Local Exira notes on farming trades and family visits
Exira area notes recount a busy week with farm trades, hog sales, corn planters, wagons, buggies, and new fence purchases. Residents Johnson Cartensen Wigginton and others exchange goods, visits to Chicago, and local arrivals mark a bustling community scene amid market prices for wheat corn oats butter eggs and rising livestock activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley
Exira
Jake Warner
John Wigginton
L. Johnson
P. Tyler
Wilh Smith
Will Hopkins
Jonxson & Canstensen
Chas, Rattenberg
U.S
A. W. Bradley
Old Hamlin
J.C. Johnson
Mise Anna Cartensen
Walk Crees
West Hamlin
Dimick
Tool Crees
South Hamlin
Why a Woman Helps Sick Women When Doctors Fail
A historical advertisement explains why women aid other women when male doctors fall short. It argues women understand female ailments, can share full details, and promote Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Chappell of Grant Park, Ill, endorses the remedy after curing ovarian inflammation and womb issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Chappell
Grant Parr
Lydia E. Pinkham
Stand Like A Stone And Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Heal All
An old advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the earth’s greatest healer for eczema and skin diseases with a 25¢ price at Nick Coffing & Co. drug store. Nearby, a child’s fortune telling game uses dodder vine to teach constancy through a stalk ritual, implying romance outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanrd
Fittery
Puck
Catalin Specialiat
America
Nick Coffing & Co
Earth
Nick Coff Ing & Co.e’ Drug Store
Like A Drowning Man and the Kodol Digestive Sermons
Five years after a diagnosed disease set in I could scarcely go. A respected attorney from Nocona Texas recalls using Kodol and gaining immediate relief as it digested his stomach issues. He emphasizes Kodol as the only preparation matching natural digestion and curing his trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sativan
Gayety
Richard le Goltenne
Callea
Nick DoHing
Digestive Health Pills and Anecdotes in Irish Fishing Tale
The text blends an ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming they improve digestion and blood quality for thin folks, with brief notes on a light fishing match comparing worm and minnow bait, and snippets from literary anecdotes including Wellington’s Duty and an Oxford university incident. the tone is a mixed historical newspaper fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr King
Zoe
Nick Dosting & Co x
No Loss of Time Boosts Threshers By Remedy Sale
H. R. Phelps of Plymouth Oklahoma reports selling five bottles of Chamberlain s Collo Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to threshers who continued work without losing time. The remedy is sold locally by W A Hamler, druggist, with a recommendation to keep a bottle at home for sudden illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Phelps
Plymouth
Oklahoma
W. A. Hamler
Rheumatism cured by Chamberlain's Pain Baths
Fourteen years suffering from rheumatism ends after trying Chamberlain's Pain Baths as recommended by a Germantown resident. A testimonial notes immediate relief with no return and promotes the remedy sold by W. A. Hamer. Also includes a tale of a gem dealer and a note on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by Jessica Pinkey Hall of Springville Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh Edgar
Germantown
Chamberlain
W. A. Hamer
Drogeiat
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A Hamlin
George Gerard
J. A. Topp
George Spencer
Baker and Wilson
Chris Justensen
Jorgen Jorgensen
Jens Boe
Chicago
Geo. Gill
James Bell
Joe, Bell
Extra
Tueaday
George Hardwick
Tom Bruhn
Chris Beck
Elkhorn Lumber Company
Eric Olesen
H. Warner
Atlantic
Lulu Clark
Gray
H. W. Clark
Anna Carateneen
Eikhorn
Wm. Crees
Red Oak
Fred Soble
Hansen
Hand Cartensen
Les Walker
Old Hamily
J.P. Oberholtz
Hamlin Township
Peterman
James Bradley
Lon Brad*ley
Julesburgh
Arkansas
Ed. Dryden
Peter Lykke
Kimballton
Nels Rattenberg
Johnson & Carstensen
Geo. Kuyhn
U. S
Mrs. Wilds
Ernest Oaks
Audubon
Merry England
Kimballton, Lumber Company
Harry Percy
Tom Crees
Hans Rattenberg
Turreto Foundation
Hans
Fred Heileman
Elwell
Story County
Blue Grass
Iowa
Des Moines
Nasby
Greeley
George I
Myrtle Pickings
Pontanelle
Kings
James Charter
Masterson
George Wilson
North Branch Creamery
Sam Reynolds
Miles Kness
Melville, Hamlin and Greeley
Yoley
Nick Deming
Chicago Tribune
Goo
Hickork
Curtin
Wisaya
Foleys
Nick Coffing
George
Buitkin
Ohio State Journal
Mamié Smith
Muddlesboro
Tevyo
Henry SI
Hicharda
Willasy
Ville
Halbor
Himsel
New York Herald
F. D. Arnold
Arnold, la
Foley
Sick Dorling & Co
Villencia
Honey and
TAK
Orstoucs
Thomaa Maple
Birkbeck
Nick Dotting & Go
New York Times
Na, G. H. Cuarrert
Badger
Buford
Hamlin, Iowa
Wellington
Charles Wellesley
Win
Charles
Mateh
Colombo
Williar
Gregory
Cate
Jessis Pinkey Hall
Springville
Ala
W. A. Hamiler
Dr. Miles
Chas. van Gorder
John McDaniels
Ed Delahoyde
Lixira
W. R. Copeland
T-Law
Kansas City
Southern Railway
Gulf
United States
Hot Springs, Ark
Little Rock
Joplin
Ft, Smith
Texarkana
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Beaumont
Houston
Galveston
E. 0
DeWare & Co
Obie Paarl
Commercial House
Good Barn
A. Lastine
John Riley
H. F. Andrews
California
Rock Island
Southern
San Francisco
Rockies
Sierra Nevada
Los Angeles
John Sebastian
G. P. A. Chicagoe
Strates Fran
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