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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
5
A long letter from Woodward Oklahoma dated January 21 1913 details travel by wagon through sand and wind in eastern Oklahoma. It notes crops Kaffir corn wheat oats and barley with yields cited and describes hardships buying potatoes from Colorado and paying store debts while imagining life across the land.
A January 24 1913 letters from Long Pine Nebraska writer Sherm and Jack express gratitude for Record copies and desire to subscribe but complain of lack of cash. The note jokes about prices and mentions Hades in the Sandhills and locals profiting from Eastern visitors. It notes good winter weather, illnesses from sand, and town life.
Miss Sidney Viola Parmeley died at four o'clock Sunday morning at her home on Second and Birch streets Atlantic after a long internal tumor illness. She was born January 29 1895 in Anita Iowa and would have been eighteen on Wednesday. Survived by her mother Perry Parmeley brothers Harry Ray Glen and five sisters Myrtle Wheatley Eva Gertrude Hallie and Iona. also grandparents and other relatives. Funeral at M E church Tuesday at 2:30 Rev Handy officiating. Interment Atlantic cemetery.
A 1913 Kansas City letter encloses a $1.50 fund check and praises Sherm’s return to journalism in the old Anita tradition. The writer extols Kansas City as a growing big town and urges relatives to visit, expressing regret at not seeing more Anita people.
The message from Des Moines Iowa dated January 24 1913 requests weekly home news in the Record. It lauds Senator Smith from Harlan and Hon J B D Peterson holding House seat No 1. Henry Lee becomes a new subscriber to the Record.
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