Fire Destroys Gilbert Elevator in Overnight Blaze
At about 1 am the Farmers' Elevator in Gilbert burned again destroying 6000 to 8000 bushels of grain and $10,000 insurance coverage. Fire spread to coal and feed sheds while locals and buyers worked to save stock in the yards amid efforts to salvage tools and furniture. Nearby residents rushed to aid, with several residents traveling from Ames in minutes to reach the scene.
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Gilbert
Orpha Swanson
Farmers
Ed Gilbert
Lockwood
Lockwood’s
Parmers
T. McDaniel
Stock Yard
Harry Dodds
Fred Davis
Ames
Robert Dodds
Harry
Maxwell
Fire Horror at Hungarian Ball Tragedy Kills Hundreds
A hotel ballroom fire in Mate Szalka Hungary during a village ball killed 300 to 400 people and injured many more. The blaze started when a woman's dress caught fire causing panicked evacuations and a roof collapse that trapped revelers.
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Mate-Szalka
Hungary
Oekoerite
Easter Program and Community Notes Highlight Local Life
The Easter Sunday School program drew praise as children and youths shone under charge of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reynolds and Mrs. A. J. Wolfe. Local residents share news on new Ford touring cars, family visits, and shifts in work, with the town election naming L. Olliver as mayor and A. B. Wright as treasurer.
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Ed Shepard
J.S. Jaccobsen
Chas. Wilson
Ira Dodds
Moneta
Iowa
Jessie Wilson
E. C. Johnson
Wyoming
Cass County
New England
Maude Wakefield
Story City
Elizabeth Kooser
Ronald Kooser
Guy
Floyd Wakefield
Guerney Dickinson
Miss Bertha
Roy Shearer
L. Olliver
A. B. Wright
J. O. Michaelson
J. Harnden
A. Jones
Fred Davis
Harry Thompson
W. H. Totten
Deaths R B Westfall 1855 1910 Ames Bedford
R B Westfall born near Moravia New York December 24 1855 died in Ames March 21 1910 aged 55 years. Married December 25 1862 to Della J Wallace at Axteil Kansas. Lived in Kansas Bedford and Ames where he worked on college grounds. Services conducted Monday at Welch street residence by Dr O H Csona chaplain I S C and Rev W J Minehin. Body buried in Bedford. Choir members listed.
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R. B. Westfall
Moravia
N. Y
Ames
Della J. Wallace
Axteil
Kans
Kansas
Bedford
Welch Street
O. H. Cssna
Hannah and Rebecca Praise Gold Medal Flour for Boys
Hannah declares bread from Gold Medal Flour is best for the boys while Rebecca agrees. The snippet highlights the trusted brand shaping family meals and daily baking.
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Hannah
Rebecca
Moody Poison Victim Murder Investigation in Chicago
Alexander Moody head of Moody & Waters bakery died February 20. Coroner Hoffman reports arsenic found in Moody’s stomach and believes it was placed in a Hemburger steak.maid Agnes Hartwick sick after gravy from the steak. A man and a woman linked to Moody under surveillance.
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Chicago
Alexander Moody
Moody & Waters
Hoffman
Moody
Agnes Hartwick
Mr. Moody
Bank bribery indictments in Pittsburg grand jury probe
The grand jury indicts thirty four current and former Pittsburg council members for bribery and conspiracy tied to 162000 in bribes. Directors from Farmers National and Workingman's National Savings testify. city depository officials face probe over securing deposits. The bankers’ testimony remains undisclosed.
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Pittsburg
Hugh Ferguson
William Brand
Charles
Stewart
H. C. Bughman
Second National Bank
J. M. Young
Farmers’ National Bank
Thomas M. Reis
Christian Zeis
J. H. Reed
Workingman’s National Savings and Trust Company
James M. Anderson
New York Central Refuses Wage Increase. Unions Vote A Strike
In New York on March 29 the New York Central Railroad rejected a wage increase demand from five thousand conductors and trainmen. Union presidents announced plans to order a strike vote.
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New York
New York Central Road
Doxey Trial Postponed to May Twenty Third
The murder trial of Dr. Loren B. Doxey and his wife Dora E. Doxey in St. Louis was continued from March 29 to May 23 regarding the death of W. E. Erder.
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St. Louis
Loren B. Doxey
Dora E. Doxey
W. E. Erder
Sweden's Crown Princess Gustave Adolph Gives Birth To Daughter
Crown Princess Gustave Adolph of Sweden, formerly Princess Margaret of Connaught, has a daughter. Five prisoners in the St. Louis workhouse escaped through a sewer and remain at large. A staged black hand plot is blamed for a fatal boarding house shooting in East Youngstown, Ohio. Robbers drilled into the Richmond Virginia post office vault and escaped with over $30,000 in stamps and $160 in cash. Willard Powell and T S Robinson of the Mabray gang, now at Fort Leavenworth, have filed appeal bonds with the US circuit court of appeals.
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Gustave Adolph of
Sweden
Margaret of
John Jacobs
Mike Fair
Youngstown
Richmond
Willard Powell
T. S. Robinson
Mabray
Fort Leavenworth
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Upcoming events at Ames and surrounding area
A list of spring and summer happenings includes church events by the Des Moines Association of Congregational Churches on April 19 20 in Ames and a high school play on April 28. Also scheduled are Glee Club lectures baseball games and commencements at Ames with regional college and professional gatherings through September and a football game on November 5.
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Des Moines
Congregational
Ames
Glee Club
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Jesse Cole
Ames High School
Iown State
International Graduate School
National
Story City
Ames Chautauqua
Story County Veterans
Towa State Rural Mail Carriers’ Association
Central Iowa Baptist Association
Womens’ Relief Corps District Convention
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Reward
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh case, endorses F. J. Cheney Co of Toledo, and claims the remedy works systemically. It notes testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle, and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Never Saw Such a March Said by Mr Isaac Craig
Mr Isaac Craig recalls a remarkable March with unusually fine days. He says he has never seen such a string of pleasant spring days in his lifetime.
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Isaac Craig
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Mr. McDaniel
Gilbert Happenings
A. L. Dunton
Farmington
Illinois
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Vermont
Northfield
Mass
Dunton
Paul
British Columbia
Canada
Dorothy
Duntons
J. W. Buck
Bro. Buck
New Mexico
Ceres
California
Buck
Colony
Clinton Douglas
T. O. Douglas
M. N. Templeton
Lily
Elizabeth
H. C
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M. J. Walters
Laura Dale
Ed Holmes
Dale
Oscar Lugilan
Radcliffe
Earl Jones
Business College
BE. T. Shepard
Miss Mable
Boone
Chris Jensen
Belle Jenkins
Iowa City
C. M. Johnson
South Dakota
Thimble Club
Polly
K. Wynn
Hinds
The
Evening Tribune
Congress
Roosevelt
Tribune
Dorothy Totten
A. J. Wolfe
Mr. L. Oliver
Nevada
Elwin Strong
Armory Opera House
New York Central
Doxey
Ames Auto CO
Mitchell
Grinnell
C.A. Steward
Ames, Ia
Birge
Joel E. Cagwin
Ames, Iowa
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