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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1906
Page
8
The report details local farming notes from Koton Wee including cattle, crops, and stock sales. It records illnesses, family visits, accidents, and property changes across several households such as Eilers, Winterfeld, Viothe, and Bushby, with weather and hauling events noted.
Community updates from Garfield and Eagle townships with farm activity reports, sales, visits, and local happenings. Mentions include cattle sales, grain elevator purchase, threshers, a public auction, a mail carrier appointment, and various visits to neighbors and farms.
Eagle town residents visit and host at Barton, Sions City, and Hawarden. People attend services, fairs, and shopping trips, while farmers report threshing crews, cattle drives, and repairs. Notable mentions include Frank Wilson, Ernest Noteboom, and multiple local families sharing visits and daily activities.
Mrs W L Gilpatrick of Dasforth Maine credits Electric Bitters with curing twenty years of severe dyspepsia and restoring her strength and vitality at age 70. The tonic claims to purify blood, cure malaria and biliousness, and relieve stomach, liver and kidney issues. Sold by E E Waite Co and J H Prior Co.
Prairie Leoai Ploager bought a car load of cattle for winter feed. Chris Bichert erected a new grain elevator. Coster Johnson bought a new elevator, promising labor saving for farmers. Several residents visited friends as tenants moved, and farmers stored corn this week.
A historical notice touts Dr Kings New Discovery for Coughs and Colds with endorsements from Mrs. Geo Walls of Forest City. It claims quick relief and protection against consumptions asthma and grippe, priced 5Gc and $1.00, backed by E. B. Waite & Co and J. H. Prior & Co. Also promotes linoleum floors and DaVittes Little Early Risers pills sold by E. E. Waite & Co.
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