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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1905
Page
2
McCurdy Refuses to Resign Amid Insurance Probe
Richard A. McCurdy president of Mutual Life insists he will not resign and will serve until June. McCurdy Jr testified that he allows himself 500 dollars a week for travel expenses for Mutual. He admitted Mutual paid large sums to lawyers ex-state officials newspaper men and others to influence legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard A. McCurdy
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
McCurdy, Jr
New York Insurance
Mutual
McCurdy
Armstrong
Roosevelt Captures Richmond in Storm as South Welcomes Him
President Roosevelt tours the South starting in Richmond Virginia with a reception at the former Confederate capital. He praises the blue and the gray and speaks to cheering crowds in North Carolina while outlining rail rate policy in Raleigh. Various national and international items follow in brief.
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Roosevelt
Richmond
North Carolina
Raleigh
Edward George Cunliffe
Express
Pittsburg
Bridgeport
Conn
House of Representatives
Edward
Ireland
Vartanian
Turkey
Irving
H. H. Rogers
Boston
William Rockefeller
Rogers
Ohio
United States
Germany
von Sternburg
Berlin
Venezuela
Washington
Union Station
Chicago
St. Petersburg
Russia
Far East
Topeka
Kan
C. J. Devlin
Wilbur O. Carrier
Carroll College
Waukesha
Wis
Ralph Voorhees
Supreme Court of Nebraska
George W. Hoadley
Buckingham Hotel
New York
Ww. B. Smith
Wife Aids Church Is Slain in Hawarden
In Hawarden police arrested the husband of Mrs. Matt Bowldes after his story of heart disease was contradicted by her death. Children testified she told him she gave a dollar to the church and he violently attacked her, choking and kicking her before striking a fatal blow. An eight year old son tried to defend her with a hatchet, causing minor injuries.
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O. F. Berry
Dime Savings Bank of
Carthage
Ill
National Bank of Peoria
Margherita
Italy
United States
Missouri Pacific
Weeping Water
Nehawha
Neb
B. F. Young
William Sheffield
Illinois
Strattonsville
John J. Kelly
Department of Public Service
Sorento
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny
United Mine Workers
la Crosse
Wis
Hongkong
New York
Joseph Leiter
Philadelphia
Senator Penrose
Stead
Illinois Central Railroad
Ilinois
Hawarden
Matt Bowldes
Tragedy in Sioux City Ends In Double Fatal Shot
In Sioux City a 60 year old man E H Darrow killed his daughter in law callian Darrow aged 25 and then shot himself in the right temple both dying instantly. The incident occurred late in the afternoon as they rode from a hotel to a railroad station. The driver left the scene after the first shot and reported to police, hearing a second shot shortly after. Police found both dead seated upright facing opposite directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
E. H. Darrow
Callian Darrow
From Girlhood to Womankind Health Advice Ad in Pinkham Compound
An appeal promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as vital for adolescent girls entering puberty. It cites letters from mothers and young women praising the remedy for regulating menses, easing headaches and dizziness, and restoring health, with a request to contact Mrs. Pinkham for free confidential advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Pinkham
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Myrtle Mills
Oquawka
Matilda Borman
Farmington
Iowa
Banker Sentenced in Storm Lake Fraud Case
W. E. Brown president of the failed First National Bank of Storm Lake was sentenced to five years in prison in U S court for fraudulent banking and false entries. A federal trial spanned a week with two indictments and 31 counts. 30 counts yielded guilty verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
W. E. Brown
First National Bank of
Storm Lake
Reed
United States
Brown
Fairfield Tragedy: Husband Kills Wife Then Shoots Self
William Mouck shot and stabbed his recently divorced wife in Fairfield late at night, then attempted to shoot her again before killing himself. The couple had separated days earlier and Mouck had appeared seeking reconciliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stairs
Self
Fairfield
William Mouck
Mouck
Milking to College Bequest Leaves Iowa Learnings
George W. Catt, former Iowa State College student who earned room and board by milking cows, died in New York last week and left a $200,000 gift to the college, enriching its engineering and dairy heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
George W. Catt
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ames
New York
Electric railway project draws interest at Council Bluffs
News in brief reports a surge of interest in an electric railway line from Council Bluffs to Griswold, triggered by a group of men heading to St Paul on a mission tied to the undertaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Griswold
St. Paul
Sioux City
Iowa City
Rock Island
Frank Rogers
Fort Dodge
R. Prang
Charlton
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Colin E. Campbell
Chicago
Bessie Millikan
Algona
S. X. Way
Minneapolis
Burlington
St. John’s
Sioux Rapids
W. M. Hoskins
Zinser
Marshalltown
Phoebe Naumann
Thomas C. Carson
Johnson County Savings Bank
Iowa City Gas & Electric Company
Philadelphia
Short sayings on honesty debts and charity
A compact collection of aphorisms about honesty and trust. The speaker notes that prudent men speak at the right time and that genuine charity involves open purse but closed lips while grudges delay debts. The tone is laconic and reflective.
Stingy remarks on pin money in Cleveland Leader
Dialogue reveals Mrs Jawback accusing Mr Jawback of only wanting diamond pins after marriage. The couple quips about pin money and gifts in a light exchange characteristic of the era’s social columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jawback
Cleveland
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