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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1916
Page
10
Local notes from Ackley Iowa list Memorial Day events, backyard cleanup, churchgoing, and visits by Frank Goettel and others. Mentions excursions to Clear Lake, potato shipments, price of Ackley potatoes, and various townsfolk traveling to Waterloo Ildora Merricourt and Des Moines. Also notes building work, crime news, and civic moves to enlarge town borders.
A parade of names notes visitors and travels including S F Kruse from Waterloo, Thomas Gimer from Abbott, Charley Clark from Iowa Falls, Thomas Beecroft from Wellburg, W F Reinke at Geneva, and Mr Gay of La Porte City visiting Reinbeck. A district No. 5 picnic, school close notices, and a June relocation plan are mentioned alongside weather talk and social observations. The piece ends with a discussion on railroad labor shifts, noting a change to African American workers and wage increases on the Illinois Central line near Ackley.
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