Winneshiek County Fair Sees Record Four Day Success
The Winneshiek County Fair surpassed prior records in 1916 with a four day program featuring auto races, balloon ascensions, fireworks, and a baby health contest. Attendance and receipts topped $6,000 with a planned surplus for 1917, while improvements to the amphitheatre and track ensured better viewing and safety. The event drew big crowds Thursday through fireworks and auto events, and concluded with hoopla over the baby contestants as the fair nation praises its achievements.
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Winneshiek County Fair
Winneshiek County
J. Alex. Sloan
Hankinson
Comments and Observations About the Fair
A farmer's wife voices views on the fair and management. The editor replies on pricing, parking, signage, toilets for women, a possible ticketing machine, and safer pedestrian access. Readers are urged to support better arrangements while noting the city’s limited control beyond fair grounds.
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Aervplican
Meetin
Aeroplican
Employers Liable for Death by Lightning in Workplace
Judge McCall in Story county district court ruled that an employer is responsible for the death of a construction foreman killed by lightning while on duty in Ames in 1914. The decision orders ten dollars weekly for three hundred weeks with interest, reversing the Arbitration Board and Industrial Commissioner Funk who found no employer liability for acts of God.
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McCall
District Court
Story County
E. V. Griffith
Ames
Board of Arbitration and Industrial Commissioner
Funk
Boy’s play injures sister leads to false paralysis report
A three year old girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm Scott near New Hampton, was said to suffer infantile paralysis after an accident. The child, playing in the yard with her older brother, was struck in the back by a stick thrown at a chicken. She lost consciousness for ten hours and faces possible lifelong impairment if she recovers.
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Bob White
South Dakota
Dan W
Harry
Dan
Bob
Gen. Lather
Ole Gilbertson
Morrison
Hart
Greg Harry
Gr. G
Martin
Luther
Lang
Mulholland
Grattan
Treverbyn
Marjorie O'Brien
Langford
NEW Hampton
Wm. Scott
Johnsons Circus Booked For Decorah And Burr Oak
A summary from fifty years ago notes Johnsons circus scheduled for Decorah on October 8 and Burr Oak on October 9. The Conover business digest lists eight dry goods stores, three drug stores, five hotels, 23 saloons, three lumber yards, three livery stables, two blacksmith shops, one wagon shop and one grain elevator. Thieves drained several clothes lines Monday night. A Democratic and one Republican group met at the courthouse Monday and backed A D Wright for clerk and Gilbert Rustad for recorder. A fire at Conover last week damaged the John Mikesh store. The new schoolhouse roof is being installed. Addiken’s brewery in Union Springs progresses. Deposits in the First National Bank reach 48188 24. E Cutler has opened a law office in Decorah.
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Johnson's Circus
Decorah
Burr Oak
Conover
Court House
A. D. Wright
Gilbert Rustad
John Mikesh
Addiken
Union Springs
First National Bank
E. Cutler
Tragic Death Of Miss Matilda Marzen Near Marble Rock
Miss Matilda Marzen daughter of Mrs L Marzen of six miles west of Marble Rock died after being found unconscious between the Fred Losee and John Barr homes. She had spent the afternoon at Clinton Schultz home and left at eight for her sister Mrs Lou Schultz. It is believed a careless auto driver struck the single rig she rode in, tearing off a wheel and likely rendering her unconscious before she died at 12 15 yesterday morning.
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Matilda Marzen
L. Marzen
Marble Rock
Fred Losee
John Barr
Snake Robs Hen Nest Near McGrregor Farm
Mrs. Walter Davies, living on a farm near McGrregor, suspected egg thefts for a week. She found a large black snake in a hen nest. her husband killed it and cut it open revealing a white china nest egg inside the snake.
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Walter Davies
McGrregor
Election Invalidated Over Bond Proposition Technicality
Clermont faces nullification of the water works election as the attorney general and bond investors conclude the bond proposal failed to meet the required majority. Of 252 votes cast, only 229 voters supported the bond, 23 abstained, nullifying the result under the law's all-voter threshold.
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Clermont
Fishermen Reel In Record Sunfish Haul on Mississippi
Catch at Meihegor by P Schumacher F Huebsch Walter Weston yields 150 sunfish and 17 black Dasses with several weighing two and a half to three pounds. Mississippi waters produce unusually large catches this summer. Local anglers report daily full strings and two partners earning over $100 weekly from sales.
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P. Schumacher
F. Huebsch
Walter Weston
Meihegor
Mississippi
Divorces and Births in Cerro Gordo County
County figures show 69 divorces granted in Cerro Gordo during the past year. From July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916, 375 marriage licenses were issued at the clerk of the court. Births registered at the clerk’s office totaled 728 in 1915.
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Blake
Department of Vital Statistics
Des Moines
Cerro Gordo County
Turtle Carved with Farmer’s Name Identified
A 29 year old turtle bearing a carved owner’s name was found wandering after a rain on a Johnson county farm. T. A. Colgan, a local Penn township farmer, had two years earlier engraved his name on the creature’s carapace and recognized it by the mark.
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T. A. Colgan
Penn Township
Johnson County
Silk front shirts on special sale in New York
A seller in New York offers twenty five dozen silk front shirts at $1.95 each during a special sale. The items are valued at $83.00 per shirt, with retail pricing elsewhere at $1.08, indicating a steep discount. Bear's.
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New York
Carnival of Crime In Manchester A Week of Small Offenses
Manchester authorities report a week of arrests for minor offenses and burglaries. Youthful poker players were found in the woods near town and a church intruder was caught in the act at the Congregational church. A Plaza theater break in yielded pennies and stamps with keys found on the intruder. A suspect fled after a Delhi hardware store break in while en route to Manchester, evading capture in a corn field. The Plaza intruder and the gang are bound for the grand jury or ongoing pursuit.
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Manchester Press
Manchester
Congregational Church
Sheriff Pentony
Plaza Theater
Plaza
E. R. Stone Hardware
Delhi
J. D. Morgan
Hopkinton
J. D. Ite
Fire at Olsen farm threshing causes straw stack blaze
A straw stack near the blower at the Olsen farm northeast of Waverly caught fire during threshing. About forty acres burned after an arson attempt to ignite the grain bundles with matches failed when the fire spread via the blower to the straw pile, prompting an investigation into the cause.
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Olsen
Waverly
Ossinsr Schools Court Monday September 4 Begin Year
Ossian high school convenes on Monday September 4 with Professor Gill of Grant Iowa named principal to fill the vacancy from Prof Crause. Miss Lovetite of Volga City steps to domestic science, Miss Loretta McGary to grammar, and Miss Fisher primary, Miss Alicia Gunderson intermediate, Miss Edna Haug of Decorah assistant principal, all re-elected from last year. California Growers’ Aven canned are grown packed and shipped direct to you by the growers. Save half Hutchinson Grocery Co Growers’ Distributor.
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Ossian High School
Gill
Grant
Iowa
Crause
Lovetite
Volga City
Edna Elsiter
Loretta McGary
Anna Kemp
Fisher
Alicia Gunderson
Edna Haug
Decorati
California
Hutchinson Grocery Co
Auto Leaps Down a Bank Near Calmar
Dr. R P Berry and two women, Miss Pearl Theobald and Miss Viola Grandeland, escaped serious injury when a car veered off a twenty foot embankment two miles from Calmar. A wheel trap caused the steering to spin and the auto leaped over an embankment, striking a cement culvert before landing bottom side up. All sustained bruises and scratches. Berry sprained an ankle though no bones or internal injuries occurred.
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West Union Argo-Gazette
R. P. Berry
Pearl Theobald
Viola Grandeland
Dr. Berry
Calmar
Miss Theobald
New Hampton semi pro team draws fans for series
New Hampton fans back a premier semi pro squad with funds for games anywhere any time this season. The club has two wins and four losses, scoring 208 runs while opponents total 70, shaping favorable conditions for pitchers.
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New Hampton
Northern Sugar to Build Million Dollar Beet Factory at Mason City
The Chamber of Commerce closed negotiations to establish a million dollar beet sugar plant by the Northern Sugar company in Mason City, bringing extended street railway lines. An advertisement promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a blood purifier and skin clearer, priced at one dollar.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mason City
Northern Sugar Company
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Clark
Bill Endicott
Kilpatrick
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Hearne
Horey
Raimey
Torey
Miss Mais
Mais
Grandstand
Rock Island
Fair Management
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America
Rock Island Lines
Reeds Island
Fair Grounds
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Decorah, Iowa
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