Conspiracy Case Ties Iowa to Multi State Insurance Fraud
Lily Lewis of Sewall bound over on federal charges alleging a large-scale conspiracy to defraud insurers. Investigators say the scheme involved insuring blooded horses, poisoning others, and misusing the mails to obtain large sums, with dead horses found under trees and bark stripped to imply lightning deaths.
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Iowa
Lily Lewis
Sewall
United States
J. C. Hunt
Lewis
Phil R. Wilkinson
Leutenant
Company A
Iowa Regiment
Madison County
Bennett
Washington
Ed Byers
Des Moines
Rodney Fagen
Smith Brookhart
General Allen
Brownsville
Charles Rubins
Tolin A. Stewart
Probaly
Hird
Wilkinson
Boone
Jeff Hoffman
Luther
Emil Johnson
Hoffman
Johnson
Iowa State College
Iowa Brigade, Artillery and Engineers Company
Government Base Hospital
Harry Lindgren
First Regiment
Ralph Stevens
E Cline
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Brittain & Co
Pork Packers
Marshalltown
Jliners
T. T. Boyd
London
Eng
Baptist
New Hampton
James Braden
Carson
Trichinosia
Pershing Expeditions Strain Border During Cross Border Delays
Mired motor trucks laden with supplies for the Pershing expedition clog roads between Columbus New Mexico and Colonia Dublan Mexico after two cloudbursts. Food scarcity worsens in Topolobampo as meat becomes scarce and fishing replaces other provisions. Courts in the Mexican republic begin reopening as preparations for a quick Pershing movement are seen in Columbus. General Carranza plans to retire and seek the presidency, while an epidemic of dysentery hits the national guard camps at Douglas Arizona. Border forces debate militiaman alarms as units chase a false lead, retreating 80 miles inland to El Paso.
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Columbus
N.M
Colonia Dublan
Mexico
General Pershing
Columbus, N. M
National Guard
Douglas
Ariz
Second Montana Infantry
First United States Army hospital on wheels contract
The first United States army hospital on wheels is under contract to be built at Pullman Indiana. A serum for eruptive typhus has been discovered at Paris. The garment workers strike in New York City ends after four months. Charles Evans Hughes supports a constitutional amendment for women's suffrage. Ontario fire refugees report about 500 dead. The Progressive party will appear on the national ballot this fall. Fifty Bull Moose anti-Hughes members meet in Indianapolis and favor party solidarity.
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Henry Albert
State Board of Health
State University of Iowa
J. A. Koen
Dallas
Ames
Ads
Guy E. Logan
Iowa
Des Moines
War Department
Washington
Fort Des Moines
Newton
Frank Carson
Towa City
Carson
Iowa A First Class Road 365 Days In the Year. As A Result of Mr. Carson
H. M. Havner
Iowa Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Scott County
Story
Buena Vista
Story County
Ira Miller
Lois Miller
Clarence Finkey
Paul
Ruth Miller
North Western
Stanwood Junction
Tipton
Iowa Railroad Commission
Chicago and Alton
Springfield
Kansas City
Illinois
Orton Brothers
Orton Circus
Lancaster
A. Z. Orton
Ortonville
Willam Hall
James Bentley
Clifford and Wint Good
Hamburg
McPaul
Percival and
Payne
F.C. Timzell
College of Homeopathic Medicine
The
State University
Hugh Burris
Cherokee County
Burris
Davenport
United States Army Hospital
Pullnan
Garment Workers
New York City
Progressive Party
anti-Hughes
Bull Moose Party
Indianapolis
Solidarity
Flood Claims Sixty Lives In Claiborne County Tennessee
A severe flood swept the narrow valley of Big Barren creek in Claiborne County Tennessee, drowning sixty people.
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Big Barren Creek
Claiborne County
Tennessee
Senate approves flood relief for six states and tax hike on large incomes
The Senate adopted a relief appropriation of 540000 for Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi and both Carolinas. Finance leaders plan to raise the income surtax from 10 to 13 percent on fortunes over two million dollars. A basket size bill for interstate grape shipments passed the House. A report denounces industrial relation abuses in a Minnesota Mesaba strike. The US Denmark West Indies sale was signed in New York. Railroads report a 190 million increase in net revenues for 1916.
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Senate
Underwood
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Senate Finance Committee
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
War casualties and naval losses cited in July reports
July war totals show 7,084 British officers and 52,591 men casualty on all fronts. Germany pledges not to destroy Dutch food ships, claims two more years of supplies, and Berlin suppresses Berliner Tageblatt. Italy reports two submarines lost. Letimbro sunk with 57 crew and 113 passengers. Austro-Hungarian HQ announces over 18,000 Russian captives in July.
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Germany
Adolph von Batocki
Berlin
Admirl von Holzendorff
Great Britain
Somme Battle Insight From Underground Fortresses Unveiled
Lord Northcliffe reports on captured German underground fortresses in the Somme, noting entrances hidden from view and a complex system large enough for 2000 men. He praises Allied artillery superiority, the abundance of shells, and warns German defenses rely on subterranean works rather than open battle.
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Lord Northcliffe
London
Somme
British Capture Port Sadani in German East Africa
The War Office reports Port Sudan in German East Africa has fallen to British naval forces after August 1. General Smuts says naval operations continue along the coast and colonial detachments advance toward Kitimatinde Dodom and Kikombo while enemy forces resist in blockhouses with 250 casualties on July 24.
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London
War Office
Port Saduanti
German East Africa
Smuts
East Africa
Port Sudan
Kitimatinde
Dodom
Kikombo
van Deventer
Mpapun
Sslegida
Kondociang
Submarine Sighted Off Maine Coast Near Portland
A submarine was sighted five miles off Cross Island by a coast guard lookout. It moved west in thick weather and could not be identified. The sub surfaced fifteen minutes later and then submerged again.
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Portland. Me
Coast Guard
Cross Island
London Denies King George and Queen Mary Visit Plan
An Aug 8 report from the Central News Service claiming King George and Queen Mary would tour England's overseas dominions was officially denied by the government press bureau.
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Londons
Nowa
George
Queen Mary
England
Dairy progress across Western Canada 1915 output gains noted
The Dairy Commissioner notes Saskatchewan creameries produced 1,500,000 lbs of butter with improved quality winning outside markets. Manitoba reports 1915 dairy butter reaching 4,150,444 lbs and total dairy value over $2.7 million, while Northern Alberta dairy output rose to 2,525,000 lbs. The Red Deer and Cardston factories show growing milk to cheese and butter profits, with crops like corn forming key fodder. An advertisement cites a drop in the death rate from 81 to 14 per 1000.
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Saskatchewan Dairymen's Association
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Manitoba
Red Deer
Alberta
Calgary
Cardston
Canada
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Lowa
Topolobampo
Mexican Republic
Federal District
Carranzas
Mexico City
Carl Mariotte
Obregon
Villa
el Paso
Serbia
Paris
Charles Evans Hughes
Ontario
Toronto
Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain Railroad
William Thompson
Chicago
John D. Robertson
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Detroit
Mich
New York
Health Department
Knights of Columbus
Snack Tom Island
New York Bay
Jersey City
Petrograd
Russia
Neva
Gum Works
Sud
Reavis
Nebraska
Colorado
Committee On Industrial Relations
Minnesota
Mesaba Range Iron Workers
Polk
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Lansing
Constantine Brun
WAR News
Holland
Berliner Tageblatt
Rome
British Admiralty
Sadani
Maine
Western
Donn
Missouri
H. Lowary
Snow
Brookfield
Dean
Ben Doan
Burn CO
Buffalo, N
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