Home talent drama The Artist and the Lady praised
The home talent production The Artist and the Lady was a Friday and Monday success at Spera house. Horace Verner and Imogens Courtleigh lead a love story with Chicago teacher Joseph Kelvin delivering a strong performance. Neva Patterson as Imogene and Fernley Nicoutin as the comic hob0 shone, with strong support from Irwin Wilson, Howard Beardsley, Duane Redfield, and others.
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Spera
Horace Verner
Imogens Courtleigh
Joseph Kelvin
Chicago
Sanford
Walker Whiteside
Algona
Vil
Fooli Hgluts
Imogene
Neva Patterson
Mvre
Fernley Nicoutin
Irwin Wilson
Virginia
Ike
Harry Nolte
Dink Potts
Horace Morgan
Cork
Spark
Bull Dog
Duane Redfield
Ang
Howard Beardsley
Swelley
Pouls Bresensky
Hale
Robbers Invited to Office Raid Ended With Small Haul
Reported by the Germania Record the robbers contacted Wolfe of the Tople after a Tuesday invitation and entered his Titooka Bro office through a back window. They found a hooker of Gin Seng Gin, opened a cash drawer for about $4 in coins, but failed to crack the safe. The spree continued into Wednesday with minor thefts including two Winchester rifles and cartridges in a Box Car theft at Rock Island yards.
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Titooka Bro
Wolfe
Tople
Bro. Wolfe
Rock Island
Germania
Plonske’s Vehicle Down Slope Warns Baneroft Readers
A Banerofts Register notice describes a green shawter’s car veering from the grade into a ditch near the Hulterstrom place. It cautions readers not to press Dr. Plonske with questions and hints at a path through weeds and willows as a potential clue.
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Hulterstrom Place
How Editors Get Rich in Small Town Papers
A satirical look at the finances of country editors. The piece mocks editors profiting from personal life events, noting fees for birth, christening, wedding notices, obituaries, and death notices as the main income stream, concluding editors accumulate substantial earnings from public notices.
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Lowery
Yic
Morehead
Two Miller Boys Die? Or All Went Over Embankment
Two Miller brothers from near Irvington were traveling with Mr. Mayberry when their buggy plunged from an embankment after crossing a bridge north of Ralph Hart’s. The team and buggy were wrecked but all occupants escaped serious injury. The incident appeared in the Livermore area last Saturday night.
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Miller
Irvington
Livermore
Mr. Mayberry
Ralph Hart
hLshetmore Gazette
Races Shine Despite Early District Fair Displays
Emmetsburg gentlemen traveled to Ionda last Thursday for the district fair. Displays were modest due to early season timing, but the races stood out as likely the best in the area. About 160 eptyles with roughly 120 horses, including Palo Alto Tribans, participated.
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Emmetsburg
Ionda
Iowa
Palo Alto
County Board Plans 8500 Grant For Britt Fair Grounds
The board of supervisors of Hane cork county proposes appropriating 8500 from the county fund to improve the Britt fair grounds. The piece questions whether this will lead to a county fair run by the institution or just Britt concerns and hints at concerns about prior profits from such actions.
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Board of Supervisors
Hanecork
Sasocraton
Qorwith
Old Landmark Sold Becomes Aquarium Theater Project
Hopkins and Butters bought the building between the Otto Neuman store and the 8. C. Spear building. They plan remodeling it into an aquarium theater for electric theatricals. The structure, with a long history since 1870, changed hands many times, including owners Patterson, Parsh, and various tenants. The Kossuth County State Bank once owned it, and it has housed a grocery, restaurant, boarding house, and other ventures. Also noted are cattle market observations and local reminiscences from Swea City and agricultural commentary.
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State Street
Patter- Ron
Coonans
Emmetsburg
Frank Parish
John Grove
Kossuth County State Gant
Oats Market Report: High Prices and Varying Yields
Farmers report selling part of their oats directly from the mill at 40 to 41 cents per bushel. Yields range from 20 to 35 bushels per acre with most crops light in weight. Data from the Won Reporter notes varied quality across fields.
Gambling Advice Warns Young Man From Bad Habit
Emmetsburg Democrat quotes Bro Branagan advising a young man to avoid gambling. The message warns that even a few nights at cards can lead to ruin, urging ignorance as a blessed state for those with no experience in gambling.
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Branagan
Emmetsburg
Democrat
Fifty Years of Ossth Canty Wate Fair
The Palo Alto Reporter notes the fair enters its semi centennial this year, promising a grand celebration in northwest Iowa. The event counts fifty years since its start, with Isossutlh Fratyr billed as a high point, expected to draw strong county attendance.
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Lowa
Isossutlh Fratyr
Palo Alto
Monster pickerel tops Des Moines river catch says Vindicator
The Estherr ville Vindicator notes a twenty one pound pickerel caught from the Des Moines River near Surf Dodge last week. It claims the weight surpasses any lake catch this season and questions the purpose of fishing there to make a record.
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Roy Wee
Des Mouines
Surf Dodge
Des Moines
Estherrville
City Council Hears Day and Night Electric Light Proposal
At a city council meeting last night the plan to run the electric light plant day and night was discussed. A committee is investigating the proposal, with a likely plan to offer electricity for manufacturing use.
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Fatherville Enterprise
Fragmentary report from Waverly hospital appendix case
An incomplete note mentions a patient in Waverly town with abdominal pain. A doctor is called and the patient is taken to a hospital where an appendix operation may have occurred. Details are garbled and names unclear.
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Kelvin
Tiste Ginsier
Asa Gipsy Waif
Gladys Wright
Plonske
Alcona's
Geo. L. Galbraith
David Patterson
Haly
Wallace
R. M. Richmond
Crowley
Ile
J. O. Intech
Richmond
Swea City
Swea City Herald
Armer's Tribune
Wumdinger Fair
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