Wood for Sale at Akron Area Farm
Soft wood priced at 3.50 per cord and hard wood at 4.50 per cord. Sale location is a farm 114 miles north of Akron. Cordwood length stated as 8 ti m with unclear measure.
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
2
Soft wood priced at 3.50 per cord and hard wood at 4.50 per cord. Sale location is a farm 114 miles north of Akron. Cordwood length stated as 8 ti m with unclear measure.
Final reports from the Iowa Weather and Crop Service show Plymouth County ranking first in spring wheat with an average yield of 724,510 bushels, well ahead of Sioux County. Plymouth also ranks third in corn production at 38 bushels per acre and 6,274,750 bushels total, while sizable barley and oats positions follow. The report notes rising winter wheat acreage in Northwestern Iowa due to its hardiness and higher yields.
On New Year's day a pearl brooch with a large central pearl and several surrounding pearls went missing. The note asks that Mia be contacted and that a reward be issued, with return to W. B. Miller in Akron Iowa.
Akron Iowa January 1 1906 R F D Carrier No 6 thanks patrons for holiday gifts that filled his bin and eased his teams hunger. A list credits numerous donors with sacks of oats and corn and notes Carrier No 3 also gratefully recalls Christmas tokens from many neighbors.
A fragmentary note lists gifts including two sacks oats from Jack Smith and sacks barley from G D Luschen, with others not named. It mentions two sacks oats for Jacob Dirks and Roy Root and references Frank Bonney as the author.
At the January 6 1906 meeting the Domestic Building and Loan Association of Akron Iowa ordered a new series. It urges saving 25c 50c 1 or 2 dollars weekly to build independence and self reliance for future needs. The notice is signed by Secretary M A Rangs. Akron Iowa January 4 1906.
Mead's Hog Oil is promoted as a superior antiseptic and germ killer that claims to cure the sick and keep livestock healthy, marketed to farmers and hog owners seeking herd care products.
The Jas Biddlecome Relief Corps No 245 quarterly report covers October 1 to December 30, 1905 listing cash on hand 39.22 and receipts from G A R supper 29.40. It notes items sent to Memorial University Old Soldiers Home and Orphans home via Express. The notice thanks Akron residents for support and loyalty as W R C No 246 Akron Iowa closes the report.
A 1905 Akron Iowa memorial note honors Hester Kenaston who served in all higher offices of the corps and, after ill health, aided loyal and patriotic to the end. The charter is draped for thirty days, resolutions printed in the Reaisres-Trip-UNB, and copies sent to the family by order of the Coin. Dated December 30, 1905.
Office of C F Horton and N Mead offers oil at six pence per gallon rear of Burgess and Smith’s with emphasis on value and quality. Local buyers invited to compare and purchase.
The railroad announces special Homegeekers excursions to the West and Southwest with sale dates January 2 to 16 and February 20, 1906. Tickets good returning within twenty days except to Mexico where thirty days allowed. Second class Colonist rates to the same points apply on the same dates.
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