Local notes and visits fill Knox county headlines
A sweep of social updates covers O. W. Catlin’s city visit with family, Mrs. Dora Carpenter’s Des Moines trip, Esther Weaver’s Colfax visit, and many county folks traveling to Knoxville for court, conventions, and social events. Remarks on new telephone poles, a football crowd, and a winter weather tease add local color.
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Bootsma
Jake Roovaurte
Des Moines
Esther Weaver
Colfax
City
SH. D. Wormhoudt
Huber
Knoxville
Dora Carpenter
Ten Hagen
WH. F. Johnson
A. C. Hawley
Colfax Clippecies mocks Iowa sleuths chase overhyped hounds
The Colfax Clipper ridicules the Huffmire bloodhounds claims after recent nearAlb IA incidents. It recalls past dubious hunts and jokes about the dogs tracking hay burner suspects near Ogden and a famed Valley Junction chicken thief case. A job ad from Chicago seeks industrious permanent reps for a major manufacturer offering $20 weekly plus expenses.
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Colfax
Muscatine
Brighton
Ogden
Iowa
Valley Junction
Ralph Robinson
Yowa
$2100 Horse Purchase Boosts Marion County Horse Interests
John B. Elliott of Knoxville National Bank bid $2100 for Grattan Boy at a Lexington trotting sale. Despite going broke after taking several hundred dollars to Kentucky, Elliott plans to return with $1700 more. Grattan Boy, sired by Grattan 2:13, is a noted racehorse, foaled in 1803, with a 2:08 record at age five. His purchase is expected to enrich Marion county stables and trotting bloodlines.
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John B. Elliott
Knoxville National Bank
Lexington
Kentucky
Knoxville National
Grattan Boy
Grattan
Bug
Marion County
Knoxville Express
Hall's Catarrh Cure Contract Offer 1886 Toledo
Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co. offers one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn before A. W. Gleason on December 6, 1886. Cure taken internally, targets blood and mucous membranes. Testimonials mailed free. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
FB. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
W. Gleason
F. J. Cheney& Co
Chronicle turns away ads from Pelletier Dry Goods Co
The Sioux County Herald notes it rejected a large advertisement from Pelletier Dry Goods Co of Sioux City to protect home merchants. The paper argues that merchants who value keeping their business before a wide, clean audience deserve consideration.
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Sioux County
Bucklen Arnica Salve Promotes Quick Healing
An old ad touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy to prevent fatalities from burns sores ulcers and piles. It claims quick relief and urges purchase at Henry M. Langerak Drug Store for 25 cents.
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Henry M. Langerak
A Silent Happy Family Sends Sons to Deaf School
At the depot Saturday Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Herbold sent their six sons to the Council Bluffs school for deaf and dumb. Bert eighteen Vic sixteen and Lou eleven will enter the oral department. The parents, both deaf mutes, have two hearing children and praise their cheerful family. The school year opens October first and closes last day of June.
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L. P. Herbold
Depot
School For Deaf and Dumb
Council Bluffs
Bert
Vic
Lou
Newton Record
English Shavin Liniment Heals Horse Ailments
English Shavin Liniment claims to remove lumps blemishes and swellings in horses including splints sprains and coughs. It advertises a fifty cent price drop per bottle and is sold by B F Keables a druggist in Pella Iowa.
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B. F. Keables
Pella
Iowa
Cheap Rail Fares to Southeast From Chicago Great Western
The Chicago Great Western announces September 20, October 4 and 18 sale dates to Texas Oklahoma Indian Territory and New Mexico at very low prices. Inquiries at any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Illinois. Wollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised for eruptions sores kidney liver troubles constipation indigestion promotes energy in tea or tablet forms priced 35 cents by Stubenrauch.
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Chicago Great’ Western Railway
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Errtory
New Mexico
Great Western
J.P. Elmer
Chicago
Wollister
Stubenrauch
Itch Cure Promises Fast Relief by Wool ford Lotion
Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion is advertised to cure itching in 36 minutes. The product is sold by B. F. Keables' Druggist in Pella Iowa. The claim states the remedy never fails and targets stubborn skin irritation with a quick-acting solution.
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Woolford
B. F. Keables
Pella
Iowa
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Damoctes
Damocles
O. W. Catlin
H. Rietveld
Adel Hendricks
Ottumwa
Emma Strickler
Kahoka
Eddyville
H. D. Wormhoudt
H. A. Anderson
Jake Kempkes
Rick. Sybenga
Johnson
HH. Rhynsburger
Miss Carey
Memphis
Tennesse
St. Louis
William E Curtis
The
Chicago Record -Herald
Oskaloosa
Gideon Vanderlinden
John Bootsma
Jacob Holtz, Jr
Henry R. Thomassen
Murray Ten Hagen
Harry Bolland
Harry de Haan
A. N. Kuyper
Newton Herald
Rinehart
Huffmeier
Fairbanks
Dollaver
San Francisco
Cheyenne
A. Eddison
Prairie City
Hopkins Bros
A. M. Duboc
Scott Dickens
Central College
Cook
Competine
W. R. Yard
Dickens
Collge
the Fair Association
J. van Vilet
Albert Olney
Ife
Jenning Pella
Olney
California
Mayor Olney
Oakland
Waterloo
God
Adam
Eve
Ayer
Dr-Guthria Centre
Albia
Como Block
W. M. Kruger
Eee
U.S
Ozarik Ginsenu CO
Joplin
H. C. Payne, M. D. Adam. French, M. D
People’s Savings Bank
W. M. Fuqua
Dr. van Schoten
A. Haselbarth
Wormhoudt's
J. P. Klein & CO
East Side Square
E. R. Roorda
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