World traveler Daniel Klopfenstein reports on Roumania and Russia
In letters from Braila and Bucharest Romania dated July 10 and July 12 1906 Daniel Klopfenstein describes a thriving harvest in Roumania praises its crops and rain notes selling and importing machines from Russia visits to Bucharest and an extended fair plus observations on Russia Turkey and their societies including class and gender issues and a cautious praise of Turkish people while criticizing Russian Christianity and slavery.
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Daniel Klopfenstein
Europe
Braila
Roumania
The
Evening Journal
Washington
Iowa
Russia
Bucharest
Berlin
Odessa
Turkey
Black Sea
O. K
Thirteenth Biennial Reunion of Crocker's Iowa Brigade
The thirteenth biennial reunion of Crocker’s Iowa Brigade comprising the 11th 13th 16th and 16th Iowa Infantry Volunteers will meet in Clinton Iowa on September 26 and 27 1906. Gov A B Cummins will deliver the biennial address. A regimental meeting at 1 30 p m Wednesday and arrangements including rail transportation are organized by Clinton local committee. Membership open to all veterans and wives and children urged to attend.
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Mount Vernon
Iowa
Clinton
13Th
16Th
Iowa Infantry
W. Kepler
D. W. Bushnell
Observer notes on fair display and travels from Roumania to Austria
The letter discusses displays of reapers and threshers at an exposition with a 19 cent admission, questions the ability to cover costs, and mentions plans to travel from Roumania to an oil-rich Austrian district controlled by Standard Oil Co. The writer signs as 1) B Klopfenstein, extending regards to all.
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Roumania
Austria
Standard Oil Co
Klopfenstein
John Jay to Manage McFarlane Eckerman West Chester Store
John Jay, seven years with J. B. Crail dry goods, will transfer September first to West Chester to head dry goods shoes and gents furnishing at Mc Farlane Eckerman Co. He will move with his family and start the new role then. He is an experienced dry goods man, strong salesman, decorator and window trimmer. Locally admired, his departure is a loss and meets best wishes for success.
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John Jay
J. B. Crail Dry Goods
McFarlane, Eckerman & (Co. Genera
West Chester
Jay
Hardware store buyer heads home to sell stock in Carson Iowa
C. E. Bradley, purchaser of the east side hardware store, departed last evening for Carson Iowa to dispose of the stock. Four large freight cars were required to carry the goods. Joseph P. Robertson and his wife Miss Harriette Gunn arrived from Anamosa to visit her father's grave before heading west to Spokane Washington on No. 4.
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C. E. Bradley
East Side
Carson
Iowa
Joseph P. Robertson
Harriette Elizabeth Gunn
Anamosa
Spokane
Wash
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