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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1913
Page
9
A jumbled mix of local names and notices from Spencer Iowa plus scattered wartime reminiscences. Includes D W Bettice dentist, Spencer business list, and a stray narrative passage with General Haverty and Constance, interwoven with abstract reflections and diary-like lines.
A dense catalog lists Woman's Home Companion and American Magazine at 3.00, plus numerous titles such as McClure's, World's Work, Tribune, Daily News, Journal, Inter Ocean, Breeder's Gazette, Good Housekeeping, Collier's Weekly, and more. It notes the Des Moines Daily Capital and Chicago Record Herald among outlets and highlights a special clubbing rate with Woman's Home Companion as worthwhile, urging readers not to miss the opportunity.
A compact listing describes 13 horses including a grey gelding TL years, a grey mare T1 years, a bay mare 13, a bay gelding 12, a buckskin mare 10, a bay mare 5, a bay gelding 4, another bay gelding 4, a black mare TL, a gray mare 2, a grey gelding 2, and two spring colts, with various ages and colors.
An auction listing details items including Deering corn picker and binder, grain binders with trucks, lumber wagons, a steel wheel truck, various plows, harrows, cultivators, harnesses, feeders, hay equipment, a Lord Trusty incubator, heating stove, shovels, hog troughs, chicken coops, watering troughs, hay, potatoes, geese, and miscellaneous odds and ends. Numerous items and approximate counts noted. some entries unspecified or described as too numerous to mention.
A fragmentary dialogue recounts a wartime gathering with General Buckthorn and General Baverill praising Union resolve. The scene interleaves veterans, officers, and civilians recalling Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s ideal to bind the nation’s wounds.
In Cottonwood County Minnesota a Gore farm listing describes a nearly empty parcel with virtually no structures. The tract features wide acreages and limited development potential with the principal conveyance being the unimproved land.
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