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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Bucksea’s Arnica Salve as a cure for piles itching and protruding with claims of healing burns injuries and related ailments. Local druggists Waits & Co and J A Prior & Co are named as sellers. A legal notice follows appointing an administrator for Newsomd Q Howarth deceased with settlement instructions and debt payment guidance.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports on growing public concern over football’s brutality and professionalism. It cites a Roosevelt presidency conference and college presidents urging radical reform to restore true sport and curb thuggish play and slugging.
A lively column sketches Prince Louis of Battenberg as a genial seafaring figure in New York praising his plain manners and athletic interests. It also notes Secretary Taft’s struggles with sedan chairs in Hong Kong and a Roosevelt Richmond speech praising mixed ancestry. The piece touches on Chinese exclusion court cases and a New York lighting effort while drifting through unrelated vignettes from the era.
A brief health items column describes ailments and symptoms such as palpitation of the heart. The note references common concerns and suggests seeking care for unusual bodily sensations.
A collection of unsystematic notices and promotions including Dr King’s New Discovery claim for consumption and coughs, sales at EE Waite & Co and JH Pryor, money to loan on city property, tinware offered at ten cents, settling debts to WN Inwry, sale of eight Poland China hogs, headache tablets from C R Steere, a bargain farm property Rickiefs house, and Holister’s Rocky Mountain Tea promotion. various local business mentions from Hawarden Iowa.
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