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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1920
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Liberty and Liberty harbor, a 306 foot height, Lloyds Maritime references, and a gate or fence. Details are garbled with many missing words and nonsensical phrases, making exact events or entities indeterminate.
Notice is hereby given that the last will of John H Hankemeier, deceased, has been opened and read. A hearing on the proof of the will is set for Saturday the Tth day of February, 1920, before the District Court of Jackson County at Mequoketa Iowa. January 9 1920 Eugene Mohr Clerk of the District Court W L Palmer Attorney.
An odd, glitchy ad touts RAT-SNAE as a guaranteed rodent killer with claims of no smell after rats are killed. It mentions pantry and kitchen use, outbuildings and storage, and is tied to Snow White Pharmacy Meatster Stores Co. The text veers into stray historical notes about subjugation and Roman influence, creating a jagged, unclear collage.
A garbled passage contemplates nature producing results through simple means like flowers and water. The speaker jumbles references to a spectator, a whale, sap, trees, fuel, and stamens, ending with a perplexing image of water and diameter and fuel-like sand.
A novice golfer mistook a mushroom for his ball at Letchworth golf links and did not realize the error until five strokes later. Separately, a prediction estimated that $26 billion would be needed to equip the United States with water resources up to peak farming production.
Bellevue Lodge members installed 1920 officers in a regular Monday session with G Houck as W M George Zentner S W James McDowall TW W E Schirmer J D Earl Paup. Mrs Rowan recounts near fatal rat prompted house fire scare and cellar avoidance.
Fraternal notice summons Master Masons to attend work on the third degree Thursday evening by order of the Worshipful Master.
A fragment notes a claim that the annual yield of the American farm could amount to 2,000,000 pounds or more, with estimates of 5,000,000,000 bushels of corn and billions of wheat production. The text appears to discuss agricultural productivity and potential gains under a scientific approach.
The Woman's Society of the Congregational church will host a chicken supper at the church on Wednesday January 14. Women will begin serving at 5 50 and continue until all meals are sold.
The fragment describes a whale's sneater and gullet size with figures suggesting a head enormous and a mouth up to twenty feet long and six to eight feet wide. It notes the animal rarely swallows items larger than a herring and compares the gag to a man’s fist in danger.
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