Hedrick Journal seeks readers and ads in Keokuk County
The Hedrick Journal outlines subscription terms with prices, payment rules, and renewal incentives. It invites postmasters, correspondents, teachers, ministers, and advertisers to participate, promising wide circulation and favorable rates while urging readers to recruit five new subscribers for a free year added to their plan. It also notes local weather musings and various editorials on Mount Pelee and related topics.
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Hedrick
Iowa
Journal
Keokuk County
American Newspaper Directory
Lesson in poker mixing another man's money with your own
A Detroit poker night becomes a cautionary tale. A traveling salesman notices that his firm's money and his own were in one roll, risking his capital as the pot grows. After a tense hand, he defeats opponents but learns a hard ethical lesson about never mixing another man's funds with his own.
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New York Sun
Detroit
New York
Jack Adams
Collins
Stetson
Cook
Adams
Emulsion ads and a poker tale blend in one piece
An excerpt begins with Scott and Bowne cod liver oil promotion praising health benefits before shifting to a poker story. It follows a narrator who gambles with money stolen from a firm, nearly loses everything, then carefully recovers through a sequence of hands, finally deciding to never gamble with company money again.
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Collins
Stetson
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Adams
Old Fashioned Knoxville Express Thinks Incubators Odd
The Knoxville Express notes Albia papers report a plate glass window shattering and injuring a merchant's wife in Chariton. The Herald quips an incubator would not suit the danger, then the column jokes that Western folks prefer a wife over such devices, insisting they are old fashioned and set in their ways despite modern innovations.
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Knoxville Express
Albia
Chariton Herald
West
Chariton
Knoxville
County Normal Institute At Sigourney Opens June 28
Normal Institute will be held in Sigourney for two weeks starting June 28 with instructors including W. H. Bender from Cedar Falls in Didactics and School Management, Sara F. Rice in U. S. History and English Grammar, Manning Jaynes in Civics and Economics, S. A. Potts in Physics and Physiology, John E. Foster in Literature and Geography, W. H. Gemmill in Mathematics, and Edna Needham Beck in Vocal Music. Cleveland Eller returns to David City Nebraska after visiting his parents I. Eller.
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Normal Institute
Sigourney
W. H. Bender
Cedar Falls
Sara F. Rice
U. S
Manning Jaynes
Bellevue
S$. A. Potts
Adel
John E. Foster
Hedrick
W. H. Gemmill
Dallas Center
Edna Needham Beck
Muscatine
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