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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1905
Page
5
Local notes celebrate fall mood with fruit, hats, and stalls. Eldora’s fair success boosts trade prospects while churches resume evening services and schools prepare for Monday sessions. Local events cover marriages, auctions, and a growing public school leadership role.
Eldova may well be proud to have such a man at the head of her school affairs the en suing year Mrs Frank Snyder of Jewell Junction who wither children was visiting her mother Mrs Farrow was called home Thursday morning by telephone message announcing the fact that her husband had been injured by a fall from the second story of a new building which he was overseeing.
County Auditor Jay Newcomer lists items allowed by the Hardin County Board of Supervisors at the September 1905 session. The record includes school books for Ol’md American Book Co, pauper meals, bridge contracts, jail and witness fees, coal and supplies for paupers, printing, and various expenses for roads, hospitals, and officials. Names of several jurors constables witnesses and creditors appear among the claims.
A compact record lists many Ackley and Eldora residents visiting the Hardin county fair and social events. Henry von Giffen, Miss Vivian Thamer, P. McCallum, Nellie Taylor, Fred Schrader, Mrs. Pennington, Jos. Hunt, C. Trepp, Mrs. Trevarthan, Porter, Tom McDonald, Mrs. Lizer, Rev. J. F. Boyd, and numerous others attend, visit, or judge at the fair. Notables from Des Moines, Iowa Falls, and Union appear, with references to weather, riding, and attendance including Jno. C. Crockett and R. A. Vigars.
A vintage advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any cause of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from Toledo merchants and claims the remedy works internally to affect the blood and mucous membranes. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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