Renwick Celebration Draws Crowd Despite Rain
Renwick held a multi day celebration with the Eagle Grove band entertaining attendees. A parachute leap occurred, races and ball games featured, and a large street parade drew crowds. speeches urged farmer and business cooperation amid mail order competition.
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Renwick
Eagle Grove
Chas. E. Eckerle
Chicago
Eckerle
Bode
Wick
Dows
Albert Guegisburg
Harvey Hawthorn
Thelma Norder
Lola Peters
Harry Packard
Wallace Nelson
Clarence Purdy
Fred Engstrom
Wm. Hawthorn
Wm. Paskin Jr
Frank Anderson
Geo. Schoolcraft
Verne Schoolcraft
Walter Attig
James Nelson
H. W. Cousar
Main Street
C. W. Yeoman
R. W. Frank
5. B. Hefty
Obstructs the View and a Lawyer Umbrella Brainstorm
A humorous exchange features Paw explaining a lawyer as an umbrella for a brain storm. The Gadsby family is noted as numerous with a seven passenger car. Colonel Loaksby replies that soft drinks do not interest him while noting water for bathing purposes.
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Paw
Lemuel
Gadsby
Colonel Loaksby
Bargain Driving Women and Alfalfa Flour News
A miscellany of quips on bargaining by women and general wit contrasts, including a farmer’s joke about advertising signs near rails, plus a note that alfalfa flour is mixed with wheat flour for bread, reportedly offering higher value though not widely liked.
Fragmentary dialogue on governance and mosquitoes at inn
In a clipped exchange a henpecked husband and others debate governance and truth. An innkeeper defends an advertisement about mosquitoes, saying guests are disappointed as swarms of insects surround Pine Ridge Inn. The fragment ends mid thought about last winter.
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Pine Ridge Inn
Auto Beauties at the FAI First Showing in Sioux City
The first 1917 motor cars will debut at the Interstate Live Stock rally opening September 1. Automobiles valued around 300000 are to be shown with booths and a two-sided shelter tent. Five show areas will host engines parts and demonstrations by factory experts. Last year the show drew 40000 visitors, boosting sales and interest in fall displays.
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Sioux City
Mater
Joe Maraton
Bootha
Whinery
United States
Rnde
Machinery Show Arranged for Stony City Fair Displays
Sioux City exposition schedules a large machinery show featuring tractors and farm appliances with an estimated value of 275000 dollars. Independent and big machinery companies will compete for attention as tented displays fill substantial ground space. A 50-strong corps of factory men will manage demonstrations and five lectures accompany the event.
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Joe Morton
Che Dewavtiona
Million Dollar Stock Show Heads to Sioux City
Entries in Joe Morto's hands indicate the million dollar stock show will surpass prior years at Sioux City with large hog and cattle displays. Gates open September 3, regional feeders join exhibitors from Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and 24 other states as prize awards and breeding associations attract breeders and buyers. The sales feature remains a magnet drawing thousands seeking high grade cattle and hogs.
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Joe Morto
Interstate Live Stock Tur
Sioux City
Awai
South Dakota
Nebraska
Missouri
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Chris Nelson
Ed Eggerth
Orris French
Kagiy ‘Grove
Vernon Theatre
Merrygaround
Kit
Olpha
Toledo
Iowa
The
Willys-Overland Company
Toledo, Ohio
Madein U, SA
Interstate Live Stock Fair
the People’s Fair
Boso
Sloe
Stony City
Festere
Sioux
Clery Falp
Tnovle
Veri Quinn
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