County Poor Farm Accounts and Related Disbursements
A long list of county disbursements to poor farms, trustees, and various services including coal and medical aid. Entries include proofs of payments to Hart CE, Hollinghead ET, Hyer & Co, Hart M E, Jordan GC, Kaufman Eli, Kuypers, and others. Also notes jail, court house, quarantine, jury bailiff, and sheriff/constable fees with totals and line items.
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Hunderdosse
Horsman
Hart
Hollinghead
Hyer & Co
Court House
Heywood
Hanks
Inlow
James W
Jordan
Johnston S
Kaufman Eli
Kramer
Kuyper & Son
Karnes
Kinne
Kennedy
Kerr
Knoxville Electric Co
Karr
Karns
Penses
Lubberden
Long Geo
Geo
Lyon
Millen
Miner
Miner & Co
Carl
McMillan
McCord
Noble
Neifert
Olson
Ogle
Osborn & Co
Pringle
Porter Chas
Palmer
Phillips J
Park
Roorda G
Rhynsburger
Ross
Rhinehart
Sadler Bros Printing
Local notes from Pella and surrounding areas recap community events
South Pella residents face illness confinement while visitors transit Newton, Valley Junction, and Ames. Local moves include Lakonta Savings Bank location plans, Gladstone family relocation near Eddyville college, and Sadler child back in school after tonsillitis. A Volunteers of America outreach in Pella featured a street sermon. Groundhog Day observations hint at lingering winter, amid upcoming Fairmont Minnesota Carnival acts and a Pella Opera House listing for February 12 drama.
Durham items and rural market moves in Clay township
T T McMillan laid up with a severe cold. He shipped a car load of oats to market. Henry sent a hog load to Ottumwa Monday. Andrew Roorda, hurt by a falling tree, is improved. J S McCrillis, Clay township assessor, worked the northwest area last week. Mrs John Reitveld ill at home three miles north for two weeks near river wagon bridge. Grandmother Larimer ill two weeks but better though over 86. S S Woody bought a fractional fort y of S Breckenridge estate at $85 per acre. lies in Clay township near Woody farm and Plymouth church. Eureka Century Womans Aid met with Mrs J H Durham. raised funds, erected fence on two sides of lot. treasury surplus over $30.
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T. T. McMillan
McMillan
John Reitveld
S. S. Woody
S. Breckenridge
Clay Township
Woody
Plymouth Church
Eureka Century Womans’ Aid
J. H. Durham
Dream of Death Proves Real in Ohio Tragedy
Samuel McCausland of Cedar Rapids Iowa feared danger to his Ohio relatives in Springfield. He traveled to Dayton and entered his brother's home where a gas stove mishap caused the deaths of four relatives and himself as the night ended. All five victims were brought back for burial.
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Springfield
Dayton
Samuel McCausland
Cedar Rapids
McCausland
Ohio
Iowa
Hats Come Off At Revival At First Christian Church
At the First Christian church in Kansas City a revivalist uses a breathing exercise to prompt women to remove their hats before singing. Singer Harry K. Shields assists evangelist R. H. Crossfield by guiding the audience through a deep breath and hat removal, then leads into the first verse of a song.
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Kanass City
Harry K. Shields
R. H. Crossfield
First Christian Church
Eleventh
Locust Streets
Nalling a Lie In The American Magazine for February
A fragment from an American Magazine February issue reflects on a thirty six year old maiden who glories in her single blessedness with self contentment. The text suggests introspection and a defiant stance against social pressure.
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The
American Magazine
Two Deaths in One Day in Iowa Mines
In Oskaloosa Iowa two mining fatalities occurred within hours of each other. Cyrus Kerr died at the Price mines in Eveland when his body was crushed between the cage shaft and side as the cage began. Mike Casper, a Hungarian with a wife and seven children, was killed at the Lost Creek mines when his head was crushed in an accident while he was alone. Sadie Smith, former daughter of Justice W. J. Smith, is noted as the young wife of Kerr.
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Oskaloosa
Cyrus Kerr
Mike Casper
Lost Creek
Casper
Kerr
Price Mines
Eveland
Sadie Smith
W. J. Smith
Child Dead Mother Unhurt in Pleasantville Wagon Crash
In Pleasantville Iowa on a Saturday ride from Knoxville a sudden team jump tipped the rear seat carrying Mrs Hale and her infant. The mother escaped unharmed but the infant died within an hour from a broken neck. The Hale family of W A Hale was driving with three other children when the accident occurred.
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Pleasantville
Iowa
W. A. Hale
Knoxville Eldorado Report Credits Iowa Asylum Inebriates
Legislative visiting committee reports the state asylum for inebriates at Knoxville is “without a doubt the Eldorado of Iowa.” About 150 inmates have little to do and cost roughly $23 per person monthly. The panel urges a $10,000 land purchase, including hog pasture and a quarry site for pulverized rock, with work programs for able inmates to help cover costs.
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Knoxville
Eldorado
Iowa
Revival Season and Odd Local Notices Highlight Era News
Widespread revival talk in many states amid legislative sessions, quirky anecdotes from Utah to Oklahoma, and a Cedar Falls record note on poetry in obits. Immigrant and U S home stead trends surface with cheerful ads for Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. Local jokes, theatre notes, and column humor pepper a rural midwestern newspaper page from early 1900s.
Local voices on town enterprise and labor
A readable fragment argues that those who refuse to invest in town ventures oppose public improvements while workers who do little gain traction in strikes and labor agitation. The quote contrasts investing citizens with noncontributors and critics.
Colonel Hepburn Ailed Delays Railroad Hours Bill
Colonel Hepburn of Washington DC was confined to bed by a severe cold and la grippe, delaying his committee from considering the railroad men hours bill set for report today and postponing it to tomorrow.
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Washington, D. C
Hepburn
Mahara Brothers Minstrels Bring New Palace Car Show
Frank Mahara's Minstrels claims top-tier status after sixteen years, featuring twenty five colored artists, elaborate scenery and costumes, striking electrical effects, specialty acts, dancers, comedians, novelty artists, and singers in a grand minstrelsy production.
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Mahara
Pella Opera House
Give Them All a Chance
The Decorah Republican offers a civic defense of access to lawmakers arguing that lobbying should be allowed as a citizen right. It rebukes anti lobbyist legislation and says legislators must retain their own opinions and resist bribes, warning that bribe takers need oversight.
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Decorah
United States
Supreme Court affirms Iowa medical certificate law
The Iowa Supreme Court yesterday upheld the requirement that all who practice medicine in the state be examined by the state board of medical examiners and hold a state certificate, affirming Kendig’s conviction for practicing without a license. The ruling ends doubt on the law’s constitutionality and aids the state board of health’s fight against quacks.
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Iowa
State Board of Medical Examiners
Supreme Court
A. J. Kendig
Kendig
Madison County
State Board of Health
Salt and an anxious dog on a wintry sidewalk
A dog steps into salt brine on a cold sidewalk causing discomfort as salt irritates and freezes between the toes. The fragment also cites antiwar sentiment urging peace conferences and condemning war over a dispute about schoolchildren of an alien race in California.
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California
United States
Japan
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Templeton
Toom
Vandermeulen
Verateeg Bros
Spanckeren
Myricks
Smith
Flemming
Benbow
Rogers
Larimer
Arnold
Dale
van der Goor
Bly
Pruett
Harken
H. Wormhoudt
South Pella
H. E. Spieneman
St. Louis
Henry Wormhoudt
Newton
Ben Renaud
Valley Junction
Ben van der Melen
Pella
New Salem
A. S. Klein
Lakonta Savings Bank
Eddyville Tribune
J. S. Gladstone
Reitveld
Garrison
Herndon
R. L. Sadler
Stephen de Cook
Mr. de Cook
Mahaska County
Board of Supervisors
J. L. Warren
Mariona County
James Roovart
Baby
Bernice Johnson
Ames
Fayetteville
Ark
Volunteers of America
Vander Pal
Mistress Bright Eyes
Ward
Fairmont
Minn
Frank Mahara
Skinner Harris
Richard Lewis
Harry Gilman
Thuesday
Durham
Mr. Henry
Ottumwa
Andrew Roorda
J. S. McCrillis
Clay Townships
Richland
Black Oak
Scott Township
Peoples Trust Co
Pella, Iowa
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Hollister
J. D. Stubenrauch
Canadian Northwest
England
the Grand
Tribune
Salt Lake City
Utah
J. D. Stubenruach
Cedar Falls
the Waldorf
New York
Edward Owings Towne
St. Joseph
Missouri
Texas
Manitoba
Oklahoma
Hepburn III
Minstrels
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