19 Apr 1916
Page 6
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1916
Page
6
Community notes summarize coming and going of local people and their friends. The column highlights activities, visits, and social events within the county, reflecting neighborhood life and routine happenings from the busy world around.
John Vintor plans summer work for Ed Johns while Abbott residents greet visitors and travel to nearby towns. John Schneiderman, Abbott’s oldest citizen, died after a brief illness and will be buried near Abbott. The community reports on church, school, funerals, road work, and local travel, with brief notices of hunting and fishing, hotel inspections, and familiar neighbors visiting Ackley, Iowa Falls, Lennox, and Eldora.
Local tidbits record visits and health updates from Steamboat Rock residents including Burl Surles and his wife returning from Ferguson caring for family, Ernie Williams visiting from St Paul, and George Hoover improving from rheumatism. Reports also note land purchases by H R Vigars in Texas, a Chicago death in-law links, and various social calls. A Siberian drift skiing anecdote and Irish Daniel O Connell story closes the column with brief commentary.
Robert Louis Stevenson died abruptly in Sa moa on December 3 1894 at age forty five after a day of intense heat and hard writing on his unfinished Hermiston. His cousin Graham Balfour notes he was buoyant at sunset and spoke of a lecture tour to America before his death.
Advertising pitch offering one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case and praising F J Cheney and company. Claims about internal treatment and direct action on blood and mucous surfaces. Mentions price per bottle and druggists selling the product.
Cattle receipts 3 000 in Chicago market steady with natives at 87.50 to 80.85 westerns 87.40 to 88.40 cows and calves 3 80 to 8 70 calves 98.00 to 810.50 hog receipts 16 000 market weak early advices show bulk 39.50 to 29.60 light 89.10 to 99.85 mixed 89.20 to 89.05 heavy 89.20 to 89.70 pigs 7.50 to 38.70 sheep racing strong with prices 68 to 70 and market to 90.15. Butter creamery high 31 to 36. Eggs market higher receipts 24 106 cases at market 18¢ to 19 340 firsts 18 30 19 30. Misleading quotes and jokes follow from Buffalo Express and Life satire notes. A real estate ad for a 50 acre farm near Rochester Minnesota. Executor notice from Hardin County April 1 1984. Banquet remarks by officials on Jefferson and humanity at a conference. Clear reference to historic figures and political sentiments.
A Columbus area woman, newly engaged to a man named Jackson, visited a friend to share the news. The friend joked that the embroidery initials on the dress need not be changed, reflecting lighthearted village joy in the engagement.
A Mobile man, always short of funds, faced daily due dates on many notes. He visited a bank and asked to renew a note but the president noted the document claimed I promise to pay rather than I promise to renew. The teller deemed the note improperly drawn.
An old notice promotes Bucklea's Arnica Salve as protection and healing for cuts, sores, bruises, infections, pimples, salt rheum and eczema. It claims quick relief, antiseptic action, and prevention of complications. Sold by Ackley Drugist and advertised to customers with strong assertions of instant action.
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