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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
7
Chautauqua notes praise a successful gathering under manager Ellyson with well lighted grounds. Camps and tents, Baptist and W C T U tents, and Rev. Green quoted. Praise for press presence, harmony, and variety of talent. Temperance Day program features Harriet Yeater and DeWitt Miller. Gov Hoch events highlighted.
In Taylor County Iowa District Court at October term 1906 plaintiff David F. Ford seeks to quiet title to the SW NE of Sec 8 Twp 16 N, R 32 W claiming 20 years of adverse possession with color of title. Defendants include the unknown wife or widow of Matthew C Henderson and unknown heirs and claimants. Published notice requires appearance by Sept 10, 1906 or default will be entered. Frick & Frick attorneys. notice approved Aug 15 by Judge H M Towner.
Readers are told that Halls Catarrh Cure is a positive cure for catarrh, described as a constitutional disease. The ad asserts internal use, claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces, and offers $100 for any case it fails to cure, with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hal's Family Pills and Webb's food store note.
The sugar season opens bustling in Maine New Hampshire and Vermont with a shift from wooden buckets and cedar spiles to metal pails and galvanized spiles. Evaporators advance with modern facilities while sap flow varies with weather, yielding about half a gallon of syrup from a gallon of sap and eleven pounds per gallon syrup.
A historical overview explains how lodestone inspired early magnetism in navigation. It covers Chinese origins, the twelfth century European adoption, the stroking of needles to gain directive power, and Italian sailors mapping coasts with improving accuracy. It also touches on early cartography and the Portulan charts. Twins remark on distinguishing elder and younger by facial breadth and a physician notes on twin gender patterns.
A man and his wife visit a merchant tailor to order a suit. They argue about material and style, the wife losing her temper and saying the husband will wear the clothes. The husband replies he hadn’t supposed she would want to wear the coat and waistcoat.
A Chicago Tribune captioned scene features a professor of political economy declaring that you cannot obtain something for nothing. A young man with a sharp gaze interrupts, replying that Tence contracted the measles for nothing.
An editor cites a rule against responding to anonymous communications after a quoted exchange about retaliation. The remark questions behavior toward a stranger and highlights policy on handling anonymous submissions.
A reflective quote on the danger of accepting claims at face value. It critiques how people grant belief to statements about others without scrutiny, warning that such credulity would shame people if applied to any other subject.
The Twenty-fifth Annual Picnic of Grove Township Sunday School Association in Blue Grove on August 23 1906 opens at 11 with music recitations and addresses by Rev A P Walston and Joel Brown Des Moines The afternoon program features songs recitations and another address Our Future Statesmen by Joel Brown Also races and amusements for boys A free stereoptical lecture by Brown on Des Moines scenes at night Mrs Sheba Grigg dies aged 85 near Holt cemetery funeral at the Burch home conducted by Rev A I Jones she was a Taylor county pioneer and mother
Foley s Honey and Tar affords immediate relief to asthma sufferers on the worst stage and if taken in time will effect a cure sold by H By Rhoads Co.
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