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Local Drug Store Ads and Mixed Community Notes
Items advertise motor ether and Kow Kare with Bag Balm for sale at the Drug Store. Local residents including Mr. and Mrs Walter Oesterman and family visited in Algona. Notices mention Hamilton College December 1 start, gifts, and a Firefly of community happenings including a misfortune, a surgical report, a suicide in Kanawha, and a Swea City sales pavilion torn down. A Cleveland doctor distributing eyeglasses to the poor for Thanksgiving and a slogan about buying more eggs are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Sloper
Kow Kare
Walter Oesterman
Algona
Hamilton College
Mason City
Tycho Schriever
Rockford
Dieck Heyes
Lakota
G. C. Smallridge
Buffalo Center
Iowa
Pierre Sartor
Mankato
Minu
Dd Bartlett
Fred Wentz
B. Mrazek
Kanawha
Glen Zeigler
Swea City
Cleveland
Jas. Winter
Gilmore City
W. J. Denton
G. G. Winter
Fred Adamson
Park Hospital
John R. Meyer
Frank D. Fisher
John
Tom Young
A. M. Petersen
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
A. Kilian
Senus
August Panuluk
Sever Panukuk
August
Lere
John Pouelsen
Waterloo
Hilda
Vitonka
Burt
Wesley
Uncle Sam