Personal Gossip from Blairsburg State City News
Local column lists numerous residents and visitors from Blairsburg Kamrar Williams Jewell and Ames. Notes include Mrs A H Morgan and Mrs O A Kelloggs travel, James Caudle business visit, and many short reports on arrivals departures and community moves across Story City Kamrar and surrounding towns.
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A. H. Morgan
Iowa Falls
O. A. Kelloggs
Blairsburg
John Shields
Jessie
Plainsfield
Ames
O. W. Hill
Will A. Nee
Kamrar
B. OK
Keltz
Des Moines
Chas. PT. Smith
Williams
C. T. Eherle
Kamar
J. A. Bishop
W. J. Covil
J. D. Riley
Dougherty Stork Company Delivers Strong Week at Theatre
The Dougherty Stork Company impressed audiences with La Belle Marie last night and plans The Slave Girl as tonight's highlight. The company has earned solid satisfaction from locals during the week-long stand.
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Dougherty Stork
Livestock Market Report Sees Mixed Hog Prices
Hog sales listed with 13 000 mixed and butcher hogs trading around 5.40 to 5.90 per hundredweight. Good heavy hogs 5.80 to 5.90, rough heavy 5.55 to 5.55, light pigs 5.90, balka numbers and tomorrow's expected hogs noted. Sheep trade reported at 6.44.
Local Markets Prices for Corn Oats Cattle
Readable market notes show Mar corn around 50 and 45 to 50 cents, oats listed near 46. Prices for cattle range from 3.50 to 8.00 for butcher cattle and 2.00 to 5.00 for shippers.
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Butler
Threatened Tie Up of Mills Shocks Iowa Makers
In Fort Dodge and Mason City areas a wave of labor unrest hits gypsum and clay industries. The American Independent Gypsum mill warns of a 5 cent per ton rise by Monday or a strike in sympathy with miners. Lehigh plants report a day rate strike at $2. Mason City sees no settlement yet as clay workers press for union organization and safer labor terms.
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Ort Dodge
American Independent Gypsum Company
United States
Gypsum Company
Trust Mills
Lehigh, Ja
Lehigly
Mason City
A. L. Urick
Des Moines
Iowa Federation of Labor
Unclaimed Letters in Webster City Post Office
The list for week ending April 14 1908 shows unclaimed letters for Mrs Mstella Detwiler G OW Howell Alex Henderson Clara Lewis S M Reynolds Theodore Smith. If not called for within two weeks they will be sent to the dead letter office Washington DC.
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Webster City
Mstella Detwiler
G. OW. Howell
Alex Henderson
Clara Lewis
S. M. Reynolds
Theodore Smith
Washington, D. C
Railroad traffic picks up in the southwest tour
A. J. Davidson president of the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad said the country looked better after his southwest trip. He noted optimistic farmers planning larger acreage and improved winter wheat conditions with increased railroad traffic over the past sixty days. A church ice cream social at the Harry Burton home was postponed to next Wednesday.
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WW. M. Arnold
Kamrar
E. E. Richardson
Iowa Falls
Oakland
Blairsburg
W. J. Biernatzki
Texas
Biernatzki
San Antonio
New York
A. J. Davidson
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
Southwest
C. I. Society of the Christan Church
Harry Burton
Interstate miners and operators reach tentative two year scale
The scale committee reached a tentative two year agreement at 90 cents per ton for mining coal with matched working conditions. President Lewis will seek votes from local districts to approve the scale and repeal the one year settlement rule if desired. A May 1 work resumption appears possible.
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Toledo
Indianapolis
New 1000 foot steamer Olympic for White Star line
Liverpool April 17 The new 1000 foot steamship to be built for the White Star line will be named the Olympic. It is likely two Leviathans of this size will be constructed and their speed may reach 20 knots an hour.
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Liverpool
Life term for man who killed friend in pity
Severin Colombo received a life sentence for the murder of his friend Joseph Florenza in Omaha Nebraska. Colombo testified that he shot Florenza by accident and then fired a second shot at Florenza's request to end his pain. The case will not be appealed. A Boysen dentist Second St.
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Omaha
Neb
Dreamers sect on trial for arson and murder in Medicine Hat
Testimony in the Rauch trial describes nine Dreamers members urging violence after their leader refused to join. Jacob Merkels and David Hauffmann of Java are named as heads. plans to burn Lehr's home and kill his family surface. Michael Prost testifies he left the group as talk of arson and killing intensified. Lehr explains a 16 year old son wakened by smoke as fire rapidly filled the house.
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Man
Dreamers
John Lelit
Here
Steader
Lehite
Lehr
Michael Prost
Jacob Merkels
David Hauffmann
Java
Merkels
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Lebr
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