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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1902
Page
7
Essex voters approve bonds for a water works system while local notices list meetings and market ads. Readers are urged to attend a Rebekah meeting, visit Smith's market for meats, and buy Maple City soap with other small town notices and classifieds.
A nostalgic note extols Allen’s Lung Balm as a cure for throat-echo and sore lungs, promising relief from a cold. It evokes gratitude for a radical, sellable remedy and urges readers to buy at Bibbins’ pharmacy. Mentions of Lee’s egg maker, B. P. Beck cock- cralg sale, and ads for Nathan Hazen returning to Monmouth, ill. Dr A V Banes of St Joseph offers chronic disease treatment hours.
A Saginaw Michigan editor and family, struck by the grip, report that Dr King's New Discovery cured them after doctors failed. The paper says three bottles cured the whole family, claiming no other medicine equals it for consumption, coughs, colds, and throat and lung troubles. Trial bottles free at Bibbins drug store, 50c and 1.00.
Get your oysters and celery at Smiths market. Mat Orton has returned from a trip through Oklahoma. Frank Gray was in from Prescott Saturday visiting his parents. A new line of battenberg patterns and material at Best's. Try us for sale bills the biggest and best in the county. Clint Markley and family have gone to Geary Oklahoma where they expect to make their future home. J F Carson has returned from a business trip to Oklahoma. While there he bought a fine farm near Billings.
Wisecarver Bros will be in Bedford January 18 and 23 to buy all marketable horses and mules. Bring them in.
J M Johnson offers fresh bread buns fried cakes and pies at the Bedford Iowa lunch room on West Main Street. J L Jacoby from Lenox paid for Free Press while visiting. Bedford women plan another push for the water works proposition next month.
Warning against catarrh treatments containing mercury. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and orally taken. notes beware counterfeit products. Mentions price 73 cents per bottle and Hall's Family Pills as best.
Will Winder returned from Des Moines and plans an indefinite stay in Bedford. Frank Nash of Wray Colorado and John Nash of Indianapolis have been visiting their brother Oliver Nash during the past week. Maple City self washing soap ad appears urging cheerful wash days.
A promotional notice touts Parry Davis ailment as the staunch old remedy for a cold. It claims tickling throat and nagging cough lead to chest soreness, but asserts fast relief within a day with Parry Davis.
Housekeepers urged to write for free gold lined tea tgers advertised by The Widow's Baking Powder Co of Rockford Illinois. The Clearfield Enterprise marks twenty years of edition and quality under Warren Smith praised for printing and editing. W A Manning editor notes Imperial Millinery orders for Chicago and to be kept posted on the region.
Senator Arthaud Sundayed with family while Willie Meredith suffers typhoid fever. Sheriff McGinness transacts business at Conway. Lenox orchestra Tilzies plays at last Friday's opera house event. Frank Stewart rents Hazleton 80 acre farm near Bedford. Bailey & George assigns to Fred Wooldridge for creditors. Mrs J E B Johnston travels to Oklahoma to join husband in claim lottery. Ed Moody returns from Ottumwa shipping plant. sleigh ride out to C Whittlesey's home. Eva Nora Carr host friends with sleigh ride and oyster supper. Mrs Emma S Rowe in Bedford area. plans home nearby. W S Kemery joins local readers and pays in advance. Putnam faceless dyes ad. John Dawson granted $12 monthly pension with back pay. Greet and Terrill receive $10 raise.
Post readers are cautioned about a man traveling nationwide posing as an agent for Frank Leslie’s publications. Victims report paying him money and then hearing nothing more. Authorities urge vigilance and warn the public to beware.
For Sale or Trade. A well situated Bedford property just outside city limits offers the advantages of city residence with no city taxes. A two acre ground and a well improved house are available. Happock & Sons.
The fragment notes J, BE. Smith will have a sale and move east of town toward Bedford. It also includes a quoted verse by A. L. Bibbins and a line about Rocky Mountain Tea.
In Centerville a writer notes that residents moving away often forget to pay local subscriptions, leaving notices marked gone. He suggests they should understand their standing in prior communities and asks how a former subscriber could be recommended after years of unpaid dues to the postmaster and editor.
A new banking institution named Citizens Bank will be operated by M. and O. E. Daugherty of Clarinda who have built a facility in New Market. The county board is convening in a special session today.
The Eastern Stars announce their regular monthly meeting for Thursday evening January 30. All members are requested to attend and the officers will be installed.
For Fine Fruit Trees I offer two and three year old home grown apple trees in good varieties at 10 cents each. I can supply nursery line items at very low prices. See me before buying.
Auctioneer advertises purchase of one hundred horses and mares four years old and older weighing at least 1000 pounds. Fat blemished animals acceptable. Bring to brick barn on Thursday February 6 for highest market price. 5-1.
Mr and Mrs J H Steinkamp of Bedison bought 80 acres adjoining Lenox La at 100 dollars per acre. They also sold their 180 acre Bedison farm to James Evans at 50 dollars per acre. No improvements on the Lenox parcel as the house burned recently.
The county clerk’s index shows licenses issued to Henry Boring aged 28 and Laura Gray 16, C. B. Case 26 with Cora Caldwell 24, Chas Thompson 21 with Lizzie Combs 17, J F Thompson 32 with Lola Lemonds 22, G H Dennis 23 with Margaret Stephens 2, indicating a series of nuptial permissions granted recently.
E Wysong repairs watches clocks jewelry and all items with satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. J B Pieringer optician offers eye examinations free, advertising superior methods and urging customers to judge proficiency from results. Includes sheet music musical merchandise sewing needles and oil and rubber stamps and seals in jewelry line.
The Royal Neighbors were delighted by their brothers the wondwen at their hall Tuesday night. A fine banquet was served with the boys doing all the work.
A. Conan Doyle writes a short book titled The war its cause and effect to counter war propaganda about British policy and soldiers. At Dr Doyle’s request McClure Phillips & Company will sell it at printing cost to share carefully gathered testimony across the country.
Mrs Hagan writes from Dickinson North Dakota in January 1902 noting 88 below zero, concern for fire, a request for news on time remaining, and a plea for funds to build or buy a new church. She mentions the Ladies Aid presidency, a Dr Fontaine lecture on the Holy Land, and quotes a $24.75 contribution toward a $100 church payment. She signs as Ella Hagan.
A testimonial praises Electric Bitters for relief from packache, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting and dizzy spells. Phebe Cherley of Peterson reports kidney trouble and back pain cured, enabling her to do housework at age 73. The remedy is said to improve appetite and health, available for 50 cents at A L Bibbins' drug store.
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