Union Pacific Lands for Sale in Wheat Belt Regions
The Union Pacific sells 400000 acres in Kansas at 6 to 9 dollars per acre with other western lands priced per acre. Offers require cash with a 10 year balance option. Ads note monthly excursions on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays and list agency contact in Des Moines. Also included are miscellaneous notices and ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure, a Toledo business claim, and a proverb about a widow's first husband.
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Union Pacific
Great Wheat Belt
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Kansas Ranch
Union Pacific Land Agency
St. St
Des Moines
Free to Twenty-five Ladies Defiance Starch Contest
A Defiance Starch Co contest offers 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition for the five top states Ne braska Iow a Missouri Kansas and Hawaii by sending Defiance cold water starch trade marks from a 16 ounce package mailed to Omaha Neb before September 1 1904. Winners notified by registered mail September 6. Starch sold by dealers andDefiance prides itself on a full pound without sticking to the fron. A playful line about a girl's idea of an interesting man closes the item.
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Defiance Strach
St. Louis Exposition
Haineis
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Defiance Starch Co
Omaha
Nebr
Dean's Kidney Pills touted for kidney relief in ad copy
An advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a quick aid for kidney trouble and toxic buildup, featuring a Spokane, Washington user testimonial. It claims free trials and nationwide mail orders from Foster-Milburn Co. Also includes other late 19th to early 20th century ads and a string of jokes and medical quips.
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Dean
L. G. Lovell
North First St
Spokane
Wash
Mr. Lovell
United States
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Postum Cereal Replaces Coffee in Health Recovery
A young Ohio woman recounts 15 years of stomach heart and liver trouble worsened by coffee. After drinking tea and coffee was stopped and Postum Cereal introduced she reports eight years without coffee and renewed health. Her daughter and son praise Postum, while stressing proper boiling time for best taste.
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Ohio
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Dies in defense of his brother's honor in Greensburg
In Mount Pleasant a boarding house fight left John Deltuffi dead after a struggle with Rosanio Galitri. Galitri, mortally wounded by Deltuffi’s knife and gunfire, died from a dozen stabs about the head and shoulders as authorities described a feud over the wife of Galitri’s brother. Raphael Galitri kept the boarding house. Deltuffi was a boarder returning to his old room to eject. The coroner’s witness said Galitri shot first, grappled, disarmed Deltuffi, then stabbed him and fired the remaining bullets.
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Greensburg
Mount Pleasant
John Deltu ™ i
Rosanio Galitri
Galitri
Deltuffi
Raphael Galitri
Iis
Preachers Heir to Fortune in Bar Harbor
Reverend Angus McDonald of Bar Harbor Congregational Church suddenly becomes heir to 500000 dollars by the will of the late Mrs Abbie R Dodge of Jacksonville Framingham Ma McDonald named executor and now in Jacksonville settling the estate He graduated Bath High School in 1886 Bowdoin College 1890 and Andover Seminary in 1893
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Bar Harbor
Angus McDonald
Congregational Church of
Abbie R. Dodge
Jacksonville
Ma. McDonald
Dodge
Bath High School
Bowdoin College
Andover Seminary
Woman Given Twenty Year Sentence in Girl’s Murder
In Springfield on April 18 Mary Yerry must serve twenty years in the penitentiary for the murder of 14 year old Leona Granberry. The circuit court jury in Sangamon county deliberated all night over the term length after a delay caused by disagreement. Mrs Norry killed the girl last November after learning of her husband’s relation with the victim and beating her to death with a pop bottle in a dark spot.
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Springfield
Mary Yerry
Leona Granberry
Sangamon County
Norry
Miss Granberry
Fears for Iowa's Corn Crop Hit by Seed Selection
Des Moines April 18 Professor P G Holden of Iowa Agricultural College at Ames travels by Rock Island through northwest Iowa to lecture on seed corn. He warns farmers will get less than half a crop this season if they fail to select seed properly due to the crop's nature last season.
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Des Moines
P. G. Holden
Iowa Agricultural College
Ames
Rock Island
Iowa
Constable Rescues Prisoner During Mob Attempt
A mob formed at West Baden to lynch Adolph Lynn. A constable saved him and fled to Trenton with the prisoner, where he remains jailed. Lynn later shot through a window at his wife’s house, wounding her.
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Carlyle
West Baden
Adolph Lynn
Trenton
Lynn
King Her
Hilnels Steel Plant Idle After Mill Collapse
About 1,200 to 1,500 workers at the Hilnels Steel Company lose jobs when a roughing engine collapses in the billet mill. The shutdown disables the billet mill converter and rod mills. The incident occurred in Joliet Tl on April 18.
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Joliet
Hilnels Steel Company
Grand Rapids Briber Sentenced to Four Years
Thomas F. McGarry, of Grand Rapids Michigan, was sentenced to four years in the house of correction for bribing Lant K. Salsbury in a water deal. The April 8 decision highlights charges of bribery linked to a municipal water contract.
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Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, Mich
Thomas F. McGarry
House of Correction
Lant
K. Salsbury
Bank Clerks Debate in St Paul First Annual Clash
In St Paul Minnesota on April 18 the Chicago bank clerks lost their first annual debate with the St Paul and Minneapolis teams at the Commercial Club.
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St. Paul, Minn
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Commercial Club ‘A
Spring Fever Cure Promised By Dr Hartman
Dr Hartman explains spring blood impurities cause fatigue and digestive issues calling spring fever and related ailments. He promotes Peruna as the preventive and curative spring medicine, offering free advice if results are not prompt. Address Dr Hartman at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
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Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
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Holly
Byingsam & Wilson
17Th St
Washington
Tyler
Minne
Lauritsen
Mina
Brighton
Fairfield
Standard Scale & Supply CO
Market St., , Chi
ICAG
W._L
Douglas
Wort
W.L. Douglas
Mall
Brockton
Maraen
Canada
Wilifred Laurier
Ottawa
B.J. Holmes
Jackson Street
St Pitas
Minn
W. V. Bennett
New York Life Building
Neb
Ule
Sears
Aizes
Iyncapelle Balliiag
Bratz
Ottto
ToLepo
Lucas County
Frank J. Creney
Cugsey & Co
Toledo
Frm
Nee
Hall @ Catarne
Frank J. Cheney
A. W Gleason
Notary Ponts
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Thompson
Dresser Rug Co
Pommel
Irower
Yon LJ Tower
Soton Pigauda, Limkted
Toro Nteontecn
Dr. Caldwell
Bles
Mary Hab
Michigan
Vopeln & Rial
Ethan
Remedien
Sarna
Pepsim Syrup CO
Montlvalle
Ill
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Jack
Germany
America
Boarder
Host
Wive
Florida
Terry
Farmers
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Sly
Huw Ee Roy
NHK
New
Mtg
Beesdene
GSU Gso
Marjory Hampton
New York
Iit Ac
Denm'era
W.N.U
Des Moines, la
Commissioner of Pensions
Utter Phillips
Big Ave
Beashington Board Orade
Traders National Bank
Mayer
F. Mayer Boot
Milwaukee, Wis
Lincoln Paint & Color Co
Lincoln, Nebr
Perry Keada
THE
Omaha, Neb
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