Old Love and the New Rug
A humorous overheard exchange among neighbors hints at spring mood and a domestic scene. The dialogue jokes about a long marriage and a new rug replacing a messy incident, with light flirtation and playful banter.
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
1
A humorous overheard exchange among neighbors hints at spring mood and a domestic scene. The dialogue jokes about a long marriage and a new rug replacing a messy incident, with light flirtation and playful banter.
A Wisconsin mother reports her six week old baby suffered a severe facial rash spreading over the body causing crying and sleepless nights. After trying remedies and a doctor’s advice she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment with a sample, and within days the crusts cleared and hair regrew. The ad notes Cuticura products are sold worldwide with a sample offer from Boston.
Fire raged through an old chemistry building on campus destroying the 19th century structure built between 1872 and 1876. Gravity fed water failed to reach upper floors while inflammables fueled explosions. Earlier reports note overcrowding and dangerous fireproof limits, with plans for a new chemistry building in spring and a slate of 4225 900 appropriations for the project. Separately a 14 year old killed his brother with an ax during woodcutting near the family home. Iowa cadets to be inspected by War Department on May 7 and 8 under Capt William H Raymon.
The Elk River fisherman James O Rourke, aged 19, fled his boat during a trespass incident in the Mississippi slough. After securing his paddle to the boat, he drowned in the water. Local authorities are investigating the freshwater drowning involving a young fisherman.
Fire sweeps the Chandler Brothers stock farm destroying a large barn and livestock including five valuable stallions one broodmare three imported rams and hay and other property. Insurance covers losses. Seven year old Pred Mangold of Linn Grove injured by a broken slotbox basket. eye damaged but child conscious after transfer to Omaha for treatment. Magnolia business orders truck freight to Hoisa Magnolia and arrangements for wagons and supplies to Win King drag. Proceedings likely to be presented as Sioux City Holler notes continue.
A troubled Eldora resident, Mrs. Metz, recounts years of oddities linked to music from an organ. She claims cows nearby calmed and produced more milk when tunes played, while she plans to buy a plane and install it in the town.
The Sioux City stock exchange threatened a protest before the commerce commission over a 35 percent higher rate for shipments and under valuation claims. The move aims to invite other exchanges to join the campaign while a child heir from Ottumwa contemplates spending $57,000. Major Jon N. O'Brien, a former regular army contractor, died at Fort Leavenworth and left a substantial estate. In Leavenworth and other cities, property interests were noted as tied to the late figure. A separate local vote defeated buying the LeMar waterworks due to high appraisal prices.
Des Moines measures authorize the railroad commission to decide yard fencing or posted signs and to order improvements with fines and daily forfeitures to the school fund for noncompliance. Senate committee reports on agricultural and library issues follow, including district elections for fair board and moving picture censorship defeat.
A typographer known for handling misprints recalls a misread menu error. The waiter, once a typesetter, explains a misprint in a soup order in a chastened diner scene from a Youth's Companion fragment.
Incoherent lines describe garbled dialogue about trying something in the open and a casual question about a term. The text reads like a distorted transcript with stray phrases such as preliminary and have you got the teri. No clear person, place, or event can be identified.
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