Various Advertisements and Notices in The Ackley World
A collage of advertisements and brief notices from The Ackley World dated January 4, 1888. Items include cough remedies from J M Nix and Pfander druggists, notes on digestion and biliousness, a quip about seman’s dew on ships, a joke about a suitor willing to die, a pearled remark on the Lords Day, praise for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and Little Liver Pills, an Irish arts and crafts society forming in Dublin, and industry shifts in whaling with reduced vessel numbers and a focus on whalebone demand.
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Dublin
Ireland
A Gallant Critic in Love and Humility
The country editor, married about three months, jokes with his wife about accepting poems. She asks to see one, and he replies it was her, pointing to the room’s looking glass as the evidence. In light humor, he frames a playful self compliment.
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Charlie
Detroit Free Press
Two Papers Offer One Year Subscriptions For $2.00
Detroit Free Press and The Ackley World promote a combined one year offer at two dollars. The Free Press touts a large twelve page weekly format with a Merry Times department for children and a special women's page. Also advertised are premiums and sample copies. Separately, Texas ranchers plead for state aid to curb panthers wolves and coyotes harming livestock as wild animal numbers rise.
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Texas
Southern Home Seekers Excursions Offer Low Round Trip Fares
Hundreds of Northern families are hosted along lines of major railroads and thousands more plan to move to milder climates. The Hindu Central Southern Homeseekers' Excursions depart Sioux City Sioux Falls Onawa Cedar Rapids and other points on select Mondays with one fare for round trips to Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana excluding New Orleans and Memphis. Tickets include thirty day return and stopovers south of Cairo. Address Manchester Iowa to receive a Free Copy of the Southern Home Seekers Guide.
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Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Hindu Central Southern
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Onawa
Cedar Rapids
Lyle
Fort Dodge
Ohio River
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Memphis
Cairo
Manchester
Iowa
J. F. Meray
RB. R
Stop That Cough With Beggs Cherry Syrup Ad
Beggs Cherry cough syrup touted as the most effective medicine for throat and lung troubles. Available in 25, 50 cent and one dollar sizes. O B Pfander, a local druggist, stocks it.
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O. B. Pfander
Chicago Times Highlights National Coverage and Staff Reach
The Chicago Times, established 1854, is a national newspaper with AP reports and special service coverage from major U.S. centers. It employs over 1500 special correspondents and emphasizes news from the northwest and adjoining states to the Rocky Mountains.
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Chicago Times
News of the World
Associated Press
the Times
Geral
United States
Northwest
Rocky Mountains
Chicago
Chicago Sunday Times: A premier, illustrated Sunday paper
The Chicago Sunday Times is one of the largest and best Sunday papers in America. It features the latest and most novel special sections and is richly illustrated by top newspaper artists.
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Khewa
Chicago Sunday Times
America
Sample Coping and Foot Ball Game Ad Twins Era
An old section presents a playful dialogue featuring The Girls Now and Uncle Josh inviting to a city football game with a dismissive response about staying home. The page likewise promotes Ruth Beggs German Salve as a general remedy for cuts bruises and old sores, priced at 250 and sold by Jacob and Jaunkermann.
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Uncle Josh
Josh
Ruth
Beggs
Jacob & Jaunkermann
Record of Historic Snowfall in New Magland
A historic blizzard struck February 19 to 24, 1917, leaving five to seven feet of snow across New Magland. The event stands as one of the nation’s heaviest snowfalls, disrupting travel, commerce, and daily life for days in the region.
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New Magland
Nervous system health remedy touted by Dr Miles
An advertising piece extols Dr Miles Restorative Nervino as a cure for headaches debility sleeplessness and other nervous disorders. It claims deranged nerve centers cause indigestion and heart trouble and asserts the remedy has cured many cases. Also notes a new Italian rifle could pierce five inches of oak at 4000 feet.
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Franklin Miles
J. D
St. Vitus
Dr. Ailes Nedical
Elkhart
Ind
Ttalian
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the Ackley World
Reema Od
Chicago Inter Ocean
F. Pfander
DeWitt
J M. Nix
Sis
J. M. Nix
Margaret
Boston Transcript
Johnson
C. If
Pfanuder
Carlton Cornwell
The
Gazette
Middletown
N. J
Chamberlain
Jacob & Junkermann
TOE
Tay
Ackley World
Free Press
Detort Fars Press
Detroit
Michigan
Sam
Ilinois Central R. R
Southern Pacific Co
Avondale
Southern Pacific
Honaton
San Antonis
EL Paso
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Wick
Central Station
Pacific Coast
Chichago
California
LGRR
A. H. Tansey
GP. A
Fifth Ave
Washington &I
Chicago, Ills
Righter
Aiton
O Jacob & Junkermann
Heinz & Garstens
Ackley
Ann
Siparianca
Scientific American
Pines
Munn 4 CO
Paperhetdsteck
Hardwire Ar
Mtl
Lowa
Van
Towa
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