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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
4
A Cherokee Iowa woman chronicles her curing of St Vitus dance and nerv ous illness after years of decline. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with improving sleep appetite and strength, noting substantial weight gain and recovery after a long bedridden period. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady NY at 50 cents per box or 3.50 for six.
Corell citizen Earl Shamburg recalls illness and coughing nights. He tried Dr King s New Discovery and reports it cured him in less than a bottle. The claim touts it as the reliable cough, throat and lung healer. Trial bottle offered.
Mrs Bessie Gosnell Stager pleads for her husband Dan Stager amid arrest rumors and a shocking Monday night scene at a Randolph Street home. Sheriff asked to transport Stager to Fort Dodge to calm her, amid a web of testimonies from attorneys and relatives. Her distress follows a public scandal and a nearby Cedar Falls resignation, all unfolding as doctors weigh care versus family reunion.
In Pocahontas county the Stager family drama unfolds as Dolly Graham and Bob Kennedy face jail bonds while Dan Stager and wife cope with arrest. Mrs Stager’s broken faith post arrest leads to mental distress and letters urging bravery. Separately, local inquiries reveal bigamy guilty for J. Dawatsbaugh. Townspeople respond with sympathy, warnings, and moving stories as neighbors share visits and updates across Raymond and surrounding communities.
Local social notes from Cedar Falls to Riceville Iowa indicate visits by Mr and Mrs L A Phe and family to Cedar Falls relatives, Mrs Smalling and Mrs Stine visiting Bertha Tyrrell at Riceville, Wyite Fitkin and family at Joe Robb's, a Boies dance well attended, Len Bartlett renting Perry lair for three years, Grace Phelps returning home from Shell Rock after visiting Maude Brown, and Mr and Mrs Norrison Peck moving.
An old newspaper advert promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for lame back and kidney liver and bladder trouble. It claims success in hospitals and private practice, offers a free sample bottle and a book, and directs readers to send their address to Binghamton New York.
Jury selection drags into afternoon in Ingledue vs Litchfield Mfg over loss of three fingers on left hand. Plaintiff Reed and Tuthill. defendant Mullan and Pickett. Plaintiff claims underage at accident while operating a joining machine, glove on hand, brushings by another worker, hand caught and fingers severed. Also notes Cedar Falls resident Jackson A Sousa born April 15 1887 and lifelong New Hartford native.
A Cedar Falls Lumber Co case in Blackhawk County ended with a jury verdict supporting the board. The panel found the company was paid $1 per thousand feet under contract terms and the tender offered by the county was refused.
Louis Serando and John Aducia faced trial in Justice Kepford's court for hold up of 65 year old William Cummings and theft of 17 cents and a new pair of shoes. Interpreter Steve Gentle assisted as the case unfolded amid shifting belief on guilt.
The testimony portrays Cummings as a moral degenerate who coerced Serando into sodomy with threats and promises of money, paying eight cents for the vile act. Cummings flees Blackhawk county after a highway robbery story. the old man faced potential grand jury action but was released to avoid county expense.
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