Iowa Old Press
Ottumwa Daily Democrat, April 24, 1885, p. 4
MARRIAGES.—The following returns of marriages for the month of April, have been filed with the Clerk of Courts:
George G. McChesney to Mary E. Collins.
E. H. Woodworth to Louise Anderson.
Fred Moody to Elizabeth Atkins.
D. D. Cook to Eliza J. Carnes.
J. A. Newcomb to Katie Strang.
Virgil Lane to Julia Wellman.
John T. Emery to Amanda E. Kennedy.
Adam Reigle to Lillie J. Graham.
David T. Shirley to Vilinia Morgan.
Andrew Dummler to Elizabeth Bauer.
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THE PIANO BUSINESS—When a pretended legitimate business firm is compelled to resort to lotteries in order to sell goods, and worse than that, to descend to the slums of Smoky Row to illustrate its methods, it looks as though there was something rotten in the concern. The violation of all the rules of commercial honor is of itself bad enough, but to resort to Smoky Row and use it as an advertising medium, should be enough to disgust the better class of people.
[transcribed by L.Z., Jul 2021]