Priest Healer Kroeger’s Rise From Scandal to Fame
The story recounts Father William Kroeger, a German born priest who became a renowned physician and chemist in Epiphany, Dakota Territory. After a youthful romance and a broken engagement, he emigrated to America, built a vast medical establishment, and served the poor while amassing a large fortune. His life ended at 53, with controversy over a former debt in Elkhart resolved by repayment.
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Billy Blake brough Assault Reported in Bancroft
In Bancroft Billy Blake brough was struck near the cheek bone Wednesday night by a unknown assailant as he stood by a machine house. The blow left a deep gash and he was rendered unconscious before help arrived. Tracks in the snow revealed the ambush and the victim was later cared for by Mrs B. who summoned aid. The culprit remains unidentified.
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Farmers Institute to Convene at Armory Over Three Days
The 14th Annual Farmers Institute will be held in the Armory on the 18th, 19th, and 20th. A full program includes addresses, music, papers on celery culture and farm sanitation, and talks on county fair improvements and dairying profits. Noted speakers include E S Fursman of Illinois, with guests traveling from Marshalltown Des Moines and Waterloo. an estimated 50,000 visitors expected in Chiapas for the Panama railway land draw.
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Pearl Peck
J. BR. Bright
Kenefick
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Sweeney
Henry Wallace
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Express firms win in race to carry liquor interstate
The US Supreme Court, in two Iowa cases, held express companies may not be blocked from transporting liquor between states with prohibitory laws, reversing Iowa Supreme Court rulings. Justice White announced the decisions, deeming such bans a violation of the interstate commerce clause. The American Express Company and Adams Express Company cases centered on shipments sent C.O.D. from Rock Island Illinois to Tama Iowa and a liquor sales house, respectively.
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Iowa settlers to seek Mexican land drawing chance
A dispatch from Eldora reports many residents from Marshall Hardin and nearby Iowa counties plan to travel to Chiagas Mexico next month to take part in the Mexican government's land drawing set for a specific date. The group hopes to secure parcels through this government program and return with opportunities unclear.
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Teacher Catches Blizzard Night in Isolated Iowa School
Miss Billa Coats, Ames, taught a country school near Zearing during Iowa’s blizzard. With students dismissed early, she stayed in the dark, snowbound building until morning, having plenty of fuel but no candlelight to guide her through the long vigil. The 27th of December, 1904, proved harsher than legends of perpetual night.
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The Beauties of Prohibition in Bancroft
A Prohibition era note from Bancroft Register quotes a liquor house rep in a distant city stating annual sales of 3000 to 4000 dollars and notes there are at least a dozen other houses doing business locally. It adds brewery products are consumed and argues that prohibition makes money vanish forever.
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Bancroft Register
Bonzai Defeat Echoed In Humble Verse And Ads
Fragmentary poem mocks the Bonzai defeat with garbled lines as a shop advertizes shoe findings and a loan service. The piece blends wartime cheer with local merchant notices from Galbraiths Shoe Store and A. D. Clarke & Co offering goods and a 5 percent loan option.
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