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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1904
Page
5
Busy Eldora notices cover sales at Hole s and Nuckolls shops. Mentions chafing dishes, silverware, candies, clothing bargains, and a Carnegie Library dedication set for January tenth. Includes bank Christmas treat, Sabbath School plans, and local obits with brief community notes.
Wm Polley returns from Lehigh and plans to stay. R A Vigars joins his father’s 82d birthday in town from Town Falls. J H Hardin family hosts a Chicago guest over the weekend. Mel Baker and bride visit from Clemens and stay with Baker relatives. Crockett of Des Moines on a brief supreme court business trip. Jos Vigars Jr of Moville visits for his father’s birthday. W A Newcomer of Huron arrives with his sister visit then to Toledo. family wintering in California. C A Beaver travels to Des Moines for a two day business mission. Local pipe and tile works overseen by Mr. Beaver.
A local note reports the Star Cook Book is ready for delivery to those who ordered and paid and extra copies printed for eager buyers at 35 cents. Mrs. Jennie Allen’s news stand sells it as a useful kitchen adjunct.
A letter lauds Dr Shallenberger as a cure for nervous debility from Mrs Jno Ferry of Montour Iowa. The Hardin county poultry show opened with about 400 birds and judge Tucker of Michigan will score entries. The Herald complains of no ad support from two local papers but offers to run ads for 62 weeks at standard rates. A local school Christmas Eve program features recitations music a cantata and a charity gift box for needy families with Santa and a tree.
First National Bank invites all children under 15 to visit on Saturday morning December 24 between 8 and 10 for the usual Christmas treat. The notice appears in the Semi-Weekly Herald and the Daily Chicago Tribune with a one month subscription offer for 3.85 per year except Sunday.
On December 24 25 26 31 and January 1 2 the Iowa Central will sell round trip excursion tickets at one and one third fare limited for return to and including January 4 1908. For particulars call on agents.
A reader from Eldora credits Dean's Ointment with soothing an itching neck irritation after months of failure with other salves. Joseph Vigars of Jasper Street says the product provided remarkable relief and cooling action. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster-Kilburn Co. of Buffalo sole U.S. agents. remember the name Dean's.
Spencer Iowa resident George A Thomson endorses Kodol Dyspepsia Cure after twenty years of indigestion. He cites relief after using several bottles and notes medical efforts in local, Chicago, and Norway without success. He urges all with indigestion to try the remedy, sold by Smith & Reed.
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