Iowa News Roundup of Property Transfers and Public Works
Local items report Chas Kiespie selling a 126 acre Lincoln area farm for 240 per acre to Rudolph Getich and Ostar Tranbarger purchasing the 160 acre Bisschke farm near Conrad for 330 per acre with possession set for March 1. Perry faces a new deep well contract with Thorpe Brothers for 3022.30, due March 13. Other notes include civil war veteran Henry Huskamp’s death at Fenton, a Cedar Rapids bootlegging protest sparked by a 17 year old fined for intoxication, and Dun dub Dubuque hotel survey findings of near full occupancy.
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Sherben
Grundy Center
Howard Sherben
Perry
Thorpe Brothers
Floyd Hudson
Clarksville
France
International Harvester Company
Haz
Chicago
Ostar Tranbarger
Bisschke
Conrad
Tony Bleteske
Henry J. Huskamp
Iowa
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Vicksburg
Robert K. Aldrich
Cedar Rapid
Anamora
Aldrich
George Barber
Atlantic
Camp Grant
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Charles D. Finley
Grundy County Farm Bureau
Iowa Federation of Farm Bureaus
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America
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Waterloo
Goatch
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Dubuque
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Stip
Carl Watson
Franklin County
Ed Kern
Stanton, Neb
Arthur BE. Mallory
Otto
Kern
Ben G. Auld
Griswold
W. ‘T. Auld
Los Angeles
W. T. Auld
Auld
Nebraska
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Pennileas
Wes
W. H. Protaman
Lincoln
Rudolph Getich
Gotich
Beamen
Loward Sherbon
Clinton Brewing Company
W. OL. Harding
Ciabers
Frank Waterbury
Cedar Re
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Otto Smith
Nevada
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Chaumon
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William Hogg
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Jacobsen
State Board of Health
Weetville
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Mich
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Audubon
Lea
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Stella Carter
J. Ralph Live
Stella Harter
Westville
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Drusiain Bennett
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Lee
William L . Harding
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Sam Freiden
Ralph Oliver
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Heard
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Minn
Albert Ogbert
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Des Moines Motor Show
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World events rapid and tense from Washington to Paris
A barrage of dispatches reports to Washington on resumed US trade with Germany, protests over public discussion of policy, party leadership shifts, naval funding doubts, and calls to punish violence. European fronts cite new flags, arrests, and Polish leadership changes as Clemenceau survives an attack.
Fleanes Foreign Minister Discusses Tax Plan and War Losses
Foreign Minister Klotz said a tax on capital would not be imposed and payments would extend over a long period to ease the burden on the current generation. Sixteen soldiers were killed and fifty injured when a troop collided with a freight near Vienne. Estonian troops are falling back before the Bolsheviks around Pskov, per official statements from the Estonian Lonca headquarters. German troops on the Lithuanian front are resisting Bolsheviks.
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Fleanes Klotz
Parla
Froin
Vienne
Pskov
Esthonian Lonca
New York Troops Farwell Promise Fulfilled in Berlin
Copenhagen dispatch reports American doughboys keep their pledge to write from Berlin after arrival. The detachment from New York is billeted in hotels in the German capital, confirming the wartime promise.
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Copenhagen
Berlin
New York
Peace Notes on Rejection of Meeting with Bolshevik Delegates
A dispatch to the Russian embassy in Washington from Ambassador Bakmetleff at Paris reports that peace notes rejected a proposal to meet with delegates of Bolshevik and other Russian governments at Princes' Islands. The rejection came from the governments of Siberia Archangel and southern Russia and was presented to the Paris peace conference.
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Bolsheviks
Princes’ Islands
Paris
Siberia
Archangel
Russia
Washington
Ambassaydor Bakmetleff
European War News Highlights From Allied Armistice Talks
A Pavis dispatch reports German armistice chief Mathias Bro berger informed war council no repatriation talks on prisoners except wounded or seriously ill. Australia’s war dead total 68 026 from 400 000 voluntary enlistments. 336 000 Australians served overseas. Treves talks deny credit for American food. Germany to pay 11 million dollars for 186 000 tons. Trolley collision injures 25 in Philadelphia. Hog Island shipyard strike halts work for 400 foremen seeking higher pay. Dallas dispatch notes Lieut M 7 Plum set a new flying record Fort Worth to Love Field 32 miles in ten planes. Fire destroys hotel at St Tovitey in Quebec. legal cases in Milwaukee.
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Pavis
Mathias Broberger
Allied Armistice Commission
Treves
Germany
Braun
Berlin
Herr Braun
Dallas
Tex
Plum
Curtis
Fort Worth
Love Field
Trapped Hunting Dog Rescued by Owner and Companion
A Princeton hunter’s finely bred dog fell into a steel leg trap set for a skunk. The dog, wounded yet living, endured while bones and meat scraps lay nearby. A companion dog from its kennels brought bones and licked the injured friend’s wounds as the owner arrived.
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Princeton
Ecaudht
Empires That Have Fallen and the Rise of Republicanism
Writer in the Brooklyn Eagle notes six empires vanished since 1871 and 800 million people freed from imperial rule. He cites Roosevelt as a model of strenuous life and observes European empires collapsing after the war for democracy. He mentions monarchs toppled from Hawaii to Bulgaria and Portugal to Saxony.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Roosevelt
Mar
Pedro
Brazil
West
Manciru
Russia
Austro-Hungary
Germany
Hawaii
Portugal
Saxony
Bulgaria
Record Apple Profit Seen For Northwestern Growers
Apple growers in Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana will receive about 21 million dollars for a 13 986 000 box crop, the largest payout and crop since 1918. Higher prices and buoyant demand boosted returns, with production totaling 18 509 cars at 750 boxes per car. Rural Life.
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
World Wheat Per Capita Use in 1901 11
Ten year per capita wheat consumption figures show France at 8.80 bushels annually, Belgium 8.20, United States 6.80, Italy 6.47, United States 4.09, Austria Hungary 4.20, Netherlands 3.05, Germany 0.85, British India 0.52, and Japan 0.52 bushels with rye consumption noted high in several regions.
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France
Belgium
United States
Italy
United
India
Fragmentary Note on Sea Travel and Tinkering
A garbled excerpt discusses sea journeys and the idea of using better threading tools or needles. The text includes stray phrases about fog, Alan Aung, and colored mentions of pliers or guns, but lacks coherent events or clear subjects.
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Alan Aung
Untitled fragment hints at a noisy street conversation
A garbled OCR fragment shows a casual heated exchange with phrases about calling someone and mentions of metered service. The legible elements include personal pronouns and stray words, offering little structured event or names. The piece reads as a fragmentary social interaction rather than a complete report.
American Wheat Fields The Wheat Herd of the United States
Fragmentary note references wheat production in the United States with mentions of dates in January and a generic reference to the wheat industry. Entities and specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
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United States
Uric Acid in the System Dr. Pierce Remedy Promoted
Weekly Health Talks explains uric acid from kidney problems and urges taking Anurie Tablets from Dr. Pierce to dissolve uric acid depositions. Readers are told to adopt proper diet and living, with free medical advice upon request.
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Lee H. Smith
M. D
Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
One Finger Piano Lesson Offer Sparks Skepticism
In Des Moines No 2 1973 a fragment notes a conversation about advertising and correspondence. A statement questions a professor claiming to teach piano with one finger in a single lesson, while others suggest a fake. The Birmingham Age-Herald is cited.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Ely’s Cream Balm Promises Instant Nasal Relief
An ad-style claim touts Ely’s Cream Balm as fast relief for nasal congestion and catarrh. It promises open airways, eased headaches, and night breathing comfort, urging readers to buy a small bottle from their druggist. It notes tobacco growing in Denmark during the war as a side reference.
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Ely
Denmark
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