Register and Leader subscription offer advertised for 1909
Des Moines Register and Leader promotes a special rate to January 1, 1909, offering daily and Sunday editions at $2.00 and $3.00 respectively. It touts unbiased political coverage, markets, box scores, and cartoons as reasons for readers to subscribe, with remittance directions to Des Moines.
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Des Moines Register and
Leader
Daily Register
Leade
Register and Leader
Iowa
Iowa News Service
Ding
Register and Leader Co
Des Moines
Dwtf
Eastern magician enthralls with perilous firework scaffold
An illustrated account from Coveting Corner describes an Eastern fakir performing atop a bamboo scaffold called Uanshoo firework. The performer endures nails piercing his flesh while held upright by eight arms, then twists free after ritual movements. Cruthia declares the act hypnotizing and wonders at home how they would explain it.
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Ceylon
Dau
Auiarion
Uae
Cruthia
New Year's Etiquette Story From Seoul
A Korean official visiting an American hostess on New Year’s Day in Seoul ate nearly all her cake and tea, leaving none for others. The guest explained that foreigners “must be all stomach” to visit many houses and eat everywhere. The anecdote reflects cultural etiquette clashes and humor.
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Seoul
London Mall
Getting Back at England and Kaffir Greetings
A humorous column traces English mispronunciations feared abroad and a schoolma am's quip about witty retorts. It then notes Kaffir greeting Saku bona meaning I see you, used as a respectful initial salutation by natives when meeting visitors.
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England
Powella, Sa
Waituh
Indlar
Anna
Hannah
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Iis
Time table No 12 Omaha Flyer and related trains
Schedule lists numerous trains with times for the Omaha area including No 12 and local passes, Colorado and California Express, Mail and Express, Limiteds, and mixed Sunday services. Several trains do not run Sundays and others operate daily except Sundays. Griswold Branch shows specific departures.
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Omaha Flyer
Colo. & Calif
Mail and Express
A. M. Limited
R. M. Limited
Wall and Express
Chicago Express
Chicago Flyer
City Steam Laundry Promises Reliable Laundry Service
Advertisement urges readers to watch for the yellow wagon and have laundry work done by City Steam Laundry, touted as the old reliable service for dependable cleaning.
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Reliable City Steam Laundry
Wiota Social Notes Span Weeks of Local Travel
Miss Anna Johnson returns from Wiota visit with sister Mrs Lowe and family while Helga and Agusta Rice come back from Atlantic. Numerous local residents travel to Atlantic Omaha Des Moines and Cumberland. shop in Atlantic. attend ball games and visits with kin. A removal notice announces new real estate office over the old Iowa Trust and Savings bank after July 1st by M. P. Conway.
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Wiota
Anna Johnson
Maine
Lowe
Helga
Agusta Rice
Atlantic
Rolly Taylor
Hien Sampson
Katherine Moore
Clair Lahman
Welton
Ross Bell
Frank Beebe
Des Moines
Bertcher
Watson
Charles Sherrett
Omaha
Lon Hensley
Earl Dean
Anita
Nellie Conway
Fred Moore
Anna Mailanders
Marie Roe
Ruth Lamoreaux
Pluma Fogle
Lena Rector
Evelyn Moore
Abs
Eli Shoemaker
Chris Bowning
Benton Center
Nellie Farihon
Cumberland
Adair
D. R. Love
J. A. McWard
R. H. Bell
Charles McDermott
Fay Price
Sam Wood
Russell
Warren Jordan
Anna Quirt
M. B. Huff
John Stoodt
P. J. Sampson
Nip Johnson
Will Johnson
Alf Kennedy
Hazel
Rice
Joe Canon
George Clark
Ester
Orient
Bert Beebe
Henry Marshall
Will Lantz
Eburle
Marshall
Ern Bourne
Grover Darling
Dean Taylor
Walt McCabe
Francis Rows
Albert Schwab
Ed Wolfe
Mabel Barnholt
Lena
Iowa Trust and Savings Bank
M. P. Conway
Dst-Wit
Shupe to Enter Southwest Iowa Firemen Tourney
D S Disbrow Shupe returns to contest in a coupling event at the southwest Iowa firemen tourney in Corning this Friday and Saturday. Carl Shupe, last year’s Creston winner, aims to beat state and world records with assistant Hayde Hutchinson. Creston saw 135 seconds average, with 144 in one coupling. Clarinda took second at 21 5. Shupe’s speed promises a remarkable display.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertises 35 cents
A vintage advertisement touts Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea for 35 cents and notes tea or Tab Jets from Atlantic Drug Co. The piece also promotes City Steam Laundry’s yellow wagon delivery as a reliable laundry service.
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Hollister
Atlantic Drug Co
Prices and Sizes Offered for Your Selection
Readable text notes sizes and prices aimed to please you. The details imply a range of options with varying measurements and cost, inviting customers to choose.
Chicago Markets Hogs Cattle and Sheep Report July 1
Chicago markets report receipts for hogs cattle and sheep with price ranges and daily changes. Hogs slow and lower than yesterday's best. cattle mostly lower. sheep weak with lambs and sheep prices noted. Estimated tomorrow receipts provided for all three categories.
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Chicago
City Market Report Live Stock and Grain Prices
LIVE STOCK Tilogs five dollars twenty five to five seventy five beeves five fifty to six dollars cows and heifers three twenty five to five dollars GRAIN Wheat eight and a half corn sixty oats forty two barley eighty corn rye sixty PRODUCE Butter eighteen to twenty cents eggs twelve cents potatoes sixty cents hay seven to ten dollars straw six dollars
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C.W. Needles
Atlantic, Iowa
Foleyé Collins
Kutter” Goods
Albert Borens
Chamberlain
United States
Mary Kringel
Epworth Oyrut Ossinod Jwoutuye
Calumet
Rock Island & Pacific
Audubon Branch
Griswold
Seth
Bryan
National Convention
Denver
Pullman Standard
Stuart
Avoca
Council Bluffs
Denver Union Depot
Godo
Lincoln
W. J. Bryan
A. B. Taylor
Rock Island Lines Atlantic
D. S
Disbrow
Shupe
Cass County Abstract and Title Ins. Company
Chas. A. Grubb
D. O. Herserf
East Fifth Street
Nebe Shoe Company
Crosz
RTE
Ae Foereress
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