Judy Leads a Christmas Parasol Breakthrough at Crow Hill
Judy Follansbee defies family doubts to buy and sell festive parasols for Aunt Jane’s shop. A chance meeting with Miss Betty Armstrong opens a path to doll parasols and workshop work at Mr Armstrong’s toy factory, helping Judy and sisters Ethel and Hetty improve their fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy
Jady
Phoebe Follawsbee
Jane Pringle
Ethel
Hetty
Susan Jane
Miss Pringle
Phoebe
Epry
Hosy
Jane
Poppleton
Aunt Jane
Crow Hill
Susan Jane Follansbee
Betty Armstrong
Miss Betty
Betty
Aunt
Youth
Motorman Proves a Hero in Iowa Vehicle Rescue
In Sioux City Motorman Simon Peter and a conductor leaped from their stalled street car to fix a sand pipe. While off the car the brake cog slipped and the car sped toward a moving train. Peter bravely ran to the front and stopped the car a few inches from impact, saving many lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Simon Peter
West Third Street
Peter
Murderess Robin Banker Paroled Then Confesses
Delilah Fails, released seven years into a twenty year sentence for murder, was found bound and gagged in a Cedar Rapids banker’s home. She later admitted she killed the farmer Kern, claiming a large man robbed the house, and then confessed to the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robin Banker
Delilah
Bremer County
Kern
Prison for Confessed Forger in Prairie City
Charles W. Bryan was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to forgery. Formerly in the Prairie City mercantile trade he took $7,000 entrusted by widow Mrs. John Potter and used it to cover private debts, later presenting forged mortgages to hide the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Charles W. Bryan
Prairie City
John Potter
Bryan
Taunts Lead to Death of Second Wife in Ot tumwa
Bessie Hendricks Castle, wife of C B Castle a painting contractor, died after swallowing poison in Ot tumwa driven to desperation by taunts from Castle's former wife Margaret Castle who had visitation rights to their children. Castle had divorced his first wife in September and married Bessie Hendricks September 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Hendricks Castle
C. B. Castle
Ottumwa
Castle
Margaret Castle
Bessie Hendricks
Capture Post Office Robbers at Reinbeck
Three men dynamited the Reinbeck post office safe securing 2500 dollars and fled as a posse pursued. Citizens on a handcar chased the suspects exchanging fire, two men were found and surrendered. Fourteen hundred dollars of the haul was recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reinbeck
Farmer John Haas Hangs Self in Sunbury Barn Haymow
John Haas a Sunbury area farmer was found dead by hanging in the haymow of his barn. He had been treated for insanity at Mercy hospital Davenport for three or four months and returned home a week prior. Authorities believe despondency during a recent illness of mind led to the suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunbury
John Haas
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
Missing Cashier Returns from Imogene Bank
William McArdie, former cashier of the Citizens' bank of Imogene, has returned home at Imogene near Shenandoah after disappearing November 5. He was said to owe the bank $30,000 from speculative losses on the board of trade, with no word until his recent return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McArdie
Imogene
Shenandoah
Citizens’ Bank of Imogene
Board of Trade
Multiple Iowa local notices and incidents across towns
Marshalltown church offering aids widows and orphans of Japanese soldiers. Jack Salmon shot dead in Buxton saloon. Jones arrested. Muscatine railroad sold for 104000. Jewell Swedish Lutheran College main building dedicated. Rockwell City post office burglarized. money and stamps taken. Des Moines reports cooperative trading growth affecting merchants. Grinnell Citizens National Bank opens. Cedar Rapids Bank of Olin assigns with liabilities 155000 and assets 171000. Allison jury finds Hugh Wheeler guilty in lye throwing case. Hampton sheriff pushes plan to expand township constable duties and fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Jack Salmon
Buxton
Jones
Muscatine
Henry Jayne
Muscatine North & South Railroad
Webster City
Jewell Swedish Lutheran College
Swedish Lutherans of Iowa
Rockwell City
Des Moines
Iowa
Grinnell
Citizens’ National Bank
Cedar Rapids
Bank of Olin
E. E. Snyder
Allison
Hugh Wheeler
Hampton
L. H. Wolfe
Franklin County
Red Sun Color On Misty Days and Notable Scientists
From scientific sources: fog favors red rays, Mary A Booth of Springfield is noted in science, Hooker turns eighty seven with Utah and Colorado studies, titanium oxide fireproofing noted, 1878 Jupiter blotch landmark 30 000 miles by 8 000 miles remains as a crimson patch in the southern hemisphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Booth
Springfield
Mass
Royal Microscopical Society of London
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Huxley
Utah
Colorado
California
Rockies
Jupiter
Ways of Other Peoples
A collection of curious customs from around the world notes prohibitions in Heligoland on underage theater and tavern entry, Japanese women displaying age in hair, African natives fearing solitude, Spanish women training with swords, Lancashire laborers' belief in spells, and Dunstable cures with snails earthworms fried mice and superstitions from Merrie England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heligoland
Japan
Lancashire
Dunstable
Merrie England
Jest and Jollity Gleaned From Everyday Ironies
A satirical column blends wry observations on consumer trust, fashion, law, and marriage. It notes a green grocer’s experience with deadbeat customers, values seasonality and appearances, and quips on economists, sufficiency, and effort. It also hints that summer girls and peaches vanish together and that effort reveals limits in undoing past actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
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Iowa State News
First Baptist Church
Russia
Anderson
Jacksonville
Fla
West
Lydia E. Pinkham
R. A. Anderson
Washington St
Jacksonville, Fla
America
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Bears
Fac Simile Signature of
New York
Yu Ay Dosis
Zzcinis
United States
Canada
Ottawa
J. Brovehnton
Quincy
Chicago
Til
W. H. Rocers
Traction-Terminal
Indianapolis
Ind
T. O. Currie
Callahan Block
Milwaukee
Wis
Crawford
West 9Th St
Kansas City
M.V. McIxNes
Ave
Detroit
Mich
Old Mexico
Katy Freenere
St. Louis
Mexico City
Katy
ST. Louis, MO
The
Illinois Central Railboat Company
Resa
Dubuque
J. PM Bray
Pass
N. K
PISO
Dregmiste Lael
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