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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
4
October notes from Oak Glen and surrounding area recount social visits and family travel. Residents such as Mr and Mrs Bert Robbins and Mr and Mrs Ordin Osking are noted visiting friends while others travel to Ames Chicago and Manchestor for fairs and shooting matches. Community activity includes threshing hog shipments and a large millinery purchase by Adel Fovall with Chicago trimmer.
Des Moines reports a packed opening day for the Iowa State Fair with a 25 cent gate fee and a program to begin tomorrow. Officials Cameron and Simpson forecast record attendance and bigger exhibits as the new steel grandstand nears completion and the Sioux Indian village draws crowds.
A stream of local residents head to Adel for a brief stay. Miss Jessie Warrington returns from Des Moines after a several week visit. Many town residents travel to Des Moines and Ames for family and hospital news and to visit relatives.
Mrs A F Bartlett comes back after weeks in Wisconsin visiting towns and lakes. Mrs B Balir heads to Prairie Du Chein on Royal Neighbor lodge business and plans to join family in Des Moines during the state fair. Henry Arnold Otto Pili and others visit relatives. Mrs Carrie Gould, a noted medium, attends from Iowa. Arlington Town couple Migs Lottie Petraie to housekeeping. Swiney travels to Aberdeen with eight Illinois farmers. Ed Osborne and family depart for Applg. Wise and Roy Krouskup prepare for the state fair with Wise root beers.
Joe Greiner and wife returned from Hedrick Iowa after visiting relatives of Mrs. Greiner's Cecil Bradley family members left for Glidden Iowa where Mr. Bradley found work Henry Rierson of Marshalltown spent Sunday at home Joel Ostrom suffers eye trouble with something in the pupil Ed Osborn and family of Aledo Illinois visit relatives John Johnson and Ira Egland went to Laurens to oversee ditching Mr and Mrs S S Stark and Miss la Groves left for San Francisco
An advertisement touts Mi-o-na as a powerful stomach remedy sold by Buster Brown in Webster City for 50 cents a box. It claims indigestion causes rich blood and lists symptoms like sour stomach belching and nervous unrest, promising to restore energy and health.
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