Honest Guy Faces Old Skinflint Betrayal Plan
A high school youth and a cautious clerk plot to expose a penny-pinching店 owner named Guy Baxter who kept a lead dime free of circulation. The scene unfolds in a Fort Dodge grocery with the counter and a nearby lunch counter as tensions rise before a planned hotel banquet.
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Guy Baxter
Farrell Company
Farrell
Guy
Father
Orson Hotel
Roes
Bedford
Ford
Baxter
Mr. Farrell
D D Pinocle Club Hosts Final Party Winners Named
The D D Pinocle Club and Mrs Mable Spiker hosted a Friday afternoon gathering with Mrs Robert Wilson presiding. Lunch was served and the event concluded the two week party series with winners Mrs Homer Millhofen Mrs Frank Kramer Mrs Forest Wilson and Mrs Mable Spiker to be entertained by the losers at Mrs H J Chadwicks home.
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D. D . Pinochle Club
Mable Spiker
Robert Wilson
Homer Millhofen
Frank Kramer
Forest Wilson
H. J. Chadwick
Donald Chadwick
Carl Moore
Anita Iowa town budget hearing announced for 1947
The Anita town council in Cass County Iowa will hold a budget hearing on July 1 1946 at 8:00 p m at the Town Hall. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for fiscal year starting April 1 1947. A detailed receipts and disbursements statement will be available at the hearing with estimated taxes per thousand and listed values.
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Anita
Cass County
Iowa
Grasshoppers Menace Cass County Farmers Reported
From our old files a June 18 1936 brief notes grasshoppers still plague Cass County farmers. The piece mentions Mrs C C Hansen of Anita turning 80 with many relatives and friends visiting her home to celebrate the event.
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Cass County
C. C. Hansen
Anita
Pretty home wedding and rain damage hit local area
Fifteen years ago heavy rain did damage to freshly worked fields. A noon wedding united Miss Virginia Jordan and Clarence Osen with families in attendance. Local residents and visitors plan short trips and business returns as farming and poultry efforts resume after the shower.
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Virginia Jordan
Harry
Family gathering ends with washing machine accident
George, Mark, and Maurine McDermott visit the McDermott parents as James King, the two year old daughter of Kenneth and King, suffers injury after catching a finger in a washing machine.
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George, Mark, and
Maurine McDermott
Mrs
Harold McDermott
James King
Kenneth King
Union Club Guests Attend Home Event in Harlan
The Union Club members were guests of Mrs. H. F. Myres at her Harlan home. The article notes the group resting there and mentions the first band concert of the season held Tuesday evening.
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Harlan
Union Club
Local 1921 Nuggets and Community Notes
A 1921 compilation reports Oak floor costs from 1917 18 and 1920 prices. Griswold merchants host a free chautauqua. Anita remains on the Chicago Cheyenne air mail route. A son named Lelanil Arthur was born May 24 to James Brown and wife of Lincoln Township. An electrical storm damaged Congregational Church lights and nearby homes. Liberty Bell owned by Charles Wilson won a race at Atlantic fairgrounds beating Monte Walters with a time of 12 4/5 seconds.
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Lelanil Arthur
James Brown
Lincoln Township
Liberty Bell
Charles Wilson
This City
Casey Gelding
Monte Walters
Guthrie Center
Fairgrounds
Atlantic
Sandwich filling tips and pantry notes from old text
The snippet discusses mixing honey and peanut butter just before use to prevent hardening. It warns against shining tinned pans to avoid removing tin coating and rust. It mentions honey’s mineral elements and enzymes, and notes sastrugi ridges and edible frogs in the U.S. regions.
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William Murdoch
Byndic
D. D. Pinochle Club
Solon A. Karns
General Beeres Saatt
James Nelson
Neil Johnson
Iown
Minnesota
Margaret Biggs
Kansas City
Missouri
George Smither
Karnsree House
A. A. Johnson
Ella
Council Bluffs
J. H. Schaake
Just
Department Stores
Espeland
Atlantic, Iowa
Cecil Miller
Asst
Mgr
Griswold
Chicago
Cheyenne
Ana
United States
Southwest
Des Moines
Chestnut Street
Yanreal
Chiefs
Rules
Key City
Atlantic City
New Jersey
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