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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
7
A jumble of local happenings includes weather chatter, garden notes, and social news. Residents like Jorge Hastings Iowa Falls and A D Frante Hampton are mentioned along with visits by Earl Young and wife from Butte Montana and Miss Pearl McCaffery in Cedar Falls.
Review of events from thirty years past as recorded in the Enterprise files. Includes school program notes with student names and topics, local political and civic updates, candidates for sheriff and state senate, school ceremonies, and community happenings across Ackley and nearby towns.
Personal mentions place Fred Snyder in St Paul while W Aukes of Cleves, J H Sealesia in Clear Take and John Johnson of Kanawha appear in the city. Miss Leola Bush and Miss Grace Soltsama visit friends in Faulkner and Aplington. Mrs Eagle of Waterloo visits her father. others travel to Atlantic Town Chicago and Kingfisher Oklahoma on family business and hospitality.
William Thomas visits Hampton as workers build the Janssen building and hospitals treat patients in Waterloo. The note discusses a hypothetical threepence charge on wash days under English health insurance plans, provoking a titm of shifting wash-day customs from Monday to Tuesday and beyond, with households fearing a chain reaction of changes until all options are exhausted.
A jumble of small entries includes a reward notice for recovered spectacles in an aluminum case, a farm for sale invite by P. Clancy, a sale of oak posts via C. F. Stauffer and A. E. Thack, and stray lines about selling old newspapers for lamp or wrapping use. The legible parts reference Eldora and Abbots area contacts.
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