Iowa Rural News Roundup Highlights Tragedy and Trade
Edward Salmow of Clinton dies by suicide amid illness. Bankruptcy filings include William Buente of Kelly with debts over ten thousand dollars. Manchester and Oneida railway stock raised to one hundred thousand. bond issue approved for improvements. Mapleton child dies from rifle discharge during cleaning. Lyndon Young near Corning near fatally bitten by a sow. Grinnell farmer Harlan Mintle files bankruptcy papers. Algona man Virgil Robinson suffers facial injuries from a shell experiment. Sheldon druggist G A Shipley named state prohibition inspector. Braddyville farm reports gas oil discovery. New Sharon boy electrocuted by 2300 volt line. Pinching snuff leads to jail for two Charles City youths. First farmer fire truck arrives in West Liberty to reduce insurance. Fort Dodge acquittal for John F Butler on murder charge. deemed insane at time. Iowa leads in chicken and egg production with 1919 value over 70 million. Mount Etna beekeepers Thompson report honey yield down. Soldiers seeking office preference must prove bad faith by boards, says Judge Hutchinson. Wapello theft trial yields five-year term for Ishamel and Waddell. Irene Shoust injured. Banister skull fracture. others hurt after joyride car collision near Storm Lake. Cherokee and nearby residents noted in report.
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Edward Salmow
Clinton
William Buente
Kelly
Manchester and Oneida
John Haugh
J. H. Haugh
Mapleton
Lyndon Young
Corning
Young
Harlan R. Mintle
Grinnell
Federal Court
Virgil Robinson
Algona
G. A. Shipley
Sheldon
Iowa Division of Prohibition Enforcement
G. A. Brunson
Iowa
Mary Friermuth
Braddyville
Tharp Brothers
Des Moines
Orville Malloy
Charles Malloy
New Sharon
Oskaloosa Traction and Light Jr
Charles City
William Yonke
Ed Johnson
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
West Liberty
John F. Butler
Fort Dodge
George Sullivan
Illinois
Missouri
Thompson Brothers
Mount Etna
Thompsons
Hutchinson
J. Frederick Lower
Scranton
Lower
David Lewis
Mandamus
Lewis
James Ishamel
Lloyd Waddell
Eldora
Wapello
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Irene Shoust
Ethel Banister
William Hill
Volga famine refugees crowd Russian towns
Descriptions from Syzran, Samara, and other Volga towns show drought and grasshopper plagues driving tens of thousands from their farms. Refugees barter belongings for food, face typhus, hunger, and death, with rail and river bottlenecks hampering relief efforts.
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Syzran
Russia
Volga
Samara
Simbirsk
Saratoff
Tsaritzin
Tolstoy
Dostolevsky
Quick Seattle Divorce Suit Over Clothes and Abuse
Mrs Willena White filed for divorce from Roy White after a marriage of just over two months beginning May 31 1921. She alleges he took all her clothes locked her in a room struck her choked her and insulted her and her mother and threatened violence. She seeks annulment and restoration of her maiden name Willena Roberts.
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Seattle
Wash
Willena White
Roy White
Frightful scenes as townsfolk await transfer
Descriptions reach of a night when people waited to be moved to another town. Some lay dying or dead, others helpless and indistinguishable from the living and the dead.
Man Examines 4000 Fish In Saturday Duty
Floyd F Young, in charge of a department store fish aquarium in Chicago, spends Saturdays inspecting every one of his 4000 fish. He feeds, baths, checks fins, and treats any that appear ill during the quarterly health round.
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Floyd
Young
Chicago
Would-be rescuers drown in Staten Island pond
Edward Anderson eight clashes with two Elizabeth New Jersey workers Paul Saps and Michael Sowenk diving into a pond to save him. The boy swam to shore thinking they would arrest him. Police found the two rescuers bodies later in the pond believed to have died from cramps. A closing line notes a moral about a man proposing and a girl losing self-possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Anderson
Elizabeth
N. J
Paul Saps
Michael Sowenk
Staten Island
Sapa
Sowenk
Smugglers Bring Millions of Gallons of Booze
Washington reports indicate a large scale American British syndicate to smuggle liquor into the United States from the Bahamas. Prohibition records show bootleggers paid about $1 billion in whisky profits and government losses from illegal sales, with millions more in taxes avoided.
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U. S
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Prohibition Unit
Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
State Department
Internal Revenue Department
United States
Prohibition
Haynes
Canada
Mexico
West Indies
Chief Ashworth
United States Customs Service
Canadian
Wquor
Florida
Havana
Hps
Prohibition and Customs
London
Bahamas
Atlantic
Irey
Internal Revenue Bureau Intelligence Service
Trolley Pole Crash Kills Four Children in Kingston
Kingston Massachusetts reports a trolley pole broke the feed wire tipping a car, electrocution fatally harming four schoolchildren. The blaze followed as others escaped. injuries to remaining riders are noted. Authorities and witnesses describe the chaotic scene and responders’ actions.
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Kingston
Mass
Lost radiu m device promises relief and curious claims
An advertisement touts Degnen’s Radio-Active-Solar Pad as a universal cure. It promises relief from constipation rheumatism sciatica gout neuritis neuralgia nervous prostration high blood pressure and stomach heart lung liver kidney diseases. The Radium Appliance Co. offers a test proposition with home wear and risk free trial from 841 Bradbury Building Los Angeles.
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Degnen
Radium Appliance Co
Bradbury Bldg
Los Angeles
Calif
Diamond Dyes advertised for home fabric dyeing
An advertisement promotes “Diamond Dyes” for easy home dyeing of dresses skirts and draperies. It claims simple directions guarantee no spotting fading or running and asks buyers to tell their druggist fabric type wool silk linen cotton or mixes. The ad ends with a proverb about thinking before speaking.
Aspirin Introduced by Bayer in 1900 Adclaims
The ad promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as the true Aspirin prescribed by physicians for over twenty one years. It claims the name Bayer is stamped on each tablet and on each package for protection against imitations.
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Bayer
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