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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1905
Page
5
Eldora news roundup lists farm activity and shipping, notices of deaths, marriages, and local business. It notes population pressure for tenements, road conditions, and a coming court term with Judge Evans. Also mentions choir event, politics, and public improvements along with multiple small notices.
A semi weekly column tracks local social and business moves. Several residents visit relatives, take trips, or change jobs while others report health updates and travel to Des Moines, Hubbard, Union, and Iowa Falls. Notable names include H H Hendryx, Gertrude Porter, Mia Boyer, Inez Doate, Seth Bates, Mary Gearhart, Frank Foster, Will Porter, Harvey Drake, Dr Morse, Susie Nuckolls, Jessie Norris, Jno Lamprecht, C W Tolman, O J First, Kate Fagg, Harvey F Carter, Porter of Hubbard, Hd Carpenter, Mary Woodward, and Ferdinand Martin.
The Herald today features dense advertising pages while local and county reading matter is lighter. The board of supervisors awarded the Hardin county bridge work contracts for the year to A. H. Austin of Webster City and to J. B. Greene, W. S. Wickham, and A. H. Quiggle of Steamboat Rock. Austin will work in supervisor Weimer's district. the others will operate in Supervisors Stevens and Marks' territories.
Mr Armstrong and Hilbert Jonker attended the Ames convention of cement workers last week. Armstrong displayed a block machine and said the gathering was large and interesting. He noted broad belief that cement use will rise in construction as grout is seen as the most permanent building material and cement blocks make handsome structures.
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