Millinery, hats, and local notices in Ackley era
A collage of short local items from Ackley, Iowa, listing court attendance by lawyers, millinery ads, social visits, free eye testing at Nix's, rail passenger sections for land seekers, banking staff notes, water in cellars, bakery references, school holiday notes, educational association in Cedar Falls, style and watch repairs at Beach's, dance hall plans, printer trainee wanted, rent offer of Farmland, jewelry at Beach's, election reminders, flour mill operations, and letters requesting debt settlements after a fire, all framed as community snippets.
Iowa News Briefs Highlight Crime and Politics
Oct. 20 dispatches from Iowa report D H Bailey fined for starving a horse in Webster City, and a Newton grand jury not indicting Mrs Lavaileur in a homicide case. LeMars reports a farmer suicide, Shaw announces a Marshalltown political address with prominent allies, and a Woodbury union label case upholds an injunction against a Sioux City firm. Blackleg kills a dozen cattle near Waterloo, while Des Moines notes a healthy state fair balance. Cedar Falls covers Northeastern Iowa Teachers Association meeting, and Des Moines discusses Iowa interests amid Duff Gilman failures. Waterloo reports typhoid linked to a contaminated well at Davis engine works and Swift Packing, with 15 sick. Des Moines sets Shiloh monument dedication for May 30 with Gov Cummins delivering the address and Roosevelt hoped to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Ralph Filkins
Davia Engine Works
Swift Packing Company
State Board of Health
Des Moines
Iowa
Shiloh
Cummins
Roosevelt
Farm paper sale at auction clears Homestead assets
Des Moines October auction of the Iowa Homestead, a weekly farm paper, along with Wisconsin Farmer and Kansas City Livestock assets, included the real estate nine four story brick blocks and a well equipped plant. Pierce won with a final bid of 162010 cash after bidding opened at 65000 amid cheers from Homestead employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Homestead
Des Moines
Achison
Io the West
Wisconsin Farmer
Kansas City Livestock, Indicator
James M. Pierce
5. F. Stewart
Henry Wallace
Hilgaffe
Supreme Court
Pierce
Stewart
Mrs James Blair named head of Louisiana Purchase ladies board
Mrs James Lawrence Blair elected president of the board of lady managers for the Louisiana Purchase exposition in St Louis. She is noted for social prominence,Washington connections, and organizing skill in musical groups and charitable work. The board prepares for its building plan while awaiting national commission decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louia Twomlan Fair
James Lawrence Blair
Lady Managers
St. Louis
Blair
National Commission
Louidiana Purchase Exposition Company
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Chicago
Morning Choral Club
Indies’ Board
Louisiana. Purchase Exposition
Woman's Department
Adorn The Stage Dorothy Tennant to Enter Theatre
American Dorothy Tennant, San Francisco socialite and athletic debutante, plans a stage career. She will portray Alice Langham in Richard Harding Davis Soldiers of Fortune after training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and study in London with Genevieve Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Tennant
Miga Dorothy Tennant
Nawe
Henry M. Stanley
San Francisco
Race Riot in Littleton Sparks White Injuries and Powder Theft
A race riot in Littleton Alabama on October 20 left a white man missing and presumed dead, another fatally wounded, and two negroes seriously shot. Ira Creel, Joe Thompson, John Baer, WII Tolbert and others were involved as shots rang from improvised breastworks. Negroes allegedly stole several hundred pounds of powder from a local mine magazine amid fears of further explosions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Littleton
Ira Creel
Joe Thompson
John Baer
Wii Tolbert
William Tolbert
Thompson
Tolbert
Triple Tragedy at New York Law Office
In Wall Street offices of Cantor Adame McIntyre on Oct 18, William Turner former president and treasurer of Climax Bottling murdered W J Mallard secretary treasurer and Robert Hamilton president before killing himself with an automatic pistol. A second loaded revolver was found. The feud over a $6000 Shortage led to the deadly shooting during a noon appointment. ClErrs and staff fled as Turner fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William ©. Turner
Climax Bottling Company
W. J. Mallard
Robert Hamilton
Turner
Cantor, Adame & McIntyre
Wall Street
Mallard
Hamilton
Te Firm
Swift justice in Hicks family murder case ends in execution
In Nacogdoches Texas Jim Buchanan, a black man, was brought under militia guard after a murder confession. He pled guilty, was sentenced to death, and was hanged within hours in the jail yard despite threats to seize him. The town faced telegraph cuts and railroad sabotage as crowds gathered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicks
Nacogdoches
Tex
Jim Buchanan
Buchanan
Spradley
Sherif Spradley
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Ackley World
Dr. Mueller
Ackley
Eldora
Hye
Nix’s
M. & R. Hackrott
Thibea
Towa Falla
Bicard
Friz & Pauwua
J.P. Miller
Aplington
Nix
Dakotas
Nebraska
Millbery M
R. Hackrott
John Rath
Young
Mina Clara Rath
Exchange Bank
Fiz & Pauwus
Iowa Educational Association
Cedar Fallsa
M. & J. Hacknorr's
Free Masons
George Washington
Beach's
Mack
Red River Valley
A. van Giffen
Acklay
Lowa
Bloch
Boies
B.S. Trainer
C. J. Doepke
Windy City
Presbyterian, pRansh Fan Cola
Oumiou
Grance Tulp
Nix's
Illinois Central Railroad
Fata
Andrews & Whaeler
Webster City
D. H. Bailey
Justice Bonner
The
Humane Society of the City
Newton
Lavaileur
LeMars
William Krauel
Westfield Township
Shaw
Marshalltown
Allison
Cousins
Iowa Supreme Court
Woodbury County
Tolerton & Stetson
Sioux City
Union
Blackleg
Jon McManus
State Agricultural Department
Iowa Educators Meet
Cedar Falls
Northeastern
Iowa Teachers’ Ansociation
Businesa
Richard T. Ely
Jowns Hopkins University
Ded Moines
D. F. Witter
Jows, Loan and Trust
Gilman, Son & Co
Nef
MNS
James L. Duar
Gorm
A. Rath
Roosevelt Brothers
Knickerbocker Flour Mill
Tom Frudden
Mar
Bank OF Ackley
Coltect
Alven
Posits
Youur
BallioirEep
Sewene-Bankingusiness
Favin Doane
Bilbo
Heropean Pointe
Ancing
Uscu
Martin
Fecerr
Awoi
Ine
Rane
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