Cass county bootleg cases net heavy fines and jail terms
The November term heard several second offenders in Cass township bootlegging cases. Alferts, House, Gerdes, and Rhine Wessels faced $1,000 fines with varying jail sentences from 100 to 310 days, plus costs. Wessels paid $337.50 and was released after a short jail stay. One case, Michaels of Hale, was continued. Total fines excluding costs reached $6,450 with 1,645 days jail imposed in lieu of payment and $1,721.95 collected in cash.
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Alferts
Cass Township
Henry
William House
Garret Gerdes
Cass
Jal
Rhine Wessels
Scotch Grove
Chicago
Wessels
Friends
John Michaels
Hale
Bar of Justice
Among the Churches Methodist Service Schedule
The Methodist Episcopal Church led by Pastor Albert B. H. Coe announces Sunday services with church school at 10:00 am, morning worship at 11:00 am, and evening worship at 7:30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Church
Albert BH. Coe
Chiveh
Congregational Church Offers Sunday Services and Communion
Congregational Church schedule lists George W. McNary, Pastor, with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning worship including communion at 11 a.m. An evening service at 7:30 p.m. continues a sermon series titled The Great ae The January meet ites Clap jescteres tor. Dawarde. Ginare, Davenport, is noted as after-dinner speaker. Also mentions Lutheran Church utknecht, Pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. McNary
Dawarde
Ginare
Davenport
Ws Ey
Lutheran Church
Utknecht
Church Announcements Outline January Schedule
Sunday morning service at 10 45 with sermon The Offense of the Cross. Afternoon service at 2 00. Annual business meeting Tuesday January 8 at 7 30. Walther League to meet for reorganization at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walther League
Religious Services Listing for January 6 1924
Church schedule for Sunday January 6 1924 includes a book hour at 10 a.m. worship at 11 a.m. with sermon The Yoke of Jesus followed by an Intermediate Christian Endeavor at 4 p.m. Senior Endeavor at 6 45 p.m. Evening worship at 7 30 p.m. sermon The Optimism of Jesus. Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Intermediate Christian Endeavor
Senior Christian Endeavor
Monti cello alumni edge local high school in close game
A hard fought basketball clash last Thursday in Monticello saw the Monti cello alumni defeat local high school on a near Even keel until the third period when baskets by the alumni widened the gap. L Zubler netted two straight for the high school and Ike Shelley returned to form at forward along with Bud Hauss aiding in defense and long shots. The exhibition highlighted weaknesses in the high school squad and sets up a rematch at Mount Vernon with lineups including M H S Alumni and players such as Zubler Mire Skelley Schneider ockstad Schweitzer Cashen W Zubler Cartano Trauss Hayden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
L. Zubler
Ike Shelley
Alii
Bud Hauss
Mount Vernon
L, Zubler
Mire Skelley Schneider
Ockstad Schweitzer
Cashen
W. Zubler
Cartano
Trauss Hayden
Spurious Aphorisms and Scribal Fragments From Sioux City Journal
A fragmented Sioux City Journal snippet presents moral maxims and scattered quotes reflecting on secrecy virtue aging love and perception. The text shows garbled phrases and stray punctuation indicating OCR debris rather than a cohesive article.
Remarkable Gray Squirrel Stores and Recovers Nuts
Nature Magazine notes a gray squirrel that stores a vast cache of nuts each year. A single animal buries about a thousand nuts and later digs them up during winter, often under deep snow, with success rates that spark wonder about memory or keen smell.
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Nature Magazine
Coolidge Leads Women Club Vote Pool In Lincoln
A Lincoln Journal item notes a women’s club poll showing Coolidge with 44 000 votes to 22 900 for all other candidates. The piece adds that 66 000 voting swallows make spring interesting though not an election summer.
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Lincoln Journal
Coolidge
Woman's Magazine
A Bonus Means a Tax
Many republicans favor a soldiers' bonus and admit it would require a tax. The tax should accompany the bonus bill, with bonds up to 11 years issued in anticipation of the tax. A bonus without a tax would create a deficit for the next board to pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown Times - Repblican
Country Club
Mapalna the Air Describes Troposphere and Stratosphere
The text explains the air layers with a troposphere from sea level to 10 000 meters where temperature falls with height and a stratosphere above it with little or no temperature change up to 20 000 meters. It notes airplanes may travel into the stratosphere and suggests sounding instruments for higher exploration.
The Modern Mrs Malaprop and the Red Robin Round
A correspondent recalls Mrs Mahiprop wandering through the Winsley of Gethseminee and Yosemite. She asks people to sign on red robin meaning a round or rebound. The tale notes humorous mispronunciations and a mountaineering chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ao Wuhshing
Mahiprop Wii
Peo
Winsley
Gethseminee
Sali
Bald head grafting claimed by French surgeon
A French surgeon from the Vasteur Institute claims a process to graft hair to the scalp making bald heads resemble the Seven Sutherland Sisters. He says six bachelors have been permanently cured of baldness by a painless operation with no adverse effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halr
Vasteur Institute
Sutherland Sisters
Greenland bergs drive north under Arctic currents
Greenland supplies the vast majority of icebergs for the Arctic and sub Arctic zones. The West Greenland current pushes bergs northward along this coast, curving them toward higher latitudes as they drift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenland
Arctic
Sub-Arctic
Westward path along the seventy fourth parallel explored
Fragmentary note describes a Westward journey near the seventy fourth parallel of latitude aiming to reach the American site. The text highlights historical exploration efforts and movement toward the west. Entities are unclear due to damaged wording.
Veteran traveler slept in a thousand beds on long road career
A New York based veteran commercial traveler claims to have slept in about 1000 beds over more than forty years on the road and says he slept well in every one. He notes the average mat would host around 100 sleeps in a lifetime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Human Stepping Stone Myth in China Legend
A tale describes a Chinese woman using a man as a stepping stone to cross mud. She offers a small coin to Beck in exchange, and the man kneels so she can step over him. The piece notes there are many variations of the MRa- Icizhi belief in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Jt Watt
Tinois
Tom
Taylor Bottom
Beetles' Blood for Warts Reported by Excomel
In Lima Peru native practices cite pseudo beetles whose blood is applied to warts. The text notes the growths become whitened and references Anato de la Facultad de Medicina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. Excomel
Remember the Small Things
Fragmentary text urges heed to pass fault to the man at table and to serve humanity, noting dialect and spelling quirks. It references Henry Sloane Cot and emphasizes unselfish attentions and shared duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
herme—Tienry Sloane
Restore Ink With Iron and Potassium Wash Techniques
A faded document can regain legibility by washing with iron salts and Terra-cyanide potassium compounds. The process uses chemical reagents to darken faded graphite and restore contrast for legibility.
Change of Faith Sparks Sunday School Talk
Maury June, a member of the Episcopal Sunday school, came home and told her mother she might change churches, saying the current church was hard on white stockings. The fragment suggests a personal belief shift with light domestic details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maury June
Epicopal Sunday School
Vesbobe
How to Test Set Diamond
A test method describes placing wax on the diamond back to distinguish genuine from counterfeit. The legitimate lister remains unaffected whereas false paste imitations are ruined by the result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dell Haney
Bar Exam Quip Defines Property Possession Phrase
A Boston Transcript echo quotes a bar exam definition describing how possession of property belonging to another is obtained. The sharply phrased line frames regen as the method by which we acquire property through possession in a legal sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lin
Panthern
Boston Transcript
Vain Acquisition Cited By Boston Transcript Quote
A garbled quotation from the Boston Transcript notes a colocation philosopher saying some people seek help from education yet fail to catch fish with bait. The fragment emphasizes skepticism about wasted effort and misguided strategies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edugaton
Roy Fish
Boston Transcript
The Burkholders and the Dust of Kansas Praries
A Kansas farming family the Burkholders endure drought dust winds and ruined crops from 1887. Mrs Burkholder longs for water and literature as the prairie drains life, finances, and hope, while the future draws them eastward amid fading prosperity.
A Story of the Highlands
Excerpt traces a westward journey into the Rockies and high plains with vivid natural imagery. It contrasts prairie desolation and isolation with a woman’s letters home describing drought, absence of trees, and longing for hills, forests, and green landscapes. The narrative sketches travelers, landscape, and emotional tension in frontier life.
The Burkholder Family and the Dust Bowl Wayward Home
A stark portrait of Mrs. Burkholder and a drought haunted countryside. Men leave for work and the caravan they travel becomes a colossal, desolate serpent across the plains. The land and wind gnaw at the family’s sorrow as empty houses, graves, and withered saplings fade into the memory of a long, spent season.
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Fountain County
Burkholder
Burkholder House
Symbols on Yarmouth hotel walls hide ancient mystery
About 100 cryptic signs discovered in a single room of the Star hotel in Yarmouth England include Zodiac signs a sextant a cross above a burning lamp and symbols like a bear wyvern and toad. Local antiquarians and a British Museum authority offer no explanation with theories linking to 1600 banded townsmen once meeting to challenge Cinque Ports rule.
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Star
Yarmouth
England
British Museum
East Coast
Mendelian Blue Andalusian fowl and sea trout mysteries
The article discusses Mendel's principles illustrated by the blue Andalusian fowl and its mixed offspring of blue, black, and white birds. It also explores sea trout migration, noting that a trout going to sea and returning becomes a sea trout and describes estuarine slab trout in brackish waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregor Johann Mendel
Brunn
Austria
Extreme Economy: LA Neighbor Reflects on Dentistry Costs
A reader recounts a hurried dental visit in Los Angeles complaining a gold tooth filling felt too long and caused nervousness. The patient questions value after paying high costs and wonders if the expense is wasted on extra materials.
Belief on Judgment Day Warns Against Images
The text argues that Muslims hold a judgment day belief where painters must supply souls to representations they create and will lose their own souls as a penalty for presumptuously depicting beings. The fragment suggests divine judgment for art and representation.
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Naiman
Cause and Effect in Fence Corner Theft Case
A local old miser’s money remains missing after a fence corner near a big tree. no suspect has been apprehended. Andy Dillard visited Plunkyville yesterday and bought himself a fine suit of clothes from Thomas Cat.
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Corber
Andy Dillard
Plunkyville Yestereddy
Arkanang Thomas Cat
Notice of Probate of Will in Jones County Iowa
Court in Jones County announces the filing and reading of the last will of Mary A Sutton, deceased. Final proof and probate hearing set for January 5, 1924, in the Jones County District Court. All interested persons may appear to contest or support the will. Clerk B G Regs notes the proceeding. Attorneys Coxsee and Coxses represent the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notich
Iowa
Jones County
Az .D. Apa
Mary A
Sutton
County
Mary A. Sutton
Final Reports Filed in Jones County Court
Notice lists final reports of executors administrators guardians and trustees filed in Jones County Iowa. The court schedules a final hearing and asks interested parties to appear Jan 28 to file exceptions and show cause why the reports should not be approved. Reports include John Quaintance administrator of Clarinda Quaintance deceased and B M Brainard administrator of F J Brainard deceased. Dated Anamosa Iowa December 22.
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Jones County
John Quaintance
Clarinda
Oan
Orig
Jones, Co
Celia
Havlik
Executor's Notice for Catherine Saba Estate in Iowa
Public notice announces appointment of THY LOVELL State Bank as executor of the Catherine Saba estate in Jones County Iowa. Creditors must file claims with the court clerk sworn and timely and debtors must pay promptly to avoid costs. Date: December 18 1923 at Anamosha Town. Attorneys: Doxsee and Doxsee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Jones ‘County
Iowa
Catherine Saba
Anamosh
Doxsee
Public notice of executrix appointment for Bernard Sweeney estate
The district court of Jones County Iowa appoints Therine Mokss executrix of the Bernard Sweeney estate. All persons with claims must file with the court clerk sworn and prepared to be proved. debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Executrix Therine Mokss and attorney J J Locher urge timely action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aso
Therine’ Mokss
Ol Executrix
J. J. Locher
Batate
Guardianship Petition in Anamosa Iowa Court
In the District Court of Iowa Anamosa county a petition alleges you are a proper guardian for property within Iowa and a guardian be appointed. You must appear and defend by noon on the second day of the next term starting January 28 1924 or judgment by default will be entered. Attorneys seen as OXSEE DOXSEE represent the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Distriet Court
State of Iowa
State of
Iowa
Anamosa
Setouley
Notice of Snodriff's Sale in Jones County Iowa
Special execution after judgment in favor of Lowell State Bank against Lloyd A Hammond and others. Levy on specified lands in Sections 9 10 15 16 Township 85 Range 1 West. Auction set for January 29 1924 at 10 am in Anamosa Iowa courthouse. Sheriff John Bodenhofer to conduct sale with redemption rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snodriff
District Court
Jones County
Iowa
Lowell State Bank
Lloyd A. Hammond
Bertheammond
Quam
Iso
Maquoketa River
Anamosa
Towa
Application for liquor permit by Fred J Kay in Monticello Iowa
In Jones county Iowa district court an application by Fred J Kay a registered pharmacist doing business as Fred J Kay for a permit to buy sell and keep intoxicating liquors is on file. He has operated a Monticello pharmacy for two years and meets legal standards including citizenship registration and no recent liquor law violations. Objections or remonstrances must be filed by January 23, 1924, or the court will grant the permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court of the State of Iowan
Jones County
Fred
J. Kay
District Court of
Iowa
Fred J. Kay
Monticello
United States
Jones ‘County
Maida
District Court
Anamosa
Tray
EB. Reed
Applases Sr
When Fish Walk Report From Ninth Century Travelers
The text describes ninth century Arab travelers reporting a freshwater fish that could move on land. A later scientist Waldorf is cited as having described the creature, with a vivid image of the fish climbing a palm tree near a pond and advancing a step by pressing its fin against a crack.
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Waldorf
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Himsel
Per
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Lorelei
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Yellow Pine
Pralre
Yeighinget
Thomas Kurkhalder
Lizzie Hig
Hone
Brat
Westwand
Sethil
Burkhollers
Wungas
Burklelder
William Allen White
The
Macmillan Co
Rockies
Great Mat
Hans
Missouri
Missouri River
Ado Pimeleyo
Mammoth
Toulouse Ganders
Arnold Egger
Thomas
Shover
Roosters
Fred H. Bohlke
Street
School & Gerdes
In- Nize
Corner of
Cedar
Third Streets
Quire
Monticello State Bank
Cochrane
Harry ‘Barlow
Yordey
John Bodenhofer
DR. M. F. Hogan
F.A Uerner
Stickford Drug Store
Monticelia
George Albery
H. L. Farber
Palmer
Stimpson Auctioneer
Express Office
Lovell
Bock
J. W. Doxsee
Srt
Poxsee
J. H. Fraser
Henry George
N. W. “Ackerman
Center Junction
J. -V. Dautremint
Sails
Chas
Byers & Bruce
Anam
Martelle
Springathe
Guernacys
Hanarkes
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