West Union Iowa adopts 1910 city budget ordinance
Ordinance No 14 Chapter VII appropriates funds for the 1910 fiscal year starting April 1 1910. General Fund 5000 Grading Fund 500 Improvement Fund 1500 Road Fund 500 Water Works Tax 5000 Electric Light Tax 1800 Cemetery Fund 200. Salaries set: Mayor 40 Councilmen 200 City Clerk 125 City Attorney 25 City Marshal 540 Street Commissioner 600 City Treasurer 150 Health Physician 25 Water Superintendent 720. Passed April 9 1910. Mayor C B Hughes seal Clerk J O Elwing
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West Union
Iowa
City of
C. B. Hughes
J. O. Elwing
Ask the Conductor for City Navigation Advice
A humorous note urges visitors to ask a conductor for help when navigating a city. It highlights that brave police officers may assist with mobs and point to stores selling Chi-Namel varnishes, while praising the varnish’s quality and availability. An employment ad seeks nursery workers for Sherman Nursery Co. in Charles City Iowa with immediate hiring.
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C. J. McLaughlin
Sherman Nursery Co
Charles City
Iowa
Entertain a Bride With Clean House Preview
Busy times in a well known town show a family preparing a home for a wedding. Floors washed walls aired and furniture set outside for cleaning. The message touts Chi Namel varnish as durable and transparent, sold by C J McLaughlin druggist.
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C. J. McLaughlin
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Offers Reward
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh, claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures by taking it internally, and cites endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and F J Cheney Co. Toledo. It notes testimonials, price per bottle, and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
I. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Detective Dorothy Solves Hartmore Heir Mystery
In 1910, Dorothy Sands, an American, uncovers a scheme to forge a marriage to Lord Hartmore. Stanwood Berks, best man, allegedly filled a clergyman’s certificate with ink treated by iodide. Dorothy exposes the fraud, securing confessions and restoring Dorothy as Miss Sands, then Lady Hartmore.
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Emily Kitson
Earl of Hartmore
Tarcourt Berks
Stanwood Berks
Yarcourt
Stanwood
New York
Earl
England
Scotland
Lord William Berks
Dorothy Sands
Chicago
Naples
Rome
Italy
Lady Startmore
Lady Hartmore
Stanwood Sperks
Lord William
Lord Hartmore
William
Miss Sands
London
Lord Wilam
Miss Dorothy
Nest
Dorothy
Startmores
Iedinburgh
Hartmore
Mr. Berks
Hartmores
Tartmore
Lord Martmore
Martmore
John Murchison
Oxford
Berks
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Fayette County National Bank
Frank Camp
Fayette County Savings Bank
Towa
American Surety
J. W. Dwyer
E.H. McMasters
State Bank
W. A. Dorland
Tyi6x
E A. Ainsworth
Schneider
City Drug Stoor
Upstaire
B. Stuart
D S. Leach
Dias
Lements & Estey
Attorneys At
Vine Street
Ainsworth & Hughes
W J. Rogers
Fayette Co
Bopp
T. Quinn
E. C. Dor‘Wiland
Beatrice Tucker
American Press Association
Florshiem
Oxfords
Marzluff Ladies’ Shoes
Sampson
H. C. Musser
F. Gundacker
Tripp & Randall
Coleman & Son
Wayne
Illinois
Voltaire
Gaspar
L. W. Humphry
West Union, Iowa
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