Local notes from Monroe and surrounding areas
Local items recount visitors and residents in Monroe Ottumwa Brandon Wis and Des Moines. People include Neal VerHeul Laura Moschel G A DenHoet Estelle Kuyper Bertha Ulrich Dora Grandia Ada Dykstra H M Bruins Leonard Selk Joe Helt Catharine Rus and many others visiting relatives, attending operations, or traveling to Des Moines Truro Kalamazoo Antwerp and Knoxville fair coverage notes a large turnout and Soldiers Day events.
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Ada Dykstra
Des Moines
H. M. Bruins
Brandon
Wis
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children ad claim
A vintage advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children as a cure for colds feverish agues headache stomach trouble teething disorders and worm destruction. It claims use by mothers for over 80 years and urges purchase from druggists with a sample address in Le Roy New York.
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Mother Gray
Motherray Co
le Roy
Iowa News Notes Highlights From Across The State
The Iowa items report the Leon artificial ice plant now operating, wool production near 1,000,000 pounds, leadership changes in Traer, donor support for Sioux City officer’s family, a seven foot snake killed at Villisca, a Lake View thresher’s collapse from heat, Mapleton fire at the Milwaukee station, Decorah water works expansion, Sioux City clerks seeking union charter, Des Moines school salary rise, Mason delegation return from Europe, a Fort Dodge loan association incorporation, oat field loss near Ames from spark, Spirit Lake Okoboji summer crowds, storm injuries to a Milford aerial company plane, Anamosa escape by two prisoners, New York visit by Republican gubernatorial candidate Rawson, a Howard Dawson well near Nevada, Osceola to hold a fall county fair, Mother Slagle repurchasing Drakeville farm, a fatal automobile crash near Clarinda, Capt. Amos Hart Evans’ G A R legacy, self-inflicted suicide near Minden, a $15,000 suit over a Kingsley 1918 death, Dubuque public market closure threat, 1848 protective society extending coverage to automobiles, and the modernization of its mission.
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F. E. Shortess
Findley
Traer
R. H. Ayres
Ralph D. Waters
American Legion
Waukon
C. E. Moore
Villisca
Robert Lewis
Thresher
Lake View
Milwaukee Station
Mapleton
Decorah Council
Sioux City
Retail Clerks International Protective Association
Z. C. Thornburg
Des Moines
George Schoonover
Iowa Masons
An@amosa
Hawkeye Building & Loan Association
Fort Dodge
Ames
Britton
Bandita
Spirit Lake
Okoboji
Henry Brown
Storm Lake
Milford Aerial Company
Milford
Robert Long
Archie Bruce
Anamosa Reformatory
Charles A. Rawson
Iowa
New York
Mother Slagle
Drakeville
Irene
Carl Rothe
Cass County
Clarinda
Amos Hart Evans
Keokuk
Loyal Legion
Adolph Mens
Minden
St. Bernard’s Hospital
Council Bluffs
Clarence Haworth
Kingsley
Waterloo
Snell Bros
J. G. Clark
Olive Haworth
Hans Peterson
Dubuque
Middle West
Czizek
Southeastern Iowa
Visitor question on rapid growth to mutton joke
London Tit-Bite quips about regional growth rates in meat with a visitor asking if things grow fast and a housekeeper replying that lamb can become mutton on the way from butcher. A light humorous exchange reflecting rural life and timing.
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London
Farms for sale near Bussey Iowa on highway route
rWO FARMS FOR SALE One of 160 acres priced at 150 per acre and one of 971% acres at 225 per acre join on a good highway rural route and telephone. Located seven miles southeast of Bussey Marion County Iowa. Good terms offered. For full particulars contact John Moore 534 Washington St Knoxville Ia. 33 6.
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Rwo
Bussey
Marion Co
Iowa
John Moore
Washington St
Knoxville
Farm for sale on good term near Albia Iowa
FOR SALE on GOOD TERM 240 acre farm priced at 110 dollars per acre. Two sets of improvements with 20000 dollars carried in mortgage for ten years. Sloan and Co Inc Albia Iowa.
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Sloan & Co.,, Inc
Albia
Iowa
Sloan & Co., Inc
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Zephaniah Chambers
Wesley Chambers
Tracy
W. O. Robinson
W. C. Burrell
J. H. Johnson
Neal VerHeul
Monroe
Laura Moschel
Ottumwa
M. Kramer
G. A. DenHoet
Estelle Kuyper
Bertha Ulrich
Dora Grandia
Chicago
Glenn van Duyn
Leonard Selk
Oskaloosa
Catharine Rus
Mark Shaw
Mrs. M. Porter
W. J. Wagner
Colorado
Henry Kaldenberg
Otley
W. E. Lauterbach
Mt. Pleasant
Burlington
Art Delano
John Heerema
South Dakota
John DeCook
Mary Todd
Alice Gregoire
Truro
Joe Helt
Minnie VanVark
Mercy Hospital
H. Wormboudt
Harry Koopmans
A. J. Visser
Joe Faber
Hull
Ruby Hart
The
Fowler Telephone Company
E. H. Kauffman
Oscar Lindquist
Helen
A. D. VanSkike
Bessel VanLissel
Chandler, Minn
Joe Nunnikhoven
Susie Lefers
Harris
8. D
Dick Vis
Josephine Grandin
J. Wesselink
Holland, Mich
Walter Butts
Dan McKlhon
Butts
Art DeLane
Anna Roorda
Leighton
Gerrit Roorda
Bessie Douglass
Booneville
J. E. Douglass
Rose Visser
Lake Okoboji
Anna
Harriet Botts
Grand Rapids, Mich
Sara VenBaren
Ada van Zante
Tuesaday
Verploeg
N. Deronde
Eddyville
K. Stam
Annette
Agnes Vander Hart
Orange City
John Kaldenberg
Hasselman
Cora Eller
Ross Schakel
Max
T. Paartekooper
Chariton
R. Stureman
Kalamazoo, Mich
Robert Kaldenberg
H. Kaldenberg
Ernest Geetings
W. C. Stonaker
Antwerp
Holland
the Express
Pella
Louis Crousaz
Shenandoah
W. P. Fowler
Iowa News
Leon
Howard Dawson
East Indian
Lincoln Highway
Nevada
Osceola
Finder
J. V. Lankelma
Wynberg Produce Co
Eddyville, Ia
Iowa Dress Club
Moline
H. A
Fremont
Paul A. Edmand
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