Davenport dimes on apples and eastern markets
John Raester traveled through Massachusetts Pennsylvania New Hampshire New York and Wisconsin for apples to support water and spring trades. Morgan notes this year’s apple crop is the lightest in 25 years due to wet weather hindering pollen. New York faces a one third crop with poor quality. prices rise from three to eight dollars per barrel by February in Davenport.
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John Raester
Massachusetta
Pennsylvania
New—Hampshire
New—York
Wisconsin
Morgan
New_York
New York
Union
Ohio
Ilinois
Nebraska
Iowa
New England
Morgan Esks
Davenport
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Cure All Liver ills
An advertisement proclaims Hood's Sarsaparilla defeats impure blood causing disease and suffering. It claims Hood's pills must be taken with the tonic as the only remedy to cure all liver ills and avert danger.
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Herce
Dietz
Hood
Local briefs from multiple towns in Galva Kewanee and surrounding areas
Galva reports 109 telephone instruments and a Galva inventor J W Swickard butchers a washing machine. Kewanee organizes a women’s club to help each other live practically. Keoanee lodge talk and a former Clarence Sun seller buys a Muscatine job office. Cambridge Chronicle notes Higgins’s one cent error and framed curiosity. Orion Times warns of croup cures and One Minute Cough Cure. Milestones include Mary L. Bunton’s return from the east and a disputed Silverman note endorsement for $900.
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Levi Higgins
Chicago
Higgins
E. E Bell
Orion Times
Mary L. Bunton
Kewanee
Silverman
H. C. Merritt
Merritt
Kewane
Pioneer days memory of Geneseo lumber troubles and a fiddler
Luman Woodward recalls pioneer hardship in Geneseo as he tells how a lumber dealer refused credit for doors and windows, forcing him to seek help from John Goss who trusted him and issued a note for twelve dollars. He writes of oxen, wild land, schooling sisters, and dances in hog pen crowds.
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Kiner
Geneseo News
Iva
Hiner
Geneseo
Henry Chanty
Ohio
John Goss
Porkers
R. H. Hinman
Cambridge
Mr. Goss
Osco
Keator & Wilson
Rock Island
Gosy
Goss
Luman Woodward
Chronifcle
New Use for Whiskey Linked to Smokeless Powder Demand
The war with Spain spurred a need for smokeless powder boosting whiskey use. Peoria distilleries rush to fill orders from powder mills in the U S and Europe, shipping two to three times weekly. October whiskey tax from Peoria hit 2 208 145 63 dollars, signaling potential yearly totals near 327 million.
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Spain
United States
Europe
Peoria Star
Peoria
Narrow Escape From Consumption Cured By New Discovery
Ada E. Hart of Groton South Dakota recounts a perilous illness with a padcord over her tongue and a lingering cough that doctors feared would end her life. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds, taking eight bottles to recover and now testifies to her health. Trial bottles are offered free at J E Wright's drug store with a guarantee or refund of price.
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Ada E. Hart
Groton
S. D
J E. Wright
Blood Medicine Claim From Montgomery Endorsed by T. W. Lee
An 1890s testimonial extols 8 5 5 as a cure for deep seated blood diseases claiming it reaches violent cases others fail to cure. The letter cites improvement and permanent recovery after using the product Swill Specific from two bottles.
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Wee
T. W. Lee
Montgomery
Perato
Resolutions of Sympathy from Annawan Lodge No 491
At a regular meeting of Annawan Lodge No 491 Knights of Pythias held November 10 1898 the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted. They mourn the death of Susan Mallory mother of Herbert E Wallace F E and Adelbert Mallory and extend sympathy to the bereaved families. A copy of the resolutions will be sent to the family and recorded. J Bennison, a KeVanee businessman, has moved to Lenox Iowa to open a store.
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Annawan Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Wuerengs
Susan Mallory
Herbert E
Wallace FE
Adelbert Mallory
Rot Warte
D.F Bankes
E.G Baker
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State St
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