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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
9
Poultry entries from Humeston and Corydon list winners in cockers and pullets across breeds including Black Lang, White Leghorns, Mottled Ancona, Houdans, Pekin ducks, Embden geese, White Holland turkeys, Buff Cochins, and bantams with champions and display awards. The column also records social visits and family news from Lillie Barger, Bethany, Chariton shoppers, and local residents with Sunday gatherings and neighbors’ visits.
Public sale set at the Bin ford farm four miles west of Cambria on Wednesday December 18 at 10 am. Items include 15 cattle four horses eight head of shoals implements and more plus a 500 capacity hayrick. S. J. Clausen Hasbrouck as auctioneer McMains clerk.
The advertisement promotes the Edison Phonograph and Records as the best Christmas present for all ages. It highlights musical education for the young and relaxing entertainment for the old, claiming it brings world music into the home and plays any kind of music on demand. December Records are advertised at 35 cents with a weekly payment option of 1.25 dollars to own an Edison.
Twill not only be an advantage to the merchants by giving them an opportunity to show their goods before the usual holiday rush, but you have the advantage of making selections while the stocks are complete.
The New Era advises readers to watch advertising columns for Christmas shopping guidance benefiting both the alert merchants and the buying public. It emphasizes how such columns reveal where to shop and what to buy during the season.
Multiple farms advertised near Humeston Iowa offer 13 to 320 acre tracts with good soil, fencing, wells, barns, orchards, and proximity to town. Prices range around 35 to 50 dollars per acre with terms to suit. prominent listing by J. E. Doze.
Mrs Louise Lewellyn of Powell South Dakota endorses Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills saying they quickly relieve headaches with no after effects. The ad notes 45 000 druggists nationwide and a 25 cent package of 25 doses with a money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
Cheap and productive land advertised in Wheeler and Collingsworth counties Texas priced from 5 to 220 per acre with 30 to 50 bushels corn per acre cotton 4 to 1 bale per acre. Also pure blood Chester White male pigs for sale and bids invited for township road work in Richman township with bidding deadline the first Monday in January. Bert McCentoen, Clerk.
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