Iowa in Agriculture and Lawful Heritage Reflections
A compact survey covers Iowa rural mail carriers wages, Chickasaw county fair debt, seeds subsidies debate, and the Louisiana Purchase centennial. It notes state agricultural outputs including half horticulture share, orchards, forests, grape yields, and berry production with county leaders and figures. It also recalls an old schoolmaster tale, local opposition to a proposed state marshal law, and remarks on national policy threads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whipple
Benton County
T Am
Costly Fire in Cedar Rapids Destroys Millinery Stock
Iowa news items report a Cedar Rapids wholesale millinery stock loss of 85,000 with 60 percent insurance at Lyman Bros. Armour Packing plans to appeal a ruling for violating the oleomargarine law, facing a $200 fine. Ottumwa settler Bradbury heirs to a 1,000,000 fortune. other items include market manipulation claims on apples and potatoes, a fatal shooting in Atulubon, horticultural society actions in Des Moines, and various fraud, library damage, mail fraud, and fruit jobber consolidation discussions across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Lyman Bros
Armour
Des Moines
Armour Packing Company
Supreme Court
Iowa Horticulturists
State Horticultural Society
St. Louis
W. A. Burnap
M. J. Wragg
Three Trainmen Killed in Iowa Collision Near Adel
Three trainmen died and four were injured when a westbound double-header freight collided with an eastbound freight in a deep cut on a sharp curve near Adel Iowa. Engines and fourteen cars were demolished. Deceased were engineer Frank Finnicum and Walter Ward both of Des Moines and fireman Oscar Dyrsa of Des Moines. serious injuries included Conductor Flynn and Brakeman Bell. Brakeman Shields and Engineer Chambers were also listed among the injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adel
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Here
Frank Finnicum
Des Moines
Oscar Dyrsa
Walter Ward
Body found with neck tied in center township
Richard Robson sixteen year old son of Joseph Robson of Center township disappeared a month earlier. Fred Kline found the body while hunting. There were no marks of violence and a leather strap like a harness rein was tied around the neck. The coroner ordered an investigation into possible foul play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extra Jowana
Robson
Extra
Richard Robson
Joseph Robson
Center Township
Fred Kline
Dick Robson
Drops of Forty Degrees Hit Burlington IA
A late December cold snap records a forty degree drop in eighteen hours leaving Burlington at ten below zero. The same day Trotter jury in Mitchellville fails to agree on a murder case against Cora Lacey’s alleged killer. Northern Iowa judgeship remains unresolved after eight ballots in congress. Cedar Rapids reports Tom Clark of the Belknap counterfeit gang arrested and confesses. Webster City convict A B Isenhart sentenced to four years for bigamy amid clemency appeal. Sioux City reports Harry Maine of Linn Grove shoots himself after losses on the board of trade. local bank closures tied to Storm Lake’s First National.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Trotter
Mitchellville
Cora Lacey
Harry Maine
Linn Grove
Sioux City
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Linn Grove
Maine
Board of Trade
First National Bank of
Storm Lake
Priest Stabbed At Altar In Church Attack
Father Roach, preparing to give benediction, was stabbed in the neck at the altar by Charles Mangene an insane youth. The attack occurred as the vesper service ended witnessed by many women and children. the priest will recover. Mangene had been an inmate of a local insane asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Roach
Cascade
Charles Mangene
Young Mangene
West Dubuque
Five Die As Burlington Train Plunges West Of Albia
Ottumwa Iowa December 14 five persons killed and ten injured when a westbound Burlington train derailed near the Cadars Creek bridge three miles west of Albia. Five cars burned and passengers rushed to safety as crews fought the blaze. The dead include Mrs W Mitchen of Albia and Mildred Mitchen burned aboard the car. injured include C E Blair Robert Ferguson and others. Cause of wreck is not yet known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Albia
Ottumwa
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Ila
Cadar Creek
W. ©. Mitchen
F. T. Browning
Yates Center
Kan
Gabriel Allen
Chicago
William Branch
Cook
R. Price
T. Willams
Porter
R. W. Robinson
William Wallace
Mildred Mitchen
W. E. Mitchen
Kitchell
Whale milk for Iowa from a Colfax doctor proposal
An Iowa idea suggests introducing a whale into inland waters to produce milk and beef. Dr Latha of Colfax claims one whale could yield 800 in milk daily, surpassing cows, with broad economic benefits. The piece notes public curiosity and questions Farmers might pose about selling cows for whales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowa
Lloux Ulty Journal
Latha
Colfax
Hia
German Population to Overtake France in Fifteen Years
Germany added 902,312 to its population last year while France faced 26,000 more deaths than births. Germany now totals nearly 57,000,000 and France just over 36,000,000. If trends continue, Germany’s population may double that of France within fifteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Quon
Germany
France
Batte
Republic
Rhine
Philippine exports tariff proposal sparks free trade question
Secretary Root suggests admitting Philippine exports to the United States at reduced tariff rates, a move praised for justice but raising the prospect of near free trade. Senator-elect J P Wade, Democrat from the Butler Brewer district, will be the heaviest man in the senate and head the largest family with eight children. he will also be the chamber’s only Catholic member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Root
United States
J.P. Wade
Butler-Brewer
Yone
Wade
Senate
The sly Jack Frost and a LimburgError tale
An old time column blends a playful verse about Jack Frost with a local misadventure at a Waverly grocer. A customer’s mice problem ends in a humorous blame game after a trap baited with limburger cheese emits a scary odor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Frost
Fairylood
Success in the South and Northern Farmers Circular No 11
Circular No 11 from the Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroads gathers twenty letters from nine Northern states by farmers now on southern lines in Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana about thriving under new conditions and climates. Free copies of the circulars available from J P Murry assistant general passenger agent Dubuque Iowa. Farm for sale is 200 acres eight miles northwest of Ackley with good improvements. Inquiries to Frank Pekarek Geneva Iowa. Picked up a Jersey different owner call at Matt Stauffacher’s. Has been there several weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lllinois, Central
Illinois Central
Yazoo
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Murry
Pass
Dubuque
Iowa
Ackley
Frank Pekarek
Geneva
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George F
Althouse
Coneany
Cenar Valley
Abraham Lincoln
Chickasaw County Agricultural Society
St. Louis Globe- Demcrat
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Our
Wonderful Republic
Santo Domingo
Wasy Gil
Powell
Wesley Greene
Ate Marbl Cultural Society
Towarane
Ryoka
Pottawattamie County
Dea
Polk
Lee County
Fremont County
Pottawattamie
Mills County
Boya
Dia
Benting
Frank Bradbury
Ottumwa Ironworks
Thomas Bradbury
New York
Bradbury
J. J. Foy
Atulubon
Gus Lund
Henry Held
Lund
Held
Bronx City
George Sellers
Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan University
Denver
Winnipeg
Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association
Northern
Washington
Towa
Congress
Iowa Federal District
Tom Clark
Belknap
Rock Island
Illinois
Clark
Webster City
Isenhart
Marshalltown
Emma Mitchell
State
Whitaker
North Bend
Neb
Cashier
Kerper’s Fair
Oki Wew
Leon
Nolaggard
Matt Stauffacher
Llinois Orentral Railroad
Obieago
Omabaum
Express
M. Express
Fraight
Owa
tExpress
Expresa
Mo Pasaanuer
Ordar Rapids
Abbott Crosking
Haasorgar
Demh Praight
D. Ma
Fratehe
Culiaco Great Western
Leavy Marshalltown
X’mas Goods
Father Lenihan
Boone
Corpus Christi Church
St. Dodge
Couraa
Father Fleelan
Sacred Heart Church
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