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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1897
Page
4
The column reports Mrs Hall recovering from a spell of sickness, visits from Renwick residents Pierce and Hill, Frank White returning to Livermore, and various social events at the church and school. It notes deliveries, sales, and transport woes, including reduced passenger service and a planned brand entertainment at the church. Several neighbors contract grip, with ongoing illness affecting community routines.
Advertisements show rail companies offering cheap round trips to northern western and southern cities with dates in November December 1897. Fares listed as one fare plus $2 for the round trip, valid for 21 days with multiple stopovers. Also mentions land information from Alabama Land and Development Co and home seekers guides. Other items include medical cure notes and a safety lock advertisement.
A fragmented ad invites inquiries about Stark Nursery in Missouri and nearby Rockport offering paid sales work and free trees. It also promotes Hot Springs South Dakota as a health resort with baths, hotel, and tourist tickets by the Chicago Northwestern Railway for travelers.
The Dorsinton Company advertises for genuine, active men or women to travel for Tesponsi bis from Renwick, Iowa. Stipulated payment of 65.00 with steady employment and reference required, address with stamped self-addressed envelope.
An exaggerated sales scene features a talking dog and a bold agent touting a washing machine as worth a fortune while the householder resists. The piece shifts to a discussion on New England meeting houses and colonial architecture with remarks by William B. Bigelow and a humorous Hartley Coleridge anecdote about two Irish evils Protestantism and popery.
A serialized tale from the New York Tribune describes a woman educated at a women's college who married at 16 and, after mistreatment, lived with a brother painter. She donned male clothes, became a successful painter and decorator for 22 years, lived with a niece posing as his wife, fell from a scaffold, and hid her gender to seek workhouse shelter.
A long excerpt notes Alison Cunningham, once nurse to Robert Louis Stevenson, cherished by him. He sent her copies of his books with inscriptions on the fly leaf, often thanking her for years of care and recalling nights she stayed by him during illness.
A fragment from a Washington Star piece notes a convert fond of saying perfection in life does not exist. It mentions a character named Bot and the purchase of a new bicycle as context.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad offers elegant upholstered tourist cars to California points departing St Paul at 7:00 p.m. and Minneapolis at 7:35 p.m. every Thursday via Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake, with a faster Kansai City route added on select Tuesdays. Four day travel, through sleeping cars, two meals, and porter service included.
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Wump-Reot as a universal kidney remedy addressing back pain, kidney and bladder issues, urinary trouble, and alcohol-related discomfort. It claims quick relief, offers sample bottles and a pamphlet by mail, and cites Dr. Kilmer & Co. of Binghamton New York.
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