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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
5
Economists believe farming costs will rise in 1937 over 1936 for crops and livestock. The pasted list of residents from Audubon and Sioux City appears with names and households, followed by a note on increased production costs for the coming year.
Jagged notes report a local story mix including teachers, a family illness, and a funeral at Elk Point Catholic church. References to Mrs Gray, Bonnie Sykes, and Clayton Ross appear with scattered phrases about Christmas seals donations and tuberculosis efforts.
A historic advertisement offers a free Christmas gift with each purchase of one dollar or more at Kierr's Garage for two days only, December 23 and 24. The snippet advertises a free box of candy as a holiday incentive to shoppers.
Local notes from Akron detail Mrs H G Warner visiting in Sioux City last Friday and Miss Frances Clayton visiting relatives there. Christine Bellwood undergoing treatment at Baker Hospital in Muscatine. A Christmas program set for Jones school Friday evening December 18. Frank Neal and wife plan winter in Los Angeles with sons Stanley andia working there. Maxine Byrnes returned to Brookings SD after visiting relatives. sister Mrs Carl Weidenfeller and Ted accompanied her. Lois Moir hospitalized briefly for pilex threat but improving to return home Tuesday. Pleasant Hill school in Portland township moved Christmas program to December 23 with 10 cent admission and free lunch. Lois Gabel teaches. Herman Koch family northeast of town visited California. Mac Tho accompanying to Phoenix. Akron public schools to close for two weeks holiday vacation starting Friday. Standard Oil Co warehouse east of rail yard broken into. oil cases stolen. Sioux City authorities alerted but no clue. Clyde Jones and Arthur Hall visit family in Akron. others join in Sioux Falls. New gas oil filling station planned at First and Reed by W G Adams and Howard Nygard using former Riter hardware site.
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