Ainsworth Man D. D. Stephens Active in Washington Activity
D. D. Stephens of Ainsworth is in Washington on business while Mrs. F. Y. Bell visits Fairfield for the day. Miss Nelle Ebooks of Wayland shops in town, and Geo. W. Stewart mentions Harriet cultivators in local notes.
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D. DD
Stephens of
Ainsworth
Washington
Miss Nelle Ebooks
Wayland
D. D. Stephens
Nora E. Sparks
Keota
Grace Stone
T. C. Davis
Mrs. Weston Goodspeed
West Chester
J. C. Steele
Riverside
Grace
Ola Foster
Haskins
Mt. Union
Carey Brown
Street clash tied to two county youths escape attempt
In Os kal osa on High avenue a reported knife fight may have started when two Keokuk county boys, Marvin Arnold and Fred Engel, escaped handcuffs while en route to Eldora. Sheriff Shaver had earlier brought them from Sigourney to await transfer. Neither boy was soon located after a momentary absence of the sheriff.
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Oskaloosa
High Avenue
Keokuk County
Marvin Arnold
Fred Engel
Sigourney
Boys’ Industrial School
Eldora
Sheriff Shaver
Arnold
Engel
Colt Leaps Into Auto Irwin
A wild colt near Defiance leaped into a car injuring two youths, William Pierson and Lou Givens. Pierson was cut by an artery and would have bled to death without a farmer’s aid. the other youth suffered serious cuts and bruises and was knocked unconscious.
Prodigy Baratier’s Early Mastery and Death in 1740
The text sketches the extraordinary intellect of Baratier born in 1721. By age twelve he astonished scholars with rapid learning and languages, reading by three, speaking Latin French and German by fear, Greek and Hebrew by seven, and composing a dictionary by eleven. At nineteen he died in September 1740, illustrating how such learning can lead to an untimely end.
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Baratier
Elted
Vierious Learned Societies
Pinatly
Whipping Ended Romance Episode in Chicago Journal
A childhood romance ended abruptly after a whipping when LT was six. A neighbor's boy, Dack, and LT planned marriage and house prep, but discipline ceased the affair as parents complained about missing dishes and other items. Chicago Journal.
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Dack
Chicago Journal
Miss Dorothy Allen Visits Richland for Weekend
Miss Dorothy Allen returns to her Richland home for a weekend visit this morning.
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E. A. Bickford
West Chester
Virginia Droz
Keota
Dr. A. J. Droz
Will Sexton
John Wehr
Stella Moore
Horace Worley
Ainsworth
Margaret Boyd
Gladwin
Martin Swift
Freda White
Crawfordsville
Raymond Duncan
Lillian Beyer
West Liberty
June Steele
Wellman
Beatrice Klett
Kinross
St. F. Fancher
J. A. Cherwinker
J. B. Allen
Will Jurging
Muscatine
Jesse Lyon
Pearl Valelace
Vera MecCreedy
McCreedy
Haskins
Dorothy Allen
Richland
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Talmadge Ay Ginger
Girl
Doors Operat
Bert Olson
Exide
Delco
H. D. Smith
N. Marion
Sererbery Roe
Acwe Nursery
Waldechmidt
O. B. Walght
Feroud
Marion, Ave
Caeser
Co-Operative Exchange
M .C. DeLons, Mer
North Iowa Ave
Cos Kopel
Washington Motor Co
G. BE. Mack
W. Ss. Kenyon
Graham Theater
Ginegaw
Gite Per St
Mctlhinney Drug Co
Dean's
F.Y. Bell
Fairfield
Hariét
Geo. W. Stewarts
Arch Rose Oxfords
Wilson's
Mrs
Frank Dunshee
Ottumwa
Frank Romine
Peatrice Hootie
Titus
Misa Fidel Henderson of
Ainaworth
Iowa Ga. & Electric Co
Washington Cleaners
Bebe. Adams
W. C. Shaw
BE. R. Jenkins
Washington Loan & Trust Company
Lucy Mercer
Blanche Lauck
Stella Maxwell
Old Reliable Store
South Side
Mildred Craig
Romer Richardson
Vera Harvey
W. Stewart
Iowa Gas & Electric
Osa Elmore
Gale E. Elmore
Robert Randall
Brighton
Majorie McCreedy
Lois Godlove
Cecile Cole
Dale Ebner
Frank McFarlane
Robert and
Marjorie
Will Werr
Iowa Gas & Electric Co
Elsie McBride
Elma Boyd
Hugh Boyd
Scott Reister
Art Minick
Bert Tracy
Lumley, Littlefield & Dempsey
Mabel
Dorothy Hazen
Avis Baker
Raymond Walker
Marie Ziegler
Tom Brown
Davenport
Dr. Arthaud
D. BE. Stombough
Kirksville
Children’s Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church
F. A. Wallace
Pearl Wallace
Duane McCreedy
A. BB. Schmoeller
D. Alt
J. A. Harwood
American Legion Auxiliary
Dewey McAvoy
American Legion
Legion Rooms
Arthur R. Oates
P. C
Castle Hall
Children's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Appleby
Etha Dawson
Commercial Bank
W. A. Cook
Pscape
Keokuk
Owen McGovern
B. Lupton
Wakiington, Iowa
Dailsey’s
Paone
Commins
Colt
Wife
John Shields & Sons
Vhonke
Hog Oller
City Water Works
A. D. Sanders
ST. Joseph Pleating & Button
North Tile St
ST. Joseph, MO
Island Dyesste
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