Local merchants and Hawk Eye staff defend Burlington heritage
The article profiles businesses on Main and North Main streets dating to 1868 and honors Fred Becker at 207 North Main as a large liquor house with extensive stock and glassware on the first floor. It details the Hawk Eye newspaper’s founding in Ft. Madison and Burlington, noting editors Burdette and Allison Leadley with humorous asides and a hog cholera preventive anecdote.
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North Main St
Ferry Landing
North Main Street
West
Burlington
The
Hawk- Eye
Hawk-Eye
Ft. Madison
J. G. Edwards
Patriot
Frank Hatton
Ount Pleasant
Burdette
John Morrissey
New York
Allison Leadley
Republican
Improved Poultry Pays For Western Farmers, Say Experts
A western agricultural piece argues improved poultry breeds like Cochin and Brahma pay off for farmers. It notes quicker growth and higher egg and meat value, urges warm quarters and varied feed, and warns against rushing to high prices before mastering breeding. It recommends starting with a few birds, learning over years, and selling breeding stock alongside market poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
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Starving Miser Found in Brooklyn Tenement
Police found Adolphs J. Lahmeyer, sixty, amid filth in a McKinney Street tenement. He lay on rags, sick, with two bank books totaling 1650, a silver watch, and gold and silver coins hidden in a closet. Charity officials moved him to County Hospital. neighbors say he survived on bread and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
McKinney and
Doughty Streets
Brooklyn
Fulton Ferry
Adolhas J. Lahmeyer
South Broklyn Cena Institution
Atlantic
Clinton
Brooklyn Bank For Savings
Fulton
Concord
Lahmeyer
Thinning Fruit Grows Better Harvests Says Expert
An agricultural note argues that thinning fruit on apple and pear trees boosts quality and future yields. By removing half the fruit the tree bears less now but healthier fruit later, increasing market value. The method favors experienced growers and explains why mixed fruit loses value.
Romance and Riot End in Wedding at Vineland Farm
A widow and her daughter in Vineland cause a dramatic scene when a Fond du Lac carpenter visits Mary Jane. The mother lashes the suitor with a whip, then the couple elope to Fond du Lac and marry that night amid town gossip. A separate note tells of a venomous milk snake attack on a girl, which she survives after home remedies.
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Vineland Baptist Church
Mary Jane
Fond du Lac
Gosh
Litals
Inabe
Fond DuLac
Vineland
Milk-Snake Attack Terrifies Ancaster Village Girl
A Hamilton Spectator report recalls Lucy Smith, a young Ancaster resident, who was bitten by a large milk snake while gathering hackle berries in a briar patch. Nearby workers and three girls who witnessed the scene fled in fear as Lucy was found unconscious in a patch and later recovered at home.
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Dominion
Ancaster
Lucy Smith
Lucy
Ong
Ayer & Co Practical Chemists Ad Card
Prepared by Dr J Co Ayer and Co Lowell Massachusetts practical and analytical chemists sold around the world marketing broad range chemical products for various industries and lab use.
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Dr. J. Co. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
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Se and
Main Sts
Fred Becker
Canada
Hamilton Spectator
Rudolph Gun CO
Third Street
St. Louis
Ayer
Bever
Ague
Asery
Axel
Unionville
Mre
Queens
A.M
Busines
G.B.P
Fr. Forsa
MM. Raab & Bray
Merchant Tailors
Main and
Jefferson Sts
L. H.dalhoff & CO
Main St
Burlington, Towns
Leibstadter Bro’s
Ry Good & Millinery
Jefferson St
and Sisi Lrott
Moxitterick Bros
N. W
W. C. Hatton
Unionville, MO
Ute Hotel
Union Thle
A. Sechrist
Thia
B. Freed
Times
EO. W. Barnett
Attorney At Law
W. Williams
Garner
Square
Dra F. Gray
Dr. Williams
Reger*s
Rights Citizen
United States
Theop Aidlus Parsons
LL. D
Joness Brotheres & Co, &T
Louis
Ottumwa
Charles Bachman
Keokuk
Atlea Tiras DingowoRy
Siseas
Steigee
P. G. Ballin Sant Eaee
Daugherty& Co
John St
Iseokul, Ta
Daugherty
AtiEr
Iowa
Keotoulke
Patterson
Keokuk, Towa
S&h
Safihart
Parishi Otis, Sram
Val Aity
C. A. Francisco
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