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Lost Island News and Local Notes Reflected in Snow and Harvest
Reports from Lost Island recount a heavy corn crop threatened by an early snowstorm, with much spoilage expected. The piece chronicles local figures, a charity appeal for college expenses, a Thanksgiving Day sermon by A. P. Nekstrum, building work by Joe Gabrielson of Graettinger, and scattered township lists of names and constables amid transient notes and odd culinary instructions.
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Lost Island Two
Willgood
Rutherat Church
A. P. Nekstrum
Joe Gabrielson
Graettinger