Iowa News Round Up and Political Wit in 1908 Echoes
A fragment from the Register-Grihnne notes holiday gifts, Iowa corn yields, and political chatter. It cites optimistic corn forecasts at about 287 to 300 million bushels statewide, judges facing possible action under the indeterminate sentence law, and Roosevelt’s digressive editorial tone on graft and media. It also mentions rural mail box regulations and various Iowa newspapers sharing holiday advertising.
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State Bureau
Iowa
Parcel Post Reform and Rural Delivery Debate in Iowa
Iowa judges clash over indeterminate sentence law with Gaynor and Sutchingen resisting its noted existence. An Odabolt Chronicle bully calls for practical rural policy, doubting rural parcel post viability and urging Taft to appoint a country-minded postmaster general. Also, notice to breeders advertises public auction near Alcaster for Percheron mares and hog stock, with Johnson auctioneering and breeding emphasis. The LeMars band expands to forty members in a reorganized group.
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Iowa
Gaynor and
Sutchingen
Post Office
Taft
Odabolt
Chronicle
Alcaster
Poland
China
Alcester
J. A. Johnson
Delinquent tax sale yields eighty-one thousand in Sioux county
Neighborhood News reports 81,068.02 earned from last week's delinquent tax sale. Four bidders attended in LeMars as 162 properties were sold before a brief postponement.
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Sioux County
Grant Musser
Hungerford
Sioux City
Seal van Sickle
Hawarden Electric Theater
P. P. McManaman
LaMars
LeMare
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Beresford Republic
Alcester Union
Hawarden
Bro. Peterson
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Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Panama Canal
Sioux City Journal
White -4House
Milanazine
T. R. Ad
Des Moines
Gaynor
Hutchinsons
State ‘Board of Parole
Pris
Aynor
Aurohinson
Choice Line
Wintersteen
LeMsurs
Neighborhood News
Jacob Hamerly
Baresford
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Far West
Plymouth County
Henry Jurgens
LeMars
O'Brien County
Standard Oil Company
Independent Oil Men
Lyon County
Geo. Tangeman
First National Bank
Sheldon
South Dakota
Union
Thomas Robinson
Ericson & Stickney
Elk Point
Boyson Ross
Exieson & Stickney
V3 Attorneys
Hsia Tone
Elle Point
Philip
Esla
Mary
Chas, Batehelder
Elk Point Courier
Studebaker
Harry. G. Clark
Akron, Iowa
XMAS
Beck Sburril
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