Whittemore Newslope Notes and Local Updates
Estherville notes diphtheria cases and urges voter registration for November. Local travelers, visitors, and business visitors frequent Whittemore, Emmetsburg, Davenport, Eagle Grove, and Fort Dodge as towns report arrivals and departures. A large farm near Jack Creek township sells for 75 per acre. local rail service prompts calls for more seating as trains run crowded. Family births and funerals punctuate community life as clergy, schools, and local societies are highlighted.
Montague Hakes Prominent Democratic Candidate for Congress
Montague Hakes of Laurens Pocahontas county named Democratic nominee for congress in northern Iowa. Born January 2 1849 in Jane county Iowa he built a business in Laurens with M and J R Hakes and poultry ventures. Former postmaster and legislator with a record of service, supporters urge voters to back his candidacy in the big Tenth district.
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Montague Hakes
Lanrans
Iowa
Mr. Haken
Janes County
Iawa
Ames
Idaho
Oregon
Pocahontas County
General Assembly
Hakes
Woods
Washington
Palo Alto
Wanted man to manage subscriptions in Estaburgh
Wanted Success Magazine requires a man to Emmstsburg to handle expiring subscriptions and to secure new business by special methods. Permanent position. Prefer experience but geographic qualifications allowed. Salary 31.50 per day with commission option. Apply with references to R C Peacock Room 103 Yucceas Magazine Ridge New York.
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Success Magazine
Emmstsburg
R. C. Paacock
Yucceas Magazine
New York
Local football victory and related notes
The Clarion reports the football team routed Ft. Dodge on Saturday by an unspecified score. Also covered are Strategy Board’s new billiard table, Ira Bigelow’s mine settlement of nearly four thousand dollars, and a lengthy auto trip by N. C. Bang and relatives from here through South Dakota North Dakota Montana ending in Minot and Kenmare spanning about two miles.
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Clarion
Ft. Dodge
Heda
N. C. Bang
Harold
South Dakota
Jamestown
North Dakota
Minot
Kenmare
Montana
Spencer
Old Lady Fractures Wrist in cupboard mishap
In a Monday morning accident Mrs. B. H. Jenkins aged 56 stepped onto a chair to reach an item on a cupboard top and fell striking the bedstead. She broke the small bone of her left wrist and is healing slowly, the Armstrong Journal reports.
Boyle's Rocky Mountain hunt hints at early Denver trip
Geo Boyle announces plans to travel to Denver for hunting arrangements in the Rockies. He warns grizzlies and mountain lions to prepare for potential encounters and urges applicants for trophies to submit early, signaling a bold, promotional hunting column.
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Rocky Mountains
Denver
Geo. Boyle
Farm sale in Union township changes hands near Kossuth
The Chas. Walker 400 acre farm in Union township was sold to Charles Geilenfeld of Lotts Creek for just under 75 dollars per acre. Geilenfeld already owns the adjoining Geo. Hanna quarter, forming a 30 acre tract in one block a few miles north of Algona, described as good land and well improved.
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Chas. Walker
Union Township
Charles Geilenfeld
Lotts Creek
Bryan Strong Leads Hyerly Straw Vote Over Taft
A last Friday straw poll in Hyerly reported by the News via Brother Nugent shows Bryan Strong 46 votes to Taft 23, gathered from a bipartisan, fair process. Other county reports suggest Bryan may double his 1836 tally as drought hits Pennsylvania coal regions and affects mines and canals.
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Hyerly
Bryan
Taft
Brother Nugent
Spencer Herald
Ed Blackford
Pennsylvania
New London
Ohio River
Ohis
Algona Courier
Italy in the days of Rome and Milan travel notes
A reflective travelogue extols Italy's beauty and history from the Alps to Naples. It contrasts ancient Rome with modern decline, praises northern plains and Lake scenes, comments on wine, vineyards, and peasant life, and ends with Milan's cathedral and twilight farm scenes.
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Genoa
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Naples
Salerno
Paris
London
Rome
Campagna
di Roma
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Rouiau
Kingdom of
France
Spain
Rhine
Horace
Massie Hill
Vergil
United States
Itajian
Tiberius
Forum
Coliseum
Constantine
Fitus
Castor
Pollux
Tiber
Stud
Milan
Apocstles
Christian Church
Hagerlang
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West Bend Wins Packed Premiums at Palo Alto Fair
The Journal notes West Bend schools swept prizes at Emmetsburg’s Palo Alto county fair. Awards include best penmanship from Miss Watson’s room led by Louisa Dorweiler and Hermina Dorweiler, best writing exhibit by Susie Fisher, May Brode, Louisa Dorweiler, and others, plus top overall prizes for the district.
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West Bend
Palo Alto
Emmetsburg
Crisman
Miss Watson
Miss Grisman
Louisa Dorweiler
Susie Fisher
May Brode
Hermina Dorweiler
Cows Will Cive Cream Crisis Roils West Chester
In West Chester on October 14, residents discuss a controversial move by P. M. Sharples threatening to shut his separator works if Bryan is elected president. A joke debate centers on cows and cream as the large factory halt looms amid the campaign uproar.
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West Chester
P. M. Sharples
Brayn
Bill
Mike
Sharples
Bryan
Father Dobberstein Praised On Tenth Pastoral Anniversary
West Bend Journal salutes Father Dobberstein on the tenth anniversary of his pastorate at SS. Peter and Paul parish. Under his leadership the congregation has grown, the school and building erected, grounds beautified, and the priest praised as an energetic, modest, community leader in the Catholic faith of the region.
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Father Dobberstein
SS. Peter and Paul's
Peter and Paul's
West Bend Journal
Khargalins at Half Price in Whittemore Ad
Auction notice for Khargalins at half price in N. Fe district and Worman Co Minnesota with 143 45 and 13 144 45 quarters, asking $0.00. Items available separately on own terms. Respond by Aug Fenske Whittemore Iowa.
Canadian homesteads open across Western Canada lands
The Canadian Northern route corridor offers vast homestead opportunities across Western Canada with tens of thousands of quarter sections available in Yorkton Humboldt Prince Albert Battleford Moose Jaw Lethbridge Red Deer Calgary and Winnipeg areas. Rail access and unsettled tracts near rails promise rapid settlement while officials led by W ed Kennedy in Winnipeg provide updated free homestead information and promising surveys in Manitoba and northern districts.
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Department of Crown Lands
Western
Canada
Yorkton
Humboldt
Prince Albert
Battleford
Moose Jaw
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Bow
Red Deer
Sullivan
Meridan
Calgary
Rockies
Athabasca Landing
Winnipeg
Department of Immigration
W. Ed. Kennedy
Kennedy
Manitoba
Lake Winnigeg
Winnipegosis
Swan River District
Brandon
Stugged Near Ayrshire in Saloon Alley Ambush
Isis reports a stranger who drank heavily and flashed money was slugged near the railroad stock yards Saturday night. Two other men lured him to the track and beat him, leaving a deep gash over his right eye. He awoke Sunday with his money missing, later recovered from the saloon floor, and he left the town after recovery.
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Heller
Isis
Mr. Ad
Ayrshire
West Bend Meat Market Changes Hands
A deal last week puts Mikes Bros back in possession of the West Bend meat market with a takeover around November 1. The community welcomes the Mikes families’ return and notes Mikes Fire will operate the market, praised for understanding the business and supplying their own butcher stock.
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Mikes Bros
Mikes
Butehsr
Journal
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