Remarkable King Crab Pose Found in British Ponds
A giant crustacean resembling a king crab reappears in Preston Merse near Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, after fifty years. The creature bears a semi circular carapace and swims on its back, boasting numerous legs. Historical counts of its legs approach millions. In Berlin a musk scented tram ride ends in a street fight as onlookers object to the odor. Italy’s neglect of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment site in Rome is noted as a curiosity.
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Great Britain
Hempstead Heath
Preston Merse
Southwick
Kirkcudbrightshire
Schaffer
Latreille
Italy
Michael Angelo
Rome
Florentine
Fee
Worthless juns revive for dredging and theater trend
Readable fragments describe old dredges rebuilt for 120000 cubic yards monthly output, and Milan hosting about forty moving picture theaters. The piece notes rising entertainment in summer, aging literary figures, and various odds and ends from global reports, including prices of jewels, diplomatic moves, and local curiosities.
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Milan
Italy
Dramatic climax at Cedar Falls church over Todd scandal
Report of a Baptist church session in Cedar Falls that expelled Professor Thomas Todd and Mrs. Katherine Gray from the state normal school affair. Todd confessed wrongdoing and sought forgiveness, but the church severed all ties and revoked his license as a Baptist preacher. Mrs Gray, described as a widow with $40,000, faced public disgrace yet hoped to forgive and move on. Todd planned to enter advertising in the South as Mrs Gray prepared to leave for Laurene.
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Professor Todd
Baptist Church
Whenin
St. Paul
Iowa
Cedar Valley Seminary
Todd
Shoe
Byers Says He Will Help Impeachment Efforts
Des Moines Va November 2 Attorney General Byers pledged his department to aid impeachments of local officers including county attorneys mayors sheriffs and marshals who fail to enforce the law He noted no new policy and said the state could remove such officers upon proper complaint by a responsible resident and that the attorney general would prosecute in all such cases with governor concurrence
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Des Moines
Atorney
Byers
Register and
Davenport
Twenty Percent Of Cows Diseased Says Tuberculosis Expert
Dr Kime warns Fort Dodge dairy cows and nearby herds show tuberculosis in about twenty percent of milk suppliers. He cites historical tests and urges new measures for dairy herd testing and milk licensing to protect public health and prevent tuberculosis spread through milk. The expert notes city council rejected earlier testing ordinances and says stronger action is now planned.
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Dovedin
Fort Dodge
Kime
Ells
Switchmen Strike Paralyzes Rail Operations In City
Officials assume control as switchmen strike over unresolved grievances. An emergency crew led by Superintendent Way oversees trains in Minneapolis as the stoppage nears 20 days with broad disruption expected to continue. Local leadership reports no issue settled yet.
Switchmen urged to return to work in Iowa strike
In Iowa City area the Switchmen's Union instructed striking Iowa Central railroad switchmen to resume work or lose their union charter. The railroad demanded removal of a total disability clause from a proposed contract. The men refused, the company stood firm, and the walkout continued. National President Hawley ordered the Iowa official to revoke the charter if workers did not return promptly.
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Chicago
Iown
Htaeberling
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Switchmen
Oskaloosa
Iowa Central Railroad
National
Hawley
Haeberling
G O
Grand Jury Probes Iowa Grocers Association
Des Moines November 26 Fred Bean er secretary of the Iowa Retail Grocers association was called before a federal grand jury yesterday. District Attorney Temple intends to probe trusts and it is believed Beaner's appearance opens the way to investigate an Iowa grocers combine to regulate prices.
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Des Moines
Fred Beaner
Iowa Retail Grocers Association
Temple
Iowa
Beaner
Woman steals magician’s jewels at Bijou
In Dubuque on November 25 Mexican Herman the magician reports several diamond rings and a few hundred dollars missing. The assistant who traveled with him and aided in the act vanished with the thief. Chicago police are notified. Herman had employed the woman four months ago.
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Dubuque, Ta
Herman
Chicago
Hermat
Vogel couple marks sixtieth wedding anniversary
Muscatine Iowa November 26 Mr and Mrs H H Vogel residents near this place yesterday celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Both are past 84 years of age and have 102 living descendants They are well known and highly respected residents of Muscatine County C
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Muscatine, Ja
H. H. Vogel
Muscatine County, A
Sulphur fumes reveal stowaway girl in ship harbor
San Francisco reports a Japanese girl hidden aboard the Jiner Hongkong Maru was exposed by sulphur fumigation while in port. Authorities in Yokohama later jailed the woman for a year and the man for six years after returning to Japan.
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San Francisco
United States
Japan
Yokohama
Wife accuses actor of bigamist hypnotist case
Ableagu Nov 45 Joseph L Leslie charged with bigamist and hypnotist by Mrs Annie Les Ne at Judge Maxwell court. The 20 year old woman refused to testify while her husband looked into her eyes. She claimed Leslie had another wife in St Louis.
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Ableagu
Joseph L. Leslie
Mre
Annie Les Ne
Pours Liniment on Pancakes at Drake University
A Drake University law student, George Padgham, poured liniment on his pancakes believing it to be maple syrup. He drank some, fell critically ill as the liniment, kept in a pantry tumbler for a scalded hand, caused poisoning.
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Des Molnégs
George Padgham
Drake University
Unearth Valuable Indian Relics Near Bloody Battlefield
Algona Iowa Nov 21 4 On B L Allbright s farm in Plum Creek township a mound of sand and gravel top where a cottonwood clump stood by landmark was dug into and parts of a human skeleton unearthed bones lay twenty feet below surface with a clam shell a tomahawk and various bones found skull vertebrae jaw teeth ribs durm and limb bones description notes mound forty feet diameter twelve to fifteen feet high near the Des Moines river opposite the Seeley place and near the site of a historic Sioux Winnebago Musquakie battle in the last century.
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Algona
B. Allbright
Plum Creek Township
Des Moines
Seeley Place
Plum Creek
Train Hits Carriage Wreck Kills Mother Child
In Muscatine Iowa a Roek Island freight backed into a carriage injuring Georgy Angerer wealthy farmer. A newborn baby torn from mother under the wheels died and a basketed fragment found at Wilton. Mrs Angerer and her year old daughter Margaret were badly injured and later died. The father and two other children escaped unhurt while the family was en route to church.
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Muscatine
Roelk 'Sland
Georgy Angerer
Wilton
Mr. Angerer
Fantly
Inbhurt
Burglars Loot Milford Post Office Safe
Millard Indiana November 21 Burglars blew open the post office safe last night and seized about 100 dollars worth of stamps no crew was found on the scene police said no further details were available about how the break in occurred or whether suspects had been identified
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Millard, In
Supreme Court Decisions from Des Moines After Nov. 21
The Des Moines Iowa supreme court handed down decisions affirming several appellants including State of Town vs Kragg Jahmson Rader Marshall Wield Co Sutherland and others. Reversals were issued for Mintouch Walsh Gras Capital City Wyrick and Pipe Cavanaugh Greenlee Platt. Remaining cases such as Johnson Wood Gaar Scott county Thompson were affirmed.
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Inl
Supreme Court
State of Town
Kragg
Appellant
Boone
Jahmson
Blackhawk
Affirmed
I. Rader
Rader
Marshall Wield Company
Sutherland
Poll
Wickinger
Farmers’ Mutual Ve Insurance Company
Story
Af Armed
Minttouch
Walsh Gras
Polk
Capital City
Wyrick and Pipe Company
City of Des Moines
Cavanaugh
Cawher Company
Greenlee Hrux
Qegert
Floyd
Platt
City of Ottumwa
Wapello
Johnson
Lyans
Wood
Brotherhood of American Yeomen
Gaar
Scott County
Thompson
Ape Pellant
Plymouth
Judge Howell Denies Railway New Trial In Canfield Suit
Judge Howell refuses a new trial in John Canfield versus Rose Island and Pacific androad company. Canfield was awarded about $49,000, the largest personal injury judgment in state history. Also reported, John Scheffer acquitted of murder in district court after a fatal fight with James Lankton at Manhattan gambling house.
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Howell
Canfield
Town City
Haywell
John Canfield
Rose Island and Pacific Androad Company
Cannfield
Chimpany
Council Bluffs
Navy
John Scheffer
Manhattan
James Lankton
Lankton
Scheffter
Perkins Estate Worth Nearly 3 Million In Probate
Burlington November 21 The will of the late C B Perkins who died in Boston November 9 was filed for probate here. It disposes of an estate between two and three million dollars with the bulk left to the widow and children. Mr Mee Farland, Perkins personal representative, is given twenty thousand dollars.
Diphtheria Turns Virulent In Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs Ia Nov 21 Diphtheria which has prevailed here for some time in a mild form is reported by the health physician to have become virulent and fears of a serious epidemic are expressed. Complaints cite physicians delaying reports and renewed efforts are promised to quiet fears while vigils will follow if this practice continues.
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Council Bluffs
Vesta
Express Agents Evade Rate Inquiries At Hearing
Express agents faced the railroad commission as hearings opened on express rates. They resisted detailed data, arguing rates are likely to hold and should not change. Representatives from United States Express cited 66 percent of gross on Rock Island and 65 percent of Iowa business at costs not lower than 76 percent, with 20 percent paid to agents. American and Northwestern lines reported high commission shares. Witnesses noted rising costs for horse care, wrapping, and supplies, with Seattle horse keep rising to 40 dollars monthly and wages up 26 to 30 percent.
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United States Express Company
Commission
Rock Island
American
Northwestern Railroad
Great Northern Express Company
Great Northern Railroad
Express
Seattle
Locks Jailer in Cell and Escapes in Ta Jail Break
Spencer Ta Nov 22 A burglary suspect Geo Gibbons escaped from the jail last night after locking jailer Thomas Babcock in his own cell. Gibbons, held for burglary of a hard wares store at Kyerly, had just finished supper when the door was unlocked and he sprang out to lock on the jailer. He was captured after the Sioux City burglary and remains jailed until January grand jury session. The sheriff criticized the jailer amid the escape scene.
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Spencer, Ta
Geo. Gibbons
Kyerly
Wherry
Thomas Babcock
iGibbons
Babcock
Gibbons
Grand Jury
Sioux City
Scarcity of Farm Help Leads Woman to Self Harm Attempt
Creston, Nov 2. Due to farm labor shortages, Emma Posheck wife of a prosperous farmer, fired an 88 caliber pistol into her temple during corn husking. Found beside a hay stack, she is mother of six children. Surgeons located the bullet and she may live.
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Creston
Emma Posheck
Na Rie
Pisheeck
Smith Returns to Answer Charges at Iowa Telephone
Des Moines reports B. Smith, head of Iowa Telephone Co., returned to face revolting charges filed by two Kirkwood hotel bell boys. He disappeared for days, perplexing officers. The case stirs society as the art fair attracts attention.
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Des Moines
B. Smith
Iowa Telephone Company
Kirkwood Hotel
Smith
Discharged Professor to Ask Forgiveness in Cedar Falls
In Cedar Falls Indiana on November 2 a discharged professor from the normal school faculty is reported to plan a night visit to Mrs. Katherine Grey of the vocal music department to seek forgiveness for affinity writings. The Baptist church faces an anticipated disruption as members may attempt to expel him. a tense scene is predicted.
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Cedar Falls
Todd
Katherine Grey
Prisoners Escape By Blowing Jail Locks With Nitroglycerin
Anton Dusman and Charles Marie, indicted for burglary at Swan and Parker jewelry, blew open steel jail doors with nitroglycerin at 5:20 yesterday morning. An outside accomplice supplied the explosive. Marie was recaptured. Dusman remains at large. Every window and sash in the jail were shattered by the blast.
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Independence
Anton Dusman
Chas
Marie
Swan & Parker
Dusman
Des Moines to test owl car service in city
Des Moines street railway managers and city officials agreed to begin owl car service December 1 to test if operations can run without loss. Cars will run hourly on six or eight lines, fare 20 cents, no transfers, from midnight until the regular service starts at morning.
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Capital Des
Moines
Des Moines
Sueet Railway
Thirty Seven Hats Within One Year Divorce Case
Paris report states a divorce case centered on extravagance, with the husband alleging his wife spent heavily on clothing. She reportedly ordered thirty seven hats in a year at about ten dollars each, plus other dress-related expenses, prompting the legal action.
Sweepings Express Rate Reductions Demanded by Shippers
City Iowa Nov 26 Sweeping reductions of 18 express rates will be urged by the Iowa State Manufacturers association through its committee on express rates. The panel may seek as much as 60 percent cuts if justified, with a thorough review and a table of rates between Iowa cities and comparable distances in other states. The committee cites savings in ninety plus cases and proposes joint rates across multiple companies and a 10 cent minimum shipment charge as evidence of reasonableness.
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Tows
City
Iowa State Manufacturers'association
Iowa
Conitnis
Des Moines
Lowe
Minnesota
Texas
Georgia
Towa
Correctionville Huskers Husk Corn For Thanksgiving Feat
In November 20 local banker E F Schneckloth challenged Correctionville high school football players to husk corn. Sixteen men, led by Superintendent G V Whaley, harvested corn across frosty fields to earn a Thanksgiving feast of two typ turkeys. The effort included wagons and multiple working groups amid husking supplies shortages.
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Correctionville
G. V. Whaley
LeMars High School
Negrress Makes a Million in Alaska Gold Fields
Des Moines, Nov 20. Mia G B Verden, labeled a negress, left Alaska with gold ingots and mining interests valued at a million. She returned to Des Moines fashionably dressed and plans to move her slave-born parents into a mansion as construction begins on Hast Des Moines.
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Negress
Alaska
Des Moines
Mia
G. B. Verden
Verden
Hast Des Moiner
Dubuque Defaulter Arthur McArthur Sentenced
Arthur McArthur former chief engineer of the city water works in Dubuque pleaded guilty and was jailed for four years in Madison. A $20,000 shortage was found, $8,000 charged to his accounts, with $5,000 blocked by statute limitations. The case follows the last municipal campaign scandal and further indictments are expected. McArthur comes from a prominent Dubuque family.
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Dubuque
Arthur McArthur
Arty Water Works
Art Madison
McArthur
MeArthur
Freight Train Derails Near Spencer After Eastbound Crash
Spencey I I November 20 A flat section of the eastbound stock freight derailed at about 8 o clock Saturday night. An engine and four cars left the track in the incident with no immediate reports of injuries. Local crews investigated the derailment and cleared the line.
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Spencer Spencey
Young Hunter Shot by Companion Near Boon
In Boon on Sunday Karl Cunningham aged 14 was shot and killed by Roy Wyckoff a clerk from Dow Meines during a hunting trip near Hare. They crawled along a pond edge when the blast exploded striking Hart in the kneecap and tearing it to shreds. He died this morning at Bes o'clock. Wyckoff had returned to Deg Monnop and faced questions about the accident.
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Boon
Hare
Karl Cunningham
Wag
Roy Wyckoff
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