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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
5
Cool nights and moonlit evenings frame a note about the Harvest Festival near Cresco. Local town improvements, photography sessions at Sowle Gallery, and visits from residents including Kaine of Dakota and Dr. Reed are mentioned along with health remedies and travel tips touted by local merchants and a Missouri Pacific conductor.
Local notices report visiting residents and upcoming events in Cresco and area. Notables include Roe Brown from Cresco, Qwen Thomas's short visit, Augmenting tea with Jones & Thomas, and preparations for the Cresco Harvest Festival. Subscriptions to the Sox and medical mentions of Hazle's Headache Capsules are noted along with fair plans and school term reminders.
The Misses O Malley of Cresco and Miss Ray with Hugh O Neal of Chicago were guests at the McNally residence last week. Twenty five dollars will be awarded for a farmer s Pace or trot on Tuesday Sept 8 in Cresco. Conditions require work horses owned and used on farm and never having won money in a race.
In warm weather bowel complaints arise from over eating or over shrinking. Foley's Colic Cure offers protection from bowel derangements and is guaranteed. Love to inos.
Corrected weekly market notes list Clover and Flax Seed prices with grain categories. Live hogs cows steers and sheep quoted alongside coal plaster glue and related items per ton or per unit, with shorthand and typographical errors.
Local notes report Miss Laura Booth starting as clerk at the Cresco post office. Overviews include Hazel’s Headache Capsules relief, privileges granted by Howard County officers, visits by Bertha and Rena Wood of Cresco, and shopping by Mrs I B Hastings and Miss Jennie Hall of Chester in Lime Spring. An ice cream sociable by the M E church raised about $11. Special studies at Cresco Normal cover several subjects, and citizens are invited to inquire about buying a threshing outfit or other machinery from Thos Frankeon in Lime Springs or York, Minnesota.
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