Leading Characters in Forbidding Trail of Booze and Guilt
Edison Forbes, a Scottdale youth with liquor cravings, faces a murder charge over a bootlegging truck collision. Pardoned, he and wife Patsy migrate north, encounter land dealings with Sealman, and grapple with relapse. A ransom of alcohol tests his will as he wanders the forest toward recovery.
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Edison Forbes
Scottdale
Forbes
Patsy Dane
Jjsdison
Isaiah Sealman
Teddie
Sealman
Eddie
Patsy
Chicago
Long Portage
Kinnane
Davenant
Lake Trail
A Courageous Crossing of the Cedar Swamp
The narrator battles a treacherous cedar swamp to reach an oasis and a bottle of liquor. He endures slipping logs, treacherous muck, and near drowning before finally seizing victory over temptation. Patsy Jane's memory and a final vow frame the grim challenge of the journey and its meaning.
Drift into the Canadian Neotech Trade Ends in a Forest Walk
Eddie, Culley, Oscar, and Jake reunite amid illicit liquor dealings as Eddie recalls his blacked out journey to Chicago and a ship bound for Canadian waters. Culley, seeking a reprieve, hides a bottle and presses north into a swampy cedar bog, where treacherous footing and a trap of mud await.
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Jake
Culley
Eddie
Ward
Patsy Jane
Kinnane
Oscar
Chicago
Long Portage
Juke
Altho
Neotech
Aoie
Aome
Diguar
Pocahontas County Board Proceedings Adjourning Sessions
Pocahontas county Iowa board met with no quorum on August 30 and September 5 1927 adjourned sessions. September 6 1927 quorum present with members O Keefe Melson Ferguson Rude Buscher. bids opened for bridge fill grading and coal contracts with Quaker Oats winning coal bid at 8.15 per ton. Proceedings note hearings on Drainage District 29 reports and project S-133 bids.
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Court House
Pocahontas
Iowa
Board ‘of Supervisors
Pocahontas County
Board of Supervisors
Jas. L. O'Keefe
Randall Melson
G. W. Ferguson
BE. A. Rude
A. H. Buscher
Garfield Township
J. L. Parsons
Newell Block and Tile Company
W. W. Codner
County Farm
Quaker Oats Company
Kentucky
Nat
Buscher
Melson
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Portage Creek
Board Proceedings
Jomers
Roy A. Johnson
Veo
Avanta
Aime
Jas. L. O
Llama
L. McIntire
Mary Schall
Tree
W. F. Kiefer
Thos. Kinney
Salay
Alice Kiefer
Help
Treasury
A. Swanson
Karl -Kraft
Arl Kraft
E. H. Harmon
Rodman
Frye Manufacturing Company
New Crescent Printing Company
Boone Blank Book Company
Koch Brothers
Ee Jenkins Fergemann & Company
Matt Parrott & Sons Company
D. O. Blake
Pocahontas Record
Rolfe Arrow
Chas. Patte
R.H. Winegarden
Chas. Pattee
W. W. Harris
A. G. Obrecht
H. C. West
Bert Bass
R. J. Kent
R. H. Winegarden
Andy Anderson
Chas. Clark
Nels Olson
A. Gulbranson
W. W. Beam
First National Bank Bldg. al
S. E. Higgins Osteopathic Physician
Oak River Sts
Graviators
Robert Bruce
Tod Rolfe
Abe M. Devaul
Ralfe
Robert J. Kent Insurance Life
State Savings Bank
ROLFE
W. R. Bates
M. D
Carver
Fort Dodge
L. M. Graham
O Fee
Kent
Amy Ireland
J. M. Bush
Col
H. H. Grove
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