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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
5
The Herald prints a staggered, wintry recap of Eldora area life from the past week. Notes on church revivals, baptisms, school and city meetings, a new endowment at Lean der Clark College, property sales, a burglary, a carnival of trades, and local notices. Mentions telephones, lodging, and a Baptist sermon, with ads and a few local sayings.
A half week record of local goings on notes visitors and social calls. Names include Morse Providence Nix Hubbard Ackley Seales and Seaton. residents from Marshalltown Iowa Falls and Minnesota. The Eldora creamery returns to Peter Jensen with continued high prices for cream and local officials attend Eastern Star events in Boone.
The Herald notes twenty five new subscribers since December and six old ones dropped. Most defectors offer the stale excuse that they cannot read all the papers. The editor praises about a thousand loyal subscribers who pay faithfully each year and endorses honoring them publicly.
Section 141 of the Revised Ordinances forbids ashes on Eldora streets and alleys with penalties for violation as a misdemeanor. Ashes in snow or icy conditions risk injuries to pedestrians and vehicles and may render the violator and city liable for damages. Mayor GB Ginwan urges citizen compliance and warns of punishment.
An ad touts Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar as a universal remedy for croup whooping cough and all lung and bronchial ailments. It claims the product expels colds by acting as a cathartic on the bowels and notes CA Swayze sells it.
A vintage patent medicine ad claims that a reasonable amount of food, well digested and assimilated, will always increase strength. It advertises Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as digesting foods and aiding assimilation to build tissue and relieve sour stomach, belching, heartburn, and indigestion, marketed as palatable and strengthening by Smith & Reed.
Indigestion overcome by Kodol Dyspepsia Cure that digests what you eat and lets the stomach rest and recover. It relieves belching sour stomach heartburn and enables digestion to transform foods into blood. Sold by Smith and Reed.
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