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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1905
Page
5
Mrs Geo Oleson hosted the Ladies cit Saturday afternoon with each guest dressing a doll. Miss Dowd won a china spoon tray for the best dressed doll. Light refreshments were served and all enjoyed the event. Various local residents are noted visiting relatives and handling daily affairs across nearby towns.
Misses Josie Lagent and Pert Heath head to Livermore for winter teaching. Various residents visit, travel, or attend events. tradesmen busy with horse-shoeing as roads rough. Thanksgiving passed quietly with church services. many local residents hosted, visited, or traveled.
Curlew Miss Nellie Exston's school opened Monday in the Kerchner district. Mrs Bonebreak visited her son Charles at Ayrehire the first of the week. Quite a number from here attended the Thanksgiving dance at Mallard. Mr Ring is very sick. Mr Cattington shipped a car of bogs and Dan Johnson a car toad of turding evening. Miss Myrtle Morgan Sundayed at home. Mr and Mrs Keatser were guests at the Fansberg horse Sunday.
The Milwaukee Northwestern and M and St L plan westward rail extensions from Evarts and Chamberlain in South Dakota to reach the coast in three to four years. A meeting in New York announced the coast connection from Chamberlain or Evarts with the routes possibly converging in western South Dakota or Wyoming. A race for territory is anticipated with no subsidies involved. Postoffice receipts in Northwest Iowa show Stelters leads among county seats. Dodge lags Mason City. passenger service west of Milwaukee ends.
The Milwaukee and St Paul company unveils a new sleeping car layout with the drawing room moved to the center for steadier riding and added comfort. Two units named Onalaska and Antonagon are finished and ready for service. In a separate case, Will Salisbury of Cylinder was fined $50 plus costs for cruelty to animals after two horses were driven excessively and worsened in condition.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy during bereavement. Includes unrelated notices: Rock Island agents selling Des Moines holiday tickets, stories of preacher torture and medical cures, barber school methods, job offers in Omaha and Canneathy, and holiday travel rates with Rock Island routes promoting return-valid through January 4.
A fragment recounts a patient named Lie W Hatman from Warper Wash who suffered chronic stomach and fever trembles. After using an electric tonic bottle the sufferer claims cure and plans to avoid medicines in the future. The text reads as an endorsement of the product with dramatic personal testimony.
Fragmentary ad copy touts a supposed Murray cure for nicotine and alcohol habits with bold claims of no cost and escape from a drunkard's grave. It urges readers to write for particulars, listing the Murray Cure Institute in a city address.
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