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Christmas Morning Candy for Every Child Under Twelve
Middlebrook offers a sack of candy to every child under twelve who calls at his store on Christmas morning. The town newspaper announces a party at the Sullivan home by the PLE DJS with costumes and gifts, noting a successful toy distribution and holiday stories. Also reported: Day Dunning acquitted in Osceola on the Mount Ayr trial, and Humeston debates a second poultry show with Corydon, plus local farm and property ads and exchanges.
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Middlebrook
H. Middlebrook
Rao
Day Dunning
Mount Ayr
Osceola
Dunning
Jess
Humeston
Coryden