Akron Booster Club Forms Solicitor Inquiry Committee
The Akron Booster Club has created a special committee to screen all solicitors in Akron for funds or magazine subscriptions. Residents are urged to report any solicitor asking for money to the secretary, O. Moore, who, with the committee, will vet the solicitor's project and issue an introductory card if approved.
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Akron
Akron Booster Club
Akron Rooster Club
Ooster Club
Sapaeae
Bry
National Award for Iowa Woman in Bell system service
Miss Otta Willcox of Williams Nebraska, a night operator for Northwestern Bell, received a silver medal and 250 in cash from the Bell System National Vail Medal committee for heroic service after a bank robbery in June 1921. She alerted Blairsburg and aided rapid pursuit and restoration of lines, with a ceremony planned for presenting the awards.
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Iowa
Otta Willcox
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Williams
Bell Telephone System
Bell System
Wall’ Memorial Fund
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Northwestern Company
Vail
Mildred Lothrop
Homer
Neb
Frank Forrest
Dakota City
Blairsburg
Wall
Omaha
Willcox
Ervin P. Howard
Schuyler, Neb
Trustees Sale In Bankruptcy of Nick Willer Akron Iowa
Public auction of trust assets in the Nick Willer bankruptcy case No 1656 at Bohlken Feed Yard Akron Plymouth County Iowa on December 24 1922 at 2 00 PM. Personal property includes a Wallace Tractor 1814 Oliver Plow Six hole Corn Shelter Rack and Track Old Buss Harrow Swill Cart 50 gallon Tank Grinder Tools Vis a augur and more. E H Youngstrom Trustee.
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Trustes
Nick Willer
Bohlken
Akron
Plymouth County
Iowa
Wallace
Oliver
Buss
Visa
E. H. Youngstrom
Youth's Companion 1923 Calendar for subscribers
The Youth's Companion publishes a red and dark blue calendar for 1923 sold to subscribers who paid $2.50 for the 62 calendar pages. It lists current month days in bold with preceding and following months in smaller margin type for convenience. The LeMars fight and power plant, owned by the Martin Schafer estate, was bought last Friday by Boston investors tied to Owl Light Heat and Power.
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LeMars Fight
Martin Schafer
Boston Capitalista
Owl Light, Heat and Power Company
Local ads and church news from Akron and nation
Classifieds announce subscriptions and sale items including typewriter supplies, radio gear, a Ford magneto charger, and auto top accessories. Community notes report Rev. Daniel Reagan’s sermons at Akron Baptist Church and his call to pastor the local church. A TB fundraiser update explains Christmas Seals history and purpose as a national drive started in 1907.
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Register-Tribune
Register Tribune
Gerald Smith
Akron
Ford
Auto Top Shop
J. L. Clayton
East Mill Street
Daniel Reagan
Chicago
Akron Baptist Church
Reagan
Christmas Seals Sale Opens December in Plymouth County
Christmas Seals drive begins after Thanksgiving and runs through Christmas to aid public health in Iowa. In Plymouth county fifty percent of sales support county health work, the rest goes to the State Tuberculosis association. The local Plymouth county group lists chairs and members across Le Mars, Kingsley, Merrill, Remsen, Akron and Hinton.
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United States
Denmark
Iowa
Plymouth County
State Tuberculosis Association
J. B. Blackburn
le Mars
B. R. Dennis
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BR. Hess
Heys
Cobbic Gheenlers Ggists
Crane Arse
D.V.S
Clyde Pollock
Prdrdads
The
Akron Sanitary Rendering Works
Farmers’ Lumber YD
Louis Koch
Sauna
Emu
Lea Chie
Pasi
Mitchell
Auburn
Chevrolet
Overland
Studebaker
Dodge Bros
Moir Motor CO
Chas Wise
Harry Waterbury
Chas
Pursee
Avon
A. C. Hauck
Ke Varina, Iowa
Washington
Milton Irwin
Merrill
Florence Lucay
Irwin
American Legion
Bradley
Petit Furora
Judgeradley
Sibley
Osceola County
C. L. Voss
J. H. Bowers
Sioux Township
Akron Savings Bank
Daniel Green
St. Louis
Kansas City
Davenport
Denver
Atlanta
Dallas
Fort Worth
Minneapolis
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