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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1920
Page
3
Summary of awarded premiums at Jackson County Fair including entries by Jack Martin Almeda Bodkin Mrs A E McComb and others for fruits breads cakes and confections. Notable winners include Harry Glaser Jack Martin George Glehn and Beulah Invin with several first place premiums and some second place entries.
A dated list of premium awards for cookies, cakes, jellies, and pastries. Names such as Mrs. L Sheets, Mrs. Bert Isabell, Mrs. Hattie Doran, Mrs. Alva Nims, and Mrs. John Cook appear with various ages and premium ranks. Entries include ginger snaps, sugar cookies, chocolate creams, fruit bars, layer cake, caraway cookies, and crabapple jelly among others. The list mentions first and second premiums and several participants without second awards.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous first and second premiums for fruit jellies and preserves under Sloan's 10 Ward Pain. Names include Beulah Irwin Mrs. A E McComb Mrs. Walter Hoyt and others with various ages and scores, covering plum red gooseberry gooseberry pineapple cranberry elderberry raspberry strawberry cherry and many more.
A garbled ad style passage touts blood iron for strength and energy. It references secret readers, dubious claims, and distorted health promises with exaggerated numbers and questionable medical assurances.
Beulah Irwin dominates entries with numerous first prizes in jams and butters. Competing under Mrs A. E. McComb and Mrs W. Hoyt, Beulah occupies multiple 1st premiums across gooseberry, raspberry, grape, apple, plum, crabapple, peach, currant, blackberry, rhubarb, tomato, strawberry, apricot, and cranberry products, with several 2nd premiums noted and page-seven continuation referenced.
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