The Fort Dodge Messenger: March 23, 1907

Yes Easter is Near at Hand

A Glance at the Easter Novelties in Store windows Will Tell You.

Easter Teddy Bear is Newest

He Make Take the Place of the Easter Rabbit in Time – Easter Eggs, Candies, Postcards and All Other Kinds of Novelties.

A stroll down Central Avenue and a look into the store windows will tell you that Easter is near at hand even if you had no way of reckoning it by the calendar.

It is not alone the displays of fancy toggery and O! trite expression, “the Easter Bonnet,” that tells the story. The appearance of the windows of the novelty stores fairly shout it into your ear.

Easter Postcard The poem reads: A Hearty Easter Wish The time for rejoicing is here, Winter's dead, and the spring is robust, In front is the best time of the year, And the best of your life,dear, I trust.

Novelties newer and neater, more varied and heterogeneous in the nature of the displays have never been seen in Fort Dodge. Of course the old time Easter Rabbit, the friend of the children, takes greatest prominence, but he bids fair to be displaced by the newer “Easter Teddy Bear.” The Teddy Bear is a pusher but the latest example of his goatlike propensities is his getting into the Easter novelty crowd. the easter Teddy Bear is a little fellow, fuzzy and comical and but little larger than the Easter rabbit. He sits in a nest of eggs or holds one in his clumsy, wobbly arms.

Hens sitting on nests of eggs, soft downy little chickens and ducks that look wonderfully like the real thing, beautifully colored artificial Easter eggs and the rabbit in dozens of sizes and hundreds of poses are on the list.

The most popular pose of the rabbit is where he is seen, like a chick just emerging from the shell of a big white egg. He is shown in several states of the process of getting out of the shell.

All kinds of creations in candy goods are to be seen, too. hens, chickens and ducklings, candy eggs, chocolate Bunnies make up the list. Egg dyes which are warranted to color the barnyard fruit of Mistress Cackle any desired hues are advertised.

Easter postcards are in interesting lot too. Sentimental ones are somewhat in evidence but the artistic kind prevail. Easter lillies, pictures of Easter choirs and many cute and quaint verses may be found on the cards that are set out everywhere.

The Fort Dodge Messenger: March 18, 1907

Town Topics

Part of Saturday, all day Sunday and continuing to some extent today green was in evidence everywhere in Fort Dodge. Every other man one passed on the street wore a shamrock in his lapel and with the female population strap bits of green were to be noticed in the wearing apparel. Every year new and novel devices suggestive of St. Patrick’s day, March 17, are blossoming out and each year more attention is paid to this Irish holiday. Besides the shamrocks there were little clay pipes tied with green ribbon, little harps and tall green little Irish hats.

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What housewife has not on dozens of occasions had to content with the door bell nuisance? They are few, we will warrant. Oftentimes the busy housewife is called to the door ten times in a day by the ringing of the bell and in most of the instances only a circular has been left, a peddler wants to sell some knick-knack or a canvassing agent with his bland smile is found at the door. In connection with the cheaper grade of soliciting it has become a nuisance greatly in need of remedy and something to rid her forever from the harrassment (sic) of the pestiferous bell ringer is piteously prayed for by the average woman.

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Moving pictures – Moving pictures at the family theatorium. Admission 10 cents.

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The Messenger has a large assortment of score cards. Over 100 different styles.

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Girls wanted at the overall factory. Good wages and steady employment.