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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1905
Page
5
Amid local notices and rural news, Harvest Festivals draw crowds in Ackley Union and Eldora. Ackley Phonograph gains its own concrete home. Eldora’s sidewalks expand as Liscomb launches a new Leader newspaper. Alden hosts a four county M W A picnic with trains, games, and music.
Longtime Ashermet Bert Buchanan adds another notch to his fame by showy catches at Iowa waters. He hauled a six pound pike and a wall-eyed eight pound beauty, drawing praise for rare late-season prize fish in a placid Iowa lake.
A wide ranging weekly update lists business trips and social calls across towns. Carl S Newcomer visited Des Moines. Mrs Burlingame toured Jasper county. Miss Genevieve Beach visited Eldora kin. Rev Shoemaker planned visits to Gladbrook and Waterloo. Jno Frisbie party returned from Cambridge Illinois. Miss Thornton travels to Minneapolis and Chicago for millinery purchases. Also noted are Mrs Emily Brooks and daughter Jenni e’s Portland expo trip. Miss Hadie Westfall’s Carroll visit. several other locals on visits, plus talk of wool shipments, and a county text book fee dispute involving County Auditor Jay S Newcomer and a court proceeding slated for August.
A list of residents from various Iowa towns including Eldora Osage Hampton Toledo Shellsburg and Victor appears in a local notice. The names A J Hayden J C Kathan C H Roe A B Roger C T Black and Jno P McGivern are presented with their respective towns.
Miss N. F. McNair of Chicago arrived Friday evening for a week's visit with her sister Mrs. C. C. Warner. Ed Wheeler and wife of Cass county are visiting W. H. Rumbo and family and other Eldora relatives. J. A. Hurley came from Ackley Tuesday evening and stayed till Thursday morning for Sauerkraut day with friends. Miss Vivian Thamer, bookkeeper in the treasurer's office, left Tuesday night for an extended trip in the west to Yellowstone and Portland.
A xenial wartime era advertisement-like claim cites cholera infantum dysentery and diarrhoea as dangers to infants. It asserts Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry cures these illnesses, presenting a medical quack remedy tone. The piece emphasizes maternal caution and popular remedies of the period.
Des Moines Tow August 24 to September 1 1905 the Iowa Central will sell excursion tickets at one fare for round trip return to September 2 for particulars see agents
In Methodist and Congregational notices pastors are listed for Sunday morning services and union evening services at the Baptist church. Point Pleasant and Rough Woods church timings are noted. Baptist services follow usual morning hours with W K Stanley leading the evening sermon. Sunday School and youth meetings at usual times. An ad copy for Dean's Ointment cites a C F Cornwell testimonial from Saugerties praising quick relief of hemorrhoids.
An ad promotes buying directly from Lyon & Healy Chicago to save the $100 canvasser fee. It claims the world’s largest music house sells 20 to 30 pianos daily with low handling costs and offers four purchase plans. Free catalog "A Piano Book" and free freight both ways if not satisfactory. Davis & Moser also claim the largest stock of posts in Hardin.
An advertisement argues nourishment is essential for mind and body and that the stomach must be kept pure to avoid illness. It claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and strengthens the digestive system, listing symptoms it supposedly cures. Sold by Smith & Reed.
Great Western offers August tickets to harvest hands at reduced rates for parties of five or more to towns in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. On the first and third Tuesday monthly through December, round trip fares to land agents and homeseekers to southern and western destinations are available at one fare plus varying legs to many states and territories.
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