Local News Highlights From Jefferson County May 5 1899
Jefferson County Record reports two good rains this week and local notices of wall paper sales, visitors, and a storm travel home. Stray bay mare and a marriage of community updates appear alongside ads for products and tonic claims. A missionary meeting on May 13 and a note on Mrs J D Fanders arrival to Boise City Idaho are included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Missionary
J.D. Fanders
Fairbury
Boise City
Idaho
A Narrow Escape from Severe Illness
Ada E Hart of Groten writes of a near fatal lung illness that defied four doctors. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds with her recovery after eight bottles, praising the medicine and noting trial bottles at J W Sutton’s dry store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mia
Ada E. Hart
Groten
J. W. Sutton
Cure a Cold in One Day Ad and Lincoln Lecture
An old ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee and a 25¢ price. Nebraska Anti Saloon League organizer Rev J B Carnes will lecture at the M E church March 6 and 7. In Steele City two men T W Kennedy and W S Houck were arrested for passing a raised bill and bound over to district court on $500 bonds. they claimed to sell school charts and allegedly forged district and Washington county, Kansas, orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Carnes
D. D
University Place
Lincoln
Nebraska Anti-Saloon League
M. E
T. W. Kennedy
W. S. Houck
Steele City
Fairbury
Treasury
Washington County
Kansas
Dr King's New Life Pills Offer Quick Headache Relief
A vintage advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy for sick and nervous headaches. It claims the pills purify blood, strengthen nerves, and boost health, priced at 25 cents a box with a money back guarantee. Sold by J W Sutton, druggist, 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
J.W. Sutton
Display of Farm Implements and Machinery for Sale
Deering binders mowers slay rakes and twine offered with new Rumely Case threshing gear copper wagons top buggies St Joseph John Deere riding and walking teams. Also Sisters Black Hawk Keystone corn seeds and drills single line mention of Cultivators from New Departure. Promotes machine oil and axle lubricants with claim of a St Joe double row Disc Cultivator. No humbug and assures works to perfection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deering
Rumnely & Case
St. Joseph
John Deere
Black Hawk
Keystone
Diller
St. Joe
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Jefferson Co. Record
M. Wright
John Zook
Frank Berry
Heatrice
Clyde Zook
Miss Maude Long
Miss Moreland
Odell Ware
Jesse W. Miller
Chas, Reinhart
Beatrice
Hines
Rocky Mountain
J.P. Lowe
F. F. Hartzell
Jarsen
Butcb
Chamberlain
J. W. Lynch
Dorr, W
D.C. Miller
Cress & Son
Kensington
Nebr
Rock Island
Yarbine
Clyde Wright
Lavelle Street
Diller Harness Shop
W. T. Jeffryes
Colorado
Stark Hayes
Habbell
SNC
Oxpress
Elrhcoru
Bartoer
Zatl
Huey, —the
Fairbury Jeweler
Dilner
Thor
Nelson
Mr. Nelson
J. H. LeRoy
Nanaaali
Fabler
Buckeye
James F. Ballard
Scle Proprieter
North Main Street
ST. Louis
A. Sutton
Drussist
Bartlett Beomy
Jones
Linstroth
Eph
S. Joseph, MO
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