Col umbus Junction Auction Includes Farm Implements and Livestock
Martha Butler reports a Melo Havel sale near Riverside featuring 200 Barred Rock hens at 82 to 87 cents, 60 bales of straw at 26 cents, corn and seed corn prices, milk cows up to 40 dollars, sows with litters 18 to 26, and various farm tools sold. Community news includes a Home Guard Missionary society formation, local visits, church activities, and shipping of hogs to Chicago.
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Columbus Junction
Med
Riverside
Paul Klotz
Peoples Trust Savings Bank
Home Guard Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Evelyn Wooduff
Margene Tisor
Lila Wasson
Mona Dean
Ruth Weigner
Marie Overholt
Frank Dungpan
F. O. Files
Columbus City
Iowa City
Ralph Kellyj
Bonnie
Keitl
Exline
H. Lee Huston
W. H. Parker
Cotter
Wellman Temple Hosts District Deputy Grand Chief Visit
District Deputy Grand Chief Alice B. Carter visits Wellman temple No. 101 Pythian Sisters with a noon reception and a 2 pm school of instruction. A covered dish luncheon precedes the meeting and ritually correctives are offered. The district convention is planned for Wellman this fall. Community group organizes to send feed to western Iowa amid stock shortages. A committee coordinates transport and funds.
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Wellman
Alice B. Carter
Fairfield
Wellman Temple
Pythian Sisters
M. E
Alice Green
Carter
Mabel K. Booth
P. C
Carl Crossett
Washington
American Legion
Iowa
Fred Schroeder
A. L. Braden
Henry Durian
The
Legion
Jess Lewis
Mark Shaffer
Arthur Gardner
The Love Trap unfolds in coffee shop bluff and danger
Pretty Mary Kennedy rejects elderly Buck Landers for his young ward Steve Moore. Landers orders a kidnap plot and Mary teams with Bat to draw out the truth while a bag holds an automatic pistol. Mary lures Bat with flattery over lunch as she seeks Steve’s location, danger mounting.
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Mary Kennedy
Buck Landers
Steve Moore
Landers
Mary
Steve
Carlotta
Bat
Broadway
H c
Buck
Kennedy
Mr. Landers
Mount Afton Drive Ends In Confession And Change
Marion a twenty two year old feminist driver on Mt Afton shares a ride with a handsome stranger after her car stalls. He admits to sabotaging her tank and professes love while explaining their families are tied. She agrees to marry him as they descend and back at the hill, the tale hints at a union born from danger and chance.
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Waarion
Hazen
Gould
Marion
Mt Afton
Virginia
Mt. Afton
Marian
Community News Roundup From Ainsworth Nebraska
Local notes detail Rev Theodore White leaving for Hepler Kansas with wife and daughter to resume church work after illness. Reports cover visits from family members and friends, student teachers in Omaha and Iowa City, ongoing flu illnesses, and care for a recovering patient at home with nurse Mrs White.
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H. L. Lewis
Wapello
Louisa County
M. L. Miller
Ainsworth
R. O. Lynn
Sapulpa
Okla
J. H. Krenmyre
Sigourney
Springfield
H. A. McMillan
Lone Tree
H. W. Sargent
Opal
Herbert Mishler
R. 2
Theodore White
Geo. Marr
Hepler
Kansas
Lois Jean
Omaha
Neb
White
Silas Ross
Lucile
Sulley
Ross
Newton
Ottumwa
Pat Johnson
Iris
R. Kelsey
Elmer Rheeder
Iowa City
Lee Hunt
Ralph Johson
Columbus Junction
Orie O’connor
Lloyd Hopping
O'Connor
Louie Shroeder
Stella Jones
Bernard Walker
Mr. Gardner
Spirit of 1917 and Local Community News Update
The report recalls Albert T. Reid’s Spirit of 1917 and notes Davenport residents visiting or hosting family members. New director Pat Johnson joins Oregon No. 3. Ed Lins hosts guests with Richard Lins and Mrs Marsh’s mother present. A L. G. club gathering features a pot luck, seven tables, and head table prizes. Community members Loyd Hopping and others attend, with minstrel parts assigned for Epworth League and a horse accident involving Wright McConnell.
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Louie Schroeder
Louie
Mrs. Myers
Orie O'Connor
Edna
Copy of Common Words Surpass 25 Percent in Speech
A linguistic note highlights that frequent words such as the, of, that, and and to and a and in account for about a quarter of all spoken and written communication. The finding points to core function words shaping fluency and comprehension across contexts.
National Livestock Exchange Convention Set for Detroit
Horace Bishop announces the annual convention of the National Livestock Exchange will be in Detroit from June 8 to 10. About five hundred guests from 28 livestock exchanges nationwide are expected to attend.
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Detroit
National Livestock Exchange
Horace Bishop
Lieska Arraigned on Reckless Driving Charge in Detroit Court
The page reports Lieska being arraigned before Traffic Judge Callender on a reckless driving charge in Detroit. He reportedly admitted a prior speeding conviction, joking that he was fined three dollars in 1908 for bicycle searching.
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Detroit
Lieska
S DD. Callender
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Carlinsville
Axel Soderstrom
Karen
Moline
E. E. Griffith
Royal Arch Masons
Triple Tau Club
Mt. Pleasant
Royal Arch
Loren Bond
Town City
Donald Bell
S. P. Bell
Bellevue Hospital
Muscatine
Presbyterian Church
Jennings Electric
J. M. Norris
George Townsend
Shipping Association
Chicago
Presbyterian
Donia
Edward Walker
Burlington
Richard Elliott
Elliott
Irene Reece
Wellman, Cordelie EL. Braden
the Love Trap
Robert
Terry Shannon
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