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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1904
Page
5
A fragment describes delivery dates and a postal carrier route through German Valley and nearby townships with references to specific sections and corners. The text shifts to observations on field labor and hardship endured by workers, noting fatigue and abuse without graphic detail.
A Globe-Democrat excerpt laments a mother’s early start and nonstop chores from waking the household to cleaning, laundry, and kitchen duties. It contrasts this with idle men, implying a critique of gender roles and self-centered behavior in society.
In Buffalo Center the community reels as farmer Fred Schieffer, about seven miles southeast, dies by suicide after a violent dispute with his wife. Reports say he attacked her with a stove poker and then shot himself after a grim confrontation in the kitchen following a supper quarrel and a failed attempt to obtain a revolver.
A Great Northern westbound passenger train No 9 backed into a freight caboose at a Minnesota station around 7 30 pm. Three men in the caboose were injured and others suffered minor shocks. The incident followed the freight train taking the main track after the westbound pass and a delay while passengers prepared to alight.
Public sale and auction advertised for Saturday March 12 1904 on streets of Tiarawa with high bids sought for farm equipment cattle haying implements and a riding plow among items listed by auctioneer H M. Willse and comments on the passing of pioneer Case Willse describing his life from Canada to Michigan Iowa North Dakota and long faith as a Methodist preacher with surviving family members.
The page lists odd notices from Alss Povahontas to Abner Pobts and Ebenezer Pell, with names of mares, farms, wells, and errands in New York and Cedar Vale. It references local happenings, charitable pledges, and whimsical lines about pumpkins, birch, and upcoming shows.
Nank Geers aids Kolain Bongs to harvest, an omnia cured for fifty cents with Rip Van Winkie syrups. Lycurgus Vope to build a barn for Jabez Witherspoon. The Wire Brigade skips a dance. Betsy Brown wins a spelling bee. Bullskin Brothers Prairie Tent to appear. Epictetus Blake trots. Whitaker’s boy congratulates Jake. Byron Blybee’s neck boil lanced by Dr Small. Shadrach Tolliver to depart. Nance Tuttle’s daughter ill. Ughtening strikes Titus Looley’s stoop. Miss Polly Wiges seen vlerking. Bullwinkie’s hardware store ads urge subscribers to pay. Minnewaska Shoat.
A Kansas City Star piece outlines the All-Round Editor as capable of writing poems weighing cor tariffs on tall games reporting weddings buying and preaching the gospel to beat a lawyer defending bimetallism and addressing horticultural society issues while engaging in charity and social reform in broad editorial scope.
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