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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1897
Page
5
The notice lists postal hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays, and morning, afternoon, and evening mail schedules. It includes rail time for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line, with Going East and Going West passenger and freight timings, including a 2 p.m. east departure and 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. west options. Agent signature S. H. Gosha.
Sam Beams. Sadie Ross visited Cresco last Friday. Miss Mamie Thomas visiting Waukon. N Flagler visited Ossian over Sunday. Theo Taraldson of Harmony was in town Tuesday. Hewes Bros painting Jones and Thomas store. Mrs M Nash and Carrie Larson at Rochester Minn. Love Bros hammock line from 60 cents to 8.00. J B Williams at LeRoy Minn. Hazle’s Headache Capsules used by best people. H O Lovald to Chester next week to build house for T C Bratrud. Stephen H Samson came from Minneapolis Monday night. Miss Fay Williams left for Hudson S D for three weeks.
An assorted clippings fragment mentions Lawyer Bullis of Decorah, family ties with Smith and Q Bullis, a questionable health claim for Bernas Bicop Pururize and Binep Maree, plus ads for Nichols and Shepard threshing machines and Foley’s Honey and Tar remedy. Visitors include Mrs. White of Iowa City visiting Miss Lizzie Armstrong, then traveling to Kendallville.
The notice states that extra inducements will be offered beginning July 14 and prints will be sold in three lots at four and five cents per yard.
The Chester readership receives a patchwork of notices and social updates. Will Graham visits from Chester. Miss Minnie Miller visits Mason City. Allen Gulbranson visits Lime Springs. Mrs. H. B. Adama hosts Miss Florence Foye’s convalescence. Broadside lists shop ads and promotions including Deering binders, Hazle’s Headache Capsules, windmills, and Foley’s Kidney Cure. Public remarks warn of malaria risk if town issues are not addressed.
A mixed rural newspaper page notes illness of Ed Owens on a recuperative trip, local shop remodeling for a grocery stock, and various prices on groceries and building supplies. It includes quotes on remedies, travel mentions, funeral attendance, art studio promotion, and a report of a sunstroke incident. The page also references berry shipments, upcoming fruit seasons, and Foley's Colic Cure as a bowel remedy.
Corrected weekly grain and live stock figures include seed per cwt. Feed items show flax seed dairy butter eggs potatoes onions hay wood coal and lime by unit. Miscellaneous listings include glue plaster and various prices for farm needs and materials.
Don’t growl about the weather. Miss Belle Nash visited friends at Cresco Wednesday. Hugh Thomas made a business visit to Cresco last Friday. Judge Gary concluded his visit here and returned to Minneapolis Monday.
A report notes 700 quarts of raspberries were picked and sold in a single day at Bents & Upton nursery farm. Local chatter concerns conduct of certain young women and men seen at Central House, while other items mention visitors, farm price inquiries, a black cape, and a reward for lost property.
Old soldiers are urged to apply for a free bottle of Folky's Colic Cure sized 2c as war veterans respond to a notice. The Osage gathering includes the annual Osage district Christian Endeavor Union convention from July 27 to 29 with evangelist Newton Smith as lead speaker. The event emphasizes four advance movements: Sabbath Observance, Christian Citizenship, Missionary Extension, and Evangelistic Endeavor.
Mr C Nash shows off a remodeled residence begun by H O Lavard this spring. The roof is raised to a modern style, interior updated, a new bath house built, and a large westside porch added. A hot air furnace improves comfort for occupants. Paintwork is underway.
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