Local notes from Badger and area events
Badger items report visits by Mr. Jones of Ohio and Supt. Coursey to Cox school, a threshing yield of 9 to 24 bushels per acre, a music engagement by Mr. Rudolph, and expected visits from Mrs. Wilbur Sweet. Also noted are a sales date for N. D. Smith’s stock and machinery, a postponed Peck house school start, and the busy elevator run by L. W. Lewis.
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Badger
Jones
Ohio
E. D. Watkins
Roberts
Supt
Coursey
Cox School
Comstock Brothers
Rudolph
W. Stearns
Wilbur Sweet
N. D. Smith
Seattle
Mrs. Jones
Dr. Pierce Medicines Promoted as Alcohol Free Remedies
The temperance press warns against medicines loaded with whisky and alcohol. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription are advertised as free from alcohol opium cocaine and narcotics. The ad offers The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser free with postage stamps to Dr. R V Pierce Buffalo NY.
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Temperance
Dr. Pierce
Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N.Y
Misses Dick Travel to Nebraska and Local Notices
West Perry West Ferry Oct 13 Miss Ollie and Laura Dick left for Nebraska last week Ollie will return after a short visit with her brother Mrs John Lockhart improves Clyde Lockhart visited Perry Lillie of Alpena Dan and Al Lillie nephews are mentioned Wm Comstock family Badger visited Rudloff HeRerh and son near Medicine Butte Miss Older boards with Mrs John Lockhart Maggie and Belle Waugh spent Sunday at home Ladies aid met with Mrs Wales George Boltman and others noted in neighborhood
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West Ferry
Ollie
Laura Dick
Nebraska
John Lockhart
Clyde Lockhart
Perry
Henry Boltman
Ray Carhart
Mitchell
George Boltman
Lil
Medicine Butte
Miss Older
Maggie
Belle Waugh
Ladies’ Aid Society
Wales
Dr King's New Discovery Praised By Davis Druggist
Davis Ky druggist C T Smith reports Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds as the fastest selling article in his store It never fails in six years of sales and is said to rescue sufferers from throat and lung diseases. Mothers rely on it physicians prescribe it and 8 H Scallin guarantees satisfaction or refund Trial bottles are free Reg sizes 50c and 1.00
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C. T. Smith
Davis
Dr. King
H. Scallin
Wood's Norway Pine Syrup Promoted For Cough Remedy
An advertisement urges readers to take Dr Wood's Norway Pine syrup to combat lingering cold symptoms before consumption worsens. It emphasizes timely use to prevent deadly lung involvement.
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Dr. Wood
Fortune Teller Ad Promises Luck For A Price
A Ohio State Journal excerpt shows a fortune teller offering good luck with no bad luck for one dollar, while stating disaster tales require a fifty cent fee. The exchange highlights the lure of quick prosperity in a frugal era.
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Ohio State Journal
Forty Years Torture Ends With Healing Salve Promise
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve relieved a man named Haney of Geneva Ohio after forty years of suffering from piles. He reports the salve cured him and warns to beware of counterfeit products while noting it also helps with tires cuts burns wounds and skin diseases.
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DeWitt
Haney
Geneva
Express cow controversy tests Illinois transport franks
A Chicago dispatch reports a Washington Post correspondent notes a dispute over using a governor’s complimentary pass to move livestock. Governor Yates reportedly sent household items and even a cow to be transported by the Pacific Express, which declined livestock service. Details of the cow’s fate are not recorded.
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Ilinois
Chicago
Washington Post
Yates
Express Company
Richard Yates
Illinois
Pacific Express Company
Jacksonville
Springfield
Memory and Maps in a Continental Reverie
An elderly narrator recalls fifty years of travel from Mont Blanc to the Rhine and Mediterranean, noting how wars altered Europe’s map while a listener challenges his geography. An advertisement claims Rocky Mountain Tea aids health, touting a 35 cent price.
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Mont Blanc
Mediterranean
Rhine
Black Sea
Pyrenees
Mr. Grey
Europe
Dean's Ointment Brings Instant Relief and Cure
It claims to cure itching piles with immediate relief and permanent results. Available at any drug store for £0 0d.
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Dean
Short Stories From The Nation And Markets
The text reports on election district growth in New York from 1537 to 1543, a six district increase. It notes 356 members of the U S House, of whom 23 have never married. It describes a 140 foot steel stack in West Albany. It cites US Steel daily business over one million dollars and U S wealth distribution, coal vein trends, life-insurance rules for Baptists, and wheat production comparisons with Argentina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National House of Representatives
West Albany
N.Y
United States Steel Corporation
United States
S Baptist Brethren
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Promises Clear Skin
In a period advertisement, Bucklen's Arnica Salve is touted to prevent skin eruptions blotches and sores and to cure eczema salt rheum sore lips chapped hands and chilblains. It claims to be infallible for piles and sells for 25 cents at H Scallin's drug store.
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H. Scallin
Woodrow Wilson Impresses Princeton Students With Kindness
A Princeton man recalls Woodrow Wilson’s election as president and his quick, friendly response to a boisterous celebration. As horns and lettuce heads appeared, Wilson greeted each student, thanking them and even smiling through the leafy prank. The crowd left singing, calling him “a brick.”
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Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
Bedlam
Dr. Wilson
Philadelphia Times
Lost Hat Missing From General Thomas Statue
A wee woman aboard a Washington trolley en route to the zoo notices the gardening around Thomas Circle. She admires General Thomas on his horse but suddenly laments the missing hat, calling it a pity as the train passes.
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Zoo
Washington
Thomas Circle
Thomas
Prize Offered in Germany For Large Scale Potato Drying
A prize of 30 000 marks about seven thousand dollars is offered for the inventor of the best method to dry potatoes on a large scale in Germany. Drying greatly reduces transport costs as three and a half tons of fresh potatoes yield one ton of dried product. German farmers have expanded potato production due to new uses for potato products including alcohol and cattle feed.
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Germany
Notice of Chattel Mortgage Sale in Mitchell South Dakota
Mortgagee S D Olmsted forecloses on chattels pledged by A T Moreaux for a 100 dollar note due December 11 1902 The sale on October 25 1902 at 2 00 pm lists desks cash registers counters chairs and other restaurant fixtures at Main and Second Streets Mitchell including appliances furniture and utensils for the Ideal Restaurant plus later purchased items totaling more than 150 dollars The sheriff Henry Swindler to conduct sale under governing mortgage and order of foreclosure in Davison County South Dakota
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A.T. Moreaux
Mitchell
Davison
South Dakota
S. D. Olmsted
Davison County
Office of the Register of Deeds
South Dakton
Second
Towit
Joliet
Peninsular
C. E. Nutting
Charles Burnside
J. W. Broadbent & Co
Chas. Ferguson
Nutting
Henry Swindler
Man Mistakenly Enters Ladies Dressing Room
A Loudonville man in a misadventure starts with ripped pants while dancing quidrills then escapes into his wife’s dressing room by mistake. She locks him in, believing the closet is a door, as he pounds to be let out, shouting he is in the ballroom.
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Loudonville
Ravenna
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Duke of Sussex
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John Randolph
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iPherson Browning
A. TC. McGovern
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