Akor Iowa Weekly Note on Commerce and Cyclone Safety
The Hawarden Independent campaigns against catalogue houses and urges local advertising as town booster. It recounts letters to Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck declining donations, and praises home merchants over distant firms while stressing the value of a well-filled newspaper as town booster and ally. It also mentions plans for Thomas W. Lawson's Iowa lecture tour and reflections on progress in Russia and business morality.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Iowa
Hawarden Independent
Montgomery Ward & Co
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Independent
Town merchant urges local buying over mail orders
A Dell Rapids reader recalls a merchant who explains that buying locally boosts town value, taxes, schools, and credit access. He argues mail order prices look cheap only due to catalog ease, while local goods offer guaranteed fit, inspection, and exchanges, supporting the community and land values. A follow note promotes Iowa land offers from C. H. Maxson in Akron.
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Dell Rapids Tribune
the Tribune
Dell Rapids
Chicago
Opportunities at Oacoma 8 D South Dakota sales planned
Oacoma in Lyman County on the Missouri River will become a shipping and distributing point after the Lyman County extension of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway. A June sale of town lots offers profits for investors and mercantile ventures with rail and steamboat access. Watch for excursion dates and be ready to identify with Oacoma's growth potential.
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Oacoma
Lyman County
South Dakota
Missouri River
Chamberlain
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Vermont
Southakota
Excursion Rates From Akron For Summer Travel
Cc M and St P excursion rates set for Lewis and Clark exposition period from June 1 to October 15 in Portland Oregon with round trip fare from Akron at 45 dollars. Home seekers rates to South and North Dakota Minnesota available May 10 to September 30 with one and a third fare for thirty day tickets. Spirit Lake Arnolds Park and Lakes Okoboji listed as summer resort destinations. local agents provide full particulars.
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Portland
Oregon
Akron
South
North Dakota
Minnesota
Spirit Lake
Arnold's Park and
Lakes Okoboji
Cure for kidney disease praised by Iowa man
An Iowa man from Cherokee recounts how Electric Bitters cured his severe kidney disease and backache. He credits the tonic with restoring health and recommends it for weak kidneys, liver, or stomach. Also notes James Taggert in Chatsworth offers dusters, whips, and fly nets at good prices.
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O. F. Collier
Cherokee
Iowa
Cobb
James Taggert
Chatsworth
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F. W. Sargent
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Delmont
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National Medical Co
Sheldon, Iowa
C. Ethiee
Scientific American
New York & Co
Broadway
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Round & Smith, Publishers
Warsaw
Poland
Kipling
Russia
John D. Rockefeller
Plain Business Gospel
C. H. Maxson
Lowa
Gladstone
E. F. Cobb
March Bros
Gladstone Mrpkins Co
Hawarden
Gio W. War
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Chi
Akron Savings Bank
Board OF Directors
Geo, Way
Duncan Ross
Thomas Stinton
Boyson Ross
Bloomer
R. Hi
Bloomer Fes
Buurrs
Sein
Heat and Corp
Moore Bros
Akron, Lowra
Canton
Buckeye
Clark
Diamond
Bain and Fish Wagons
M. M. Talbott
Akron Louvre
Lewis and Clark Exposition
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
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Denver
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