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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Cascarets for clear skin promising removal of pimples boils blotches and blackheads. Claims include blood cleansing with beauty benefits and inexpensive drugstore sales with varied package sizes.
An editor dies and encounters the devil who taunts him for unpaid subscriptions. The text laments subscribers who never pay and describes a printer’s regret, noting the editor’s punishment at the threshold as hell welcomes a stubborn publisher of debt.
Local items report people transacting business in Humboldt Monday and Tuesday. District Court sessions continue. White and Sons begin work on a new Hock project. Bicknell enjoys a week’s vacation at home. Baptist Revival meetings end and evangelist leaves for Rutland. Johnson loses suit against town over damages from a collision. County Fair starts next week with new track work and buildings boosting interest. O.E. lodge meets, and a group plans to travel to Omaha for a Iowa day event.
Schoo notes show Miss Foster a former Renwick teacher and cousin of Miss Will visiting the Schools on Monday. Absentees include Lydia Fahrian Willie Bacon and Florence Rice with eye affection and sickness cited. Rev Hudson gave a well received talk to the grammar department as part of Miss Will’s planned series.
Renwick town council resolves to construct a four foot sidewalk starting forty rods north of the SE corner of quarter section 46 in Township 98 Range 27. It will run north along the street on the west side to Main Street, with three 2x4 stringers and one inch boards. Completion target is November 1, 1898. ALS. Furerox, Recorder. JoX. Kueyey, Mayor.
A practical guide explains how to cook a nutritious inexpensive soup using veal knuckle or bacon, peas, and dough dumplings. It details simmering meat, preparing pea broth, butter roux, and a milk egg dumpling paste, with steps to fold in parsley, nutmeg, and final poaching or boiling of dumplings.
Recipes cover making pecan tarts with eggs, sugar, pecans, and a browned top, plus roasting a crown roast of lamb with a pea filling. The piece also notes tiny running oxen of Ceylon and discusses straw as cattle feed, citing Mechi’s experiments and Bermuda complexion claims tied to onion consumption.
The W. C IT Comet with Mrs Toss Sept 14 elected Minnie Will as president and Mewitz Ross as vice president, B I Stil as secretary, and Wim as treasurer. The society aims to obtain a copy of Miss Willard life for the high school library and a picture of the great white ribboner for the grammar department to be shown Sept 28, Miss Willard’s birthday. The Union meets with Mrs Willy Sept 28. roll call on Miss Wineli and new member drive urged. Mrs Bergendahl has resigned. T L leader Mrs Fred Urion and Pope will lead the work.
The column reports routine travel and social visits including S J Giluspie repairing a wind mail, N A L Loobey driving to Humboldt, Mrs Camron hosting in North Liberty, Oley Owen making Lumni calls, and Edd Phipps showing a new buggy. Several residents attend the Clarion fair, with X M Loobey visiting Lavern and N Church ill with typhoid treated by Doctor Cunningham.
The first half of the week brought rain and cloudiness followed by dry conditions. Central and southern districts received most rain, aiding pasture moisture and stream refill. Fall plowing progresses, seeding of fat grain occurs under good conditions, corn nearing safety from frost, and overall harvest prospects show bountiful statewide production with northern fields maturing earlier.
Goldfield News reports mild weather and upcoming County Fair attendance from Clarion. local events include visits from F Foote and Des Moines furloughs for Ed McLaurie and Earnest Hann. Miss Lotta Agard hosts farewell tea for Hattie Sul. Rev W K Lane and wife visit Cresco and occupy the Baptist pulpit.
The Omaha Exposition along the North Western Line offers excursion tickets with adjustable limits for longer or shorter sojourns based on rate. The event is promoted as a great educator and worth a visit for all. For more details contact agent Chicago North Western Ry.
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