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Akron News Short Items and Local Advertisements
Readable notes from Akron include shop ads for millinery and furniture at Whitfield’s and Cobb’s, many names visiting relatives in Vermillion and Sioux City, and a fish-catching aftermath after a mill dam failure. Local social notices cover graduations, travels to Hot Springs and Denver, and upcoming Fourth of July events at the opera house with Peru buggies promoted.
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Whitfeld
Mound City
Cobb's
Akron Creamery
Grace Adams
Tuestroma
Ida County
Iowa
Atl Mead
Estaline” Rhodes
Arvada
Colorado
Sioux City
Red Oak
Valley Springs
Rhodes
Slaughter Cox
Jacob
B. Ruble
al- Gester
Akron
Tars
City