Editorial opposing Swedish pornographic mail
Five Daily Sentinel staffers received Sweden postmarked letters offering colored slides of sexual content. The piece argues the material is pornographic, not art, and urges readers to refuse such mail and return it to the post office under pandering laws. It warns that catalogs could target civilians and urges collective action against censorship and nuisance deliveries.
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United States
Daily Sentinel
Sweden
G.r
Cong
Wiley Mayne
Walsh Pioneers of Iowa Life A Story of John Walsh
An 8 year old John Walsh stands with family and neighbors at Floyd River on July 12 1868 as they begin a pioneer journey to Stanton township Iowa. The Walsh and Stokes families emigrated from Ireland in 1859 and 1860 and built a life marked by community, hardship, and later public roles.
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Floyd River
Correctionville Road
Iowa
Gary Owen
John Walsh
Patrick
Catherine Walsh
Ireland
Jackson County
Dubuque
Catherine
Rose
Thomas Stokeses
Pennsylvania
America
Stanton Township
Stokeses
Walshes
Minnesota
Hancock County
James Walsh
Southern Minnesota Normal College
Austin
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Oscar Mayer & Co
Chicago
Garner
Pioneer Poet and Farmer John Walsh Memoir Fragments
The narrative traces John Walsh’s life from early frontier farming in Stanton township through his marriage to Molly Crowley in 1886 and the births of his large family. It notes his poetry and violin talents, the 1876 Northfield bank incident as a dramatic subject, and his son James’s later chronicling of three generations in Black Loam of Iowa.
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Colleen
Mary Ann
Molly) Crowley
Molly Walsh
James
Walshes
Iowa
John Walsh
Rose
Northfield
Minn
James E. Walsh
Plymouth County
le Mars
Anton Sartori
Clyde Kluckhohn
Curtis Harnack
Westmar
Arthur Larson
Harry
Gertrude
John McDonald
Robert Walsh
Stanton Township
Carleton
Gordon Stokes
James and Frank James alleged to have staged Kingsley incident
Narrative recounts a night shared by Mr and Mrs Nash west of Kingsley where five silver dollars were found on the table after guests left. It later aligns the visitors with the James brothers, infamous bandits and train robbers, based on reports and route data.
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Nash West
Kingsley
Nashes
Jesse and
Frank James
Memoirs of a Plymouth County boy and a porn mail shock
The writer recalls farming life in Hancock County and his Plymouth County boyhood, then shifts to a modern irritant: receiving a foreign pornographic mailer that shocks and provokes reflections on taste, race, and postal policy. He muses on local connections and potential public responses.
Obituary of Arthur M. Johnson 60 Tacoma resident
Arthur M. Johnson 60, of Tacoma Washington and former Moville area resident, died Tuesday in a Tacoma nursing home. Born February 18 1909 in Lawton he moved to Tacoma in 1956. Survived by three brothers Isaac of Tacoma Ted of Moville and Lyle of Sergeant Bluff and three sisters Ethel Richardson of Kingsley June Goodson of Tacoma and Gertrude Glover of Sioux City.
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Arthur M. Johnson
Tacoma
Wash
Moville
Lawton
Isaac
Ted
Lyle
Sergeant’ Bluff
Arthur
Ethel) Richardson
Kingsley
June Goodson
Ray
Gertrude) Glover
Sioux City
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