Local visitors and events in Carthage area
Carthage residents and friends made several Wednesday to Saturday trips. C M Erwin visited on business in Carthage, Frank Gibbs spent Sunday here, and H H Van Brunt traveled to Keokuk for work. J B Simpson left for Kansas on business, Inez Cook suffers tonsillitis, and the Bowen Cornet Band was hired for La Harpe Soldiers Reunion.
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C. M. Erwin
Carthage
Frank Gibbs
Coatsburg
H. H. van Brunt
Keokuk
J. B. Simpson
Kansas
Inez Cook
Wm. Brunson
la Harpe
John M. Graham
Tisdale
G. W. Graham
Bowen Cornet Band
Great Corn Exposition in Peoria Promises Elaborate Events
Peoria hosts the Illinois Corn Growers Association convention with a 5000 seat exposition hall. Highlights include the unveiling of a $30,000 bronze soldiers monument by President McKinley, parades, dramatic entertainments, Pain's Philippine battle scenes, grand fireworks, and $7,000 in corn exhibit premiums.
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Peoria
Illinois Corn Growers’ Association
McKinley
The
Knights of Khora
Wis
King Corn
A Consumptive's Rescue in Brashear Mo
Brashear Missouri witnesses a grateful letter from J H W Applegate to Dr J M Davis praising five months of treatment that cured catarrhal trouble headaches and lung pain enabling him to pass a U S Medical exam and serve in the Third Missouri Volunteers as a healthy man. He credits Dr Davis with restoring health after years of illness and near defeat.
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Brashear
J. M. Davis
Dr Davis
Dr. Davis
Beneft
Davis
U. S
JH. W. Applegate
Navy Apprentices Open to 15 to 17 Year Old Applicants
Boys aged 15 to 17 may apply for examination to join Sam began navy apprentices. selection focuses on physical condition reading writing and arithmetic up to decimals.
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Sam’s Navy
Navy Yard
Wonderful deliverance from a frightful death
Hannibal Missouri citizen J E Lilly credits typhoid fever and pneumonia ending in weak lungs. He claims Dr King s New Discovery provided relief after one bottle and he recovered fully. The ad promises the medicine as the quickest cure for lung trouble with trial bottles free at Marsh s drug store.
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J. E Lilly
Hannibal
Dr. King
Marsh’s
Tales and Tidbits From a Busy Patchwork
A patch story: a watermelon raiser rigs a watch tent and loses it to a bluff. A Missouri editor muses on small towns and trouble. Bassett delegates deportation of every Black person to Africa. Candle Bros twin merchants marry twin sisters with twin children. A dairyman’s cows reveal a butter-tilled creek mystery. New Zealand offers a twelve month liquor ban for a chronic drinker with fines for violators.
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Texas Farmers’ Alliance
Basset
Africa
United States
Idx
Caney
Morgan County
Candle Bros
Lafayette
Tabo
New Zealand
Should A Wife Work claim from Hillsboro News
Charlie Bliss argues a wife should work and mocks the idea of domestic leisure. He cites chores like chopping wood and mule hair in butter, endorsing practical training with tools and bread making while noting bad treatment by some husbands.
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Charlie Bliss
Hillsboro News
Eve
Adam
Ben Davis
New Swindles and Corn Cribs Highlight Nebraska Prosperity
A clipped column reports on two new swindles a canvassing woman and a minister posing as a groom commit, with a farmer tricked into a promissory note. It then notes a Burlington route near Hastings detailing 24 corn cribs totaling nearly a mile and Nebraska’s record crop of 300 million bushels, with bankers wary of lending.
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Poser
Burlington
Denver
Atlanta
Hastings
Nebraska
Nimble Coin Confidence Trick Reported in Drug Store
A Philadelphia Times item describes two men using a vanished quarter in a short con at a drug store. The coin reportedly slipped from a hand, struck the floor, and vanished until a crease in linen trousers hid it, allowing the suspect to keep the value of the purchase.
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Philadelphia Times
Cheerful Home as a Path to Family Joy
Do not enter with a sullen look regardless of disappointment. A cheerful word or smile warms the fireside, rekindles love in the wife, and brightens the children's hopes. Cheerfulness is better than doctors' medicines and a cheerful home is an early heaven.
State Fair Round Trip Tickets Offered
State Fair ticket offer for round trips at 8 dollars. Tickets go on sale September 23 from 50 available. Return valid through October 2. J C Gillham is the agent handling the sale.
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J C Gillham
Flight of the Butterflies piano piece by Rud Knauer
Publishers offer a sample copy of Flight of the Butterflies described as highly original for piano. The music roll includes 18 pages of popular piano and organ pieces and costs 25 cents, mailed by Porstar Music Co. in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Hattie Nevada
Queen of Song Writers
Kansas City Talking Machine Co
Kansas City Mc
Rud Knauer
Porctar Music Co
Indianapolis
Ina
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W. R. Vanartsdale
Bowen, Illinois
Bucklen
Marsh
Philip Nelson
Dr.d. D. Nice
Ramsey
Chandlerville
Henderson County
Missouri
Drestee E.mcneall
MccNeall & Nice
C. Rockenfield
Bowen
the Farmers’ Bank
Bowen, Ili
A. P. Gay
Pres. Gro
W. Nasu
Cashier
Board OF Directors
C. Whitford
G. W. Cyrus
VANES
Munn & Co
Scientific American
al &Ip
Nentist
Farmers’ Bank
West Point
Hartford
Hartford, Conn
RTNA
Pennsylvania
North America
Philadelphia, Pa
Phenix
Brooklyn
New York
Insurance Agency of
Go. W. Nasfi
H. D. Barton
S. G. Odell
Corner 3Rd and
Clermont Sreets
Alpha :Witt
Ouili, Illinois
Iarlin and Herron
Metalic
Giffen & Giffen
Rockwell and Fillmore Sts
Chicago, IL
Royal Medicine Co
C. C Marsh
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