Local Midwestern Market Notes and Social Railings
A jumble of names, places, and events from John and Gale Rowe to Iowa Falls, Wisconsin, and Fort Dodge shows shopping ads, family visits, and community notices. Mentions of hardware stores, stock, and prices mix with kinship greetings and weekend travel for residents in 1925 Iowa and Minnesota locales.
Banquet brings out townfolk tales and old friends
A jumble of notices from a small town includes alumni banquet chatter with Clarence Bond, business ads for hardware and washing machines, visits from relatives to Iowa Falls, and town residents traveling to Des Moines, Council Bluffs, and Oskaloosa. Names include Thompson, Bond, Bond, Bond, Hines, Infelt, Green, Green, Specht, Pink, Pease, Sowers, Pritchard, Bravick, Guyer, Lipith, and Ripperthrop as locals share summer plans and recent travels.
Local merchants advertise farm gear and visits in town
Ads promote rope slings hay rope hay carriers at John and Jerry’s and Peterson’s Hardware with fly nets and equipment. Fathers’ Day specials at Pritchard and Winter. Families visit relatives in Webster City Elmore Sioux Rapids and Minot with multiple local names. Horse and car care products from Dick Feldick and Bn-Ar-Co motor oil featured. Other notes include guests from Elbow Lake Fort Dodge and Toledo visiting local homes.
Hardware ads tout stoves and protective gear in local shop window
Petersons Hardware and John & Jerry Hardware advertise kerosene gas stoves including Perfection and Coleman devices. Fly nets nose guards and old stove trade ins are offered. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Nelson of Ti tonka visited the Bruns home Tuesday evening, and Join & Jenny Hardware signs promote store deals.
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Join & Jenny Hardware
Gilbert Nelson
Ti‘tonka
Nesto
John & Jerry Hardware
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Gale Rowe
Dick Fekdick
Gale
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Conilittant
Lois Hum
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Ey T & Winter
Zoho & Jerry
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Iowa Falls
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Inter
Jaime
River Falls
Wisconsin
Commii Times
John & Jer
Steinwoft
Fort Dodge
Mrs
Louise Anfinson
Mostin
Eleanor Cooper
Waseca
L. Albert
eMerer
Everly
Towa
Sehoon
An Valley
Llinois
Academy
J Reilly
G. I. Wa
Grace
Hokahb
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McDernott
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Aces
Gertrude
Mount Carroll
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Gibson
Sfend
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Agwe Wille
Gitson
Ward Dolnage
Harold Schoon
Lown
Hate Diversity of
Iowa
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Iowa City
Heather School
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Badger
Merwin
Mele Tod
Mra
Dodge
Mire
Thompe
Fred Larson
Parmateg
Mimneayolis
S Ens Leon
Soma Life
Ty Hore
Armstrong Journal
N Gong
Los Angeles
Califor
W. G
Bond
Gould
Yellowstone
Pari
Minnesota
Tha
Peta Hermansen
Miro
Donald
Beat Thompson
Jotn & Jerry's
Clarence Bond
Bdusworth College
Hufus Olthoff
Lakota
Town
Tt Pd
Dorothy Hardin
The
State University
Anna
Grace Green
Ed. Hines
Alice Infelt
C. H. Rowray
Miiss Lena Mudder
St. Paul
John Frey
Charlotte Buggy
Mount Mercy Academy
Cedar Rapids
Carl Specht
Algona
Dexter
Peterson
David Pink Sr
Geo. Pink
Andrew
Lismore
Minn
Congregational Sunday School
Lester Drake
Council Bluffs
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Bennett Brubns
Oskaloosa
Christian Endeavor Society
Congregational Church
Bud" Ehusome
Okland
Miller
Ethel Fu
Ole Christenson
Mrs. G
J. H. Sowers
Nevada
Mildred “Sowers
California
Sowers
G., Pritchard
Des Moines
Starr Pritchard
Buffalo Center
Miss Pritchard
Des. Moinea
Sadie Bravick
Miss Bravick
Teacher's College
Cedar Falls
Guttenberg
William Guyer
Grinnell
Mise
Marlan Guyer
East Lake City
Utah
Yale
William
Ine
City
Lota and
Vera" Lipith
Tom Smith
Figehester
Alice Rippertrop
Fury Gilbert
Mrs. Gilbert
Jelly Rippenthrop
Rochester
Dulleys
Jdhn & Jerry's
John & Jerry's
Pritchard & Winter
Henry Honken
Morristown
Let.ng
Selina ‘Stenerson
Hisle Specht
Peterson's
Henry Range
Elbow Lake
W. H. Davis
Bn-Ar-Co
Dick Feldick
E. G. Bruns
Eeith
Phyllis
Johnson
Elmore
Cena Brung
BH. E. Sapp
Sioux Rapids
Henry Glorfeld
Conrad Lohrbach, Jr
W. M. Rhode
W. J. Fuhlendorf
Toledo
Fuhlendorf
Ole Blackstead
Minot
North Dakota
Peterson's Hardware
Hunter
Cenol Agency
Forest City
Leuthold & Johnson
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Old Dominion
Florsheim
Blue Earth
Bayside
Lake
Jane
White Pier
Bath House
Carside
Orthrup
King & Oter Lee
Chick Mas
First National Bank
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