07 Jul 1898
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1898
Page
1
An itemized mix of early 20th century advertisements notes a temperate spring mood, Coke Cure and Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin claims, Westgate Girl race winnings, and a Mason City to Clear Lake train wreck. It touts Electric Bitters as a cure-all, praising health gains, with product prices and local merchants named.
Cure that cough with Shilohs Cure and Chamberlains remedies fill the page. Promotions, sales and local notices mention Robish Co. and Hoyer in Ringling Bros visits. A postmaster salary rise to 1600 and local deals in Randalia and Hawkers close. A Muscatine Journal rule change bars employees from entering saloons. A vivid notice on military fashion and local gossip closes the item.
Mrs S A Sweet of Hartford Connecticut credits Karl's Clover Root Tea with calming nerves and stabilizing her nervous system. She cites relief from constipation and kidney and bowel issues after using the tea, claiming rapid return to health and strength. Sold by M Robish & Co. 2ine.
A long list of properties in Sumner is offered with varied features from farms to city lots. Entries describe houses, barns, wells, and outbuildings with terms like cash down plus time at rates, prices ranging from 350 to 3700 dollars. Miscellaneous local notes follow.
Weeks' Laxative Quinine Tablets claim to cure colds by removing the cause through ipecac to open secretions quinine to destroy poison and cascara laxative to regulate the bowels. The advertisement asserts it cures La Grippe headache constipation and biliousness and offers No Cure No Pay at 25 cents with M Robish & Co as sole agents.
Amimosa Burka, a twenty year sentence for a fatal Waverly killing, was baptized by immersion and received into the Methodist church at the prison. A board including Rev Black, Deputy Warden Gurley, Chaplain Byer, and the matron oversaw the service at the river near Metcalf bridge. This marked the prison's first such ceremony in its history. Foley's Kidney Cure is advertised by Farrand Bros. & Patterson.
A local note urges an end to indiscriminate sweeping and littering in business and residential areas arguing the mess looks worse than ashes and is dangerous. The column lists dozens of brief town notices including social visits, travels, meetings, a ball victory, a balloon failed ascent, a medical stroke, church events, a convention trip, and a sales advert.
Pro prietors claim Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption and Colds has given away over ten million bottles and cured thousands of hopeless cases. It pledges relief for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung diseases. M Robish Co Druggists offers a trial bottle free with guaranteed satisfaction or money back.
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