Local notes from Silver Township recount health scares and community events
Silver Township residents report Granite Dubes recovering after a recent attack following an auto ride to Aurelia. Melvin Porter sustains finger injuries from a lawn mower incident while visiting grandparents. The June mens club meeting featured a varied home talent program and planned a Fourth of July rural picnic with committees forming. The Mt. Olive Lutheran church hosted a large service led by Rev. Nordstrom. Margaret Juber attended Des Moines College events with her daughter Hannah expected to return soon. Walter Johnson misplaced a cow due to overindulgence in fresh clover.
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Silver Township
Granite Dubes
Aurelia
Mens Club
Mt. Olive
Lutheran Church
Nordstrom
Margaret Juber
Des Moines
Des Moines College
Hannah
Local notes from Quimby and area visits
Diamond H. W. Lucas and wife and Mrs. Snyder spent Sunday with relatives near Quimby. GC W. Larson of Alta and Mr. Lock of Indiana, a livestock artist, transacted business nearby Monday. Mrs. Chas Gustaffson and Mrs. Thos Hall left Des Moines for Drake University graduation. Ed Peterson in class. Helen Yonsling of Sioux City visited relatives. Andrew Nordstrom, ill with rheumatism, left for Hot Springs Arkansas for relief. Frank Nordstrom and children visit Forest City relatives.
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H. W. Lucas
Snyder
Quimby
W. Larson
Alta
Lock
Indiana
Chas. Gustaffson
Thos. Hall
Des Moines
Drake University
Ed Peterson
Helen Yonsling
Sioux City
Andrew Nordstrom
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Frank Nordstrom
Forest City
Iowa
Nordstroms plan long cross country trip this year
Mr. Nordstrom will drive across the country with a planned absence of several months. By October 1 they expect to meet Mrs. Nordstrom in Denver Colorado where she is said to be regaining health. Mrs. T. L. Kenyon traveled to Sioux City meeting her daughter-in-law Mrs. Charles Kenyon coming from Washington. They will visit relatives in the state this summer. her first home visit in nine years.
Transfers Filed in Cherokee County May 1913
Record of transfers filed in the Recorder of Cherokee County Iowa for May 1913. Listed are numerous property deeds including Jots in Cherokee, lots in Cherokee and Marcus, and several tract transfers among individuals and companies such as Iowa Railroad Land Co, Cherokee Western Town Lot & Land Co, and First National Bank Cherokee. Amounts shown include 5.00 to 100, 1400, 2250, 950, 4100, 3100, and 4598.92, with references to Quimby and 12-91-40 locations.
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Recorder
Cherokee County
Iowa
Cherokee County Loan and Abstract Company
W. R. Stanley
Carl Reimers
Cora A. Ander- Bor
Evenresegeat
Pia Diese
R. B. Taylor
Edward B. Taylor
Catherine Elfrink
Henry Elfrink
Tony L. Heller
Edwin E. Carnahan
Quimby
Carl Wielson
Lee S. Wood
Cherokee
William C. Unger
J. E. Lang
Edward L. F. Chevalier
J. B. West
Walter Walker
Weart & Lysaght Co
Daniel Unger
Olive M. Will
J. S. Green
Henry C. Wilson
Marcus
W. F. Jones
C. A. Banister
William F. Huber
First National Bank
Walter E. Frandsen
Herman Steemke
Cherokee Western Town Lot & Land Co
Ind
Quim
Land transfers and parcels tracked in Marcus and Cherokee
A long list of real estate transfers shows multiple individuals and entities in Marcus and Cherokee selling or transferring lots and acres to others including Robert B. Pike trustee, A. P. Anderson, Henry Hahn, W. C. Swem, G. I. Johnson, and the Iowa Railroad Land Co. The notices cover sections in 26-90-41, 26-92-40, 3-9-41 and related parcels, with several 40, 80, and 160 acre tracts noted amid the market activity.
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Marcus
N. T. Burroughs
L. A. Wineke
Cherokee
Robert B. Pike
W. H. Galigan
Henry C. Wilson
A. P. Anderson
Albert A. Anderson
Franklin E. Conley
Henry Hahn
Orrin M. Covell
R. H. Gray
Larrabee
R. C. Hahn
John I. Rusch
Frank E. Conley
W. C. Swem
G. I. Johnson
C. V. Peters
Iowa Railroad Land Co
Weart & Lysaght Co
Susan Rupp
Frank Rupp
J B. Ellis
W. S. Ellis
Albert R. Beal
Eva R. Hox
Daniel Redington
John F. Redington
Rozetta Swartz
Norman Esther Bundy
Wm. W. Bates
Aurelia
Boothby
Minnie Bader
Jacob Blodgett
E. Ramsden
Frederic EK. Ramsden
A. J. Rae
New Cherokee
W.S. Young
H. L. Phipps
Minnie P. Mol
John C. Ger
Ford Land
Lockwood
Arthur S. Fareles
Hannah W. S. Young
Frederic C. B. DeBolt
Rosa G. Stephen
Homer Phipps
For Sale and Lost Notices in Local Column
Various short notices list items for sale including cows milch seed millet and running gear for a horse drawn cart. A lost derby hat is sought by its owner. a rubber tired cat under carriage is advertised for sale. a residence property with five lots is offered.
Uses of Papyrus in Egypt and Near East
The Papyrus plant once flourished in Egypt and is now nearly extinct there, yet it still abounds in the Jordan Valley and near Jaffa and Sidon. It grows best in marshy soil and can reach ten feet tall. The stems are hollow like bamboo.
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Egypt
Jordan Valley
Jaffa
Sidon
Suitor Says He Has Called Twenty Times
A humorous exchange features a father rebuking a suitor who admits calling on the daughter about twenty times. The father asks when he will quit, and the suitor coolly agrees that twenty is enough. The anecdote appears in the Magazine of Fun.
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Magazine of Fun
Remedies That Don’t Remedy
A humorous exchange from a Kansas City Journal snippet hints at the slow pace of medical remedies. One speaker jokes about lumbago and delays trying a proposed remedy, noting it will take about two years at current progress to reach it.
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Kansas City Journal
Expert defined by influence over us and knowledge gaps
In the Philadelphia Record the phrase An Expert. Tommy-Pop. what is an expert? Tommy's ,Pop-An expert. my son. fa & person who is able to impress us with how, little we really know.
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Tommy
Pop
Philadelphia Record
Against His Principle
A fragmented exchange notes a grocer warning he will not sell without payment. The dialogue references legal menaces and a judge, but the obscured text leaves the exact dispute unclear.
A Logical Cure and Venom of Hecs Used in Ophthalmine
Fragmentary text suggests a note on a medicine or remedy named A Logical Cure using venom of hecs for ophthalmine. The passage mentions Washington and a plea about being well, but details are unclear. Knowledge gaps prevent full reconstruction of event, person, or place.
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Washington
Illinois Chicago passenger and freight train numbers schedule
Illinois Central timetable lists east bound passenger No. 16 and No. 632, local freight No. 692 with times 9 10 a m 6 50 p m and 8 25 a m respectively. West bound shows passenger No. 631 at 8 25 a m and No. 15 at 2 18 p m with Local Freight No. 691 at 4 00 p m. Local freight does not carry passengers.
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Charles Perry
Marie Walsh
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Naomi Niemann
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Capitol Hill
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Lincoln Memorial Commission
Taft
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Ate
S. M. Fo
Cyril Mahone
Chesp—Excelsior
C.w.iweson
Fouad
Stanhope
C.hansen
Parker & “Butterfield
Illinois Central
G. F. Puffett
Johnson Brothers
New
Winfred Moulton
Farmers National Bank
J. K. Rice
A. G. Connell
R. W. Morrill
Calla
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association of
Little Sioux River
Buena Vista
F. H. Crepps
J.C. Lockin
J. C. Lockin
Fred J. Kohihagen
A.H. Waddell
Billiard
R. Chandler
Traos Manns
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