DeWitt Fire At Pacific Hotel Annex Sparks Cleanup Call
Firefighters battled two blazes in a brick annex behind the Pacific hotel, likely from a bonfire in an alley. Sparks may have blown through an open hatch, prompting a quick alarm as a large crowd watched. The building is owned by Frank Kearney and Frank Vegge. A city cleanup campaign is planned to prevent future rubbish fires in alleys and near structures. Also notes Bible study at Baptist church and a local grocer's butter loss prompting questions on supply and waste.
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Glock
Pacific Hotel
Garner
Pan Tenane
Nearways
Frank, Kearney
Frank Vegge
Pacife
Thera Pener Dewitt
H. Gale Buchner
Maquoketa
Marketing Dairy Butter At Big Loss In Markets
The piece notes farmers marketing dairy butter at grocery stores in large quantities while prices remain uniform. It asserts that good butter cannot exceed bad butter in price and that a portion of every hundred pounds of dairy butter is tied up in packing losses.
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Clinton ‘County
Clinton Advertiser
Writes His Thanks From Washington
A Washington man praises Foley Kidney Pills for relief after years of kidney trouble. Nathan Hamed credits the remedy with rapid improvement and expresses gratitude. The message notes availability everywhere and urges readers to subscribe to the Sentinel.
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Nathan Hamed
Washinon
D.C
Wtates
Foley
Maquoreta Abbott Hanson Ends Inning In Protest
Maquoreta Abbott to Hanson of Maquoreta and AB Hanson, nJ, 4-0-0-1-0-0 Bailey, catcher. Pitcher Carnon. rta o Lang, 2b Brineker, Scott, 85 Frank, 3b Bb. Williamson, 1b, 4-0-0-7-0-0 Crossan, c, 7 2b. Bradley, 1b 0-2-1.0-0 Total three-base hits AH Ingwerson, Yssenden. Two-base hits Carson, B. Ingwer son, Cook, Nicholson. Strikeout by Carson 12 Nichol son 4. Base on balls Carson 1, Shehan 1. Hit by pitcher Long. Umpire Rutenbeck.
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Maquoketa
Clinton American Legion
Carson
Clinton
Maquaketa
Lang
Moline Yeomen
Maquoreta
Hanson
Bailey
Carnon
RTA
O. Lang
B. Brineker
Scott
Frank
Williamson
Crossan
Bradley
AH. Ingwerson
Yssenden
B. Ingwerson
Cook
Nicholson
Shehan
Long
Rutenbeck
One Year Ago Prices Show Big Reductions Across Staples
A reader notes a list of grocery prices from a year earlier, highlighting items like sugar, potatoes, flour, coffee, salmon, oats, navy beans, rice, Lima beans, corn, peaches, macaroni, spaghetti, soap, tea, starch, tomatoes, and raisins. The comparison implies substantial declines in costs over the year.
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Japan
Farmer Seeks Fair Chance For Equal Opportunity
The article argues that intelligent farmers deserve fair regulation and open markets, granting them an equal chance with other business people. It stresses that proper laws will ensure credit, profit, and a just reward for labor, benefiting the country and better living. It ends urging advertising support for the Sentinel.
Unemployment A Shield for Crime in Postwar Era
The piece argues unemployment is used as a cover for crime and blames a degraded section of the working class. It cites men who avoided hard work, spent freely, and turned to theft to maintain status. It notes honest workers suffer while some use unemployment to rationalize crime.
Charlotte Man John H. Hoest Dies at 76 in Home Visit
John H. Hoest of Charlotte died at his daughter's home Mrs. Thomas Ketelsen on a Friday morning at age 76 years 11 months and 6 days. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from Mrs. Ketelsen's home and at the Lutheran church, with interment in Brown Cemetery near Charlotte.
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John H. Hoest
Charlotte
Thomas Ketelsen
Felock
Origin of the Potter’s Field Name Traced to Betrayal Story
A fragment discusses the term spotter or Fletch linked to Matthew’s account of the thirty pieces of silver used to buy a potter’s field for burying strangers. It notes the field’s burial purpose and the origin of the name clinging to such plots since ancient times.
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Jurlaz
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