New Year Reflections and Polar Claim Controversy
The article recalls 1910 hopes for Akron and readers to start fresh in the new year. It mocks alcohol and women cigar restrictions while debating price rises, trusts, and farm prices. It notes Explorer Cook’s discredited North Pole claim and Peary’s contested honor, urging proof for polar achievements.
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Register-Tribune
Explorer Cook
North Pole
Copenhagen University
Explorer’s Club
Mt. Mckinley
Alaska
Cook
Icy
Gtah
Peary
Nis
A Vision of the Future in Religious Unity
An Ameri can eminent theolog y and sociology foresees all Protestant bodies uniting in one organization to promote Christianity. The piece traces past denominational quarrels and praises a trend toward unity and shared service across creeds. A New Year s Boost Ballad encourages optimism and active support for collective progress.
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Spirit Lake Beacon
Rich H H Rudd Fell From Fortune To Pauper in Clay County
The Vermillion Plain Talk reports H H Rudd died in poverty after a career of wealth from a Illinois migration to South Dakota farms and mills. He accumulated land and started flour mills but failed, with mismanagement and a grasshopper plague blamed. His decline culminated in poverty, delirium, and time at Clay County poor farm. An unrelated note cites tests by B E Carmichael at the Uiolo station comparing oats and corn for horse feed, finding weight and vigor similar across diets.
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Blas
H.H. Rudd
Claycoucy
Rudd
South Dakota
Ilinois
Elk Point
Union County
Clay County
Loti
Lodi
Callope
Iowa
S. D
Ruth
B. E. Carmichael
Uiulo
A. S. Bulletin of Agriculture
Leading Lady at Akron Opera House Delights Tonight
A high class attraction featuring Chic Perkins and her artist company in the Leading Lady at the Akron opera house Monday evening January 10. Perkins will display costly gowns and the performance promises first order artistry. Also reports Watenda Monitor noting farmer George Sweeley advocates silos as a solution to stock feeding amid rising grain prices. His silo this year stored eighty tons of hay and feed from eight acres.
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Chic Perkins
Akron Opera House
Chic
Watenda
S. D
George Sweeley
Union County Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Elk Point
I. H. Eddy
Lena Bushby
Ireton
le Mars
Eyanaville
Sentinel
Louis Mathwig
Sioux City
LeMars
Order of Owls
J. W. Nemmers
Plymouth County
Iowa Corn Growers' Association
Des Moines
Chas. Wik
Alcester
Sales Listing With Names and Upcoming Dates
An advertisement shows a roster of individuals who have joined a sales campaign, with dates ranging from January 1 to February 16. Included are Chas Kelly, Jsrean, dnf Cummings, J Barington, Join McMahon, Walter Cole, Aug Lundgren, Clarry Putnam, George March, Nave Mentser, Chas W Ruble of Lake Andes M D Lig Stock Sale, and others. The list reads like a register of participants and scheduled events in a local sales drive.
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Chas. Kelly
Jsrean
Dnf Cummings
J. Barington
Join McMahon
Walter Cole
Aug
Lundgren
Clarry Putnam
George March
Nave Mentser
Chas. W. Ruble
Lake Andes
M. D
Lig Stock
Nuls Llauson
Muth. Eicott McCorkell
John Schleuter
John English
Sever Abrahanson
John Weyen
Triplets Born to Mr and Mrs Peter Tuyman Rock Valley
Neighborhood notes report the recent birth of triplets to Mr and Mrs Peter Tuyman in Rock Valley. Other items include a fifty-member Dairymen's association organized in Sioux County, James J. Farrell sent to Knoxville Inebriate asylum, and various local updates on residents, marriages, obituaries, and community events across Plymouth and Woodbury counties.
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Peter
LeMars
Jas. W. Pavlovic
County Recorder
Davis Implement Co
Merrill
Woodbury County
P. O. Paulson
Brule Township
Onion County
M. D
M A Agnes Practical Auctioneer Akron Iowa
M A Agnes offers auctioneering in Akron Iowa with 25 years of experience. Advertising dates and terms via phone or First National Bank of Akron. Also provides law loan land insurance and collection services and lists agents for Mutual Hail Insurance Association of Iowa with past assessment rates.
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Sithoy
First National Bank of Akron
Mutual Hail Insurance Association of
Iowa
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Westfield
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Paul Wendt
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Bertha Collins
A.H. Collins
Hawarden
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Merrill School Board
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Ethel McCoy
Mitchel
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Boyden
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Ida Grove Pioneer
Review and Reporter
P. D. Richards
Huntting
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Chicago
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BR. G. Hamilton
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C. C. Carlson
Andrew Hanson
Sioux Valley Township
Marion
J. C. Ericson
Dell Rapids
Byron Powell
Dr. L. J. Coonger
M. A. Agnes
August Lundgren
C. A. Searls
Wm. Kuryanek
Ernest Ostrom
Peter Swanson
C. A. Stlek
H. A. Whittecar
John Schiguter
A. Whittecar
John Waelish
Henry Siens
P. A. Steveson
Ole Nagelstadt
Peter Kleingchmitter
Oscar Wiedervelt
Warm. Jansen
Frank and
Will McMahon
Frank Hottman
Peter Berry
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