Stop Look and Listen: railroad safety warning
The Rock Island Lines Safety Bureau warns about dangerous practices near trains including trespassing on tracks, using rights of way as shortcuts, leaning near approaching trains, riding on platforms, sticking heads out of car windows, leaving baggage in aisles, unaccompanied children moving between cars, and throwing refuse from moving trains. Take care to prevent injuries by avoiding these actions.
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Rock Island Lines
Safety Bureau
West Union Iowa booster prose highlights town strengths
The piece lauds West Union as a hub of civic life in a large county It touts a strong high school with twenty teachers water sewer and drainage systems parks shade trees and a well lit city The article claims growth in population property values and notes amenities including newspapers a county fair a Chautauqua lecture series a soldiers reunion a hospital and a busy transportation and garage hub It ends with a real estate sales pitch offering farm and housing services and abstracts or loans
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West Union
Iowa
Weat Union
Linden Park
Our City
Pike Roads
Que Union
People travel and local notices mix with rail changes
The item lists residents like Sohn Johnson and Humphry Roberts traveling to Minneapolis for business and pleasure, Melchoir Yenney visiting Huron, and Mrs. T. W. Dean visiting relatives. It also mentions local printing services, charity raises for Jerusalem, a prison visitor anecdote, adoptions through a home finding society, New York society war ration plan, a note on the U S flag history, and plans to remove Decorah Division trains affecting towns north of West Union.
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Sohn Johnson
Humphry Roberts
Minneapolis
Melchoir ‘Yenney
Huron
South Dakota
Melchoir
T. W. Dean
Robi. Grimes
Near West Union
Echo Office
Jerusalem
Uncle Sam
Fred Hanni
Alfred Imhof
New York
Baltimore
George Washington
Chield
Brinton Church
Decorah
Rock Island
West Union
Round House
How Woman Was Made And Other Local Notes
A humorous tale on the creation of woman is followed by local items from Elgin with social visits, weather, health, farm tips, a meteor sighting, birth of a daughter to T. A. Roland, a hat ad, and notes on bank affairs and war savings. Community life, dates, names, and places are woven through brief notices and editorials.
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Falk
Hann ‘Keiser
Chris Moser
Independence
U. S
Clif Christ
Tracy
Minnesota
Clif
Illinois
Missouri
T. A. Roland
Elgin
Gladden
Echo
Rebekahs
Odd Fellows
Gus Gunderson
A. S. Haug
J. D. Shaffer
B . Landagaard
Fred Reichert
A. & Haug
Samuel Mosby
Fred Hanson
Wilson
Bauder's Thoroughbred Big Type Poland China Sale
A large in-town crowd attended Had and Good Sale as 59 Poland China sows were offered. Prices ranged with an average near $80 and top bids reaching $142.60. Buyers from Elgin Castalia Postville Elkader and other towns purchased multiple sows including George Hochhaus Abe Mark Joe Kramer and Henry Holzer with prices from $60 to $142.60. Auctioneer G H Burge Mt. Vernon and ring official Col. Waters Postville oversaw the event.
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Wd Bauder
Poland
G. H. Burge
Mt. Vernon
Col. Waters
Postville
Mr. Bauder
B. W. Millard
Huron
Dak
George Tieden
Hikader
J. W. Barrett
Castalia
George Hochhaus
Elkader
Henry Mark
Elgin
Sheldon Boyle
William Nelson
Clermont
Louis Marui
Castalin
J. Monnahan
Halstenson
Joe Kramer
Abe Mark
John Schroeder
Oscar Henkes
Farmersbure
William Henkes
Farmersburg
H. Boyle Elgin
Jlou Hunsberger
Henry Holzer
Louis A. Schultz
Pontyilie
Henry Holser
Albert Schupbach
George ‘Tieden
Littleport
Sam Yost
Ern ‘Ho
Red Cross Work First Duty For The New Year
A wartime exhortation urges citizens to join and actively work for the Red Cross in 1918. It stresses sewing hospital garments and gauze dressings to aid troops, and warns against complacency or isolationist habits. It invites readers to volunteer in workrooms as a civic duty and to act now rather than delay.
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Red Cross
How to Win the War Kitchen Tips and Local Mentions
Wartime advice on frugal cooking shares tips to save scraps and use bones for soup, bake with skins on, and limit frosting. The item also notes locals Ern Schori, Dan Sutter, and Clarence Becker visiting or returning from service at Camp Dodge, Camp Pike, or France, with Becker in the motor cycle unit and headed there.
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Bones
Ern Schori
West Union
Tdan Sutter
Camp Dodge
Harry Nicklaus
Elgin
Uncle Sam
France
Clarence Becker
Camp Pike
Arkansas
Clarence
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W. J. Kohler
Nyal
Laxacold
the City Drug Store
Lesa
Lena
Fin
T. J. Capper & Sons
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