Hamburg Reporter Publisher and Associate Editor
Fred W. Hill is the publisher of the Hamburg newspaper with James A. Johnson serving as associate editor.
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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
2
Fred W. Hill is the publisher of the Hamburg newspaper with James A. Johnson serving as associate editor.
Local notes mention Mrs. Wm. Coy Jr. and children visiting in Joplin, Mrs. Georgia Fleming and baby staying with Mrs. Fred Stacy, and plans for Christmas music at the Butterfield shop. Mrs. Duke Alberson and daughter Max Conn return from Nebraska City. Nelle Doyle returns from Logan and Harriet Doyle joins for an extended visit.
John Franks and Chas Simmerman of Farragut say the clothing store will remain open after supper until after Christmas to serve the holiday buying. Other merchants likely to stay open too. Local merchants report good stock and strong business for the season.
A large tire inner tube and rim found south of Hamburg. Owner may reclaim by paying for this local and describing the property. Call this week at the first house east of Jimi Shoemake's, then at Nebraska City.
A Catholic church ladies group will hold a food sale at Joe Nies store this Saturday offering Sunday dinner items for sale.
A warning states that anyone found hunting or trespassing on John F Simmerman's farm will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. S4-41, Garrett Bridges.
Good house of six rooms for sale or rent. Includes garage cistern and cave. W. W. Barnes.
Advertises pure bred Rhode Island Reds cockrels for sale by Mrs Ray Athen of Hamburg Town. Mentions 34-3 Wood Sawing L and Bert Cowles buzz saw offering sawing at 25 cents per hour. Includes a puzzled line: Whose Reporter do you read.
My 161 acre improved farm in Washington township Fremont county Iowa is for sale through A Walburn. Christmas poems and gift lists appear in the surrounding text with scattered sale notices and local notices.
Maine pays bounties for bears wolves and wildcats with 5 dollars for bears and wolves and 2 dollars for wildcats. Last year 595 dollars went to bear losses and 826 to wildcats though wolves were rarely hunted. The bounty program, begun in 1830, aimed to curb destructive wildlife and spurred broader state efforts at agriculture and industry.
A record notes that an allocation of 15,000 for crow bounties was requested in a short period, raising worries about the pace and adequacy of the grant process and its potential impact on controlling the crow population.
The French historian Guizot walking in a Paris public garden calmly seats himself as a disreputable man trails him. Guizot lights a cigar, provoking the follower to glare and depart with muttered words about a target who never smokes. A week later the historian reads the man has been arrested.
An unspecified public official who bore a strong likeness to Guizot faced a violent attack. The famed writer returned home and, to mark the narrow escape, lit a large cigar in his honor.
A wife and her daughter, in Mylor South Australia, barely escaped a bush-fire siege at their home. They fled on a frightened mare to the river, plunging into water as flames licked the gardens, then rode to safety as the fire burned past.
Second Policeman notes his wife loses her crown each night in a playful exchange about hair and beauty.
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