News of Sept 4 1918 Vindicator highlights soldiers accounts
The Vindicator notes Jas Ridley arriving from Great Lakes Naval Training School visiting parents before heading to New York and overseas. Art Bringle on furlough from Fort McArthur California. Locals pursue army training and college plans as others depart for Cedar Rapids Iowa City St Paul and North Carolina. Mrs Alt prepares son Stanley for army training. Lieutenant Paulson receives commission at Camp Taylor Kentucky then heads to North Carolina En route overseas.
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the Vindicator and Republican
Jas, Ridley
Great Lakes Naval Training School
New York
Art Bringle
Fort McArthur
Calif
Department of the Coast Artillery
Winnie Augtiv
Bessie Morrissey
Alice Coady
North Carolina
Mr. Paulson
Estherville
Estherville High School
Rev
Mark Paulson
Officers’ Training School
Miss Besie
Red Cross
France
Forty Years Ago in Emmet County Republican Notes
From the Sept. 2 1888 issue T W Jerems contracted 200 cay loads of hay to an Eastern market S Fletcher sold Lincoln street lots to Lewis Oleson Co I Hinman showed apples grown in Emmet County calling observers to see them If you seek fine painting visit Sorrenfrei’s house J W Phillips did the work Oat crop nearly a total failure Last Friday a dance at George Lorimer’s Jack Creek for the marriage of McLean and Foreman Over forty attendees from Estherville Jack Creek and neighboring counties danced into the early hours
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Emmet County
T. W. Jerems
Wr. S. Fletcher
Lincoln Street
Lewis Oleson. Co. I. Hinman
Estherville
Doughty
J. Wood
Allen Gowan
Independence
Palo Alto County
Miss Scott
O’brien County
Jack Creek
Negro School of Piney Woods Johnsons Uplift Mission
A long feature about Lily Mississippi's Piney Woods School founded by Laurence C Jones. It covers the school’s aims for vocational education for Black youth, campus growth, endowment and operation funds, and the impact on the local Negro community. It profiles Jones, E N Taylor, the 1500 acres, 30 teachers, and 200 boarding students from 40 counties plus the Hawaitia Islands.
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Hawaitia Islands
Hurts Savings Bank of
Chicago
Ill
Piney Woods
Pacific
Canada
Jones
Friends of
Piney Woods School
South
Laurence C. Jones
Estherville News Briefs Highlight Local Business Growth
A busy week in Estherville features a hotel room robbery of 85 dollars from the Blind Boone company manager. The Estherville Foundry and Manufacturing Company unveils a ten ton scales setup with cattle weighing frame, eight workers, and steady orders, plus carloads of pig iron and hardwood lumber. They also received 300 sleigh shoes orders. C. D. Ives of the BCRN marries Miss Harback of Des Moines. Rob Robinson boasts a new horse and phaeton, inviting the editor to a ride to prove the horse’s speed.
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Blind Boone Company
Estherville Foundry and Manufacturing Company
Estherville
Mr. Hardie
C. D. Ives
Harback
Des Moines
Rob
Robinson
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Joe Peterson
Irvin Hanson
Roy Miller
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Lee Brown
Armour Institute
Evelyn Metzgar
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Morton Anderson
Coe College
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Forest City
Clara
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Highmore
S. C
Lou Cranston
Nell McLean
Panama
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Ben Ruguv
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J. W. Harrison
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Charles Nourse
Alice Miller
Charles E. Lindsey
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Christie Collins
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Jamestown
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Town City
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Dell Rapids
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Charlestown
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Worthington
Jake Larson
Tom Eads
George Weis
T. O. Lambert
Mark Shultz
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