Local Notes From Wellaburg and Surroundings
Long list of town happenings including people improving from illness, travels to Fort Dodge, Hampton, and New Mexico, and local moves. Mentions: Miss Alice Swope, Miss Clara Brown, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Wesley Allen, J. K. Allen, Genevieve, Bannon moving to a Madison township farm, B J McGreevy visiting his ill mother, Emmett Kelly and Arthur Hatt Graves from Des Moines, M H Barnes selling horse stock, Mrs. EB Schmitz moving from Waverly to Garner, John Barlow returning from a Texas trip, and school vacation with teachers at home. Also notes on road work, tax exemptions, a pool hall fixture sale, Leverton district teacher Gertrude Kachelhoffer, and a lack of church services due to Rev. Thielken’s absence. Also includes brief items on trips, a windmill accident, creamery tax reduction, and local social visits.
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Alice Swope
Clara Brown
Rinnell
Gibson
Wesley Allen
Joel Kelley
Genevieve
J. K. Allen
Gas. Bannon
Madison Township
B. J. McGreevy
Ft. Dodge
Oneida Junction
EB. H. Schmitz
Waverly
Garner
John Barlow
New Mexico
Texas
Lows
Leverton
Mies Gertrude Kachelhoffer
L. Hartman
Clay Township
T. W. Passmore
Marke
Eldora
Ed. Kiger
Hardin City
Kiger
F. W. Campbell
Geo. Barrow
Henry Eiler
Wardwell
Johnson
Emiline Kiger
Claus
Albert VanDornam
Bert Carpenter
Hiram Santens
Ea. Ramebarger
Herman Ruppelt
Mra
Barney Starr
Kidora
The
Reformed Church
Thielken
Classia
Forreston
Ilinois
Gefitian Valley
John Hut
Williams Comedy Company
Koolman’s Hall
Peter Klu
John Snittjer
Frank Bailey
Cedar Falls
Wellaburg
Wendell Biebesheimer
Vinton
Charlea Biebesheimer
Davenport
L. L. Bausman
JP. J. Petera
Grundy Center
D. J. Riekena
Helen Primus
Maggie Doyen
Waterloo
Captain’s tale of a hat blown overboard on a steamer
A humorous exchange unfolds as a captain informs a passenger that a boy’s hat has blown into the sea. The mother laments the loss, while the captain explains the string attached to the hat did not break, causing the mishap.
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Steamer
Ming Isabel and Ms Spooner Exchange Barbs
Ming Isabel retorts that she is unlike other girls and Ms Spooner responds that such a remark is not flattering and suggests others are not similar to Isabel, sparking a terse exchange about identity and appearance.
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Cerrestes
Ming Isabel
Whcer
Ms Spooner
Border News From Hardin County Towns and Courts
Local items report jail transfers and court activity in Hardin county. Officials head to New Mexico and Portland moves, while probate cases near month end. School exams get state permission. two bids for water main fail as Smallpox concerns rise. note on a Deep Water terminal project along the Pacific Railway line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jews Falls
Maine
F. Carpenter
A. W. Oldenburg
Tows Falla
Same
Clation
State Board of Health
Woods
Iowa
Pacific Railway and Navigation Company
Hillsboro
Warrenton
Excessive Speed and Local Notices Collide in Iowa Report
A scattered Iowa page notes various local items from April including households in Danots and Parkersburg, a Belgian stallion purchase in Cedar Rapids, sickness in families, farm work beginning, and a baby born to the Birkhoff family. The piece references broader opinions from the Louisville Courier Journal and New York Tribune on freedom of expression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davia
Danots
Rudolph ‘Bohlman
Q. Jameea
Flora Sinvera
Harm Kruse
Parkersburg
Henricus Lindaman
Iowa
Anton Welland
Herman Wolendorf
Igbo Rischker
Louisville Courier-Journal
New York Tribune
Woraker
Early Asylum Pioneers and Quaker Welfare Vision
In 1708 Willam uke a Quaker opened York England's first national asylum for the insane. Earlier French reformer Picel proposed nonrestraint, a radical humane system now spreading worldwide as care for the mentally ill evolves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willam Uke
York
England
Picel
Anticipation and a Shell Game with Zoo Characters
In a humorous scene, a shy elephant declares trouble while chimpanzees proxy the shell game. The pachyderm discards a bag of emptied peanuts after a misdirected handoff as Anticipation jokes that joy lies in anticipation more than realization. The dialogue ends with a jab about a visit from a mother in law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hous Dan Dock
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Butler Counties
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Bomarville Journal
John I. Case
Rock Island
Gino
Limberg
S.ay
Austinville
Hardin County
Litnell
Eidora
Fildora Manooe
Lodge
Helmond
Falla
Sharm Borlen
Hubbard
Waukee
Lawn
Pear
Mitserer
Evangelical Church
Radcliffe
Tressury
Bradford
Grant Township
Hampton
iJudge-Lee
Hardie
John Lohr
Boylan
J. P. Sheldon
Tappan
N. C
Frank Hemmond
Bleeker
Portland
Oregon
Campbell
State Department
Frackno County
Court of Appeals
Louis
German Township
J. Huleman
Sere
D. Birkhoff
Becqme
Marx
One Price Clothiers
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Wape
Oster
Young
Magasine
Joose
CPANG
John Kelley
C. H.ooepke
TB. LL
Trey R
Ben Hur
Royal Milling Company
Minneapolis
Minnesota
A.D. Gimer & Co
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