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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
6
J Jolliffe argues for keeping spending home to support local merchants. He cites price education from catalogs, urges a square deal between seller and buyer, and warns that patronizing mail order hurts the town’s economy, schools, churches, and social circle.
Across Webster county and towns like Shenandoah and Cedar Rapids readers note a wave of wartime measures and local developments. A 36 to 9 vote forms a sixteen section consolidated school district. the National Guard faces funds shortages. Drake University receives a $20,000 Hutchinson gift. and Cedar Rapids busily raises manpower and food inspection efforts while communities prepare for nitrate plants and flag distributions.
Local residents from Humboldt Rolfe and surrounding towns are noted traveling visiting relatives and friends. Mrs Parsons and children visited Bowen family in Rutland and Pioneer while others attended business, shows, or stayed with kin in Humboldt Burt Des Moines Fort Dodge and Eagle Grove events mentioned.
The state enacts a bone dry law taking effect March 1 restricting liquor shipping possession and carriage within Tennessee. The move is joked about as a blow to colonels who must leave the state to drink.
Advertisement claims Kickapoo Worm Killer removes intestinal worms in children and has a tonic effect. It states symptoms like spasms, fretfulness, restless sleep, grinding teeth, and poor appetite. Ends by urging readers to ask their druggist for the remedy.
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