Washington to start free post office delivery service
Washington will offer free delivery from its post office starting December 1. R. J. Fitch won a 3650 verdict against the Mason City and Clear Lake electric railway company for loss of a leg in an accident. Water contamination in Waterloo caused one death and typhoid illness in fifteen others. State Fish Commissioner George A. Lincoln released 30000 small fish into Clear Lake. Great Western Cereal of St Dodge is sued for 10000 by Cornelius Wilder after a fall from a pile driver. Levi Anderson’s four acre Birmingham orchard yielded 690 bushels. about one third unfired. Iowa oats crop totals 125,005,000 bushels, up 9,000,000 from last year. Mr and Mrs G Warren of Dickens donated a farm to Morningside College with an annuity clause.
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Washington
R. J. Fitch
Mason City
Cornelius Wilder
Levi Anderson
Birmingham
George A. Wells
Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Fuel Market In Town Shows Few Changes
Reporters probe the local fuel trade as coal dealers reveal scarce hard coal and prices at 14.50 to 15 a ton with two carloads expected soon. Hogs show a slight uptick while most prices hold steady from last week.
Remarkable Cure by Pain Balm for Paralysis Rheumatism
Henderson Grimett suffered partial paralysis and loss of movement. after two bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm he nearly recovered, per Geo R McDonald of Logan County West Virginia. The liniment is also famed for rheumatism sprains and bruises and is sold by all druggists.
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Henderson Grimett
Chamberlain
Geo. R. McDonald
Man
Logan County
W. Va
Custer Sentenced to Inebriate Asylum in Mt Pleasant
Judge Brannan sent Clarence Custer known as Mud Cat to the inebriate asylum at Mt Pleasant for a year. He joins comrade Pudge Garrett who was sent last week. Several others, including James White Shorty Worley and Nicholas Burkholder, faced fines for intoxication.
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Newt. Edwards
Curt
James White
Eversmeyer
Mt. Pleasant
Prices on Grain and Groceries in Local Market
Retail and wholesale prices listed for corn oats wheat rye barley hay hides eggs potatoes apples onions turnips cabbage sugar coffee butter lard bacon ham cheese and flour. Local market ranges show per unit and per pound or per pack across varieties and preparations.
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Illinois
Rio
Kodol helps postmaster report life change
Postmaster R H Randall of Dunlap Island testifies indigestion woes ended after Using Kodol. He asserts renewed strength and health from the digesting aid. Store advertises Kodol and a cough cure, with Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store selling the products.
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R. H. Randall
Dunlap, Is
Daily market prices for farm produce and livestock
Readable list shows corn meal per sack at 25c and bran at 20c or $1.09, shorts at $1.10. Spring chickens at 15 cents a pound, sugar $4.95 per 100 lb sack, home grown cabbage five cents a head. Hogs range $6.00 to $6.50, pickerel eight and a half cents, cattle butcher stock from about $2.75 to $3.25, calves 3 to 5 dollars, sheep 3 to 4 dollars, lamb 3 to 4 cents per pound. Vegetables priced by item: New potatoes 15c per peck, 50c per bushel. sweet potatoes $2.50 a barrel or 20c per peck. tomatoes 20c per peck. turnips 15c per peck. celery 5c per stalk or 3 for 10c. radishes 5c per bunch. beets 20c per peck. carrots 20c per peck. lima beans 20c per quart. Concord grapes 26 to 65? per bushel.
Hints by May Manton plaited skirt with hip yoke
A May Manton design for a plaited skirt with a front hip yoke, shown with option to omit the yoke for a plain plaited version. Describes fabric requirements by width, gores shaping, and sizes from waist 22 to 30 inches.
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May Manton
Change in appearance and health through Pierce medicines
A testimonial reveals dramatic improvements in skin brightness, eye vitality, and relief from pain and jaundice after using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription. The writer, from Farmington West Virginia, reports curing liver and stomach digestion issues and ending chronic sick headaches with the medicines and pellets.
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Kr. Pierce
Golden Medical
Dr. Pierce
Ie Hamilton
Farmington, Marion Co
West Va
Market Prices for Produce and Fuel Listing
Readable items show pumpkins at 11 cents each and various fruits with unit prices such as lemons 20 to 25 cents per dozen bananas 2 dollars per bunch and 20 to 25 cents per dozen oranges 60 cents per dozen and apples 15 cents per peck. Fuel items include soft coal 3.25 to 4.00 per unit cordwood unsawed 3.75 to 5.00, Peoria lump coal 34.00, Springfield and LaSalle 5.00, hard coal 14.50 to 15.00.
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Peoria
Springfield
LaSalle
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Muscatine, Iowa
Doo
S. G Stein
Pine Street
California
Semples
Home Office
Figprune Ceres Co
San Jose, Cal
F. Giesenhaus
East Second Street
C. B. Fuller
Custer
BE. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
The&j. Bottie
Havercamp
Muscatine Journal Pattern Dept
Keosauqua
Frilirt End Fesler
Piano Company
Muscatine
Haddorff
Rockford
Haddorff Piano CO
New York
Federation of Clubs
P. M. Musser Public Library
Federation of Woman’s Clubs of
Cora Weed
Federation
George M. Titus
P. M. Musser Library
Dillaway's
Pearl City Shoeing Shop
State Board of Medical Examiners
Rickerd & van Dusen
East Third Street
E. P. Day
Minckey
Big Clothing House
Omaha
Burlington Overland
San Francisco
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Neb
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