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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1925
Page
3
Official city and county paper published weekday evenings by The Creston Advertiser-Gasette Co Davenport and W A Roseberry publishers. Entered March 1994 at Creston Iowa. Associated Press member with rights reserved for news dispatches and local news.
Adair County Agent F G Churchill will lead a two day county alfalfa tour May 19 and 20 starting at Camby Fortunelle and Mt Vernon church. Participants may bring soil samples for lime and acidity testing and ask questions on alfalfa and sweet clover. Local residents Mack Blethread and Des Moines visitors noted.
A wartime style advertisement touts Joint-Base as a fast penetrating topical for sore muscles and lameness. It claims rapid overnight results for athletes including baseball players prizefighters bicyclists football players golfers and tennis players. The ad notes wide pharmacist acceptance and a price of 60 cents per tube.
Charles Meadows arrived home today from Edar Pids where he attended attentions for SSI clothing start ers. Mr and Mrs J F Crowder arrived home today from Des Moines after several days away. Mrs J M Brown and Mrs Elizabeth Rea of Sioux City returned Tuesday after spending the past week with Mr and Mrs A Huntington at 706 West Mille Street. Mrs Brown is their niece and Mrs Rea their granddaughter.
In Milwaukee Wisconsin Nes Emit O Brandenburg describes severe weakness headaches and anemia last year. After four bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she regained strength and weight and now does all her housework again. She notes doctors failed to help with an iron tonic.
Yesterday results include Marshalltown 10 Burlington 1, Waterloo 7 Ottumwa 5, Cedar Rapids 2 Moline 1, Rock Island 6 Dubuque 2. Today games: Cedar Rapids at Moline, Rock Island at Dubuque, Ottumwa at Waterloo, Burlington at Marshalltown.
The Cecil B. De Mille production adapts Wallace Irwin novel for a Strand feature about a decaying family, their beautiful daughter Flora Lee, and a candy store heir who rises to wealth while love and ruin unfold. Notable cast includes Lillian Rich Vera Reynolds La Rocque and Warner Baxter with many stars in support.
Notice is given that a document claiming to be the last will of Amos J Myers deceased was produced opened and read. The court fixes Saturday June 6 1925 at 1 30 PM for hearing proof. Signed GEO C FIGGINS Clerk District Court seal May 6 1925. Publication dates May 7 14 21 1925.
Miss Cola Monroe of Omala left Wednesday evening for Clearfield after visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Porter at 303 Bureau Street.
Ram runners hijackers and law officers clash in a triangular war for San Pedro harbor control as authorities admit limited success in stopping illicit whiskey from a five-ship rum fleet offshore. They estimate daily landings of 10 000 to 20 000 dollars while lacking small fast boats to patrol the port.
Mrs. Peter Jansen of Lost Nation Iowa reports rapid relief from a growing goitre after using Sorbol-Quadruple for a week. She offers to write to others about her complete relief and directs readers to E York drug stores or Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio for information.
Miss Mary Verseck travels to Prescott for a few days with her parents. Carmore Varnishes promise easy staining and finishing for furniture floors and woodwork. Sparr and Wilson Howe Co. advertise the product. John Nord spent Wednesday evening in Lenox visiting friends. Miss A. Brower of Shenandoat attends to business here. Miss Elizabeth Keefe, with a foot injury, resumes work at the Iowa State Savings Bank after staying with her parents in Corning.
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