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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
5
The notice lists cotton bats in fair quality at roll prices and apron ginghams at 5 cents per yard. Comforter prints, bleached muslin, Hope bleached muslin praised for value, and printed flannelettes offered at about 7 to 8 cents per yard with new patterns.
Partial grocery price note shows cents values like 4.75 and 25c for items. The readable fragments include occurrences of 38c 55c and references to local store pricing. The text is incomplete and lacks identifiable items or store names.
Embroidery instruction resumes Wednesday October 8 at the store with free lessons in art needle work. Mrs Bentley hopes to meet her old class and welcome many new students while offering a full stock of materials and ample accommodations.
Children plain rib hose ten cents, two pairs for twenty five cents. Children fleece lined hose per pair, boys leather stockings twenty two cents. Seamless hose and ladies heavy rib top hose two pairs for twenty five cents. Ladies tops fleece lined hose and men’s heavy cotton socks priced modestly.
Promote Kodol as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia claiming it digests food and builds red blood. Include Mrs. Cranfill of Troy I T and unnamed patients. Also mention DeWitt's Little Early Risers and One Minute Cough Cure with testimonials from S McMahon and J Kinney.
Multiple properties offered by A. B. Noble, broker at 77 East Mid way. Cottage one block from post office priced 1000, corner lot two blocks away 150, five north city lots 50 each, five room dwelling with four lots 1250, corner lot near city hall 125, and other swaps including house for house trade. Some properties sold by sellers leaving state to close quickly. Money making boarding house for sale.
A. B. Noble, real estate broker, advertises a 62 percent acre farm in Fremont county near Hamburg with a one room residence, 12 acres of orchard, barns, sheds, water works, easy terms at $65 per acre or $20 per acre. Also notes Hamburg area farm options. Ed Brown loses a finger at the canning factory last Saturday. Malaria and ague cures promoted by Ayer’s.
Mrs. Rose Naylor and children visited relatives north of Riverton last Sunday. Miss Lydia Zimmerman vacationed in Bartlett. Chas Barnes bought Wright Barnes meat market and will take possession soon. John Taylor returns from Kansas City after eye specialist visit hoping to regain sight. Carl Zimmerman recovering from bruises. Pomeroy district seeks a secretary as staff declines. Hog cholera persists. Lee Cowles brings paw paws from Missouri for future meals. Nisina rising after rain. Ed Smith moves to G W Sykes place. pays $80 per acre for old home east of town. Geo Dovener and wife back from Colorado. Uncle John Cooper builds a smokehouse. E V Smith bought Barnes Bros dairy wagon and will take possession. J F Zimmerman delivered corn. C A Cowles wheeled out and stayed with R H H McKean. B F Cowles of Union Neb. visited family. Mrs Edna Black rebuilt barn burned by lightning. Jink Travis hosts a party. Sam McMillen’s new house nearly done for winter. Scott Black returns to St Joseph.
Mrs John Lee returned from Illinois with news of a pleasant visit. Mrs Will Houts hosted a birthday gathering with about forty guests at her home and received a silver knife and fork set. Cord Houts plans to stay in Hamburg after leaving Shenandoah for telephony work. John Lee looked at land in Percival then returned on the flyer. Joe Schoonore's children suffer chicken pox. Mabel Zuck visited Hamburg friends. Troy and Roy Malcomz hosted a Friday party. Walter Brooks and John Swisher attended a Grange Hall meeting. Mamie and Mina Spooner called on Madison friends Saturday afternoon. Clay and Hugh Finnell hauled apples to Hamburg. Doc Lyons and family visited Riverton relatives. Ike Scott and wife visited relatives near Coin. Will Fugitt drove from Riverton to his farm. Newt Snapp made a business trip to Farragut.
T W Kennedy a Burlington bridge crew worker died suddenly this forenoon on a river barge segment. He complained of illness, finished his shift, then rowed to shore and collapsed near the east store. He was about 40, survived by a wife and children at Percival Iowa. Miss Mattie Lee A Lair of Sidney was in Hamburg on business Thursday.
A Logan County West Virginia man suffered partial paralysis and loss of use of an arm until two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, recommended by his wife after an eminent physician failed to help, nearly cured him. The ad cites other cures for rheumatism sprains and bruises and notes Bartlett & Doyle as sellers. It also hints at rising golf district use and praises Painkiller as a longtime remedy for sprains and bruises.
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