Maple Leaf Route Offers Comfortable Winter Travel to West
Describes Tuesday 8 45 p m departures from Des Moines to Los Angeles via Kansas City and AT&SF Ry as the true winter Pacific coast route with no snow blockades. Cars are comfortable with a porter, berths comparable to Pullman, capacity for two, and second class tickets honored. Apply to Maple Leaf agents or F H Lord Chicago address for details.
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Des Moines
Los Angeles
Kansas City
A. T
F. Ry
Pacific Coast
Maple Leaf
F. H. Lord
Adams Street
Chicago
Local Neighbors Report Illness and Community News
W W Kyle and several residents are listed as sick with the grippe or on sick lists. Mrs Beckwiths new house nears completion. Jason Billings has been sick a week. The newly married couple settles into routine. Teacher Matthews reports strong school progress. William Beil and Charles Jarvis haul turkeys to Nevada. Jarvis carries fifty. George Templeton was very ill last week but recovers. J F Gillespie of Nevada visits Grant township and declares candidacy for Story county sheriff, presenting credentials as potential A K Banks successor.
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J. F. Gillespie
Nevada
Mr. Templeton
Grant Township
Story County
A. K. Bank
Local happenings in town and surrounding areas
Miss May Dunn attended school in Des Moines while Miss Lou Gossard was ill and Willamette taught in her place. Reports cover travel, illness, meetings, church events, a planned creamery, and social visits, with notes on poultry shipments, meetings, a broken arm, a runaway buggy, and local business remarks.
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Lou Gossard
Willamette
Gilbert area notes and community updates in brief
Many residents suffer colds and grip while J H Reynolds and Jacob Jacobson travel to the county seat. Local activity includes painting at Woodman hall, violin classes in Gilbert, court jurors from La Fayette township, and sermons at the C P church. A social at Ben Finham's new home and lamb sale highlight busy week amid widespread illness and preparations for spring farming.
Grip Epidemic Reaches Ontario Families
Sylvester Scott contends with grip as W H Johnson and wife also confined at home. Other sick listed include A E Ross and family Mrs G P Eastwood Ada Scott Grandma Foster Mrs Schuyler Freed and children Effie Mirm and Stones children.
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A. E. Ross
G. P. Eastwood
Ada Scott
Grandma Foster
Schuyler Freed
Effie Mirm
Mr. Stones
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Guarantee and Sale
Guarantee every bottle or refund offered. No better medicine for la grippe colds and whooping cough. Price 25 and 50 cents per bottle. For sale by druggists.
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Chamberlain
Bigelow and Smith Hold Forty Day Clearing Sale
TiLpDEN Bros. and Co advertise a clearing sale by Bigelow and Smith for the next forty days seeking buyers for 10,000 bushels of corn.
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Bigelow & Smith
Tilpden Bros. & Co
Not Every Man Knows How to Do It Properly
A historical survey discusses elite cooks and gourmets from medieval Italy to Louis XIV era France, noting prominent figures like Bech ameil and Vatel and royal women who shaped feasting. It contrasts legendary meals and etiquette with warning that not all people or rulers eat wisely and healthfully.
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Italy
Montaigne
le Science de Guelle
London
Bechameil
Louis the Magnificent
Vatel
Prince de Conde
Soubise
Princess of
Conde
Duchess of
Mme. de Maintenon
Louis XIV
Pere la Chaise
Canard Au Pere Douillet
Scarron
Mgr
Savarin
Napoleon
Carlyle
Mr. Gladstone
Byron
Farmers in Michigan Unearth Ancient Gold Coins
In Weesaw township Ber Rien county Michigan farmers rejoice after Mathew Paddock unearthed a cache of Spanish and Mexican gold coins during plowing. The find rekindles an old legend of buried wealth dates back to 1700 with Indians once seeking the treasure years ago and now farmers abandon work to search for more riches.
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Weesaw
Berrien County
Mich
Mathew Paddock
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Northwest
Reveai NS Biosis
Coo
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Miller the Druggist
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P. O
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Overland Lim
Chicago Special
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Anne Ane
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Dakota
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Dak
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Ccseceeses
Csccen Cess
GRP Teigate
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Boone-Carroll
Omaha
Coast Connection
G. W. Rogers
Dougherty
Hanna Eckert
H.C. Hammond
Chester Jacobs L. Jacobson
Andrew Lough
A. E. Tucker
Amanda Land
F, Wonnomore
L. G
California
Compton
Grant
W. W. Kyle
Mr. McCoy
Mr. Kingsbury
Jason Billings
Matthews
Wm. Beil
Charles Jarvis
Jarvis
George Templeton
Wood
May Dunn
R. W. Crane
The
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Mr. J. Crosier
Elwell
Baptist Church
Mr. Foley
Radcliffe
Town
Myrtle Gossard
Cedar Falls
Kelley
Bert Wire
Bert
Harry Cook
Sutter
Williams
Lillie Stark
Mr. Cook
Crane
Rosenfeld
Story City
Story
Tillet
Joel Brown
Algie Briley
M. Ross
Gilbert Station
J. H. Reynolds
Jacob Jacobson
Peter Christianson
New Woodman Hall
Carrie Bell Scott
Gilbert
Gertrude Dodds
la Grippe
Reynolds & Jacobson’s
Jas. Dodds
Kansas
Colorado
George Brown
la Fayette Township
John Abrams
Tingle
Power of United Effort
C. P
Ra Brown
Edna Brown
Ben Fineham
C. P. Church
Chapel Ridge
Freddie Arrasmith
Miss Miller
Sam Clark
Mackey Grove
Harry Thompson
Oklahoma
Arkansas
James Dodds
Robert Liddle
Chet Davis
A. B. Kibbee
J. O. Michaelson
Walter
Europe
Jake
Franklin Township
Ontario
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W. H. Johnson
Pruggist and Bookseller
L.M. Bosworth
Glover
Coats
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Royal Tailors
Soper
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