Warm indorsement from Iowa superintendents for Fitzgerald
Iowa state institutions heads closed a quarterly meeting by voting unanimous resolutions in support of F P Fitzgerald, superintendent of the Mitchellville girls school, after noting his illness. They praise his integrity and announce his resignation and planned move to St Anthony Idaho once he recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dew Moines
F. IP. Fitzgerald
State Industrial School For Girls
Mitchellville
State House
Fitzgerald
Board of Control
Henry W. Robert
School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
Max E. Witte
Clarinda State Hospital
George Mogridge
Glenwood
W. L. Ihuser
Eldora Industrial School
St. Anthony
F. P. Fitzgerald
Iowa Industrial School For Girls
State of
Iowa
Joseph E. Vance
Vinton College For the
Hood River
Ore
Danger of Lawn Mowing Insects Bite Prompts Illness
Des Moines Iowa June 26 Frank Winniberg lies critically ill after a small bug bit his arm while mowing the lawn. The arm swelled to double size, doctors call it blood poisoning, and his physicians hope for recovery though it remains grave. Medical men seek to identify the insect's venom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Frank Winniberg
Winniberg
Promising Career Suddenly Terminates in Syracuse
Melvin M. Lien of Marshalltown Illinois died Tuesday in Syracuse New York during a transcontinental foot journey to earn his own way. Deaf from scarlet fever in boyhood he attended the state school for the deaf in Council Bluffs and graduated later from Gallaudet College. He supported himself by printing and did story writing and poetry while he traveled doing correspondence for eastern newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Ila
Melvin M. Lien
Syracuse
N. Y
Boston
Council Bluffs
State School For the Deaf
Gallaudet College
Washington
Ed ward McDonough Dies After Failed Leg Operation
Ed ward McDonough 67 of Lacey Mahaska county died after 56 years of tubercular knee disease and an attempted leg amputation. Doctors told him he could not live 86 hours unless surgery occurred but blood poisoning set in and he died within hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Edward McDonough
Lacey
Mahaska County
Banning Ordered to Pay $5,000 for Jilt of Miss Louer
Des Moines caption reports farmer Ben Banning must pay $5,000 for breaking his promise to marry Miss Lottie Louer after a prior $2,000 verdict. a new trial added another $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Lottie Louer
Ben Banning
Captain Culver Dies At 61 In Washington
Captain Abraham K. B. Culver of the United States Navy died suddenly in Washington last night at age 61. He was born in Utica New York and entered the naval service as a midshipman in 1872.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Abraham KB. Culver
United States Navy
Culver
Utica
N. Y
Naval Service
Man Drowns Swimming Across Lake in Akron Iowa
Akron Iowa June 26 A farmer Fred Hersaler drowned Tuesday night while swimming across Sargeant's lake about two miles from Akron to reach his team left on the opposite shore He and a friend were fishing when he failed to return and a search recovered his body the next morning
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Sargeant
Insurance ban ends automobiler liability policies in Iowa
Des Moines June 25. Auditor Bleakley ruled that liability insurers may not issue automobile owner liability policies. Only policies covering goods transport autos may be written. About 10 companies in the state offered broader auto liability. existing policies stand until expiration, new policies will forfeit licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Bleakley
Needle Found To Have Caused Muscular Rheumatism
Mason City Iowa June 25 Auditor L J Nelson of Winnebago county had a needle removed from his arm after years of unexplained pains and a history of rheumatism treatments. He recalls no jab as a child but endured severe episodes culminating in a nervous collapse before doctors located and removed the needle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
L. J. Nelson
Winnebago County
Counties Join In Unusual Celebration
Ames Iowa on June 25 reports plans for a large July 3 semi centennial celebration of Boone and Story counties. Special trains will run from both counties and nearby areas with Fort Dodge promising a large delegation. The event will occur on the college campus with picnic areas. John A Hull of Boone will deliver the oration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Boone
Story
Fort Dodge
John A. Hull
Boone, Ia
Hidden fortune found under carpets in former home
In Sperry on June 25 the mystery of a hidden fortune was solved by the discovery of nearly $1,000 under carpets and in wall secret places in the former home of Mrs. Elizabeth Farrier who died without revealing the hiding spots. She avoided banks and safeguarded money in this unusual way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sperry
Elizabeth Farrier
WILL PLACE CAVALRY IN SMALL TOWNS
Des Moines Iowa June 25 Adjutant General Logan announced the first cavalry troops authorized by the last legislature will likely be made up of farmers sons and stationed in small villages The idea that guard units must be in large cities is not expected to hold Farmers have horses and want this form of organization Four troops and one artillery troop are planned for this summer with full regiment not immediate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Logan
White slave agent told to leave town in Des Moines
Des Moines June 25 Curtin Bowman of Fort Dodge was ordered to leave town within 12 hours after police arrested him on suspicion of involvement with the white slave traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Curtin Bowman
Fort Dodge
Married women to convert Chinaman
Miss Elizabeth Pearson of Des Moines urges that unmarried women should not undertake Christianization of Chinamen in the United States. She says married women, less impressionable, should do the work. Eleven Iowa women are currently serving in China under the same society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Elizabeth Pearson
Methodist Woman's Home Missionary Society
China
Iowa
Hawaiian execution marks first in three years
In Honolulu yesterday Hal Dam a Korean national recently convicted of murder was hanged marking the territorys first execution in three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Hawaiian
I Hal Dam
Trial Postponed for Sugar Refining Weighers
In New York Judge Holt in the United States circuit court postponed the trial of weighers employed by the American Sugar Refining company for defrauding the government of duties until October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Holt
United States Circuit Court
American Sugar Refining Company
El Paso Smuggling Case Verdicts Rendered in U S Court
In El Paso district court Bob Leung a wealthy individual from El Paso Texas was found guilty while Carlos Sevedra and Jose Parra Mexican miners were found not guilty of involvement in the Chinese smuggling ring according to the verdict delivered yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bob Leung
el Paso
Tex
Carlos Sevedra
Jose Parra
United States
Writer of Black Hand letters is a single woman
In Algona Iowa on June 24 87 year old Sarah Larson was arrested for authorship of the Black Hand letters sent to Mrs. Charles Stewart. Detectives matched handwriting and Larson confessed during a sweat box interrogation and may be committed as insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Sarah Larson
A. E B. Bernard
Bernard Secret Service Agency
Des Moines
Charles Stewart
Miss Larson
Justice of the Peace
Mr. Stewart
Misa Larson
Bernard
Commissioners of Insanity
Cherokee
Dynamite Bomb Destroys Tucson Home
Miss Marie Whalen learned that the residence of her father W. H. Whalen in Tucson Arizona was wrecked by a dynamite bomb thrown through a window. Mr and Mrs Whalen escaped unharmed. Whalen formerly supervised Iowa division of the Chicago and North Western Railroad and was well known in railway circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone, Ila
Marie Whalen
W. H. Whalen
Tucson
Ariz
Oldest Mason in Iowa James Russell Dies at Keota
Des Moines reports James Russell, the oldest Mason in Iowa, died suddenly at his Keota home. He was 96 years old. Russell had long served in Masonic lodges across the state and was revered as a veteran member of Iowa’s fraternal community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
James Russell
Iowa
Keota
Marshall County Farmer Arraigned in Obscene Letter Case
Frederick Haskell a wealthy farmer from Marshall county was arraigned in Des Moines on sending obscene letters to Fannie McGray who jilted him for another man. He pledged bonds to await the federal grand jury action after his ardent attentions turned insulting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Frederick Haskell
Marshall County
Federal
Fannie McGray
Haskell
Woman rescues 30 horses from fire in Mason City
Mrs. H. W. James rushed into two burning livery barns to free 30 horses as flames consumed L. M. Valentine and S. W. Keeney properties. Three horses burned. 20 buggies and equipment lost. Total loss about 6 000 dollars with 3 500 dollars insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
L. M. Valentine
W. Keeney
H. W. James
Plumbers and Teamsters Open National Conventions in Detroit and Boston
Plumbers from all sections of the United States, about 700 strong, gather in Detroit for the 27th annual convention of the National Association of Master Plumbers, opening for four days. Separately in Boston, the National Team Owners association continues business sessions on its seventh annual convention, ending today with officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
United States
National Association of Master Plumbers
Boston
National Team Owners’ Association
Ich
State bought papers for legislators in 1866 Iowa
A 1866 Iowa session laws record shows annual appropriations for newspapers for lawmakers, with Progressive Republican and Iowa Homestead among recipients. It notes county seats listed, and a concurrent resolution thanking Major General G M Dodge for Indian affairs and defense of western borders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State House
Senate
House
Register
Story County Aegis
Summit County Beacon
LaFayette Journal
The
Bay Republican
New Oregon Plaindealer
Boonesboro Advocate
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Chicago
Quincy
Adams County
Co Ir. Audubon
Prairieville
Uena Vista
Lewis
Cass
Ellington
Hancock
Okoboji
Dickinson
Andrew
Jackson
Poelle
Palo Alto
Melbourn
Plymouth
Milton
Pocahontas
Grant
Wright
Granville M. Dodge
Council Bluffs
G. M. Dodge
Plains
Department of the Missouri
Foreclosure Loses Woman’s Wooden Leg in Auction
Des Moines Iowa June 23 Mrs Charities Harridin sees her wooden leg foreclosed as household property. The leg was unstrapped and laid with other goods during mortgage sale despite her pleas. It was hidden in the bed but discovered in the packing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charities
University of Iowa reins in admission with four years high school
Des Moines Iowa June 23 After four years trial of a three year high school requirement the State University of Iowa reinstates a four years high school course for admission. The action aligns with North Central Association standards and requires 15 units across four years of study. The change follows criticism of prior expansion without pupil growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State University of Iowa
Old Board of Regents
State University
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Storm Lake Sanitarium Burns. Patients Escape
Fire destroyed Storm Lake sanitarium owned by Dr. D. H. Nusbaum at 3 30 yesterday morning. Patients and occupants escaped. fireman Earnest Stanley was overcome while rescuing a patient. Loss about 16000 with 60 percent insured. Building formerly the Park hotel built by FE W Frick in 1878.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storm Lake
Storm Lake Sanittarium
D. H. Nusbaum
Earnest Stanley
Park Hotel
FE. W. Frick
Lightning Fire Destroys Sackett & Cornell Store in Iowa
A fire at dawn gutted the Sackett & Cornell dry goods store in Webster City Iowa causing 15600 dollars in stock loss and 5000 dollars in building damage. Lightning struck the electric wires triggering the blaze and both stock and building were insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
City
Sackett & Cornell Dry Goods
Woman Found Dead Husband Missing in Rapids City
Davenport Iowa reports Mrs Thomas J Adams aged 49 was found dead in a yard pool of blood at Rapids City near here. Her husband is missing. The family was formerly wealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Thos. J. Adams
Rapids City
Iowa Man Elected at North American Skat Meetup
Milwaukee dispatch reports Detroit raptured the next convention of the North American Skat Mague at a business meeting held yesterday. Directors elected include Fred H. Kunkel of Davenport, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Detroit
Skat Mague
Fred H. Kunkel
Davenport
Cape Cod Canal project advances toward canal linking New York to Boston
Sandwhich Massachusetts report notes another start toward a long planned canal across the shoulder of Cape Cod. The route would cut about 100 miles from the New York to Boston sea passage and help ships dodge Atlantic storms and shoals near the promontory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich
Mass
Cape Cod
New York
Boston
Atlantic
Adel churchwoman convicted in whist case
Mrs Minnie Douglass a social leader in Adel Iowa was found guilty of playing whist at a Methodist church ecclesiastical trial led by Rev A E B Foutch. She faces temporary communion suspension and a potential permanent ouster after a one week apology window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adel
Minnie Douglass
Methodist Church
A. E B. Foutch
de Soto
van Meter
A. R. Grant
Dallas Center
Douglas
General Conference of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
A. E. Foutch
Buena Vista College Receives Generous Chapel Gift
Buena Vista College capped a strong year with commencement exercises led by Rev. J. W. Bean and Rev. Geo. N. Lubecock. Four graduates earned BA degrees and Dean Fracker announced a chapel gift in memory of Grace Cameron by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Garberson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
J. W. Bean
Cherokee
Geo. N. Lubccock
Chicago
Cully
Sioux City
Dean Fracker
C. W. Garberson
Mies Grace Cameron
Corporations May Deduct Debts Before Assessment
Judge W H Mechenry in Polk County Iowa holds that debts may be deducted from the actual value of corporation stock for assessment purposes under Iowa law. The ruling, on appeal from three large Iowa insurance firms, settles a long moot point and deprives city treasuries of thousands of dollars yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
W. H. Mechenry
Polk County
City Treasuries
Iowa
Siblings Reunited After 20 Years Wealthy Ranchers Found
A Des Moines woman learns her brothers Fred and William Herschler, believed dead for two decades, are alive and prospering as ranchers near Philip. Mrs K G Christy left for the area to reunite with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Fred
William Herschler
Philip, S&s. D
Mra
K. G. Christy
Accused Mayor Hit by Pulley May Die
Des Moines Iowa June 22 Mayor A M Henderson of Marengo was struck on the head by a pulley dropped by a telephone lineman. The skull fracture may prove fatal. Henderson was to be tried June 28 under the Cosson law for intoxication upon the attorney general's complaint seeking removal from office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
A. M. Henderson
Marengo
Henderson
Cosson
Bad Dames Nab Innocent Babies In Des Moines Kidnapping
Des Moines residents report three women posing as humane society agents abducted three infants from Mrs J Jones's private maternity home in Urbandale. Suspects Elia Gibson May Morgan and Mia Gardner are being sought by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
The
Humane Society
J. Jones
Urbandale Interurban
Elia Gibson
May Morgan
Miara Gardner
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Ames, Lowa
G. J. Snyder
Gambile’s Drug Store
Yewa
Mutual
T. L. Rice
Keating
R. F. Nickerson
General Cement Contractor
Iowa Association of Cement Users
A. B. Maxwell, M. D
Kooser’s Grocery
Ames, Iowa
C. L. Waltmire
Bell
M. J. Adams
Daniel McCarthy
J. ¥. Lure
McCarthy & Luke
Attorneys-At-Law
Story County Bank
A. W. Crary
M. D
Boone, Iowa
Union National Bank
QV. M. Greeley
E. W. Stanton
Henry Wilson
Cashier Co
L. Siverly
Ase’t
Cashier
Frank E. Morris
Leeding Liveryman
Lavery Feee and Sale Stable
Hack Laine
College
Onondaga
Gale
E. F. Posegate
H. M. Duckworth
James O'Donnell
Cadd Marble and Granite Works
Boone and
Nevada
Mutual Phone
Hyland Ave
Barry Arrow
Pallorton Market Tetines
Alco
Great Northern Seed Co
Rockford
Ilinois
Mitchellville Institution
Banning
Captain Culver
Solons
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