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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
2
Announcement from the LeGrand post office notes subscription rates for six and three months and states advertising rates are available on request. It says all advertising remains until ordered out unless otherwise arranged.
Our Special Correspondent reports Etta Parsons visiting from Marshalltown. Ice cream social at Duréeh chapel drew many locals, revival meetings at Carlton Brethren Church ongoing, and a surprise birthday for Miss Gladys Filer. Floyd Raf returned from France celebrated with friends. C. G. Judge narrowly escaped injury when his Ford veered off road. steering failure caused a ditch plunge. Also mention of storms, farm sale, and local visits by Helen and Marian Mills Otto Tweed Omar Coppock and others.
In 1909 Wm. B. Wis ter of Douglassville Pa. reports an attack of indigestion feeling gloomy until he received a free Chamberlains Tablets sample. He sent a trial and later bought a package, claiming he has not had a similar attack since.
Bessie McCarel of Albion visited the S. R. Piper home while Harold Perisho picked cherries at the Searle home. Clyde Hoover and daughter spent Sunday with Harry Gibson. The Murphy family of Searsboro visited John Swenson, and Frank Howard and son Walter with wife joined L. C. Knudson for Sunday. Ora Howard and wife dined with the Knudsons and attended Mrs Hendrick’s funeral in Omak Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Searle hosted relatives from Kansas City including a 82 and 79 year old pair plus a niece and husband with four sons. One son told of wartime service in France. A State Center relative and a nephew and wife joined Sunday at the Searle home. See the peanut roaster and a running bear at W. Ke Arnold’s.
The LeGrand Consolidated School District board invites bids for school backgrooms and for a janitor for the upcoming school year. Bids must be in the secretary’s hands by noon June 30. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
A Victorian era style advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. The firm offers one hundred dollar reward if it fails and urges readers to send testimonials, with sales through druggists and a suggested companion product Hall's Family Pills.
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