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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
4
A compact diary of community happenings and civic notes. People visiting, church events, local travel mentions, and a brief political primary canvass summary show everyday life and public activity in the area.
A Memorial at Valley Forge, a chapel style complex, dedicated to Washington, will house Revolutionary documents and mementos. It features a 13 bar cloister for the thirteen original colonies, windows portraying states and leaders, and a West window on Washington. The project includes library rooms, meeting spaces, and a tower overlooking the encampment.
A prose poem recalling Lafayette as a knightly figure from heroic days and praising his impact alongside France and America. The piece cites Declaration of Independence as a birth of a nation and notes the enduring ideal that all men are created free and equal.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally to treat catarrh and purify the blood, claiming it cures through the mucous surfaces. It also promotes Hell's Family Pills for constipation and includes unrelated quotes on justice and virtue from Sir Richard Rooke.
Iowa July 14 notice invites men and women to apply for government clerk examinations with no experience required. Entrance salary listed as 1600 dollars annually. July 7 deadline and free particulars available from J Leonard former Government Examiner at 71 Equitable Building Washington D C.
City ledger lists May salaries for D. T. Bauman Atty G. W. King Marshall and others plus labor payments to J M Merrick Tracy Daly Raab and George Rollf. Itemized outlays include Wright Motor Co contracts telegrams and pumping station coal freight and road work as part of municipal expenses.
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