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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
5
A roundup of local visits and travels across Silver City and Strahan. Residents like Miss Nellie Coburn, Elery Coburn, and Mrs. P Pearson are mentioned across towns including Glenwood, Red Oak, Emerson, and Missouri. Events include school plans, fresh travels, a typhoid death in Hunnewell, a Baptist ice cream social, and a carload shipment to Chicago.
A reader recounts relief from fatigue dizziness backache and digestive issues after using Lydia E Pinkham products. She notes improved strength appetite and sleep and credits Mrs Pinkham with her recovery. The piece promotes Mrs Pinkham and invites women to write for free advice.
Henderson X Imel of Emerson was on our streets Sunday. Miss Bessie Hollingsworth left Friday for Whiting to reach this fall. Susie Center left Saturday for Des Moines to purchase fall and winter millinery stock. Paul was a Glenwood and Omaha visitor the first of the week. Joe Parker left Tuesday for Omaha on business. Mesdames Stahl and Woods were Red Oak visitors the first of the week. Misses Davis and Quigg are in Des Moines buying winter millinery and tending the State Fair. Joel Woods is in Colorado Springs visiting relatives. Miss Maggie Darnell returned Saturday from the Bluffs. Grandma Wright remains ill. Joseph Gone and wife are in Smithfield, Nebraska, visiting son D. Bone and family. Will Harbour returned Saturday from St. Louis where he has been visiting his son Alva.
A. J. Kronsbein superintendent of the hall asks farmers to save their best wheat and oats for decorating the hall at the upcoming fair. This appeal urges timely preparing sheaf quantities to enhance display spaces.
An offer to send eight stamps to Late Young in Des Moines in exchange for receiving the Weekly Town Capital until after the November election. The note mentions Baye and appears as a fragmented advertisement or exchange request.
Dave Chipps and wife visit Nebraska while Ed Moeber rents the Robert Plimb farm and makes a brief trip there last week. Chan Norton to occupy the Wm Donner farm next year. Street Commissioner Lee Adams improves streets. Mr. Hurst oversees building projects. Jim Martin handles work. A party at Robert Henderson’s on Wednesday. John Skinner rests this week with brothers covering. A social at Liberty church Tuesday to raise funds for a new organ. City Clerk Miles Phillips warns the brick contract for the city hall must be re-let, risking delay before cold weather. Frank Francis trades his place to his father J S Francis for an 80 north of W W Francis, plans a new dwelling. old place to Willie Francis. Mayor George Patrick, on official rounds, finds a broken rail on the O and St L railroad near the pumping station. quick action prevents a wreck and Patrick earns a railroad life pass, though limited to hand cars. An ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills ends the column.
John Howard Hillsdale moved to Glenwood Monday. Mrs H Way visits a niece via Imogene. Dan Hopkins night agent for, then had guests. Geo Burger of Imogene visited Hillsdale friends Friday. Charles Seavill of Lyons tried to rent a house here the first of the week. D Scott moved to Glenwood the first of the week. Mrs Jacob VanOrsde moved into the house he vacated. Two town boys were arrested Monday for disturbing the peace Sunday evening. They were fined and jailed for failure to pay.
An old-time ad fragment touts a remedy that claims to restore female vitality and cure ulceration and inflammation. It cites a woman who regains strength after using a specific prescription labeled as a favorite by Doctor Pierce. The notice ends with a Philadelphia address for correspondence.
September school start, Old Soldier's Reunion dates. a roundup of Emerson residents visiting Hastings Des Moines Glenwood Omaha and Kansas. Mentions of the State Fair, Forepaugh Sells, concert plans, church events, a restaurant purchase, and band social at J T Barns room.
Mrs. George Long of New Straitsville Ohio credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving two lives after a brutal cough and pneumonia scare. A single bottle cured her throat chest and lung troubles and a trial bottle is offered free at Wilsons drugstore with a full price guarantee.
Advertises sale of 8000 acres in Thomas County Kansas described as Allsmooth land near the railroad. Offers on a ten year plan in tracts of 160 to 040 acres, or all of the property, with terms to be arranged and sold soon.
Box Elder residents share visits and gatherings across nearby towns. Alte DeBois visited Carson and Griswold relatives. Mae Ayer visited Jesse Wood at City Hotel. several Ayer and DeBolt family members travel, with Miss Bradford's Wasley Chapel event and Rev Downing’s Lone Star church meetings noted. Rennie Farrington held a private party with ice cream, cake, and watermelon. visitors include the Ayer family from Lyons and Widers Nebraska, plus Blanche Ayer from Widers.
In Fremont County April 12 1897 Trullinger writes of chronic stomach pain and opiate use. After taking Dr Kay's Renovator he reports relief and regained appetite. Endorsed by Chas Deppe of Imogene and others who credit cures to the remedy with mailing addresses for samples and medical advice.
Fragmentary 19th century notices include an affidavit by Frank J. Cheney claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure will pay one hundred dollars for untreatable catarrh and a notary swearing to the document, plus an estray report for a red and white yearling heifer at Bushnell's White Cloud residence, with ownership claims and a county posting by C F Kinney and a sale notice for stock and town property by M G Edwards Glenwood.
Report describes massive grading and construction along the C B and Q line in eastern and central Iowa. Camps of workers span 150 miles from near Mt Pleasant to Creston as double tracking, bridges, culverts, ballast, and straightened grades are pursued to speed service and longevity. Projected work includes an 86 foot Grand River crossing between Murrey and Afton costing about two million dollars, with further progress toward the Missouri River and Council Bluffs beyond Creston.
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