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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1913
Page
2
An appeal invites readers to visit Gardston Variety Store to enjoy a splendid range of holiday goods for themselves and their families. The message emphasizes a warm, inviting atmosphere and the gratification of shopping there during the holiday season.
A countryman travels from outskirts to Smithfield and London to buy shoes, a sheep, chickens, beef, fish, rye, homespun cloth, and wood. Prices show shoes at 7 cents, sheep 10 cents, chickens 11 cents each, beef five cents, fish 10 cents for 25 endfish, rye grain high, cloth 12 cents per ell, wagon load of wood 12 cents, all claimed accurate as a slice of sixteenth century life per the New York World.
A letter questions how meteors affect Earth’s balance and orbit. Edgar Tucien Larkin cites the New York American noting no centrifugal force, only gravity and inertia. Even daily meteor fall is deemed too small to alter the year’s length.
A Cornwall bridge near Wadebridge used bags of wool sunk in the stream and piles driven to form a sturdy foundation. The method proved firm and satisfactory, after other devices failed to withstand the current as described in a quaint local note.
Advertises quick photography for Christmas presents. Promises same day output with modern methods, regardless of weather. Announces new line of framed pictures and extended evening hours through Christmas with special inducements for this week.
A garbled caption shows L C Doolittle as photographer. A colored servant mistaking a portrait exclaims about its age, correcting that it is Missus Taylor Lippiott's painting. The scene hints at a class and race dynamic in a historical studio setting.
One of the oldest specialists on the road, licensed by the State, offers treatment for chronic diseases of men women and children. Free examination and advice. Cures claimed for bed wetting neuralgia skin conditions stomach liver kidneys rheumatism and more without surgery. Call Deming for details. It may save your life.
Mrs N O Connell of Estherville Iowa testi fies Doan's Kidney Pills eased her kidney trouble after months of backache nervousness and dizziness She uses them in her family and praises them as best remedy for irregular kidney action Sold 60 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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