News Notes From Neighboring Towns And Country
Columbus Junction reports a wedding engagement in Letts, Miss Mildred Anwyl, daughter of local residents, engaged to Vincent McWilliams of the Junction. Warren Marshall, nephew of local residents, dies leaving family in Cedar Meo area. Home management project hosts kitchen tours across Louisa county towns with multiple hosts listed. Gas electric car replaces two-car train on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific line drawing attention in the area.
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Columbus Junction
Jan
Mildred Anwyl
Way Mail Post Office
W. A.A. H. Ohlsen
Meo
Rudolph W. Knecht
di Horn
Farm Bureau
Louisa County
Grandview
Conede
Clyde
Tarkinton
Joe Wole
George Lang
Dan Beik
Carl Curtis
AL d
Tarkington
Columbus City
Fim Grove
Jay
W. F Marsden C.B. Gipple
Jen Cae
FM. Mossberry
S.J. Lewis
W. L. Curtis
Ads E. Johnston
Jefferson Township
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Rock Island
Oskaloosa
Columbus Junction Bank Opens and First Dividend Paid
The Columbus Junction bank, opened 1927 with capital of $20,000 and surplus of $19,000, paid its first annual 5 percent dividend Tuesday to stockholders. A regular stockholders meeting is set for January 14 to elect the board of directors. Rufus Ralph McCoy, 25, of Port, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital Davenport after influenza and pneumonia. He was a local resident last year. Theodore Cline returned from Silvis Illinois after holidays with his father Walter Pline and brother Cyril. Chapter CX PLR 0. Monday evening Mrs Ida Ruston hosts. Mrs W C Hall will supervise the program. A moonstone set presses stone, a feldspar variety with pearly opalescent color, is noted.
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Columbus Junction
Columbus Junction Bank
Busi
Rufus Ralph McCoy
Port
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
McCoy
Heodore Cline
Silvis
Walter Pline
Cyril
Ida Ruston
W.C. Hall
Less Competition Then We Incline to Believe His Reputation
A brief remark from the Shoe and Leather porter suggests that Ang Las gained his reputation in a period when competition was lighter than in current times. The comment implies a retrospective view on skill and pace shaping his standing.
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Ang Las
New Chevrolet Six Promises Bigger Better Car Value
We are installing new parts and improving service to better than ever. Last week five wrecked automobiles were repaired. Get brakes repaired and relined to avoid daily accidents. The Chevrolet Six offers a cylinder five passenger closed cam fully equipped at 688.50 dollars.
New York Brokers Lunch Atop Wall Street Rush
In Wall Street offices brokers and clerks abandon meals to the market. Lunches are catered to desks by waiters and telephones, with six operators per shop handling orders as trading surges. Brokers work late, subway to Brooklyn hotels for rest, and the chance to own a seat on the exchange fuels high bonuses and a gamelike spirit.
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New York
Wall Street
Ue Stock, Exchange
Prietors
Financial District
Bliger
Market Board
East River
Brooklyn
Tiger shot at Indian high school hall in Orissa
A Bengal tiger wandered into the government English high school in Chalbassa Orissa. A railway officer was summoned and killed the beast with a rifle. The tiger's skin hangs on the school room wall.
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Hombay
Government English High School
Chalbassa
Orissa
Spanish Coins Found in Fernandina Yard Treasure Hub
In Fernandina Florida a historic town, W H Schreck unearthed a buried cache of old silver Spanish coins and copper pieces while placer mining in a backyard. He recovered about 12 coins, dating 168 to 178 per cent, believed to include half crowns, worth roughly six cents each today. His daughter Willelmina, nine, noticed the first coin in the soil.
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Fernandina
Schreck
West Chester D. Dayton tiaras and moves to farm
West Chester residents share news of Daryl age Carl Dunbar renting the Che t oittmer farm and moving there first. The Booth family plans to buy and move in, with warm welcomes noted. The letter reflects local sentiment on weather, crime, and community news.
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Chester
Omaha
Nebraska
Daryl Age
Carl Dunbar Hapi
Chet Oittmer
Dunbar
G. D. Booth
Peggy Come
Bars
Booth
West Chester
Wellman
M Coffey
Doctor
Washington
Chicago
Wayne Wallace Car Correspondent
Cecil Korf and Clarence Moorhead delivered five horses to a Winfield buyer on Saturday. Alfred Erickson was an Oita visitor, with Mr and Mrs Milton Davidson of Columiu t visiting the Moorhead residence. The text records a string of local social notices and travel mentions from Wayne Wallace Car Correspondent.
Brighton Ht Helmick Cor The Type 2 Cases Rise
The report notes new daily cases in Brighton with most described as mild though conditions remain serious. It mentions the Vernon Sehanty family of Wayland spending New Year’s at the home and references Mrs Agil Witkerson and Mrs Mary Wikoff visiting Well of her mother.
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Brighton
Vernon Sehanty
Wayland
Agil Witkerson
Mary Wikoff
Pleasant Plain Consolidated School Christmas and sports update
Pleasant Plain families gather for holiday dinners including Mr and Mrs Miller and Miss Turner while Miss Turner and friend visit from St Louis. The School Consolidated resumes Monday with a boys and girls double header at Batavia. The boys beat Lockridge 21 to 14 on PoP's court as Lyte Wilcox and Nancy Johnson spend Christmas at home.
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Lyte Wilcox
Burington
Nancy Johnson
Local Notes From NIRA Area Include Travel and Crop News
Otto Dennison faces possible appendicitis while Frank Rugg delivers corn to Jim Stamp’s farm. Redlinger's fate was favorable with good prices reported Wednesday. Rowe and Hanley families dined at Ollie Rowe’s. Griffith hauls car for cotton seed meal. John Adams drove to Rochester for his wife’s treatment. Mrs Sprague assists with a new granddaughter at M. J. Wagarman home. Mrs Ane has a new son.
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Nira Otto Dennison
Frank Rugg
Jim Stamp
Redlinger
Rowe
Hanley
Ollie Rowe
Griffith
John Adams
Rochester
Sprague
West Chester
M. J. Wagarman
Mra
Ane
Hom
Local residents share holiday visits and health news
Monday social notes list BurliTon visitors and kin from Keokuk and Panora. New Year greetings and influenza concerns surface as families plan travel, with mentions of appendicitis recovery and a Grinnell wedding couple settling on a Pleasant Plain farm.
Nobility in Adversity Quote From Sir P Sidney
A fragmented quatrain extols a noble heart reflecting the sunlike countenance in low estate, attributed to Sir P Sidney. The line honors virtue under hardship and frames resilience as greatness.
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Sir P
Sidney
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