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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1897
Page
2
Livestock market notes show hogs and cattle prices with figures such as 85.00 and 4.00, plus category labels for steers heifers and sheep with small totals and a reference to 78. Details are fragmentary but indicate an agricultural sale or price list.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly May presents article by John P Skitter Some American Castles with illustrations and a feature on Japan's Three Invasions of Corea by Teiichi Yamagata. Other pieces include American Universities and Colleges University of Minnesota by John Cochrane Sweet and What Theosophy Means by Marian F Gitt. Also covers Constantinople's Streets The Mythical Manoa Two Arabian Weddings and a new serial The cats pay by Frederick R Burton with early chapters teasing a stirring novel.
A curious anecdote from southern France describes a bicyclist aiding a donkey cart up a hill, earning thanks from a peasant. Cumberland Gap yields a schoolma am joke about naming presidents, noting few presidents existed in earlier days. A remark on Wheat ton’t crow links temp to crop growth.
G G Thomas's house wears a fresh coat of paint applied by Otis sod Frank Hewes. Mrs Hattie McGuire returns from Austin to Cresco after visiting relatives. Schafer's studio advertised as Cresco's leading artist. his p latinos praised. L E Burns and Cresco friends camped at Root River, returning home Wednesday.
Castoria notes delays in the Sun as copy v.% report from the Chester Sunday School Convention is not in this issue. D. J. Jones reports a 26 lb calf mentioned previously weighed 50 lbs at two months, a gain of 12 lbs per month. Miss Alice Williams, visiting Irvine Williams, returned to Ridgeway Ta last Saturday.
A South Dakota classified style note touts Roberts & Williams as offering a superior line of buggies and road wagons with attractive prices and quality. It mentions a Ben Harr No. 19 bicycle and a trade option accepting a good driving horse as part payment, plus a postmaster change from M L McNally to S H Mall citing political reasons and public service. The item ends with a real estate pitch from the Northern Pacific Railway offering land to settlers at low per acre prices with ten year terms, guided by eastern land agent Tf W Wilsey in St Paul.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Colle Cure as a warm, comforting remedy for bowel complaints. It claims strong efficacy and notes pricing at 8 50s, with a reference to Love Bros as distributors.
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