Rail depot plans eyed by Swea City officials and visitors
The railway commissioners and representatives toured Gridley and Gerled depots to study needs and plan improvements. Addison Albert Erickson, son of Mr and Mrs Erickson, died after a brief illness cynanche maligna at age two, with burial at Swea Township cemetery. The Ainsworth Orchestra played for a concert and dance at the opera house to aid the baseball team, though proceeds fell short by about eight dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addison Albert
Albert Erickson
Dr. Morse
Algona
Swea Township
Morse
Ainsworth
Opera House
R. R. Stockman
H. N. Kruse
W. R. Jacobs
Kossuth Merchants Association
Burt
W. B. Packman
M. M. Williams
Elmore
Tinker
Olof Pearson
W. H. Campbell
C. M. Christenson
Grant Courte
Chicago
Orville Rawley
Statebank
Cedar Rapids
Clara Fisher
Addison Albert Erickson
Swea City
Bancroft
Council
Chas
Knutson
Frank Nicoulin
Chas. Miller
St Joe Dance in West Bend Sees Light Theft Losses
St Joe residents recount a West Bend dance night marked by pickpocketing and missing items totaling about ten dollars. Shoes and small goods vanished from coats and a livery storage incident added to the loss. The village notes baseball practice resumes and local horse trade, with Frank Gotch passing through and Pete Erpelding selling a horse at two hundred twenty six dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joe
West Bend
Sexton News: Local visits and events week in Sexton
Will Lehman, Wm. Kutchara and Henry Aman help install wires for area farmers telephony south of Sexton. Local social rounds include visits to Reinecke near Irvington, Kutschara relatives, dances, births and Sunday gatherings at Sparks, Ahrens and Swanson households, with several residents noted as ill or visiting relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Lehman
Wm. Kutchara
Henry Aman
John, Leeman
Baby
Reinecke
Irvington
Herman Kutschara
John Lehman
Henry Nelson
Will Hager
Edith Fatland
Silas Sparks
B. E. Sanders
John Ahrens
Nels Johnson
Wesley
Viola Lister
John Kain
Martin Swanson
Sexton
Wm. Kutschara
Chris Ahrens
Smith
Meningitis War Urged as Public Health Crisis
Des Moines reports a dire note from the state board of health on spinal meningitis spreading from Missouri into Iowa. The committee urges strict quarantines at first sign, immediate notification to state health officials, fumigation of affected premises, and no public funerals where the deceased died of the disease, warning that every case could prove fatal and urging citizen cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Health Committee
State Board of Health
Farmers Elevators Liquidation Ends Longtime Co op
Topeka reports the Farmers Cooperative Shipping Association of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma has liquidated. It once owned over 50 elevators, with 20 sold in the last three weeks, raising 74 847 25. Over the past year 37 elevators were disposed of as losses mounted, last year expenses exceeded receipts by 9 000, the year before by about 11 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Farmers’ Co-operative Shipping Association
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Good Cisterns and Soft Water Offerings
Spurbeck Lambert Company builds cisterns from Cypress and White Pine priced from 14 to 25 dollars by size. Cisterns do not crack from freezing and keep water soft for years. Install before spring as rains are lower. office and factory near the C N W depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spurbeck-Lambert Company
Not Much Spring Fever
Poem notes a dull spring with scarce fishing and loafing, a missing dog named Charley Pooch, Bill Cody fishing by the dam, and a town softened by cold weather. The speaker prefers work to leisure and senses something odd about the season, despite fond memories of fishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Cody
Bill
The Ocean Liner Safety Instruments On The Bridge
The article describes how ocean liners place all critical safety devices under bridge control. It notes bells red lights and indicators behind the wheelhouse walls with thermometers barometers thermostats and gauges linked to fire and danger sensors. It explains a swift alert system guiding the wheelman to exact danger locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Arnold Collins
St Nicholas
Parmentier Ingenious Prize Plant Trick Draws Potatoes Into France
Parmentier disguises his potato fields near Paris with threats of severe punishment for thieves claiming the crop is meant for kings and nobles. Night thefts persist, but after tasting the tubers peasants become eager to plant and buy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parmentier
France
Paris
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B. F. Robinson
Thal
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Joseph Illy
Edward
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Anna
George Becker
John Kayser
Omaha
Neb
Nick Gales
Racine Buggies
International Binding Twine
The
International
Smith Great Western
F. E. McCorkle
Algona, Iowa
ST. Joe News
Frank Gotch
Father Remley
Pete Erpelding
Pete
Nick Thul
Joliet, I
Sexton News
Iowa Board of Health
Farmers’ Elevators
Register & Leader
Taylor
Hugh Norwood
Proprieyor OP Mil
Algona Rendering Works
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