Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
July 19, 1877
Student Dies From Excessive Study
Charles Ripperton, a student for some time at the high school in
this city, died at the residence of his parents in Brandon
township, last Wednesday. Excessive study is supposed to have
caused his death, the physicians not being able to assign any
other reason. For several days prior to his death his brain was
insensible to outside impressions, although all his other
physical faculties seemed healthy. Charlie was an exceptionally
good boy, having none of the bad habits common to youth, and was
held in high regard by all his classmates, many of whom attended
his funeral in the Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Advertisement. Industrious and honest laboring
men who want to secure a home for themselves by simply paying
rent to the amount of the purchase price, should call Mrs. N. R.
Allen, who offers six houses for sale in monthly installments.
She has tried leasing these houses on reasonable terms, but finds
this class of renters, as a rule, consider themselves under very
little obligation to pay up, and in consequence has lost about
$240 in the past two years. By the plan she proposes, however,
there will be a strong incentive to pay up promptly.
[transcribed by K.W., August 2009]