Agricultural Society Flags Stock Sales And Vaudeville At Fair
Winneshiek County Agricultural Society held its annual meeting at the court house with strong turnout. Officers and executives were re elected. A stock sale at the next fair was approved along with tent quarters and regular pavilions. Vaudeville acts and a speed race program with liberal purses were planned to attract distant patrons and top horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winneshiek County Agricultural Society
Court House
L. M. Enger
John Valenta
Sumner Township
Enger
G. F. Baker
L. L. Cadwell
Valenta
Fall from Bed Causes Death at Soldiers' Home
George Minkler aged 78 a resident of the Soldiers Home at Central City Iowa died in the institution hospital from a fracture of tubercular bones in the leg caused by falling out of bed He served in Company L First Iowa cavalry during service.
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George Minkler
Central City
Iowa
Institution
Minkler
First Iowa Cavalry
Dry Wood For Sale By Ronan Wood and Land Co
Four teams hauling available for prompt delivery of oak and poplar wood. Ring phone No. 124 for orders from Ronan Wood and Land Co.
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Ronan Wood & Land CO
Ice runs out as river breaks up after rain
Rain last week raised the river by a foot or more loosening ice and sending large cakes downstream. Tavener bridge contractors barely saved beams as falsework vanished. Ice at the power dam remains, but hauling it is slow and costly. An ice gorge flooded land near Tavener mill and endangered hogs on C O Moore’s farm.
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Tavener
Tavener Mill
C. O. Moore
Large Turtle Shipment Circulates From Wapsie Region
From near Fredericka Otto Meier and Julius Schult dug out mud turtles diamond backs and snap pings weighing 3861 pounds. Gus Panzer paid four and a half cents per pound totaling 173 dollars for fifteen barrels. The turtles were shipped to Philadelphia where a single turtle yields ten gallons of soup and fifty cents a bowl.
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Tripoli
Fredericka
Wapsie
Otto Meier
Julius Schult
Gus Panzer
Philadelphia
Value of steel coaches saves Milwaukee train at Keystone
Eleven passenger coaches derailed near Keystone Cedar Rapids when the westbound Milwaukee No. 11 met an apparent switch error. Two mail coaches caught fire. one burned. All steel cars likely prevented greater loss as no serious injuries occurred.
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Keystone
Cedar Rapids
The Girl of My Dreams at Grand Opera House
A Kansas City Journal critique notes The Girl of My Dreams opens at the Grand Opera House for a week, praising its wholesome mood and familiar songs led by Countess Olga von Hatzfeldt and Roy Purviance with a large chorus and returning cast members. It highlights the show’s pleasant nostalgia and earnest tone as a reprieve from modern trends. Also addressed is a Kansas City report on a near-future consolidation plan for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific system, promising a single operating company after abolishing holding firms amid potential receivership.
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Kansas City Journal
Grand Opera House
Decorah
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Otto Hauerbach
Karl Hoschna
Madame Sherry
Doctor de Luxe
Olga von Hatzfeldt
the Grand
Neil Burns
Frank McEwen
Adele Boulais
W. D. Stone
Irving Brooks
Count von Schnigglefrits
New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Lines
Rock Island Company of
New Jersey
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company
Town
Interstate Commence Commission
Rock Island
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Illinois Corporation
Washington
Town Corporation
New Jersey Corporation
Mayor Offers Church Or Jail Sentence To Drunk
Ossian mayor tells of a derelict’s repeated intoxication cases. Faced with county jail time, he chose thirty Sundays in church over thirty days behind bars. After initial relapse, he accepted the church route and has since kept his commitment and reportedly improved.
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Schmitz
Ossian
Decorah
Warm winter records noted in Dubuque Telegraph Herald
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports the current winter as among the warmest on record for the region. It notes only a few days below normal, with the coldest so far at zero, and cites historic remarks from 1842 to 1882 on navigation and river ice conditions.
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Dubuque
Weather Bureau
Galena “Gazette
Fever River
Mississippi River
Bellevue
Railroad taxation shown by county valuation table
The article presents the current year railroad valuation used for taxation and compares it with last year. It notes the executive council’s increase in farm land values and argues railroads also rose significantly, listing county rail mileage valuations and totals. The county total shows 629,754 for this year versus 450,204 last year.
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Executive Council
SMI Ok i
Washington
Barre Ha
Roo St Andes
Cortmntia
Cei
Atkinson
Jackson Junction
Ridgeway
el Rane
Oelwein Men Form Temperance Group Ahead of Saloons Vote
Oelwein plans a Business Men's Temperance association with capital $350000 and $5 shares, 1000 shares subscribed at the first meeting held Sunday afternoon. The group aims to defeat another saloon petition. A big meeting is slated for March 24 with former Governor Patterson of Tennessee as speaker.
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Oelwein
Fatal kerosene blast at Garner home burns two, Miss Minnie McKee injured
A kerosene can explosion at the Garner residence as Miss Minnie McKee tried to start a fire in the cook stove. George McKee, her father, was killed and Miss McKee is in critical condition after oil from the can ignited on her body and flames enveloped her.
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Minnie McKee
McKee
Garner
George McKee
Miss McKee
Township Meeting on Rural Roads to be Held in Decorah
Notice to township trustees and road superintendents announces a February 17 1914 meeting at the Decorah Court House starting at 9 am. District Engineer Root and Senator A L Ames will speak on the new road law and weed destruction. Joe D Long editor of Road Maker will give the main address on Rural Highways Past Present and Future. County Attorney C N Houck will speak after. Registration in Auditor's office required.
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Thirty-Third General Assembly
Court House
Decorah
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Root
A. L. Ames
Traer
Towa
Joe
Long
Des Moines
C. N. Houck
R. Shea
Decor
This Will Interest Mothers
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children relieve feverishness headaches and teething disorders. They move and regulate the bowels and destroy worms. They break up colds in 24 hours and have been used by mothers for 24 years. All druggists 25 cents sample free address A 8 Olmstead DeRoy N Y.
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Gray
Olmstead
DeRoy
N. Y
Hog Cholera Toll Estimated Higher Than Ever
Dr J E Gibson state veterinarian reports county estimates show hog cholera losses far exceed prior years. 1912 losses reached about one million head at 12 dollars each totaling twelve million dollars while 1913 losses reached about three million hogs at ten dollars per head totaling thirty million dollars.
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J. E. Gibson
Reunion of Bradford Academy Old Students Planned
A June gathering in Nashua will reunite Bradford Academy alumni to recall the school’s New England style, one of Iowa’s oldest educational institutions. Eugene Prudhon of Nashua, secretary of the association, issued the invitation.
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Nashua
Bradford Academy
Eugene Prudhon
Old Students Association
Bradford ‘Academy
New England Academies
Iowa
Old Estate Settled In North Carolina Slave Inheritance
Eli Craven of Graettinger and Abijah Craven of Wallingford receive settlement checks from the estate of their grandfather John R. Craven who died in 1857. The estate included sixteen slaves and 314 acres, with records lost after a Civil War burn in Asheboro, North Carolina. Heirs’ connection was later reestablished by correspondence and shares allocated.
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Eli Craven
Graettinger
Abijah
Wallingford
John R. Craven
North Carolina
Asheboro
N. C
Don’t You Believe It Chronic Constipation Cure Ad
A nostalgic advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a cure for constipation. It claims many have been cured and promotes a trial price of a quarter. Sold by Engbertson's Pharmacy with additional magazine offers bundled for a promotional price of $2.10.
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Chamberlain
Engbertson
Adv
Elevator fall at Independence hospital injures worker
W C Woodley of a Chicago firm fell seventy feet from a scaffold while installing dumb waiter elevators at the Independence hospital. His co worker Roy C Chittenden was nearby when the scaffold failed. Woodley sustained a broken leg and collar bone.
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W. C. Woodley
Chicago
Independence
Roy C. Chittenden
Explosion Tears Through Marshalltown Roundhouse
An explosion of coal dust destroyed the Chicago Great Western railroad roundhouse in Marshalltown last week, causing extensive damage to the facility and prompting investigations into the blast sources and safety protocols.
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Chicago Great Western Railroad
Marshalltown
To admire to love to regret a writer’s counsel
A short promotional notice for Allen's Cough Balsam urges treating a cough or cold early to avoid regret. It claims welcomed relief with no harmful ingredients and lists 25c, 50c, and $1.00 bottle sizes available at all dealers.
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Allen
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