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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
3
The Evansville Reverend Robert Singla presided at the quarterly conference held Sunday near Evans Lay Vie with sessions starting in the early afternoon. Attendees included local clergy and community members as part of the church’s regional ministry meeting.
Community notes from Pleasant Prairie record corn shelling and barn painting, visits by residents like Mr and Mrs Chyish Rickert, and farming tasks around Hawarden and nearby towns. It mentions preaching schedules, illnesses, and a shift toward fewer appendicitis deaths alongside a pitch for King's New Life Pills.
Fragmented OCR text describes Dr Ring's New Discovery Waver claiming rapid cures for cold throat and other ailments. References to patients, travels to Arizona, and vague hospital affiliations appear amid garbled lines and stray place names.
The readable text is jumbled with no coherent people places or events. It mentions a few scattered terms like Hollister and Wells but lacks a discernible story or identifiables to summarize. No concrete action or outcome is present.
Garfield Eagie Grist Arthur Heideman shows a fine buggy. Knute Toft repairs windmills for Wegner. Bis Hilton shelled corn for A Newgard. Mrs Wm Hazlett sews for Mrs H Wood. Weddings promised in Eagia township. Hind Rabder markets hogs at Hawarden. Miss Mary Karr visits with Laura Hitton. Gao Roundy returns from eastern Iowa. Hazel Wood assists Mrs Johnson. Kooi of Sioux Center tends land. Denton of Hawarden visits. Lilla Gray studies music at St Anthony school Hawarden. Carroll of Sioux City visits. Stengal of Worthing visits parents. Mr and Mrs J C Heating visit Hawarden. Haines and son add barn at Fred Schumbachm. Mrs Satterlee and Nebraska relatives visit. Scalar dance at John Law home. Large crowd enjoys. Pred Schumbobm and August dabde go to Lincoln, S.D. for sister illness. Noteboom ships cars to Chicago. Noteboom is a large head roost stock seller. Hartsen pasture ball game ends in Dey Crash Eye defeat Austic.
A sixteen birthday surprise party honored Miss Edas Stoltenburg with about thirty five guests. Attendees included Ulisses Annie Schlumbahm Emma Bauder Kida Eva Witty Mary Cora Pereboom Hazal Wood and others. Also noted is a River ton postmaster robbery and a letter praising Electric Bitters as a lasting remedy for various ailments.
May 16 report lists transfers including Brink Wisa J Risinger 67 bicck 13 Ban and Scc Barkeff CStaPp 7 Westhster. Values cited: 52500 for Hwa. Ref Ch to F Schemmer 7 Finch's sub ROY 2900. Schemmer A F to Raf Ch w 230 ft by 280 ft lot 2 wh 18 all IF l subd o]t Bw 2500. Brickerlsf WE to I R vdSebect 65-46 880. Osterloo SV to DA Mulders sw 2w nw 11-96-4 1200. Teskes hehe to D Seanlan nw 15 97-46 38224. Seanlag D to Wo Roggmaa same 59371.
Mrs. Lucia Wilke of Caroline Wis found lasting relief after Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured a running sore on her leg that had tormented her for 23 years. The ad touts the salve as a great antiseptic healer for piles wounds and sores, sold by Waite & Co. and J. A. Pryor & Co. at 25 cents.
An 1806 prospect promises over a million acres opened for settlement on the Shoshose Indian Reservation with details via Chicago and North Western Railway routes from Chicago and other Mississippi Valley hubs. Advertisers seek pamphlets and stamps for maps, while unrelated notices tout life insurance, horse racing and excursion rates to St Paul via the same line.
Witness Celtins of Pittsfield sworn that Nathaniel Hawthorne’s desk, used at his Lenox home, was bought at auction in Lenox during Hawthorne’s Lenox retreat breakup. The desk features a carved hawthorn engraving and is tied to Hawthorne’s works including The House of Seven Gables.
In Guthrie Oklahoma the historic Chickasaw executive mansion built in 1854 has been moved to the back yard of former Governor Chigley’s home and repurposed as a residence for turkeys and chickens. The article notes Chigley’s era, social events, and now his life managing poultry and pigeons.
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