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Local Iowa and Dakota Rural News Highlights
A patchwork glance through county notes records plenty of farm activity. Wilber family returns to Iowa from Walls while Kenwick builds a Lutheran church foundation and farms shift hands in South Dakota. Hogs, sheep and oats move to Chicago and Mullen Hunter, plus numerous local visits, dances, and small outbreaks sparking daily life in Gilmore City Bradgate and Bode.
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Rudos
Wallis Harvey
Kenwick
Ella Talfor Wibner
Iowa
Chicago
Tanok & Kelling
Ranwloke
Victor Hunt
Livermore
Lurlington Road
Mister
Humboldt
Bradgate
VanAlstine
Mullen
Flunter
Gilmore
Dom Weaver
Q. M. Lee
James White
Lenwick
South Dakota
Gilmore City
Town
Hol. Kellogg
Wollie Larvey
Fd Polmater
Lloyd Pol
Goldfield
Gus Gunderson
Cissson Clark
Bode
John Mertz
Philip Walz
Weaver Township
Jim Waite
Hans Kybl
Charles Laughlin
United States
Packard
Bancroft
Flo
Glube
Woodwerd
Humbulus
Ottossa
Au Merobattis Mutual
Lode
Bugle
Henry Kraft
Ranwick
Lake Park
Andrew Johnson
Johnson
Hoda