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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1905
Page
4
A sprawling 1903 Eldora Market era sheet parries indictments of beef packers with satirical quips about leaders in politics and industry. It riffs on czars, Taft, Roosevelt, and various figures while noting travel and travel-adjacent law, with ads and railfare notices tucked amid cartoons of public figures and current events.
To Denver GAR encampment 14.50 tickets on sale Aug 10 to Sept 4 limit Sept 12 with extension to Oct 7 by 50 cents. To Portland 49.00 tickets on sale daily ninety days go and return with liberal stopover privileges. To California as low as Portland. To Hot Springs 2 plus 1 round trip tickets on sale daily thirty days. To St Paul Minneapolis 50, to Duluth 13.50, to Denver 23.40, to Salt Lake City 36.40. sale June 1 final Oct 31. Homeseekers rates on first and third Tuesdays via Iowa Central to multiple states. stopovers allowed, 21 days. Every Tuesday through Dec Iowa Central sells homeseekers round trips at one fare plus 2 dollars. 21 days. Summer 1905 lower excursion rates to resorts and Pacific coast. For full details call A B Cutts, Minneapolis.
An undated ad urges immediate winter wood purchases with cords priced at 2.76 and 83.00 by Crescent Lumber Co. It also promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents from Start Drug Co. plus Davis & Moser pushing Wheeler screens with favorable pricing.
A promotional blurb explains that real strength comes from digesting and assimilating food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is advertised as a palatable, single formula that digests and enables the body to use nutrients, marketed by Smite & Reed.
Merchants broadly agree advertising is essential and the best medium is the local paper. The piece notes strong support for newspaper ads as the primary promotional channel among local businesses.
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