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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
5
Randalia notes visitors in Oelwein and Fayette area friendships, with many porch chats and gatherings. Announcements include births, marriages, school events, illness updates, and job moves, all reflecting a close rural community in early 1910.
Beatrice Duggan worked in a wholesale millinery home in Cedar Rapids last week. Miss John Davis led the Thursday Reading Circle at Randalia. A Fisher of LaGrange Indiana visited from Greeley and bought two imported horses Belian and Percheron for shipment in about two weeks, staying with cousin T. E. Hockert. Ralph Thompson delivered cattle at Payette on Wednesday. A. H. Lease is building an ice house. T. E. Hockert suffered from grip for a few days recently. Chas Dyer visited the T. E. Hockett home Sunday with an old pacer named Keno, sold long ago for $150 to B. Minchen of West Union. The animal, now 21, remains useful as a work horse. Mr. Dyer was glad to receive it as a present. The advert mentions DeWitt’s Little Early Risers and DeWitt’s Carbalized Witch Hazel Salve as trusted remedies.
Center Grove notes report Mrs J Davis Sr is ill and a D B Cannell home social raised 28.50 for Rev George Varce. A new daughter arrived Feb 7 at Vern Dye’s home. Watenpaugh ill but improving. Mrs Jonnison helped care for her mother Mrs Knight. Josiah Davis Jr went to Chicago with stock. Mrs Dad Davia visiting Mrs Davis Sr. Charley Strong stayed in Wadena. Mrs Richarda from Oelwein visited John May’s home.
The piece argues the U S president could influence gubernatorial selection and party leadership, back the Methodist church against Speaker Gannon, push the Littlefield interstate bill, and empower Prohibition measures. It also imagines a governor shaping policy on immigration and a notorious export of saloon culture to the Orient.
A small notice announces old newspapers and papers available for sale at the Reporter office. Items include vintage issues and miscellaneous pages for collectors or research. Prices and quantities not specified in the readable text.
Real estate transfers include the Regular Baptist church of West Union to FL Whitmore with lot and block references, Eva Pear Biggers acquiring Lot 7 Block 19 West Union, Cordelia Warner and Rose M. Ford parcels, Eliese H. Lenz taking several lots in Oelwein, Mary Hanlon to Anna Hanlon lots in Stickney’s add, Lucinda Ostrander interests, Marguerite Larson parcels, Upper Iowa University site lots, and multiple other transfers in Hawkeye and surrounding towns with prices ranging from 6 600 to 10 000 dollars.
An advertisement extols Kodol as a complete stomach digester that cures or prevents dyspepsia. It contrasts Kodol with ordinary pepsin tablets, claims faster relief from belching, bloating, heartburn, and upset stomach, and promises a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The copy urges readers to visit their druggist for a bottle and notes the product digests all foods in tests.
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