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Newspaper
Enterprise
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1895
Page
3
fragmented OCR notes list multiple train numbers and routes including Chicago Express and Eldora to Alden paths. mentions freight movements, arrival times, and stops with scattered place names and times.
Selected from the Sentinel. Clarence Burlingame and wife return to Illinois. Rumor places Charlie Muller at a Port Dodge newspaper. Burlington water supply under study to tap the Iowa river. A Drake son sustains a bad fracture. Dro LaGrange treats it. Lightning strikes Mr. Robertson’s windmill tower in Jackson township damaging the porch. The College dibary is being fitted with new paper, carpet, and bookcases. Prof. Lyon says the new 40 foot tower will be a feature. Prof. A E Butlock heads to northern New York for vacation and will return for Huston duties when frost sets in.
Sunday afternoon the Tipton Creek Evangelical school held Children Day with a crowded church and festive decorations. A separate note reports crops in good condition after recent rains and a break in at Reisetter's confectionery on Sunday night with cigars candy and pop taken.
Movements, visits, and small events across Hubbard and nearby towns include L. Martin arriving from Jamaica in eight days, Miss Daisy Boylan returning home from Eldcorn, and T. C. Sheldon visiting family. Marriages occur in Hubbard with Charles Bucy and Miss Cora Albertson, and Nathan W. Hutson wed Susanah Sink. Burglaries at Boeke's store are reported, plus retirements and farm moves. Community news mentions road work, school terms, preaching plans, and cemetery gate project ideas.
The column reports LD Shutes returning home by bicycle after a 100 mile ride and 90 miles the next day. It notes Miss Nina Giles closing her spring term, community gatherings, farm activity, new house contracts, a busy Lawn Hill creamery and regional visits. Many residents are mentioned with travel, schooling, and family news, including a new baby for John Hilers.
A city educator known as Miss Minor Miss Minor resigns from the Wormed out of the World Miss Minor position in the city schools. SK M Linehan of Eagle Grove visits friends in the city and recalls a past role as former publisher of the Ackley Independent.
Local notes report graves of community life from Alden with visits, storms, and a post office dispute. Residents travel to family in Times, Kemp in San Francisco, and a new Sunday school forms near Ware. Weather shocks and bee losses mix with public works, schoolhouse topics, and drainage land questions.
The Iowa Central Ry places summer excursion tickets at principal stations for Clear Lake Spirit Lake St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Lake Minnetonka White Bear Lake and other Minnesota resorts and to Montane Washington Colorado Utah and main Eastern resorts. Banry Thomas Janes of Alden plans a September trip to Sydney via London by steamer. Beggs Little Giant Pills advertised for constipation and indigestion with druggist Ellsworth and Co. noted. Wm Nelson of Chilion died by suicide after long illness. Beggs German Salve promoted as a cure-all with free samples. Mhrumpton’s preacher notes a busy year with 195 sermons 24 added 32 marriages and 20 funerals. Ackley Phonograph reports 4th of July celebration details.
The ad text traces a family reliance on Castoria from infancy through adulthood, noting that when Raby was ill Castoria helped, and it was given by a mother to her children. The message positions Castoria as a trusted remedy across life stages.
Reading text indicates residents gathered at the Badge City mill site for a public event. Organizers touted favorable reception and noted good participation from locals and workers.
An advertisement touts Bace-Cure as a scientific tobacco cure claiming to eradicate nicotine without willpower, with a 30 day treatment priced at 22.50 plus sample offers and guarantees. Separately a storm report notes lightning struck the Chase Roach farm residence injuring occupants.
A local report notes Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder receiving a world class medal and diploma. A quarterly meeting at Friends church in Honey Creek drew twenty men and thirteen women who cleaned the graveyard and scrubbed the church grounds with scythes, rakes, brooms, and mops.
The Alden school board issued an election notice to build an 810000 schoolhouse. An assessment valued the district at about 886000, but later checks showed a value under half that, so the board repealed the vote and will wait until funds are stronger.
If the later potato crop equals the early planting now in markets the tubers price should stay under twenty five dollars per bushel. The note mentions an Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair in San Francisco.
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