Iowa Reformatory Visit Describes 546 Inmates
Ames lady recounts December 31 tour of Ana Mesa reformatory Iowa. Details include 546 inmates 38 women 7 colored 55 insane, inmate grades, shop and kitchen operations, a 22 member band, a 9,000 book library and internal cell design. Also notes tobacco rules and in-house schooling plus the insular ward separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Reformatory
Anamesa
Iowa
Turnkey
Mr. O'Toole
Womans Ward
F. BE. Clark
Swank Returns After Five Years in Signal Service
Mr. Paul Swank son of Mr and Mrs George Swank of Boone street returns to Ames from five years of service in the Signal Service He spent time on the eastern coast with Fort Wood New York then in the Philippines and finished on the western coast before coming home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swank
Paul Swank
George Swank
Boone Street
Ames
Signal Service
Fort Wood
New York
Phillipines
Boone Faces Ongoing Rabies Fear After Rabid Dog Incident
Boone’s town mourns a dairy cow killed after six weeks of illness linked to a dog bite. A veterinary surgeon treated the farm of John Nelson where the animal was taken following a rabid dog encounter. The cow suffered convulsions and died despite disinfection efforts.
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Boone
John Nelson
Hall's Catarrh Cure payment offer sworn 1886 Toledo
Frank J. Cheney declares his firm F. J. Cheney & Co. will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn December 6 1886 before A W Gleason Notary Public. Cure claims taken personally with testimonials. Sold by druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Little Girl Run Over and Stores Mentioned
A fragment mentions a little girl struck and told to tell her mother about items from Eureka Bakery at Pike Avenue. It notes a sack rabbit killed by Prof W A Bevin on Welch Street while hunting, weighing nine pounds dressed, with Kans as the unknown escape. Also references Chamberlain remedies and a resignation of President MacLean at a state university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka Bakery
Pike Ave
Sack
W. A. Bevin
Welch Street
Tuesday
Kansas
Gentle purgative praised for mild action
A brief note extols a purgative sold by all druggists praised for its gentle and unnoticed action, urging readers to try it for relief.
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Meek
Ess
Love Asie
Moore
E.R. Moore
Adams
Story County
Nevada
Iowa State Reformatory
Anamosa
Kellogg Ave
Potter
E. C. Potter
Robert
Skelton
Cedar Rapids
Rice
Burmah
Prof. Potter
Ride
Duff Avenue
Wallace
H. V. Wallace
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern
Omaha
Illinois Central
Panama Canal
Interurban
Frazier
Joseph Brown
Eleanor Wilson
James Williams
Isabelle Brown
Ogden
Des Moines
Kansas City
Reid
Boone County
Polk
Banner County
Clay County
State of
Marshalltown
Iowa Soldiers
Jesse Cole
Ames Savings Bank
Washburn & Crosby
J. B. Kooser & Co
The
Union National and the
Union Savings Banks
Cording
Ness
Edwards-Champlin Goal Company
MacLean
George E. MacLean
State University At
Town City
Carnegie Organization
Chamberlain
Ayer
J.C. Ayer Os
Lowell
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