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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
4
Lynnville residents share visits and travels as families connect with Grinnell Newton and Oskaloosa. A big steer mishap leaves E B Macy with a sprained ankle. T J Shaw plans a Newton move while W O Holdsworth and Co place spring orders. New babies arrive for O A Renaud and Coder Wingfield, with birth dates noted.
A Sac County farmer reports harvesting over $1000 in muskrat pelts from a pond area on his land while protecting muskrats during summer. Muskrat meat is gaining price and esteem in the East as a clean wild game. Other brief items note local marriages, travel, and community events, plus a sensational line about a lynching gang later captured and punished.
In northeastern Iowa a notorious gang of horse thieves and counterfeiters, linked to crimes across Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan, is chronicled in a State Historical Society of Iowa volume. The 1840 raid led by Colonel Thomas Cox and Jackson County sheriff against W W Brown at the Bellevue hotel left killings and wounds on both sides.
Advertisement notes relief for back pain and urinary issues in women using Mother Gray's Australian Leaf. Claims curing female weakness inflammation and ulcerations. Sold by druggists or mailed from Le Roy New York 50 cents with free sample offer.
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