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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
9
Webster City to Get Municipal Gas Plant
Webster City may obtain a municipal gas plant despite public opinion after Fort Wayne Gas & Construction notified plans to unload their plant this week under a prior franchise deal. A Snake Shore road wreck near Cleveland injured and killed many as the Twentieth Century Limited derailed at an open switch. The railroad chief ordered restoring the Chicago New York run to twenty hours.
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Webster City
Fort Wayne Gas & Construction Company
Snake Shore Road
Cleveland
Ohio
Twentieth Century Limited
Chicago
New York
Storm strikes homes of Olson and Wicks families
Lightning hit the Olson residence and the Wicks barn during the Sunday storm, causing no serious damage. A daughter of the Olson couple narrowly escaped injury as lightning struck her shoe on the porch and ripped it open then traveled through the floor, frightening everyone.
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Hactor Olson
George Wicks
Death of Fourteen Year Old John Hanson Near Story City
John Hanson son of Mr and Mrs Ole Hanson aged fourteen from six miles southwest Story City died Sunday afternoon due to heart disease after a fall. Medical help arrived too late. Funeral at South Immanuel church was conducted by Rev Heimark Tuesday with interment in the nearby cemetery.
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John Hanson
Ole Hanson
Story City
South Immanuel Church
Heimark
Story City Herald
Clever Tara Boys Sell Mock Beer Bottles to Excursionists
In Tara a small town near Fort Dodge, boys filled empty beer bottles with colored water and labeled them as real beer. They sold the bottles to arriving excursionists for twenty five cents each, netting a dozen or so before the scheme was discovered as the train pulled away.
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Chicago
Tara
Fort Dodge
Youthful grafters prey on crowds in town trains
Webster City notes youths reportedly swindled crowds in a dozen to sixteen passing trains, netting forty to fifty dollars. George Woodruff, en route to Chicago then New York, was robbed of his wallet containing 180 dollars in cash and drafts worth 150 dollars. The bank in Story City halted payment on the drafts after telegrams, while cash losses remain significant following a recent fire.
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Webster City
Lribane
George Woodruff
Chicago
New York
Telegraph
Citizens Bank
Mr. Woodruff
Story City Herald
Doctor summoned to state board over alleged medical incompetency
Dr William H Smith a Shelbrock Iowa physician faces the state board of medical examiners to answer charges of incompetency in medicine stemming from a quarrel over quarantining smallpox and diphtheria. He refused to quarantine until a state physician intervened. He must show why his medical certificate should not be revoked and why he may continue practicing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Smith
Shelbrock
Iowa
State Board of Medical Examiners
Smith
State Board of Examiners
Ward announces release of Eric Mikelson from Montana prison
Nevada special reports that Eric Mikelson, a Story county native and former Huxley merchant, has been freed from a Helena penitentiary after a pardons board review found his four year sentence for safe cracking to be a travesty of justice. His aged mother had pressed for his release since his capture years earlier.
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Nevada
Ward
Eric Mikelson
Story County
Helena
Mont
Board of Pardons
Mikelson
Montana
Burglary Reported in Kelley Area Last Night
Burglars entered several Kelley homes overnight and took cash and papers. The heaviest loss was Geo Starr who lost over fifty dollars in cash and bankable papers.
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Kelley
Geo. Starr
Williams
Mr. Williams
Perth
Marshal Robins
Slater News
Nevada Watchman reports new Nevada telephone building
The contract for erecting a new Nevada telephone building was awarded to Chetainger and Bobo for 2600 dollars. The structure on Court avenue between Linn and Oak will feature a fireproof switchboard room and Bedford stone and pressed brick frontage under manager Frank M. Boardman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Messrs Chetainger and
Bobo
Court Avenue
Linn
Oak Streets
Frank M. Boardman
Nevada Watchman
Judging Contest at Iowa State Fair Offers $200 Scholarship
The Iowa State Fair announces a boys judging contest with a $200 one year scholarship to Iowa State College. Valued at $200, funds are deposited to be paid at $25 monthly to the winner. Open to Iowa youths under 21 who have not been enrolled in an agricultural college. Contestants judge two rings of horses cattle and swine and assess two varieties of corn each. Last year Charles Steen won, with Roy Igo and J G Boland in second and third.
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Lowa State College
Ames
Iowa State Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
Iowa
Charles F. Steen
West Liberty
Roy Igo
Indianola
J. G. Boland
Williamsburg
Cuban diarrhoea and a remedy from Cuba
U S soldiers aware of Cuba disease find ordinary cures weak. Cuban diarrhoea is severe but Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is praised by Minnie Jacobs of Houston Texas as curing her husband after doctors failed. For sale by Loughran & Bauer.
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U.S
Cuba
Minnie Jacobs
Houston
Texas
Chamberlain
Loughran & Bauer
Reduced North Western Line Sale Dates Announced
Travel on the North Western Line offered at reduced rates from July 10 to 13 with a return until July 15. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Ry.
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North-Western
Chicago & North-Western R'y
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Ad Ends With Benefit Claim
A vintage advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promising perfect digestion and assimilation, new red blood and bone, and health benefits for the sick and weak. It markets tea or tablets for 35 cents from Loughran & Bauer.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Loughran & Bauer
Iowa Crop Report Week Ending June 26 1905 Des Moines
For the week ending June 26 1905 Des Moines Iowa the weather alternated warm and cool with rainfall variable. Corn growth is healthy and stands are better than earlier reports with harvest to start as in recent years. Spring wheat heads vigorously oats vary from light to heavy while barley heads nicely. Clover is heavy timothy poor in places potatoes promise extra yield and apples vary by region.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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