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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1904
Page
5
A travelogue aboard a Northern Pacific train from Minneapolis to Dickinson details coach and sleeper experiences, fares, and on board service. The author comments on scenery, stock yards, banking centers, and regional industry, including sheep farming and invasive land development.
A garbled paragraph mentions shipping points, large sheep herds, and a new project with a promised directorship. It references Bee, Walfe, and a minister, with unclear sequence of events and timings.
Auctioner WM Ford will sell goods at public auction on the streets of Mountka. Items include beds, tables, chairs, desks, a bicycle, garden barrow, dishes, and householdware. Terms show cash under five dollars, or over four months with eight percent interest.
The country editor laments a quiet week with little to report and jokes about erasing the afire and going fishing. He remarks that there is simply nothing doing and vents in a brisk, characterful column.
School records show term from April 18 to 10, 1904 with 5474 total attendance days and 14 average daily attendance. Ninth graders Julia Bebram, Minnie Anderson, Mary Nelson, Paul Anderson, Verdie Selram, Elmer Peterson and Emanuel Anderson earned perfect attendance certificates. Several pupils listed as not tardy include Jalla, Willie and Perdie Schram, Mary and Miss Nelson, Ernest, Elmer and Willie Peterson.
The Chicago Record Herald boasts extensive coverage with New York dispatches and AP news service. It offers markets and financial insight, sports pages, editorials, railroad and insurance news, music, society notes, book reviews, serials, Woman section, meals, Great Lakes news, and more.
J C Cosgrove remained in Altona on Wednesday awaiting further developements. He has ended his mercantile business in Hutching Courier and is at home pleading for his widowed partner's consent to marriage. The couple live near Kassuth County.
A fragmented amusement note discusses a brainteaser about when a man is not a many and mentions a recent conundrum in Chie dailies. It references Bro. Moore and Carl Lenander's subscription, comparing past impressions and denying involvement with tarnishing Des Moines correspondence and a local Jettex record.
Rock Island System agents will sell round trip excursion tickets to St Louis for the National Democratic convention in St Louis July 6th. Tickets include return after excursion with a 25 cent surcharge, sale period June 2-6, return fifteen days from sale. 1904 Lewis and Clark Exposition dates April 20 to November 30 in St Louis.
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