The Last Hope of Aqua Pura a Drought Era Tale
Barringer, the Aqua Pura founder, clings to a vanished boom in western Kansas as drought and debt collapse the town. He endures on a hotel porch with a ledger and legal papers, awaiting rain that never comes, while former partners vanish and the prairie withers around him.
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Kansas
New York
Pennsylvania
Aqua Pura
Johnson and Barringer
Harvard
Nichols
Princeton
Bemis
Bradley
Hicks
Vassar
Agua Pura
Barringer
Baurringer
Ina
Fountain
Board of County Commissioners
Aqua Para
Isss
Opera House
Opera
SA Mekels
Johnson
Jefe
Bar
Ringer
Mary
Fountain County
Manilla
Hutchinson
God
Newton
Hell
Nickols
Dick Barringer
Lion
Postiuster
Ofice
Nickoly
Arringer
Lazarus
Abraham
Star of Sunshine Trail Hosts Schoolday Costume Party
Douglas MacLean gave a novelty party at his home for The Sunshine Trail cast. Actors wore boyish costumes with toy props while women dressed in gingham gowns. Games, dances, and a pool gathering followed, showcasing grown actors acting like kids.
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Douglas MacLean
Thomas H. Ince
MacLean
Rules for Wedded Bliss Supplied With Licenses
Centerville Michigan county clerk John Niendorf distributes cards with a blessing for newlyweds and ten rules for happy marriages. The rules urge continuing courtship, split finances and love evenly, establish a separate home, avoid living with relatives, beware the boarder, and avoid thriftiness.
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Associated Press
Centerville
Mich
John Niendorf
St. Joseph County
Washington County equity suit over land titles filed
In the District Court of Iowa Washington County, Garnet R. Miller and others sue numerous defendants including John Albertson and John Darbyshire over lots 61 67 68 80 and 92 in Smouse East Side addition Washington Iowa claiming holders Edna Blanch Gordon Bertha Meek John M Goodwin John W Applegate and Garnet R. Miller own fee simple titles. The petition seeks decrees of title in plaintiffs names and enjoins all claimants with no personal judgment against individuals. Appearance required by November 12 1923 or default judgment.
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District Court of
Iowa
Washington County
Garnet R. Miller
Edna Blanch Gordon
Bertha Meek
John M. Goodwin
John W. Applegate
John H. Romine
Nancy C. Romine
Morris E. Romine
W. H. Romine
Neema Romine
George C. Stone
Kate M. Stone
Hugh Smith
Catharine Smith
Winfield Smouse
Lizzie Smouse
Rebecca Shebeck
John Shields
Geo. C. Stone
Ferne Shuck
John Shebeck
Frank Tribblecock
Frank Trebilcock
Leonora A. Taylor
Washington
State Bank of Iowa
Washington Loan & Building Association
Lotta L. Kerr
Eliza Sigafoose
Martha E. Pratt
Smouse
East Side
City of Washington, Iowa
Bertha M@ek
District Court
Court House
Bailey & Baldrige
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
John Albertson
Wm. Albertson
Wm. Alberson
John Alberson
Anna Alberson
J. T. Anderson
Mrs
Susie Anderson
Thomas Baker
Dudley Buck
Rachel Buck
Howard J. Baker
Opal R. Bickford
Mable Baker
Lotta L. Black
William M. Black
Wm. M. Black
Etta A. Black
Nettle Conner
Kessel C. Conner
Russel R. Conner
Rachel Holcomb
Susan Hamilton
John J. Jackson
Elizabeth Jackson
Samuel A. Jackson
James Jackson
Joseph M. Jackson
Martha Jane Jackson
John Jackson
Joseph Jackson
Martha J. Jackson
Jane Jackson
James M. Jackson
Joseph Keck
Elizabeth Keck
William Kellogg
Lottie L. Kerr
Andrew A. Kerr
John C Mason
Sarah H. Mason
Sarah Mason
Pulaski Maxwell
Melissa A. Maxwell
Minnesota
Red River Valley
Soc
Michigan Calery
Abe
Hall
V. J. Cheney & Co
Ted
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