Circus Comes to Town John H Sparks Show at Eatherville
The John H Sparks Show tours to Eatherville on Saturday June 25 featuring Mons Doncet the world’s premier non tamer and trained animals including lions tigers leopards and elephants. The act promises a steel enclosure and unarmed tiger performances followed by other acts while Noah Cooper sits jailed for attempted murder as Marshal Mitchell uncovers mortar and bricks in the jail corridor.
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John H. Sparkes
Eatherville
Mons. Doncet
Equatorial Africa
Mons
John H. Sparks
Noah Cooper
Henry McClune
Court House
Marshal Mitchell
Cooper
Sheriff Butler
Three Generations Appear Together in The Little Prospector
The Armory Theatre stages The Little Prospector featuring Grandma Perkins Mrs. Mattie Perkins her daughter Chic Perkins and five year old grandson Frank G. King Jr all in one performance.
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Armory Theatre
Iatel
Mattie Perkins
Grandma Perkins
Ode to Pieplant and Rhubarb Pie’s Joyful Rise
An exuberant ode extols rhubarb pie as a springtime savior and household delight. It likens pie to sunshine for the table and soul, comparing its vitality to renewal after winter foods. The piece celebrates crust, filling, aroma, and the uplifting effect on households and writers alike.
Pleplant and Greens Herald Spring Taste Rush
A fragment from a Bailey Homestead piece extols pleplant as a pie timber between vegetable and fruit. It claims pleplant arrives between hay and grass, feeding rich and poor alike, and signals spring’s awakening alongside greens and other garden pioneers.
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Jonah
Bailey
Homestead
Dramatic Lodestar Chio Perkins At Armory Theatre
Clever captivating performances by Chio Perkins earn praise from critics and the public. The lively impersonator and her company present two new plays at the Armory Theatre on June 22 and 23.
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Chio Perkins
Chip Perkins
Armory Theatre
Chic” Perkins
Frank G. King
Chico” Perkins
West
Newell H White Dies After Illness in Estherville
The Estherville community mourns Newell H White who died at 2:30 PM after a short bronchial pneumonia illness. Born September 22 1871 in Hainesville Illinois he moving to Spirit Lake in 1881 and Estherville in 1890. He married Mary Howe in 1894 and leaves a wife five living children and a mother two sisters and two brothers. Funeral set for Wednesday at 10:30 AM at the Catholic church with Father Kelly.
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Hts
N. H. White
Pete” White
Estherville
Hainesville
Lake County
Ill
Spirit Lake
L. E. White
White Brothers
Mary Howe
Ellen
Sadie
Mary
Walter
Hazel
EB. N. White
L. Lindquist
A. H. Jemerson
Horatio White
L. E. and
Charlea White
Masonic Order
Elks
Knights of Pythias, Woodmen
Estherville Fire Company
Des Moines Life
Woodmen
Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua Opens in Hes therville July 18
Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua presents a seven day program in Hes therville starting Monday July 18 with acts from Kirksmith Orchestra Royal Italian Guards Band Sunshine Willets Story Beautiful Gillitan Perry and Dr Bristol plus the Royal Italian Guards Band and Walter Ecelss as added features.
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Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua System
Hestherville Chautauqua
Kirksmith
Royal Italian Guards Band
Sunshine” Willets
Story Beautiful
Gillitan
Perry
Bristol
Batra
Walter Ecelss
Bamorist
Auto Pathfinder Return Trip to Des Moines Tour Route
Des Moines Capital reports W E Moyer located a route for a large Des Moines tour. Starting Monday June 20, the pathfinder car traveled about 265 miles with 100 telephone links to announce arrivals. The planned 450 mile run proceeds through Des Moines Waukee Dallas Center Minburn Perry Berkeley Beaver Grand Junction Jefferson Rockwell City Pomeroy Pocahontas Estherville Spirit Lake Spencer Sioux Rapids Storm Lake Manson Fort Dodge Webster City Stanhope Boone Madrid Polk City.
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W. &. Moyer
Parry
Iowa Auto Club
Spirit Lake
Emmetsburg
Spencer
Dodge
Webster City
Boone
Sears Auto Company
Estherville
Meyer
Des Moines
W.E. Moyer
Moyer
Waukee
Dallas Center
Minboru
Perry
Berkeley
Beaver
Grand Junction
Jefferson
Rockwell City
Pomeroy
Pocahontas
Wallingford
Graettinger
Spiric Lake
Spenrer
Sioux Rapids
Storm Lake
Manson
Ft. Dodge
Stanhope
Madrid
Polk City
Iowas Inebriate Asylum Aids Seekers From All Walks
The Knoxville inebriate asylum, once misused to house poor behavior cases, now admits only those of good habits who are addicted. Inmates span business, professional, and skilled trades, with about forty one percent reportedly fully cured. The state calls it a worthwhile work.
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Iowa
Knoxville
Estherville autos worth 75000 as ownership details listed
Estherville holds seventy five automobiles with fifty four owned by private parties and twenty one in garages. Average cost per auto is at least 1000, totaling about 875000 invested in vehicles in the past two years. Names of local owners and makes follow, including Ford Buick Maxwell and more.
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Estherville
Ford
E. J. Ketchum
Elmore
O, Neville
al Holtshouser
Maxwell
Alex Johnston
E. M. FP
B. B. Anderson
Buick
E. C, Bryant
Gail Morse
Hudson
Birney
Chalmers-Detroit
J. J. Clinite
Henry Riley
Frank Carpenter
Arthur Pitcher
M. H. Thompson
I. C. Stanley
Myhre
Jackson
James Espeset
Walter Crowell
Fuller
F. H. Rhodes
G. G. Gardner
Dr. M. ©. Wilson
Thos. Thompson
Frank Albro
Whiting
N. Salyers
Thomas Flyer
N. A. White
F. Hanchett
Wheelock
G. H. Rowley
Reo
C. J. Wilson
F. P. Woods
Oscar Peterson
Runabout
Ingvall & Rhodes
Farmens
Hail stones as large as ostrich eggs in Hillsboro
A severe April storm struck Montgomery county with heavy rain and violent winds, but Hillsboro suffered the worst damage from hail. Windows, skylights and roofs were damaged. people were injured in rare cases as hailstones the size of eggs, some measuring three and a half inches, smashed through ceilings and roofs.
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Montgomery
Montgomery County
Hillsboro
Died Very Suddenly in Estherville Home
Mrs bester Cole died suddenly at her North Fourth Street home on Sunday night around eleven. Previously in perfect health, she and husband Mr Cole had plans for a pine project the woods the next day. He awoke to her struggle to breathe, a neighbor was called, and she died in the room aged sixty one after many years in Estherville.
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Badd
Hall
Amber
Wilmont
North Silver
Silver
Iowa
Des Moines
F. A. Paterson
Banks Hall
George Ott
Richard James
John Swearingen
Dadlez Sackett
A. C. Hand
Jim Brown
Robert Livingston
Dr. Shaver
Alfonzo Young
W. FP. Edwards J
Hudson
David Comstock
Obed Robinson
William Tope
John Law
Father
Laura
Brother Fid
Bester Cole
North Fourth Street
Mr. Cole
the Woods
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Pieplant
Newell H. White
LewCoomer
Baritg
Minor
Auto Pathfinder
the Inebriate Asylum
B. T. Sorum
Knox
D. P. Lawson
Flanders
Chris. Larbig
Dr. Bixby and
the Old Timers
Bixby
Lincoln Journal
Martin County
Fred Follett
Felky
Armatrong
Bulld Tows Road
Pierre
South Dakota
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Forest City
Mason City
P.O. Kato
C. N. Christopherson
C. S. Isaacs
A. M. Sheimo
Baldwin
Wisconsin
A. L. Sherin
M. J. Hawley
Watertown
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