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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
1
An aging traveler with a fish on his back promotes Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as a restorative tonic. For nearly thirty years he travels worldwide delivering strength to consumptives, weak children, and those needing flesh and red blood. Scott & Bowne advertise at 9415 Pearl Street, Seymour, priced $1.00 at druggists.
Community items detail illnesses, accidents, and travel. Notable notes include Charles Srott’s birth in Bradgate and Breda Carson’s death from blood poisoning near Livermore. Injuries feature Frank Blegger’s leg break at a bay press and George Stitlion’s knee injury from a falling tree.
Teachers should write to Prof J L Grama LL D at 152 164 Randolph Building Memphis Tenn for particulars imagining his special Teachers Examination Course This course is taught by the mall for teachers readying for examination in many states Leading educators call it the best course ever offered to the teachers profession Immediate response urged Enclose stamp or reply
An ad style notice extols Dr. ing's New Life Pills as a cure for various ailments including fever and constipation. It claims the pills cut through “majadios of matter” and suit all ages, with a price of 230 at H. C. Hob bard's drug store.
P A Duffy of Ashley Illinois writes that Foley's Kidney Cure helped him after trying many remedies. He says the druggist recommended the cure and it restored his strength so he could get up again after being down. He urges others to use the product as the best medicine he has tried.
Local notices and social updates detail residents traveling for Christmas, family visits, and celebrations in La Verne and surrounding towns. Mentions include marriages, graduations, holiday plans with relatives, and community events such as a Christmas tree for children. Names and places highlight regional figures and nearby towns like Ames, Mankatoon, and Ringstad.
A sprawling, era-tinged column lists church talks, visitors, travel to Chicago and Ames, weddings, a farm sale, sickness and recovery, school vacations, and local business calls. Names such as Rev W H, Leela B D Prostier, Mrs. Reeves, Mr. Merchant, Dan Craig, John Wiley Jr., Rev Edwards, and W H Whipple appear among frequent references to residents, marriages, travel to Cedar Rapids, Humboldt, and Lake Mills, with short items on church meetings, converts, and a Rutland presbytery gathering.
Presybterian ladies hosted a Thursday supper and sale of fine articles. Milas Rattle Sleley visiting town. Mina Grace Buell at Ramboldh, Baundeyed at home. Misa Railly’s pupils performed at an Oparetti Saturday. Railly of West Bend praised for strong singing. Dedication of the M E church held Sunday December 19, 1903. Almanac notes and ads for Word and Works and The Prof Hoke Almanac. Foley’s cough remedy sold locally by A. B. Rave.
Rail excursions and low round trip rates listed for Minneapolis and St Louis routes with weekly and monthly sale dates. Tickets to Chicago International Live Stock Exposition noted with limited sale dates and special handling. Details reference Western rail lines and agencies. ask for full schedules and terms.
The notice promotes The Companion youth magazine with Christmas scrips and packet offers. It urges readers to send 1.75 for a six person gift subscription plus a Christmas Packet for 1901 and beyond. It lists subscription benefits and addresses in Boston and New York.
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