Love and Fortune Drive Barrett and Elinor
Elinor Stafford, 20, and Barrett Colwin marry after a plot to restore Aunt Ella Sexton’s fortune. Elinor resists taking money while Barrett plots to ensure she is provided for. Their mounting tensions over finances, status, and love lead to a hopeful, uneasy turning point as Elinor seeks a private talk.
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Elinor Stafford
Barrett Colwin
New York
Barrett
Elinor
Lida Stafford
Ella Sexton
Vance Carter
Bentwell Stafford
Sexton
Lida
Elimor
Marcia
Miss Ella Sexton
Ella
Stockton R N A camp holds semi annual auditor meeting
Officers at the Stockton R N A camp meeting included Mesdames Colberg Laverenz Paustian Belter Broders Paulsen Bohnsack and Dorothy Rubenbaur. Visitors include Roland Claussen and Bob Voss. Anna Jost is ill. All local unemployed men now have short term harvest work. Threshing will begin soon after harvesting and be brief due to light grain.
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Ers
Malinda Paulsen
Belle Bohnsack
Dorothy Rubenbaur
Dillon
Henry Huettman
Roland Claussen
Wilton
Ernest Colberg
Bob Voss
Davenport
C. H. Anderson
Anna Jost
Farm Wealth Shows Increase in American Crops and Livestock
USDA figures show potential wealth of 845,946,955 dollars in farm storage and livestock as of July 1, with wheat at 45.6 million and corn at 250.7 million dollars in value. Prices for July 11 compare favorably to March 1, with substantial gains in wheat, corn, oats, hogs, cattle, and lambs, while buttermilk fat also rises.
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Des Moines
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Flashes of Life and Small News From Various Cities
A string of brief items reports laws in Michigan barring women under 60 from Grand Rapids soldiers’ home residencies, a Hudson River drowning rescue by a 12 year old, police satire by James Mooney, a one day old baby with a developing tooth in Chicago, a wage strike ending in a 100 percent raise for Pittsburgh drivers, education and car expenditure contrasts in Chicago, a hen hooked by line in Omaha, fines for two men in a Muskegon notice prank, and Muskegon declaring a baby announcement ad as news. Includes diverse local quirks and labor notes.
Machine builds chinch bug barriers in McLean county
Lloyd G. Rodman assistant farm adviser says a simple machine using planks cutters boards and iron scraps throws a dirt ridge and spreads creosote along the top. Hobbt and neighbors report it as 100 percent efficient. Read the Classified Ads.
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Lloyd G. Rodman
McLean County
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