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Newspaper
Inter County Journal
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
7
Local items report birthdays and gatherings, visits by Mrs. Smith and Miss Hiddick, town dances planned by Greybeards, and ongoing community notices. References to school and church events, mail notices, and upcoming election details appear alongside ads and local business mentions.
Rural farmers report increased chicken losses from youthful city hunters as season opens. Fifteen boys aged 10 to 15 were arrested at Waterlog Monday for drunkenness and disorderly conduct after stealing beer and threatening passersby. Several may be sent to reform school. Mitchell County prepares drainage work. four largely valueless land sections will be tilled to raise values. A wreck on the Chicago Great Western near Marshalltown killed veteran engineer Wypian W. Hill and scalded his fireman who died later.
A fragmentary column notes gossip about couples on a canal bridge and a tall young man with a short fat girl, plus a pair of youths seen with a local Ackley girl. It mentions a promotional offer for Chicago Daily Tribune and Inter-County Journal subscriptions and humor about a well fed boy with sports gear.
A Des Moines report notes the drift of the campaign shows political corporations aligned with the Democratic ticket. It recalls CG W. Miller of Waverly and W W Marsh of Waterloo as key advisers. Both were delegates to the Federal Trade Regulation convention in Chicago last year and supported resisting any rate regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission or other appointive agencies.
Advertises weekly round trip excursion tickets by Poe Iowa Central to Minnesota Iowa the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest and the first and third Tuesdays each month to southern regions. Rates are one fare plus good and less with liberal limits and stopover privileges. Also promotes health elixirs and self care products including Gall Gall and Chamberlains Pain Balm.
Mrs W L Gilpatrick of Danforth Maine reports her mother aged seventy regained youth and vigor after twenty years of severe dyspepsia, crediting electric Bitters with restoring strength and activity. The tonic is claimed to cure stomach, liver and kidney troubles, malaria and nerve weakness, with safety guaranteed by H N Sebula drug store.
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