Emmet County Court House Debate and Iowa Politics
A broad letter to the editors urges building a new Emmet county court house in Burt or Fenton to centralize courts and cut costs, while noting Kossuth’s repair and potential county consolidation. It also comments on 1930s national figures, street paving, and public praise for Iowa life amid modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ringsted
Emmet
Palo Alto
Kossuth
Conldt
Kossuth County
Burt
Fenton
Iowa
Century life trends and a Titonka bank link
A Dartmouth statistician notes shorter life expectancy despite longer average lifespans as British centenarians decline from 198 in 1881 to 145 in 1921. In Algona Mrs. Driver finds Illinois auto plate remnants linked to Titonka bank robbery suspects who stayed at her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
C. H. Forsyth
Dartmouth
Maurice Ernest
London Centurion Club
England
Scotland
Dee' Tile
D. L
Whitte- More
Algona
Illinois
Red Cross Roll Call Dues Paid List Names Many Members
A long list records 1930 dues paid to the American Red Cross. Names include Mrs. Raymond Krantz, Mr. Wm. Peterson, Mrs. Ray Oesterreicher, John Ippentrop, Miss Mabel Tutton, Miss Nellie Nelson, Rev. Schoenlein, Dr. Sartor, Mr. Harald Johnson, Mr. Henry Meyer, Dr. W. F. Hamstreet, and many others in a community membership update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RED Cross
American Red Cross
Raymond Krantz
Wm. Peterson
Ray Oesterreicher
Irs
John Ippentrop
Nelsina Hansen
C. H. Lowns
Ain
C. H. Downs
J. J. Budlong
Herman Mechler
Adolph Missal
John Welhousen
Etta Bruns
Jake Meyers
Wena Lettchel T. Breen
Sever Pannkak
A. &. Anderson
Louise Conrads
Henry Stecker
Leonard Callies
Carrie Bonacker
Schoenlein
Ray Tidman
Mabel Tutton
Nellie Nelson
Ida. Sachau
Angie Ogan
Lauretia Larsen
Allen Wood
Jerry Schutter
Pierre Sartor
Harald Johnson
Henry Meyer
Fred Wentz
W. F. Hamst
EB. O. Wright
Wm. Boyken
H. C. Schweppe
H. O. Bruns
Anton Pannkux
Anton Pannkuk
Raymond Schutter
W.J. Denton
W. J. Denton
Matilda Falk
Art Falk
Elizabeth Kennedy
N. Walsh
Sever Pannkuk
Staymond Bonacker
George Bonacker
Mayme Petersen
A. M. Petersen
L. G. Smith
Wm. Larson
Geo. FP. Graham, Jr
Herman Rachat
Harry Reed
Edith Budlong
B. A. Pannkuk
BE. Wilson
John Wood
Albert Young
F. Batt
Henry W. Mayland
Henry Franzen
Herman Franzen
Henry F. Mayland
Ernest Schmidt
John Plaisier
Fred Banda
Henry Schmidt
Bernard Franzen
Henry H. Bruns
Mrs Bertha Crippen Dies After Week of Illness
Mrs Bertha Crippen 59 of 319 West Third Street Sioux City died Monday at her daughter's home after a week of heart trouble. Born January 28 1870 in Germany she was a Lutheran. Surviving are her widower A W Crippen three daughters Mrs G T Vande Steeg Mrs R G Norton and Mrs B Montagué and three sons Howard Delfs Carl Delfs and William Dells all of Sioux City four brothers Otto Callies Algona Edward and Robert Callies Titonka and Carl Callies Omaha and a sister Mrs August Leek Salem Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Crippen
Sioux
West Third Street
Sioux City
G. T. Vande Steeg
Nebraska Street
Crippen
Germany
Lutheran Church
A. W. Crippen
Mia. Vande Steeg
R. G. Norton
B. Montagué
Howard Delfs
Carl Delfs
William Dells
Otto Callies
Algona
Iowa
Edward
Robert Callies
Titonka
Carl Callies
Omaha
August Leék
Salem
Ore
Thanksgiving News From Burt Area Chronicles
Local residents report corn shipments and farm visits around Burt and Algona, with Thanksgiving gatherings at the Dell Fitch and Bonnie Dee Goat Farm. Families travel to Cedar Rapids and Mason City for school and events, while gravel work and community meetings highlight a busy week.
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Walter Scott
Burt
Evert Koestler
Dell Fitch
Lawrence
Kansas
Henry Philips
Woden
Leo Brayton
Algona
Wim, Shirley
Fred Corey
Bonnie Dee
Letha Mann
Mel Petersen
Harcourt
4. O. Mann
Amelia Rike
Ernest Hansen
M. &. Larsen
Henry Nelson
Lewis Larsen
Albert Bunkofske
Sylvester Robinson
Winona
A. Bollinger
Iva Trunkhill
Cedar Rapids
Legion Boys
W. W. Ringsdorf
Roy Ringsdorf
Ray Bierstedt
Lone Rock
Willis Phelps
Sioux City
Morningside College
F. B
Ray McWhorter
Victor
Chester Fitch
Orville
Albert Holding
Evelyn Nordstrom
Leona Fitch
General Farm Bureau
John Rippentrop
Albert Cranzo
Chas. Larsen
Cloud Sigshee
Tony Anderson
Riddle
Mr. Anderson
C. BE. Sigsbee
John Dittmer
Dittmer
Josephine
B. J. Wicks
Bert Craft
Zearing
Town
Boxing event slated at Bell Theatre December 10
The American Legion sponsored boxing match will be held at the Bell Theatre the evening of December 10. John Cosgrove is named as one of the participants in the event.
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Pavik
Henderson
Minneapolis
Gordon C. Giddings
Esther Beck
Sant
Ringsted
J. F. Lorenz
Joe Lorenz
Britt
American Legion
Bell Theatre
John Cosgrove
Titanka i
Erma Ward
State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Clarence Ward
West of Town
Chauncy Sturdivant
Mason City
Chauncy
Abbey
Thomson
Northwood
Lester Lease
Wesley
Wm. Sturdivant
Thanksgiving gatherings and upcoming school events in local towns
Thomsen siblings visited for Thanksgiving with their father before returning to teaching posts Leota Hall, a normal instructor in New Richland Minn, and Deltta Hall, principal at Forest City. Mrs Rea Hutchinson and family visited relatives in Grandy Center Waterloo and Brant Asa. The Methodist Ladies bazaar and supper is December 7 at Woodman hall with a potluck menu. Boys and Girls basketball head to Renwick for a Tuesday game and a Wesley versus Corwith match is set for Friday. Local practice games occur at Elienpeter hall as pupils rehearse The Windmills of Holland operetta for mid month at the schoolhouse.
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Thomsen
Sturdivant
Leota
Deltta Hall
New Richland
Minn
Deltta
Forest City
Rea Hutchinson
Mmr
L. Krantz
Algona
Grandy Center
Renwick
Wesley
Corwith
Elienpeter Hall
Holland
Cow Test Associations Grow in Kossuth County
Growing interest in Cow Test Associations spreads across Kossuth with new groups near West Bend and Algona and collaborations with Hancock and Winnebago counties. Around Fenton, dairymen join Palo Alto testing as more men join waiting lists. Prof. Walter B. Krueck argues herd improvement via Dairy Herd Improvement Associations improves profitability, while typhoid fever outbreaks highlight community responsibility for safe water and public health practices.
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Kossuth
West Bend
Algona
Hancock
Winnebago
Fenton
Palo Alto
Cow Test Association
Walter B. Krueck
Wisconsin
B. R. Morrison, Co. Agt
Public health reform proposal for Iowa counties
The article argues for a centralized public health service with a full time county health officer to prevent disease and manage milk supplies. It advocates assigning the health officer to public health prevention rather than cure and notes a legislative allowance for county based organization benefiting cities and populations.
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Avery
Iowa
Report of communicable diseases in Iowa for week ending Nov 15
Summary of Iowa disease cases for the week ending November 15 shows diphtheria four, scarlet fever zero, typhoid fever twenty nine, smallpox thirty three, measles forty three, whooping cough twenty five, tuberculosis eighteen, chickenpox one hundred three, mumps eleven, undulant fever one, poliomyelitis one, syphilis fifty seven, and gonorrhea forty three. Data organized by disease type.
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Iowa
Thanksgiving appeal for Christian Home Orphanage aid
Letters seek Thanksgiving donations for the Christian Home Orphanage at Council Bluffs Iowa. The 40 year old sectarian institution relies entirely on voluntary gifts to provide education, care and religious instruction for needy children as winter approaches.
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Christian Home
Council | Biaffit
Towa
Mid‘west
Biving
Earrytne
Council Blaffs
Iowa
Sweeten Iowa with Iowa Sugar campaign note
In a campaign message from American Beet Sugar Company official C F Franzen the piece urges Iowans to back home grown sugar. It cites 287 000 tons produced 2 009 000 distributed among 1337 beet growers and 6 037 workers involved in processing with strong railroad and merchant earnings to boost state prosperity.
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Iowa
Belmond
Mason City
Towa
Ose
Iowa Sugar
Chamber of Commerce
Club
Parm
American Beat Sugar Company
C.F. Franzen
Ringsdorf Dinner Tale Highlights Big Plans
Roy Ringsdorf hosted his family for a Sunday dinner and spoke of selling Arty head of spring shoats averaging 225 pounds each. He joked that he is little yet capable of bigger things than many larger men.
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Roy Ringsdorf
Ringsdorf
Roy
Sittle
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Les O. Wolfe
Iowe
Canada Post
Foreign Advertising Repsce
American Press Association
Larrabee
Ft. Dodge
Gilchrist
Laurens
McAuley
Carroll County
Ges Moines
National House of Representatives
Big Tenth
Uniter
Washington
Coolidge
New York
Hoover
Wall Street
Global
West Bend Journal
Portland
Wesley Notes
Ed Hildman
Bea Hutchison
John Deere Company
Waterloo
State Department of Health
Himes’ Dairy
Chrischill & Herb Algona
Cressey
Fennam
Atwater
Kent
Long
A. C
Atwater Kent
Ken Fisher
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