State Fair Attractions Set for August Show
Des Moines reports the Iowa state fair will run August 24 to September 1 with a record lineup of 14 high grade attractions arranged by F. M. Barnes plus nightly fireworks. Acts include Mre. Ray contortion, the Langfords, Edith LaVelle, the Rice Dog and Pony show, the three Celestes and Arual high wire feats.
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Des Moines
F. M. Barnes
Chicago
Mre. Ray
Cole
Dell
Ricardo
Johnson and
Holmberg
Langfords
Edith LaVelle
Bartelle
Narrow Escape When Child Douses Fire In Fort Dodge
A ten year old girl saved her mother Mrs. C Talbot from burning to death in a Fort Dodge grocery fire incident. The gasoline stove exploded after the mother left the can uncapped and lighting it. The daughter wrapped her clothing about the flames and smothered them though both were scorched. The blaze began in William Robinson’s grocery store area and was extinguished.
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Mrs. C. Talbot
Fort Dodge
Iowa Football Schedule Listed for Fall Season
The University of Iowa adopts a grid of games with nine opponents. Home dates include Upper Iowa Drake Simpson Grinnell and Alumni at Iowa City while others travel to Ames Chicago and Detroit. Northwestern visits Rock Island as the season ends.
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University of Iowa
Upper Iowa University
Iowa City
Drake
Simpson College
Ames
Chicago
Michigan
Detroit
Grinnell
Northwestern
Rock Toland
Tragic Suicide by Dynamite at Pomeroy Cemetery
Johnson, a carpenter, blew his head off with dynamite near Pomeroy in a Catholic cemetery about half a mile from town. After days of drinking, he likely feared returning home. He bought dynamite, placed it in his mouth, and the blast shredded his head while one hand was blown away. He was unmarried and leaves two brothers.
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Johnson
Pomeroy
Alexander
N. ¥. Tribune
MecSwatters
McSwitters
John
Syracuse Herald
Cyclone Hits Steamboat Rock Causing Crop Damage
A cyclone traveling northeast crossed Steamboat Rock in Hardin county, a small Iowa Central railroad station. It was a genuine twister, mostly damaging high in the air, destroying barns and windmills with no loss of life. Heavy hail followed, with two inch stones causing extensive crop damage along its path.
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Steamboat Rock
Iowa Central Railroad
Hardin County
Washington weather bureau Iowa crop report
The weekly report notes in Iowa excessive heat early in the week with frequent showers later retarding haying and damaging hay. Heavy rainfall and wind flattened grain in central and northern areas while harvest operations are well begun and grain matures rapidly. Early windfallen apples and abundant moisture occur except in extreme southwest with corn generally above average condition in all districts.
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Washington Weather Bureau
Iowa
Congressman Lane quits renomination in Iowa district
Congressman Joseph R. Lane of Clinton in Iowa's Second district announces he will not seek renomination this fall. He cites business commitments preventing time for official duty. The Republican convention is set for August 6 with no candidate yet suggested.
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Joseph R. Lane
Clinton
Iowa
Rain and Windstorm Destroys Trees and Crops Near Clinton
A hard rain and windstorm hit Clinton and surrounding areas. The wind toppled shade trees, oats were flattened in fields, and heavy growth caused widespread damage. Many large trees were blown down and several small buildings lost their roofs.
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Clinton
Remains Found West of Lohrville Identify Farmer Lewis Oleson
A mangled body was found on the Northwestern railroad west of Lohrville. The clothing bore a $112 check from Stanhope Bank signed by W. E. Oleson. Letters suggest the deceased is Lewis Oleson, a prosperous Stanhope-area farmer.
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Northwestern Railroad
Lohrville
Stanhope
W. E. Oleson
Lewis Oleson
Tragic Drowning Near Sidney Claims Three Young Women
Three young women Lillie Large aged 20 Bettie Sumner aged 19 and Nellie Sumner aged 15 drowned while bathing in the Nishnabotna river two miles east of Sidney The victims were highly esteemed and respected by all who knew them.
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Lillie Large
Bettie Sumner
Nellie Sumner
Nishnabotna River
Sidney
Iowa News in Brief from 1900 Era Dispatches
Multiple Iowa items span construction awards in Toledo and Monona counties, drought and harvest prospects in Dallas, and weather damages near Cedar Falls. Reports note bank-organization leadership, municipal water purchase in Muscatine, and political nominations in Congress. Local tragedies include drownings, suicides, and a fatal lightning strike in Rippey.
Government vows stern action to quell anti Chinese agitation
Washington notes rising anti Chinese sentiment in the United States and warns of federal troops if danger to Chinese residents emerges. Wu Peifu rejects Boxer support rumors, stressing most Chinese in America hail from southern China and oppose northern factions. Kansas City witnesses a mob targeting Ah Sing's laundry, police protection maintained. San Francisco Chinese reformists urge viceroys to shield foreigners in China from further slaughter.
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Washington
United States
China
Peking
Kansas City
Ah Sing
Sing
San Francisco
Orient
Third party movement may field ticket opposed to free silver
A New York call calls for a meeting this week to discuss a new third party ticket opposing both McKinley and Bryan. It seeks to attract voters who backed Bryan in 1896 and oppose imperialist McKinley policies and Kansas City financial ideas. Ex-Speaker Reed may be invited to decline the nomination.
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New York
Bryan
McKinley
Kansas City
Thomas B. Reed
China and dependencies by region and population
A summary from CHINESE NOTES detailing China's administrative divisions from provinces to districts, and the rulers, plus population estimates and area. It lists foreign residency in ports, religions, and details on Manchuria Mongolia Tibet Hungaria and Fast Turkestan as dependencies with their areas and populations.
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Philadelphia
China
Shanghai
Imperial
Celestial Empire
Manchuria
Mongolia
Tibet
Hungaria
Turkestan
Gossip of Writers Reveals Travel, Revenue and Birds
Tolstoi travels by slow train for charm, while Herbert Spencer faced losses on eight volumes of Principles of Sociology. Dr Murray seeks early uses of intentions in marrying sense before 1884. Dr Petzel's poem To My Fatherland earned a letter from Emperor William. Princeton sent 250 North American bird eggs to the British Museum, which returns 2,000 mounted birds from–India, Australia, and the Malay islands.
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Tolstoi
Herbert Spencer
Murray
New English Dictionary
E. A. E. Petzel
Cleveland
Germany
Berlin
William
Princeton
New Jersey
British Museum
Princeton University
India
Australia
Malay Islands
Some Frenchmen of Note in This Era of Change
M De Lanessan the French minister of marine grants fleet engineers epaulets and swords elevating them to combatant rank. M Labori who led the Dreyfus defense in Paris will lecture in the country next season across 40 talks. Mme Labori may add piano numbers. Esterhazy, now in Paris, is emerging and is thought to receive a government pension to avoid reviving the Dreyfus agitation. Michigan University launches new higher commercial education and public administration courses covering history, law, economics, sociology, statistics, and Roman law.
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Manhattan Beach
Lake Okoboji
M. de Lanessan
M. Labori
Dreyfus
Paris
Mme. Labori
Mas. Esterhazy
University of Michigan
Peruna touted as cure for summer catarrh in advert claim
Mary J. Kennedy of Armour & Co at the Trans Mississippi Exposition in Omaha endorses Peruna as a permanent cure for summer catarrh and stomach derangements. She cites eight years of travel, doctors, and a three month course of Peruna, claiming renewed health and urging readers to request free information from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio.
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Mary J. Kennedy
Armour & Co
Omaha
Neb
Miss Kennedy Bays
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Woman challenges meat prices in Cottage Grove trade
Mrs. Woodlawn of Prairie avenue, a study class member at the Woman's club, rails against high roast beef prices. She learns cattle sell for six dollars on the hoof while grocers quote 18 cents a pound and vows to expose a monopoly at a Social Economics club meeting.
Murphys Puzzled by Census Request in Irish Dialect
An Irish immigrant named Murphy in a New York census encounter is bemused by a government records request. He cannot recall exact birth year or arrival date, offering instead that the year matched Ireland’s crop failure, 1872, while noting Horace Greeley’s presidential run as a reference point.
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New York
Murphy
Phwat
United States
Ireland
America
Horace Greeley
Laughs and mishaps at shops and travel misreads
A string of humorous clippings portrays shop talk about selling everything and the misspoken family ties remark, a bicycle dog incident with a St Bernard, a clumsy Paris shopping chat about a pin priced in francs, plus social satire on trust worries and a runaway match quip. The notes mix light domestic jokes with travel and ads.
New Surgical Breakthrough Reaches Old Timey Tale
An elderly Cleveland tale recounts a sensational surgery to mend a fractured neck. A fictitious doctor crowds over the left phalanx, fuses ends with antitoxin glue, ties zinc rods, and uses a bootjack booster to straighten the spine, promising a return to soundness with hints of humor.
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Pimpernel
Cleveland Plain Dealer
John Bowman
Josh Bowman
Homeseekers Excursion Tickets for June to August
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets to Alabama through Texas on the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August. One fare plus $2 round trip, fifteen days on the outbound, twenty-one days on return. Wide vestibuled train service from Chicago to Texas with through sleepers and reclining chairs. Contact agents or U. S. Stone for details.
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Homeseekers
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Chicago
Waco
Ft. Worth
Chicago & Eastern Ilinois Railroad
U. S. Stone, G. P. and
T. A
Marquette as a healthful summer resort on the lake region
The passage touts Marquette Michigan as a premier summer retreat reached via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It highlights healthful location, scenic beauty, pleasant hotels, and immunity from fever, inviting readers to request The Lake Superior Country brochure by mailing four cents to Geo Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Marquette
Mich
Lake Superior
Copper Country
Geo. Heafford
Chicago, Il
Cake Walk of the Ancients Explains Digestive Function
An archaeologist from a distant future explains that the cake walk represents a sequence of movements aiding digestion. The Detroit Journal notes the quip as a humorous aside in a broader commentary. A shoe care ad promotes Alien's Foot-Ease with 25 cent price and free sample. It claims to relieve tight shoes and foot ailments.
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Detroit Journal
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Miscellaneous Humorous Snippets and Advertisements
A collection of quips and ad blurbs from various papers. Jests on corn and weather, a Lane's Family Medicine plug promising daily bowels and gentle liver action, a quip about turning fifty versus twenty five, a cold cure claim for Laxative Bromo Quinine, a moral about repaying favors, color descriptions for Prtnam Fancress Dres, a German job joke, White's Yucatan Gum promotion, a remark on a pie melting in the mouth, and a note about a pie left over in a family home.
Best for the Bowels and a Summer Tourist Folder
The ad extols Casearets Candy Cathartic for bowel health with claims of natural relief and easy movements at low cost. Also notes a Grand Trunk Railway Summer Tourist Folder advertised through J. H. Burgis in Chicago. Includes scattered quips from Chicago Evening News and other papers.
Painful Periods Overcome by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Fifty thousand grateful letters to Mrs. Pinkham claim relief from painful periods. Menstruation strains female vitality. if excessive or irregular, seek advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. Evidence supports that her advice and medicine improve women’s strength and health, with a longstanding record of cure.
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Grand Army Alden
Iowa News
H. A. Parker
Rock Island
Parker
Hila
M. B. Davis
Grand Army of the Republic
George H. Hudson
Walker
A. H. Hemmelder
Dubuque
H. Harper
Ottumwa
Artemus McClaren
Panora
David Smith
Boonsboro
C. C. Thomas
Floyd
J. M. Briggs
Anita
Jerry Gaughnauer
Allerton
B. H. Tamplin
Hull
E. G. Moore
Bedford
A. J. Baker
Centerville
F. W. Barron
Spirit Lake
J. T. Britt
Coggan
Frank J. Clark
Cedar Rapids
George Cummerford
Manchester
Decorah
J. M. Fonda
Bellevue
H. Hinman
Belmond
L. M. Kilburn
Fontanelle
J. F. Bishop
Sheldon
F. Hammerty
Denmark
A. Hankinson
Sioux City
Committee On Soldiers’ Home
P. M. Crapo
Burlington
Phil Schaller
Sac Clty
George W. Crosley
Webster City
L. RB. Raymond
Hampton
Ed H. Colcord
Vinton
Executive Council
Town Telephone Company
Iowa Line
Mutual Telephone Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Postal Company
Department of Agriculture
W.S. Keller
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Supreme Court
St. Paul
Iowa Supreme Court
Jones
Shaw
C. T. Jones
Veterinary Commission
Henry E. Talbot
S. T. Johnson
Carroll
W. A. Heck
Maquoketa
Iowa State News
Newnan
Methodist Episcopal Church
Toledo
Stone Bros. & Turbett
Speaker Henderson
Judge McPherson
Frank D. Stout
Yellowstone Park
Pacific Coast
The
Fair Association
Cedar Falls
Langan Bros
N. J. Leytem
Cascade
Homestead
Robert Aiken
Benson
Woodbury-Monona County
Monona County
Canal Construction Company
Dallas County
Muscatine
Muscatine Water Company
Gilbert N. Haugen
D. J. O'Connell
Congress
Albert Morris
Rippey
Jennie L. van Slyke
Boone
Shroeder
Marengo
M. K. Prine
Oskaloosa
Randall & Jacobs
Independence
John Stevens
Illinois Central Railroad
Marcus Seymour
Leach & Connolly
F. G. Logan
R. B. Keith
George Brown
Comanche
F. W. Hinitt
First Presbyterian Church of
Parsons College
Fairfield
Milton Kelley
Benton
John Bonafield
Milwaukee
Roosevelt
National League of Republican
Here
Hanna
Emporia
Kan
C. V. Eskridge
Emporia Republican
Kansas
Baltimore
Louis Eisen
New Castle
Cal
Southern Pacific Company
San Jose
St. Michael’s
Unalaska
Rome
Hu Nan
Fantosati
Hope
Phoenix
Ariz
John Torrance
Lorrance
Judith
Joan Renee Annes
Minnesota
ST. Louis
Economy Club
St. Bernard
Cloudland
Mademoiselle
Hostetter
Celeste
Annette
Indianapolis News
Archaeology
Indianapolis Journal
Lane
North American
Somerville Journal
Prtnam Fancress
J. W. O’brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Atchison Globe
White
Philadelphia Times
Mall
Chicago Daily News
Mack O’rell
Luke Warmie
Chicago Evening News
Grand Trunk Railway System
J. H. Burgis
Clark St
Jackson Boulevard
Jack
Bill
Syracusa Herald
Lydia E. Pinkham
Carter
Carters Ton
Chigago
Aza
Newline
Rockeford
Waterloo
Fors Dodge
Comnen Bluffs
Ines
H. Hanson
India Importing CO
Washington St
Andkoa
FISO
Druggiata
Murray Otrez
Eamsasnoth
Catalina
Lees
T. BM. Roberts’ Supply House
Minneapolis
Minn
Rio
Santes
Yan
Askine
Blarke
T. M. Roberts’ Supply House
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