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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
1
Local ads describe multiple Iowa farm parcels for sale with details on acreage, improvements, buildings, and terms. Broader notices include sales strategy, nearby town features, and community items from Brayton and surrounding townships.
The town’s clerk notes scarlet fever concerns while residents including Mrs. Bush require assistance indoors. Several visitors and relatives travel through or visit the area, with updates on health, travel plans, and local business invoicing ends the round.
Exira expands rural mail route coverage starting February exira to Walker Schoolhouse south Exira township McNally farm Troublesome Oacar Wheeler farm route 3 area north road to Schwenecker farm Audubon township Creamery C H Jacobean farm Fred Bartelt residence to Exira. Frank Williams tops applicant exam. Farmers along new route order mail boxes ready for first trip.
The report covers diverse remarks from Mrs. Chadwick to Turkish sultans, noting Christmas meals for soldiers, Anglo-Chinese schools, and lavish royal expenditures. It mentions public works in London, trade in Japan, vilified fashion laws in Nordhausen, and a coal gift to Alice Roosevelt amid labor unrest.
A collage of ironic figures claims half a million in Germany work as basket makers, the Russian czar employs 300000, 5000 horses in his stables, and 60000 underage mill workers in the south. It mocks ballrooms without space, hotel air filtered through cheesecloth, and a Kansas biology harvest followed by crop failure. It notes Iowa anecdotes on longevity, US senators facing charges, and a humorous Irish anecdote about a boy in a closet.
The piece argues that tuberculosis can be prevented and nearly stamped out within years. It urges state action to establish sanatoriums, criticizes ineffective anti spitting laws, and predicts tax cuts if a state sanitarium bill passes the General Assembly. It cites 8000 affected in town, 2000 deaths, and transmission to four others per case.
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