Local notices and advertising rates in Rock Valley paper
Entered weekly at the post office in Rock Valley Iowa as second class mail matter. Terms of inscription one year if paid in advance. Rates for display advertising available on application. Local advertising ten cents per line for first insertion and one cent per line for each subsequent publication. Cards of thanks lists of wedding presents charged at regular rates.
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Post Ofice
Rock Valley
Iowa
Dox and the frame of a cyclone era editorial mix
A fragmentary report notes editorials from The Maurice Review and Bartley Journal issuing cyclone special editions, with The Alton Democrat promptly releasing a large edition containing storm details and war news. It reflects postdisaster and religious commentary, including Spain Catholicism and American views toward Spaniards. Prohibition notices and political calls to convention follow as a garbled township notice.
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The
Alton Democrat
Local news notes on crops and servicemen in Rock Valley
Rain showers have nearly ripe soil and farmers await warmth to plant corn with some already starting. Thomas Scanlor runs the P O News Store and procures morning papers from Perkins. Nelson McKellar left for Lions Falls to enlist in Company B. Nels plans to return briefly before heading to the front. School reports show district attendance figures and tardiness. A Saturday cyclone damaged Akron, Maurice, Carnes, Hospers, Archer, and Hartley areas, tearing buildings, grain, and a windmill with home damage described in several farms.
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Thomas Scanlor
P. O
Perkins
Siouxty Journal
Rock Valley
Nelson McKellar
Lions Falls
Co. Ib
Hirst Regiment
South Dakota Volunteers
Nels
E Lng
Here
Newt Akron
Maurice
Veldboom
Aburt
Carnes
Hospers
Archer
Hartley
Jas
Walpole
Vizcaya Exemplar Armored Cruiser of Spain
A fragment notes the Vizcaya as Spain's formidable first class modern armored cruiser with unspecified details. The text appears incomplete and lacks clear dates, figures, or further context.
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SpAin
Vizcaya
Pumpkin Raising Contest and Bargain Roundup at Local Stores
Knapp's Pharmacy advertises lowest prices on paints oils and brushes while J P Oncurr promotes summer hats and a sale on a Singsbury item. Foppe's Pioneer Store offers pot bargains near the old Scott place northwest of town. A white brood sow weighing about 200 pounds is missing with a reward offered. Fond du Lac based Northwestern Yeast Company and Chicago distribute free samples of Yeast Foam urging use over imitators.
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My Place
Old Scott Place
BE. Kirwan
Northwestern Yeast Company
Fond du Tac
Chicago
United States
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L. Hud
Dox
Maurice Review
Bartley Journal
Turope
Rome
Troy
America
Maine
Waa
Register
John D. Long
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Navy
Peace Society
Naval
Long
Harvard University
McKinley
Sioux County
Boyden
Des Moines
Clark
Prohibition
Plato Township
Mary
Jacbsen
Willie Mulvey
Cuartry McKre
Knapp's
J.P. Oncurr
Foppe
Pioneer
Martapeller Butcher Stop
Fi. W. Fuller
J.B. Foppe
Foppes Pioneer Store
J. B. Foppe
Minard & Miller
Will Thomas
Reamery
Stensv AD Bros
John Veldboom
Mound City
W. J. Skewis
Ww. J. Skewis
F. W. Hall
Hull
Jobn Grussenaurg
Joan Grosendurg, SR
Moyen
F.W. Hall
Hull, Ia
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