Iowa News Roundup Highlights Crime Fire and War Efforts
A Davenport grand jury returns not guilty verdicts for two defendants while four others face continued prosecution. Des Moines fire destroys Western Box and Klondike Incubator buildings with losses to 52,500 and 4,000 respectively. Nevada lineage fires total 12,000 in property damage. Newark to Cedar Rapids events include Pythians council and Liberty Loan drives. Multiple injuries and fatalities noted across Iowa locales.
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Davenport
Henry Matthey
F. C. Willis
Walter Matthey
Charles Wiese
A. H. Miller
Henry Vollmer
United States
Claude Porter
Western Box and Paper Company
Klondike Incubator Company
Des Moines
Abraham Sherman
John Ix. Wilson
Knights of Pythias
Justice Rathbone
Cedar Rapids
Nevada
Nyal Drug Store
George Meadows
Woodbine
Frank D. Gageby
Synod of Jowa
Ames
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Dubuque
Hughey Cullen
Talbott Union Stock
Camp Dodge
Lillian Johnson
Kort Des Moines
Oscar Blackburn
Blackburn
O. K. Grefstad
Bode
Chris Hilland
Grevstad
Council Bluffs
Liberty Joan
Eighth District
Woman's Relief Corps
Clarksville
Butter
Bremer
Blackhawk
Grundy
Fred Swan
Missouri Valley
Dubuane
Campbell
Joe
Iowa Recount Ordered After Prohibitory Amendment Defeat
Des Moines reports the constitutional prohibitory amendment lost by 1 015 votes after unofficial returns from all counties. An attorney general ordered recounts in every county, with boards of supervisors to open envelopes and count votes per election law.
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Des Moines
Havner
Boards of Supervisors
Adair Eee
Crawford
Dallas
Davis
Emmeton
Guthrie
Humboldt
Keokuk Wa
Kossuth
Montgomery
Muscatine
Scott Weet
Shelby Wee
Taylor
van Buren
Warren Wen
Washington Wee
Wayne Webster
Milk supply under strict inspection at Camp Dodge
Iowa Dairy and Food officials led by Major Sprague will conduct a two week bacteria count of Camp Dodge milk to ensure clean, high quality provisions for soldiers. W. B. Barney Jr and R. S. Smith oversee the state effort with Des Moines laboratories handling testing.
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Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Sprague
Department of Dairy and Food
W. B. Barney, Jr
R. S. Smith
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington, D. C
Dale ‘Meek
Major Sprague
Barney
Denounce Packing Houses Sparks Polk County Meeting
In Des Moines the Polk County Hog Producers association denounced big packing houses after a stormy session in which market instability and feeding losses were aired. The group urged increased pork production and regulation to aid farmers facing low prices. In a separate note, farmer Stanley Goer of Murray died when his car was struck by a fast mail train No. 7 at a grade crossing while en route to Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Polk County Hog Producers’ Association
Kennedy
Sam
Gibson
Hoover
Malson
France
Murray
Stanley Goer
Burlington Fast Mail
Goer
Red Cross leaders begin West tour to report fund use
Henry F Davison and Harry D Gibson lead a Red Cross mission across the West visiting Denver San Francisco Seattle Minneapolis Chicago and Cleveland. They aim to report stewardship reveal fund use and gauge public sentiment while outlining Red Cross policy. Rev Robert Davis accompanies them from Englewood New Jersey.
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Washington
Red Cross War Council
Henry F. Davison
Harry D. Gibson
American Red Cross
Red Cross
War Council
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Seattle
Minneapolis
Chicago
Cleveland
Davison
United States
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Roumania
Serbia
War Fund
The
Romania
Dibson
Robert Davis
Englewood, N. J
Paris
American Red Cross Commission
Senator Husting Killed in Wisconsin Hunting Accident
United States Senator Paul Q. Husting died after being accidentally shot in the back by his brother Gustave while ducks hunting near Rush Lake Wisconsin. Husting raised to his brother’s shot and was taken to a nearby farmhouse for medical aid but did not survive.
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Hjalmer Ransen
351St Infantry
Camp
Dodge
Lieut
Ransen
Finland
United States Army
Colored Officers’ Training School
Fort Des Moines
National Army
Sampson Davis
Marshalltown
Davis
Kentucky
Marshaalltown
United States
Piper
K. R. Moore
Iowa
Sioux City
United States District Court
Nathan Scofield
Pocahontas
Scofield
The
Odd Fellows
Odd Fellow
Des Moines
Webster County
Webster County Liberty Loan Association
Ft. Dodge
William Smith
Turin
Union Pacific Railroad
Council Bluffs
Liberty Loan
Perry
Farcour
William Crown
Cedar Falls
Milwaukee
Paul Macauley
Burt
Macauley
Hubbard
Logan
Forrest Wright
Montezuma
W. H. Duffus
Grinnell
Kendrick
Oura Roop
Ole
Minneapolis
Gustave
Rush Lake
Wic
Paul QC
The Last Free-Soiler Robert Elliott Dies in Kansas
Robert G. Elliott known as the last Free Stater died in Lawrence Kansas. He joined the Free State colony that moved from New England to Kansas, became a leader of the Free State party and edited the first Free State newspaper. He was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and faced threats as his paper was burned twice amid border strife.
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Robert G. Elliott
Lawrence
Kan
New England
Kansas
Ife
Free State
Abraham Lincoln
Patriots to the Bone: Patriots on Tremont Street
A Boston street scene reports two men described as patriots by a passerby. The remark praises their willingness to bear arms and bear legs as well, reflecting a tongue in cheek comment captured by the Bom ton Dyening Transcript.
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Tremont Street
Methodists Plan New Missionary College in Rome
Elaborate plans outline a new American Methodist Missionary College in Rome Italy with a site secured on Monte Mario. Monastic and educational aims accompany the project as funding and construction timelines are discussed.
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Rome
American Methodist Missionary College
Italy
Monte Mario
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