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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
4
A testimonial ad promotes McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets claiming weight gain and recovery for an infant girl with paralysis. It urges readers to buy the product from Newcomb & Matthews and other druggists, touting a money back guarantee after thirty days.
Health ad touts Hem-Roid internal remedy by Dr Leonhardt as a harmless treatment for piles. Claims remove cause by freeing blood circulation in the lower bowel and offers home relief without surgery with a long, safe relief record. Sold by Newcomb & Matthews and druggists nationwide.
Sheriff announces a public sale of real estate in Creston Union County Iowa on July 30 1925 at 1 pm at the courthouse The property is the South Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 32 Township 72 North Range 20 West except the parsonage ground containing about 75.5 acres It is levied to satisfy a judgment in favor of Frank L Stream against J W Reynolds O S Barber et al with amount 1213 19 plus costs Sheriff N F Collings dated July 2 1925 Pub July 9 16
Honolulu reports Capt Griswold urged expanding deepening and widening of the Pearl Harbor entrance and dredging the harbor to provide anchorage for the fleet. He noted the yard lacks repair facilities and that the West Virginia faced sailing risks due to its draft and a shallow channel. Senator Hale suggested a $5,000,000 naval base program would fund the improvements.
Honolulu reports from July 15 describe U S Navy personnel adapting local and mainland dishes in Hawaii. Sailors favored ham and eggs exclusively, while beans offered relief after meals ashore. A new cocktail of milk honey and pit appears on Honolulu hotel menus, linked to fleet officials remarks at a beach feast.
The U S fleet will transfer a cargo valued at $2,000,000 in gold to the Australian government in exchange for Australian gold coin at an ounce-for-ounce rate. The U S money will be melted and recast into Australian coinage to pay sailors and cover provisioning and refueling costs.
Naval officers estimate the government will save $30,000 by the ounce-for-ounce arrangement with a small mintage charge. If exchange favored, Australia and the United States benefit. gold arrived aboard Chau mont and $1,200,000 moved to California while $800,000 went to Omaha. Disbursements by the fleet may exceed $2,000,000, covered by exchange.
Des Moines July 16 California relies on Midwestern corn and population growth. C G Van Vliet secretary of the motor trades bureau of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce says Iowa Illinois must prosper or California cannot. He just returned from a two months vacation on the Pacific coast and warns population out there depends on a large crop and new residents from Iowa.
Des Moines dealers report record summer sales as heat wave drives demand for fans. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Hamilton Bros. dissolves partnership effective July 1. After that date W. H. Hamilton will conduct business.
Bids sealed and filed with the County Auditor Cres ton Iowa by 1 30 PM August 4 1925 for guard rail construction on the primary road south of Afton Project 376. Five percent bid bond required. contract and bond within ten days of award. work due by November 1 1926. Plans at county offices Ames Iowa and Cres ton. State Highway Commission approval needed. The county may waive technicalities and reject all bids.
District Court in vacation announces a hearing to prove the last will and Testament of Elia Childs deceased. The hearing is set for Saturday August 8 1925 at 2 p.m. before Clerk Geo C Figgins with Meyerhoff Gibson Watts as attorneys.
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