Local Social Notes Pass Through Small Town
Nellie McNair spent days at home while Helen Hlind works at Editch Strom's. Mrs John Durlin visited her parents. Priscilla circle met with Mrs Sherman Buchanan and Ada Frundle. Tama visitors Grate Frundle spent Sunday at Joe Frundle's. Sam B Cronk of Owassa visiting relatives. Tom Brent family and Mae Banks planned Marshalltown trip. Mae Banks and Maude McNair in Montour at Homer Booth's. M T Nodland and Minnis Mae Thompson Marshalltown callers. Weitzell youths hosted lawn party. Mrs Josiah Paxson visited Marshalltown and Green Mountain to see Pred Paxson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Durlin
Priscilla
Sherman Buchanan
Ada Frundle
Grate
Tama
Joe Frundle
Sam B. Cronk
Owassa
Mae Banks
Maude McNair
Montour
Homer ‘Booth
Weitzell
Josiah Paxson
Marshalltown
Green Mountain
Chamberlains Colic Remedy Advocated for Summer Use
An old newspaper item promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for every family during hot weather, urging immediate purchase from H. W. McKeown. Also mentions Arnolds flour brands and an birth notice for a baby son born June 13 to Mr and Mrs W W Eicholtz of Redfield South Dakota, with Mrs Eicholtz formerly Helen MacGowan, a LeGrand teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Rowan Drug Co
Dept
Chicago
C.H. Rowan Drug Co
H. W. McKeown
W. W. Eicholtz
Redfield
Dunbar Correspondence Highlights Local Visits and Repairs
Dunbar correspondent reports visits by Olson family from Marshalltown and others including Medhus and Stangeland from Dillon. Bank official Bergeson travels by horse and buggy. Lightning damage repaired at the Lutheran church by Salve Saanum and Thorvald Thompson. N. F. Huseth to hold Lutheran service June 2004. Arnold’s advert notes summer underwear demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medhcus
Stangeland
Dillon
Dunbar
Dunham
Ber
May
Tweed
Giltan
ED. Medhus
G. H
Medhus
Gilman
N. F.huseth
Gladbrook Weekend Social Notes Reach Rural Counties
Special correspondent Percy Searle and brother visited Gladbrook on Sunday. Frank Hauser and family stayed with relatives across the river. Geo Keen and family visited Howard Searle near Marshalltown. Mrs L C Knudson traveled to Lamoille to see her injured brother Frank Howard from a run away. Clyde Hoover and T Keen shipped cattle to Chicago, Clyde accompanying to supervise the ash. County seat visitors included Searle and many local families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Keen
Howard Searle
Marshalltown
L. C. Knudson
Lamoille
Frank Howard
Clyde Hoover
T. Keen
Chicago
Clyde
R. Piper
Carl
Dernard Humphrey
R. Rabenbauer
Walter Hoover
Can't Keep it Secret Remedy Notice
Public notice touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a splendid treatment for stomach and liver troubles. Advertises sale by H. W. McKeown and promotes Martin Town made tin ware and galvanized ware at Arnolds with a claim of the best on the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
H. W. McKeown
Martin
Arjnolds
Soldier Days In Alexandria Before The War
The article recalls Alexandria Va ten miles down the Potomac as a shipping hub with hotels warehouses and a slave market. It describes slave conditions and a visit by Lieut. Col. Ellsworth and comrades, recounts watching Mt Vernon and Arlington area fortifications, and notes nearby Fairfax and Bull Run history before continuing with local social notes about a college campus picnic and a literary club gathering led by Rev Hanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Potomac River
Frederick Douglass
New York
Col. Ellsworth
Mt Vienon
Washington
Arlington
Heights
Lee
Bull Run
Manissas
Fairfax
Chub
Rev
A.M. Hanon
Marshalltown
A. M.! Hanson
Rev? Hanson
Take Plenty of Time to Eat With Chamberlain Tablets
A health note warns against rapid eating causing indigestion and constipation and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy. It cites indigestion, dullness after meals, and stomach troubles as conditions improved by the tablets sold by HL. W. McKeown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HL. W. McKeown
Arnolds and local pumps ship spices and poles update
Pure spices from our own brand recently arrived from the manufacturers at Arnolds. Electric light poles extend toward the county line with holes dug and poles distributed through the corporation on the west. Also a local note promotes Chamberlain's Liniment to relieve rheumatic pains, sold by H W McKeown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnolds
Classes 712 and 13 S G Fete at Ferguson Home
Students from classes 712 and 13 S G met at Leola and Reba Ferguson’s home Saturday evening for a social gathering. The decorations featured pink, green and white. The program included questions and answers and a hazing form, while class 13 boys were entertained by college friends with pranks aiming to humble their rivals. A two course luncheon was served by the hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. S
Leolar
Reba Ferguson
Deafness and Catarrh Cure Promoted by Constitutional Remedies
An 19th century advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications, urging constitutional treatment to restore the Eustachian tube. It attributes most cases to catarrh and promises $100 for any deafness from catarrh that All's Catarrh Cure cannot heal, with Toledo, Ohio contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyall
Cmnney, & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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Monarch
Carter
W. K. Arnold & Sons
Legrand
Albert Fife
Tama, Iowa
J. E Harvey
B. L. Cook
Nellie’ McNair
Helen Hlind
Editch Strom’s
Tom
Brent
Chamberlain's
Kelly’s
le Grand Reporter
Tue
LeGranp Posiisnixe Coupsry
Corwin O'Neal
LeGrand Posteffics
Olson
Percy Searle
Gladbrook
Frank Hauser
LeGrand Savings Bank
OrLing
Harvey
Iowa
Mikeown
H.W. MecKeawn
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