Local note heavy with feeble residents and July ticket sale
Daily Star locals column notes Gacle John Kraner and wife remain feeble while Barrett Bucs close up. C and T KR tickets will be offered at half fare to all stations on July 4. A berry and vegetable transport train is the latest water pigeon. Bob Tiety advertises carpentry work and praises a Watkins bard project. Nippy Wheeler now living with relatives in Van Wert Ohio. Jo Uhler and wife visited Akloa last Friday. Harvest prospects look strong. everything is cheap. Murphy meeting well attended. hall to reopen Friday. Market aisles on Center Street look beautiful. reader describes quarts and fabrics.
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Center Street
Malvern Leader Proposes Berry Train Carriage
In Malvern Iowa a novel transport idea involves a train car from the express office to J J Tumphrey for berries and produce. Ed Knapp, Marion’s harp player, is noted as a local talent while Barrett Bros. supplies stationery and toilet articles. The system operated Sunday morning with a berry laden truck and a following breakfast car, signaling local progress.
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Malvern
Iowa
E. B. Knapp
Marion
J. J. Tumphrey’s
Sam Snyder
Ginger snaps prompt a comic misbuy at the shop
The writer recalls a visit to a shop where two pounds of ginger snaps were offered for a quarter. They bought two tins of so called snaps, found them greasy and doughy, and left quickly after realizing the product was bogus and disappointing.
Fish in a Human Skull Stuns Fishermen at Indian Dock
A live fish was found embedded in a human skull, pulled from the harbor near Greensburg, recounting an 1887 incident where two Witt sons used night lines on the Allegany river to catch the stony tribe. The skull kept the fish trapped, large enough to prevent escape.
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Francisco Cail
J. H. Witt
Greensburg
Allegheny
Greatest trade in market at the Exchange Hotel
A colorful ad proclaims a lucrative trade at the Exchange Hotel offering $600 for $400 value and trade for horses, buggies, cows, greenbacks, or trade dollars, plus twenty five boarders. It promises a good city livelihood with low rent and directs inquiries to S Hume or W Hoxter and Fauey & Sov for dishes and glassware.
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Exchange Hotel
S. Hume
W. Hoxter
Cheap Falls Excursion Through C and T Readings
An offer compares two Niagara Falls trips from Marion. The C and T option costs six dollars, with meals or sleeping options and long stay, while A. and T gives a direct overnight journey with no meals and ten days to return. The note, dated Tuesday June 25, calls the six dollar trip the cheapest.
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Marion
The
Falls
P. E. Domsdven
Agt
Birth of a six toed, multi-eared, one-eyed girl shocks Cransford
In Cransford Downly Forum reports a wife eight miles from town gave birth to a female child described as an anatomical oddity. The infant had one central eye, a third ear on the back of the head, five fingers on each hand plus the thumb, six toes on the right foot, and a normal left foot. The newborn died on Wednesday amid distress for the mother. the incident prompted local reaction and a sales promo for a soda mix by Sharpless.
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Michsel Hobart
Cransford Downly Forum
A Bong of Life Advertised to Boost Sale
A fragment poem urges readers to advertise in the Star daily to boost fortunes and bind luck with golden ties. It proclaims that advertising in the Star brightens times and helps sell whatever one has to offer, urging immediate action before the public.
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Siar Daily
Railroad Time Tables Eastward
C C C and 1 Railway Co presents eastbound time tables. Includes schedules for trains operating eastward with departure and arrival details across lines. Highlights connections and transfer points for travelers using the CCC and Company services.
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C.C.C.& 1, Railway CO
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