Town Notes From Sioux County Iowa Oddbits
Local items recount visits by Harbett Harrington from Sioux Center to the city, trips to Chicago by several residents, and social moments including a Rebecca Lodge gathering. Community markets, church services, a school Flag Day plan, and Epworth League social details are noted alongside small incidents and local business updates.
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Silas
McGritt
Wasn
Sheldon
Henry
Funk
Chicago
Atock
Harbett
Harrington
Sioux Center
Mante- Hazard
Anna. Walters
Rebecca
KD. Whelps
Sanborn
Dow
Gerrit Meerdink
Huibreg Tao & Duane
Iupplemint
Viil
Dean
Highland Park
Des Moines
Kate Gaundy
Evanings
Baying
Migs Cassidy
Hoatess
J. Anderson
Alter
Rene
Lea
Ray Wick
J. Il. Anderson
Qur
Denlera
Mr. Pemphill
Avery
Council Meeting Discusses Street Labor Ordinance
Tuesday night council met in regular session with full board except Wintermantel. Discussion centered on a proposed ordinance governing labor performance on streets and highways, but no action was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wintermante
Lilia
Wise Judge and Perplexing Jury Instructions
The article analyzes a jurys confusion over judge instructions in a case where prosecutors claim the defendant and his wife Nan lied about a money theft linked to a corpse. The jury, seeking plain duty, returns a guilty verdict, reflecting misinterpretation of legal guidance.
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Witneta
Law
Jackey Martin
Jake
Martie
de Reyie
Nan Deav
Martin
John Dean
Non Dean
Trusk
Sullivan County
Suburbanite Memory and the Memo to Remember
A humorous Chicago Times-Herald reminiscence depicts suburbanites debating memory aids. A man struggles to recall errands while his wife provides clues, pulling from his coat a memory aid about kindling. The tale ends with a candid observation on memory and daily chores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bella
Sammy
Syntex
Chicago Times-Herald
Child Vengeance Trial Tale Emerges From Warrant Office
A garbled account shows a boy seeking to swear against his father at a warrant clerk’s office. The child asserts his father beat his mother and caused injury in a prizefight, while relatives scarce a witness, and the clerk questions the boy’s claim and his mother’s absence.
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Wade
Aly Bey
Somngster
Kitches
Kentucky Footpad Threatens Colonel in Night Encounter
A Kentucky report describes Colonel HIE Ching ASL Louis fending off a nocturnal footpad aiming to ambush Colonel Kit Chinn. The assailant, called a born fighter, reportedly wields weapons outlawed by birth and fears nothing. The piece notes his rugged past and claimed confrontations with bare fists in winter.
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Hie Ching
Louis
Kit Chinn
Kentucky
Wilh
Time's Change in Common Phrases Across Generations
A fragment from a newspaper page contrasts old and new usages in idioms. The dialogue features a young husband and an old married man discussing memory and change, with references to phrases like incurbrace and present incumbent. The piece includes snatches about a post office and a senator, noting linguistic shifts.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Sorreltop
Higginsida
Higginside
Chicago Tribe
Vote notes and suffrage debate in 1898 era issue
A preserved fragment notes references to the 1898 national vote table, croup medicine, bill pledges for legislators, and suffrage letters in the Iowa Register. It mentions DeWitts Little Liver Pills, manilla card chords, and a pending suffrage bill favorably reported in the lower house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
J. Anderson
Owa
State ‘Register
Holt
the Register
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Frank Weatherwax
Osceola County
Washington
Iowa
C. L David Asonio
Lewa'e
Sabin
Public Instruction
Hult
Dea Moines ‘Register
Davidson
Fev. Broekstraa
Sec
Ond
Loouat Streets
Thurch
Groekstraa
Beck Mab Bros
Epworth League
DD. M. Odle
Osppenrimnces
Bull
Ustof
Sioux County
Rock Valley
Boyden
Hospers
Turaday
Granville
Orange City
Hawarden
Ireton
Mauriee
Hull
Wrneup
Genunty
ALT Tet
ED Brows
Denver
Colorado
di Ion Pacific
Northwestern
Union
Alest
Wiles
M. Rapid
Omaha
Burlington
Quincy
Oda
Wesk
Platte Valley
Union Pacific
Bay Bay Ws
Chenge
Worthwestern
Rock Island
Atchison
Burling Lou
North Weaver
Win Ma
Him
General Assembly
Explex
DeWitt
Barry Riegers
J. G. Anderson
J. H. Anderson
F. W. Hall
Hall, Ia
The
Sioux City Journal
the News of the World
Abie Editoriala
Adress, Perring Bros
Sioux City
Towa
Ity Journal
Week Journal
Pati
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