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Local notes and notices from Oelwein region region
Pure rye flour at Roller Mill and local bargains at Sova's attract shoppers. Irvine Hendershott and wife visit from Farmersburg. Thomas League and Miss Winifred Schmid visit with her parents. Waukon gun club reports dynamiting fish on Yellow River north fork. Church offering to cover March and April. McGregor to get a box factory and hardwood sawmill employing ~25 workers. Local life notes include farming updates, suicides, dances, lighting improvements, locust forecasts, and a jail sentence for onion cooking neighbor dispute.
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Sova’s
Irvine Hendershott
Farmersburg
Thomas League
Winnifred Schmid
C. Theo Schmid
Waukon Gun Club
Yellow River
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