County Board Fixes Levy for 1905 and Road Vacation Granted
The county board set levies totaling 14 2 10 mills based on a $355 290 valuation increase. State taxes drop half a mill while soldiers relief and poor house taxes rise slightly. Conrad road vacation to Marion township approved with no opposition. Local note mentions a new bridge request over the Skunk River near Rubio and a bakery deal offering six loaves for 25 cents.
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County Board of Supervisors
Soldiers Relief and Poor House
Neal
Conrad Road
Marion Township
Rubio
Skunk River
Rubia
Mrs Hattie Moore Mitchell to Visit and School Schedule
Mrs Mitchell will arrive next Saturday September 12 via the Rock Island Friday evening. First period begins eleven o clock Saturday for Primary Methods, then Psychology at one. Four periods total including common branches. Work begins Saturday. pay fifty cents for one period or four to the principal RK Daugherty. Henry county Soldiers reunion postponed due to weather in Winfield.
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Hattie Moore Mitchell
RK. D. Daugherty
Local notes and weather from the city
Rainfall from 6 30 p m to noon today totaled 1 35 inches. Miss Millie Dugal enjoys a brief vacation at the New York Store. Mr and Mrs A F Endicott of Brighton were city visitors yesterday. Miss Mabel Dunham departed for Monmouth to attend school this year. Roy Tripp resigns from Baird grocery to attend the academy. Roy Stewart fills his place. School orders to be called for as treasurer prepares the annual statement. Miss Belle Reynolds to Albia for visits. Mrs Dora Downs and son Shirley of Brighton spent yesterday in the city. Mrs Stella Van Doren Towle departs for Cedar Rapids. Mrs W G Thorne leaves for Muscatine for the M E conference. Misses Lillian and Della Patton ill with typhoid but improving. Cakes of all kinds at Johnsons bakery. Will Bokenkamp returns from Bloomfield. Clark Tracy of Brighton visits county seat. Fred Bragg visits in Brighton today. W G Gardner of L M Rumsey Mfg Co calls on trade, departs for Fairfield.
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Millie Dugal
New York
A. F. Endicott
Brighton
Mabel Dunham
Monmouth
Roy Tripp
Baird Grocery
Roy Stewart
Klein Klothing Ko
Belle Reynolds
Albia
Dora Downs
Shirley
Will Bokenkamp
Bloomfield
Clark Tracy
Fred Bragg
Rev Father Jacobsmeier Spends Day in Harper
The Rev Father Jacobsmeier completed a one day visit in Harper yesterday and returned home this morning.
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Jacobsmeier
Harper
Tragedy of an Insect the Sand Fly Life Cycle
The sand fly known as the May fly lives one day above water after 1 to 3 years as a waterborne nymph. It molts, grows tiny wings, and then emerges to mate and die, a brief life celebrated by scientists as Ephemerida in this Chicago Inter Ocean description.
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Jone
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Light as a Sanitary Agent Across Mental and Bodily Health
An English physician addressed the Manchester and Salford Sanitary association stating that light has deep sanitary value beyond purification. He argued light is essential to life and affects brain function, intellect, and emotions, with white light as the normal atmospheric spectrum and variations influencing constitution.
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Manchester and Salford
Three Nieces Wed Simultaneously for Fortune in Warsaw
A banker in Warsaw left his entire fortune to the first to marry among three nieces. After the will was read the three women obtained special licenses and married within minutes of eight o’clock on the tenth day. They presented certificates showing marriages between 8 and 8 15, though none were engaged at the reading. The court divided the estate into three equal shares.
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Warsaw
Notary
Earth Gender Debate Echoes In Poets Words
Pinnick notes poets’ habit of personifying the earth as female and questions the basis for feminine gender. He adds the earth’s age remains unknown, inviting discussion on symbolic language and scientific knowledge.
Rheumatism Hint from Steamboat Pilot Exchange
A short exchange notes a patient with rheumatism as a long standing ailment. The steamboat pilot confirms the illness seems to have caused his condition.
Passengers ride West on Milwaukee train last night
A group of travelers headed west on the Milwaukee last evening. Train No. 5 was ten minutes late at Cone but arrived in Washington on time. Among arrivals on No. 5 were Dot Hollingsworth, Walter Ayres, and Win Smouse. Mrs. G. W. Smith visited the city from Brighton yesterday.
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Milwaukee
No. 5
Cone
Washington
Dot Hollingsworth
Walter Ayres
Win Smouse
For Rent And Help Wanted Classified Notices
Lost wants found notices include furnished rooms for rent and a general house work position. Also listed is a found item at Chateline bar on South Iowa Ave and a sale notice for Chester White pigs near the square referenced to W. A. Chilcote.
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Journal
Ladiess
Iowa Ave
Chester
Square
W. A. Chilcote
Thu
Four States Unite to Dedicate Lake George Monument
Governors of New York Connecticut Massachusetts and Vermont unveiled a monument at Battle Park Lake George commemorating the colonial battle. Albert W. Ebert designed the eleven foot figures portraying King Hendrick and General Johnson. President Roosevelt sent regrets for not attending.
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New York
Conneticut
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
Masschacotts
Anvelling
Tle
Lake George
Roosevelt
Albert W. Ebert
King Hendrick
Johnson
Battle Park
Wreck Injures Twelve Near Joplin Missouri
A passenger train collided with a freight train one mile south of Daxter Springs Kansas injuring twelve and killing two. Among the injured are J E K Ornsby Newton Tennessee and David J Bass Farmington Missouri with head, facial, and limb injuries. other victims include Mary Taylor Lyonville Kansas and J J Morri som Maydeten Kansas with multiple broken teeth and cuts.
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Joplin
Daxter Springs
Kan
J. EK. Ornsby
Newton
Tenn
David J. Bass
Farmington
A. Powell
Columbus
Frank McMary
Catoosa
L .T
Mary Taylor
Lyonville
J. Morrisom
Maydeten
Joseph TH. Cox
Metz
Charles W. Fruits
Galena
Thomas W. Robinson
Doe Run
W. R. Karnes
Cherryvale
Des Moines Evangelist Arrested in Bigamy Case
Des Moines Iowa on September 9 Rev F C Lomack was arrested on a bigamy charge after his wife sought a divorce alleging the minister married Mary Garlain before his first wife. Court records show two marriages but no divorce from the first wife. Mrs Lomack’s cross petition accuses him of drunkenness and cruel treatment.
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Des Moines
F. C. Lomack
Mra. Lomack
Mary Garlain
Turkish circular on Bulgaria alarms powers
Constantinople dispatch says the Turkish government will issue a circular to the powers noting Bulgaria and its armed bands in Macedonia and even into Bulgarian territory. In Indiana a plant fire at the Ideal Stove and Foundry in Daleville razed the building with $10000 loss and 700 Chicago Stove and Range units destroyed. In St. Louis police chief Riley ends boxing at the West End club after a conference with Circuit Attorney Folk.
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London
Constantinople
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Daleville
Ind
Ideal Stove and Foundry Company
Chicago Stove and Range Company
St. Louis
Sept
Riley
West End
Tie
Folk
Scores on the Diamond and Other News
Baseball scores from Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee and other venues reflect varied results. Also reported are Roosevelt’s Washington return plans for Sept 28 plus weather winds in Montana and local incidents from Kansas and Chicago universities.
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Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Lost mother sought for Seymour MacMahon at Chicago asylum
Mrs Margaret MacMahon is urged to claim her 2% year old son Seymour who has been at the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum for a year. If unclaimed by next Tuesday the child may be placed for adoption after a court hearing by Judge Tuthill. A 60 cent weekly support rule applies and monthly visits are required.
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Chicago
Sept. C
Margaret MacMahom
Warning for Frenchmen warns about immigration to Panama canal
The president of the council of ministers directs prefects to alert the public against Uladvised immigration to the Isthmus of Panama as work on the canal may resume soon. The French consul at Panama cites arrivals of Europeans and colonial residents amid unhealthy, miserable conditions and warns against risky commercial ventures.
Work of a miscreant ends in fire with child hero
A masked agent of a secret society attacked a saloon owned by Joseph Bova in St Louis using a torch. The blaze endangered thirty lives but was halted when three year old Carlo Ciaroghi woke his mother, triggering alarms and safe evacuation. The two story wooden building and its contents were destroyed.
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St. Louis
Joseph Bova
Lves
Carlo Ciaroghi
Ita
Woman alleges horse decided marriage in Hendricks divorce suit
In Indianapolis a divorce suit alleges Mrs. Ralph K Brown of Hendricks county says her husband chose a wife when a horse unintentionally steered his buggy toward Clayton. The couple married in August and separated in December amid reports he pursued another woman.
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Indianapelis
Ralph K. Brown
Hendricks County
Brown
Indiaanpolis
Clayton
Landianapolis
Bucklen's Arnica Salve claimed for all skin troubles
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is touted as a universal cure for cuts corns burns boils sores felons ulcers tetter salt rheum fever sores and piles. The advertisement promises infallible results and a guaranteed cure for 25 cents at Stewart's Lacy.
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Stewart's Lacy
Haar
L&N Offers Low Round Trip Rates to Southern Cities
The Louisville and Nashville Railway announces September 1 to October 20 sale of round trip tickets from St Louis Evansville Louisville Cincinnati to New Orleans Atlanta Mobile Montgomery Birmingham Pensacola and more with 21 day return validity. Intermediate points priced accordingly. Jacksonville adds 3.00 to Atlanta rate. Details and literature available from L Stone General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky.
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Louisville & Nashville R. R
St Louis
Pvansville
Louisville
Cincinnati
Kentucky-Tenessee State Line
New Orleans
Atlanta
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
Pensacola
Chicago
Evansville
Houston
Jacksonville
Florida
Nickel Plate lines praised for comfort and dining service
The Nickel Plate Road with its eastern connections is praised as a top Chicago to New York route offering three daily first class through trains with modern dining cars on American Club Plan from 35 to 41 cents and attentive colored porters. La Salle Street in Chicago serves as the main station. city ticket office is 111 Adams Street. SPECIAL SUMMER EXCURSION RATES TO THE WEST from Brighton include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo 22.75 and 34.75 to Salt Lake City Ogden 35.75 with stopovers and diverse routes available through Iowa Central agents.
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
West Shore
Boston & Maine
Chicago
New York
Boston
Gers
Nickel Plate Road
la Salle St
City
Adams St
Iowa Central Railway
Brighton
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colo
Glenwood Springs
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Deadwood
Lead City
Hot Springs
Custer
Iowa Central
A. B. Outts
Minneapolis
Minn
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Lemmon & Lewis
Emerson
OLR
Ork & Meek
Rock Island
Ohio
Indiana
W. Russell
G. H. Pratt, M. D
M. Lombardo
Beach-Wickham Grain Co
Chicago Board of Trade
McCall Bros
Sly
St Big
ST. Paul, Minn
R. McCall
Telephone
Duluth
Iowa
Winnipeg
the Journal
County Board
Jolson Bakery
Washington Academy
Henry County
Winfield
Wat
Johnson Bakery
Stella van Doren Towle
H. M. Eicher
Cedar Rapids
W. G. Thorne
Muscatine
M. E
Lillian
Della Patton
Johnson's Bakery
W. G. Gardner
L. M. Rumsey Mfg. Co
Fairfield
Ilere i
Pinnick
Philadelphia Ledger
G. W. Smith
Lake Grorger Monument
Butte
Mont
L. A
Leighley
United Cereal Company
Cleveland
University of Chicago
Babylon
Anthony, Kan
John Robinson
Haby
Panama
Ite
Webster City
Kendall Youngs
Bandle Creek
Mich
Bucklens
McKeone & Shield
Frisco System
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Kansas, Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
D. C. Melville
Northwestern
Omaha
Ned James Donohue
Kansas City
L. Stone
Louisville, Ky
Windsor Grocery
Aracamph
Columbia Pharmacy
J. Bk. Lemmon
Pernon
Fred L. Stewart
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