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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
4
Local grocer John Wright advertises low prices on jam canned peaches apples sugar syrup salmon and coffee. The list includes two jar jams eight pound cans of fruit one quart maple syrup and various staples with emphasis on cash sales and value.
Real estate ads promote a 6214 acre farm in Fremont county with easy terms at 65 dollars per acre and a 240 acre farm near Hamburg featuring orchard water works and usable barns. Walter L. Anderson visits Hamburg for cemetery work. Woodmen hold a corner stone ceremony for K P building on October 26. Piano fund fundraiser at Baptist church October 28 with 20 cent admission.
Henderson Grimett suffered partial paralysis losing use of an arm and side. After doctors relief failed, his wife urged Chamberlain's Pain Balm. two bottles nearly cured him. Several other partial paralysis cures reported. Also praised for rheumatism sprains and bruises. Bartlett Doyle sells it.
John Ready Sr travels to St. Louis for a week long visit attracting local attention and scheduling meetings with community leaders and contacts.
O E Haskin sold his grocery to Ernest Zuck and turnover occurred Wednesday. Zuck, son of Rev J S Zuck, starts a new venture near Hamburg. For sale notices include cottages near the post office, corner lots near city hall, north Hamburg plots, and trade options. Also listed are a boarding house for sale, and local citizens John Ready Jr and Sr moving to St Joseph. Chas Gibbs relocating to Omaha for the winter.
J B Pritchard traveled to Omaha at the start of the week to see his brother Oscar who was in the city with cattle.
The article outlines early Disciples movement figures in multiple states including Samuel Rogers and Jacob Creath and notes the post Civil War push into foreign missions. It details the Louisville 1875 foreign missionary society, the 1874 Christian Woman's Board of Missions, and the Cincinnati formed American Christian Missionary Society of 1849 with its biblical distribution, church expansion, and education boards.
A weekly summary lists transfers in Fremont County with buyers, sellers, and parcels. J H Gould inherits through FE Stitt, W Sturgeon exchanges with I Scott, and C W Sturgeon with Scott. several other lots and wards in Sidney Hamburg Riverton and Farragut transferred among local residents and banks. Local notes mention Omahan visitors and a relocation of Mrs. Black.
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