Wednesday and Friday Local Scenes From Our City
Local notes from Wednesday include visits by H I Gish and John Stoodt and many residents at the state fair. Trade and home projects are noted, with new houses, sidewalks, and a brick tool house planned. officials collect taxes, inspectors tour the poor farm, and the Danes picnic attracts crowds eight miles north.
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Edward D. Kohn
Davenport
John Heiken
Gene Johnson
Bessie Murray
Baptist Church
Peter Nelson
Des Moines
Yetzer
O. W. Brown
Robert E. Lee
Telegraph
Nashville
Tenn
John Mandelkow
Wm. Terbush
Dallas Read
Extra
Ned Hodgkins
Chas. Appleman
State Fair City
Otto Wilkin
Paul White
Hal Egbert
Carrie
Opera House
Phil Southwick
Conner
Beers
D.W. Paine
Charles Block
J. H. Scott
West Sixth Street
Audubon events and Des Moines trips fill busy week
Local notes report Mae Byrd traveling to Audubon and many residents visiting Des Moines for fairs and business. Officials handle council plans and new projects while families welcome a new baby, and several people return from trips to the World’s Fair and state events.
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Chicago
Win
Kreamer
Des Moines
C. Campbell
Stuart
Steve Chalmars
A. H. Berry
Iowa
Nebraska
Wm. Goodge
Wm. Spang
Peter Heiken
Benson
Tobe Kahn
A. Benson
No4
Pompeii
Jackson
H. G. Krittenbrink
Bruington
A. T. Dufford
Hacketttown
N. J
John Dufford
Pete Anderson
Audubon
J. Nichola
W. W. Straight
H. E. Fendleton
Russell
Maurice Block
Ed Sedger
J.B. Aldrich
Omaha
Frank Whissler
Griswold
Atlantic
George Highly
J. E. Glass
Ernest Fisher
Wm. Rapier
J. F. Jensen
Denmark
Board of Supervisors
Bonnie and
Lottie Groves
Knoxville
Quack remedies and old-time patent cures parade in ads
An assortment of advertisements and medical tips flood the page, toutting No-to-bac tobacco cure spells, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and burns, Chamberlain's Pain Balm for back and chest pain, Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and other patent remedies. The pieces mix health claims with light social snippets and a note on Jupiter's size.
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Chamberlain
Vie Immert
G. 5 Montgomery
World's Fair Travel Ad Promises Fast, Cheap Englewood Route
An advertisement touts the Rock Island Route to the World's Fair with a direct line to Englewood gate. It promises ten minute travel, five cent fare, luggage check through to quarters, and suburban hotel access near the fair. Also notes Sebastian as ticket agent and includes a medicine ad for DeWitt's Little Early Risers.
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Englewood
Rock Island
Rock Island & Pacific
Dwtf
Sebastian
Gen
Castoria Ad Claims and Skin Remedy Endorsements
An old advertisement bundle touts Castoria with a sentimental rhyme about a child and baby, promotes DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a top skin remedy sold by Palmer & Findley, and extols SWAYNE OINTMENT for facial eruptions. A final line cites crime stats blaming unemployed men for most U.S. murders last year.
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de Witt
Palmer & Findley
DeWitt
Harvest Excursions and Patent Remedies In One Page
Rock Island Route advertises low fares for three excursions with dates in August September and October. JNO Sebastian, Gen's Passenger Agent, notes dates and directs readers to ticket agents for details. Also listed are De Witt's Little Early Risers pills claims, Dr King’s New Discovery cough remedy, Mystic Cure for rheumatism, and promotional chatter about tobacco farming and a tailor joke.
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Rock Island
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
JNO
Sebastian
Gen
Dr. King
Palmer & Findley’s
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Conrad
Contact Shoe Store
the Weekly Telegraph
Crawford & Iollowell
H. 1. Gish
Harlan
John Stoodt
Wiota
Harley Mellvain
Hud Moore
John Thardish
Cumberland
Mr Stark
Anna
Frank Daly
Pauline Weidensee
Llarlan
James Dimpsey
Lorian Franklin
Simpson College
Indianola
Carstens
Helmer Kuhn
Elim Street
Fannie Brown
Peter Christensen
A.D. Bell
CG. J. Taggart
Rockford, IL
George ‘Marsh
A. Hunt
D. ‘A. Shuter
D. B. Wortman
South Chestnut Street
Ed. Johnson
Roberts
Jim Hedges
H. G. Dacken
J. S. Barnett
B L. Garretson
George Peterson
Red Oak
Willey
Wise
Robert Marshall
Robert Burnside
Ringle Bros
Anita
W. H. Harris
Tom
Whitney
Sandy
Ed Low
Colfax
Brown
Wm. Rowe
Johnson & Thompson
W. C. Acker, Jr
Avoca
Council Bluffs
Emma Ruddig
Miss Margaritz
Mia
Dad” Franklin, Sr
Eli Clayton
Rasmussen
Hansen & Co
Burris
Mr. Stenson
Cedar Falls
State Normal School
Allie Griswold
Washington, D. C
Walter Mote
Zoe DeLano
LL. DeLano
I. Foriman
Olman
Drake University
T. W. Brown
BR. D. Wilkin
Jackson Park
Chas, Jensen
Peter Anderson
Soldier’s Relief Committee
H.M. Singleton
Squire Studley
Massena
Mr Harrison
Roy Nichols
Steve Nichols
Mae Byrd
Willis Laird
J. H. Lawrenson
Hayes
St. Louis
Law
A. D
Meredith, Dickey & Co
R. A. Benson
George Jenkins
California
Terbush
Mary Laurenson
George Marsh
Harley Mellwain
C. Thurman
G. Tormby
Walnut Street
F. W. Porterfield
Council Biaffa
Ed Hammond
A. H. Goodspeed
Block & Heyman
W.H. Harris
Harry Harris
Register
U. S
Richards
George Lang
Noble Township
J.S. Barnett
Poke Root
Lincoln
Mat Brown
Philadelphia
John and
Anna Brown
Mary Tharnish
al Tharnish
J. M. Dean
Yespreey
J. F. Fisher
Illinois
Greenleaf & Harvey
Mr. Blakesley
Maine
Cass County
Frank J. Snouffer
Frank
J. C. Johnson
City
Minnesota
Park Hotel
Brisk
Carrie Townsend
Congregational Church
Thos. J. Bryant
Carmen
Brayton
Hugh Reinig
Lewis
Chas. F. Chase
J. H. Marshall
Pellett
CG. E. Floffiman
Ollie Martin
O. W. Rich
Judge Smith
M. Younglove
George McCormick
Wm. McConville
Bailey's Hall
G. A. R. Hall
Anna E. Stewart
Enon Valley
Wm. McGrehon
North English
John W. Scott
Missouri
Dickerson & Phelps
New City
John Jamison
H. L. fJaskeen
W. P. Christensen
Rosebud
A. Neimyer
Mr. Masters
Jacob Lang
Atlantic House
Mr. Lang
W. W. Parker
Cittsburg Post
Keeley Institute
Mint Pratt
Little One
Mrs. Pratt
Archie McCullom
Valley Junction
McCullom
RQ. Phelps
Commercial Bank Atlantic
Exchange
Sterling Remedy Co
Indiana
Mineral Springs
Ind
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Palmer & Jrindley
Vic Emmert
G. S. Montgomery
Dixon
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