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Newton Clipper items of a lively week in town
Various Newton notices describe social visits, births, moves, and entertainment. Highlights include Rev E. 8. Brown's Lutheran sermon next Sunday, Memorial day plans, a Friday May 30 band concert, circus coming to town, new houses and barn construction, gasping snippets of visitors from Ames Grinnell Des Moines and towns around, plus local trades and market chatter.
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Wright & Lufkin
Winn & Carrier
E. 8. Brown
Lutheran
Knights Templar
John Kesselring
Tama City
John Young
J. R. Blackledge
South Market St
Maud Kennedy
Miss Black
Sunda Key
E. F. Leake
Fay Harlan
Monroe
van Saunders
W.E. Hough
East Main Street
Esther Weaver
Neta ‘Stephenson
Harry Stayner
Colfax
Newton
Will Frary
Robt. Telter
Prairie City
H. B. Sudiow
Rock Island
Hon
E. C. Ludlow
John Clippinger
M. E. Church
B.H. Ewing
Buena Vista Township
Harris
Phil Dinsmore
Vine Street
Prairie Avenue
Charlie Ogg
E. E. Lambert
H. T. Kennedy
Alva Baker
Fred Keller
Tom Reed
Co. L
Cedar Rapids
R. Lesser, Jr
Tama Free Press
E. J. Salmon
F. B. Fritz
Baby
W. W. McKnngs
Winterset
J. M. Ripsetoe
C. R. Paschal
A.T. Reid
Belmont
Cal
A. H. Reed
Cambridge
Mass
N. H.S
I. A. Ikenberry
Iowa
Des Moines
Newton Steam Laundry
Brown
J. Lindley Coon
Washington County
Ed Gant
Holton
Kansas
Harry Agnew
Martha Bower
Fred Coon
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