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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
2
Audubon news notes offer five percent optional payments farm loan terms with substantial local business activity. Reports cover clergy visiting Shelby and Grinnell, sales at Pommer’s clothing, a Dannein Brotherhood hall dance, a shift of Martin Rasmussen to Ridley, and various family travels and illnesses in Audubon and surrounding towns.
Audubon items record visiting relatives in town, new jobs, and moves. Several residents plan to relocate including Loud Rippey taking a drug store clerk position in Winterset, James Pound and Clyde Baker moving to Kingfisher Oklahoma, and Thomas from Hamlin trading farms to reside here. News covers illness in the Owen Davis baby, a memorial wedding event in Atlantic, and social gatherings at the Evangelical church and school.
The week end revival closed Sunday night after beginning Friday with an afternoon service. Attendance and activity were high with 68 in Bible school, 40 in C E, and nearly 4300 in the evening congregation. Advertisers' rapid push credited. Next Sunday's schedule includes morning sermons on Missions and Missionaries and evening sermon The Keys of the Kingdom by Ira E Varney.
James Alexander Kirk died on February 22 1907 at the family residence in Kirkwood Wisconsin of heart failure at age sixty seven. He was president of the Jas S Klak Soap Manufacturing Company of Chicago and father of W Dunning Kirk. He leaves a widow two daughters and Alexander Comstock Kirk. Funeral held Monday at Rose Hill chapel with interment at Nose Hill cemetery.
Mary Sophronia Bymes born in Roscommon Ireland February 2 1542 died February 21 1907 after emigrating fifty seven years ago settling in Madison Indiana later moving via Cascada Jones county to Clinton county where she married James C Wolfe February 2 1859 She mothered fifteen children eleven died in infancy and one son died at thirty James G Agnes and Maurice survive They moved to Audubon county in 1877 then to Audubon town in 1800 where the husband and three surviving children reside Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St Patrick Church conducted by Father McDonald
Firemen from Manning and Audubon responded to a bell that rang Friday evening as the Firemane Association organized in the town, signaling a community fire safety gathering.
An aged advertisement touts Drummond's Lightning Remedy for rheumatism claiming immediate relief without upsetting digestion. It markets internal and external preparations, promises cure, includes a $5 offer for two large bottles and requests agents, sending to New York.
Dave Hart relocates with his family to Lehigh Nebraska to take charge of a large grain house for Trans Mission Company. Harry Northup and his young family accompany him to continue their support and provide patrons with an honest deal. The text praises Northup as upright and fair in business dealings.
The report notes Dan Fullerton was struck by a dangerous kick while harnessing. He avoided broken bones, though the incident will require weeks of caution. The piece extends sympathy to Dan for the accident and its impact.
Dr. Conybeare preached his farewell at Audubon and Hammon and left abundant proof he did his work well and in the right spirit. His plain powerful teachings on the blessed Master and his cheerful example as a gospel cloister brightened many lives and will be remembered with affection. Farewell, friend and teacher, may harm never befall thee or thy household.
Drummond Medicine Co of New York offers a preparation claimed to permanently cure rheumatism. Two large bottles priced at five dollars, includes full particulars and testimonials, sent by express upon payment.
Oklahoma City real estate men show a German farmer a low land farm. He notes a high water mark eight feet up and jokes he wants hogs rather than the farm. He then asks to buy all the hogs that can be scraped up.
A San Franciskan recalls Jerome K Jerome aboard a ship. An overbearing information man boasted that if the earth were flattened the sea would be two miles deep worldwide. Jerome retorted he would shoot any man flattening the earth on the spot.
A London Times correspondent claims the English explorers aboard the ship Xema search for a diamond island. He recalls Seal Island near Angra Pequena in German Southwest Africa where 54 years ago Capt Parker of Hull and crew landed guano and found rocks resembling diamonds that proved to be rock crystals.
Bill Anderson of the Bruckles recounts a dream led to real deed. He believed a merchant’s debt from 50 cents would be due, and in his dream an archer’s kill spree of 12 squirrels and a weasel followed by a crowd of squirrels in a tree. He returned to town, paid the merchant, and kept the cash.
A collage of squibs on sea life from deep sea cannibals and glowing jaws to a San Francisco streetcar mishap, a Windsor houseboat tale, Beecher’s quip about honor, a climate note on Mavana, and a gag from Detroit Free Press. It blends curiosities, jokes, and anecdotes with dated newspaper flavor.
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