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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
7
Miss Gladys Fauta visited Weldon on Monday while Clarence Humieston traveled to Des Moines. Several residents, including Jee McNay to Oskaloosa, Deane Dage visiting Mount Ayr grandparents, and Cleo McGuire in Lewisburg, are noted for holiday travel.
Merchants report heavy holiday trade in Harveston with stores filled and Santa Claus remembered by shoppers. Some reports of minor stock issues while consumers enjoyed a wide array of goods revealed in a lively market.
Auction day will resume under WT Moore management with the Commercial Club supplying the auctioneer and clerk at no charge. Citizens may bring property to sell, and no selling fee will be charged. Free auctions grow popular nationwide and are aimed to succeed locally.
Pleasant View residents were spotted shopping in Chariton on Wednesday. Mrs A R Willian departed for Cody Wyoming with relatives. John Morgan Charley Thorip valers and their Leroy child were in Pat Bevard's on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Sherman McKnight shopped in Chariton Wednesday. Newsome of Chariton returned home Saturday with her son George who is attending college in Des Moines.
On December 2 the accomplished young actress Chic Perkins will present a new four act western play The Little Prospect by Edward Cocke of New York. The production features elaborate scenery and a cast of artists chosen for top class performance, promising an engaging rural frontier drama with a strong love thread for young audiences.
Dr. H T Smith sent his Partridge-Cochin chickens to the Clarinda poultry show last week and captured first prizes against all competitors. The Huck is praised as a choice specimen.
For sale: pure bred Buff Rock cockerels. Call at our residence to view. Prices reasonable. BS. CoLLixs.
Short notices promote Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup prevention and relief. Folding handkerchief tips explain aligning creases with linen threads. Nail care advice urges daily filing to reduce breakage. A sugar lump treated with vinegar is proposed as a hiccough cure.
Reading notes describe cider preserving methods with sugar eggs salt and horseradish plus a wax and turpentine floor polish recipe. A humorous verse about a perpetual kicker appears, followed by a farm and land sale and exchange notices listing Patterson Madison County property, rents, and mortgage details.
B C Hurst offers guidance for bread making noting how cold handling chills dough and how warmth keeps flour workable. The piece describes placing flour in a warm dishpan, avoiding drafts, and letting yeast develop with time and warm water, including a peculiar instruction about potatoes in the water.
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