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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1909
Page
2
Notice lists weekly publication details for Boyden Reporter edited by C. A. Morris. Subscriptions are 1.00 per year in advance or 1.50 at year end. Advertising rates: locals five cents per line, display seven to eight cents per inch by page, and cards of thanks fifty cents.
Sylvester Baxter argues advertising should become an art that calls beauty to service. He says newspapers should limit displays and enforce decorous type and placement to avoid public nuisance while preserving attention and value. The medium’s elegance can turn advertising into genuine public service.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. The ad offers 100 dollar reward for any failure and invites testimonials, listing F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as publishers. Sold by druggists for 75 cents, with an additional note urging Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A New York Sun report lists church properties with land values. Trinity Church at 12.5 million leads, followed by St Pauls 5.5 million, Grace Church 950 thousand, and other houses of worship across Fifth Avenue, Broadway and midtown. The tally includes major cathedrals, synagogues and temples.
A wealthy eccentric proposes wall displays of framed bank notes instead of art. A £100,000 note decorates his drawing room and serves as a living explanation of wealth. He hosts a dinner where soup plates hold sovereigns and fish five pound notes replace dishes, entertaining guests with monetary symbolism.
The article notes the Frenchman values a good evening meal over fashion, insisting on a full course dinner with soup fish roast entree salad and dessert. He favors highly seasoned food and wine suited to his means, with coffee to finish the meal.
A Baltimore News letter describes a Frenchman who enjoys outdoors, cigars, and orchestral music. He rises and dines late, savors coffee at nine, and embraces Parisian nightlife as London sleeps. He remains cheerful, dismissing cares as he joins the evening cultural scene.
Jake Gorzeman visited on Wednesday. Masons and carpenters are busy. farmers push ahead with work. Mr. Thompson of Sheldon called on Chas. Frohwein and wife Monday. We handle Winged Horse EAC Prairie Queen and Ben Hug flour at the same price in 1 or 5 sack lots as anyone else. NAV Be Co nate.
A promotional notice from John Heemstra of Boyden Iowa invites readers in Alberta Canada to contact him for information about a money doubling opportunity within three years.
In the District Court of Iowa Sioux County the assignment of Hubert Maris formerly of Stehrenberg and Maris to a creditors assignee was filed March 11 1909 at Boyden Iowa. Creditors must file claims sworn to within three months with the assignee Van Oosterhout and Hospers at Boyden.
An offer invites readers to obtain 24 colored souvenir post cards at no cost by subscribing to The Kansas City Weekly Journal. For 25 cents, a one year subscription nets a choice of Comic Cards Flower Cards or Language of the Flowers cards, with the card set sent free after payment.
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