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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
6
Weekly corrected prices for grains and seeds at Lime Springs markets include Wheat Timothy seed per cwt Clover percent Plax Seed and related items. Live stock categories cover cattle calves steers sheep dairy cattle and hogs. Misc items list potatoes beans hay wool wood coal plaster lime and lime per bushel with per ton pricing.
Country correspondence notes York beat Chester in a Sunday baseball game. Tom Thoraldson returns home after canvassing Saratoga and area towns. Lizzie Williams visits Lime Springs with Magpie Jones. Mrs. Ole Johnson and Mrs. Thos Austin visit Yellow in Madison County. Batsey Arneson calls on friends at Flindalen. Robert L Hughes visits Cresco for business. Harmony youths attend the game. names not listed. Viota.
An old tale recounts accidental mine finds in the West with a burro credited for pinpointing a rich Idaho mine near the Ocour d'Alene region. The Northern Pacific's Wonderland book features the incident, illustrating how small clues lead to great discoveries. Readers can obtain the book by sending six cents in stamps to Charles S. Tee in St. Paul for a factual historical text.
The missive notes men lamenting heat after cold, corn rising fast, and the creamery quiet. It mentions John Vandunen’s barn burned, Mrs. L P Sanborn in good health, Perry’s Uneid Tom’s Cabin passing through, and a Florenceville priest to teach a fair school. Also mentions Dr More visiting family and a Sunday school building plan garnering support.
L P Sanborn recently acquired 5 M Webster residence, Mary Price shows promise for next winter’s district school, and the city plans to aid nearby towns rather than hold a main celebration. Reports mention a Woodman ball melee, preparations for the Fourth, Mrs Sanborn’s Cresco visit, church camp meeting, Taft selling horses, new Woodman members, and local travels and news from Cresco Decorah and Elymouth. Hydrophobia ends a Jersey cow, W C U set July 8 meeting, and neighbors visit Cole’s home.
A fragment promotes taking a bottle of Fateys Colle Cure on vacation as the key preventive against bowel derangements from changed water. The letter-like note urges readers to carry it after their pocket book.
Dr A Slocum, a famed chemist, claims three free bottles cure consumption and all bronchial lung diseases. He touts a global record of recoveries and urges afflicted readers to send for the remedies at 95 Pine Street New York, promising speedy relief and to mention reading the article.
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