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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
8
Readable items include seeds 8 for 6 cents at E D Cotton, Minorca Eyes at Audubon, washing machine One Minute sold on approval by Walker, blooded Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds for hatching 1 per 15, tile prices and plumbing equipment for sale, and a recall of a meeting on May 19 at K P Hall. Contacts list Mrs W J Lancelot and Theo Parr.
J D Barhan offers sowing and supplies with contact details. A used cream separator may be bought with $10 off on trade. A top bogey for sale, inquiries at the office. Esbeck family and Misses Lena Esbeck and Brooker to board in Brayton while learning dressmaking. Sioux City garden seeds four pack at small price. Mr. Volmer Hansen injured by horse, deep palm cut requiring doctors. City notes include council meetings, ordinances on street vacating and gaming venues with licensing details. Flowers and wallpaper patterns available at Findlay's.
George R. Bliss of Corning Iowa won the Shammel medal awarded by Editor C D Shammel of the Orange Judd Farmer for the best journalism class article at Iowa State College. Bliss, a forestry course student, is uncle E Wilson’s nephew and previously studied in Extra. He is described as a progressive student and pleased with the journalism efforts.
A Nashville Tennesseean recounts a tale from Alexandria Louisiana about a black cat hide belt claimed to banish rheumatism. The yarn describes daily life, manures and crops, plus a humorous weather and farming observations, concluding with the old remedy’s supposed success after eight weeks.
A Post Office attache notes the growing habit of mailing sou venir postal cards aids the government. People often stamp ordinary postals already bearing stamps, creating hundreds of doubly stamped cards and boosting receipts from souvenir postales as a small gratuity to Uncle Sam, described as real velvet.
Fred Hamilton, one of four Monarch miners in Wyoming, escaped a 20 pound keg powder explosion with only a burned face and scorched hands after a lamp spark ignited the keg. The blast scorched nearby timbers as the mine filled with smoke, but Hamilton survived.
Ordinance No 63 vacates parts of Center and Broadway streets in West Exira Exira Iowa and states sections detailing street closures and boundary points. It includes waivers of sections, publication date May 14 1908 and signatures Nels Hansen mayor W B Hulker town clerk.
Ordinance No 64 repeals Ordinance No 41 prohibiting ten pins bowling alleys billiard and pool tables in Exira Iowa and establishes licensing rules fees ages and conduct restrictions for halls with tables. Licenses start at 100 for the first table and 5 for each additional table with one year duration. Violations carry fines or jail terms. Passed May 18 1908. Mayor W B H alleyer Town Clerk
Detroit reader asks for a back issue and celebrates the Journal’s friendly news and wit. He contrasts it with city papers full of accidents and fires, recalls childhood woods and May flowers, and shares a spring outing three miles from Detroit seeking blooms.
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