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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1895
Page
4
A London Spectator tale recalls Turk a smooth haired retriever who finds a rabbit hidden in a dry stone ditch. He follows the bailiff home drags the coat with the rabbit inside and recovers the stolen goods. Also notes on Chamberlains Cough Remedy and a London Times piece on Britain’s sea power and naval strength.
An old Chicago style ad page promotes the Detroit Free Press weekly with extensive promotional copy and premiums. It also includes Beggs Cherry cough syrup advertisement promising instant relief and a parental exchange about truthfulness from Life magazine quotes and child dialogue.
The ad extols Uncle Sam Nerve and Bone Liniment as the best horse and cattle remedy, touting 30 years’ use and a Chicago company. It then lists global naval strength figures, noting Japan’s prowess and China’s fleet losses, followed by a humorous Lexington Avenue encounter where two boys claim to be Methodists, ending with a literary aside and a stray rhyme fragment.
Hundreds of families are relocating along Illinois Central and Yazoo Mississippi lines seeking milder climates in Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. Excursions depart Sioux City Sioux Falls Onawa Cedar Rapids and Manchester Iowa on April 1 and 29 with one fare round trip good within thirty days and stops allowed south of Cairo. Contact Manchester for a Free Southern Home Seekers Guide.
Railway excursion fares offered for the G A R State Encampment at Clinton May 7 to 9. Tickets on sale May 6 to 9, valid to May 10, from all Iowa stations. Contact Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern agents or J Monon Cedar Rapids for details. Also includes unrelated ad blurbs on hair care and quotes.
Ackley reports a German statistician’s claim that Monday is the unlucky day. A Chicago woman, after 25 years of heart trouble and long medical treatment, began using Miles New Heart Cure. Within hours she felt relief, later regained mobility, and swelling subsided. She recommended the remedy to six others. advertised as a proven heart disease remedy with a money back guarantee. A curious line notes Persian Gulf springs supply water to weasels.
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