Local Visitors Arrive and Depart After Short Trips
L. E. Latta arrived Saturday evening from Racine Wisconsin to visit friends and relatives in the city. Mrs Harry Bell and James Cunningham returned Saturday night from an extended trip in the east. The bakery advertises with a recall to buy bread at the Vienna. The Misses Nettie Finney of Mansfield Ohio Anna Coulter and Belle Robinson left this morning for Allerton Iowa to visit Rev R K Atchison home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Latta
Racine
Wis
Harry Bell
James Cunningham
Vienna
Nettie Finney
Mansfield
Ohio
Anna Coulter
Belle Robinson
Allerton
Iowa
R. K. Atchison
Teresa Swift
Ainsworth
Johnson's
Anna Miller
Peirce
Tendre & Benz
Ida Harmon
Blanche Nicola
Chicago
Katherine Berdo
Washington
Washington Seminary
Mabelle Fleming
W. F. Fleming
F.C. Shinnabarger
Muscatine
D. J. Masson
George
Seceder Church
E. F. Clapp
Iowa City
Thomas Daugherty
Colorado Springs
Ella Reister
Snouffer, Hughes & Co
J. J. Bailey
Tom Bailey
Ralph Gowey
Brighton
Sudden Attack of Disentery Cured In Brooklyn Inquiry
A Brooklyn lady asks where to obtain Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine after rapid relief from a South Dakota cholera scare. She reports it helped her and her mother with dysentery. For sale by Cook Sherman.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Chamberlain
South Dakota
Cook & Sher
R. G. Stewart
Stewart & Bros
Greenville, Ala
Cook and Sherman
Pulpit Portraits Portray Dr Beecher’s Vigorous Maine Trek
John Ross Dix recounts Dr Lyman Beecher at seventy five paddling with youths in Maine. The party travels by birch canoe through lakes with Etienne the guide doubting endurance, yet Beecher fishes, camps on rock, and earns the guide’s admiration as “Ah, old man, all Indian.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ross Dix
Lyman Beecher
Maine
Calais
Etienne
Poison Mistake Nearly Kills Keota Woman
In Keota on Sunday morning Mrs. Ephraim Kelley was accidentally given poison instead of medicine. Her husband administered a large dose from a suspected bottle, prompting a quick call to a physician and milk and coffee fed to sustain her. She is recovering and expected to regain health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keota
Ephraim Kelley
Tonight The Yankee Regent Opens Season Big Production
The opening number of the season at the Yankee Regent promises a fine production and one of the biggest shows the town has seen. Attendance is urged for tonight’s premiere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Regent
Telegraphers Strike Improves With Hope For Settlement Soon
The telegraphers strike appears to be easing with improved service and some markets arriving late for the morning issue. Patrons may soon access markets reports by phone, signaling steps toward a settlement and quicker updates.
Markets arrive late but will be reported soon
Markets reached the newsroom over the last two days and will be reported regularly once received. Readers can call for market updates if available.
Local notes from Vienna and surrounding towns
Various brief items report residents traveling to Chicago and Champaign for work or study, births and illnesses in the community, and a Congregational reunion upcoming in Allerton. An endorsement cites Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as effective.
Emperor's Attic in Winter Palace Surpasses All Europe
Describes the winter palace of the czar on the Neva built by Empress Catherine II and famed for Nicholas I’s death room. The four story light brown ornate complex contains halls such as Nicholas and St George, with a small upper northeast room where he spent his final days. The room remains as he left it with an iron bedstead slippers and a few pictures.
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Europe
Neva
Catherine II
Nicholas Hall
St. George's Hall
Nicholas 1
Aran Islands Shoes and a Soldier’s Night Riot Tale
A reminiscence recalls Colonel James Robertson’s Irish campaigns with a quiet Ennis garrison. A sentry in a quiet hour challenges a night visitor, and a playful voice from outside wins the crowd’s laughter. Also described are Aran islands Pampooties footwear made from raw cowskin and tied with fishing line.
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Ireland
James P. Robertson
Ennis
Ami
Robertson
Aran Islands
How to Avoid Cramps in Water
Quote from James J. Rose of Martin Tennessee argues cramps do not kill in water. He says drowning results from water entering the ears paralyzing brain nerves, and advises using cotton in the ears to prevent deaths. The Nashville Tennessean backs the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Rose
Martin, Tenn
Nashville
Truthful Man or Eight for a Dollar Quip
A witty quip from the Chicago Journal contrasts honesty and profit with a saying that old Brown would not lie for a quarter but would tell eight for a dollar. The line plays on moral cost versus monetary gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Brown
Chicago Journal
Button Pushing Scene On Eighth Floor Draws Crowd
A man on the eighth floor presses an elevator button. Another man on the same floor follows and knows the first pressed it. A stenographer then jabbed the button, knowing the previous actions. Later an elderly woman surveyed the crowd and rang for the elevator.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Passenger Exchange on Atlantic Hner Railcar Scene
A brief railway vignette shows a passenger greeting an older man and asking about breakfast while a personally conducted tourist rests on the rail for about fifteen minutes, with a pucklike remark in the background.
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Atlantic Hner
Puck
Vienna bakery goods and millinery items featured in town notices
Local society notes show residents visiting from Riverside and Burlington while shops update staff. Miss Mame McCreedy and Miss Mary Clendenning start work at Tondre and McCall millineries respectively. Dr Shoop offers free catarrh treatments by mail. Dr E F Clapp visits from Iowa City. several residents return from travels and vacations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mame McCreedy
Tondre & Benz
Vienna
Mary Clendenning
McCall
Johnson's
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Washington County
Oxford
Pnouller
Hughes & Co
Washington, Iowa
Mason Transfer & Storage
Creed Yard Company
Ephriam Kelly
Vera Rogers
Lucy Wilson
Champaign
The
State University
Miss Rogers
Miss Wilson
Margaret Niver
Chicago News
Work & Meek
Eardley Bell
Riverside
J. O. Matthews
John Matthews
Gertrude Swift
Tendre & Is
Olive Ward
Edna Shearer
Grace Walker
McCall Millinery
R. P. Lewis
Burlington
L. E. Tracy
Chillicothe
Lewis
Shoop
J. H. Stewart
Burlington Buggy CO
Brewster
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