Postmaster Charged With Improper Use Of Frank Envelopes
Assistant Postmaster W D Rich held by Deputy Marshal Biddle and taken to Des Moines on a charge of using government frank envelopes for non government business. He waived preliminary hearing and bound over to await the May federal grand jury. Sister of Mercy founder of Mercy hospital in Des Moines with long tenure in the order.
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United States
McArthur
G. A. Underwood
Federal Grand Jury
Des Moines
Death of Mary Martin at Mercy Hospital in Davenport
Gus Martin of this city was called to Davenport last week due to the death of his aunt Mother Mary Baptist Martin. She died in Mercy hospital on Friday at seventy eight, the oldest member of the family. The funeral was held on Monday and Gus returned that evening.
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Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Davenport
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Independence
Iowa City
DeWitt
Society of Sister of Mercy
Gus Martin
Mary Baptist Martin
Gus
Mary Martin
Phone Meeting Postponed Amid Line Consolidation Plans
The annual meeting of rural Bell and Mutual line subscribers was postponed from yesterday likely to Monday. Officials indicate the lines will operate separately until April when consolidation is planned, though not authoritatively.
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Bell and Mutual Lines
County Board Organizes In January Session
The county board of supervisors met at the court house in Nevada for the annual January session. C. W. Scott was elected chairman as J. O. Michaelson retired and was succeeded by Mr. Jacobson. The old board presented Michaelson with a handsome easy chair.
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Board of Supervisors
Court House
Nevada
C. W. Scott
J. O. Michaelson
Jacobson
Michaelson
Mercy Hospital Patient Recovering After Tuesday Operation
Mrs. C. E. Bartholomew underwent an operation in Mercy hospital at Des Moines Tuesday morning. She is said to be making a substantial recovery.
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C. E. Bartholomew
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Iowa State College Faces Shutdown Over Coal Shortage
Rumor says Iowa State College may close within 36 hours if coal supplies do not arrive. The university has halted most operations except the hospital as blizzards halt rail freight and no coal has moved in Iowa for 48 hours. Ames laundry may also shut down tonight.
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Iown University
Iowa
Ames
Bassett Bassett Wedding in Boone and Ames
Monday afternoon at 4:00 in the office of Elder Samuel McBirnie in Boone Miss Cora May Bassett and Bert Bassett both of Ames were married. After the ceremony they returned to Ames where they will make their home.
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Samuel McBirnie
Boone
Cera
Cora May Bassett
Bert Bassett
Ames
Boone News-Republican
Ames to Pave Streets in Spring Creosote Blocks Favored
Ames leaders push a resolution of necessity to pave the town with creosote blocks after the November sidewalk contract. The plan calls for nine months of paving on Onondaga Street from Duff to Grand and northward to Story Street with creosote blocks as the chosen material. Local railroad tales and Alfred Vanderbilt’s visits frame a nostalgic portrait of Ames as a key Vanderbilt System junction city.
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Ames
Onondaga Street
Duff Avenue
Grand Avenue
Story Street
Fingers Blown Off By Shotgun In Snow Fence Accident
Thirteen year old Arthur Davis dropped a shotgun while climbing a snow fence along the Northwestern right of way Friday afternoon. He caught the muzzle as the trigger struck a board and the hammer discharged, blowing off his right hand fingers. He was found by a passerby and later amputations were performed by doctors. The thumb remained intact and the boy was reported progressing well.
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Arthur Davis
Lee Davis
Boone Street
Father Renier
St Cecilia's Church
Vanderbilt sidetracked in Ames on delayed train
Alfred G. Vanderbilt and his private car the Wayflower were sidetracked in the Ames yards after train number 12, running late from Boone. The engine failed and was removed, leaving Vanderbilt’s car hitched to the back end on a side track for several hours.
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Boone
Vanderbilt
Ames
Millionaire
Ames Yards
Globe Trotter
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Wayflower
Number 12
Number
Maxwell Heads Story County Medics
Dr. A B Maxwell of this city was elected president of the Story County Medical Society at the annual meeting in this city Tuesday afternoon. The session in Mono club rooms featured papers by Drs Jennie Christ and Earl B Bush. Dr Kine oft Dodge and Dr R R Dykstra of Iowa State College toured as visitors. An illustrated lecture on Tuberculosis by Dr Kime followed in the Methodist church. Officers for the coming year were Maxwell president Connor Nevada vice president Chamberlain Nevada secretary Smith Nevada delegate to the state meeting and Bush Nevada alternate delegate.
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A. B. Maxwell
Story County Medical Society
Mono Club
Jennie Christ
Earl B. Bush
Maxwell
Kine
Dodge
R. R. Dykstra
Veterinary Department
Iowa State College
F. H. Connor
Nevada
H. D. Chamberlain
F. S. Smith
City
Jaenson Heads to Texas to Run Major Fruit Farm
Des Moines athlete Robert E. Jaenson known as Jobby Jaenson leaves for Houston to become a Texas fruit grower after a life as a star quarterback and captain of the 1906 Iowa State College Cyclones. He starred at West High in Des Moines before college.
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Robert E. Jaenson
Des Moines
Jaenson
Iowa State College
Houston
Texas
Joenson
West High
Ames
Hopkins Bros., Sporting Goods House
Harlan
Iowa
Bantam Hen Seeks $500 Amid Fine Poultry Show Debt
Lloyd Hanson of Kirksville Mo offers a bantam Silver Seabright hen for 500 with a pen prized at 1350 for the trio in Ames. The birds won blue ribbons at St Louis and Des Moines shows among over 7009 competitors and seek the distance prize at Ames. Hanson runs a Kirksville power firm and shares the poultry venture with his brother a student at Iowa State College.
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Lloyd Hanson
Kirksville
St. Louis
Hanson
Des Moines
Ames
Kirksville, Mo
Nelson and King Tie Nuptials in Nevada
Harry B. Nelson and Miss Flossie King of Nevada wed at the Congregational parsonage last evening with Rev. William J. Minchin officiating. Miss King is the daughter of Jay King of the Dunklebarger & King firm in Nevada.
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Harry B. Nelson
Flossie King
Nevada
William J. Minchin
Miss King
Jay King
Dunklebarger & King of
Missouri man gets crop job
Prof. H. D. Hughes of the University of Missouri in Columbia is slated to succeed Prof. H. G. Bell and M. L. Bowman in the farm crops department after their resignations. Bell will join Maine Agricultural College. Bowman enters Waterloo Iowa real estate. Hughes, Illinois Agricultural College graduate, is an Columbia instructor, offered the post and expected to accept.
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H. D. Hughes
University of Missouri At Columbia
H. G. Bell
M. L. Bowman
Farm Crops
Mr. Bell
Agricultural College of Maine
Prof. Bowman
Waterloo
Iowa
Hughes
Illinois Agricultural College
Columbia
College
Baby dies after ingesting headache medicine at home
A thirteen month old child near Collins died after eating a box of acetamide headache tablets left on a dining room table. Doctors fought for hours to identify the poison and stop the rapid decline, noting the dose could have felled six men and urging care with such drugs around children.
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Collins
Fred Witt
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Marshal Biddle
Moines
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Greater Agricultural College
Alfred Vanderbilt
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Yankee Land
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Missouri
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