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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1905
Page
5
A bustling compact of town items, weather notes, social events, and small-town misadventures. Reports include lectures, concerts, rail delays, firesides, weddings, illnesses, school closings, and a parade of locals like Peck’s Bad Boy coming to the opera house, snowbound travelers, and community notices from Iowa Falls to Grundy county.
The piece covers a range of local topics including a guest list for Mr and Mrs Luey Syverson, a Belle Plaine marble cutter, and a visit to Dubuque for Mrs Syverson. It notes Union meeting representations by Ackley and other county towns, criticism of reporting, a Dunbar Quartet appearance, anniversary corrections for Mr and Mrs Edgington, and actions by Hardin county insanity commissioners involving Mrs Augusta Stelow. It also mentions Crescent Lumber Co during a coal shortage.
The article accuses a company of unfair practice by not cutting wood to stove length in their yards while charging the regular price, about $9 per Gord. It notes legal moves in the city as residents discuss appointed U.S. marshal candidate Shotill Mitterer, whose candidacy remains undeclared.
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