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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
7
C Miller a veteran watch maker with 40 years at the bench will be at H B Coles Drug Store Renwick every Thursday ready to perform all kinds of work. Satisfaction is guaranteed.
A brisk Renwick column from November 1897 covers local life and notices. It mentions Dr. Sherman in Iowa, Wes Brink’s nearing new house, holiday window dressings, residents returning from painting work, parish activities, a note on a Mrs. Hudson and Rev. Hudson, Henry Hoyt moving to Des Moines, and various social visits and church events. It also highlights a local advertising push, small-town humor, and scattered anecdotes about animals, weather, and trades.
On a Thursday night trip a hand-car group led by John O’Hern Al Ovocracker Geo and Will Baldridge were held up near the Belmond area by five men who relieved them of watches and money. The robbers bound the men and fled, leaving grain sacks and tools. Three suspects were captured near Garner the following Monday and jailed in Clarion. a fourth was later arrested nearby, with prospects all being captured soon. The report also notes local petitions opposing a saloon in Humboldt county and mentions farm loans and a feature from Ladies Home Journal.
Market prices for oats corn flax wheat barley eggs butter cattle and more corrected November 12 1897 plus notice of safe sale and a district court quiet title case in Humboldt county Iowa with petition filed and hearing set for November term 1897 McGrath and Bexay attorneys for plaintiff
Subscribers in arrears who are unable to pay may add 20 cents to each rate and extend Trants to January 1st, 1898 instead of 1899. All rates valid till December 18 1897. Don’t forget.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a wonderful medical discovery. It claims gentle cleansing for the liver and bowels, dispelling colds, curing headaches and fever, and relieving constipation and biliousness. Retail price listed as 10, 25, and 40 cents. sold and guaranteed by all druggists.
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