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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
5
Passenger service runs daily on a limited schedule with morning and evening departures to a Bdmpererre Sumlay route, and freight movements are listed as 8.53 freight and 023 m daily except Sunday. Agent J. F. Gosha advertises the schedule.
The item covers Cresco Normal tuition and board, local visitors and relatives, Howard County Fair plans, and equipment ads. It notes Mrs A J Eyang seeking eye treatment in Rochester, visits by Mrs C M Nash, Miss Gertie Kay’s school position attempt, and general local commerce including Foley’s Honey and Tar for asthma relief.
J C Webster in town Friday and many local updates. Mentions include Miss Minnie Miller’s Mason City trip, Harleman Headache Capsules, trains, threshing, and a broad set of civic notices. Cresco Normal term, teachers’ reviews, and the School principal Dr D G Grannis. Lost shawl, wind mills, and business ads frame a slice of rural Howard County life in July 1897.
An old advertisement touts Foley's Colic Cure as essential for travelers. It claims to prevent or cure bowel derangements caused by water changes and promotes Lt. Love Bros. as the distributor.
Market listing from Lime Springs shows weekly corrections across commodities including wheat, barley, oats, timothy seed, clover, flax seed, live hogs, cows and calves, dairy items like butter and eggs, potatoes onions beans hay wood coal plaster lime and more. Prices are listed per unit with variations and indications of market activity.
Jas Safford of Old Town Mill announces closure on August 1 for repairs including a new 100 horsepower water wheel. Work will last about a week before feed production resumes. Mentions community chatter and local notices about nearby residents and events.
Mrs Jennie Loomis and daughter Winnie passed through the city en route to Osage to visit parental home. Williams fished the river Wednesday hoping to coax a bite. Braas Ham Renewer promises hair gains with no hair, by D D Dayton. Mrs Schroder and Carrie Racine Minn guests at Wells home. sisters. Timely temperance talk by Hon W W Williams to appear next week. Ray Bowder and Misses Stevens and Emma Cray return from Toronto as Epworth delegates. Prospective buyers asked to write Thos Prankton Lime Springs or York Minn for secondhand horsepower or threshing outfit details.
Messrs. W. E. Millington and Wm. Lusk of Orleans two Winneshiek Co Iowa visited Forest City farms last Monday seeking a top Polsod-China hog. They said they came where fine hogs are raised after not finding what they wanted locally.
Advert reads that OléSelcherst Thé manufacturers restructure to give a bottle of Foley's Colic Cure free to the first Civil War veteran who applies. It promotes the medicine as a remedy for chronic diarrhea cramps colic and bowel complaints.
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