News of Nearby Towns Recaps Local Happenings and Arrivals
Rev Enoch Hill and wife expected home from Hamburg after illness notes. Jasper County Bankers Association formed to handle 400000 dollars in government bonds. Celebrations mark H A Jorhagin Sr eightieth birthday with W R C dinner. Teachers, farmers, and residents listed with relocations, retirements, and illness. Rail washouts disrupt Rock Island line between Eldon and Keokuk, repairs underway. Extended visits noted for A L Oldham family and Wormhoudt relatives.
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Enoch Hill
Hamburg
Jasper County Bankers’ Association
Jasper County
H. A. Jorhagin
Jarnagin
W.R. C
Rae Zerley
Pleasant Hill
Monroe
W. O. Livingston
Fairview Township
Livingston
Board of Supervisors
Baptist Church
Irvin Heffelfinger
Sharpe
Rock Island
Keokuk
Des Moines
Eldon
Valley Junction
Bonaparte
Farmington
A. L. Oldham and
Howard
San Gabriel
Cal
Eddyville
Oldhams
I. A. Wormhoudt
Hospers
Prairie City Items from The News
Local items recount visits by Henry Rovaart and David Wagaman to Pella and family gatherings in Prairie City. Residents attend events in Otley Mingo and Washington Oelwein, while Maple Grove closes school with a dinner for Miss Marie Newell. Evening military drills, a park broom-sucker barrel, and public drill attendance are noted as daily entertainment.
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Henry Rovaart
A’ Rovaart
Pella
David Wagaman
John Braafhart
Henry Int Veldt
Marie
Otley
C. Vander
John Colyn
John C. DeWit
Tone
Jake
Wm. van Peursem
J. D. Stravers
Frank de Vries
van Peursems
H. A. Phillips
Washington
Oelwein
Phillips
Iowa City
Maple Grove
Marie Newell
Prairie City
Ora &Martin
United States Navy
Manual of Arms
Knoxville brief paroled inmates and visitors report
Twenty inmates of the Inebriate hospital were paroled last May. Mrs H L Boyland, home from Des Moines, returned to the capital Friday. Mr and Mrs T J Nieswanger of Harvey attended a past event, with scant readable details about the bracelet ceremony.
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Scott
Anna Sullivan
Knoxville
Washington
Ham Flancher
McGregor
Dubuque
Ham
James Wilson
Benjamin Wilson
Hoosier
Frances Sherwood
Chicago
Gail (Brownie) Gardner
Lelia Anderson
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
John Casey
Missouri State University
Columbia
the Journal
H. L. Boyland
Des Moines
Capital
T. J. Nieswanger
Harvey
Eddyville Hotel Knox garage opens as class graduates
The Eddyville Tribune notes the completion and opening of the rear garage at Hotel Eddyville built by Doctor and Edgar Knox. It lists the graduating Eddyville high school class including Bertha Bain Lela Hachitt Augusta Hartman Edith Hargesheimer Dorothy Shields Eff Williams Elizabeth Knemeyer LaRue Carmen June Lafferty Mary Miller Verna Beamer Edwin Newquint Kenneth Cox Kenneth Moomaw Phillip Jabte Linyd Parker Keller Leo Lane aut Willem.
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the Tribune
Hotel
Eddyville
Doctor
Edgar Knox
Eddyville High School
Bertha Bain
Lela Hatchitt
Augusta Hartman
Edith Hargesheimer
Dorothy Shields
Efe Williams
Elizabeth Knemeyer
LaRue Carmen
June Lafferty
Mary Miller
Verna Beamer
Edwin Newquint
Kenneth Cox
Rainy weeks and town visits in Greely
The Greely notes report three weeks of rain and improving condition for Miss Vera Binns. Local farming activity continues with plowing and hog hauling for Frank Barnes. Families including Van Maanen, Vander Waal, Moody, Patterson, and Johnson visit relatives and attend events in Oskaloosa and Des Moines river area.
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Vera Binns
John van Maanen
Frank Barnes
Katie
Gertrude
Oskaloosa
John Vander Waal
John Moody
Tom Johnson
Frank Oswandle
Binns
Viola Moody
Moody
Des Moines
Rebecca
Carl Patterson
Advertising as Investment for a Sale, Not Expense
The speaker argues that money spent on advertising a sale should be treated as an investment rather than an expense, implying it yields future returns through increased revenue and market reach.
Pella High School Commencement Highlights Many Honors
Pella High School celebrated a successful year with athletic letters awarded to players in baseball and basketball, original class songs, and strong praise for new manual training and domestic science departments. Superintendent Frush received high commendation for steady, popular leadership and school progress.
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Letic
Mark Rillahan
Luther Sadler
Connie Welle
de Bruyn
Harold Ver Steeg
Raymond le Coca
Martin Vander Heiden
Warner Vander Voort
Robert Kaldenberg
Raymond le Cocq
Paul Lautenbach
Mark
Rillahan
Frush
Barnum and Bailey Circus Day in Des Moines
Des Moines welcomes Barnum and Bailey for a full day of circus events on June 29. The show promises a new program led by the Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp spectacle, with air acts, platform performances, ring events, and a giant hippodrome arena.
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Barnum& Bailey Circus
Des Moines
Monster Entertainment
Spectacular Circus Promise Draws International Talent
A dazzling circus program tops a pageant heavy with new acts and world class performers. The lineup features a complete Chinese circus, the Hanneford family of elite European riders, Signor Bagonghi the dwarf rider, the squsetrian comic, Pallenberg’s bear show on bicycles and trapeze, plus a larger menagerie with many new baby animals and untamed species.
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Tory
Agenta
Hanneford
Europe
Signor Bagonghi
Pallenberg
Rough on Rats ends with quiet extermination
An old advertisement claims an outdoor rat and mouse extermination product marketed by Wells in Jersey City New Jersey. It references a government slogan and offers economy sizes priced at 5 or 16 cents with free comic pictures. It targets drug and country stores.
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U. 8
Gov't Too
Drug & Country
R. B
Wells
Jersey City
N. J
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Monroe News
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W. O. Wilson
Parkman
Wye
W. G. Vincent
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Mass
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Fern Collins
Everist
Ernest Campbell
Waterloo
Iowa
L. M. Campbell
Edna Noe
Star
Kirksville
E. W. McGruder
Hamilton
McGruder
Fair Grounds
W. F. Andrews
Buxton
Clayton Overton
T. P. Overton
Clay Township
Georgia Reichard
Whiting
Miss Reichard
Marshalltown
Nettie Beard
Robert L. Kemple
Mr. Kemple
Greely
Pau Saen le
Jas. H. Jamison
Pella High School
Barnum and Bailey
the Gentaur Gonpany
New York
Castoria
Meistered
J. E. Cornelius & CO
South Pella
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