Rhode Island Building at the World’s Fair in St Louis
The Rhode Island display replicates colonial design with mahogany stair rails and ivory post balusters. The complex includes a reception hall, writing room, women’s parlor, information room, smoking room, and private commission office with gas lit fireplaces. The second floor features a state room and reading room with baths, while porches and glass doors connect all rooms to the roof garden and piazzaed front. Exterior lathing and hard plaster aim to resemble seam faced granite.
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Rhode Island
Commission
Gazelle Hose Company Holds Annual Banquet
Members of the Gazelle Hose Company held their annual banquet last evening at the Crown Cafe after an hour or two of card playing in Swift's Hall. They enjoyed a multi course dinner and praised the event as a notable feature in the company’s history with invited guests sharing in the evening.
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Gazelle Hose Company
Crown Cafe
Swift
Gazelle Boys
Turner the painter who sacrificed wealth for national art
Turner pursued a lifelong aim to build a national Turner gallery and endow an asylum for decayed English artists. He refused large offers for his prized works the Rise and the Fall of Carthage and by will left 140000 pounds to aid artists plus a great national art collection hung between Claude’s Seaport and Mill in the National Gallery.
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Turner
Somerset House
Carthage
National Gallery
Griffiths
Liverpool
England
Claude
Mill
Married men defeat single men in bowling match
An evening bowling match at Commercial Club pits married men captained by J A Cunningham against single men led by Will Crooks. The married team won by over 100 points. Participants included Dr Crooks Dr H C Hull Fred H Smith Al McCall John McCartney M W Keeley J L Brookhart C M McCoy George Barrett.
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J. A. Cunningham
Will Crooks
Crooks
J. A. Cunningahm
H. C. Hull
Fred H. Smith
al McCall
John McCartney
M. W. Keeley
J. L. Brookhart
C. M. McCoy
George Barrett
Local notes include travel logs and portraits of daily life
Journal items record citizens traveling on the Firefly and Branch trains to Columbus Junction Cedar Rapids and Sigourney. Names include Mrs Warren Eddy Miss Allie Jay Miss Della Marsh and Wm Dupuis with others visiting relatives and shopping. The Wilmington Giant landmark is described with its chalk figure and reseeding history.
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John McCartney
Letts
Bowman Lros
Warren Eddy
Columbus Junction
Charles Hise
Cedar Rapids
Allie Jay
Washington
Fairfield Tribune
Della Marsh
Wilmington
Cerne Abbas
Dorsetshire
London News
Reception in Presbyterian church for Dr B E Ely
A reception will be held in the Presbyterian church parlors Saturday evening from 7 to 10 o clock in honor of Dr B E Ely. Congregation members and friends from other churches are invited. Also an ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills notes their use for stomach and liver troubles at Stewart's Drug Store.
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Johnson
Presbyterian Church
B. E
Ely
Dr. King
Stewart’s
Little & Teas
Quick Cures and Arnica Salve Promoted in Ad Snippet
An ad lists Cures Colds Quickly Bromo Lax and other preparations 25c at druggists. It also promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve 25c at Stewart’s Pharmacy for cuts wounds burns scrapes and piles. A meeting notice for a Masonic Temple installation of officers on Thursday Jan 14 at 7 30 is included.
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Bucklen
Stewart’s
McKay and Meeks Announce Local Real Estate Deals
The firm reports several transactions including a hotel in Ainsworth for TJ Neiswanger at 3500, 320 acres for AG Kennedy at 6000, 200 acres for CH Stebbins at 9000, stock of dry goods at 6000, 40 acres for Dawson at 2000, 320 acres for MP Miller at 6000, a house and lot for Hattie Racer at 850, and rental of a 320 acre Frank Reed farm. Additional listings include 200 acres for MP Miller at 89000 and a house and lot for Aaron Hise at 550.
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M. P. Miller
Hattie Racer
Frank Reed
Aaron Hise
Welsh Buys Interest in Livery Stable, Will Run Business
W B Welsh of Haines and Welsh has purchased Mr Haines interest in the livery feed and sale stable and will operate the business alone. Mr Haines has not yet decided his future plans.
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W. B. Welsh
Haines & Welsh
Mr. Haines
Immigrant Work in the South Promoted for Year-Round Outdoor Labor
A call to farmers to consider moving from the North to the South for year-round outdoor work. The notice argues southern conditions allow continuous production and lower shelter costs for stock raisers, inviting inquiries to G. A. Park, General Immigration and Industrial Agent, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Louisville, KY.
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G. A. Park
Gen's Immigration and Industrial Ag’t
Louisville
Nashville
R. R. Go
Louisville, KY
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Eeteres
Baird Sonelephone
Iowa
Nebraska
North Platte Valley
Big Horn Basin
MTU HN
J. D. Kunath
ST. Louis
Gazelle Hose CO Banquet
Wm. Dupuis
Sigourney
N. L. Hancock
Mrs. W.taylor
Carl Keck
Harriet
West Liberty
BE. H. Hounlow
Japan
E. Snyder
Indianapolis
W. M. Hale
Chicago
G. Miller
Madison, Wis
B. Wright
Hotel Colenso
Mrs. Bergh
Harper
T. J. Neiswanger
Charles Stebbins
Zelzah Sawhill
Winterset
W. R. Sawhill
Clyde Bailey
Milwaukee
Charles
Robert Bennett
Rock Island
Brighton
Fairfield
Mr. Pleasant
Lou Weibley McClure
Lake City
McClure
Scientific American
Solary
New York
Masonic Temple
Racine
R. A. Riley
J. W. Teeter
Abington
Teas & Fields
McHeeone
E. of City Water Works
Soulbric & CO
Opera House
North
Alabama
Florida
South
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