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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
2
A banking notice lists transacted general banking and collections as a specialty with correspondents including XX, We? National Bank Chicago and First National Bank Webster City, Wesley State Bank Wesley Iowa, and indicates a new location east of Richard Son's Store.
In Omaha and Washington, actions against intoxicating liquor mark a wave of reform. The bill to ban liquor in the national capitol progresses after a congressman's drunkenness spurred action, while temperance women press forward. Lydia Schaberg reports a Chicago Temperance Temple visit with about two hundred attendees, many bearing sober expressions and stories of ruin from drink.
An old advertisement touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for skin eruptions hands lips cuts and burns with a claim of quick cures. It also promotes Magnetic Cough Cure as a money saver and cites Byron Every of Woodstock Michigan being helped by Chamberlains Pain Balm. Details on ostrich feathering methods are described as historical tricks.
A New York Journal clipping recalls a young Duchess of Marl Borough who spoke only French as a child. She later questioned if the good God speaks French, after rebuking a nurse for disobedience.
The Hamilton County Journal discusses McKinney’s advance and a forthcoming tariff bill, plus a farmer lease proposal tied to corn price. It cites editorials from Fort Dodge and notes about rising rents, farm leases, and a call for unity to absorb and consume surplus corn to restore market value. The piece also includes local notices and a short column from Bucklen’s Salve advertisement, and a rural crossroad update with modest community happenings.
The March issue of Demorest's Magazine features a Parker story described as charming and pathetic. The Chicago and North Western Railway offers sale of excursion tickets at reduced rates for Mardi Gras travel to New Orleans and Mobile from February 22 to 23 and for return until March 36, with daily discounts to major winter resorts in the U S and Mexico. Ticket agents at 613 Chicago & North Western Railway provide full information.
Tintic mining district lies 85 miles south of Salt Lake City on the Rio Grande Western Railway and is the state’s leading mineral producer in the present year. Bonanzas include Tintic, Mammoth, Centennial Eureka, Bullion Beck, Eureka Hill and Gemini with records over a million dollars in dividends and huge overall output. Modern mills unlock low grade ore, four in operation and three more planned. District yields gold silver copper and lead, leads state silver, second in gold. Four towns Hareka Mammoth Robinson and Silver City form a growing investment region with 24,000 acres of fertile valley lands nearby. Rio Grande Western Railway runs double daily service to Tintic. For details contact F A Wadleich, Gen Pass Agent, Salt Lake City.
A reader endorses Chamberlains Cough Remedy as among the best for croup and colds in children. One dose suffices, and the medicine yields readily to treatment. The testimony comes from Geo B Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Fernandina, and mentions conscriptionally recommending it for children’s ailments.
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