Iowa Old Press

Audubon County Journal
Exira, Audubon Co. Iowa
10/4/1906

Page 6.
The issue contained an article explaining the recently agreed to parcel post mail convention entered into between the US and Denmark, permitting residents of either country to mail packages to addresses in the other country. The convention includes restrictions on size and weight of the packages. Rates from the US are twelve cents for each pound or fraction of a pound; rates from Denmark are 60 ore for packages weighing less than 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) and 1 krona for heavier packages up to a maximum weight of 2 kilograms.

Kimballton-Elk Horn column.
Two gentlemen had recently gone to Atlantic to receive their final citizenship papers as US citizens.
(Submitter's note: Elk Horn is in Shelby county, Kimballton in Audubon county, and Atlantic in Cass county. This indicates the difficulty faced by genealogists in finding naturalization records in this time frame because naturalization could be accomplished in any court of record; the applicant for naturalization could go anywhere he wanted to appear before a court. The applicant did NOT need to go before the court in the county of his residence. Further, the process was at least a two step one, with step 2 (two) legally required to occur several years after step 1 (one) and each of those steps could be taken (or satisfied) in two different courts, located anywhere in the US.)

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10/11/1906

Oakfield-Brayton column.
One day last week the mother of Mr. Chris HANSEN, who makes her home with him, was seized by a fainting fit and fell to the floor, striking her left arm in such a way that she broke that member just above the wrist. Dr. KOOB was called who mended the injury and the good mother is resting comfortably and being tenderly cared for by her loved ones.

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10/18/1906

Oakfield-Brayton column.
Chris HANSEN and Chris GRAU are having cement caves built this week so as to have a safe place to flee when a twister comes their way.

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10/25/1906

This issue reported on competing proposals circulating through the community for an electric railroad to Kimballton and Elk Horn, one of them originating at Des Moines and the other of them originating at Atlantic. The latter one contemplates the people of Atlantic selling their municipal power plant to the proposed railroad.

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