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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1877 -
Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
May 3, 1877
YOUNG MEN. Baylies Great
Commercial College, Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi.
Nineteenth Year About sixty dollars pay all expenses for
Membership, Board, and Stationery. Bookkeepers, Penmen,
Reporters, Operators, Architects, Surveyors, and Teachers
thoroughly fitted. Railroad fare reduced. Good situations. No
vacations. Good boarding clubs; and family board. Don't fail to
address Prof.
Miller, Keokuk, Iowa.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Atlanta
Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia
May 16, 1877
Almost as Sweet as Col. Jene's Okra Pod.
Dubuque, May 14 -- A young lady school-teacher in Allamakee
county had a lover whose affection turned to rage in a singular
manner. Last Tuesday, declining to receive his attention any
more, she gave him the mitten. This sorely perplexed the young
man. He packed up his duds for leaving the country, but before
going called at the school to say farewell. After a few minutes'
conversation he requested the favor of a parting kiss, and
reached out to embrace her, when she struggled, under bashful
modesty. Seizing the opportunity, he drew her face to his and bit
her nose nearly off. The end part, a good mouthful, hung by the
gristle and was sewed in place by a neighboring surgeon. With
best possible care she will be disfigured for life.
[transcribed by S.F., Nov. 2003]
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Westfield News
Westfield, Hampden co. Mass.
October 17, 1877
Married.
At Northampton (Florence), 11th, Frederick H. Severence of Iowa
and Katherine L. Graves.
[transcribed by S.B., August 2005]