Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound Advocated by Mrs Lyon
Mrs Augustus Lyon of Terre Hill Pa testifies to relief from lower back and side pains and loss of sleep after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad lauds the remedy as a grand female health product from roots and herbs, with testimonials supporting cure and avoidance of surgery.
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Torres Hill
Lydia B.pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
Terre Hill
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Locomotive Brake Argument Ends With Simple Truth
Two travelers argued on a train about vacuum brake action. The engineer explains plainly that stopping the train is achieved by turning a valve and filling the pipe with vacuum. Both men learned the correct mechanism from the conductor.
London station installs ticket machines for friends to see off
A London railroad station now offers penny-in-the-slot ticket machines so people can buy tickets to accompany friends to the platform. One amused observer chides the idea as cheap, joking about paying more than a penny to watch friends depart.
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London
Patrice
A Big Man Speech Stirs Quiet Room
A dialogue sketches a self-important figure who believes tobacco taxes should rise when he stops smoking, reflecting satirical tone about authority and self-importance in a local setting.
Owas oldest man Peter Plunkett recalls perilous days
Waucoma Iowa confirms Peter Plunkett aged 109 as the oldest resident. He recounts work on the Panama Canal where French efforts failed and workers died of disease, his travels across Mexico and the Rio Grande, and an ox team journey from New York to San Francisco. Born in Ireland in 1806, his birth date is supported by parish records.
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Waucoma
Peter Plunkett
Iowa
Panama Canal
Plunkett
Ireland
Yeomen to Celebrate Homecoming in Des Moines
The Brotherhood of American Yeomen will hold a national meeting in Des Moines on June 26 and 27 to mark a homecoming for about 190,000 members. A new Yeoman castle at Fifthland Park Streets is to be dedicated, with roughly $50,000 spent on the addition and furnishings. The society's home office property investment will reach nearly $150,000, making this the greatest Yeoman gathering to date.
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Des Moines
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Yeoman Castle
Fifthland Park Streets
Fathers and Sons Banquet at Red Oak Congregational Church
The Ladies' Aid society hosted a fathers and sons banquet for about 200 attendees at Mrs. Benjamin B. Clark's home. A single long table beneath a grape vine pergola held the meal, with baskets of cut flowers as decoration.
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Father
Lana
Red Oak
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Congregational Church
Fathers and Sons
Benjamin B. Clark
Water loo park faces race beach access dispute
Water loo park commissioners grapple with whether colored bathers should use a public beach in the large park. Protests from whites volume, while a race-segregation offer is rejected by Black residents. Also notes Mrs Prances Criss’s 91st birthday in Sac City with a surprise party.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Park Commission
Sac City
Prances Criss
Eugene Criss
Gac City
Criss
Tadies’ Ald
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Missing Man Found in New York Hospital
Cresco, Iowa report says W. L. Sullivan the New Hampton insurance agent who vanished last winter is located in a New York hospital. Mrs. Sullivan of New Hampton has received a letter confirming his presence there.
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Des Moines
Cresco
New Hampton
16 year old girl in crisis swallows carbolic acid
Mondamin Miss Ruth Noyes aged 16 a popular member of the high school junior class is in critical condition from carbolic acid swallowed in a personal crisis over study pressures.
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Mondamin
Ruth Noyes
Cldss
Man Shot in Chariton Near Rock Island Depot
A 55 year old Chariton man named Hogg was shot near the Rock Island depot on his way home from the theater. He says the shooter was unknown to him and the bullet lodged near the heart, exiting from the back under the shoulder.
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Chariton
Hogg
Rock Island Depot
Farmer Faces Murder Charge Near Shambaugh
Roy Gunn, a young man from Clarinda, surrendered and is jailed in Maryville awaiting arraignment on a murder charge in the death of L. W. Huddle, a 26 year old farmer who owned his farm and left two widows and three children.
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Clarinda
Roy Gunn
L. W. Huddle
Shambaugh
Maryville
Huddle
Bank Cashier Under Arrest In Bank Failure Case
Colfax reports Colfax Frank Sherman, cashier of the failed Bank of Sully, is under arrest on a fraudulent banking charge. Complaint by John Holdsworth says Sherman accepted a $125 deposit the day the bank failed, while knowing it was insolvent. Holdsworth had $800 in the bank.
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Colfax
Frank Sherman
Bank of
Dubuque Withdraws From Greater Iowa Fund Drive
Industrial officials report Dubuque halts its $5,000 subscription to the Greater Iowa movement for a San Francisco exhibition building. Twelve appointees on the governor’s committee include no Dubuque member. In Ottumwa Senator C. H. Thomas of Kent is elected president of the Blue Grass Road association as resolutions praise the new Iowa road law and back good roads groups.
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Deal
Dupuane
Industrial Corporation
Greater
Iowa
San Francisco
No Dubuquet
Iowa Road Law
Ottumwa
C. H. Thomas
Kent
Blue Graga Road Association
Iowa Federation of Good Roads
Iowa Auto Association
Des Moines
Medical Schools of Healing
General Assembly
R. S. Dysart
State Association
Ella R. Gilmour
Sioux City
L. H. Bell
Ames
E. E. Fisher
Ida Grove
JL. 0. Thompson
Red Oak
Election Fraud Investigation Reaches Council Bluffs
Attorney General Cosson with Assistant Attorney General Fletcher and Special Counsel Rankin arrived to investigate charges of fraud in the city election. Dodds honored by engineers. Ames John B. Dodds, engineer ahead of the state highway commission’s educational program, named chairman of the roads and highways committee of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
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Council Bluffs
Cosson
Fletcher
Rankin
Dodds
Ames
John 8. Dodds
State Highway Commission
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Cedar Falls Wins Meet in Cedar Valley Association
Cedar Falls captured first place with 30 points at the Cedar Valley track meet held here with nearly 100 athletes from twelve northwestern high schools. Oelwein took second with 26 points and West Union finished third with 16 points. The Mahaska Fall Festival dates were set for October 6 to 9 inclusive during a meeting of local business leaders.
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Cedar Falls
Independence
Cedar Valley Association
Oelwein
West Union
Oskaloosa
Waby Health Contest Winner in Iowa City
Mar Barat Q Cogswell daughter of Dr and Mrs John V Cogswell of Iowa City won the baby health contest sweepstakes. She captured the silver loving cup donated by George O'Brien with a score of 96.8 percent.
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Iowa City
Mar Barat Q Cogswell
John V. Cogswell
George O’brien
Corn Planting All Done In Monticello Area
Monticello reports corn planting finished with some corn about three inches high. Oat prospects look strong and pastures are in good shape. Oakland notes alfalfa nearly ready to cut with expected heavy yield. In Glenwood Earl Perking found guilty of criminal assault after district court session led by Judge Thornell.
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Monticello
Oakland
Earl Perkins
Glenwood
Thornell Preaihing
Earl Pereking
Farmer Slashes Throat Near Akron
LeMars and Akron area farmer Albert Mann reportedly cut his throat leaning on a straw stack in view of his sons. Death was instantaneous according to the brief notice.
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LeMars
Albert Mann
Akron
Congregational Meeting Moves to Des Moines
The 1915 Iowa Congregational church conference session, held in Marshalltown, has closed and will be held in Des Moines. The event gathers church leaders for statewide deliberations and programs.
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Congregational Meeting
Marshalltown
Iowa Congregational Church Conference
Des Moines
W. T. U. Convention Held in Sac City Iowa
The annual convention of the W. T. U. Sixteenth district of Iowa meets in Sac City. State president Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith delivers the principal address to conclave attendees.
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Sac City
Requisition Papers Issued for Abduction Suspect
Des Moines reports requisition papers issued for Franz Meyer held at Winnipeg in the abduction of Elizabeth Huppertz of Oelwein. Papers are en route to Washington for presidential signature.
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Des Moines
Franz Meyer
Winnipeg
Elizabeth Huppertz
Oelwein
Washington
Rural Life Conference at State College June 22 to July 3
James Wilson former secretary of agriculture leads Iowa State College fourth annual rural life conference June 22 to July 3 with sessions on rural problems religious education and community work by prominent educators and reformers. Ernest Thompson Seton and Luther Gulick among speakers. ministers and lay leaders expected. conference open to attendees without fees and allow enrollment in summer agricultural classes.
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Luther H. Gulick
Mies Frances Gulick
U S Army Sends Ten Officers to France for Training
Ten United States army officers from all branches are on duty in France for instruction in French military training. They arrive by French government invitation, part of a wider plan to place six officers in continuous service in France for knowledge transfer. Officers include Capt W A Castlefain at Orléans and Capt F H Pope at the war college, with others at Saumur and Gharons. The group studies under the French system, with selective admission to the War College and intensive daily schedules from 6 AM to 6 PM, including battlefield rides and lectures.
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States Army
Balkan
Haa
W. A. Castlefain
Orléans
Ni Maré
Ettes
A. T. Bishop
War College
Parker
Pigeons and Market Days On Steps Of New Museum
A visitor notes pigeons lining the street between the National Museum and the market. An old man explains the birds arrive for spilled grain and refuse to follow trains. He muses on angels, roosters, and white horses tied to country wagons rather than luxury carriages.
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New National Museum
Salt Lake Desert
Semibody
Acaree
Mountain of Money Brings Yosemite Model to Light
Three US government departments coordinated to build a five by twelve foot, 600 pound scale model of Yosemite park in Mariposa County California. The behemoth displays meadows mountains chasms lakes and gorges with topographic detail, using a million dollars in greenbacks for surface and eleven experts over three months.
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United States
United Efforts
Sierra Nevada
Rhode Island
Yosemite Park
Census to Count United States Bird Life This Summer
The federal government plans a national census of birds this summer supervised by the Department of Agriculture with citizen cooperation. Beginning May 30, the count aims to finish by June 30, using 260 correspondents and many volunteer observers to measure bird populations and the impact of state and federal laws on game and insectivorous birds.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
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