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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1895
Page
4
Wellsburg and Harr County sketch a bustling town with hardware and lumber firms, creameries, grain elevators, and shops. Local families and workers from Woolman Koolma Doyen and Taunst are highlighted along with schools, a closing term, and social gatherings. The piece mentions Mrs. Carr ie Campbell’s death and a reopened Presbyterian church service, plus several visits and local business activity.
Eldora visitor Mrs J B Button calls Steamboat Rock home to visit Tuesday. A Norris of Chicago visits his uncle J Davidson. Rev Geo Yule attends Presbyterian Sunday school convention at Cedar Rapids this week. John Wilt wed Gust, his former housekeeper, Friday evening. Rumor hints at two upcoming local weddings. Social at the school park last Friday drew many for an evening of pleasure. Some boys hunted last week and brought in coons and two cubs. The men boast prosperous business. A school board meeting Saturday effective Miss Atelen Hertiat of Clarinda was elected assistant principal for the coming school year. J A Watson postmaster at Alden visits with his wife. Mrs Button serves as postmaster in the interim, during President Cleveland's administration. A hearty, stalwart man to boot.
Local items report community updates from Iowa Falls including a new commission line proposed and dairy business changes. Births are noted at Will Wood's family, while church events and youth activities populate the social calendar. A fire destroyed the Ivanhoe lime stone and construction plant two miles west, valued at about 12 000 dollars, likely from spontaneous coal bin ignition.
An advertisement from Chicago by H. B. Bucklen & Co promotes free sample boxes of Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming they ease constipation and headaches, stimulate stomach and bowels, and are vegetable and safe. Regular size 25 cents per box, sold by Jacob Junkermann. Also promotes Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for whooping cough and Sexafrag toothpaste to remove tartar and whiten teeth.
The piece discusses agricultural practices and challenges across the plains including manure effects on sod, barley and potatoes as home-sustaining crops, and abundant gooseberries with frosts harming strawberries. It analyzes westward settlement, rainfall reliability, and the need for tenant farming, plus dairy notes on butter odor issues and a hog remedy广告, with references to General Sherman and Smalley on agricultural strategy.
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