Local items and transfers noted in town
The passage lists various short notices including a call for clean cotton rags priced at six cents a pound, a student guest from Grinnell College visiting Burlington, U S Express trucks at Rock Island painted bright red for the holidays, a local photographer Frey, and multiple brief family and travel notices involving residents such as A H and Ward Wisley selling cattle, H J Fritz visiting Monmouth, and several trips to Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Express Company
Rock Island Station
Schilling
Local Biz and Social Notes From Washington IA
Various short items list sales at D A Chalmers yard and Vienna shop offerings from Nuts to doughnuts. Cattle purchases by J F H Taylor and Grush Combs families. Birth of a boy to Mr and Mrs Joe Melinsky. School events with Lucile Wisecarver winning a declamatory contest. Travel updates and visits among local residents and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Melinsky
High Cost of Living Reduced at Royal Store
Advertisement touts lower prices on meats groceries fruits and vegetables at the Royal. Highlights include cheap flour rice potatoes canned goods and sweets with holiday offerings like Xmas boxes toilet soap figs dates nuts fruits and a Christmas tree order and turkey and oysters shipped direct from beds.
Black Walnuts 15c at Klein & Warren's
Mrs J C Neiswanger of Ainsworth shopped downtown yesterday and returned home on the evening train. Glenn Laffer of Montezuma arrived last night and stayed with friends in the city. Take home a Vienna coffee cake for Sunday breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Fritz
Des Moines
Fred Long
John Ferguson
Kiva Livingston
Monmouth
Ill
Ainsworth
Wilma Paul
Henry Hunt
Harvey Rickey
Washington
Winfield
Klein & Warren's
J. C. Neiswanger
Vienna
Glenn Laffer
Montezuma
Everette Shearer
Clare Jay
Centerville
D. Carris
Ciity
Cedar Rapids
Dutch Creek Township
Dora Miller
Besse Jones
Mrs. Howard Hopping
New York Gossip on politics and art plans
In New York City a week of political events unfolds with Republican and Democratic leaders gathering for strategy and a Taft speech at the Hotel Astor. Expect discussion of Governor-elect Sulzer and potential museum wing funding for J Pierpont Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Taft
Hotel Astor
Waldorf-Astoria
William Sulzer
Wilson
Clark
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York City
Board of Estimate
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mr. Morgan
SALE-3 JERSEY HEIFERS FOR SALE INQUIRE OF R G CHERRY
Local classifieds note Jersey heifers for sale and invite inquiries through R G Cherry via Haskins Mutual. The notice appears amid a long list of personal updates including travels, visits, and society events from town residents and visiting relatives. It records multiple short items about families, travel to Havre Des Moines Keota Fairfield Cedar Rapids and Monmouth with names such as Hillhouse Mitchell Scranton Buckley White Fulton and Hobson. It preserves the era’s social snapshot with mentions of births strokes and holiday preparations.
Fox and Wolf Tie Knot in Williamsburg Wedding
Miss Birdie Wolf of Brooklyn and Robert R. Fox of Myrtle Avenue were wed at Vienna Hall Williamsburg. Attendants included Miss Annie Wolf and Herman Wolf with Harry Fox as usher. Guests included Mr and Mrs John Bull and Loretta Sweet. Honeymoon planned to Lyons New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Birdie Wolf
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Robert R. Fox
Myrtle Avenue
Vienna Hall
Montrose Avenue
Williamsburg
Loretta Sweet
Igeat
Lyons, N. Y
Chartering Steamer for Norwegian Centennial Year
Nevada December 13. B L Belleso plans chartering a steamer to sail from New York to Norway early in 1914. A large party aims to reach the Faderland for the hundredth anniversary of Norway's independence from Sweden observed May 17. The centennial celebration will be marked by a grand event at Christiana with thousands of Americans of Norwegian ancestry expected to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
New York
Norway
B. L. Belleso
Faderland
Sweden
Christiana
Robbery at Burlington Station Leaves Victim Gravely Hurt
Passengers report a bold robbery and attempted murder at Burlington station this morning. A Cedar Rapids man, arriving on the northbound from St. Louis at four, was attacked by two men with a stake. The victim’s skull was crushed and he likely will not survive. The robbers fled with 4490, later captured at Columbus Junction after a tip to the conductor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
St. Louis
Columbus Junction
Minneapolis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Journal
R. F. Sparks
Grinnell College
Paul MacEachron
D. A. Chalmers Yard
Frey
A. H
Ward Wisley
McCleery & Link
The
J. L. Kerr
W. B. Kerr
Corydon
Iowa
A. Hunter
Mrs. M. W. Bailey
D. A. Chalmers
John Grush
Carl Combs
J. F. H. Taylor
Luella Shaw
M. D
Congress Hotel
A. C. Fuller
Fairfield
Fairfield High School
Southeastern Iowa
Lucile Wisecarver
Commercial Savings Bank
Star Tonight
Dan Aughey
Grinnell
Mr Aughey
Isaac Wagner
LB. F. Brown
Ft. Dodge
Seth Thomas
New Haven
P. P. Schowalter
B. J. Bittler
Wayland
the Royal
Rice
Large Carolina
Ravy
Mutual
Kid Everett
Yen
Everett
Black Kid
J. A. Harwood & Son
American Peace Society
August Belmont
A. W. J. Pohl
Pohl
Jersey
R. G. Cherry
Haskins Mutual
J. A. Hillhouse
Havre
W. H. Mitchell
Ina and
Donald Mitchell
Co. N. Dodder
Letts
Cora Crandall
Brighton
Martin Scranton
Iowa City
George McCleery
Aurora
Hugh McCleery
Nellie Harding
West Chester
Accie Clapper
Clara Scranton
Keota
W. A. White
C. P. Dede
Oskaloosa
John Buckley
Kate Buckley
Kate Stichter
Do. J. Fulton
Mrs. Fulton
Harris
Mr. Harris
Farmers & Merchants New Bank
Marguerite MacGugin
G. W. Hobson Jewelry Store
Ella Delong
P. L. Huber
Crawfordsville
T. E. Brown
Mr. Brown
George Bray
Pleasant Plains
Charles Pauls
Elizabeth Shirer
P. C. Zimmer
Russell, In
Cof
G. W. Hobson
Mr. Zimmer
Hobson
John Simpson
Lemmon
John $. Stewart
West Side Square
Fox
Witileds
Gore
Grandma
Grandpa
Lemmons Jewelry Store
Lemmon’s
Assyriar
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