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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1921
Page
1
A jumble of names and places lists visits and homecomings in Maquoketa Clinton and nearby areas. Mentions Bert Sinkey Vernard site F Lockwood homes and several families hosting relatives visiting from Ames Cedar Rapids Chicago and Albuquerque. Includes remarks on ex servicemen and a potential presidential race query.
Clinton shows displeasure with arrivals and bus scene infesting the city. A few men seek to gain by money, with Adolph Bergmeister from Hanover visiting. Several locals travel, including Harry Geisler family returning from Kansas City and John Ellis joining Will Sos terity for a two week trip via Dubuque and Des Moines. Frimk Luckiesh arrives from Atlat to join family in Davenport. Mr Schaifer residents, Bix.3 eit Davenport for Pasadena, Call. in hopes to Layce.
Fragmentary OCR lists patients including Lawrence Bough of Bald win Frank Blandeck Lena Ohlmeyer and Morden undergoing appendicitis operations at Memorial Hospital amid Friday night and Saturday cases with scattered names and locations.
A garden of thanks expresses appreciation to relatives and neighbors who aided during illness and burial of a child. Mentions Mr. Edwin Sommers, Mr. and Mrs. Burling, the Palmer family, Kate Rice, Mr. Falmer, Thayer kin in Connecticut, and travel from Wisconsin. Reports on long-awaited family visits, a Naples note on a corn harvest, and drought impacts on small grain.
Residents recall yesterday’s alarm at Main and Platt streets and overheard chatter about the fire department’s swift response. The town notes Bremen and Maquoketa as benchmarks, while strangers’ tips are treated with skepticism.
The famous Dr Headland will deliver his lecture Child Life in China on Thursday afternoon July 28 at the Chautauqua. Every child and older person should hear it. Parents should see their youngsters take advantage of this rare treat.
An early 20th century feature shows Dare Barry James hanging by teeth from a rope suspended from a plane as he performs perilous aerial stunts. James is billed to appear at the Inwa State Fair this month with daily exhibitions through the fair’s end, part of Ruth Law’s fixing clienty lineup for Des Meiner exposition.
We thank neighbors and friends for their kindness and assistance during our son and brother Robert's illness and death and for the lovely flowers. Mr and Mrs Henry Berner and children.
A daughter named Adgiphine was born Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr. Olph Bergmeister weighing an unspecified amount. The child was welcomed with a hearty greeting.
A garbled excerpt details a long journey to understand a phrase about boasting or adornment. It mentionsEsq and a chapter in a book but the text is fragmented and unclear. The note focuses on deciphering an old expression and its context within a larger work.
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