24 Sep 1896
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1896
Page
1
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and is priced at 50 cents per box sold by Q. & Taylor.
A lengthy draft describes the Buffalo Bills Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World touring Waterloo on Sept 26, promising an exact replica of the European and world fairs performances with thousands of riders and hundreds of horses. The piece also notes a Horton post office scandal, inspector action, and suspends the postmaster over improprieties in political mail. It mentions local readers and editorial stances on supplying political supplements and a brief local history on Jefferson county pioneers. Electric Bitters ad closes the column.
N D Tower lives in Dakota and local residents attend church and school events. Mentions of Chris Teisinger on Sept 15, C A Austin visiting Chicago, Bert Robish in Iowa City to study, and Geo Platts remarks on gold. Reports on church services, movements of residents, farm work, and a birthday surprise for Mrs Steege. Includes obituaries and civic duties around Fredericksburg area.
The County Board resumed work after a Labor Day break. Actions include extending M. Potter on the soldiers relief board for three years, salary oversight for E. A. Woodruff, retrenchment by cutting the March family from aid, and foreclosing one school fund mortgage. 1896 levies cover state, county, school, poor, insane, bridge and road taxes, with various county and city line items.
Auction begins at 10 o'clock on Thursday October 1 1896 at the farm one mile north of Westgate. Items include two horses 18 cows 4 heifers a three year old bull and various farm tools plus 500 bushels oats and 200 bushels corn. Terms cash under 610 dollars and credit on notes at 7 percent with 2 percent cash discount. Auctioneers D R Littell and Louis Linstrus. A mixed column of local anecdotes follows.
The mean temperature last week was near normal with high cloudiness and damp weather. State rainfall was above normal in places, but overall below average. Ripening days few, crop in good condition. northern districts ahead in maturity. cutting and shocks forecast for next week. Dry spell needed for full corn ripening. 20 to 30 percent planted late and still green. Potatoes underway with variable output. dry weather required for harvesting and clover seed. Fall plowing and seeding expanding. soil conditions favorable. note left over from last week.
Dr W Fuller of Canajoharie New York touts Dr King s New Discovery as a trusted household remedy with consistent test results and a refusal to be without it. G A Dykeman Drugist of Catskill New York calls it best cough remedy, used for eight years with unfailing claim. Trial bottles free at O B Taylors drug store. Regular size 0c 1.00.
Cousins Henderson and Grosvenor will speak at Waterloo on October 2 as part of the Third Town Congressional District rally. Low fares offered by the Chicago Great Western Railway Maple Leaf Route with tickets on gate October 2 and return by October 3.
The Cedar Falls Race Meeting September 29 and 30 offers special Chicago Great Western Railway Maple Leaf Route rates of one and one third fares round trip with return by Oct 1. The 88th Iowa Infantry Reunion at Waverly October 7 8 provides similar fare options and travel via the Maple Leaf Route. Home Seekers Excursions run September 1 15 29 and October 6 20 with one fare round trip plus two dollars, valid twenty one days, with stopovers allowed.
Illinois Central announces Homeseeker's excursions at one fare plus $2 to farm lands in Iowa Minnesota Illinois Wisconsin and southern routes to Cairo and Yazoo Valley with specific travel dates in 1896. Tickets available from stations on Illinois Central lines to listed destinations and inquiries directed to J F Merry at Manchester Iowa and E P Skene in Chicago.
A newspaper notice offers paper covered novels at eight to twenty five cents wholesale in exchange for coupons, ten for one book or five and five cents, plus cloth bound 12 month novels for twenty or ten coupons with ten cents. About 100 paper stories and 20 cloth titles available. Allow mail orders with postage four cents for paper books and six cents for cloth. Valid until supply exhausted and no later than November 3, 1896. Dated August 12, Sumner L. Linn.
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