New Children's Books at Kendall Young Library
The Kendall Young Library adds many children’s titles including Treasure Island by Stevenson and The Secret Garden by Burnett. Other new arrivals feature Betty Leicester Jack Alden and Nancy Rutledge among authors like Alcott Andrews and Mack Donald with adventure stories animal tales and geography guides.
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Kendall Young Library
Alcott
Eliz L. Gould
Andrews
Bacon
Sir Fran
Paine
Perry
Hope Benham
Pierson
Plympton
Dorothy
Miss Toosey
Pyle
Nancy Rutledge
Rolf Wheeler
Rankin
Rosa Marie
Richmond
Gay Street
Seton
Rolf
Stevenson
Treasure Island
Local families travel and visit across towns this week
Residents journey from Fort Dodge to BlairLibrary area with visits to Webster City Kamrar Williams and Parsons Kansas. News notes include a court hearing on Clement Wilson and a custody move with the mother taking two sons to Oklahoma.
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Alex Ashpole
Ralph McNee
Williams
A. B. McNab
Fort Dodge
J. L. Taylor
Woolstock
Clement Wilson
Court House
Commission For
Oklahoma
Webster City ties recalled by Minnesota visitor
Mrs. G. C. A. Porter of northern Minnesota visits Webster City kin and recalls local ties. She and husband near Ferrin Park in Chicago man’s lake park and the 212 pound sturgeon once caught in McKenzie Lake. Austin Porter near his father's homestead and Henry Porter family near Bass Lake. B F Robie, old soldier, homesteaded near Loon Lake and Danbury, naming his farm Kosy Kot.
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Webster City
GC. A. Porter
Minnesota
N. J. Porter
Lake
McKenzie
Chicago
Ferrin
Austin Porter
Henry Porter
Bass Lake
B. F. Robie
Our City
Loon Lake
Danbury
Progress on Cedar Street curb and gutter project
Work on curb and gutter across several streets is advancing with Cedar street today. The contract price is 49 cents per foot, totaling about 55 cents with extras, and authorities note the bid is favorable and unlikely to be repeated next year.
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Cedar Street
Narrow escape as car averts serious hill crash
J C Sterling narrowly avoided a wreck Wednesday on Huddleston hill when his car veered into Thomas McDermott pasture, missing a telephone pole. Irene and Martha Sterling were with him but no one was hurt. Sterling and Martha later walked to town to arrange recovery of the vehicle. McDermott notes he is not currently offering pasture for cars.
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J. C. Sterling
Huddleston Farm
Irene
Martha
Huddleston Hill
Thos. McDermott
Mr. Sterling
Little Martha
Mr. McDermott
Advertising Celebration Promoted by Local Jewell Boosters
Advertising Celebration and promotion for a big Fourth of July event in Jewell featured well known boosters John W. Jewell B 8S Millett and A McDonald in town on Tuesday afternoon.
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John W. Jewell
Millett
A. McDonald
Jewell
Two Hearts Beat as One in a Socialigh Remembered Tale
Bertrand of wealth falls in love with a married woman, facing social ostracism after their affair. They seek divorce to kiss in public, then reveal she has married another man, ending their chance at union.
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Bertrand
Paris
Newport
Fifth Avenue
Thomas J. Masson
Oil Fire Threatens Meadowlands Town
Washington, June 24 After a night of terror Meadowlands near here faced a near disaster as a lightning struck oil tank ignited from a dynamite blast used to slow its spread. Twenty four families homeless camped on the hills while United Coal Company officials rehoused them. No serious injuries reported as the blaze burned out and smoke continued to pour from the site.
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Washington
Meadowlands
United Coal Company
Taming the Animals in the Infant Class
A young woman assigned to an infant class faced unruly boys leaping from steam radiators. Fifteen minutes later the superintendent found fourteen quiet, seated youngsters before her. She had piled the unmanageable on a bench and sat on them to calm them with a bear story. Drawing paper at this office.
Pray Together as a Link of Hope in Europe’s Crime Watch
Quote from Madame de Stael on unity in prayer and brotherhood. The article notes Signor Garofalo, Italian criminologist, estimating 10,000 murder convictions yearly in Europe and that only one in three criminals faces justice.
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Madame de Stael
Europe
Signor Garofalo
Illinois Central and Chicago Northwest Timetable Summary
Railroad timetable listing multiple routes and departures for Illinois Central and Chicago & Northwestful lines. Includes eastbound trains No 36 No 16 No 13 No 10 12 14 and westbound No 11 No 14 No 12 No 15 No 35 with times from 2:52 am to 10:12 pm and sections Des Moines Pass Eagle Grove Pass and Way Freight.
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Ft. Dodge
Waterloo
Sioux City
Chica
Chicago
Omaha
Sioux City, Limited
Fort Dodge
Dak
Eagle Grove Pass
Colu mbus scene as 1560 prisoners cheer closing saloon vote
Report from Columbus Ohio notes 1560 state penitentiary inmates cheered the news that twenty two counties voted to abolish the saloon. Among the crowd over 1300 were temperate at sentence. The piece cites a historic American coinage claim from Massachusetts in 1462.
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Columbus
Ohio
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Children’s Books
Cis Drake
Barbour
Bates
Baylor
Nina Barrow
Burnett
Secret Garden
Brooks
Chamberlain
Dopp
Eldred
Townsend Twins
Finnemore
Japan
Holy Land
Goss
Jack Alden
Jed
Hofer
Jewett
Betty Leicester
Johonnot
Johnston
Kaler
Kelly
Egypt
MacDonald
Betty
Canada
Manuel
Mexico
Mathewson
Pitcher Pollock
Meadowcraft
Edison
Munroe
Plains
Florida Reef
Everglades
Munro
Blairsburg
Ned Sayre
Howard Hawks
Benj. Jaycox
Lola Forrest
R. W. Chesshir
West Concord
Minn
J. W. Stout
Gallatin
Thos
Manion
Ernest Stouter
Truman Hale
Minnie Stout
Ethel Mack
Inwood
del Walrath
Mabel
Clara Christensen
Mr. Hill
Kamrar
Henry Gabrielson
Zella Powers
Martin Company
Fred Greve
Elsie Possehl
Monona
Chas. Warrick
Harris
C. M. Powers
Denver
Col
Illinois Central
Massachusetts
Hart Schaffner & Marx
ITER
Chautauqua
Rogers
Grilley
Mr. Grilley
Parkhurst & Lavender Auto and Machine Co
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Oppenheimer & Bermann
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