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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
7
A compact monthly red weather record kept by E. E. for comparison across January and February 1906. It notes freezing levels, temperatures, and comparative marks from January 1905 and February 1906, with scattered figures like zero and numbers indicating temperatures or measurements, showing a sparse, fragmentary dataset without a clear narrative.
A detailed old auction notice listing 40 head of horses by age color and weight with terms of credit, plus cattle, hogs, and farm implements. It notes good shipping horses, several pairs and singles, in foal mare, and various ages. Cattle include eight cows with calf, yearling steers, heifers, and calves. Hogs include brood sows and fall shoats. Terms require 12 month credit on sums over ten dollars, eight percent if not paid, cash discounts over ten dollars, and all settled before removal.
We thank the many kind friends for aid and comfort during our bereavement sickness and death of our husband and father Mrs L D Hatritip and family express gratitude for support and kindness during the loss.
Real estate transfers recorded since the last report include M A Allen to C Dowlin and Albert S Parks to John Cresse among others in Bedford and surrounding blocks. Marriage licenses issued list QO V Long, Norman H Hall, Jas Wolverton, and Harry D Clayton taking as spouses. Clifton House plans report owner J R Standley to expand kitchen and add sleeping rooms. Day Pierson, formerly of Bedford, visited from Lawrence Kansas to practice law.
The daughter of Mr and Mrs B V Leonard formerly of Bedford heard Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City and has accepted an invitation to give a recital next Wednesday evening at the University building in Kansas City.
The annual city election will be held in Bedford on Monday March 26 to elect a mayor treasurer solicitor assessor a councilman from each ward and a vacancy in the first ward. Also notes on residents moving to Akron Colo a teen Typhoid pneumonia death in Mason township a county attorney request for a bootlegger injunction and a fire alarm at Oxley farm plus an arnica salve advertisement.
Advertiser seeks fat, well broke horses aged 4 to 10 and weighing 900 to 1100 pounds. Also buying good big horses, mules 14 hands high and up. Not afraid to pay top market price and to deal with sellers who know who buys most.
W. H. Brown of Pittsfield Vermont, a pension attorney, lauds Dr Kings New Life Pills as the best supplement to a pension. He claims they keep his family in splendid health and notes quick relief for headache constipation and biliousness. Available for 25 cents at A L Bibbins drug store.
Mr Alexander telephoned his resignation as mayor of Chariton while confined in the Knoxville insane asylum, indicating a sudden change in leadership amid health troubles. The move follows questions about his fitness and the town’s governance amid local tensions and political uncertainty.
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