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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1925
Page
3
The Bowdoin from the MacMillan Arctic expedition returns to Hopedale Labrador to repair a damaged propeller after a 600 mile voyage to Baffin Bay. The crew plans to beach at a rock-free sheltered site and resume voyage to Goodhaven for coal weather permitting.
Charles Stalker of Kent attended and visited here on Monday. Misses Machael and Dorothy Shobe of Noel Missouri arrived Monday afternoon to stay with Mr and Mrs Shafter Shobe at 6097 South Walnut Street. Mr and Mrs Oscar Larson of Chariton and Miss Eva Larson left this afternoon for Des Moines to visit Mr and Mrs John Nylander.
A transcription note from Creston Iowa referencing the Creston Daily Advertiser and County, dated March 1904, describes post office filing as a second class matter and asserts Associated Press copyright and exclusive republication rights for news dispatches and local news. It outlines rights reserved for republication and local content.
A records list from Geo A Ide and Son Creston Iowa details warranty deeds filed with the county recorder. The report enumerates the instruments and involved parties with filing dates and parcel descriptions as part of the official record.
Legal notices document multiple real estate transfers and undivided interests. Transactions include parcels in Decatur Ringgold Union and Ringgold counties, with specifics on sections townships ranges and quarters, conveyed between Jess Beamer Laura Adkins Mary Ellen Beamen and others, plus Creston Water Works Co. selling Lot 27 and adjacent land to L Collins Oil Co. and a later deed between E L Long and Fred Seeley Co. D. for SE 4 of SE 4 and NE 4 of NE 4 in Township 72 Range 28 West Fifth P.M. Notes reference dates from 1909 to 1925 and monetary consideration of $45 000 in one transfer.
A series of 1925 land and cemetery deeds in Union County Iowa details transfers including Roberta Waterman to R L McGinnis, John Benson to John A Pengton, and Lloyd W Kenney to FF Sampson. Amounts noted include 1.90 and 2.00 dollars with various lot and plot descriptions in Creston and Grace Land Cemetery.
Iowa State College poultry extension team conducted a week long culling of 19 000 birds in Waterloo. About 7 500 birds lacking productive traits were destroyed and marketed locally. The team also inspected flocks, diagnosed diseases, and offered farm guidance. Workers included W H Lapp J G Niles F W Wesco J R Lupton and W E F Schultz.
Honolulu July 14 Arrangements for extensive competition between Australian athletes and the 55 visiting vessels of the United States fleet are under way and will likely be complete before the ships reach the Antipodes Baseball boxing and rifle matches are planned with schedules under preparation The Victoria baseball association of Mel James Brown to Mary Aarbourne has suggested a series of matches.
Des Moines reports Judge Frederick F Faville and President R A Pearson will address the Iowa Farm Mortgage association at its twelfth annual meeting July 21 and 22. Officers will present reports, and Fred C Fisher notes the lenders’ liberal stance supports Iowa agriculture through boom and bust periods.
The American fleet will play five games against an all Australian team selected from each state. Tentative schedule lists Fleet versus Australia on July 25 and July 30, Fleet versus South Australia on July 27, and Fleet versus New South Wales on July 28, with additional matches on August 1.
Iowa City Ed Rich, former University of Iowa football and track star, is chosen to coach a Los Angeles area high school football squad next year. Rich coached at the Wilshire institution last year.
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