Local notes and notices from the Gazette and town
Capt W T Lyon left by Branch train for Sibley to visit sons Fred and Percy of the Gazette. Henry Hettler buys 80 acres east of Maynard to move this month. Sumner seeks a new schoolhouse. O O Tibbitts stayed to vote. Mr and Mrs John Strong in frail health this winter. P J Clancey and wife guests at Hotel Tibbitts. Clancey a horse buyer. Rocky Mountain Tea ad claims no cure for constipation. 600 James string tags sold by Smith & Co. March 1 moves among renting citizens. Henry Schultz moves to town. Voorhess occupies Parrott farm. Munger follows. Baxter in Mahaska county famed as smallest incorporated town, 300 yards square. saloon town. Legislature requires county superintendent candidates to hold first class certificate. Ethical counsel on debt and ingratitude. Electric Bitters advertised for spring ailments at 50 cents. Defiance Enterprise notes town ads influence on buying. G W contractors prep for spring work. Wood resumes grading, Huston to start shop foundations by April 1. project to build the longest railway machine shops in the state. work to continue as climate allows. Oelwein Register says project will proceed though not in a single season.
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Local notices and family updates reach Sumner readers
Gossip on residents moving into new rooms above a wagon shop and a brick veneer home planned opposite a local property, plus a successor moving into a house bought nine years ago. A Fernandina doctor praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for croup, with local sales listing. Also noted are changes in local freights and engine crews totaling 24. a Mo. man cured of long diarrhoea after trying Chamberlain’s remedy. advertisements conclude the piece.
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G. H. Haffner
T. P. Emmon’s
C.S. Linn
Ferd. Ludwig
Fredericksburg Graduates And Local Anecdotes In March News
The Fredericksburg upper grade holds its graduation exercises tomorrow night March 5 featuring Mag gie Copeland as part of a four girl class. A humorous note from a local woodpile incident is recounted. Reports of fish die offs along Shell Rock prompt concern for the river’s shallow pools. Advertisements praise Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and consumption with free trial bottles at Taylor s Drug Store.
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Jos. Copeland
Maggie
Northwood Index
Delavan
J. Bogel
Shreveport
Dr. King
J. F. Campbell
Sanford, Ariz
Postal bans on coupon schemes in newspapers over gambling likeness
Newspapers distributing value coupons face postal bans as the schemes resemble lotteries. A Chicago Great Western offer of 100 in gold rewards any grinder who finds a gravel pit within one mile of its Des Moines to St. Joseph line. Pit locators need not own land, and serviceable pits may be purchased, with the finder paid anyway.
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