Mills County Fair and County News Roundup
Mills County Fair slated September 11 to 13 with notes on local hosting, politics, and social events. Reports cover De er Creek, Council Bluffs, Glenwood, Malvern and surrounding towns with updates on families, a pension for a wounded Glenwood soldier, church activities, a patent medicine show, and local business movements including canning factory activity and harvest optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills County
P.d. Guenther
Walnut
Pat Feely
Deer Creek
C. A. Dyar
Glenwood
Council Bluffa
Angie Bishback
Lew' ‘Strader
Frm Strader & Sons
Chicago
O. A. Stashan
Taborites
David Walling
Co. C
Fitzyurst
the Christian Churches of
J. Davis
Wicer Danieleberger
Canning Factory
4 Trust
Mary Hinton
Howkabout
Free sample Boschee's German Syrup offer
An advertising notice invites adults with colds chest bronchitis or throat or lung trouble to call at W D Wilsons for a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup one bottle per person. It claims vast world sales and physician endorsement and notes a 75 cent bottle value and wide dealer availability.
Stomach Aid Mentioned With Dreadwell Name
Fragmentary OCR notes reference appetite issues and stomach tools with a mention of Dreadwell and Syrup Pepsin. The readable bits suggest a casual discussion about diet or treatment and a casual claim you can eat anything. The text is inconsistent and lacks a clear event or outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake
Brothers
Rural Iowa notes mix of weather and local events
Local items report a water creamer producing 2000 pounds of butter daily, Shenandoah church fund drives for a pipe organ, upcoming Hamburg street fair, and a new Randolph school principal. Reports cover typhoid in Clarinda, a near-drowning in a 67 foot well, road-improvement funds in Villisca, burglaries, and a fatal quarrel near Shenandoah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Shenandoah
Hamburg
Prof
Salisbury
Randolph Schools
Chris Huston
Clarinda
Claude
Ree Yee
Chas
Sandberg
Hawthorne
M. B. O. Sheldon
Tabor
Asa
Fremont County
Rocky Mountain
Wm. Baukempet
Treynor
Iowa
Red Oak
R. Venting
Blatts
TE. H. Harrison
Madison “Médicine
Villisca
Editor Sheaffer
Randolph
Cromwell
MeeKee
Thomas
Montgomery
San Francisco
Samuel Weller
James A. Guest
Burlington
W. ER. Shults
Mies West
Frank Sigler
Sigler
Shulta
Sidney
Story of a Slave and a Woman Harshly Bound by Disease
A reader recounts a grim tale of slavery by illness. George D Williams of Manchester Michigan claims his wife suffered five years unable to move in bed. He credits Electric Bitters with dramatic recovery enabling her to resume work and daily tasks. The ad-like passage touts Bitters as a supreme remedy for female diseases, womb issues, melancholy, headache, and general infirmities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burris
Oftice Q
Malvern Township
Gibson's Hall
J. P. Jackson
Glenwood
Mills County
Scott
Deer Creel
J. H. Shay
Leslie McFarland
John Parker
Des Moines
George’ D
Williams
Manchester
Michigan
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Malvern
Burlington & Quincy
Enea
Issih
E. Gunes
Town
Omaha & St, Louis-Quincy
Quincy
Kuinsis City
Omaha
St. Louis
W. G
Yahor & Northern
Vic
Roxie
Fairgrounds
Des” Moinés
Henry Banister
Elmer Johnson
A. Jackson and Son
J. ©. Slothower
Will VanOrsdel
R. Skaggs
L. M. Bowman
East Liberty
Higgl.Rodges
Ay. J
Thomas Skabill
Attica
Indiana
J. H. Snow
Isaac Clutes
Deer Creek Township
Red Galt
Manitou
Colorado
Denver
Cripple Creek
Mother
Bullot
McKinley
Bryan
Union
Pikes Peak
Royal Gorge
Helen Hunt Jackson
Mills
Daken
S. M. Criswall
Mont Edunty
John Deere
Ess
W Norwegiang
Me C Cormick
Hoosier
Chris Moline
Henney
Degenhart
Les -Air-Gollars
Frank Degenhatt
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