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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows Burlington and Northern Railway timetable with trains leaving Hardy. Entries include southbound and other service notes with times around 11.08 am and 3.45 am and mentions of daily axes and Sunday stops. Exact details are unclear due to garbled text.
A compilation of short notices. Rev A James visits friends in Hardy while G H L Cheever travels to Livermore. Various farm, land purchases, cattle sales, and local business trips are noted, plus health issues, harvest work, and a charity sociable at the M E church. Hog cholera reported, high heat blamed for threshing mishap among local workers.
The Illinois Central Railroad plans to run cafe cars on Western lines between Sioux City and Chicago and between Iowa Falls and Dubuque serving breakfast and supper on trains No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 and No. 4. Meals will be a carte with varied dishes and reasonable prices in a comfortable setting. Also advertised are patent medicines and safety products from multiple vendors.
A collage of late 19th or early 20th century medical ads tout Castoria and One Minute Cough Care for coughs and colds, Karl’s Clover Root Tea for constipation, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel for skin issues, and Little Early Risers for digestive problems. Mentions H B Cole and EL BY Cols as sellers. Includes testimonials about health improvements and cautions to act before storms worsen.
A fragmented newspaper ad block touts Shilohs Cure for consumption and DeWitts Witch Hazel for piles and skin ailments. It promotes sales through BB Cole and a physician’s recommendation, urging early purchase and suggesting cattle raising as a theme, reflecting period commercial language and medicinal marketing.
Announcement lists travel rates and schedules for Mobile and Ohio tickets to Tennessee Mississippi and Alabama with fall and winter departures in 1897. Includes caveats on one fare plus 200, ample limits and stopovers south of the Ohio river. Notes contact points Alabama Land and Development Co Mobile and Ohio agents and Chicago office. Mentions Shiloh’s Cure and Qbitos Vital as remedies.
T M Stuartre & Co argue American farmers should shift to raising lean bacon hogs to meet export demand. They note Canadian buyers pay more for pork products, citing August Canadian market prices and Chicago quotes. They urge selecting stock hogs and feeding future herds to produce bacon rather than lard hogs to avoid losing market share to Canada.
A garbled OCR passage mentions a price of zero cents, an equipment or medicine claim, and references to a new tariff law signed by the President. It cites the American Protective League and a distribution request, with an address at 135 West 2nd Street in New York for the Wakemmutler’s Seep.
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