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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
3
A poem from the Chicago Daily Record contrasts a rich neighbor’s grand house with a modest home’s joys. The speaker cherishes domestic bliss and a child's laughter over wealth, noting an alley divides properties and longing for simple happiness.
Aureence Kirby, a New York engineer engaged to Dorothy Kent, flirts with Consuelo in Guerrero while surveying with a Mexican crew. Consuelo poisons him with a crazed flower, driving him to delirium. Kirby’s illness, aided by Juana’s treachery and Consuelo’s covert poisonings, ends in lifelong insanity. Kirby is placed in a private asylum in New York, with Kent devoted to him.
Physicians warn rocking chairs foster nervous disorders among women and urge removal to locations where they are not used, asserting the chair’s influence on mental health and public well being.
The republic of Venezuela contains 506150 square miles. It is larger than any country in Europe except Russia.
Des Moines reports the Twenty seventh general assembly convened with Lieut. Gov. Milliman presiding. George A. Newman elected secretary. Speaker roles filled as M. L. Temple and D. H. Bowen named temporary and permanent speaker. Jan 10 ball for Clinton Oskaloosa and Creston building jurisdiction discussed. Gov. Shaw’s message circulated in pamphlet form. Committees announced, memorials planned, and inaugural events held for Shaw’s second term.
The 1896 death rate in New Zealand stood at 9.10 per 100 inhabitants, vs 18.7 in England and Wales. An Italian speedster was unmasked in Rio. a physician showed fibrous meat with mineral water can stave off starvation. The Victoria and Albert Museum redevelopment on Cromwell Road will expand to cover existing museum area. Francis Galton reports fingerprints from all ten infant fingers can aid post hoc ID, with patterns persisting through life. Excavations at Beneventum reveal a theater as large as Pompey’s, built of travertine blocks. London plans $25,060,009 in new drainage works.
Iowa state news reports several deaths at the Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown. Williamson aged 80 known as Old Jack was the sixteenth admitted after opening. He was a bugler in the Second Town cavalry Col Horton's regiment. Hanback aged 75 served as private in Sixth California Volunteer Infantry enlisting in Marysville. Levi Blair aged 38 enlisted as a member of Company C Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry from Williamsport and served to war’s end.
Gov Shaw urges a statute to ban selling milk from cows with tuberculosis and to set penalties for violations. He advocates annual testing of all cows whose milk is sold. Southeastern Iowa fair circuit trustees meet in Fairfield and schedule fairs in Louisa Van Buren Columbus Jefferson Henry Iowa City West Liberty Wilton Junction for August to September with multiple district events.
A string of Iowa news items reports deaths from suicide and accidents, a Dubuque boiler explosion killing Mathew Kieffer and injuring Bernard Dreese, and honors for public servants. Other notes include bank charters and consolidations, rail and postal changes, a murder reward totaling $1,000, and several legal and political shifts across cities such as Dubuque, Des Moines, Pella, and Forest City.
A fragmentary opinion notes France depends on England for Transvaal war reports, noting control and high spending to free herself. An ad praises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and related ailments. A quoted Cleveland Plain Dealer bit jokes about a wife’s reaction to a single word, Bargain.
An assortment of old advertisements and medical claims discuss deafness treatment by constitutional remedies and catarrh cures. It notes Hall's Catarrh Cure, Swanson's 5-Drops, and Piso's Cure for Consumption, with price details and distribution notices. Includes seed company shipping claims and a humorous sale exchange.
The markets section lists price snippets for live cattle hogs eggs flour and grains across major exchanges. Chicago Milwaukee and St Louis show varied quotes for cattle hogs eggs butter rye oats and corn with May delivery figures and factory milk references.
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