"John T. Schmid, recently from Medina, N. D., has bought the farm of Margaret Naber, better known as the old "Poster Farm" east of Buckman, and moved onto it a few weeks ago".
Margaret Naber was my grandmother, before she married Anton Janson, but HOW did she come by a farm of her own? We know "John Naber and his mother" moved to Buckman from Petersburg Iowa in the spring of 1910 (his sisters Margaret and Elizabeth moved there, too...was that just understood?)We know the farm in Iowa must have sold for big bucks (Larry found an article mentioning the great increase in Iowa farm land prices then), so perhaps the Nabers invested in a few farms instead of just one. It would have been a good way to bestow a legacy on a child and increase the value of the inheritance at the same time, huh?
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