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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1894
Page
6
Harvesting progress amid oats near standard. creamery back to full output. Neighbors visit and travel to Freeport and Cedar Rapids. several listed names spent Sunday in Reeve and nearby towns. A note on a New Zealand frozen meat voyage after iceberg collision and praised tenderness.
In an advertisement a Draggist C. F. Pfander promotes Beges' Lite Giant Pills as a cure for headache and indigestion. The claim notes the product is sold and warranted by Pfander.
Central Station Des Moines reports a hot dry spell with only trace rainfall across the state. Corn holds but near danger line, oats and barley in best possible condition, potatoes heavily damaged, pastures poor, streams and wells at low levels, and threshing underway for winter wheat rye. Utica anecdote about a long-legged man chasing a moving train ends with no wager.
July 21 and 22 offer low return fares on the North Western Line to Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs with return passage valid through August 2. For tickets and full details contact Agents Chicago and North Western Ry. Also includes assorted period advertising snippets about tobacco cures and personal anecdotes.
A mixed compendium of clipped anecdotes notes a Texas trial witness describing a defendant swallowing fried oysters with a fork, a tongue in India about bulls, a Christmas issue held over for space, a Lebanon boy dying after tadpole ingestion, and a father's reflection on children's love of dirt as streets are dug up for a water pipe.
A Boston Courier fragment recalls a husband urging his wife to take money and go shopping, but she declines, preferring to stay home and assist the hired girl, only for the scene to reveal it was all a dream.
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