Iowa News Highlights From Across the State
Reports from Des Moines to Ames cover Rhodes Scholar J Walter Woodrow of Drake University and local wealth claims, a suffrage defeat, a gold trace on back lots, four Ames ISU students arrested for a transport crime, a theft tied to a found wife’s photo, and a push for federal purchase of the Missouri River bridge linking South Sioux City and Sioux City.
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Amesia
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Aged Pair in Divorce Suit Names 75-Year-Old Co Respondent
James Wall, 70, files for divorce from wife, 65, in Ottumwa Iowa. He names William Wagner, 75, as co respondent. Wall says he was forced to lose property, expelled from home, and sent to the poor farm. The wife says they married eleven years ago and he has not spoken kindly for six years and took her property.
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Ottumwa
James Wall
William Wagner
Wall
Gillette Takes a Bride
Des Moines reports former congressman B H Gillette secretly wed February 28 to nurse Lucy Appel who has lived in the city since September. The marriage details remain private though the romance draws attention due to Gillette's past leadership of the Single Filers group. He plans to reside on his Valley Junction area farm with his bride.
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Des Moines
John
Taylor
B. H. Gillette
Washington
Lucy Appel
Gillette
Valley Junction
Must Marry or Pay a Fine Ordinance Surfaces in Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Iowa March 22 Every man aged twenty five to forty five must marry under an ordinance introduced by Mayor Charles Bennett and passed by the city council. Noncompliance carries a fine of ten to one hundred dollars depending on negligence. J D Hunter Dies at Webster City aged seventy three funeral tomorrow. Iowa Senate passes primary bill requiring eighty five percent of votes for nomination. Telephone association holds session in Sioux City with 250 delegates. State Marshal bill to enforce the liquor law defeated in senate. Republic Monitor commentary closes.
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Rocker on Trial Third Time for Schroeder Murder
In Sibley Iowa on March 20 Charles Hocker, former husband of Schroeder’s widow, stands trial for the murder of August Schroeder. The case, moved from Rock Rapids to Osceola County, involves a sleeping confession by Rocker and a controversial new-trial order by Judge Gaynor.
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Charles Hocker
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Supreme Court
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Dell Tapids
Bank of Firth Closed Examiners Take Charge
The Citizens State bank of Firth was closed by order of the state banking board. Examiner BE Mickey was placed in charge after cashier W J Crandall, the active manager, vanished and did not return. The bank held 102000 dollars in deposits against a 10000 dollar capital. No statement of condition issued.
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Firth
State Banking Board
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W. J. Crandall
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Jealous Disposition and Interference Discussed
A passage reflects on envy and the strain of needing constant support, noting how people tire of troublemakers. It contrasts two groups who either rely on or oppose a doctor, and resents interference in personal affairs as others butt into what is deemed “your business.”
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Othara
Atchison Globe
The Poet and the Neayty at Penhurst Place Tale
A fragmentary reminiscence portrays Edmund Waller wooing Lady Dorothea Sidney at Penhurst Place in southern England. Dorothea’s beauty and rejection frame a tale of flirtation and aging, with a final quip from Shakespearean sentiment.
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Edmund Waller
Dorothea
Hacharissa
Dorothea Sidney
Waller
Earl of Sunderland
Penhurst
Shakespeare
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