Cass township farmer taunts on hearing corn grow
The excerpt recalls Cass township humor about listening to corn grow on warm nights. Miss Allie Gerber falls ill in Williams and both her mother and she enter quarantine for scarlet fever. An excursion train to Lake View departs next Sunday with round trip fare of 1.50. A W B Daniels’s son is injured when bucked from a horse, yet improves. C A Williams notes a Webster City ore analysis in Montana.
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Cass Township
Allie Gerber
Williams
Northwestern Company
Lake View
Eagle Grove
Grace Hawlk Weds W J Swisher in Lincoln Nebraska
Grace Hawlk married W J Swisher at the residence of Mr and Mrs G W Hottle in Lincoln on Thursday evening June 21. The ceremony was at eight led by Rev A Aull. The bride is well known in the city. The groom teaches and they will live at 1023 I Street.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
G. W. Hottle
Vine Streets
Misa Grace Hawlk
W. J. Swisher
A. Aull
Growing Oak Glen Church Reaches Milestone
Over two hundred attend Oak Glen church on Sunday as Rev. L. W. Nine preaches on Christian baptism and a goodly number are baptized in the river above McLaughlin bridge. The church under three years old is debt free and growing.
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Oak Glen
L. W. Nine
McLaughlin Bridge
Oak Glen Church
Stanhope Plans Big Fourth Celebration With Parade and Fireworks
Stanhope will host a major Fourth of July celebration with a notable address by Des Moines scholar Ole O Roe, a parade, ball game, sports, and a firework display. The show band will provide music all day as residents are urged to attend for the biggest time of their lives.
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Stanhope
Ole O. Roe
Des Moines
Roe
Dr Kings New Life Pills Advertised Cure
A drug store ad promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a safe cure for stomach liver kidneys and bowels claiming to powerfully aid digestion and relieve ailments. Sold for 25 cents at Keltz and Little’s drug store.
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Dr. King
Keltz & Little's
Two Stock Trains Collide At Busy Junction
A wreck at the Northwestern and Central track crossing disrupted Sunday traffic. A stock train from the west and a Northwestern train collided, derailing three cars and injuring no lives. Locomotive 445 and tender were destroyed while stock was freed and moved to yards. Northwestern stock loss expected to be heavier for the rail line.
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Northwestern
Central Track
Chicago
Ita
Iowa
Wheat Crop Nearing Total Loss Sparks Alarm
A Duluth dispatch cites Oliver Dalrymple predicting two thirds of spring wheat in North Dakota is beyond rescue. Snow, a crop expert, reports a rational calamity after weeks of touring Minnesota and the Dakotas. Dakotas may yield 20,000,000 bushels and Minnesota 35,000,000, totaling 75,000,000 against last year’s 200,760,000 and 225,000,000 in 1898.
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Duluth
Oliver Dalrymple
North Dakota
Chicago
Times-Herald
Snow
Minnesota
Yaws Suspected As Adams Reports Mild Symptoms
Jesse Adams, living six miles southeast of town, visits the city for the first time since a prior quarantine. He describes good appetite and only skin itching as illness, his family also affected with eruptions. Neighbors, including John Maxwell, contend it is a skin disease like yaws rather than smallpox.
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Jesse Adams
Mr. Adams
John Maxwell
New Railroad Moves Toward Boone County Route
The Des Moines and Northern Iowa is quietly advancing toward building a railroad with Boone county right of way secured and blazes in progress. An option on M. W. Neese’s Webster township farm near Stratford will host a depot grounds. The line runs north from there toward Cooper and Freedom townships, with plans for a station near McGonigle farm and near Stratford, but no definite stations north of there yet.
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Des Moines
Northern
Iowa
Boone County
M. W. Neese
Webster Township
Stratford
Boone
McGonigle
Neese
Cooper Farm
Freedom Township
County Republican Committee Reorganizes in Court House
The Republican county committee met at the court bound Saturday afternoon to reorganize. Fifteen of twenty one precincts were represented and officers were elected: Chairman J. H. Richard, Secretary F. M. Merchant, Treasurer W. C. Burleson.
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Republican County Mittee
J. H. Richard
F. M. Merchant
Man Bound Over After Grand Jury Hearing
A man identified as Lea Minniere from Chicago faced a grand jury hearing before Squire Knowles Tuesday forenoon. He is charged with stealing a forge carriage and harness from G. T. Rutledge last Saturday and was bound over to the September term with a $500 bond, which he could not post, and was returned to county jail.
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G. T. Rutledge
Squire Knowles
Lea Minniere
Chicago
Sounty
Annual Institute Opens In Hamilton County
The annual teachers institute for Hamilton County begins August 13 and runs to August 25. It is expected to be the most successful ever with nearly 300 in attendance. First time attendees should apply to the county superintendent for course information.
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Hamilton County
Horse Buggy and Harness Stolen
A suspicious man rented a rig from Rutledge's feed barn last Saturday morning claiming to go to Wool tock. He left and did not return. Local searches recovered the Boise buggy and harness near Humboldt.
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Rutledge
Bac
Little
Humboldt
Boise
Corner Stone Laying at St. Pauls Catholic Church Next Sunday
Corner stone ceremony for St. Pauls Catholic Church formerly St Peters Catholic Church scheduled for next Sunday July 1 at 4 00 p m Rev Father Garland of Eagle Grove will lay the stone and Dr J P Carroll president of St Josephs College Dubuque will deliver the sermon Special music prepared and all are invited to attend
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St. Paul’s Catholic Church
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Father Garland
Eagle Grove
J. P. Carroll
St.Joseph's College of
Dubuque
Convention Travel Offer by Chicago Great Western Ry
Kansas City on July 4 1900 promotional notice urges travel to a convention via the Chicago Great Western Ry. It advertises a single round trip fare with tickets on sale July 2 3 and 4 and valid for return by July 9. Inquiries directed to any C G W agent or F H Lord G P T A 112 Adams St Chicago.
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Kansas City
Chicago Great Western Ry
Chicago Great Western
F. H. Lord
Adams St
Chicago
Iowa farmer urges steadiness amid drought in Minnesota trip
Traveling essemn D J Harter reports Red River Valley crops suffer from dry weather and warns Iowa farmers to stay put. He praises Iowa as the best agricultural state and Hamilton county as the top county, arguing long term steadiness beats quick wealth.
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J. Harter
Chicago
Minnesota
Red River Valley
Iowa
Union
Hamilton County
Des Moines Meeting Highlights Iowa Swine Breeders
The state hosts a large Des Moines gathering of top swine breeders praising breed health and market-ready stock. The piece notes bacon hogs’ unpopularity among buyers, praises hog revenue's impact, and cites a dramatic personal recovery story endorsing Dr King’s New Discovery for throat chest and lung troubles with trial bottles offered locally.
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Des Moines
Iows
Lows
Freeman-Tribune
Mrs. W. R. Seeley Dies Quietly at Home
Mrs. W. R. Seeley, aged 67, died Monday at 3:30 PM at her daughter Mrs. A G Kellogg’s home after years of heart trouble. She sat in a rocking chair speaking to her daughter when a rapid death occurred. Survived by three sons C. A Seeley of this city W. H Seeley of Alden HE E Seeley of Alden and daughter Mrs Kellogg. Brief services were held at Kellogg home then burial in Alden.
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W.R. Seeley
A G. Kellogg
Young Aiken rides wild fast wagon home
One of Robert Aiken's younger sons held the team as the elder brother went into a coal car at Crooked Creek depot. The horses pulled a wild run up Third Street and into the yard, but the boy kept his grip and escaped injury. Neighbors feared a serious accident as the team dashed through town.
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Robert Aiken
Crooked Creek
Third-Street
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