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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
3
New proprietors announce the purchase of the Wm Retherford livery, upgrading stock with rubber tires new harness and quiet single drivers. They offer full livery services across all branches and invite customers to call for a nice turnout, phone 35.
Miss Pinch awaits a visit from Richard as Tom Downing rescues her from a near accident in the square. The parrot Polly becomes part of a plan for Miss Pinch to relocate to Tom’s home while Richard’s marriage proposal unfolds amid a dramatic mistaken turn and an unexpected houseguest.
A historical note on dowry weight and money value includes an employe explaining how the weight of a girl would relate to gold and coinage. The piece discusses coin and bill weights, then shifts to medical ads and a letter praising Foley's Kidney Cure, ending with a Carnegie joke about funding an organ.
Doctors promote R I P A N S Tabules as a universal remedy with a 5 cent packet and a 60 cent family bottle claimed to cover a year. A New Jersey woman left $50 for a corpse party labeled jollification, which was held with drinking on the dead. Coal oil advertised at Setori's drug store. Five and six percent loans on Lucas county farms offered by Penick Bros through Chariton National Bank rear room.
The district court in Lucas County Iowa appointed G. W. Vannoy as executor of Catherine M. Taylor’s estate on April 21 1903. Creditors must pay to the executor and claimants must file legally authenticated claims with the court for allowance, dated May 14 1903.
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