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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1900
Page
2
A speaker reflects on a fourteen month old self taught to walk and asks how a babe living among idiotic relatives can learn English speech. The lines explore early language development and social influence in a humorous critical tone.
A narrator endures an overbearing young man, the Boy, who stays late at night. He chases romance and future plans with quaint, comic earnest, while the narrator yearns for quiet. The scene weaves social expectations with humor as a train departure looms and the woman longs for the Boy to leave.
A narrator recalls a tense visit with a nervy Man and a curious Boy, sharing poetry and a torn magazine page. The Man leaves, storms the hall, and later vanishes, believed dead by rock fever. The scene shifts to a train car tale, a westward businessman, Darwin banter, and an epitaph note, concluding with a meditation on persistence and progress.
Special correspondence from Des Moines outlines a likely passed Titus amendment for biennial elections and a proposed constitutional convention to revise Iowa’s 1857 charter. It notes timing, delegate election, and a possible inclusion of woman suffrage, alongside obituary of Maj. Henry O Connor and updates on dam litigation, agriculture, child labor, and state institutions.
Mrs Alfred Robinson a bride of three days apparently deserts her husband in Ottumwa en route to Gillette Wyoming to take a job offered before marriage. Her mother Mrs Amanda Yates of Ottumwa rushes toward Omaha then Gillette to locate her daughter. Also reported is the death of Jacob Grossenbach of California Missouri found near Sioux City with a bullet wound to the brain and a revolver nearby suggesting suicide or foul play but police doubt the self inflicted cause.
A hunter discovered Jacob Grossenbacher of California Missouri in a ravine near Sioux City with a revolver beside him. A discharged chamber and a bullet through the brain indicate murder rather than suicide, with initial theories of self-inflicted death overturned by new evidence. The body appeared to have lain there two days or more.
Reports of a Chicago death by gas in a hotel room involving William Segelson of Ida county, plus varied Iowa items: railroad fares for Des Moines convention, school district fund accusations, Young Women’s Christian Association officers, library book contracts, Cornel College attendance, resignations, Shiloh battlefield commission appointment, fatal farm and rail accidents, a Linn county lime vat incident, creamery incorporation, and multiple deaths and incidents across towns including Muscatine, Webster City, Clinton, Carlisle, Sioux City, Dubuque, Eldora, Cedar Rapids, Independence, and Keswick.
A sensational tale links cold exposure to consumption and promotes Peruna as a universal remedy. It recounts Helen Murphy’s recovery after a cold led toward lung disease and cites Henry Henrikson's letter praising Peruna for catarrh and la grippe. The ad-like piece urges readers to send for Dr Hartman’s book.
A Washington Post snippet recalls a car conversation about a pretty girl named Maud and a blue-eyed young man. It also covers dining car service changes on American railroads, noting the Nickel Plate Road and various menu plans, plus light anecdotes and ads from hotels, tonics, and a joke exchange.
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