News items from Riverton crowd last week
Local notes report a house fire on the Bertha Thurman place burning Saturday night in Riverton. Ralph Wright’s home suffered after neighbors summoned help, with furniture saved from the ground floor. Fire started in an old sled kitchen, likely mice carrying matches. Insurance won’t cover the loss.
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Ralph Wright
Bertha Thurman
Toyo
St. Bernard’s Academy
Nebraska City
Will Fugit
Nicholas Senn Hospital
Omaha
Geo. W. Feil
T. J. Morgan
Walter Dahlgren
Heaton
Shenandoah
Erma Crumley
Grand Island
Neb
Riverton
Grace Crumley
Ola Hudson
Mineola
W. J. Mawher
Denver
Colo
Rudolph Taskey
Chas, Anderson
EB. E. Spear
Wallace Morgan
Knights Templar
George W. Feil
What This Town Needs Is Action From Its People
An editorial urges residents to stop blaming the town and to take collective and individual steps to improve the community. It emphasizes home pride, local purchasing, investment, and constructive criticism to fix issues, grow, and avoid stagnation. The piece ends noting the quote from the Merchants Journal of Commerce.
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Merchants Journal of Commerce
St Jacobs Liniment touted for rheumatic pain relief
An advertisement urges readers to apply St Jacobs Liniment directly to the tender spot for instant relief from rheumatic pain. It claims the liniment is harmless, won’t burn skin, and has relieved millions over the last fifty years, also aiding sciatica neuralgia lumbago backache sprains and swelling.
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Hamburg
St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Liniment
Don Ragan Accepts Pacific Coast League Offer
Don Ragan announces he will join the Los Angeles ball team of the Pacific Coast league for the season with a $4,000 salary plus travel expenses for himself and wife. He also stands to receive a substantial bonus based on a percentage of games won. Ragan, known to many in the region, has pitched for years with major league organizations and is a Blanchard native remembered by older fans.
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Don Ragan
Los Angeles
State Line Herald
Pat” Ragan
Blanchard
Unclaimed Letters In Hamburg Post Office
A weekly uncalled letters list for Hamburg Iowa covers Miss Mary M Millison Miss Merril Roberts Mrs Harold Case Harlan K St John Wesley Stayton Andrew Larson T G Garlock remains for week ending January 3 1920. Letters to be sent to Dead Letter Office January 26 1920 if undelivered. Callers should say advertised with date of list. Fred L Ives P M.
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Hamburg, Iowa
Mary M. Millison
Merril Roberts
Harold Case
Harlan K. St. John
Wesley Stayton
Andrew Larson
T. G. Garlock
Fred L. Ives
P. M
Untitled reflection on money and vice in America
A stark meditation on economic excess and self deception. The speaker laments the easy money and wasteful habits that grip America, calling it sick with a disease of reckless spending and misplaced values.
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America
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A. A. Miller
Jim West
K. L. K. Club
The
Christian Herald
L. E. Orcutt
Bible House
New York City
Bayard Taylor
Valley of the Nile
Traveer
St. Joseph
Brazil
Ciect
Unis Paper
Econadit
ST. Joseph New
Sress
Chas
Medford
Fred Aldrich
Wwell
the Farmer’s Cooperative
Federal Land Bank
Cooperative Land Bank
United States
F. E. Rubey
Commercial Savings Bank
Farragut, Lowa
Lamm
John Pease
Farragut
Doane Farm
Cato Jack
Duroc Jersey
Farrow
High Orion Orion
Frank Blackman
Tarkio
Missouri
Deering
McCormick
Canton
Rock Island
Triumph
Kleckner and Ames
Auds
W. S. Lyle
Hastings With
First National Bank
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