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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1916
Page
2
A letter from Mia Sida SimnNous of Fair Haven endorses Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for babies and family use, asserting it cured a child’s cholers. The notice lists a church near South Eighth Street with service times and a daily Reading Room open for Bible study and Christian Science literature.
Sixteen state penitentiaries and detention institutions will display at the State Fair. Exhibits include fire art, farm products, manufactured goods, and fancy work, totaling about 10 000 inmates. Officials stress the exhibit shows employment impact and welfare concerns for the inmates and public interest in rehabilitation.
The Shorthorn breed, red white and roan cattle, enjoys peak popularity with record sale prices. Buyers from South America and Iowa have paid top sums, including a $10,000 bull, as the breed strengthens its stand in town herd markets. Last year 27 herds exhibited, described by judges as the greatest show of the breed in the nation, with expectations the upcoming August fair may surpass the 1915 showcase.
The Iowa State Fair showcases Baby Health contests to promote sanitary child care. A previous year’s department drew many infants across classes, taxing supervisors and nurses, and this segment will be prominent again in the fair’s new pavilion hosting lectures and demonstrations on baby health.
A strong dairy cattle show at the 1015 June State Fair Impresses as the best yet. Officials cite last year’s foot and mouth disease quarantines as reducing numbers while Wisconsin exhibitors stayed home. With eradication and lifting of quarantines, exhibitors from other states enter a robust field, promising the greatest State Fair dairy display in the nation.
A fragmentary and odd reflection questions appetite and a dare to consider consuming unconventional food items. The text reads as surreal and lacks clear event or named entities.
Chicago reports Motoring America gears up for National Touring Week with thousands taking to the roads. Demand for road maps and road guidance soars as states from New England to California celebrate with new highways and Good Roads Day. Road conditions overall favorable, but floods in Georgia Alaska and the Carolinas caution travel.
A reflective note marks 1916 as memorable as the year of the discovery of the home state. The sentiment See America First by Seeing Your Own State First captures civic pride and regional celebration.
Local proprietor McArdle of Ratherville reports kidney trouble and backache relief using Doan's Kidney Pills during attacks. Adurec mentions price and dealer availability. Also notes a piano sale in another notice by M L Brady of Balmersburg Iowa with cash or monthly payments.
White Pine College at Fort Dodge plans to open in the fall offering Auster 2k Commercial Normal Penmanship and Preparatory courses. Monk and Findlay are listed as property managers.
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