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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
6
Mrs J. 8 Hopkins visits Eldora for holidays. Kenneth Crow returns from Des Moines for Christmas at home. Several local residents travel to Burt and Humboldt for Christmas and visit friends and relatives. Illnesses mentioned include Miss Pearl Kent and Mrs L A Malcolm with lagrippe. Des Moines and Humboldt figures frequent the节 town as people spend the holidays with kin and friends.
Roy Ellsworth returned home from a southern visit last Sunday. Miss Goldie Nichols spent Sunday with Miss Leola Adams. Robert Van Alstine of Gilmore City called on friends Sunday afternoon. Lawrence Holden visited Humboldt a few days. Ella Van Horn returned to Des Moines to resume college after a holiday. Mr and Mrs Harley Lambert and children returned to Estherville after a week with the Ivan Godden home. Clara Holden left for Minnesota after visiting north of town. Clyde Kelsey was ill this week and off work at the meat market. Joe Edge of Humboldt transacted business Monday. A gospel team from Iowa State College Ames arrived to aid revival at the M and church. Mrs Gee Kelsey, Mrs Myrtle Watts and daughter Lillian visited Rolfe Tuesday. Geo Lovrien and Bob Ostrich of Humboldt checked telephone lines earlier in the week. Frank Caywood made a business trip to Rolfe Tuesday.
A gospel team from Town State College at Ames visits Bradgate Methodist Church this week. The five members include Messia Squires Williams Everett Feveret Hoos and Ringgenberg. Services run nightly at the church with a non denominational invitation to all. The session ends Sunday evening.
A humorous extract presents an indistinct boy’s view on editors and newspapers. It sketches editors as nearly immortal, underdressed in winter, and contrasted with doctors, noting odd expectations and the editor’s supposed lifelong role in printing. The piece ends with a quip on birth versus profession.
Miss Hazel Hocking of Garden Grove and Frank Alexander and family visit Gilmore City for Christmas. Travelers from New Castle Pa, Plover Wrede Maher Madrid Port Dodge Des Moines and Des Moines bring relatives. A daughter was born to Frank Hartnett and wife.
An advertising notice promotes a combined subscription deal valid through January 1, 1916. Readers can get the Des Moines Evening Tribune for daily delivery plus The Orange Judd Farmer weekly, Kansas City Star weekly, Peoples Popular Monthly, and Corn Magazine monthly, all for the price of a single daily paper.
An old advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a home tonic or drugstore bottle for 60 cents. It claims to darken gray hair naturally, reduce dandruff and itching, stop hair loss, and leave hair thick and glossy by morning after application.
The text urges persistent small deeds to improve the world, arguing slow progress relies on many people doing their best. It condemns excuses for inaction and stresses that neglecting modest efforts is a sin, while each person should contribute well rather than halt the gradual march toward betterment.
Farm readers can get The Arrow, Evening Tribune, Orange Judd Farmer, Kansas City Weekly Star, Peoples' Popular Monthly, and Corn Magazine for 3.00 a year. The Arrow and Tribune deals include free Tribune delivery to January 1 for new subscribers. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with brief testimonials and a Toledo address.
Advertises farm land near the Twin Cities with easy terms and prices described as plutpring. Instructions to write N. A. Lind at 3389 Washington Avenue North Minneapolis Minnesota for details.
A. C. Tyler will hold a public sale on the Shannon Ranch seven miles west of Rolfe and five miles north of Pocahontas on Thursday January 14. The sale site offers a large sale lot with about 25 horses 25 cattle 50 hogs and a wide assortment of farm machinery harness wagons and related items.
Neuralgia sufferers seek relief from nerve pain. The article recommends Sloan's Liniment applied to the surface over the painful part without rubbing to soothe the irritated nerve.
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