Cash Only Note Appears in Local Market Sign
A fragment shows the sign reading cash only in a small local market. The phrase appears in a doorway alongside partial text and handwritten marks. No dates or names are legible in the available reading.
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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
5
A fragment shows the sign reading cash only in a small local market. The phrase appears in a doorway alongside partial text and handwritten marks. No dates or names are legible in the available reading.
Advertisements invite at home butchering and sale of second hand base burner while jewelry shop showcases windgy hair comb sets. Local updates note John Morris visiting Chicago with his daughter Mrs Wahlbridge, a December birth for Heitretter family, and Thanksgiving at P. B. Peters home. Mrs Csrootenhuis visits Hospers and Boyden friends.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness after the illness and death of Lor anze King. Local ads list A. V. B. & Co. promotions, Poland China pigs for sale, heat via Wm Grooters, potato trade terms, Chamberlains Tablets sale by C. F. Sarnet, and a description of Mr. Bennett with a Boyden Opera House appearance on Thursday evening December 14.
Mr and Mrs C E Work returned from Slayton Minnesota where they visited Mr Work’s brother Wm who is improving. Evert Karsten came back from Chicago after an arm operation and has decent use of his arm. An expert started the engine and dynamo for the new electric light plant and the switch board is due soon. John Jongewaard Orange City present county recorder visited and announced another run for the office. Jake Vandiepek and T J Stintjes traveled to Forting South Dakota to buy Chester White hogs and plan a high quality herd.
A historical note traces the use of the question ordinary and the question extraordinary in Louis XIV era sorcery cases. Ten to twenty pints of water forced into a bound prisoner caused swelling and pain to coerce confessions, with rest periods between measures. A second segment recounts Chloe the cook joking about marriage risks after multiple divorces.
A Boston Post quip notes that divorce costs more than marriage, with a prominent Bostonian remark about price and value. The lawyer accepts a large check and echoes the sentiment as a humorous reflection on legal costs and marriage.
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