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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
2
Fragmented community column notes include political jab at Sherman Ambassador Hay, a Baptist ladies meeting at Mrs Milo Pluraley's home, threshing machine parts, social visits, a class organized to teach organ, local visits to W H Potter, Chicago visitor to John Loobey family, a ramble horse incident, and half fare excursions to Marshalstown June 6 to 9. Also mentions tariff funding, indigestion remedy, and safe pricing by Standard Safe & Lock.
The Chicago and North-Western Railway publishes a paper touting South Dakota’s advantages for farming, dairying, and cattle raising. It solicits settler correspondence and offers free mail copies from W B Einskern in Chicago. The piece also discusses the new tariff law and public opinion framing it as an industrial declaration of independence.
The Illinois Central Railroad will run newly built cafe cars on western trains after August 8 serving breakfast on Train No 2 and supper on Train No 1 between Sioux City and Chicago. Cars will also operate between Iowa Falls and Dubuque on Trains No 3 and 4 with la carte meals throughout service. Menu lists soups, meats, eggs, breads, pies, and beverages at modest prices served by polite attendants.
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