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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
4
Trains leave Hardy at 2 p.m and 2:45 a.m daily with Sunday exceptions. Berlington, Gendar Rapids and Northern Railway announces daily and other service details through the station clerk.
Sunday visits and travels fill the rural notices. Miss Ora Olden spent Sunday at Luni while Fred Farmer and wife toured the state fair. Milk delivery marks the new creamery as John Bleiner brings in the first load Monday morning. Cattle trading continues with forty-taro head sold to Buell and Morse averaging 5 dollars per head. An epidemic tightens the lanes as wagons crowd the shop.
A garbled notice discusses the new tariff law praised by protectionists. It promotes the law as an industrial declaration of independence and offers to send copies of Document No. 30 from the American Protective Tariff League. Requests should be mailed to W. F. Wakeman in New York.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company will run safe cafe cars on its western lines between Dunnque and Chicago serving breakfast and supper on trains 2 and 1, plus meals on trains between Iowa Falls and Dunnque and between Stony City and Chicago. The menu lists economical à la carte options with coffee and tea. services emphasize quality, polite attendants, and convenient timing on Sioux City and Chicago Express routes.
Fragments advertise land investment and travel offers from the late 19th century. It touts owning a farm and lists the North-Western HomeSeeker, low rate excursions by Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and land information. Includes contact hints for agents in Chicago and Alabama development interests.
Various health products are advertised by H. B. Cole including DeWitts Little Early Risers for liver and bowel issues, Karl’s Clover Root Tea for constipation and detox, and DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for piles burns and skin troubles. Testimonials claim relief and improved well being, with emphasis on constipation and nervous fatigue in women.
Castoria advertising offers a free sample box of Dr Miles New Life Pills from H F Bucklen Co Chicago. Claims include relief from constipation and sick headache, liver and stomach issues, with guaranteed safety and vegetable ingredients. Sold by H L Cle druggist for 26 cents per box.
A ruined old mansion houses a fountain and ivy covered arches. A widow lodger with a hidden past becomes joyous before a mysterious visitor kills her, her child, and later the husband confesses to years of deception and murder before dying with the truth unrevealed.
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