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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1898
Page
4
A quirky regional item blends verse on fowls and farming with local notices from Mena. The poem lauds the Arkansas hen as a queen while mentions of Mixon, Triplett, and Mary Cummings mix with church and temperance appeals and tax collection notices for Polk county Arkansas.
Township Wednesday and Thursday Feb 2 3 at precinct Big Fork township Friday Feb 4 at precinct Fulton township Saturday Feb 5 at Bevalnck Gap Springs township Monday Feb 7 at Precinct Faulkner township Feb 8 at precinct Rich Mt township Monday Feb 14 at Grand Summit station Center township four days Tuesday to Saturday Feb 15 17 1s at Mena Dallas Monday Feb 21 and until the 10th day of April 1898 except court weeks after which date the penalty will be attached and collected on all delin quent Please be prompt and avoid a rush on the wind-up D B Joprix Sheriff and Ex-officio Collector
An old advertisement offers freight terms, free packing, discount pricing, and guarantees for trees from Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards Co with locations in Louisiana and Missouri. A separate notice details a district meeting of the Quachila Baptist association at Hickory Creek Church on a Saturday before the fifth Sunday in May with sermons and questions for discussion led by named ministers.
Price list shows Arbuckle coffee 9 lbs for 51.00 cents per pound, best green coffee 1 00, navy beans 1.00, sugar 1.00 per 20 lbs, steel wire nails 1.00 per 20 lbs, domestic yardage 1.00, checks 100, Yumbolt jeans 1.00, standard prints 1.00, Lippencots scatter or Kelly perfect axe 40, traces 61 cents per 40 feet, extra heavy traces 7 feet long 50, full patent flour 2.40 per 100 lbs.
An 1897 prospectus offers a two hundred page book cataloging about six thousand newspapers with 1000+ copies, plus state maps listing towns with high circulation. The Geo P Rowell Co advertises this December 15 1897 publication for one dollar postpaid. The St Louis & San Francisco railroad promotes direct through cars to Southwest Missouri and beyond with double daily vestibuled trains and Harvey dining halls.
The Anti-License Association of Polk County invites members to gather at the Baptist church in Dallas on March 7, 1808 at 12 30 p m for a county wide organizing session. President R D Dovp explains the purpose and a discussion on extending the work will be led.
J. H. Wareney announces at his office blank forms for “final roof” applications will be provided free to homesteaders. Publication fee is $2.50. he asserts sufficient circulating for legal publication. He disclaims responsibility for debts incurred by his wife who left home without cause. February 20, 1898.
An old advertisement urges curing a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine. It claims druggists refund the money if it fails. The ad also mentions a 25 cent price and a June 8 note. A new nickle cigar called The Patriot is advertised at Jackson's drug store.
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