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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1898
Page
3
A lyric fragment describes a rugged rider who has faced dangers in the West and chased Indians, yet he is frightened by the sight of maidens. The piece blends frontier bravado with playful vanity and a chivalric bashfulness toward love.
Louisville Courier-Journal notes Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve claims to cure weak eyes and sore lids. It promotes tubed salve sold by druggists with a guarantee. The piece also asserts good roads reduce production costs benefiting farmers amid lower selling prices.
The Quaker Valley Manufacturing Co of Chicago offers sets of coin silver plated war memorial spoons mailed postpaid to Star subscribers. Each spoon has a different design and is worth $3.00. If not pleased, return spoons within thirty days and remit 78 cents as payment in full.
Local columns praise Mena as a growing "Magic City" of Polk County with new court house post office and other buildings under way in 1899. Farmers urged to diversify to fruit orchards. cotton price notes and advice on workload. Also general notices on water pipes freezing, weather, and a healing salve advertisement and community happenings from Hartley to Sebastian county.
Notice states mutual dissolution of the Salyers & Hawkins partnership on November 18, 1898 with Fred Salyers taking full control and G. W. Hawkins retiring. All pre date firm accounts payable to Hawkins, and all firm debts to be paid by Salyers. Mena Arkansas November 17 1898.
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