Not Subjects Owners Lets Act Like Citizens Not Subjects
An Independence Day reflection on ownership of the nation. The author contrasts subjects and citizens and urges readers to read the Declaration of Independence, remember the consent of the governed, and participate as part owners in democracy during an election year. The piece calls for mindful civic duty and engagement rather than passive celebration.
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Nabob
United States
Meaure
Britain
D. Southerland, Jr
The
Montezuma Republican
Rumors And Small Town Tales From Eldora And Nearby
A Montezuma Republican item recounts quirky Eldora notes from a Saturday visit by Darold Jack, a girl’s hospital trip after a stomach pumping, a Way-Schrader wedding cake arrival, and political chafing about Ike and party loyalty. Local color shows children, weather, horse show finds, and a Minneapolis reader seeking his Eldora birth proof.
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Darold Jack
Eldora
Oelwein
Eliora
Ackley mourns tragedy and local fires stamp a hard week
Ackley wakes to news of Ed Kolar found with throat cut at his parents’ coal shed. A fire destroyed George Lane’s farm house near Gifford, with $20000 loss and $1200 insurance. The Marshalltown paper notes pensions to soldiers’ home residents and a set of local business, land, and civic updates paint a busy Grundy county scene.
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Ackley
Ed Kolar
Iowa Central
George Lane
Gifford
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Jacob Albright
Charles Sampson
Grundy County
Eldora
Sampson
A. H. Latimer
Park Dam Co
Eldora and
Canton
Big Sioux River
Mohaughan
Watercolor Exhibit by Ruth Van Sickle Port in Eldora
Library board invites residents to view 20 watercolors by Ruth Van Sickle Port on display at the Eldora library for the month. Port, director of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, presents dramatic Caribbean scenes from the New York Studio Guild. A Life magazine copy on display details the unusual Aurora home of Mrs. Ford and her husband.
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Ruth van Sickle Pord
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
New York Studio Guild
Life Magazine
Fourth of July Oration Sparks Local Letters and Notices
A capsule Fourth of July address denounces political hype and praises civic care in Iowa Falls. The column references Taft and Eisenhower, local figures like Guy Harris, Farm Bureau topics, and a push toward tidier streets and improved public spaces. It lists social visits, 4-H shortcourse attendees, camp attendance, and numerous Sunday gatherings across area families and clubs.
Owasa News Items And Local Visits
A long list of visiting relatives and friends spans several towns including Iowa Falls Torrance Eldora and Des Moines with social calls at Hoffmans Huffmans and Nehrings. Bible School programs and local picnics are noted along with weekend guests from Alden Hubbard and Radcliffe and a Heard family reunion in Hampton.
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L. E. Tibbs
Laurence Stuart
Webster City
Percy Snyder
Popejoy
Doris Stuart
Iowa Falls
N. B. Stuart
Gene Hansen
Alden
Leo Fuller
Windom
Minn
William Trampe and
Richard
Nell Havens
Kuschel
Wilcox
Arizona
W. B. Grant
Edna
C. A. Jackson
Dallas
Alpha Pence
Mary Pence
Torrance
Calif
Leonard Hoffman
Buckeye
Gerald Jackson
Des Moines
Robert Pryor
Decorah
Charles Brownell
Darrell
San Clements
Ray Nandell
Cedar Rapids
R. O. Huffman
Waneva
Huffman
Ed Benda
Shirley
Ezra Galiff
Lauiva
Hamburg
Germany
Benda
Milo Ward
Lois Gunn
Jackson Township
George Cross
Florence Northrup
Eldora
Owasa Methodist Church
Karen Manatt
R. V Nehring
Fred Reed
Bill Harms
Otis Bessman
Morris Lake
Steven
Craig Grantow
Iowa
Logsdon Park
Roxie Heard
C. BE. Huffman
Breckenridge
Missouri
Nettie Reece
North Carolina
Bel Air
Maryland
Lester Mortvedt
Hubbard
C. E. Huffman
R. R. Heard
Merle Costello
Barbara Jo Whigam
Barbara Jo Whigham
Minnie Eick
Henry Stielow
Fred Ward
Owasa
Stanley Dreier
Gus Merklin
John Dickenson
Frank Conkin
W. H. Platts
Kenneth Curtis
Patricia
Sherry
Harold Platts
Hampton
Heard
Park
Oscar Moats
Ed Steinfeldt
Alice Steinfeldt
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Ene
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