28 Jan 1897
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1897
Page
1
A scattered 1897 era update touches on health ads for Rocky Mountain Tea, local subscription payments to the Gazette, a Sumner move for A Rosenberg, and various community items. It reports church attendance, a farm sale, a petit jury draw, Woodmen camp installations, a Nashua Post change of hands, frigid weather, and family subscriptions.
A period piece critiques pulpit excess and crankish preachers across denominations. It argues ministers should exhort and rebuke within the gospel, warns against fanatical sermons targeting gender groups or secular readers, and urges a return to simple preaching to restore genuine religion.
A young editor mocks Henry Watterson and John Palmer while an operator from Sleepy Eye finally sells turbine-inspired rotary engine rights to an English syndicate for 1.6 million dollars. Also noted is a query about the Industrial Gazette and a testimonial for Chamberlains Pain Balm curing back pain and rheumatism.
Dr Alexander of Fayette is laid up this winter. Even Lawler tried two newspapers over an axe to grind. A Sibley man saved his hogs by giving them aconite, a quart every five days for 250 hogs, per the Pocahontas Record. The government opens a post office at the Artesian creamery, seven miles east of Waverly. H J Bodeker may open a store and be named postmaster. The butter maker at the creamery is Griese. butter quality is praised as high.
A Woodbury County farmer valued at 25 000 criticizes higher taxes and government spending. He urges living within income, trimming expenses at all levels, and a rigid economy by elected officers. He notes corn at 9 cents and questions entitlement of officials while opposing burden on farmers.
Charley Falk crafts a sheet iron stove fueled by flax straw, claims twenty four hours heat in moderate weather and twelve hours in extreme cold, rivaling coal or corn burning. The item reflects small innovations and local commentary on public schooling, budgets, and county affairs from Bremer and surrounding regions.
The April 3 1896 Westfield News Women’s Edition highlights remedies for common ills with endorsements for Chamberlains Cough Remedy Elec tric Bitters and Dr King's New Discovery. Advertisers note drugstore sales and express services with local commentators recalling boycotts and civic chatter.
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