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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
4
Personal visits, business in town, and social events fill Bedford gravity notes. Readers learn of jurists and officials in Corning, Shenandoah, and Grant City, theater acts at the Opera House, cantatas, weddings at Elmwood Hotel, and farm talks. A misprint correction about a bank embezzlement amount is noted amidst schedules and sales.
May and June glassware sale offered with a wide assortment including Best Chrystal Present Lead Blown and deco rated glassware. Prices span from 10c to 75c on bowls tumblers pitchers and sets and include Chippendale colonial patterns from a 1753 reproduction. See shop for details and comparisons with rivals.
At a special Hed ford Commercial Club meeting on Monday evening the group discussed street paving starting from the Court House south on Court Street to Main and east on Main for four blocks. A J Sowers presided as J J Clark and others offered input and a paving committee was formed. Members learned the Chautauqua committee is optimistic and a mass meeting was urged for May 31 at City Hall to discuss 4th of July celebrations. The Bedford Catalogue Printing Co. bill for 1.25 was approved for payment. Next regular meeting is Tuesday June 4 at 8 a.m. with all members invited.
Menoher's Implement House on North Main Street Gravity Iowa advertises Bradley John Deere riding and walking cultivators for sale. The notice lists Avery Newbury Emerson Ohio and other brand names with model types and stock availability.
The July issue of Designer reflects patriotic sentiment with the sketch How the Flag came by the name of Old Glory and the story The Colonel's Coming. It includes Fairy Godmother's Botany Lesson and fashion illustrations by two new staff artists. The dressmaker's article gives a summer costume pattern and travel attire tips for a traveling girl.
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