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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1904
Page
2
Farmers are urged to relocate to the South to farm outdoors year round. The text praises growing velvet bean and cassava in Alabama and Florida as economical fattening materials for stock. It claims higher profits with less labor through southern fruit, berry growing, and truck gardening and directs readers to contact Louisville and Nashville agents for information.
Train schedules include NORTHERN bound No 6140 passenger and freight, local freight No 64, No 28 and No 31 services, sales agent details, and district church and civic listings. It lists county officers, school board, church services, fraternal orders, and lodge meetings across Estherville.
Dame Fashion favors rain-proofed fabrics over the old Mackintosh. Oriental fabrics rise in demand as designers embrace practical, stylish rainwear. The piece notes era shifts in outerwear and references British troops in the South African war and the chic label Champagne for skakhi cloth.
A period piece extols the dainty kimono and shadioga as marks of Oriental elegance, noting sandalwood scent, silk petticoats, and rich fabrics. It also promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills for headaches and highlights Idaho farmland and timber opportunities, mentioning Palouse fields, Coeur d'Alene dining camps, Bitterroot ranges, and northern Idaho resources.
A Fort Dodge buyer reports good horses, especially those fit for eastern markets, are scarce in Webster County and fetch $100 to $200. Farmers redirected breeding during past shortages, boosting prices, with young stock not yet marketable and waves of war shipments affecting supply and demand.
Estherville residents share public statement lauding Dean Kidney Pills from William s Anderson drugstore. Mrs. Conner describes back pain and kidney issues improved by the pills, noting relief in headaches and reduced kidney secretions. Bowker-Milburn Co of Buffalo NY lists Dean's as sole US agents and warns against substitutes.
On the first and third Tuesday of each month the Minneapolis and St Louis Railroad offers special round trip excursion fares to all points in the northwest west and south at one fare plus two dollars Return limit twenty one days with stopovers permitted One way rates also in effect for sellers Call or write for particulars A I Curtsy G bP oR TO AY Minneapolis Apr 19 Lu s the little colds that prow into big calde the big colds that end in consumption and death Watch the little colds Dr Wood s Norway Pine Syrup
An obscure notice from Des Motner Iowa announces rate changes for Island System travel with a fare of one dollar and fifty cents, details on sale dates May 16 to 18, and no return before May 19, alongside an unrelated testimonial for Dr Thomas electric oil claiming quick relief for burns cuts and bruises.
The Rock Island offers four fares of one and a third on certificate plan from points in laws for the event A. W. meeting in Davenport May 10 to 12 The Vindicator and Republican advertise sale bill printing DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised as a safe cure for burns cuts bruises and skin abrasions sold by Williams Alderson Estherville Quammon Rivers Wolds Wallingford.
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