Pioneer Grandma Avery Star of Hancock County Dies
Garner Iowa March 26 The brave spirit of Grandma Avery first white woman to settle in Hancock county died after pneumonia. She came from Michigan in 1854 with her husband and two children and helped establish Goodell area living three miles from Forest City. She witnessed county births and deaths and described frontier life with Indians and buffalo meat common on the prairie. Her son George was the first boy born in the county and Annie Nelson the first white child.
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Garner
Grandma Avery
Hancock County
A. W. Schmalle
Avery
George
California
Goodell
Avery Stills
Michigan
Mississippi
Rock Island
Tast
Forest City
Mrs. Avery
Dubuque
Averys
Eldora
Annie Nelson
George Haskin
One Real Daughter of the American Revolution
Mrs. L. F. Andrews of Des Moines led a reading of the roll at the Iowa society D A R twenty second annual conference in Grinnell Iowa noting that 53 granddaughters of the Revolution still reside in Iowa as part of the historic lineage highlighted at the event.
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Grinnell
L. F. Andrews
Des Moines
England
Iowa
Iowa Society of the D. A. R
Golden Anniversary for Two Brothers’ Double Wedding
In Osage Indiana a double wedding couple Hover Hovelson and John Hovelson marked their fiftieth anniversary. The two men are brothers and married in Mitchell county fifty years ago. Their children hosted a reception for the families.
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Osage, In
Hover Hovelson
John Hovelson
Mitchell County
Olive Tablets Offer Gentle Constipation Relief
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide a non calomel laxative option used for chronic constipation and torpid liver. They are sugar coated olive colored tablets that stimulate natural bowel and liver activity without griping. Many readers report dark brown mouth bad breath tiredness and headaches improving after taking one or two tablets at bedtime. Available 5c and 30c.
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Edwards
Chiropractors Propose Drugless Health System Expansion
An editorial discusses health as key to opportunity and the rise of chiropractic care as a drugless system. It cites 64 percent recoveries from chiropractic treatment, argues spinal misalignments cause disease, and promotes ongoing ads and listings for chiropractors across Cedar Falls to Waverly Iowa towns.
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Hancock
Dr. Edwards
Waterloo
Luis
Chiropractic
Joses
Riehts
Mary E. Day
D. C
Washington St
H. Hoy
East 4Th St
Greene
W. W. Langenhagen
Thomas Block
R. L. Sholes
Christine A. Voxel
D. G
Fisher
5Th
Lafayette
Osage
E. EB
Esslinger
Leuthold Evans Co
Waverly
Towa
E. Moodie
Waverly Sayings
Utsee
Fase Brothers
Harter B. Hull
Franklin
Cedar Fails
Oleem
Rasmuseen Relabock
Ohre Automotive “Co
Oadster
F.C.B. Cleveland
Sudjed
the Peerless Motor Car Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Union Motor Car Company
West Fifth Street
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