Atlantic Firemen Tournament Draws Big Expectation
Atlantic Iowa hosts the Southwestern Firemen's Association tournament with more than $1500 in prizes. Local committees, backed by the commercial club, plan daily exhibitions and a large parade of over a thousand firemen. A July 4 fireworks display and floral parades are slated at the fair grounds.
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Villisca Osceola
Shedada
Roy Hedges
Geo. Milhollin
Red Oak
D. G. Wertman
Villisea
J. B. Simonton
J. S. Cook
W. F. Cornell
Tresurer
Fair Grounds
University Plans Men Dormitories at Iowa State
Iowa City June 28 Reaching plans contemplate a near complete housing change for first and second year men at the university by the state board of education. Dormitories aimed to house all freshmen and sophomores with commons, modeled after Dartmouth, possibly starting by 1917.
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State Board
Dartmouth
Man builds cattle shipments from Minnesota to Colorado ranch
Manchester June 28 Frank Dudley a large Colorado landowner has bought and shipped several carloads of cattle from this region and Minnesota to his Holyoke country ranch. Dudley owns over 6000 acres with about 300 under cultivation and extensive fencing. Foreman Iver Hanson accompanied the shipment. Dudley also runs a prominent farm in Delaware county near Fort Madison Virginia. A locomotive was used to pull down a large sixteen stall Santa Fe roundhouse in Keo during the same period.
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Frank Dudley
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Holyoke Country
Minnesota
Iver Hanson
Dudley
Delaware ‘County
Fort Madison
Santa Fe Mgailroad
Drunk passenger defies Rock Island train crew
In Muscatine on June 28 a drunken passenger Bob Boke of Caligabus Joe, described as a blind baggage rider, resisted eviction from the early Rock Island passenger train. At Letts the man stood his ground with a rock, opposing crew efforts to remove him, before the train reached the next stop.
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Rock Island
Bob Boke
Caligabus
Jonctibuy Ddwa
Letts
Martin
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Certification Card
A dated card asserts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound contains no opiates or habit forming drugs. It touts healing properties for coughs colds and throat chest and lung irritations and directs customers to ask for the genuine in a yellow package at a pharmacy.
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Foley
Fragmentary Seewee weel notice fragment
Partial OCR text from a Seewee weel item includes a date line and scattered phrases. Readable pieces mention a notice action and local officials with unclear specifics. Output concentrates on the existing fragmentary data without fabricating details.
Great Percheron Stallion Sires Prize Show Line
This superb gray stallion, descendant of Vaillant and Lisette, towers in Percheron breeding with a massive frame and exemplary conformation. Photographs show the creature as a living masterwork to be shown in 1912 near Ainsworth. Terms set at 14 dollars to secure a standing filly, with care but no liability for accidents.
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America
My Bares
Ainsworth
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