Local Notes and Visits Across Counties
Good corn weather. John Steiner returned Wednesday from Colorado. Miss Nellie Simpson of Wilber visited her aunt Mrs Ada P Cully on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jacob Stucker and Robin Starr spent Sunday between trains with friends at Odell. Grandma Gerard and granddaughters Cecil and Ruby Carmichael traveled from Harbine to visit relatives in Wichita Kan. Chamberlains Cough Remedy offered with money back guarantee if not satisfied after two thirds of a bottle per directions. Sold by all dealers.
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Nellie Simpson
Wilber
Ada P. Cully
Jacob Stucker
Robin Starr
Odell
Gerard
Cecil
Ruby Carmichael
Harbine
Wichita
Kan
King of Sllaxatives Praised By Buffelo Family
A Buffalo New York reviewer lauds Dr King’s New Life Pills as a simple home remedy for stomach liver and kidney troubles. The ad claims 25 cents at Chipperfield Drug Co. It notes the silver dollar decline as the US moves toward paper currency due to missing expressage payments.
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United States
Banke
Baby born to Harbine couple on June 20
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robbins of Harbine on June 20. Blythe shipped a carload of hogs to the St. Joe market Tuesday, averaging 350 pounds. Mrs. Ollie Thompson and her children visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J Brook, at Fairbury yesterday.
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Harry Robbins
Harbine
B. F. Blythe
St. Joe
Ollie Thompson
J. Brook
Fairbury
A Woman Seeks Health and Beauty With Electric Bitters
A promotional paragraph touts Electric Bitters as a remedy for unhealthy women. It links sex appeal to health, claiming the tonic regulates stomach, liver and kidneys, purifies blood, and improves nerves, eyes, breath and skin for a lovelier complexion. It urges trying the product.
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Kipperfield Drug
Corn estimates and the mythic Jefferson bounty hog
A humorous pivot on corn yields and a hypothetical giant hog. The speaker muses about government grain estimates, exaggerated proportions of a hog to eat the entire Jefferson county crop, and fantastical feats from a huge animal to illustrate scale.
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Uncle Sam
Jefferson County
Texas
Greenland
Mars
South America
Teddy Roosevelt
Imaginative Tale of Corn Cakes and Cosmic Travel
A playful riff imagines galloping across the globe in minutes, balloon rides, comet arrivals, and a world of corn cake travel. It jokes about a tiny box carrying cake rockets to the moon, predicting calamity and urging that such estimates remain imaginative.
Shall We Have a Parcels Post That the Rural Delivery Man
The article argues rural parcel delivery would benefit communities if post offices offered a reasonable rate. It cites a large annual deficit for rural delivery and proposes plans like five cents for the first pound and two cents for each additional pound up to eleven. It notes potential boosts to local commerce and broader service reach.
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Bertha Poole
Post Office
England
Parcelo Post Rare Free Delivery Would Benefit Masses
The excerpt argues that counting all routes shows fifteen million people who would benefit from the Parcelo Post of the Free Delivery service. It emphasizes widespread impact and calls for consideration of this large affected population.
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Parcelo
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Dempster
Beatrice
Nebraska
Dempster Manufacturing Co
J. A. Pickard & CO
Diller
John Steiner
Colorado
Earnest A. Bell
U. S
Sime
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Mapyr
Outfit Free
James E. Sharkey
Ec'y
Plymouth Court
Chicago
Schumann
Sghumann
West Side
Jefferson
Frank T. Pearce
Ouihe Sd
J. G. Neely
Diller, Nebraska
Diller, Nebr
Waggoner Bros
RB. Z. Diller Diller Brothers
New York
Boston
Atlantic Coast
Niagara Falls
Detroit
Pacific Coast
Yellowstone Park
Big Horn Mountains
Black Hills
Thermopolis
Wyoming
A. T Watson
L. W. Wakeley
Omaha
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