Old Bourne House Becomes Railway Landmark
An Elizabethan manor at Bourne Lincolnshire once owned by the Digby family now serves as part of a railway station after bids to convert it into a landmark were accepted. The station master lives there. Other items note a public contract shifting US stamp production, Greece facing clinic-driven hardship, and antiquated legal rules on property forfeiture for deaths.
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England
Bourne
Lincolnshire
Great Northern
Dead man’s vote tilts Fremont justice race
In Fremont township Clarke county Ta a dead man elected justice of the peace after death. The ballot listed Dana Stacy causing Democratic challenger A B Zepp to trail with 61 votes to 63 for the deceased rival. Standpat interests favored grave clothes over a living foe.
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Oscrola
Ill
Fremont Township
Clarke County
M. Stacy
Dana Didate Stacy
P@hicy
A. B. Zepp
Asiloglis
Zepp
Umming
Fortune Inheritance Claimed By Dubuque Waif
Pearl Mabrier Martin, once found on Dubuque streets and adopted by Boone county widow Mrs Jane Martin, is named heiress to 6000 dollars and a half interest in land worth 40000. A court order returned her to the Home of the Good Shepherd after cruelty allegations, and Judge Richards ruled the white waif is now a rich young woman awaiting her fortune.
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Dubuque
Q Walt
Pearl Mabrier Martin
Minde
Pearl Mabrier
Jane Martin
Boone County
Good Shepherd
Archbishop Keane Bond Liability Case Highlights Iowa Parsonage Dispute
In Webster City on November 23 demand proceeds for 2005.98 against Archbishop Keane of the Catholic archdiocese of Iowa and bondsmen Du Duque, Altman, and Kiene. Plaintiffs claim funds for a Williams parsonage were misused as work diverged from contract. Lower court ruled for return of contributions. appeal by archbishop awaits final decision.
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Webster City
Keane
Williams
Busse Murder Case Upholds Dismissal of Habeas Petition
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed Linn County District Court's dismissal of Louis Busse's habeas corpus petition. The ruling states Busse must be hanged December 14 after a Bremer County trial where one grand juror’s challenge did not invalidate the indictment. The court ruled a writ cannot free a prisoner for trial irregularities and that one grand juror may be waived. judgment by the governor follows the high court's opinion.
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Busse
Des Alpines
Suspreme
Linn County
Louis Busse
Bremer County
Mouney
Supreme Court
Buase
Tbusse
Archbishop Denies Promises Kept to Williams Parish
Arch bishop Wonne rejects news dispatches as full of mistakes and says he kept promises to Williams parishioners. He recounts appointing a German priest to serve after a local decision and claims the English speaking pastor was needed for parish interests. He asserts the action aligned with the previous German hierarchy’s assurances.
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Williams
Nouv
Archplehal
Uferimen
Supreme Court
Williams, Ta
Wil
Court Defines Religion in Amana Colony Case
Des Moines Nov 23 The supreme court upheld the Amana society and offered an unusual definition of religion distinguishing it from secular material needs The court accepted that the Amana community aims to promote virtue and self denial rather than wealth and speculation and found no intent to profit beyond organizational needs
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Des Moines
Amana Society
Supreme Court
Amann Society
Tiny Periucps
Hess
I the Cout
Arana Society
As Good As Settled Positions In Des Moines House
Des Moines Iowa November 24 There is strong consensus on major Des Moines house positions with Kendall leading for Speaker and Benedict Kepford O Leary and Heffelfinger named for other top roles. The four named candidates are Republicans and backed by the party after the recent election.
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House of Representatives
Des Moines
Kendall
Albin
C. R. Henedict
Shelby
Reading
A. E. Kepford
Dennis O'Leery
Council
Bluffs
Jack Heffelfinger
Craundy Center
Benedict
Kepford
Iowa Society For the Prevention of
O'Leary
Stouncil Bluffs Nonprieil
Ramsey
Belmond
Heffelfinger Hay
Republican Party
Sponges Rise From Wild Harvests to Mediterranean Farms
In the Mediterranean, several sponge farms emerge amid prepaying concerns. Previously sponges were gathered wild from the sea by divers, thriving in natural beds, but in recent years they have begun to be cultivated.
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Mediterranean
Fragmented OCR light on eighteenth mile distance query
An unreadable OCR excerpt mentions an eighteen mile distance and voice related details. It references Coluside and a Gallcud esnyen, with phrases about one and the other end and a long distance measure of eighteen miles, but the context is unclear.
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Paty
Coluside
Stickney Urges Iowa to Manufacture Goods in West
At the Des Moines Commercial club on November 24 President Stickney of the Chicago Great Western urged Iowa cities, including Des Moines, to become cotton goods manufacturing centers. He argued the region can save long haul costs by manufacturing in the west and pledged the Great Western's support to develop northwest industry.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Commercial Club
Stickney
Chicago Great Western Imiilwiy
White
Great Western
Fowe Apa
GO STRAIGHT TO TRIAL Des Moines Reform Plan Backed
Des Moines Citizens push grand jury reform to allow trial without indictment. The plea follows Polk county jury failure to indict Des Moines street railway officials amid bribery testimony. Alderman Hamery backs the plan. critics warn ballot and ballot-box safeguards are weak. The bill would permit cases to go to court without grand jury indictment.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Des Moines Street Railway
Hamery
Bishop Morrison transfers diocese authority to Vexsion in Davenport
Standing committee of the Episcopal diocese of Davenport declares Bishop Morrison ill and grants full ecclesiastical authority to the Vermusittes. George W Twinkie named to head the diocese while Morrison tours southern Europe.
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Davenport
Itpigscopal
lJuns
Europe
T. N. Morrison
Davenpert Ile
George W
Twinkle
City Gains Point in Civic League Franchise Fight
Des Moines Nov 22 The state supreme court ruled in favor of the city and the Civic League in the Des Moines street railway franchise dispute. Civic League officials as citizens may join litigation, reversing the district court on that point, while upholding the district court on the quad warrants proceedings. The company had demurred and appealed, so the case moves toward trial on its merits.
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Bea Moines Civié League
Strait Railway'n Rights
Des Moines
Sitepreme
Civiq League
Des Moines Street Railway
Civic League
District Court
Tral
Man Claims Power to Raise Dead in Rural Iowa
A man believed insane entered the McDonald home in Hamilton county Iowa and approached Mrs. McDonald who lay dead. He seized her hand and demanded she arise, startling mourners before being forcibly removed.
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Fort Dodge
Hamilton County
McDonald
McDonald Senate
Insanity or Jealousy? Woman Slashes Husband in Bed
Moodhead Ta Nov 22. Mrs Jospeh Lantz slashed her husband’s throat while he answered a caress. She is at her parents’ home in Dunlap IA. Doctors think she will be sent to the asylum. The husband is seriously wounded but alive and assailed by the shock of the incident.
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Laurium
Agnes Lewis
Roglind
Mount Sinai
Moodhead
Josseph Lantz
Malcolm Baird
Dunlap
Federal job distribution eyed after Congress meets
U S Attorney for the Southern Iowa District reports a conference with Iowa delegation to divide federal positions after the new session. Likely allocations include Northern and Southern districts with named officials such as A C Smith H J Pobin E E Knoete N L Temple EL Oy Weaver and George M Christian among others.
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Washington, D. C
Thevra
Iowa
Congress
A. C. Smith
H. J. Pobin
EE. A. Knoete
N. L. Temple
EL. Oy Weaver
George M. Christian
Kepford and Benedict Vie for House Clerk Post
A contest for chief clerkship in the Des Moines House of Representatives emerges as Rev A Ik Shepford, former assistant clerk, runs against ex-clerk C R Benedict who previously failed to win Shelby county’s seat. Opposition grows to Dr Newnen’s reappointment as senate secretary.
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Kepford
Benedict
House of Representatives
Des Moines
A. Ik. Shepford
C. R
Hig Try
House
Shelby County
Newnen
Senate
Gasoline Explosion Kills Boy. Father Burned in Iowa Fire
In Clarion Iowa a gasoline blast at a restaurant run by George Stager burns his son Harold Stager to death and leaves the father seriously burned. The scorched remains of the boy were recovered from the ruins after the blaze subsided. The father was taken to a hospital in Dows for treatment with doubtful chances of recovery.
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Gosts
Clarion
Harold Stager
Dows
George Stager
Stager
Tows Paris
Amana Society upheld by Iowa Supreme Court in religious case
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of challenges to the Amana Society, ruling courts may not interfere with religious beliefs or its property holdings. Despite the decision, observers predict the communistic community may face internal dissension and eventual dissolution after sixty years.
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Des Moines
Amana Society of
Iowa
Supreme Court
Iowaye
Amana Society
Amana
Murderous assault on wife ends in self destruction near Sanborn
Peter Gettman a 60 year old German farmer three miles east of Sanborn Iowa, beat his wife with a stove poker during a quarrel over a house then walked a mile to a haystack and killed himself with a pocket knife. The battered wife survived though badly bruised. Neighbors described Gettman as even tempered but the quarrel over property led to the deadly attack and tragedy. He had remarried a year earlier in Grant county Minnesota.
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Sanborn
Peter Gettman
Here
Gettman
Grant County
Minn
Kossuth
Ledyard
Gettmian
Hanging Delayed as Court Reviews Habeas Corpus Request
Des Moines on November 21 reports Louis Busey’s fate hinges on a Supreme Court writ of habeas corpus. The December 14 hang date stands. court may not rule until December 11. The Webster City Freeman Tribune notes a trial reversal due to Mrs. Berger’s withdrawal of divorce suit after a gypsy fortune teller predicted wealth for her husband.
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Des Moines
Louis Busey
Supreme Court
Berger
Webster City
Freeman i Tribune
Archbishop Keane Opens Crusade Against Bad Morals in Dubuque
Archbishop Keane called a crusade against temperance evils and the public dance hall in Dubuque Iowa addressing Catholic women. He urged women to unite, oppose social ills, influence politics to curb vote buying through drink, and promote actions against morphia and narcotics.
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Keane
Dubuane
Iowa Faces Teacher Shortage and Rural School Closures
Des Moines reports a statewide teacher shortage with two main remedies under discussion. About 2000 country schools may close with students moved to neighboring districts while boards raise salaries, now averaging 39.90 dollars a month for women teachers. Educators estimate rural schools must pay up to 600 dollars yearly to attract staff, aided by a new law allowing flexible consolidation to fit district needs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Echo Boards
Cummins Leader by About Twenty Thousand in Canvass
Corrected county canvasses show Governor Cummins ahead by 20 867 votes with 216 095 for Cummins and 196 138 for Porter. Senator Guryt outpaced Cun ning in lieutenant governor race by about 3 000 votes, with Hayward in a state post close behind.
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Cummins
Tribune
Porter
Guryt
Cunning
Reedive
Hayward
Se Ty
Cummioa
Thue
Ee Ford
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