Local notes on residents travel and looming State Fair events
Local items list residents visiting relatives in Ottumwa Evans Hull Des Moines Rock Island and Janesville with transfers and hospital goitre recovery.Family moves include E V Good renting 908 East First St and Dr Henry moving to North Main St plus Hoeven visit. State Fair preparations promise record attendance with prize pots totaling over 36 thousand dollars and new Iowa bred contests plus four nights of horse shows starting August 26 Diamond Jubilee August 21 to 30.
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Emma van Peursum
Goitre
Lutheran
North Main St
Ofice
Montezuma Rents School Books at 25 Percent Cost
The Montezuma board of education will rent textbooks to students at 25 percent of cost. Tablets, penmanship and composition books will be sold at cost. Tuition pupils will not rent but may buy books at cost. Few changes in texts are planned to minimize disruption for pupils.
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Board of Education of
Montezuma
Farmer Fatally Injured In Harvest Mower Accident
Believed to have occurred when he was struck by the mower while harvesting grain. The victim, Mr Sharp, was alone at the time. Family think he may have stepped from the machine turning a corner as the line broke, causing horses to frighten and pull the machine onto him. He suffered a broken neck and cuts to the body and feet.
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Sharp
Hay barn on A Vander Lane farm near Prairie
A hay barn located at the A Vander Lane farm four miles west of Prairie is noted in the latest farm report. No injuries or further details provided.
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A. Vander Lane
Prairie
Fire department spray aids Bay area blaze recovery
A garbled report notes city fire crews using spray methods to control a blaze near the Bay. Insurers appear to be involved in covering costs as efforts continue and officials assess damage.
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Fookewe
Hily
Obituary: Tom Gleeson 75 Dies on Iowa Farm Field
Tom Gleeson aged 75 of Lovilla area died suddenly in a farm field while harvesting oats. He had been resting near a shack when an apparent heat prostration struck him as his sons cut oats. One son left to fetch horses, the other collapsed as he rose.
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Tom Gleeson
Lovilla
Man Commits Suicide At Home, Underlet Details
Nelli ad 60 years, of Sigou 4 CO, died by hanging at his home east of the overhead bridge on highway number two Hi body found by his wits around Anjhoor. It is thought Neal tied a rope to a rafter and either slid or jumped to his death. No motive given.
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Ae Go Sher
Nelli
Sigou
Anjhoor
Neal
Wabash Train Goes In Soap Creek Near Ottumwa
A Wabash train en route from Moulton to Ottumwa derailed seven miles south of Ottumwa and piled in Soap Creek. The coal car derailment pulled several cars into the water. the locomotive and three cars remained on the rails. No injuries were reported.
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Moulton
Ottumwa
Soap Creek
Puzzling Fragments From City Notice
Fragmentary OCR text references a city and a figure or event. Readable parts are minimal, offering only vague hints of a local matter without clear actions, dates, or involved entities. The record preserves the sparse language as a brief municipal clue.
Simple Thresher Meals Through Preplanning
Miss Esther Pond of Iowa State College advises simplifying threshing meals. Plan meals in advance and, if possible, coordinate meal plans within the threshing ring with wives pooling menus and shared kitchen setup to reduce work and fatigue while keeping meals satisfying.
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Miss Esther Pond
Iowa State College
Miss Pond
6000 Livestock to Be Exhibited at Diamond Jubilee Fair
Des Moines July 31 entries have flooded Iowa State Fair livestock departments for the Diamond Jubilee Exposition with more than 6000 head of stock from breeding farms across the nation. Officials say last five years of upset records make precise totals hard to predict but the show promises broad regional participation.
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Des Moines
Pacific Coast
New England
Grinnell to House Bus Factory Expansion Plan
J D Eggleston of Wheeling West Virginia purchased the Spaulding Manufacturing plant at Grinnell for 836 500 to convert it into a bus factory. The project aims to build assorted motor conveyances including buses stock cars motor hearses and passenger coaches for varying capacities.
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J. D. Eggleston
Wheeling
West Va
Spaulding
Grinnell
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Marie Rederus
E. N. Coley
Artie Hasselman
Evans
T Plette
Nellie Vas
Prairie City
Mr. Plette
Martin van Peursum
Harold Douwstra
the Woodrow Co
Hull
E. L. Hoeven
Alton
Wm. Bruinekool
Marie Hoeven
Bert van Vark
Clear Lake
Marion van Gorp
Cleare
Connie Ver Ploeg
Dick Ver Dught
Ver Ploeg
Rock Island, Ill
Marion Wormhoudt
Washington, D. C
Andrew Wormhoudt
Mt. Pleasant
H. J. Vanden Berg
Minnie
Okiboji
B. F. Vander Linden
Iowa
Mommies
Iewikis
Docks
S Courney
Esas Ae
Pella High School
Pella
Ere
F. M. Frush
Ger
Eggleston
Iowa State Highway Commission
Cerro Gordo County
America
Hoover
Pompeii
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