Community notes from Our County report
Ackley residents and visitors appear in town recounting sickness travel and events. Delegates Blanche Johns and Belle Irouts were chosen for the county convention at Alden while Tom C. Meader of Fidora sought the clerkship field. Woodmen hall to host a moving picture show May 4 and the local creamery operates six days a week as Rev Smith led Ascension day services. Relatives of Hartema arrive from Germany to pursue American citizenship. O P King of Hazleton visits W O King and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lathrop
Ervin Bleeker
Ackley
Dan Rolander
August Neuman
Blanche Johns
Belle Irouts
Alden
Tom C. Meader
Fidora
Ite
John Bleeker
Waylon
Reinbeck
Woodmen Hall
Woodmen Boys
Local notes on farming, visits, and church services
The page lists residents and activities including farmers finishing corn planting, Mrs. Dale sending pressed flowers from Michigan to the Christian Aid Society, Dora Wickham teaching a local school visiting Eagle City, and various visits and illnesses. It notes a Sunday service schedule, a baseball club formation, and a business location notice by the Chicago Great Western Railway Company seeking mercantile or professional locations with contact details for W J Reed in St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Rourke
Steamboat Rock
A. H. Quiggle
Dale
Michigan
Christian Aid Society
Dora Wickham
Eagle City
Mys
Jls Quiggle
Stella Carpenter
Etna
Swartwood
Chicago Great Western Railway Co
United States
J. Reed
Saving $100 by twenty builds character and financial discipline
A historical note extols a young man saving $100 by age twenty as a foundation for financial self denial, patience, and value of money. It argues the lesson fosters restraint, perseverance, and long term wealth, claiming the experience is more valuable than many dollars earned later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiitel
Agatorium
Ufe
The Caution Against Vanity and Restless Ambition
The piece urges acceptance of ordinary life and warns against chasing status wealth or fame. It argues happiness comes from daily contentment and modest goals, not grand schemes or future promises, and condemn excessive ambition as destabilizing. It emphasizes humble fulfillment over long term life insurance like investments or lofty achievements.
Impoverished Soils and Restoring Fertility
The article warns that two thirds of original fertility has been removed from lands in Chilengo, yielding only twenty to twenty five bushels of oats and corn and about three fourths of a ton of hay. It argues that restoring soil requires clover use and grazing stock, and cautions buyers to scrutinize fertility when purchasing farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilengo
Black Gifts Grow on the Towns Farm Prospects
The piece extols the farm’s black crops and wealth, praising the land’s gifts as the state's best. It depicts hard East Coast weather and hardship, then lauds Jona’s black gold and resulting wealth in cattle, pigeons, and poultry as the hallmark of agricultural prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wong
Nature
Jona
Tempting World Fair offer targets young ladies for trips
The Herald promotes a lure for Hardin county young women aged 16 to 40 to secure 50 new subscribers for The Merald Furry. For $75 paid by each new subscriber residing in Nardin county, a round trip to St Louis and seven days of World’s Fair admission are promised, with payment due by July 30. The text invites local women to participate, promising full contract fulfillment and a freeway to ride and admission, plus notes on rail enhancements and fare guides for World’s Fair visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mardin County
Nardin
The
Herald
St. Louis
Hardin County
Doil
Cadae wEike
St.Louis
Iowa Central
St Louis
Pullman
Vidora
St. Louis Union Depot
North Star Limited
Union Depot
Cutts
Gp&ta
Minneapolis
Minn
Eldora Water Works Bid sought for Marion Street main project
Eldora Iowa water works committee invites sealed proposals until May 21 for a four inch water main along Marion Street from Olive to George with hydrant at George. City to furnish pipe hydrant and setting materials. contractor supplies all else. Complete by June 30 1904. certified check required. right to reject bids reserved. May 5 1904. Also local ad for Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrup praise by Oct 2 1?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Works Committee
Eldora
Iowa
Council Chamber
Marion Street
Olive Street
George Street
Tonnant T Follett
Excursion Rates To North and South Pore Rail Sale
The Chicago Great Western will sell round trip tickets to points in unnamed states every Tuesday until October 26, at a greatly reduced fare. Details are unclear due to garbled text but indicate a special excursion rate program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western Railway
Dean's ointment touts for itch relief in Eldora ad
Eldora residents back Dean's ointment as a cure for piles eczema and itching. A Jasper street farmer recalls months of irritation eased after purchasing from Smith Reed's Drug Store in Eldora. Foster Kilburn Co Buffalo sells the product at 50 cents with United States sale agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora
Joseph Vigurs
Jasper Street
Dean
Smith & Reed
For Sale Large Franklin County Iowa Stock Farm Ad
Franklin county Iowa offers 310 acres with 200 cultivated and remaining pasture hay and timber. Features seven room house large barn granary double corn crib machine sheds and wells including an artesian well in cattle yard. 14 miles from a live town priced at 865 per acre. Also 224 acre Minnesota farm on CGR main line priced 346 per acre. 144 acre fruit farm with orchard house barn well wind mill and ginseng arbor priced 2500 FF Rinceway Hampton Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Iowa
Iowa Line
Mower County
Minn
H. Rinceway
Hampton
Little Early Risers Proclaimed Pleasant Liver Medicine
The notice praises Little Early Risers as a strengthening, agreeable laxative and purgative. It claims the pills cure biliousness constipation sick headache jaundice malaria and liver troubles. Sold by Smith Reed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith & Reed
Greatly Reduced Rates to the West and Northwest
Daily in March and April the Chicago Great Western will offer tickets at very low rates to Montana Washington Utah Idaho and California. Write to J P Eimer G P A Chicago Ill for full particulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Great Western
Montana
Washington
Utah
Idaho
California
J. P.eimer
Chicago
Ill
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Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
N. C. Morse, M. D
Surgeon Central Laws Railway
Frank H. Law
C.b. Davy
Examiner
NOBLE
Court House
AN. Drake
David
Examiner Abstract
A. N. Drake
C. Burling
Nucholls
Winchester Pharmacy
Allections
Hardin County Bank
Stephen Whited
Justice OF the Peace
Albrook & Lundy, Attorneys
LE. Waltney
E. S. Jones Whitney
Eldera Banks
J. H. Bales
D. E. Byam
V. Pres
W.d. Murray
Gant
First National Bank
Mapital
H. Bales
W. A. Martin
B. Albrook
K. KE. Dyam
McKeen Duren
Artes LD
Huspany
Eluis J. Roun
Cashie Jas. Nuckolls
Ass’t C
Alice D. Hubvard
D. McKear Duren
PY. Neweener
C. Bh. Grew PP
Devise
Miles
A.W. Mitierer
F. H. Noble & Company Insurance, Aetna Insurance Co
Hartford
Connecticut Insurance Co
Hartford National Insurance Co
Northwestern National Insurance
Milwakee i Globe
Liverpool Co
Liverpool
London &Surance Co
Des Moines Insurance
Citizens Insurance Co
Home Insurance Co
Sun Insurance Co
Standard Life & Asurance Co
Fidelity & Guays
Des Moines
Ueen Insurance Co
New York
Pansylvania Fire Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Weete
London
Wheels
Detroit Y Co
Baltimore
Tance Co
American Surety
Toyds Plate Glass Insu
Eherald’s
Abbott
Cleves
Robertson
Mr. Elliott
Mesdames Willoughby and
Windecker
Berlin
Guy Baker
Mile Baker
Morris Frisbie
Bessie Hulman
Miss Race
Clara Hayden
Wm. Thomas
Hal Mardin
Marlon Jackson
C. Grantow
Severs
Baby
James Hayden
Trinute
Prue Worth
Crescent Lumber Company
OC. L. Hizer
Lincoln
Wilson Drug Co
Ellaworth Drug Co
Temperance
Hicago
Northwestern
Eldora, Ar
A. Cairns
Ticket Apt
EMAN
LocalAgent
St Pan Mad
Mason Olty
Qotna Sour
Peoria Mall
Sundi
Kansas
Peoria_ Express
Curva
H. A. Stevenson
G.P
Eldora Flouring Mills
G. E. Gilman, Mgr
Dewitt’s
DeWitt's
Dewitt
E. C
Dewiitt & CO
YMCA
Nrebs Bros G
Prio. Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Cor
William & John Rtreets
Lowa
St.louis Union Depot
Ravanrat
Cegard
Lowa Central
Corynicuts Ac
Anyona
Naisertallis Ae
Transperial Hyeouiaant
Aerorestier
Chichester’ Englibh, Pennyroyal
PILUS
Alwa
Erelabla Io Eerie
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