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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1903
Page
4
Advertisement for Wheeler window screens by Eather ville Lumber Co. claims screens can be put up from inside in a moment and dust swept off the sill to the outside without moving the screen, promoting easy installation and sale.
Neighborhood notes report a Wallingford lodge event to raise funds for debt on their hall with plans for an attractive program and a date to be announced. Other items note new structures, local visits, a livestock train, social events, and small town happenings including purchases and moving plans.
A vintage notice touts Nickel Plate Road as equal to Chicago to the East with vestibuled sleeping cars and American Club Meals priced from 5c to 100 dollars. It lists Chicago depot Harrison Street Fifth Avenue and offices on Adams Street, with agents and travel details. Also ads for perfumes, a drugstore, rental listings, fence material, and health tonics appear.
The Ringsted Dispatch reports 1901 taxable value within Ringsted at 839298 and 1909 value at 248617 with a 19919 increase over two years. EB Hand paid George Pugsley 265 for 1300 muskrat hides. Pugsley sold nearly 400 worth of turkey season hides nearby Maple Hill. A Rebekah convention convenes with delegates from Estherville Spirit Lake and others. Lars Robinson and family plan a Denmark visit. Quarterly M E church conference in Armstrong ends Friday. Ringsted Presbyterian church repainted. Modern Woodmen of Ringsted plan May 1 events. G A R post forms committees for Memorial Day observance. program coming soon.
A long notice outlines the introduction of new stamped envelopes in four denominations one two four and eight cent with distinct shapes and embossing. It notes the green circular one cent envelope with Franklin bust, brick red oval two cent with Washington bust, brown square four cent with Grant bust and blue ellipse four cent with Lincoln bust.
Reports from the Thunder Mountain gold fields show steady gains with expectations of a large rush this year. The Thunder Mountain Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company touts a 120 acre property with a 50 foot wide free milling ore vein toward Rainbow Creek. General Manager Charles J. Forking is in New York collecting funds and answering inquiries free of charge, while the Conran public offering has drawn heavy investor interest. Machinery valued at about three million dollars is en route to the district as multiple mines expand their ore output. Readers can write to the New York site office for full district information and share details.
Great farm lands in the Northwest along the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad promise good soil climate and reliable crops. Farm values are rising rapidly and low excursion rates are offered. For particulars address A. B. Cutts general agent Iowa Department and M & St. L. RR Minneapolis Minnesota.
Ladies call and see our line of paper stationery invitations regrets and wedding materials. The latest writing materials strictly up to date with prices.
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