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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
10
A fragmented diary style piece recalls a chaotic office scene as a thief fumbles with a locked safe while recounting the pursuit of stolen money. Police later recover nineteen stolen notes including a set of counterfeit bills linked to George Randell, who is to be married tonight.
Miss Mary Schmidt visits the Sidney Jennings home while Miss Florence Kelly travels to Dickeng Iowa for Mrs John Kelly’s funeral. Miss May Voshell clerks for Bob Kelly as Mina Florence Kelly is absent. Bred Shaffer and family from Fayette visit Wa dena relatives. Rev J 8 Moore and wife of West Union visit Moore home likely staying several days. John Whittentaugh Martin Klingman and John Walters visit George Davis home. Levi Cousins and wife are ill under doctor care, Dr Bower called. Wadena Auctioneers reorganize with Win Mattocks Caruthers and Bob Ingersoll as managers. Mattocks’ experience praised. inquire via Central Telephone Office WoOB. Kelly and wife attend John Kelly’s funeral at Dickens Iowa. death shocks relatives.
The text confirms a two dollar rate for the Daily Capital remains valid and mentions arrangements with Des Moines Capital to send the paper for a year. It contains garbled phrases about sending the paper and potential margins for the year, but the core fact is the continued two dollar subscription rate.
The item recounts local visits among families near Lima with mentions of Harleys and a departing farmer selling his farm to move to a nearby town. It also contains an odd testimonial touting a medicinal tonic for back pain nervousness loss of appetite and liver and blood disorders attributed to Riekert & Davis in an era of handwritten ad copy.
A roundup of residents and farmers with new neighbors and social visits. Several families in the Manchester and Clinton Burns areas report visitors and home moves while local breeders note cattle and sheep improvements including a Cotswold ram and three new Duro Jersey animals.
Frank Chittenden and others offer eight head of horses, cattle, sheep, machinery and grain at public auction noon Tuesday. Terms as usual. Also local school basket supper canceled. Notices of marriages, travels, and regional events follow with assorted small items and medicine ads.
A long list of real estate transfers is recorded, detailing moves among individuals and associations in Oelwein Arlington and nearby areas. Numerous property lots, blocks, and undeveloped parcels change hands among Andrew G. Miller Ellen Bassett Caroline Moyer Dwight Moyer and others, with mentions of Maynard Clermont Arlington and Park Association. The scattered entries suggest a broad conveyance activity across multiple tracts and neighborhoods during the period.
A historical portrait of John Alexander Dowie and Zion City outlining his commercial genius. Zion Lace Industries, once a symbol of industrial and religious fusion, grew into the town's lifeblood with a plant covering vast acres and employing many, driving wages and hope for residents amid a booming but faded dream.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference a speech about swans, a dissociated dialogue on life and forefathers, and a mention of London Sketch with a note on Common Benke as a genius of avengeance in a garbled historical newspaper style.
A fragmented article notes Dobuane and Marstilltown saloons closing with July end plans amid prohibition zeal. It cites religious voices condemning vice and praising emigration, mentions Carre Nation’s illness in Kansas, and records a large German dollar figure tied to wartime costs. It also references women’s enfranchisement and Prohibition Clubs in Washington.
The New York American reports on bearded women including a London exhibit of Mlle. Boes de Chere at eighteen with a profuse head of ten large mustache and strong black beard. It notes other instances and questions authenticity.
Fragmentary text discusses naming practices for women in Korea and Asia, noting that many wives lack personal names and gain social identity only through their husbands. It references Christian remittance and the need for a name that grants a sense of femininity, with a focus on gender and cultural identity.
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