22 Oct 1896
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
1
Bucklen's Arnica Salve marketed as the best for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores eczema and skin eruptions. It promises perfect satisfaction or money back and is offered at 50 cents a box by OQ. & Taylor.
G H French is in poor health this fall. No 9 in Banks received seven new double seats, No 4 got two. Political Equality club meets at Mrs Noon. A J Berkstresser from Fayette visited on his daughter's new wheel. Dr E Dickenson moved back to Fayette. Mr and Mrs C A Austin visited Horton. Several locals wheeled to Tripoli and back. Office produced 1000 quarter sheet bills for J Kahn. Democrats nominate Louis Buesing Sr. for Supr. Holt. Rev Stuemer preached in Waverly, Rev Lutz absent. Bank of Sumner/Parrott building on Rood farm. Dickman sisters home from U.S.A. with friends. Theo Hendschke bought Buck's Peace Maker stove. Miller family visit from Dunkerton. D T Gibson to speak at Gassy Opera House on political issues. Jessie Robinson learning millinery. Maude Wescott home from Hampton. Students from Fayette visited. Platts spoke on free silver in Waverly. W E Davis moved 38 head to Fayette for Harris Mo shipment. load valued about $800. Will has hired Mr Churchill for a year. Traveling pedlars selling at farmers’ market. home merchants offer better terms. Bremer County Farmers’ Mutual Insurance reelects Hoppenworth as secretary. new by-laws adopted. officer slate named. German Evangel church parsonage visited. pastor’s family aided with groceries. Rev A Goetze thanks contributors. 55 present.
Mr Forbes of New Hampton sold Missouri apples at 55 cents per bushel, five for 2.50, after a carload sent by Webster Bros and Tower offered wine saps pip pins and B D apples at 45 to 55 cents. The long obituary of Mrs Elizabeth Wuttke traces birth in 1840, emigration via Ste litz to Milford and Fredericksburg, church ties, death Oct 14 1896 at 56 years 7 months 5 days, burial at Zion church cemetery, survivors and funeral by Rev A Goetz. Local social notes mention F J Fay and wife visiting Burg, Mrs George Williams visiting Cedar Rapids, Mrs J J McConkey and Harry traveling to Floyd, Lamphere burial, Mrs Leo Hauck and George Countryman visiting, Mrs Fay improving, Mrs Wesley Farnum returning from Nebraska, and others calling on C Countryman.
Dr Harrington is in town while Hon Tom Updegraff spoke last Thursday to a full house on the monetary system. The Zierenbergs settle in William Geseman’s house for at least a year. Mrs Stumph visits from Elgin and returns home this week. The Bracey family went to Arlington Saturday, returning Sunday. S A Sylvester expects to take possession of a new home this week. Linstrum will occupy the vacated house. A new neighbor trend to claim possessions grows. Schoonmeker couple attended a niece’s wedding in Riceville. Dr Uole and friends mourn Pauline’s death. Mrs Bane left for Burr Oak last week. Charles City will send an advocate of free silver who will speak Friday night. 10 19 96.
James L. Francis Alderman of Chicago endorses Dr King s New Discovery as an ideal cough and lung remedy used in his family for five years. Rev John Burgus, a longtime Methodist minister from Keokuk Iowa, testifies to its benefits and rapid relief. Trial bottles offered at O R Taylors Drug Store.
The county board held a two day session in early October with reports granted concessions and a broad range of claims settled. Local items include expenses for supervisors and poorhouse, hog bite first aid notes, and a notice on new voting boxes due to precinct overflows. Additional items cover incidents of a flashlight powder explosion amputating a hand, a severe wagon accident, diphtheria concerns across several towns, a post office rewards ruling, riverfront travel ads, and local commentary on pay for Iowa lawmakers.
An excerpt describes oxygen nitrogen ratios, ozone solutions, and inhalation therapy as claimed by Drs. Starkey and Palen with addresses in Philadelphia San Francisco and Toronto. It also notes a Minnesota fair sighting of a local apple boom and includes a testimonial praising Dr King’s New Discovery for pneumonia with a trial offer and pricing.
A local offer promotes paper covered novels at eight to twenty five cents wholesale with ten coupons per book or five coupons plus five cents. Cloth bound new novels require twenty coupons or ten coupons plus ten cents. One hundred paper stories and twenty cloth editions available. Supplies limited and coupons stop being honored once exhausted, no later than November. Mail orders include postage and six cents for cloth. Sumner IA August 12 G P Lins.
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