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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
8
The Atchison Globe reports engineer Joe Tack, known on the Missouri Pacific line Wichita to Kiowa, credited Kodol Dyspepsia Cure with ending his severe stomach pains mistaken cancer fears. He says his druggist recommended it and he has advised others, claiming cures for stomach troubles.
fragmentary OCR shows times and names including 8:55 and 4:50 pm with names like Beman listed as agent. No complete event, date, or location present to determine a full item.
The essay argues Americans are prodigal with earnings and lax in thrift while contrasting 18th century literary depictions of character with modern business life. It notes Americans waste money and that gambling ethics were harsher in the past, yet asserts the spirit of gambling is less today than in the eighteenth century.
The author argues that liberal education best prevents egotism by enabling a general view beyond specialized skill. He asserts knowledge as the sole cure for egotism, insisting that understanding what there is to know guards against the belief that one generation fixes all.
The article discusses pre planning for expanding towns with a Brussels suburb example showing a park, diagonal streets, wide avenues, and landscaped vistas. It emphasizes harmony, public buildings, and phased development to avoid costly rework as populations rise. It contrasts foreign practice with cautious, systematic growth.
The dispatches discuss Japanese ritual suicide, noting seppuku as the legal penalty for samurai and describing wartime instances of self‑inflicted deaths. It explains the terms seppuku and harakiri and cites examples from battles and transport losses as casualties of war.
The piece discusses two aims in school gardens the adornment of grounds and the creation of purpose built gardens for instruction. It argues ground improvement from cleaning grading and planting through three stages and urges neighborhood pride in making schoolyards fit and attractive for children.
For summer 1905 railroads offer lower round trip excursion fares to resorts and the Pacific coast. Iowa Central lists Eldora rates to St Paul Minneapolis 39.50 Duluth 81.50 Denver Colorado Springs Denver 23.40 Salt Lake City Ogden 83.40. Tickets on sale dates and limits noted with extensions possible for small fees. Also special Denver trips for Epworth League convention and GAR encampment with varying sale periods and extension options. The ad ends with an unrelated medical jingle for DeWitt’s Little Early Risers improving headaches and sick headaches.
The third market day sale will occur in Eldora on Saturday May 27 with Frank 8 Near as manager and A P Mason of Union as auctioneer. A number of horses mules and cattle besides other articles will be sold.
Smith and Reed offer Time Tried and Merit Proven One Minute Cough Cure for coughs croup and whooping cough. A safe pleasant tasting remedy popular with children and families.
Bargain offer for complete American edition of the Cyclopedia Britannica. Publisher surplus stock in new, unopened packages. Inspect at the Herald office to learn price and arrange purchase.
Advertisement notes a tonic called Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea aimed at children. It claims to ease fretfulness peevishness and fussiness, promoting strength and health, priced 35 cents, sold by Start Drug Co.
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