County Board Minutes Show Bridge Work and Drain District Plans
County records detail approvals for Indian Creek Drain No. 3 and bridge projects with bonds and contracts. Officials authorize engineer to hire an inspector, spend on concrete pipe, and set salaries while auditing numerous road and bridge expenditures.
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Ae ‘Olsen
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Ieee Eeenettt
Onda Co
Pell & DeLeanganda
Livingston Tom Olsen
Omaha ‘School
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Matt Parrott
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Rudig
E. Ostrus
Parsons & Co
Brown Baker
Peacock & Baxter
Richard
F. Price
Delia Strighter
Pension
M. Thompson
Tirner
Tristen
Leon
G. Voorhees
Jennie M. Ward
Atria
Wickham Bridge & Pipe Co
George Zappe
Frank van Brocklin
Gopher Claims
B. F. Walker
A. M. Worthing
Bord Review
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G. F. Zellmer
Auto Hire
Highley
iCellmer
Ifike Metz
Ade
BE. Kringel
D. J. Sas
Bbde
Piark
A. Potlock
Inidan Creek
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Metz
Zellmer
Clarence E. Brown
Lena Construction Co
Indian Creek
Wickham Bridge and Pipe Co
Berger Mfg. Co
Pittsburg
Des Moines Steel Co
Wilson Genereta Co
A. Phelps & Soris
Mo Hon
N. P. Brown & Co
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J. Brindley
Liltie’ Anderson
W. D. Bell
John W. Blake
Wiscedeee
Ella Burns
H. Cornell
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Gaines
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Mark Conrad
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T. W. Davis
Farmera’ Co-operative Grain Ca
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Chambera
Births Reported
Birth notices from the Cumberland area list newborns with reporting parents and dates, noting local hospital births and verification by county clerk.
Prominent editor Lisle dies in Clarinda
Southwest Iowa news reports Lisle aged 73, former Clarinda Herald editor and owner, dying Sunday morning. He previously led Burlington schools and spent youth on Guthrie county farm, educated at Iowa Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant.
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Iclarinda
Lisle
Clarinda
Adair Funeral Rites For Ida Harry and Local News
Ida Harry died by Atlantic and funeral services were held at Adair with interment in Adair cemetery. Wiota lost the first home game this year 7 to 4 against Extra. Vivian Bowen, an Extra teacher, leaves for Colorado for summer with her parents. Mrs. Roy Herrick to Madison Wis with two granddaughters Ruth and Frances to visit mother. Fern Sharp from Grand Junction Colp visits Mrs Earl Thomas. Mrs. J A Edwards leaves for Carterville Wyoming after months here. W H Bowser Irene Judd Georgia Byrne Cora Stoodt, Lewis teachers, depart Des Moines for Drake University summer school.
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Ida Harry
Atlantic
Vivian Bowen
Colorado
Hillrone
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Madison
Wis
Ruth
Frances
Howard Herrick
Farm Loan Rates and Local Advertisements
Farmers are offered farm loans with rates of 5 to 6 percent. Also appears notices for local services and products, including massing relief devices and various advertisements. Names such as Wood & Savery and Atlantic, Indiana appear among the odd listings.
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Wood& Savery
Atlantic
Crucifixion Tale Stuns Oaxaca Then Mexico City
June 15 reports recount Dr. Jose di Gabriele an Italian religious zealot crucified by Tequisistlan Oaxaca indigenous residents on Good Friday. He allegedly proclaimed himself savior, survived after being nailed with railway spikes, and drew thousands at Easter. Tehuantepec officials ordered his return to the state capital. Tequiziatlan mayor and four others were arrested.
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Jose di Gabriele
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Oaxaca
Mexico
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di Gabriele
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Tehuantepec
Tequiziatlan
Bokhara Becomes Focal Point in Red Advances Across Central Asia
London dispatches report Bolshevik forces seize Bokhara capital amid Central Asia turmoil. The city, rich in mosques and ornate dress, sits on the Trans-Caspian railway near the Afghan frontier, strategically important though sparsely modernized.
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Bokhara
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Mecca
Hokbara
Bakhara
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Morokushke
Amusing roadside encounter in New Hampshire
A friend recounts motoring through New Hampshire and encountering a bare woman on a mile-long climb. The tale contains fragmented phrases and unclear dialogue, reflecting an odd roadside moment during a long drive.
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Iig
New’ Hampshire
Nantucket’s Icebound Winter Remembered In Deep Cold
New England endured a brutal winter years ago when Nantucket faced subzero temperatures and frostbitten seas. The Sankaty paused, harbor ice blocked ships, and the Cross Rip light ship drifted away, leaving ten men lost at sea in a harsh, memory-haunting period.
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New England
Nantucket
St. Anthony
Labrador
Monomoy Point Ught
Istand
Cross Rip
Towns first free school founders of Dedham
Dedham Mass marks two hundred seventy fifth anniversary of the free public school begun in 1845 after town meeting votes for taxes. Free instruction has continued, with a 1899 tablet placed on the original site and 1905 centennial celebration noted. 1945 is eyed for the 300th anniversary per Christien Selenea Monitor.
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Dedham
Mass
Commonwealth
Christien Selenea Monitor
Feelings Hurt by a Simple Family Misunderstanding
A Maryland town scene ends in a comic miscommunication as a passerby learns a boy cries because his mother is mending Jimmy's trousers for Timmy who cannot see well. The exchange reveals a neighborhood misunderstanding rather than harm.
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Maryland
Timmy
Jimmy
Really Not Her Fault
Lilly asks for milk for her kitten but the aunt recalls the cat spilled a big saucer and refuses more. Tilly defends the kitten as not knowing the price of milk, while Lilly insists the cat deserved it.
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Lilly
Tilly
Whose picture is that in the dark corner
An artist notes a well executed portrait in a dim corner and asks who it is. A woman replies it is her husband and the painting hangs with fatal effect. The artist recalls his first Academy effort and jokes about fate.
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Hense
Excited Young Man Disputes Lunch Counter Message
A fragmented dialogue shows an excited young man at a lunch counter insisting on a Hamburg steak while the counter man questions him about shell shock. The youth claims past work as a company clerk and mentions making requisitions in triplicate in a Home Sector.
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Teller
Portrait Prompt Sparks Quiet Acknowledgment
In a Haigton Post note, Mr. Peck replies to a portrait of his wife. The portrait artist, Pomear, says the sitter was not a lord, and the boy observed in silence. The Wife approves softly, calling it a sincere compliment and noting the dignity of the moment.
Life's Misfortune hooks a household scene in stray text
A fragmentary diary style note places a figure named Charles entering a home with clothes drenched by water and a brief reprimand from a mother figure, hinting at a domestic incident captured in a damaged OCR excerpt. The text preserves rustic character names and suggests a tense family moment amid garbled words.
Tighten Belts For Italians Amid Food Shortage Bleak
Italy faces a dire food crisis with harvests down sharply and heavy imports required for bread. Food Controller Muriard warns of rising prices across staples from sugar to cheese as strikes and unrest grow. Officials blame and are blamed for chaos, with no near relief in sight.
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Italy
Muriard
Chamber of Deputies
Food Ministry
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Food Control Office
Europe
Tiny book worth 75000 arrives in New York
A Pearl on the Cunarder carrying George D. Smith, rare books dealer, bought Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis printed in 1500 for 75000. The micro volume, two by three inches and weighing two curves, was purchased for Georg B. Huntington of New York.
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New York
George D. Smith
Cunard
Smith
Georg B. Huntington
Spain to Have Skyscrapers At Bilbao Conference
At a Bilbao conference of property owners and architects the plan was decreed that due to high expenses twenty and thirty story buildings will be developed. The discussion focused on enduring urban growth and modern city planning in Spain.
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Bilbao
Spain
Nng Architects
Gold first used as symbol and currency in ancient myth
A Lancet London report recounts Eilot Smith's February lecture on an ethnological discovery of camelid- or cevaletinary- import. Nomadic ancient peoples left gold traces across Europe Asia Africa America and Pacific islands. Gold’s rise as wealth and symbol began in Egypt around 4000 B.C. where it signified vitality and burial power, with cowries imitated from river shells and later gold modeling.
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London
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Africa
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Pacific
Furkestan
Persia
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Music and song in ancient Greece and a British branding incident
Ancient Greek music relied on cithara lyre and harp with bands marching to war on flutes and harps. Choral offerings united men and women for religious and public festivals and victories, while Star-Spangled Britted Product notes a London case where a British firm used American origin wording on labels, halted by the British board of trade after inquiry.
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Greece
Tima
Allman
B. C
American Chamber of Commerce
London
British Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Her Preference in a Neighbor's Whiskered Moment
Mary Ellen views the neighbor with longing as her father shaves. She protests, begging not to shave and expressing a desire to keep his whisker. The scene captures a private, morally charged moment in a domestic setting.
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Mary Ellen
The Tide of Immigration and Local Strike Muddle
A fragmented dispatch critiques national labor and immigration patterns as local affairs prove disruptive. References to workers from Chicago and New York, importers from Alabama, and troops from Envergor highlight global links, with a Judge's quip about ducking brick underscoring local tensions. The piece cites the Courier-Journal’s debate on policy and public sentiment.
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