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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1907
Page
5
An advert extols a steel range with blue polished exterior and asbestos lined flues, detailing its durable construction and even heat. It promotes Cole’s Original Hot Blast Stove as a coal stove with long burn life, strict guarantees on fuel savings, efficiency, and airtight performance.
Oakfield and Brayton chatter covers visits, new residents, and local business. Lumber and coal deliveries, a new blacksmith, sermons by Hey S. E. Willcox, Rebekah lodge formation, and a modern residence lot purchase appear alongside farm sales and livestock movements. Community figures travel east, and a Brayton debating society challenge is noted.
The program for Brayton and Oakfield Lyceum on March 1 features Duet performances by Pluma Freeman and Edna Bisom, solo acts by Willie Chamberlain and Mildred Bartlett, and recitations by Vera Anderson Stella Leigan Mary Lynch Darny Heath Zaphyr Smith Ethel Bisom, with others including Helen Cotton and Marinus Jensen. Auction items and property listings are also noted with several properties for sale.
The Des Moines region reports Mrs. Elizabeth Cross found dead at her home on South Fifteenth and Mitchell. Other items include the Nannie Taylor trial in Buxton, a suicide attempt by William Chitty of Gravity, severe injuries to Al Krantz at Gilbertville, coal mine deals near Des Moines, a Norwood Coal acquisition, a fatal Dupont mill accident, county office staffing needs amid new certificate laws, a small fire at a Des Moines building, and notes on Des Moines coal quality for industry uses.
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