Early Iowa politician remembered in county notes
A former District Court judge and longtime Republican leader in Winneshiek County, Iowa, born 1860s, served eight years on the bench and chaired the county GOP for nine years. He married Berle Whitney in 1899 and is survived by his wife and two daughters in Dee Moines and Haystown. A petition from Gidden residents seeks Gerath German courses, amid mixed local responses. A tragic house fire in Bloomfield killed two children, Homer Christy and Mary Hancock, burnt to death in a barn blaze after matches were lit.
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Childre
Bloomfela
Homer
Christy
Ephraim Christy
Mary Hancock
Arthur Hancock
Laddsdale
Merle G Carroll
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Carroll
Merle D. Hay
Iowa
France
Carroll County
Salasha
Germany
Ryoll
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Auction Nets Red Cross Two Thousand Six Hundred dollars
Public auction at Casey raised funds for the Red Cross. Items sold included two fifty dollar liberty bonds bringing about seventy dollars each, a load of corn sold for a high price, and other goods all yielding proceeds for the charity.
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Red Cross
Casey
Girls Husk Corn Output Beats Expectations in Local Fall
In the Little Sioux vicinity, young girls claim they can outpace Violet and Adaline Davenport. The group husked 118 28 bushels in a day, averaging high yields and daily limits. Overall they have harvested 8,600 bushels of corn for their father this fall.
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Legen
Violet
Adaline Davanport
Little Sioux
Hasek
Leo
Ligaen
Fragmented OCR Note Yields Sparse Local Line Fragments
The readable text hints at a disordered shop scene and unclear actions with scattered words such as shops, clean, proposition, and afternoon. No coherent event or named entities emerge to form a clear news item or identify people or organizations.
Indian artifacts and locals noted in Cedar Rapids area
The article lists names from Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns and mentions historical Indian mounds and relics. It notes Maj Maurice Cty of Dubuane and H W Blakeley setting a flight record, and discusses plans for a Merle G Carroll martyr monument in Carroll County.
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Eine
North McGregor
McGregor
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