Local Meat Trends Highlight Canned Beef Popularity
In Halstead the Rock Valley Bee notes ready cooked meals drive demand for canned corned beef. Despite being in beef country, most corned beef comes from overseas, with packing houses linked to U.S. firms and Chicago subsidiaries.
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South America
Iown Packing
Bos Moines
Chicago
Yeung
Matseatine
Pittsbury
Des Moines
Ryyal Holimark
Towa
Gypsies Dealt In Fortune Telling Case Emerges
A report from a local encounter details Walter Steig, a shopkeeper, hiring a fortune teller who charged 95 cents and promised wealth in exchange for trust. The incident ended with Steig realizing the ruse after the visitor departed, amid broader concerns about con artists and roadside performers chasing money.
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Ely
Correc
Walter Steig
Steig
Alely
Yauket
Steie
Town Grrlles readers offer tips for town life and civility
Readers submit a string of local concerns from better phone etiquette and proper mailbox locations to keeping streets clear of expired ads and tidiness. Suggestions include improving restaurant meal quality, enforcing sidewalk safety for children, and parking curbside during events to ease traffic and concert disruptions.
Local notes on crops prices and a quirky paper ad
A community column reports corn reaching knee high by the Fourth near Rock Vale, with field prospects better than farther east. It notes high temps last Friday and mentions potatoes, hog prices, and price comparisons to twenty years ago. The Orpheum show owner seeks equipment upgrades and a humorous spider-in-the-paper anecdote closes the item.
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John Hanpt
Rock Vale
Imes
Omost Jnstances
Cory
Jose
Sears Axo
Former Hull Resident Dies Suddenly in Sheldon
Former Hull barber shop operator Verman Ver Steeg died suddenly at his Sheldon home last Tuesday evening at age sixty four. A prominent figure in local business and social life, he served on Hull town council and the school board and was a cousin of C. Rozehoda. Survived by his wife and four daughters, funeral services were held in Sheldon with burial in Honks Cemetery.
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Hull
Sheldon
Verman
Steeg
Ver Steeg
Faunty Vecader
Sioux County
C. Rozehoda
Desides
Triday
Burish
Osceola Dog Brownie Honored for Bravery
In Osceola, a dog named Brownie owned by Kenneth and Leonard Lowery rescued sleeping occupants by waking them in a burning building. The dog received a medal presented by Milton and Edith Lathan of California and Rev. Cook.
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Osceola
Kenneth
Leonard Lowery
I Milton
Edith Lathan
Califfornia
Cook
Fort Madison Juvenile Band Tours the State
Fort Madison public school midget band, directed by Carl Nelson, travels by chartered bus to towns for concerts. Collections at each stop finance the tour, showcasing a well trained group with an average age about fourteen and a half. The tours provide a pleasant vacation-like experience for the boys.
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Carl Nelson
Fort Madison
Ataln
Home Town Folks a Letter for Wenatchee Readers
Readers praise Me Hasting's Wenatchee apple industry note in Bee columns and welcome a weekly feature for letters from former residents. The editor invites distant friends and ex residents to share communications, promising only letters that add value and offer learning about former neighbors.
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Hasting
Wenatchee
The
Bee
Wall Rogers
aMlbuquerque
Oraige
California
Santa Ana
Dally Thought on Tam and Thought Control
A fragment discusses the impossibility of any man submitting all thoughts and actions to a certain body or authority, noting the burden would be tenfold in a broad, pithy reflection. The language suggests a dated, moralistic tone from a historical publication.
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Dally
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