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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1900
Page
2
A Maine attorney noted for sharp bargaining sought extra counsel fees after a deal. He and two wealthy partners profited early, then the venture collapsed as others quietly unloaded. When the lawyer cried loss, partners revealed they never did, having unloaded two months earlier with a $500 tip.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote describes a sick young man fearing pneumonia and asking the doctor to check for brain disease after getting soaked at a wedding reception. The physician smiles at the misinterpretation and reassures him, noting a harmless heavy cold and advising rest. The patient’s fear centers on water on the brain after his wet journey home.
Senator Shoup and several officials on a private car tour in Washington raise a purse for porter Johnson after returning home. Shoup scolds him for faults yet presents the gift, Johnson gratefully thanks the group, joking that they are gentlemen and he is their friend. Other items note a barber in Grafton and a deaf and dumb man in Indianapolis.
Letters from Mrs Amos F Escuier of Romeo Michigan Mrs Clara Stieber of Diller Nebraska and Mrs E F Custer of Brule Wisconsin praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving terrible menstrual pains female troubles and kidney and stomach issues after using the remedy. Each testimonial notes prior suffering and restored health following treatment.
Des Moines April 23 The executive committee of the State Agricultural Society outlines next year’s fair improvements including new walks better sanitation with dry closets and a permanent stock pavilion. Night entertainments and Hagenbeck animal shows are considered while a $50 000 Shiloh battlefield monument program for 11 Iowa regiments is announced with plans to place the units’ memorials by April 6 1901.
Court in Hammond Indiana hears Griffin versus Griffin a divorce suit seeking an absolute divorce and $25000 alimony. The couple formerly of Fort Dodge moved to Hammond two years ago where Griffin became Lake Lighting Company stockholder and general manager. Ground is infidelity and Mrs Griffin accuses him of wrongdoing while he admits guilt. Also note Charles L Joselyn of Clinton facing a baffling disease diagnosed as melonasis a cancerous condition with grim prognosis.
Judge Shiras delays council rate regulation for Cedar Rapids Water Co by injunction. The companys charter lapsed since the injunction, but the court holds rate control may be obtained only by contract. He urges city and company to negotiate. City seeks a new plant and refuses to purchase the existing one.
The Wheaton College Prohibition club held its annual contest in the college chapel with speakers Delaney Swink Harrop Leech Olson. The winning contestant was O M Olson of Cambridge this state, who will be sent to the state contest at Galesburg NL May 4 5.
Supervisor Elliott of Hawarden announces will hire several women as enumerators in the Eleventh Iowa district, with appointments already made. Farmers in Buena Vista Cherokee Clay Dickinson Ida Lyon Monona O’Brien Osceola Plymouth Sac Sioux and Woodbury counties may greet young women with portfolios who will ask a long list of census questions. The measure, though once rare, aims for more accurate age statistics and challenges norms that women vote.
Mrs. W. C. McNamara sues for divorce from her husband, president of the Eastern Nebraska & Gulf Railway, alleging unfaithfulness after discovering the husband with a South Dakota school teacher. The couple are prominent Sioux City residents, with the right of way to Omaha and other properties involved. The scandal shocks the community.
Alderman Higley directs vacant lot farming to aid unemployed and prove sugar beets profitable. He plans 1.5 acres in city center with free planting, joined by four other leaders to plant five to ten acres nearby. Beets sold to Minneapolis factory at 35.50 per ton, aiming to spur future farm expansion and potential factory erection. State interest grows, with agricultural college faculty weighing beet rather than potatoes for charity efforts.
Edward Entwistle aged 87, who ran with George Stephenson on the first Stephenson rocket trip in 1829, was initiated into Des Moines lodge 113 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He was a 16 year old apprentice in a Liverpool machine shop when the trial locomotive ran. Stephenson chose him as an assistant on the trip. Entwistle lived as a steamboat and stationary engineer for most of his life, moving to America as a young man.
A man named Slan lon from Sabula, long believed very poor, is now thought to have left substantial money. A house search uncovered several hundred dollars buried under the floor, prompting a wider search for several thousand dollars hidden elsewhere.
In Marshalltown the jury found for the plaintiff in the Lanza case against Le Grand Quarry for $25,000 damages and assessed recovery at $5,000 after a premature explosion of gunpowder injured the plaintiff while employed by the defendant. Alma Paul of Chicago sues George Provost of Dubuque for $15,000 for breach of promise to wed after leaving Berlin to marry him.
London dispatches report Gen Sir Henry Rundle entrenched near Dewds dorp awaiting Gen Campbell with the Sixteenth brigade. Rundle engaged the Boers after advancing, with two casualties and one lieutenant wounded. Dispatches from Bloemfontein and Lourenço Marques discuss uncertain positions, possible delays, and Boer strength estimates, including claims of 105,000 in the field and 90,000 still musterable.
New York April 23 Dick a vicious elephant of the Sons Forepaugh circus was strangled to death at Madison Square Garden while handlers tried to subdue him. After chaining and removing him from the Quadrille, 14 men pulled on ropes until the animal choked. Dick, about 35, weighed 5000 pounds, was a longtime performer trained nearly 20 years ago. The carcass was removed after 16 hours of work. skin may go to Andrew Carnegie’s Pittsburgh museum. Also reported a fire destroying the St Louis Chronicle plant, causing about 50000 in loss with 21000 insurance.
The article notes Emperor William plans a palatial yacht with construction starting soon. It contrasts royal yachting leadership, citing Empresses Victoria Eugenie and Frederick of Germany, Archduchess Stephanie, and the Nordeutscher Regattaverein. It mentions Iduna’s Kiel regatta success and Empress Eugenie’s steam yacht Thistle.
A brief adage attributed to Shelley on purity of perception. The line echoes a philosophical stance suggesting that moral or conceptual purity reflects the observer more than the object.
A faded dialogue about offering nothing but a demand to stop calling. It contrasts a romantic rhetorical excess with a blunt, dismissive directive that ends the exchange. The piece then shifts to promotional copy for health tonic Hostetter's Stomach Hitters and a brief satirical cartoon caption about a poet laureate.
A collage of short lines from newspapers and ads. Snippets joke about Mary, a cough remedy from Kemp Hallam, a brochure titled Why Do Men Gamble, a quip about a happy man and troubles, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim a one day cure, and assorted observations on truth, dye colors, ennui, and a joke about United States capital in trusts.
A youthful millionaire proclaims he has built a home fit for his fiancée and promises lavish interior work with decorators and artists. She replies that once they move in she wishes to furnish the residence again to suit her own taste, prompting his enthusiastic assent.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers round-trip tickets at about half rates on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April to major Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and West Florida points. Excursions are arranged under P. Sid Jones in Birmingham and J. Ridgely in Chicago, with immigration details noted.
A dramatic excerpt shows Count De Flattebroke declaring his love for Miss Ayleigh for her face not wealth. She retorts with sarcasm about money and beauty, while a mirror in her possession exposes vanity. The piece closes recalling period medical quips from various papers.
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