For Sale Good residence and business property bargain
For sale a good residence and business property at a bargain. Inquire at this office 45-21.
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
7
For sale a good residence and business property at a bargain. Inquire at this office 45-21.
In Douglass county Wisconsin ex cellent farm land can be bought at from 6 to 10 dollars per acre. The land suits all small grain vegetables and corn yields rival those in northwest Iowa. Proximity to markets Duluth and West Superior adds appeal. Buyers are urged to act as prices are expected to rise to 60 to 875 per acre. James H Trautt Akron Iowa invites interested parties to inspect the land, with a round trip railroad fare.
Henry Agnes of Plankinton South Dakota solicits inquiries from buyers seeking cheap lands. Lands in Aurora County range from 83 to 20 dollars per acre. He will visit Akron about once a month and can be reached at M. A. Agnes office for more information on suitable parcels.
By recommendation of the Akron game and Fish club Frank Bolmer of Chatdworth and E J Bradley of Akron have been appointed deputy wardens by State Fish and Game Warden Lincoln. The new wardens pledge vigorous enforcement and remind anglers of fishing rules including seasonal dates bag limits line limits and gear restrictions with fines from five to one hundred dollars.
A note extols Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a home cure for summer complaint in children and urges readers to keep a bottle. The piece also lists reduced railroad fares for various trips including Ringling Bros Circus and Chautauqua at Spirit Lake, with details on sale dates and round trip prices from Akron and other points.
A survey of natural substances used in medicine from antiquity to the present. It covers chromic acid and other acids, Lobelia known as Indian tobacco, Cascarilla bark, Iceland moss, Ammontia once analyzed by Priestly, cinnamon from Ceylon and India, pepper varieties from Capsicum, and the pepper plant’s role as a tonic for the stomach in tropical regions.
A collection of numerical curiosities and statistics: a caterpillar eats 600 times its weight monthly, a crow destroys 700,000 insects yearly, only one of seven French presidents served a full term, the gircon is the heaviest stone at 4.5 times water’s weight while opal is twice as heavy as water, city life has many night workers, London’s 1 004 000 seeves by night work, Allegany County New York’s last pine grove (400 trees) sold for 7500 dollars with some pines 5 feet diameter and 300 years old, Louisiana and Texas farmers invested 5 million dollars in 1,580 miles of canals flooding 300,000 acres and spent 1.7 million on 30 rice mills, rice lands yield a net $15 per acre.
Special correspondence from Union Creek South Dakota reports unusually cold weather hindering corn and harvest prep. A. Gustafson grades lumber for a new farm house. church plaster damage from a storm will be insured and paid. Henry Malmgren heads to Sioux City then San Francisco for months of travel. J. J. Malmgren returns from Vermilion to help on the farm. Mrs. Lind visits from Cherokee and Rev Valin’s household goods arrive for the parsonage as the new pastor arrives.
A survey of Japan notes that funerary customs begin after burial and mourning follows. Tokyo hosts 600 street storytellers using simple props to illustrate tales. Japanese housing favors mortised, nail-free construction. Auction practices in Japan involve bids written on slips and placed in a box. A fish pain debate cites a fisherman’s tale of a pike hooked with line and bait to argue fish feel little pain.
Local notes recount small town life with visits and travel across Iowa and South Dakota. Families including Morehead, Casson, Ward, Ericson, Millner, and Waddle appear among Midwest stops in Vermillion South Dakota and Sioux City. A severe storm disrupts travel and causes nervous prostration for Aug Ericson after Hawarden stop.
A gold class pin inscribed Clio Between and Rav was found. The finder is asked to leave it at Douglass and Rhodes for contact.
A fragment from a conversation recalls George Washington and the claim of never telling a lie. One man questions the memory and suggests Washington may not have kept a perfect memory after all.
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