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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1914
Page
4
A good milk cow coming fresh soon offered by R. B. Grant. Also a five horsepower gasoline engine in first class condition described as the best brought to Ackley. Available for sale at this office at half the original purchase price.
Community notes from Wellsburg and Aplington recount visits and moves. John Snittjer Sr visits Chicago. carpenters to work on a new Traden elevator. Miss Hildebrand teaches the J Peters district. various residents travel to Iowa Falls Des Moines and Des Moines area. Post office moves in Austinville. Aplington hints at a dry town. local sales, farm purchases, and anniversaries noted. Election results in Dumont for mayor and council. electric lighting franchise to be voted April 27. pastors Celestine Cunningham moving to Laconia. families relocate to Bristow and Clarence.
Mrs J W Knoll visited Mrs Wm Johns last Saturday Earl Johns went to Waterloo Sunday Billy Glasser transacted business at Ackley Monday Henry West traded in Abbott Monday J H Gardner and wife visited daughter at Steamboat Rock Hays Fouts and family called on Mrs Fouts parents Sunday afternoon Mrs John Kugel visited at Clarion Ray Gimner came from Klemme to visit over Sunday Grandma Johns sick last week Hays Fouts and son Ellwood at Eldora Monday Anton Oelman transacting business in Abbott Tuesday Mrs Herbert Strahorn returned from eastern trip Louie Glasser visits at Marshalltown Rev A H Buente and wife of Le Mars were in Abbott Tuesday Miss Ena Johns celebrated her twelfth birthday Quite a number of girl friends spent the afternoon Jodo Ihde improving Miss Elizabeth Slee of Hampton visited at W P Stoddard home Womans Foreign Missionary society met at Mrs L B Appleby’s home Miss Minnie Pilling was present College students returned to school duties Miss Lulu Pearse Carl Haymond and Raymond Fox to Mt Vernon Glen Jones to Ames Philip Overton to Iowa Falls Womans Missionary Society refreshments served Unclaimed letters at post office Miss Mary Binga Henry Hilker S M Irish Miss Duuas Mositortis and more.
J Ta Milliken and wife visited Cedar Falls friends last week. A Nevada niece and nephew are to be entertained at Jim Penny's home this week. Infant son of Mr and Mrs John Flensing baptized at Lowa Falls last Friday. Henry Bruhnos builds a milk house. John Hensing owns a new Ford. Grant Township. Robert Oppold loses a valuable horse Thursday. Henry Benning visits Ackley Wednesday. John Thies calls on T Ryan Friday. Henry Sater visits Ackley. R J and Leo Ryan visit Ed Caton Sunday. Richard Warren and wife at Mahoney home Sunday afternoon. J F Brass and wife and P J Ryan and wife visit Ed Caton Sunday. Ben Swater returns from six weeks in Chicago. Clancy brothers ship two carloads of cattle from Macy Tuesday. Unnatural literary notes from Chicago Evening Post. South African exploration praised. Uncle Joe Cannon jokes about snakes in South America.
A fragment reflects on wronging others and the idea that nature returns harm like a boomerang. The text suggests karma or retribution follows wrongdoing, implying that attempts to injure others will backfire in some form to the wrongdoer.
An old newspaper ad touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a reward for cures, Tigd’s Catarrh Cure sold nationwide, and a claim from the National Bank of Commerce Toledo endorsing F J Cheney. It promotes Half a Family Pills, urging readers to buy medicine and trust a local bank’s integrity.
H N Sebulte markets Adler ika in Ackley as a simple buckthorn bark glycerine mix claimed to cure appendicitis. The ad touts one dose relief for sour stomach gas and constipation with quick, astonishing action. The Washington Star quote adds confusing remarks about the seller’s personal life and legal troubles.
The Vietor brothers shipped several carloads of stock to Chicago amid the week. The move indicates active livestock commerce routing through Chicago markets this period.
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