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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
4
Community notes from Bedford Iowa recount Christmas visits among families including the Danns, Longs, and Taylors, a public sale by O. M. Healy, and the Odd Fellows Rebekahs installing a new officers. Local ads promote Van Sickles bargains, Zwickey lectures, and a Register and Leader sale at Bailey’s drug store.
A promotional note invites readers to request a new booklet on hunting and fishing in the Ozarks and St. Francis Valley. The Frisco System and A Hilton, G. P. A., St. Louis, distribute the pamphlet free on request. An unrelated product promotion for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea appears with pricing at A L Bibbins drug store.
Our Siam notes report Ww Roush of Clarinda visiting Siam on Christmas day while Frank Allens baby shows marked improvement after illness. Mr and Mrs C A Clayton visited Bedford for Christmas. A protracted M E church meeting closed with good results. Archie Clayton returned from Kansas and Nebraska. Col Clayton and daughter of Wisner Nebraska arrived last Tuesday to visit relatives.
The passage notes fish decomposes quickly and cites an English act from 1698 restricting sale of mackerel on Sundays except during divine services. It claims the act has never been repealed, illustrating historical food safety concerns and legal responses.
A New England preacher recounts a tale from early 1800s rural medicine. A country doctor blistered a pleurisy patient with a boiling hammer, leading women to favor boiled hammers for pleurisy and debate over hammer types until the claw hammer prevailed.
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