He Was a Bad Nigger Elmer Hawkins Case in Ames
A Boone colored man Elmer Hawkins was jailed in Ames for carrying concealed weapons after a night with a white girl. He pled guilty and received a thirty day county jail sentence. The girl’s parents were notified and took her home. Authorities traced Hawkins to Boone, where he claimed a family.
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Elmer Hawkins
Boone
Lawton House
Ames
Arlington
Marshal Willey
Haverly
Newton
Northwestern
Extraordinary Iowa Corn Height Prizes And Daring Escapes
A Lewis area bank awarded one dollar to a farmer for a sixteen foot corn stalk, while Neola reports sixteen foot ears as common. A boy nearly fell twenty feet from an ear of corn, rescued and to recover. Ames and Story county skies show even taller stalks with climbers and a postponement of the Ames Times silver cup shoot to October twenty third due to a Sunday.
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Lewis
Iowa
Neola
Fred Howell
Reporter Gazette
Story County
Jim Jackson
Maxwell Tribune
Ames
Lige Purvis
Lige
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