Local notes and holiday ads from Elkader store
Locals note Christmas visits and store bargains at Youngs Hardware. Miss Doris Knight heads to Saskatchewan Collegiate Institute for teaching prep. Various residents, including G Gaynor and H G Kennedy, spend holidays with relatives in Iowa and Minnesota. Large bill urges closing out prices at Youngs.
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G . Gaynor Wy
Charles Huugefierd
Holeten Minn
Eschuet
Doris Knight
Saskatchewan Collegiate Institute
Saskatchewan
Mistawasis
Doris
W. K. Humphry's Store News Holiday Specials
Holiday greetings go to patrons as W. K. Humphry's lists a selection of fruits and groceries for Saturday. Oranges bananas grape fruit grapes apples lettuce buckwheat flour pancake mixes and other items are promoted as part of Christmas specials.
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New York
Birth of Elizabeth Batley Eddington in Willard Cole area
Friends of Mrs Sarah Batley Eddington rejoice at the birth of an eight pound girl named Elizabeth. The note mentions gifts and sales on blankets at Yueng hardware store. Ada Bubiman and Lela Baldman returned home for holidays. Lela plans to attend college locally.
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Sarah Batley
Eddington
Willard Cole
Elizabeth
Yueng Herdeware
Ada Bubiman
N D
Misa Lela
Mra J A Baldman
Mies Lela
Local Family Christmas Visit and Funeral Notices
Smithfield A Rutledge and family spent Christmas with the W R Herrel family. Mise Cora Herrel is vacationing at home. Bert Badger and wife traveled to Oelwein Sunday for the funeral of his brother Horace, whose burial move was from De kal Lt to be interred beside his wife. Two of Mr Badger's sons are missing.
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Young’s
Will Jones
South Dakota
Kev G H Kennedy
Taseday
Dubuque
Edpa Robbins
Fairmount’ N Oak
Mra Smith
Springville
Max Bishop
Humphry
Elkador
Mies Bole Richards
Watertoo
Loman Sampson
Ions City
Yteciber
Aster
QC Bibevock
Steuwberry Po
Mia Taylor
W Fifield
Harmony Minn
Morrison
Mra F
Bert Badger
Oelwein
Horace
de Kal
Mr Badger
Local grocer highlights canned salmon and Longhorn cheese
The ad touts fine canned salmon and Longhorn cheese with a large stock. It promises morning coffee for many mornings and urges shoppers to try their coffee quality. Prices listed include 250, 280, 300, 350 and a new 25¢ line.
Barley as a Feed in Colorado Crop Districts
In Colorado specialized crop districts growers shift from sugar beets and cantaloupes to grain and alfalfa rotations as annual returns drop. Farmers aim to feed rather than sell whole crops with barley suggested for lamb feeding and as a kernel supplement, noting corn mixed with barley improves feed value.
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Morton
Colorado Agricultural Colleges
Colorado
Harley
Fort Colsamo
Albye
Notable Deaths and Disasters Across Cities in Brief
Prof Odilon Lannelongue famed surgeon dies in Paris at 70. Novelist Margaret Potter dies in Chicago from heart failure. Mrs John Issenhuth drowns after falling into a barrel in Huron. Ex Princeton registrar Henry Van Dyke dies on Broadway car. Mrs Elroy Avery editor of D A R paper dies in Cleveland. Fire damage at Clara Koch residence near Lagran, Mo. Loss about 12000. Alaska railroad funding sought by Sulzer in Congress. DOJ probes Brazilian coffee trust in Philadelphia next week. Adelaide Erlanger obtains interim divorce with 1500 alimony. Michael Cudahy estate yields 1590 inheritance tax to California. G Luther Brown acquitted in bank failure case. Chicago grand jury indicts Boneham and Channell for murder of Mrs Kaufman. Actor Wright Lorimer dies by gas in New York at 38. Olsen sentenced to 22 years for murder in Kansas. Virginia judge invites vote sellers to face fines. Queltette and Lord Stansburg among smugglers sentenced to Leavenworth. Arthur Bolin dies after steel burn in Chicago. Four Yale expedition members return from Peru ruins. Townsend sentenced to indeterminate term for assault. Mrs Rebecca Powers learns she inherits fortune after her brother’s death. Grant county bachelors form group to seek wives. Diamonds stolen from Adalamond broker. $25,000 worth missing. Samuel Scott reports incident to police. Navy appeals for bells from Maine denied. Jennie Catena’s explosion injures woman and child in Brooklyn.
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Odilon Marc Lannelongue
Paris
Margaret Horton Potter
Chicago
John Issenhuth
Huron
S. D
Henry N. van Dyke
Princeton University
New York
Elroy M. Avery
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Cleveland
Fira
Mias Clara Koch
Lagrange
Missouri
Alaska
Sulzer
Ttme
Department, of Justice
Philadelphia
Adelaide Louise Erlanger
Abraham J. Erlanger
California
Michael Cudahy
Los Angeles
G. Luther Brown
Citizens’ and Farmers’ State Bank of
Arkansas City
Kan
Ilegal
Frederick Boneham
William R. Channell
Attie Kaufman
Wright Lorimer
Lorimer
N. T. Olsen
Council Grove
Walter Newfarmer
King
Sheen
Lee County
Virginia
Lord Stansburg
Albert
Arthur Queltette
Bodes
Leavenworth
Arthur Bolin
Bolin
Hiram Bineham
Yale
Metechu Pichu
Peru
John E. Townsend
South St. Paul
James R. Stevenson
Prion
Townsend
Rebeccs, Powers
Ottawa
Grant County
Kansas
Adalamond
Samuel Scott
Navy Department
Felice
Maine
Jennie Cateno
Brooklyn
Philip
Death of Mrs Paul in Fayette County Iowa
Arlene Gra was born in Saraty gs county New York on December 26 1854 and died December 23 1011 in Fayette County Iowa at age fifty nine years seven months and twenty nine days. She married to Jease Paul at nineteen and had eleven children Mary Hattie Nellie Edith Lans Marion Treesa John Chester Walter and Laura. Survived by husband three sisters two brothers and many relatives. Funeral conducted by Dr F G Young with services at the house and burial in Grandview Cemetery.
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Arlene Gra
Saratags County
New York
Jease Paul
Iowa Sevling
Fayette County
Mary
Hattie
Nellie
Edith
Lans
Marion
Treesa
John
Chester
Walter
Laura
Tosa
Mre Paul
Christmas Allowance for Men in Conspiracy Case
Judge in Council Bluffs Iowa permitted the jailed defendants to spend Christmas at their homes with family in a conspiracy trial. The ruling cautioned handling visitations and press contact, while telegrams to Mabray from Cornell Bluffs surfaced as key evidence. Police testified about gang operations and the 1908 arrest in Little Rock, with papers identified and many exhibit numbers noted.
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Council Bluffs
Benjami
Maris
Arthur
Mabray
Cornell Bluffs
Corncil Bluffs
Kansas City
Geonett
Louis W. Stone
Boom for Holden Launched Candidate for Governor Stirs Des Moines
Ames educator PG Holden of the town state agricultural college is launched as a gubernatorial hopeful by friends in Des Moines. Republicans and independents alike foresee a lively Iowa campaign in 1912 as supporters discuss the early boom at a meeting held last week.
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Ames
Stirs
Des Moines
PG. Holden
State Agricultural College
Iowa
Holden
Edna Alger Safe After Mission Trip to Kuling China
Edgewood, ta, Dec. 25. Miss Edna Alger daughter of Mr and Mrs H A Alger of this city has been in the mission fields of China for months. She is now safe with other American missionaries ordered from out stations to Kuling a city considered as safe as any in the empire populated largely by foreigners of many nationalities.
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Edgewood
Edna Alger
H. A. Alger
Thin City
China
Kuling
Waterlooo tragedy claims electrician on moving switch engine
In Waterloo Indiana on December 25 Leo A Boyce age 27 was killed instantly after stepping on a moving switch engine on his way home from work at the Galloway factory. He leaves a wife. The report notes a separate item from Storm Lake about Linn Grove postmaster A B Campbell being removed over a cash shortage estimated under $200 accumulated since June 1897 and attributed to carelessness.
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Waterloo
Leo A Boyce
Boyce
Galloway
Storm Lake
A. B Campbell
Linn Grové
Postofice
Campbell
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