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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
6
A cluttered ad page shows multiple products and claims from 19th to early 20th century vendors. Items include foot cures, starch brands, laxatives, brain and nerve powders, kitchen stoves, shoe care aids, and moral proverbs. Names such as McCarthy Jefferson Iowa and Davenport Iowa appear among scattered lines and marketing phrases.
The Des Moines area reports rising livestock losses from storms and lightning across Iowa. Insurance firms push safer grounding to reduce fire risk while rail shippers seek new routes from Montezuma to Des Moines, involving Rock Island and other lines. A Fayette County Good Roads group forms with J H Kerwin as president.
W A Porter an elderly veteran in Denison shot his wife during a jealous quarrel then fired twice at himself with a 22 pistol. He survived with brain injury while his wife was wounded in the mouth and neck. Witnesses say Porter fired intentionally. he is a G A R member with a civil war bullet in his brain and a pension. The couple had been married many years with no known prior trouble.
Secretary Wells of the Grain Dealers Association compiles Iowa crop conditions up to June 10 from about 900 elevator men. Corn on May 1 was 1 percent above last year with 72 percent planted by June 1. 16 percent of corn land abandoned for other crops, 13 percent to be planted or replanted in corn.
A physician in Columbus Ohio promotes Peruna as a cure for catarrh and female weakness. He urges readers especially women with pelvic catarrh to write for free treatment directions and shares testimonials from Mrs Eva Bartho and Miss Maud Steinbach praising rapid improvement after Peruna use. He claims Dr Hartman has cured more women of female ailments than any other doctor.
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