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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1910
Page
2
Subscrption one dollar in advance or one fifty per year. No paper discontinued until notified and arrearages paid in full. Advertising rates locals five cents per line, display seven cents per running inch on pages two three and four. Eight cents per inch on first page or preferred position. Cards of thanks fifty cents. Charitable advertising if admission charged or for financial gain half price.
Local dealer Harry Nienhuis of Sheldon handles pianos organs and Singer sewing machines offering sales and service.
A farmer greets a laborer and recalls a rough year with personal losses including his wife, a canary, and a good dog, as recounted in a London News excerpt. The exchange captures a rural vantage on hardship and memory.
In a Louisville Courier Journal excerpt, a speaker recalls being pushed toward hair loss remedies after pressure to wear a wig. The piece frames pushy sales tactics and avoidance of tonic products as a cautionary note on personal choices and appearance.
A blind man, guided by a large athletic dog, was knocked down when the dog recognized another dog and darted ahead. A witty passerby helped him up and quipped that dogs rarely pull down the blind, noting the odd feat.
Administrator of the Mrs. P. Koole estate will hold a public sale at 1:30 PM on Saturday February 19 1910 on the premises once occupied by the deceased in Boyder Iowa. Items include five feather beds with bedding, bedstead sets, dining tables chairs cupboards stoves and household tools among many other goods. Auctioneers J A Stultzman J S Wilson. Clerk W H Eddy.
A promotional notice claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. The ad asserts internal action in blood and mucous surfaces and offers 100 reward for any failing case. Includes testimonials and drugstore availability. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Friesland family tale tells of two brothers officers who seek a ghost. One night on Christmas Eve a vision of a ballroom of skeletons leads to a fatal dream shoot that kills the brother and drives the survivor to suicide.
A young woman recalls a peculiarly henpecked husband who measures his wife mood by a ceremony. He enters after work, tosses his hat inside, then sits on the steps awaiting her reaction. If the hat stays in, he finds harmony. if it is thrown out, he seeks elsewhere for the night.
Describes a deadly water fishing method using a floating board otter loaded to ride upright. A line with fifty plus flies is deployed from shore as the poacher walks, allowing vast areas of water to be fished and many fish killed.
A mysterious dialogue unfolds between a mistress and Mary about a visit from Aunt Marla and a tobacco pouch left on the plano. The fragment ends with garbled text suggesting further unsaid details.
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