Dubuque church gift mirrors early Republican aid
State news from Des Moines recalls John T. Adams of Dubuque building a Congregational church for the city amid a weak local GOP, alongside reminiscences of J. O. Crosby aiding Garnaville with a chapel and a Grinnell College bequest. The item also notes gravel road value shifts, Esther White’s Grinnell ties and mission work, and a unique estate dispute in Butler County.
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Des Moines
Iowa
John T. Adams
Dubuque
National Republican Committee
J. O. Crosby
Garnaville
Grinnell College
Crosby
Fayette
Epworth Seminary
Epworth
Dubuque County
Waterloo
Charles C. Wolf
State Exchange Bank
Parkersburg
William Wolf
Beatrice
Neb
Butler
Butler County
Guardians, scouts, and a marching youth pageant unfold
A large caravan accompanies the boys with a director of scouting recreation morale policy superintendent convoy and official medical staff while the group includes a twenty piece band. Bernhard Coyne reputedly the world’s tallest man dies near Anthon Woodbury county. Judge Wade rules life insurance not exempt from claims against estates or bankruptcies in Shelby county. Lenox college alumni celebrate Dr J C Merriman’s rise to Doctor of Science at Columbia University and Carnegie Institution honors. Camp Dodge wrecking work begins with 150 men, completing by July 1922. Pigeons race to Milwaukee from Britt Spencer and Miller, and oil fever spreads in Decatur county near Leon with a new Seible Oil Co venture. Plans for the 88th division reunion at the state fair are set with government tents cots blankets and railway discounts.
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Lenox College
Hopkins
Delaware County
J. C. Merriman
University of Chicago
University of California
Carnegie Institution
Washington, D. C
W. B. Guthrie
College of the City of
Madame Curie
America
Camp Dodge
France
Illinois
Minnesota
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Farmers Push Co op Movement at Midwest Conference
Officials from mid western bureaus met in Huron South Dakota on May 24 and passed resolutions backing reports publicity and protection of cooperative commission firms and the right to do business. They also urged a single cooperative commission company at each livestock market to unite farm organizations. The actions align with the Farmers Live Stock Marketing Committee of 15 plans discussed in Chicago that week.
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Co-Operative Commission CO
Mid-West
Huron
Co-Operative Commission
Co-Operative Commission Company
Farmers’ Live Stock Marketing Committee of 15
Chicago
Real Co-Operative Livestock Commission
Equty Co-Operatve Exchange
St. St. Paul
Advertised Letters Uncalled For Week Ending June 11 1921
Post office lists uncalled letters including Fred Hauffe Alfred Anderson Lillian Thompson Carlson Crow O Flaerthy Floyd Hoffman Cecil Hill Frank Hall Henry Haugue Ellingson and others. Uncalled letters after two weeks will be sent to Dead Letter Office Chicago. Theosophists study occult gems and select stones that harmonize with eyes hair and skin claiming stones bring life and health.
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Fred Hauffe
Alfred Anderson
Lillian Thompson
Anton R. Carlson Jr
E. W. Crow
O'Flaerthy
Floyd Hoffman
Cecil Clyde Hill
Frank Hall
Henry Haugue
A. B. Ellingson
Chicago
Illinois
Emmet County Land and Abstract Company Advertises Services
Emmet County Land and Abstract Company offers land and lot transactions with loans at low rates. Titles examined and abstracts prepared from county abstract books, claiming to provide the only evidence of title to lands and town lots in Emmet County.
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Emmet County Land and Abstract Company
Emmet
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Ravel
Leland
Winnebago County
Esther White
George E. White
Marsovan
Asiatic Turkey
Miss White
Poweshiek County
Asia
Constantinople
White
Esther
Grinnell
Paul MacEachron
China
A. MacEachron
Goldfeld
Wright County
MacEachron
Iowa Committee For China Relief
T. M. Walton
Nashua
Walton
Little Brown
Charles Wolf
Supreme Court
Federation of Women's Clubs
Winnebago
Cedar
State Teachers College At
Cedar Falls
Doris White
Jessie M. Parken
Jane E. McCormick
Cedar County
The
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Vila Schell
Asa Ames
Traer
W. F. Parrott
Jessie M. Parker
Forest City
B. W. Newberry
Strawberry Point
Clinton
Yellowstone National Park
Black Hills
Bernhard Coyne
Anthon
Woodbury County
Martin J. Wade
Sofcred
H. Jd. Jens
Shelby County
Northwestern Mutual Life
Ber and Wrecking Co
Minneapolis
Bulding
Detroit
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
Greater Milwaukee Flying Club
Britt
Hancock County
John Atther
Milwaukee
Spencer
Miller
South Dakota
Decatur County
Seible Oil Co
Oklahoma
Leon
Estherville Tire Company
Lincoln and
Fifth Street
C. C. Benns
Estherville, Iowa
Howard Espeset
Eagle Clothing Store
Burt && Jones Feed
East Howard Street
F. H. Reed
Estherville
Caroe
Carl Olson
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