West High Jesters Hunt Turns Wet and Wild
Orange City Iowa April 11 Last week Attorney Van Olst and Sterk Melrose set out on a hunting expedition along West Branch armed with weapons and plans to surprise their wives with wild fowl. They returned soaked and featherless except for a lone crippled rabbit, then forded a shallow stream and nearly drowned before escaping to town.
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Orange City
Iowa
VanOlst
Sterk Melrose
West Hraoch
Sweden
Sioux Center Snap Shots of a Tangled Debt Case
A local hotel man faces a debt dispute with a merchant. Attorneys, a sale of horse and rig, and a payment of funds unfold as law and possession clash. A jury dispute ends with the plaintiff prevailing and defendants yielding large cash and “education in the law.”
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Astle Sam
Anaok
Borden
Local notes recount church shifts and town happenings
Monday events include a Presbyterian service and a congregational meeting to affiliate with the Reformed church. Plans indicate a new parsonage and town finances face extra costs. Community figures attend courthouse and lodge meetings, with deaths, hospitalities, and school term opening hints sprinkled among local concerns.
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Presbyterian Church
Reformed Church
Saturday Packed With Farm Folk as 200 Teams Towed Through Rock Valley
Report notes 200 teams hitched around town last Saturday with no special inducements. Merchants report busier conditions, suggesting strong local prospects for the coming season. The piece urges more hitching accommodations and promotes advertising in The Bee.
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Rock Valley
Land for sale 160 acres near Canistota South Dakota
160 acres of choice land five miles from Canistota in McCook County South Dakota partly improved. Easy terms and low interest rate. Must be sold at once. For price and terms write to George T Blackman Sioux Falls SD.
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Canistota
McCook County
South Dakota
George T. Blackman
Falla
Local Oddities and Regional Notices from Marcus to Sioux County
A Marcus barber hiring mix up sparks town debate as a female barber proves adept. Yeowarden post office reports rising receipts in 1808 and 1890. Vet N J Shawn flags tuberculosis near Hull. Iowa Democratic convention set for Des Moines with delegates by county. Modern Woodmen picnic planned at Shelton. Rock Rapids gears up for 4th of July celebration. Royal Neighbors organized at Ireton. Sioux Falls forms a beet sugar factory company with $350,000 capital.
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Red Oak
Iowa
Bard
Orange City
Bailard
L. van Olat
Sioux County
Sioux Malls
Evacuation of hat etiquette in public life
Readers encounter changing social ethics in a period piece noting hat lifting replaced by a wave or military salute. The column parodies the shift from polite tipping to concealed intent and mocks those who cling to old custom while humorously predicting future headwear conduct.
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Londo
Paris
Rock Valley Curmudgeon Notes Then Pans Local Youth
A terse social broadside complains about idle youths with cigarettes and slovenly hairstyles, claiming they are worthless and unhireable. The writer cites an advertisement for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Worcester Enterprise as a personal remedy reference. Local ads mention Knapp & Co and a five percent farm loan.
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Chamberlain
Worcester Enterprise
Stroud
Popomoke City
Knapp & Co
Be Sure You Are Right Then Go Ahead Easter Calendar Doctrine
A letter from J Phelan argues the church authority on Easter dating. It critiques Gregorian reform adoption dates, cites historical debates from early church councils, and emphasizes the Church as sole universal authority for Paschal observance.
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Iptron
Aho
England
Germany
Mit
Gregory Xaii
Church
Rome
Nisan II
St. Peter
Asia Minor
St. John
Victor
Polycralea
Hphesus
Nice
George “Washington
Liepant
J. Phelan
Sewing A Will Do For Wik
Undefined fragment mentions sewing and will do. No clear event or entities readable.
Is This a Government of the People by the People
Mrs. M. D. Curry of Garner, Iowa, argues for universal suffrage and equal rights. She calls for ending special privileges and distributing power to all citizens to achieve a true government of the people for the people.
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Yeb
Thut
Congress
Wero
M. D. Curry
Garner
Iowa
Great Farm Publications Offer for 1899 Subscriptions
The Farmers Club offers six publications for one year at $2.00. Includes The Homestead Special Farmers Institute edition The Poultry Farmer Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal and Humane Alliance plus two more. Also promotes Dr Kings New Discovery free trials and discounted wall paper stock at Knapp's Pharm.
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Homestead
West
Farmers’ Institute
Poultry Farmer
Farmers’ Mutual’ Insurance
Co-Operative
Humane Alliance
Farmers” Institute
Fem
Tagavance
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Sioux Falls
M. D. Gibbs
Alton
Short
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Philippines
L. A
William E. Briggle
United States District Court
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Henry de Lespinasse
Iowa City
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Henry
Jerry Kendrick
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Sioux Center
Te Paske
Jobo Hollander
Eme Wespers
Michigan
Chicago
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Inwood
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Nawarden
van Oosterhout
Tawarden
R. de Young
Ed‘ Wera
Middleburg
van der Stoep
de Young
Peter Niessink
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Maurice
Justice Court
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Des Moines
P. Visser
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John Hollander
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Joe Hoeven
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Dale
Marcus
Lewis
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Yeowarden
N. J. Shawn
Hull
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Woodmen of
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Rock Rapids
Ireton
J. Cc. Vitzthum
W.J. Skewis
Brookings’ County Press
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New Republic
Amos
United States
Congressman Mann
Mann
Ile
Moon
Capt
Dutton
Good Templar
Spencer
Nick Greiner
Herman Louies
Luin Dunham
M. B
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H. H.pember
the Woman's Column
Equal Suffrage
Dr. King
H. H. Pember
Knapp
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