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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1905
Page
5
The Herald prints community items from Hardin County Iowa Falls area with notices of sales concerts church events and road improvements plus advertisements for local businesses and services including dentists banks hotels and merchants. Reports on weather farming progress and Fourth of July plans appear alongside brief obituaries and town news.
The Up-To-Date Clothing Store promotes a new Fourth in the me suit line featuring nobbiest worsteds and cashmeres. Staff invite interested customers to call for a showing and fitting.
E. G. Shelton of New Providence Iowa purchased two carloads of 700 lb stockers on the Kansas City market yesterday after trying home markets and Chicago. He praises Kansas City as the country’s best stocker and feeder market and notes local cattle scarcity in his area with a promising corn crop ahead suggesting strong fall demand for feeding cattle.
A local lumber advertiser promoting cord wood supply for next winter. The notice emphasizes ready wood stock and urges customers to prepare ahead, listing contact at Orepegnt Lumber Co for orders and pickup.
The Stephenson week ending June 27 lists local and company updates. O N W depot beautification, Bell Telephone and Cedar Valley exchanges being moved to Mutual, with lines and poles removed. Special prices on trimmed hats at Mrs Fagg. Industrial School band concert on campus draws many Eldora residents. The band remains strong and improving under a new instructor.
Eldora residents will closely watch Charles H. McNider for the Head Banker role in the Modern Woodmen of America. McNider, Mason City First National Bank cashier, once lived in Eldora and stayed with Dan G. Meader. The post pays 4000 dollars annually and controls vast funds, sometimes over 1.5 million dollars. Other items note local advertising debates, printer protections, a scald head remedy ad, Ellsworth leaving Eldora Bell exchange, and Dr Fowler’s extract as cholera remedy.
A Des Moines correction traces the motto Iowa, the affections of her people, like the rivers of her borders, flow onto an inseparable union to its true author Enoch Eastman of Eldora and Hardin County. The full phrase was abridged for the Washington monument stone. Eastman wrote the original sentiment in 1850.
Mrs Jennie Allen resumes serving her celebrated Allen ice cream at the ce cream parlor across from the opera house.
A harmless non opiate cough medicine for children sold by Smith and Reed. It claims to ease coughs croup and whooping cough with a good taste and no opiates, marketed as the children’s favorite remedy.
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