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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1957
Page
3
Plover residents record a busy week with dinners at the McLain farm and multiple visits across Des Moines Nevada Sioux City and Wisconsin Dells. Obituaries note Mrs Roy Auten and Lillian Smith with services at Plover and Havelock. graves at Washington cemetery.
The report notes a six month period of reduced laying in hens at Francis A Ku College farm with June and July expected to keep production near last year during late summer. By LGAT year end, fewer layers will push output below prior year. Turkey hatch in June 1957 fell below 1956, but total hatch since September 1956 may exceed 1959 by 4 to 5 percent amid rising storage and prices.
Doctors report sensational results from Lydia Pinkham’s Tablets a home treatment claiming to relieve irritability nervousness dizziness hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. The ad emphasizes a unique combination of medicines that acts on the cause through the nervous system and markets the product as a non prescription remedy available at drugstores with warnings to avoid change-of-life distress.
Des Moines reports two days of harness racing at the Iowa State Fair August 27 and 28 with eight races each day. About 200 trotters and pacers are expected to compete for roughly 12 000 dollars in purses. Prices are noted to be about six cents per pound lower than last year.
Floyd Thompson of Bedford who is confined to crutches due to muscular ailments has insisted on and constructed an apple picker device to assist his gathering work.
A Sumner resident tripped over a sleeping plant pot on a stairway, fell and broke her left leg in three places. In Red Oak Frank Sell received a 50 year Masonic lodge membership certificate. Infant Barbara Hollinrake escaped unhurt after lightning struck a chimney at the family home in Weller starting a fire and scorching her crib. Russell Lilly of Dallas Center, 31, was electrocuted after touching a live extension cord.
A product claim highlighting STANBACK tablets or powders relieves tired sore muscles. The advertisement asserts fast comfort from a formula that combines prescription type ingredients for rapid pain relief.
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