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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
6
Emmetsburg items recount many weekly visits and visits by residents to nearby towns including Mallard Spencer Estherville and Rolfe. Notes cover social calls Thanksgiving gatherings and local transfers with mentions of council appointments road plans and a university district.
Public auction at the Fred Myers farm four miles south of Emmetsboro on Friday December 1 at ten o clock. 34 head of cattle including cows and calves hogs and all farm machinery. Usual terms. Free lunch at noon. For list of property see bill. Max Yoierr. For sale or trade the livery stable barn and two tors of Branagan Brothers. Steam cleaning service offered over J S Atkinsons store 424 H C Apans. Susan ad promotes Rocky Mountain Tea declaring pimples and sores signals health.
A damaged reference notes a calf sale near Emmetsburg three miles southeast, allowing the owner to claim by proving ownership and covering expenses. The text then shifts to an advertisement praising a fashion lathe accessory, claiming it is the greatest beauty for American women, priced 35 cents, from Madison Medicine Co.
Classified ad notes space for rent or sale in the American restaurant property on Broadway. Mentions Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy, offered by a druggist at 35 cents, promoting vitality and happiness.
A collage of brief notes from Estherville Spirit Lake Whittemore Spencer Ayrshire and nearby towns recounts holiday greetings in the Good Fellows tradition. Mentions Tom and Jerry visiting Estherville daily, Oklahoma migration back to Iowa, frogs sold for cash at Spirit Lake, and local social events including a reception for Mr and Mrs Crisman.
Emmetsburg Iowa hosts Toative Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays featuring the Crooked Glasses act from a local scientific optician. Ragged schedule details and venue appear in the notice, inviting patrons to attend in coming days.
A collage of small ads and snippets describes social events and sales. Items include a surprise tea reception and games, a North Side tramp food tale, a for sale listing for a residence near the high school with multiple outbuildings, fruit trees, and pens, a short note praising Israel Zangwill in Populus Monthly, a loan offer and bank notice from Farmers Savings Bank, a bargain sale of a four room house near the courthouse with seventeen acres, five percent loan terms, and a stallion for sale or lease with farmyard inquiries.
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