Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advertises Cure
Clara Franks of Knoxville Iowa reports suffering from right side pain weakness and fatigue. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing her symptoms and enabling work and rest at night. The ad touts a thirty year standard remedy for female ills including displacements inflammation and irregularities. It invites letters to Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass for free advice.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Pinkham
Clara
Franks
R.F.D
Noxville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Des Moines Streetcar Fares Cut No More
Des Moines City Railway company announces end of six fares for a quarter effective yesterday. Increased maintenance and operation costs cited as reason. About half of riders affected. annual income to company to rise by 75,000 to 35,000 dollars. George B. Hippee, president, says seven years of reduced fares ended as costs rose 33 1 3 to 125 percent in a decade while fares stayed fixed.
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Des Moines
George B. Hippee
Eighty Boys Enter Oat Growing Contest at Manchester
County Superintendent Joseph mobilizes eighty lads to plant one eighth acre plots with Swedish Selected White and Black oats. Each boy receives half a bushel for high yielding trials. Monthly progress reports to Mr. Joseph will judge the contest with a prize for the greatest yield. Seeds sourced from Canadian growers for this local event.
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Manchester
Joseph
Harrison County Wins Damages Suit Over Bridge Negligence
Logan reports Harrison County prevailed in a $5,000 damage case brought by Miss Lewing alleging personal injuries from alleged negligence by Harrison County bridge builders near Woodbine.
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Logan
Harlan
Harrison County
Miss Lewing
Woodbine
Loose Rail Blamed for Green Mountain Wreck
Marshalltown report shows Rock Island official C M Marshall testifies at the state railroad commission that a loose rail caused the Green Mountain wreck when the end was struck by the first engine tender wheel. The testimony identifies rail condition as the prime factor and cites mechanical failure as the incident trigger.
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Marshalltown
C. M. Marshall
Rock Island Railway
State Railroad Commission
Green Mountain
Brakeman Fatally Injured Attempting To Board Train
Brakeman C. L. Thomas of Perry and home on the Milwaukee road fell while boarding near Underwood. He was struck on the head by a falling object and rushed to Council Bluffs hospital with probable fatal injuries.
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Council Bluffs
Underwood
Moving Picture Panic in Manchester Idle Hour Theater
An explosion of a moving picture film in the Idle Hour theater caused panic among about 100 spectators. The venue was destroyed but no serious injuries were reported.
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Manchester
Pleasantville Man Found Hanging in Driveway
John Vernon, a prosperous farmer living three miles south of Pleasantville, was found hanging by a rope in the corn crib driveway. Sheriff and coroner investigate the death as a possible suicide in Pleasantville county.
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Pleasantville
Hangy Self
Knoxville
John Vernon
Stork Brings Three Boys in Sioux Rapids
Mrs. C. E. Ryder wife of a Republican Press editor in Sioux Rapids welcomed three boys. Mother and babies are reported to be doing nicely in the local note from the newspaper.
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Sioux Rapids
C. BE. Ryder
The
Republican Press
Iowa Preacher Porterfield Accepts Indiana Pastorate
Rev. J. F. Porterfield, a well known Iowa Baptist minister and former pastor at Algona and Harlan, has been extended and accepted a call to lead the Baptist church in Columbia Indiana after being summoned to Indiana.
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Indiana Church
Mason City
J. F. Porterfield
Iowa
Algona Ahd
Harlan
The
Baptist Church
Columbia
Ind
Extend Iowa City's Limits Voted Through
A proposition to extend the city limits to include East Iowa City and the west side passed by a majority of 102. Voter turnout was under half the usual level.
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Iowa City
Champion child speller Lucy Robinson of Iowa
Miss Lucy Robinson of Ry an Iowa is crowned champion child speller at Iowa contests. At a little over eleven she dominates and defeats older students in spelling and story writing, earning praise from educators for her remarkable instinctive grasp of words. Also notes urging oatmeal for farmers and a joke about a forged note landing a writer in jail.
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Ryan
Lucy Robinson
Iowa
Lucy
Ways
Ryan Girl
Commercial Club Wins In Rate Case Victory
Des Moines Commercial Club gains a favorable ruling before the Iowa attorney general in a Minneapolis & St. Louis railway rate case. After arguments from the club and filed briefs by the railway company, the AG said he will recommend the railroad commission order the line to restore Ruthven to Des Moines service or charge the short line fare for the longer route via Tara Junction and Fort Dodge.
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Commercial Club
Des Moines
Des
Seed Corn Shortages Spot Farmers In Hamburg
Farmers in Hamburg report seed corn quality will be a problem. Seed corn stored before last November rain tests around 90 percent good, while corn left in the field tests only 45 to 50 percent viable.
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Hamburg
Farmer's wife survives fall through cellar door in Fort Dodge
Mrs. Fred McHaley, a farmer's wife, narrowly escaped a broken neck after tumbling backward through an open cellar door while sweeping. She sustained a broken shoulder and many bruises but is expected to recover.
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Fort Dodge
Fred McHaley
Stork Busy at Mason City
Mason City reports about 600 births in the past year, the best single year tally yet. The births nearly exceed deaths by about 200, based on assessors' near completion year end figures.
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Mason City
Much Corn Testing in Bloomfield
J R Wallace secretary of the Davis County Farmers Institute reports corn from an ordinary crib tested at 16 28 percent good. Seed corn grown per experts instruction averaged 66 percent good.
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Bloomfield
J. R. Wallace
Davis County Farmers’ Institute
Parsonage Project Moves Forward in Sidney
Initiatory steps for a Methodist Episcopal parsonage in Sidney proceed toward a $3,000 structure to be erected during the coming summer as the project advances.
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Sidney
New Wright Cabinet company opens in Nevada town
A new concern named Wright Cabinet Company has been launched in Nevada city. Its business will be the production and marketing of Wright store and clothing cabinets.
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Nevada
Wright Cabinet Company
Wright
Woman to Teach in India. Miss Miller Heads for Mission
Miss Marie Miller of Iowa City plans to depart for India to teach and undertake postgraduate studies. She will pursue advanced work next year at two Minnesota universities for degrees, expanding her mission and academic credentials.
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India
Iowa City
Marie Miller
Two
Minnesota
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim Promises Deafness Cure
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous and offers $100 for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Text promotes circulars, mentions Toledo company F. J. Cheney & Co., and urges purchase via local druggists.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drugelsta
Land and heavens jibe in household humor
Mrs A hurried through her chores chasing a shiftless colored maid Isabel who laughs, saying if she were the land it would not have taken six days to make the heavens and the earth, a quip from 5S A Rice in Woman's Home Companion.
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Mrs. A
Isabel
Bessie
Resinol Demonstrates Relief for Pruritus and Eczema
A Philadelphia user reports Resinol curing a severe Pruritus Vulvae case that resisted other remedies and also alleviating a harsh eczema case. The product is deemed indispensable to this day and generation.
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F. C. Imes
Philadelphia
Absolute Equality At The Tax Office
A woman explains her appreciation for the tax office as the only place where she experiences no discrimination and is paid the same as a man. The man attributes few people visiting to a lack of interest. The exchange highlights equal treatment in pay at the tax office.
Des Moines Claims Nation’s Only Cancer Institute
Des Moines Iowa boasts of an exclusive cancer institute treating all forms without surgery at the Prospect Park Sanitarium where remarkable cures are reported. A connected home houses incurable cases to provide comfort and prolong life.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Prospect Park
California
Call for Cough Drops Delivers Royal Lament
A witty Tit-Bits snippet features the king of Maritania in straits of cash demanding money with a roar. The treasury guardian, once a court jester, sighs that all coffers are empty as the humorous exchange unfolds.
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Maritania
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