Road Paving Vote Spurs Hardin County Debate
Hardin county defeated the road paving proposition at the recent election, affecting state funds for Jefferson highway paving and sparking editorial debate. The Ledger urges action to improve local infrastructure including a bridge and lake area access, while noting community funding and past public works efforts.
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Hardin County
Jefferson
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Tom Purcell
The
Hampton Chronicle
Tona Shines as Summer Beauty Sparks Local Praise
Eldora Ledger notes summer sentiment praising Tona, while Toel4 Hall Edwards report a strong shoe sale driven by newspaper ads. The paper touts advertising results and mentions Eldora phone directories printed this year and Ante Town Falla's bridge project estimated at 62 000 dollars amid great corn weather.
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Hall & Edwards
Folka
Mr. Merchant
the Ledger
Eldora
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A fragmented wry miscellany of jokes weather items and a biographical note on 19th century figures. It includes comic dialogues about doctors, a poetry snippet, stray anecdotes, a hot weather advice piece by Dr. Waterman, and a brief obituary noting G A R commander Clay Nelson of Story county born 1845 with his Civil War service and Slater merchant history.
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Ende
Freddy
Mars
Meath
A. H. Waterman
Chicago
Gorgas Memorial Institute
Dr. Waterman
Sambon
Tropics
Sampson
Gorgas
Panama
General Gorgas
United States
New State
Clay Nelson
Story County
Grand Army of the Republic
Newton
Nelsonia
Slater
Rock County
Wisconsin
Nels Olson Evenerue
Kame Wer
Sugar Hill Rifflea
Highth Wisconsin Infantry
Keokuk
En- Hsred
Fortieth Wisconsin Infantry
Memphis
Garbridge
Farmers Sayings Bank of
Ayneb
National Republican
James G. Blain
Republican Committee
Campalin
New law requires fingerprints for liquor violators and unidentified dead
The Forty second general assembly enacted a law mandating complete fingerprint records for bootleggers and liquor nuisances after July 4. County sheriffs and city police chiefs must forward these records to the state bureau within 48 hours of detainment or conviction, with destruction rules if no conviction occurs. The act also requires fingerprints for all unidentified dead bodies within sheriff jurisdiction.
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State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Bureau of Criminal Investigation J
Prayin for neighbors and farm life lessons mix in speech
Amee Abe remarks on neighborliness and the value of charity. She notes humans and animals alike deserve care, while timber on the farm funds repairs and essential improvements to keep operations efficient. She adds marriage helps keep men humble.
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Ackley World-Journal
H. A. Hutt
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