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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1903
Page
8
A Boston millionaire, alarmed by extreme thinness and looming illness, offers $500 per pound of healthy flesh. Ellsworth Drug Co touts Vinci as a pleasant, refundable body-building tonic said to aid digestion and general emaciation, promising quick gains.
In Chicago a neighborhood group the South Park Improvement Association runs a small street cleaning bureau. A colored attendant with a cart clears waste paper keeps crossings tidy and drains open. After cleaning vacant lots a sign credits the group. Initiated by Mrs Frank A Johnson and Mrs Joseph Dwywan, the effort aims to beautify streets and alleys in university district areas.
Progressive town schoolchildren signed a pledge to work together to remove unhealthy and unattractive features and add beauty to their town. The plan, tried in Cleveland last year, saw seed distributions and lessons on gardening and beautification, with a spring continuation planned. Iowa Central Railway offers homeseeker fares to Northwest destinations with round trips one fare plus 62 cents. one-way tickets also available. April 30.
A local improvement society in a sleepy New England town transformed it into a progressive community through persistent advocacy for clean streets better lighting and modern architecture. The president cites two years of steady effort plus newspaper support and town cooperation as key to drawing residents and businesses, boosting hotels and transportation, and inviting conventions to raise the town’s profile. A. B. Lewis.
AH article stresses that citizen interest and pride fuel a city’s welfare and success. It argues local pride sustains growth, cites Chicago as a model, and calls on every resident to feel duty bound to love the town they live in.
A speech warns of class divisions and wealth influence on law, opposing limits on individual enterprise. It supports labor unions but rejects restricting a capable American to the level of others. The speaker urges patriotism and hard work to preserve opportunity and liberty.
A historical voice warns that growing wealth and labor unions threaten social balance. The speaker argues unions limit work hours to the weakest, stifling production, and urges church influence to avert inevitable civil conflict greater than past wars.
In Beadle County near Lake Byrn a full section is offered with buildings well windmill pastures and good stock potential. Has a Haseep well with abundant pure soft water. Post office four miles and telephone line one and a half miles away. About half the land cultivated balance in fenced pastures. Price 20.00 per acre 3000.00 cash and balance on six percent terms. For details contact J D Newcomer Eldora Iowa.
The text champions American character as judicial mindedness, stressing justice according to law as the republic’s safeguard. It condemns summary justice as un-American, urges respect for law and its forms, and warns party fevers during elections threaten civil order yet the judicial mindset usually prevents disaster.
The piece argues that war between the United States and Germany would be murderous and unnecessary. It asserts no real difference between the nations and claims any suggestion of war is reckless, criminal, and groundless.
Reverend D. Alex Holman recounts his sun stroke ordeal that left his nervous system shattered and health poor. Two years of failed medical care followed before Dr Miles Restorative Nervine brought improvement. he regained energy to preach, praised the medicine, and urged readers to seek the free nervous and heart diseases book from Dr Miles Medical Co.
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