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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
15
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as openly published, American root based and non alcohol formula for women's ailments. It claims professional endorsements, no habit forming drugs, and invites readers to request a free booklet from Dr. R V Pierce in Buffalo.
On Wednesday December 15 at 1 p m Joseph Vevera jr will hold a closing out sale at the Mungo farm south of Towa city on the west bank of the river. A free lunch will be served. Items include five head horses sight head cattle 17 shoats 12 dozen chickens 48 acres corn stalks 30 acres meadow pasture 1000 bushels corn in crib farm machinery and more. Thomas E Marshall will cry the sale.
Jicking Bind Breeding or Protruding Piles Druggists refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case. Cure in 6 to 24 days. Each first application gives relief. Price 50 cents. If unavailable, send 50 cents in stamps for post paid by Paris Medicine Co. St. Louis Mo.
E L Jahnke announces a large closing out sale on the Mike Peckman farm eight miles southeast of Iowa City and six and a half miles north of Lone Tree on Wednesday December 13 at 10 am. After lunch at noon, buyers can bid on 150 head of stock including mules cattle hogs and other farm property along with machinery lumber hay corn potatoes and rough feed. Cot C H Murphy acts as auctioneer with George Berstrom as clerk.
In buying cough medicine for children, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is safe and effective for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It contains no opium or harmful drugs and may be given to babies and adults alike. Sold by all druggists. Mon Fri 12 10
One week from today Monday December 18 John R Mead will hold a public sale on his Union township farm three miles south of Tiffin and six miles west of Tuwa City starting at 10 p m The auction lists 120 acres of well improved farmland ten head of horses 70 head of cattle 80 Chester White hogs 1000 bushels of corn in crib 200 bushels seed oats 30 tons hay in barn straw 40 acres of cornstalks field farm machinery and other valuable property Thomas H Nashall and H A Dunlap act as auctioneers
A Virginia resident from Waverly B W L Halli endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for colds, claiming it is the best on the market and that he has recommended it to friends. Sold by all druggists.
A resident recalls Bulawayo’s wet season with flooded streets and damp homes. Skunking insects and white ants invade daily life while snakes, tarantulas, and scorpions prowl the area. a houseboy forces fighting arachnids, and a scorpion allegedly stings itself to avoid defeat.
Quaint house inscriptions adorn English homes such as Arley Hall and Loselay House inviting passage to the worthy and friendly. At Satving ton Sussex Selden’s birthplace displays a Latin couplet with a similar sentiment. Montacute House proclaims none come too early none return too late while Kerray Tall parsonage reads An honest man may enter and a cheat may be off.
The article recalls Erasmus as the pivot of a Latin scholarly world where theology history and philosophy were taught in Latin. It notes Bacon and Milton choosing Latin to secure fame and the ease of travel aided by Latin in social and clerical circles, as Latin was the common tongue across nations.
The Helinburg University museum preserves four horn specimens grown on human hens, one seven inches long and oddly curved. A label cites surgeon Arthur Tample cutting a horn from Elizabeth Low’s head on May 14 1607, witnessed, with age noted. Another horned human hair appears in Sir Robert Sibbald’s history, describing a lady with a horn growing from her toe that was removed to restore walking.
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