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Local Iowa Notes and Events Move Quietly in Winter
A roundup of short items from Iowa and nearby: a Des Moines convention set for December 28, marriages in Armstrong and Iowa City, bank openings and incorporations in Vail and Roscoe, theft and arrest reports in Davenport and Ames, Elk Horn college reopening, long-time farm resident in Logan, resignations and divorce pleas, typhoid deaths in Des Moines, a Davenport banquet, a fall injury, Keokuk machinery delivery, a Red Oak émigré death in Grand Rapids, and a Connectic Hlun’s amputation due to blood poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Mabel Anderson
Herbert Hopting
Armstrong
BH. T. Ryan
Vail Farmers State Bank
Silver City
Ghapin
John Hollenbeck
John Palmer
Haran
Logan
O. W. Winter
Corning
Keokuk
Rosie Hastie
Red Oak
Grand Rapids
Mich
W. Brooks Reed
Hlun
Biood Poigui