Skunkriver claims four victims at Oskaloosa summer
Skunkriver has claimed four victims at Oskaloosa this summer. Fire destroyed seven buildings on the R. B. Hall farm near Griswold causing a $10,000 loss. Town City voted a $250,000 bond for five new grade school buildings. Iowa pestmasters to become army recruiting agents earning $5 per recruit. Over 175,000 automobiles registered in Iowa with expected pass to 200,000. Fort Dodge auto backed through glass. no injuries.
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Skunkriver
Oskaloosa
R. B. Hall
Griswold
H. Basher
Waterloo
Progressives of
Iowa
Milwaukee Railroad
Manilla
Fort Dodge
Camp Dodge
Mexico
Knoxville
Robert Goodwin
State Inebriate Hospital
Frances McDougall
Chariton
Egypt
Greece
State Banking Department
Eigh
Percy W. Hall
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Mechanics and Metals National Bank of New York
Des Moines
Hall
Nebraska
South Dakota
State Free Employment Bureau of the Labor Commissioner's Office
Muscatine
Louisa
Muscatine Island
Department of Agriculture
Iona
Sam
John C. D’autremont
Riverside
D’autremont
Lucy Swi D’autremont
Linn county to build a county tuberculosis hospital
Linn county plans a new county tuberculosis hospital. The article notes various Iowa news items including finance for campaigns, new physicians, fairs, mining exhibits, and public works. It mentions a drowning in Davenport, a shooting incident at California Junction, egg sanitation prosecutions, road camps, and a proposed armory in Keokuk. It also includes a lengthy moral note on parenting from Cora Dinsmoor.
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Linn County
Mt. Pleasant
Penn College
Webster County
Iowa
Iowa State Board of Medical Examiners
State Mine Department
Colfax Northern Railroad
State Railroad Commission
Colfax
Valeria
Jt Ig
Edward Lagge
Davenport
Mississippi
California Junction
James
Geo. Swartout
Barnes City
State Dairy and Food Department
State Board of Control
Woodward
Cherokee
Rockwell City
Berlin
Tama County
Reinbeck
Beaman
Gladbrook
J. C. Sanders
Fort Madison
Flynn
Des Moines
Sioux City
Correctionville
Ida Grove
Odebolt
W. R. Shirely
Muskogee
Okla
Kansas City
Keokuk
Mothers Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children
An 19th century advertisement for Mothers Gray’s Sweet Powders claiming to ease feverishness bad stomach teething disorders and regulate bowels and kill worms. The copy notes 28 years of use, calls the powder a poisonous remedy, and lists druggists as sellers with a sample offer and the address Mother Gray Co. Leroy N.
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Gray
Coa
Leroy. N
Training the Children Deep maternal study fragment
A fragmentary excerpt on parenting stresses the vast scope of childrearing and the challenge for mothers to guide children without prescriptive detail. The text hints at providing useful directions and ideas within a broad, unfathomable subject.
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The
Star Auto Co
J. H. DeVries
Clark Richardson
C. VanDisseldorp
M. Aalbers
Jelsma & Hollebrands
M. M. DeReus
A. C. Price
Jake Bogaard Peter J. DeJong
Dr. W. F. Crew
C. den Hartog
Wilson Winn
H. VanderKeift
Fred VanZee
Mrs. H. Wormhoudt
W. H. VanderPloeg
H. P. VanderMeulen
Dr. F. F. Carpenter
A. B. VerPloeg
Arie VanderHaar
P. H. VanGorp
John VanVeen
Julius Uftermarkt
Joe Slykoord
Veenstra & Nieburg
F. BR. Gambell
Jacob VanWyke
Wm. DeGeus
J. H. Veenstra
DePringer
Sam VanHemert
DeBruyn
Jake Fennema
Lake Prairie Creamery Co
Henry VerPloeg
Lester the
Harry Schakel Mrs
Jno. van Viiet
G. H. Wormhoudt & Co
C. DeGeus
Andrew Langerak Stuursma
R. McGraw
Beintema EY
N. van Maanen
Mquor
Sanders
Indiana
Edward Smith
Des’ Moines
John Canty
John Ryan
Samuel Ballentyne
Albia
Thomas White
Clinton Gibbons
Sheridan
Hird
Third Iowa Infantry
Brownsville
Washington
Maj
Smith Brookhart
Cora Dinsmoor
Stanley
Elizabeth Evening
Terry
T. S. Arthur
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