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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1915
Page
3
The ad lists winter wear discounts including Vests and Pants All Wool Vests and Pants tan priced at 85 cents and 1.00 grade items at 70 cents. Ladies' Fleeced Union Suits 39 cents and Ladies' Fleeced Ribbed Union Suits at 70 cents. Prices valid twenty days until September 20.
A long meditation compares the sacrifice bunt in baseball to parental and familial sacrifices that advance others. Readers are urged to readiness and selfless effort, noting that the batter's out may lead to a teammate scoring, and likening life to a constant game where parents, especially mothers, sacrifice for their children. The piece ends with a prayer-like appeal to play the game by moral lines and keep focus on advancing others.
An old advertisement touts Hamburg Breast Tea as a vegetable cold cure. It recommends a tablespoonful steeped in boiling water, consumed as a hot drink any time of day or before bed, claiming it opens the skin pores, relieves congestion, loosens the bowels, and breaks a cold.
An old advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatism and related pains. It claims rub-on, penetrating relief for joints, muscles, bones, sciatica, lumbago, backache and neuralgia, with rapid effect and no skin burning. A 25 cent bottle is advertised from any drug store.
A garbled column laments missed chances and warns that opportunity favors the proactive. It hints at family secrets and a cynical view of debt and accountability amid a broader social critique.
An assorted page offers cistern water filters promising impurity removal and safe drinking and cooking water. The page also presents subscription reminders, quotes, and mixed notices including probate and highway vacation actions in Pocahontas County Iowa with administrator appointments and official approvals.
A collage of aphorisms on politics and romance features a discussion of the Austrian archduke’s fate, a wary view of wartime gains, and humorous maxims about age, dreaming, and how a man treats his dog and oats.
One hundred dollars reward offered for untreatable catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure from Ff Chedny & Co Toledo Ohio. National Bank of Commerce endorses F. J. Peney. Cure claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. 76 cents per bottle. available from all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The District Court of Pocahontas County Iowa issues an original notice in a partition action No 4322 with Elmus H Heathman Samantha Heathman as plaintiffs against multiple defendants including Dwight Wood Viola Heathman Martha Meredith Geo Heathman and others. The amended petition seeks division of undivided land interests in section nine township ninety three range thirty two west Des Moines Fort Dodge RR right of way and a sale with proceeds after liens costs and fees. Defendants are warned to appear by October 11 1915 or face default and decree.
An advice column warns that regular meat consumption harms kidneys and stresses the need to flush and stimulate kidney function. It promotes a grape and lemon juice acid with lithia salt remedy as a safe, generational treatment to prevent urinary irritation and maintain clean blood.
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