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Local items and notices from the period
A compilation of short notices and local items across multiple towns. Mentions corrected figures, agricultural prices, personal travels by Carl Spies and Bigelow, cattle trading at Windsor Hotel, a $153,114,438 treasury figure, county poor farm purchase, West Dubuque asylum population, Union Sunday school disaster program, Pingree farming plan for Dunlap, church revivals adding members, visits and teas, hunting reports, and school fund apportionments. Regular citizens and businesses referenced include W. Wells, Philip O Conner, Abel Helvig, Ruthven Free Press, Graettinger, Emmetsburg, Grattinger, and Mont Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bigelow
Hibherville
Carl Spies
Spiritake
Windsor Hotel
Wells
Olaf Martinsen
Philip O'Conner
Abel Helvig
Burg
Villissa
Hancock County
Board of Supervisors
West Dubuque
Union
Webster City
Dunlap
Bessie Post
Alice Williams
Tollig
Mont Harris
Grattinger
Emmetsburg
Ruthven Free Press
Walnut
Graettinger
W.W. Poston
Graettinger Farm