Local Note Highlights Trades and Travels Across Town
Date McClain begins work for John Stoner at Manure Spreaders while John Nelson hawks bargains. Ladies belts at Olans store draw attention. Nick Doling partners with Jean Gro in Omaha. W E Johnson visits Creston for Thanksgiving. Bert Jefferson near town plans sale on December 13. Vickerys celebrate with Shelby relatives. November and December travel to Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Georgia noted. Sylvanta Berry of Greeley reports corn conditions and neighborly chatter in Wakintown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick Doling
Omaha
W. E. Johnson
Creston
Mate Thielén
Jean Gro
Bert Jefferson
Farm land listings and exchanges in Extra Iowa ads
A late 19th or early 20th century farm ad list offers numerous 40 to 400 acre tracts with prices $46 to $66 per acre, plus exchange options and terms. Items describe houses, outbuildings, water, fences, schools nearby, and payments. many entries mention timber, groves, and rail or road access. Local businesses and residents are cited in notices and social notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relland
Rt. R
Milway
Journal Office
Canada
Acades
Milroad
Journal
Discount Hosiery Sale and Miscellaneous Local News
Olafa hosts a hosiery discount sale next Saturday. A stray ad offers a horse for sale. Hensley Brothers and Thiele shipped three hogs-fed cars to Des Moines Thursday. Various county residents travel to Corning and Burlington for family and church events. A murder trial in Avoca involves Elmer Nowell. Mail tips urge pre stamps. local dinners, harvest notes, and Thanksgiving visits fill the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hensley Brothers & ‘Thieleo
Dea| Moines Thureday
Various World Notes and Local Slices From the Era
A collage of short items: Sheldon Jackson owns 800 reindeer fawns. Alfred Harmsworth controls 31 papers. London has 600,000 unemployed seeking work as winter nears. Reports on Zion colonies, Alps deaths, Bryan in Japan, imperial philanthropy, German census labor, and a cave in Kentucky. Descriptions of Boer migration, a Mammoth Cave rival, London sewers, and civic notes wrap the random compact dispatch.
Various World Oddities and Notices from 19th Century Papers
Scraps list curious facts and anecdotes including a bulletproof car for the Czar, New Guinea as the largest island, 1820 Astor wealth, Lancashire mills spinning for world, California marriage license fears, Queen Alexandra’s age, Civil War deaths, late theater hours in St Petersburg, Shakespeare auctioned Bible, Signora Cousine mines, a domestic verse about a rose, and notes from the Grant club about Rome Peking and the Suez Canal.
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McClain
John Stoner
John Nelson
OlnFs Store
T.D. Vickery
Shelby
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Georgia
Sylvantaé Berry
Greeley Venter
Geversl
Casey
RF. D
Tony
Bas Town
Guthrie Center
Audubon
America
Santa
Kathryne Crane
Iowa
Collara
Olaf
C. S. Newton
A. Green
Thurelay
Plymouth Rock
John Reed
Charlie White
George Goforth
Anita
Mia
Turner
Fred Cotton
Lincoln
Nebraska
Mel Masterson
Fred Christensen
Atlantic
Thiraday
C. L. Christensen
Enat Washington Street
J. W. Kline
Mra
Clint Barnes
LEET
Boysen & Beason
EB. Bruce
Firet National Bank
William Sas
E. P. Hall
Fide
Ira H.M. Boorman
Ella
Edwin Delaheyde
Pete Schwab
Duroc
Jersey
J. Coglon
D. Barney
Palisade
Grand Junction
Colorado
North Branch
Henry Kroeger
Harlan
David Workman
Roscoe Turner
Greeley
Gun Wahlert
Fred
Mra. Jacobsen
Nele Hanken
Mra. P. M. Christensen
George Weighton
Audubon County
Arthur
Gine
Theodore Patty
W. Marlin
Non
Jim
Olaf’s
Powell
Olafa
Mise Mary Higgins
Gray
Mise Belle Lancelot
Aldrich
Mise Adda Aldrich
Marine Jensen
Ina Bruner
Miss Harroud
Cascade
Montana
J. W. Peterman
Fred Tremmel
North Park Street
Andrews
George Teele
Eale
Lawrence
Lawrence Cafe
Weiland
Wiota
Sand
Mre. Lawrence
Barry Barnes
Atlantic le
Will Bintner
Matt Chirjen Frid
M. D.thomas
Cit
Joe Wheeler
Oklahoma City
Olatts
Henry Benton
Weet
Guthrie County
E. ©. Wilson and Son
Corning
B. I. Elies
Soren Madsen
Olaf Jensen Thureday
Elmer Nowell
Avoca
Lee Addison
Burlington
Hilly
Chris Jensen
Sone
Charley Jensen
Joel Johnson
Wall Lake
Rome
Guthrian
Guernsey
Cella
Minnesota
K. G. Lancelot
Scranton
Charles Wilde
Babe
Elmhurst
Clem Brower
Extra
Louise Failenachmidt
Portsmouth
Will Coffing
Roxy Huyck
Lewin
Purente
Clark Griffin
Peter Reingardt
West
Clarence Scott
Green School House
Washington State
H. V. Perley
Chicago
James Poage
Homer
Illinois
Conmardy
Hubbel
T. G. Poage
Albert Rath
Whiting
Sucker” Wate
Sheldon Jackson
Alaska
Sir Alfred Harmsworth
London
John Alexander Dowie
Mexico
Zion Colony
Alps
Pathfinder
William J. Bryan
Japan
Marquis Ito
Yonni Okuma
S. BE. K
Witte Hag
St. Petersburg
Norway
Christian
Denmark
Germany
Des Moines
Arizona
Chamberlain
5. D
Transvaal
German East Africa
Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Somerville Journal
Sunia
Anaes
Russia
New Guinea
Island
Longmeadow
Mass
New York
John Jacob Astor
Lancashire
England
California
Queen Alexandra
Fort Worth
Milwaukee Sentinel
Shakespeare
Signora Cousine
South America
J W. Kenton
Perry Ia
Simon Kenton
Daniel Boone
Shah of
Persia
Kansas City Journal
Grant
Lafe Young
Dex Moines
Taft
Peking
Suez Canal
Italy
Mr. Young
Orient
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