Petition for electric franchise in Marion County Iowa
Des Moines Electric Company seeks authority to construct and maintain an electric transmission line over land, highways, streams and private strips in Marion County. The Board of Railroad Commissioners sets July 20, 1920 at Des Moines for a hearing. The petition details numerous section lines and routes through Otley and surrounding townships, with the project advancing along right of way near the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway and Wabash lines. Officials include Secretary Geo. L. McCaughan.
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Marion County
Des Moines Electric Company
Des Moines
Iowa
Board of Railroad Commissioners
State of
Summit Township
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Hammonds Addition
Otley
N. E
N. BE
Wabash R. R
Rousseau Bridge
Knoxville
Board of Railway Commissioners of
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Product advertisement claims children recover quickly from colds and bowel issues within 24 hours. Promotes ease and worm destruction, stating mothers have used them for over years. Sold by druggists through Sample-a Mother Gray Co. and promoted as pleasant for kids.
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Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
Hog market corrected by farmers co operative exchange
Market telegram shows hog prices corrected by the Farmers Cooperative Exchange with C Dieleman as manager at 12.00 to 15.10 per hundredweight. Oats and produce lines appear in the same notice, reflecting regional agricultural market updates and corrected figures.
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Farmers Co-operative Exchange
C. Dieleman
The Little Do s And Don ts By Pauline Frances Camp
A brief verse features two marching soldier groups named Do and Dont. The Do group embodies active, helpful conduct while the Donts are lazy and useless. The poem urges readers to embody constructive behavior and avoid idleness.
A Girls Essay on Boys From a Light Hearted View
A cheeky verse parcel from an old column lampoons boys as restless and careless. It contrasts Adam and Eve with playful quips about men and women, noting women’s supposed weariness of men and a playful plan favoring girls over boys. The tone is witty and reflective of era norms.
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God
Adam
Eve
Quieting Title Suit Over 69 Acre Iowa Property
In Marion County Iowa the plaintiff seeks to quiet and confirm title to 69.47 acres in Township 77 North Range 18 West of the Fifth P M described as the southeast quarter of section nineteen and adjacent tracts. He claims open adverse possession for over twenty years and alleges various errors in deeds and misnaming of grantors. Defendants may have claims based on unrecorded conveyances or improper spellings. case warns that failure to appear by October 2 terms will result in default and decree as prayed for.
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Ora
Joshua C. Strong
Johnathan Pelton
Hendrik de Jong
Judith de Jong
Johannis Schippers
Marion County
Iowa
Knoxville
Pella
Elizabeth van Zee
T. L. Byers
Ernst F. Grafe
BE. F. Grafe
Johannes Osiers
A. W. Kay
F. S. Hiemstra
E. F. Grate
Johannes Roslers
A. W
Towit
Towa
Thia
Land dispute notice stakes ownership in Marion County Iowa
Elizabeth Van Zee seeks to quiet title to 89.90 acres in Marion County Iowa claiming fee simple ownership and twenty years open possession. The filing cites errors in grantor spellings and requests title by color of title and adverse possession with action to be filed in 1920 at the Marion County District Court.
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District Court
State of
Iowa
Marion County
Land Deed Dispute Involving Van Steenis Plaintiffs
In Marion County Iowa Anne Van Steenis sues Joseph C Strong Jonathan Pelton Alberta Hoogendoom Jan Willem Schip A W Kay Daniel Van Horsen and unknown heirs and claimants over land parcels described as the North 40 acres of the NE quarter of Section 30 and portions of the SE quarter of Section 19 bounded by a public highway with precise metes and bounds. The case names multiple defendants and unknown spouses and claimants asserting ownership interests in the described tracts.
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Joseph C. Strong
Johnathan Pelton
Hendrik de Jong
Judith de Jong
William White
Alberta Louisa Hoogendoom
Jan Willem Schippers
A. W. Kay
Daniel van Horssen
Joseph C.strong
Alberta Louisa Hoogendoor
District Court
Marion County
Iowa
Crow Fanners Friend and Foe in Crow Politics
Washington bulletin from the United States Biological Survey argues crows are farmers’ friends by eating 38 percent grain and a range of pests, though they kill young chicks and eggs. The piece notes crows’ intelligence grows from hunting, their sociable nature, and how a crow raised near a family can become gentle yet mischievous, roaming to fields and returning at night.
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Washington
United States Biological Survey
George F. Burba
Columbus Dispatch
Python Crushes Trainer in Swiss Theater Tragedy
In Selbruck Switzerland a huge python strangled trainer Fraulein Ciro a Hungarian girl during a live act. The audience cheered mistaking her cries for entertainment as the serpent tightened its coil. The manager shot the snake but she died before help arrived.
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Selbruck
Switzerland
Ciro
Fraulein Ciro
Crows Over the Doctors Huntington WV Child Recovers
Marguerite, twenty month old daughter of E W Stoller and wife, was wasting away in Huntington West Virginia. Doctors saw no hope of recovery. She coughed and disgorged a watermelon seed swallowed last September. After the seed was expelled she began to improve and is expected to get well.
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Huntington
W. Va
Marguerite
E.W. Stoller
Lawrenceburg Captain Wesley Moore Dies Aboard Ivory Wood
Captain Wesley L. Moore aged seventy eight shiphand and river pilot longed to die on the Ohio river and in that wish was granted He was found lifeless in his cabin aboard the Ivory Wood a vessel operating between Cincinnati and New Orleans for years he steered along the voyage routes of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Wesley L. Moore
Ohio River
Cincinnati
New Orleans
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Aalinel
Geo. L. McCaughan
Corr Produce Co
Pauline Frances Camp
Geo. G. Grass
Gro
G. Grass
Anne van Steenis
Crow Farmer
Uncle Sam
Tela
Wm. Schreiner
T. Piette
America
Stewarts
Ever-Ready Auto CO
Pella, Iowa
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