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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1921
Page
8
Mrs Eva Stoddard returned home Sunday after visiting her daughter Mrs L C Hannahs near Baldwin. Mrs Walter G Crabb and daughter Pauline of near Hampton also came.
Thursday brings plans for Chautauqua August 26 to 30 with acts including The Althea Players Robert Bowman New York Glee Club and A Pair of Sixes. Nearby, residents attended the Oxford Junction Legion picnic and Davenport exposition while a lightning strike damaged Sam Propst Sr. home with no fire.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous personal names and characters such as Florence, Lois, John, Gibbs, Lorie, Martha, Fannie May, Henrietta, Bernice, Eusebius, and George Washington Perkins. It references a Col Hartigan home and a Toth hills setting with lines like there’s honor in the hills and Gog dig nut, forming a fragmented theatre scene caption.
August 20 to September 2 at Jackson County Fairgrounds invites families to lay aside cares and attend a community event. Organizers tout the fair as an important tonic for thought, consideration, and work from year end to opening day, urging residents to show appreciation and boost the pair.
Wanted good correspondent from Zwingle Onslow Charlotte and Spragueville write or call for particulars as advertised in The Jackson Sentinel.
Iowa State College associate professor A J Friedrick says there is gold in glacial gravel but only in tiny quantities. Reports of gold found in multiple Iowa locations are unsubstantiated, with only two samples showing measurable gold and one yielding about 30 cents worth per ton.
The Department of Agriculture and Iowa State College show high priced town land buyers pay about six percent interest while the farms yield only about three percent on invested capital. Iowa farm land value rose by 211 per acre from 1915 to 1920, with most increases between 1919 and 1920. Most purchases were by farmers, not real estate speculators, and outcomes depend on intensive farming or possible failures like other war era ventures.
A fragmentary item notes a man practices and completes tasks in a private setting, with unclear names or locations, reflecting a terse, puzzling readability typical of OCR from a historical page.
A Maquoketa resident reports back pain and kidney issues eased after using a kidney medicine. The seller, Dawn's, claims the remedy strengthened kidneys within a short period and prompted strong recommendations locally.
A ferocious Colorado wolf leader known as Old Whitie, blamed for repeated livestock depredations on Bear Springs Mesa, was finally captured by hunters using four traps in a blind set. The event marks the end of a notorious predator whose reign caused significant losses.
Fragmentary OCR notes recount a man roaming Bear Springs Mesa for twelve years. A rancher testifies to losses around six thousand dollars in livestock from depredations. Additional garbled phrases reference a tapestry, bees, and a tower, offering no clear context.
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