Sleepy Tom Still Fires in Quiet Old Age on Tracks
Sleepy Tom, a famed thirty-eight year old race horse owned by Peter Beeles of Puyallup, remains fiery and capable of a three minute mile, with plans to display to younger racers at The Meadows this racing season. Also noted are advances in butchering devices in England, a Roman vault unearthed at Chiswick, Liberia's hard woods, and various global curiosities from Kansas to Manila.
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America
Tom
Eter Becles
Puyallup
Beeles
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Chiswick
England
Missing Boy Found in Boone by Salvation Army
Dr William J Manning of Washington reports his 11 year old son, missing for three years, located at Boone Indiana with help from the Salvation Army. Police aided but could not find him earlier. Mayor Goodykoontz wired the family. Transport arranged for the boy to return and he is expected home next Sunday.
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Washington, D. C
William J. Manning
Boone, In
Manning
W. W. Goodykoontz
Sheldon LopGe Won at Camp Morrell Drill Event
Davenport, Aug. 14. Sheldon ecompany, 20, Uniformed rank KK of p., won the prize of $100 in the competitive drill at Camp Morrell on Suburban Isle this afternoon. Hundreds of spectators watched the uniformed Pythians perform evolutions. The belle Plaine company won the 30 prize for largest company present. The prize for the company from greatest distance was not awarded due to tardiness of distant companies.
Pat Crowe Linked to Council Bluffs Holdups
Council Bluffs police believe Pat Crowe has been seen in or linked to nightly robberies in the city. Chief Raymond ordered the closing of John Crowe's saloon and two other saloons for harboring criminals amid a spike of about twenty one robberies on several streets and near railroad yards.
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Council
Raymond
John Crowe
Pat Crowe
Crowe
Note of Love and Death in Burlington Suicide
A Burlington report details the suicide of Miss Lettie Sdedes after a romance with Walter Sauerwein. The handwritten letter to Sauerwein asks him not to blame her, requests keeping a portrait, and mentions funeral arrangements. The piece notes Lettie had left home months earlier and hints at a difficult personal situation involving Miss Joceoles.
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Lettig
Walter Sauerwein
Mat
Lottie
Walter
Dart
Lettie Sdedes
Hypnotism Case Ties Williams to Murder Allegations
The defendant William Nagle, charged with the murder of Carl Dray at Muscating, is accused by Nagle's mother of being under the hypnotic influence of Josephine Collette. She claims he has never freed himself from her spell and that Collette always carries a gun and is skilled with it.
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Wiliam Nagle
Muscating
Carl Dray
Nagle
Josephine Collette
Drink Ruined His Wife Major Taggart Testimony
Wooster Ohio August 14 Major Taggart testified about his wife’s long history of drinking and the night he found her in a saloon with two women and two volunteer lieutenants. He described waking to find her away from home and broke the glass when she attempted a drink. He then escorted her home.
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Taggart
Wooster
Mort Leavenworth
Cant Buy Girl Clothes Injunction Granted In Boone
A temporary injunction issued by Judge Whitaker in Boone Ia restrains Guy Stone and Archie Stone from providing clothes or furnishing a residence or communicating with or sending money to Jessie Griffiths and bars Guy Stone from marrying her. The petition was filed by Jessie Griffiths mother Mrs Elizabeth H Hollingshead. Stone and Jessie Griffiths attempted to elope recently but were intercepted by the constable.
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Boone, Ia
Ange I
Conger Denies Gubernatorial Run Amids Mexico Return
Davenport dispatch reports Minister Edwin H. Conger, newly arrived from Mexico, denying any ambition to seek the governor’s office. He does not deny a possible return to China to address the boycott muddle.
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Davenport
Il Paso
Tex
Edwin H. Conger
Mexico
Ching
Jilts Man at Altar In Colorado Springs Wedding Drop
Miss Orra Frances James of Des Moines and Ottumwa traveled to Colorado Springs to wed Harvey Christman. The ceremony collapsed when Christman was arrested for larceny after James accused him of selling her real estate and misusing funds. Christman denies the charges, claiming a plot with Oklahoma City attorney B O Young. Three sisters live in Fremont Nebraska, all seen as reputable.
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Orra Frances James
Ottumwa
Colorado Springs
James
James B. Orman
Colorado
Harvey NM
Vchrishnan
Oklhomia City
Miss James
Ater
Christman
B. O. Young
Oklahoma City
Young
Fremont
Neb
Despondent 19-year-old Dora Frazier ends life in Iowa town
In Council Bluffs on August 15 Dora Frazier aged 19 left a brief note directing that her effects go to her sister and then ingested carbolic acid at her father's home. Health and despondency were cited as factors in the tragedy.
Gave liquor to minors sparks legal action in Iowa
A Sioux Center man, Genny De Motts, faces charges after allegedly selling intoxicating beverages to minors. Witness H. Kuhl, father of a defendant’s daughter, testified as part of the case. The incident occurred near West Branch with two pony kegs found concealed. Also reported: Mason City street paving bids, a Mason City editor at 14, a Manson fire, and a death in Churdan.
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West
Henry DeMots
Milwaukee
Iver Witer
Inen
Sweaten
Papa
Mmamma
Towa
H. (. Kuhl
Genny de Mots
Modern Woman Survives Lightning While Climbing Pike's Peak
Mrs D. Al Cudival and two Des Moines sons aged 18 and 20 were struck by lightning on Pike's Peak while attempting the summit. The trio collapsed, was found by a passerby, and sheltered overnight. The woman sustained burns but finished the ascent and returned by train.
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Ulus Springs
Cure
D. AL Cudival
Des Moines
Beautiful Iowa Girl Lost in Paris Fortune Left for Search
Des Moines woman Mary McCown, once Mary Jones, vanished in Paris while studying music. Her former husband J. R. McCown is divorced, and a wealthy Los Angeles lover who recently died left a fortune to aid her search. Friends fear kidnapping or white slavery. the embassy and state department assist.
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Mary McCown
Paris
McCown
Mary Jones
J. 3. McCown
Secon
Pusis
Los Angeles
Herstate Department
Wreshington
Divorce Suit Arises From Poison Candy Case in Boone
Mrs. Dye of Boone sues for separation and separate maintenance against her husband Tes Moines Iowa August. She accuses him of cruel treatment and cites his alleged closeness with other women since the death of Miss Nelson who had previously accused Mrs. Dye of sending poisoned chocolate. Miss Nelson’s deathbed confession had exonerated Mrs. Dye. The court granted a temporary injunction and set a hearing on the maintenance petition.
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Tes Moines
I. Aug
Sherman Dye
Boone
Reni Nelson
Pierre
Youth dies after accident with pitchfork at farm near Sioux Rapids
The report from Sioux Rapids says AV year old George Anderson, a farmer living about five miles west of there, was helping to haul hay when a pitchfork slipped, one tine entered his eye and penetrated his brain. Sylvert Anilursay was injured yesterday in a separate incident involving a Milwaukee and Saint Paul freight train. his condition is listed as critical with death hourly expected.
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Sioux Rapids
George Anderson
Sylvert
St. Paul
Praduailly
Pythians Elect Officers in Grand Lodge Ballot
J W Hunter of Newton elected Grand Chancellor after a close contest with H I Duncan of Des Moines. Other officers named include J R Stewart Davenport as Vice Grand Chancellor, P L Outing Point as Grand Prelate, H W Walker Mt Pleasant as Keeper of Records and Seals, H Schulz Waterloo as Exchequer, N Dilley Grundy Center as Master at Arms, I T Carr Blotton Inner Guard, H W Weaver Spencer Outer Guard. Supreme Representatives are Salinser Davenport and W M Barterfell Atlantic. Old trustees re-elected. annual convention set for next year in Iowa.
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J. W. Hunter
Newton
Davenport
Hunter
Grand Lodge
Jts
Four year old shoots brother with gun hidden by father
In Des Moines a six year old boy Willard Tyler fired a revolver found during a family visit, mortally wounding his brother James Tyler aged five. The weapon had been loaded by their father before the boy’s birth, and the incident occurred while elders shared supper.
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Des Moines
Aug
Willard ‘Pyter
James
James Tyler
Rising Sun
Dex Moines
Issac Tyler
Mittle
Des Moines Man Dodson Ends Life in Wisconsin Hotel
Word arrived that B F Dodson a well known traveling man from Des Moines committed suicide in the Beach hotel at Winneconne Wisconsin He left a note stating not guilty of charges Be kind to my wife she is a poor woman and a devoted mother Relatives offer no reason for the act and say Dodson had been despondent for several days and likely insane
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Des Moines
Dodson
Gardener blocks wedding in Burt as guardian sues for damages
In Angona Ta on August 8 Charles Nichols aged 60 was denied license to wed Jennie Walters after his son was appointed guardian hours earlier and blocked the ceremony. Walters sues for 8000 dollars for breach of promise. She had divorced her last husband a year before for desertion and non support.
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Burt
Angona
Charles Nichols
Jennie Walters
Jenny
Vichors
Minneapolis
Wisconsin Governor Latourette Denies Press on Wish Meeting
In an interview Washington Democrat editor A H Miller reports Governor Latourette of Wisconsin did not suggest ousting President Wish of the Illinois Central. Miller and Latourette refused further discussion, noting the newspapers interpret events their own way. Latourette recounts a crowded Illinois Central trip and a crude remark about Stuyvesant Fish, then walked away.
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Ang
A. H. Miller
Washington Democrat
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Wisconsin
Illnois Central
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Latouchtte
Orst
Sterling, Il
Toawis
Pial
Sterling
Illinois Central
Stuyvesant
Little Dubuque Girl Walks After Shrine Miracle
Six year old Lucile Walsh of Dubuque Iowa walked for the first time in three years after praying before the Shrine of St Anne during a nine day pilgrimage. The event drew about 4000 spectators as mothers cheered and the child walked to her relieved mother. Other pilgrims were carried or wheeled and many had waited since birth for relief from disability.
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St. Anne
Lucile Walsh
Tankakee
Aida
Matihia Cunen
Calumet Bank
South Chicago
Pat
Arutehes
Iowans Hold Big Picnic at Hawkeye Centenial Reunion
In Colorado Springs on Aug 5, between 3,100 and 2,000 attendees, nearly all former Iowa residents, gathered for the Hawkeye Centennial association reunion. The day focused on reunions and new and renewed acquaintances with speeches by notable men.
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Hawkeye State
Colorado Springs
Iowa
Hawkeye Centennial Association
Dynamiter Caught in Iowa After Saloon Attacks
Cedar Rapids reports C. L. Melvin, sought in Iola Kansas for dynamiting saloons, arrested at Keystone Iowa. In Muscatine Iowa a good youth Ellis Ainkley, 18, drowned in a pond on a Lone Tree area farm Saturday night. he was from a prominent family.
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Kan
Keystone
Cedar Rapids
C. L. Melvin
Muscatine
Ellis Ainkley
Lone Tree
Noted priest Clement Johannes passes away in Dubuque
Rev Father Clement Johannes, pastor of St Marys Church in Dubuque, dies after a paralytic stroke. Born in 1835 in Germany, he came to Dubuque about thirty years ago, graduated from St Francis Seminary Milwaukee in 1868, and was ordained in 1871 by Bishop Hem.
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Dubuque
Ave
Clement Johannes
St. Mary's Church
Tubuque
Johannes
St. Francis Seminary
Miwhaukee
Hem
Milwaukee
Strike closes bakeries in New York Jewish quarters
Ten striking journeymen bakers were taken into custody on Wednesday, charged with illegal riot as a bread famine threatens New York's kosher bakery patrons. Three were tried and the rest liberated, with fears of a bread shortage in Hebrew quarters.
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New York
Big golf tourney opens today in Chicago
Under cloudless skies and a fast course the Olympian section opens preliminaries for the United States golf championship at the Ligth of the Cage Golf Club in Chicago.
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Chicago
Prison census shows decreased population at Anamosa
Des Moines. August 11. Warden Hunter reports a drop in Anamosa prison population from 626 on June 4, 1905 to 378, a 46.4 percent fall, while average sentence length rose from two years five months in 1897 to three years two months in 1905. The shift to a grade and military step system, plus better officer efficiency, is cited as a key factor. Mort Madison shows similar trends but with population growth. The 1905 report also notes an appeal for $38,650 funding, one admission aged 81, 43 admissions under 21, and income from farm and contract labor totaling about $12,194.
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Hunter
Anamosa Prison
Anammosa
Anamosa
Mort Madison
ofAnamosa
Jones
Animosa Penitentiary
Leo
Engines Meet Head On Near Austin Causes Injuries
A passenger train No. 8 and freight train No. T18 on the Chicago Milwaukee and Paul railway collided head on near Austin at 7 80 last night. About one hundred passengers were aboard. Seven were injured and both engines were badly wrecked. Mail and baggage cars were thrown from the trucks as crews escaped.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Paul
Austin
Aged farmer struck by freight train near Sioux Rapids
Syvere Anderson, about five miles southwest of town, tried to cross the Minneapolis and St. Louis crossing two miles from here when his buggy was struck by a southbound freight. He suffered a fractured skull, was carried to Rembrandt, then home, and was resting quietly though his age makes recovery doubtful.
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Sious Tapids
Syvere Anderson
Minmeipolis
St. Louis
Rembrandt
Grubs Destroy Yards In Algor City
Aug 10 reports from Algor Ja describe a lawn strike by grub worms devastating yards. Residents note loosened turf that lifts easily, with Dr Ripke collecting two gallons of grubs from a 10 foot square patch as the infestation spreads across several areas of the city.
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Ohe
la Tawab
Awti
Dr. Ripke
Elopement Intercepted In Boone Amid Kidnaping Charge
Guy Stone and Jessie Griffith were stopped during an attempted elopement in Boone Iowa. Griffith is the sister of a young man who died under mysterious circumstances and left $1,000 ininsurance to her. Stone faces kidnapping charges while Griffith, under age, was arrested after an early train arrival. Hunter is slated to lead the Knights of Pythias convention in Davenport Iowa City may host next.
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Boone, Ja
Guy Stone
Jessie Griffith
Stone
Riga strike hazards 20000 on duty at port
Rumors of serious trouble at Riga were officially confirmed. Twenty thousand men are on strike and two million dollars worth of merchandise await loading and unloading as merchants seek stevedore help to move property.
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Russia
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Soldberg
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