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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
6
A poetic dialogue on standing in one’s own light and fighting for truth, followed by a local notices section listing residents, visits, sales, and small ads in Rock Valley with names such as Hurd Large Doolittle and Fuller.
H. and Shipman and friends express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and those who assisted with sympathy and deeds after their bereavement.
A thoughtful note extols the newspaper as a weekly companion for households guiding teaching, news, and community cheer in rain or shine, describing it as a friend, advertiser, and source of sunshine for all ages.
Pioneer farmer James Fitzpatrick marketed a record hog carload in Rock Valley. The fifty-one hogs weighed 19 220 pounds total averaging 879 pounds each. Livestock dealers called it the finest and most uniform lot ever seen from a single yard. Ten teamsters hauled them to town.
The article discusses a secret of selling and the practice of buying for cash to secure discounts. It contrasts partnerships where survivors pay a deceased partner’s share with a model agreement in the A.O.U. W. Hach group where members contribute to losses on death, highlighting self-congratulatory relief at being the payer rather than the seller. It cites Foppe's Pioneer Store as endorsing cash purchases for discounts.
School notes report two new reporters and several visitor visits. Absent students Alfred Scott Dwight Minard Josie Foppe and others are noted along with Mrs Woods Mrs Leighton and Miss Minard visiting. A talk on Ross Mensuration Blocks by A H E Whitten is mentioned and Miss Gertrude Minard resumes teaching after returning from Sioux City. Hardware advertises locks and other items with urging customers to buy before price rises.
Local notes report shipments of building material arriving this week and corn harvest nearing completion. Movements include Mrs. Frank Scott and children visiting Wx. Osborne, Baynes back photographing, and O M Merritt purchasing a Hills livery barn to relocate. Henry Rosemeir plans to move to Bancroft next week. W VanderPlats returns from the Klondike and will sell his 200 acre Lyon county farm. A sale near Orange City on November 30 1898 lists 40 Poland China stock with a lunch at 11, sale at 30 am.
An Moscow court jailed Princess Hugalytcheff for embezzling 140,000 rubles and falsifying her baptismal date from 1847 to 1867. The case exposed attitudes toward age and marriage in Russian society as witness Prince Eugalytcheff disclosed indifference to a bride’s true age and a payment of 8000 rubles for his name. The jury spared the charge of age falsification and the princess was exiled.
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