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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
2
Subscriptions priced at 1.00 per year in advance or 1.50 by year end. No paper issued until notified and all arrears paid. Advertising rates list locals at 5c per line, display 7c per running inch on pages 2 3 and 4, 8c per inch on page 1. Cards of thanks 50c. Charitable ads with admission or financial gain half price.
A promotion touts a free $40 Columbia Bicycle for subscribing to a magazine, with details available from The Bicycle Man in New York. Also notices Success Magazine seeking an energetic person in Boyden to collect renewals and solicit new subscriptions, offering complete outfit and instructions at no cost.
Laundry Ink for marking clothes priced at 25 cents a bottle. A few Thoroughbred Shropshire yearlings and lambs for sale, all pedigreed sheep. H. J. Luymes.
Farmers Co-Operative Asia reports all accounts due and asks prompt settlement. For sale at farms near Boyden and Sheldon are full blood Poland China boars, pure bred white Leghorn roosters, extra fine single comb Brown Leghorn roosters, and about 10 head of bucks. Sellers include G. J. Scholten D J. De Hoogh John Tjalmz and Herman Meyn.
The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh a constitutional disease. It states the medicine is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case not cured, with testimonials available and the product sold by druggists for 75 cents. Also promotes Hall's Half Pills for constipation.
A traveler recalls a breakfast with the emperor and empress where laughter turns to a dog sausage joke about Americans. The prince boasts of teaching slang, and the emperor contemplates hazing him as preparations for college begin.
Rev Josiah Strong urges that charity must come from individual love not organizations. He argues true charity requires self denial and active giving, not merely pity or dinner deeds, to solve social problems through loving service to humanity.
Magistrate restates begging charge despite defense by Disreputable Party who says holding out his hand was a habit formed at school and not begging. The exchange turns on whether visible gestures prove intent.
The Atchison Globe reports a mother of a large family died reportedly from starvation after spending hours serving meals to her children. The physician noted the neglect of her own hunger while tending to everyone else. He described chickens rushing to meals and children delaying to eat.
A new barber shop has opened at the did stand featuring two decades by thirty baths rooms and updated fixtures. The shop promises to meet the demand for those seeking grooming services with fresh furniture and a ready supply of services.
The undersigned offers seven to eight acres of pasture land north of Pleasant street in Boyden Iowa. Described as suitable for building with good ground. Prices stated as right. Interested buyers are invited to call and see K. Rouwenhorst in Boyden Iowa.
Notice to all residents to vacate fenced streets or alleys in Boyden Iowa forthwith by order of the Town Council Sioux County. W H Eddy mayor and H O Tuttle clerk sign the notice dated June 4 1909.
A narrator recalls a humorous scene as a colonel asks his wife’s father for permission to marry. The father is deaf and the asker must explain the request to twenty clerks, creating a comic miscommunication moment.
Uncalled letters since March 1 1909 including T M Robeson Hermann Batt Jamnus Guffie Edward Kissinger L Ve Lugt. One cent fee per advertised letter. Callers should say Advertised. Office hours 8 am to 8 pm. John C Pryde P M.
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