming quick nourishing effects if the mother’s milk is insufficient.
A reminiscence recalls Henry Irving in Dublin stepping in for a missing actor. The gallery crowd is described as a forceful institution with loud exchanges across the stalls. Irving’s thin figure and distinctive stride provoke a sharp street comment from a gallery boy who mistakes him for a younger actor.
A fragment from Stray Stories notes a couple quarreling about music and a meal. The husband recalls playing a melody the wife deemed lovely, while she recalls the steak being burned. The exchange highlights humorous social misalignment.
A fragmentary report notes a company discussion about paying employees when due and a youth who surrendered to police claiming cigarette habits led to his downfall. It mentions mischief by wicked readers and hints at a disease reference, the bacillus glarosia.
Fragmentary OCR mentions a plain comfortable stand costing $1,000 on ground valued highly. Quotation hints at AB Wendell Holmes verses about meat with brownstone fronts. Context unclear but indicates a literary reference and real estate value.
Fragmented text references global growth and a Japanese court. mentions death of an emperor and unspecified timing. Hard to extract concrete events or entities due to garbled OCR.
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