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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1911
Page
4
Subscription rates noted at 1.00 a year in advance or 1.50 at year end. Advertising priced on application. Charitable ads half price if admission or financial gain involved. Local items report a mix of events from Otto Blessing’s Chicago trip to dances, travel plans, sickness, sales, and merchants staying open Wednesday evenings for farmers.
Local notes report eggs at 13 cents a dozen in Boyden. John Miller and Roy Lubbers visited George Sunday. Jimmie Green and Miss Verdoes drove to Sheldon. Vacuum cleaner for rent 50 cents daily. Miss Maud Jackson appointed to fill Boyden primary vacancy for 1911-12.
The readable text markets tabled seeds and urges purchase of supplies. It suggests the seeds are valuable and compares favorably to inferior options, promising both bulk and package options at lower costs.
Miss Nellie Van Wyke of near Hull dies after nine days of illness on Tuesday night. She was 18 and suffered pneumonia. Funeral arrangements are pending in the local area.
The death notice recalls the daughter of Mr P. H. Van Wyke who died of lung fever. She was well known in Boyden and leaves many relatives. Funeral services will be Friday at the Dutch Reform church in Hull with burial in Hull cemetery. Friends extend sympathy to the grieving family.
Mrs. Adam Kwikkle died Tuesday night at 10 after a brief illness described as a sudden apoplexy. She leaves a husband and four children, parents Mr and Mrs William Brinkman of Sheldon, and brother Henry Brinkman. Services set for Friday at 1 30 pm at the Presbyterian church with burial in Boyden cemetery. Obituary to follow next week.
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