County News Highlights Personal Tragedy and Local Events
The column records the death of Mrs. Ella Nady after a brief illness, with tribute to her devotion and home life. It notes Anna Hogate visiting from Omaha for her sister Edith Ball approaching marriage and a money shower planned by Louis Nady. Other items mention a serious ankle injury to Fickel, a birth in Colorado Springs, a marriage of Grace Adams, and various local visits and services.
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Fickel
Hanna
Colorado Springs
Piquignot
Ella Nady
Nady
Anna Hogate
Omaha
Louis Nady
Ebeneezer Church
Edith Ball
Burdine
Eldon
Ebeneezer
Inday School
Entertainments At Liberty School House Draw Big Crowd
A lively program at the Liberty school house drew a large crowd on Tuesday night. About twenty five pies were sold at auction raising ten dollars and ten cents for the school. Donations came from local schools and the young men and bidders gave generously.
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Sonville and Vicinity
Liberty School
Ady
Marshal Miller
Joseph Hickenbottom
Elm Grove News Highlights Changes and Local Visits
Elm Grove notes from the week include a new correspondent joining the column and windy welcome. Beulah White plans a trip to New York City to attend Eastman College. Boyd of Los Angeles is visiting at John Ramsey’s home. Several residents prepare for moves within the area including Harry Junkin, John Hagan, John Jacobson, and William Tuller. Sam Myers is ill. Oscar Stever and family visit from Artyville. Emery of Pleasant Plain visits Wilson’s. Corge Walker of Batavia visits. Isabelle and Albert Wilson visit Alva Rains. M Fisher reports. Evii Rittenhouse sold twenty cattle to Geo Walker. Gardner journeys to Packwood to see his uncle, Geo Gardner, who is sick with cancer of the stem.
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Hss
Beulah White
Pleasant
Fisher’s
Miss White
New York City
Eastman College
Boyd
Los Angeles
Cal
Ising
John Ramsey
Harry Junkin
Boley Farm
John Hagan
Dean Place
John Jacobson
William Tuller
Fairfield
Sam Myers
Oscar Stever
Children
Hog shipments and social visits mark Beckwith brief
McCormick and Damm shipped three carloads of hogs from Beckwith on Friday. Elmer McClain and family visited Vic Root. Chas Ray, Roy Whitman and families visited Dallas Green. An oyster supper is planned at the No. 5 schoolhouse Friday night. Dill Carter is sick.
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Beckwith
Mount Pleasant
Dill Carter
Amy Russell
Chas. Clapp
Local Notes From Stockport Iowa February Update
Entries report moves of residents to new homes including M C Silver to Tim Day property and G C Mendenhall to the Christian church parsonage. Marriage cards announced for Mae Sherman and William Johnston on February 19 1908 amid local sickness and ice harvest activity.
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Stockport
M. C. Silver
G. C. Mendenhall
Christian Church
S. A. Gregory
Birmingham
Union Telephone Company
D. K. McGaw
Winfield
G. W. Howard
Missouri
Arkansas
O. A. Collins
Hilsboro
Mae Sherman
William Johnston
J. F. Howard
Whitney
Neb
J. N. Greene
Burlington
Chas. Crissinger
Morning Sun
F. M. Mathews
Primrose
Floyd
Frank Archibald
Sam Carr
Lloyd Beswick
Williard Kisling
Carr
Clarence Johnston
Kisling
Rev. Scrambler
New Zealand
The
Packwood Notes and Local Mentions
Packwood Iowa reports on the Magnuson sale's strong turnout last Wednesday. William Walker of Richland sustained a painful ice fall. Mrs. Cathey is ill. C. M. McChesney shipped cattle to Chicago. Rex and Mrs. Ramey visiting relatives southwest of town. Mrs. Casteline of Kansas visited the Harris home. Luella Thomas was ill last week. Walter and Mrs. Thomas returned from Missouri. Will McVey and Nellie Goodman of Linby wed recently.
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Packwood
Magnuson
William Walker
Richland
Cathey
C. M. McChesney
Chicago
Rex Ramey
Casteline
Kansas
W. C. Harris
Luella Thomas
Walter Thomas
Missouri
Will McVey
Nellie Goodman
Linby
Tubercular hospital opens at Iowa City for prevention and care
Iowa City opens a state sanatorium for tuberculosis under board of control guidelines. Admission costs $30 monthly for paying patients with allowances for nonpaying applicants. Each district will appoint a physician to examine and refer incipient cases for admission after a $3 fee, with six months allowed for incipient stage patients. The program emphasizes open air treatment, daily routines, and education on prevention, with hospital tents described as comfortable and closely tied to hotel-like conveniences.
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State Hospital For
Iowa City
Board of Control
Kirschner
Residents plan farm move and local events noted
Ottumwa residents last week plan housekeeping on a farm southwest of Packwood. Mr Walter Weller and bride will live on his father's farm southeast of town. A number attended the Hedrick corn and poultry show last Friday. Ray Nelson of Linby attended the Magninson sale last Thursday. John Morman will move to the D M Oliver place in the south part of town this spring.
Camping on the Roof: New Fad at a Philadelphia Hotel
Guests at a Philadelphia hotel camp on the roof in a novel, fully equipped site offering open air sleeping above the city. The manager markets the idea as restful, citing distant city hum and night air as soothing, with a limited number of cots available for visitors.
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Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
Boston
Cattle Driving Through Buffalo Skirmishes in the Plains
An excerpt recalls 1860s cattle drives where drovers faced vast buffalo herds that menaced sleeping cattle and required driving them away. Attacks from Comanche bands frequent on the flanks intensified danger, with Indians hamstringing, maiming, and killing cattle as whites fought to reach the right of way and survive on the plains.
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Mr. Anthony
Texas
Physician Promises Quick Relief for Breathing Pain
A patient tells a doctor of chest pain and trouble breathing while the physician pledges to administer a remedy that will halt the problem soon. The report appears in the Chicago Daily News.
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Chicago Daily News
Sampled Things in The Tribune Dialogue
A brief Yonkers scene features Patience and Patrice discussing cooking schools and dyspepsia with a playful exchange. The dialogue mirrors a column style from a newspaper page.
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Patience
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Manure the Great Farm Resource and Its Value
The article argues manure can greatly boost farm wealth, noting only two states exceed 30 dollars per acre in 1900. It compares Illinois, North Carolina, and Minnesota yields, urges proper cultivation, and emphasizes manure as a near limitless soil bank and essential fertilizer source. It cites figures on horses, mules, and manure yields, illustrating how livestock waste replaces costly imports of nitrogen and potash.
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Union
Illinois
North Carolina
Minnesota
Europe
United States
Valuation of Farm Manure Fertilizer From Livestock
A St. Paul Minn farm note estimates annual manure fertilizer value per animal type. Horses and mules yield 27 dollars, cattle 20, hogs 8, and sheep 2, with total US livestock manure valued at about 2.226 billion dollars and a potential one third loss if manure is unutilized.
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United States
Woman’s resolve outlined in a bold moral tale
A brisk editorial voice asserts female desire and agency, urging practical steps and steadfast action. It frames a woman’s will as a driving force, noting consequences for those who doubt or resist her aims.
Judge Questions First and Second Husbands in Reminiscence
A courthouse exchange centers on memories of a woman's marriages. The judge probes whether the first union failed, and she notes she now speaks more favorably of her first husband after her second marriage. The dialogue highlights shifting perceptions and reputational nuance.
Pessimistic Poet Hopes to Wake Famous One Morning
Short exchange in which a friend urges belief in future fame while the pessimistic poet claims unlikely luck. The page also notes a want ad at the Tribune office seeking clean cotton rags.
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Tribune
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