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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
1
This ad promotes painting supplies with weather fitting selling points. It lists B. P. S. Paint Devoe with a five year guarantee and a large stock of Southern Lead Linseed oil and glass in Humeston. It invites reader trade and promises higher value for money.
Notes discuss smallpox fears after floods, a frost event on June 12, a bat found in a Baltimore wall, Dr. C. J. Fox’s travels, and a homesteader’s reception for Galusha A. Grow. It mentions Missouri and Kaw flood channels, the Ferris Wheel sale at the 1893 World’s Fair, silk from shellfish, possible twine shortages, trade balances with Porto Rico, and a critique of East St. Louis reporting amid town business changes and a James River valley artesian-water district summary.
A report describes deep wells near Chamberlain delivering power for irrigation and an electric plant, with one well resembling a forty horsepower engine and high water flow. The piece shifts to a sensational account of Lincoln assassination claims by EK Bates about John Wilkes Booth, followed by lurid details of a Serb monarch’s assassination and reaction. It also includes a medical adage about a colt’s arm injury treated with Berry's Bare Beater and a drugstore note.
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