Sioux City tag day nets $585 and other Iowa notes
A Sioux City tag day raised 585 dollars. Iowa events include B Robbins elected Iowa American Legion commander, Henry Bear farm buildings burned, and a Sioux City plant merger to power twenty towns. Also Eldora Tile factory to resume, Mon ticello store bankrupt, La Porte City Timothy crop good, a $10,000 reward for Bruce Rogers murder, and Keosauqua high school salary status.
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Sioux City
B. Robbins
Cedar Rapids
Iowa American Legion
Henry Bear
Fort Dodge
Eldora Pipe & Tile Company
H. & S. Variety
Monticello
H. W. Harnett
la Porte City
Timothy
A. L. Rogers
Bruce Rogers
Denison
Keosauqua
J. F. Cole
Oelwein
California
Lamont
Joe Walshy
Rockford
Knights of Pythias
Winterset
Bellevue
Claude Ballard
Chicago
Ben Parker
Mason City
Fred McColm
Iowa
North Dakota
Goldie Jacobs
Murray
Missouri
Hazel L. Hicks
Council Bluffs
Inside the Radio Studio How Stations Eliminate Echoes
A detailed look at broadcast studio design and operation shows soundproof rooms heavy drapery and a low platform for artists to stay near the microphone. Managers coordinate rehearsals with dummy antennas while monitoring transmitter power and voice quality to ensure clear reception for listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wolf Man on Vancouver Island Resides with Hesqualt Indians
A 70 year old wolf man named Kilmith-ka lives in a kennel behind a tribal keeper on Vancouver Island. He walks on hands and feet, growls for speech, eats meat, and is semi domesticated among the Hesqualt Indians.
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Victoria
B. C
Vancouver Island
Canada
Kilmith-ka
Light on the Cat in Winsted Home
During a heavy night storm in Winsted Connecticut Mickey the pet cat at Roger Brown’s home is believed to have turned on a lamp by pulling its cord. After daybreak Mickey tried to extinguish the light by pulling the cord again while seeking sleep.
Pellew Viscount Exmouth Chooses American Citizenship
Henry Edward Pellew Viscount Exmouth, aged ninety four, remains American citizen and will not pursue a seat in the British House of Lords. He cites his two American wives and long residence in the United States as his motive, having naturalized after returning from Europe in 1873. His philanthropy helped found the Charities Organization, libraries, coffee houses, and tenements, and he aided relief efforts during the 1870s financial panic. He built ties to the United States including work with the Roosevelts and improvements to Washington Cathedral.
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United States
Henry Edward Pellew
Washington
Exmouth
Europe
House of Lords
Mr. Pellew
Pellew
America
Augusta Jay
England
Yellen
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington Cathedral
Industrial Association of
San Francisco
Cal
Farmer Kills Four-Foot Rattlesnake Near Westpoint
Charles E B Carte, a farmer two miles west of Westpoint in Lafayette Indiana, killed a four foot long rattlesnake with twelve rattles on his doorstep Monday evening. The big snake lay coiled before the door and was the largest rattler killed in the area in two decades.
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Lafayette
Ind
Charles EB. Carte
Westpoint
Carte
Zoo Bear Escapes Causes Panic as Crowd Flees
Billy the black bear at a Poughkeepsie zoo escaped his cage and headed toward the former woods prompting panicked screams from park children. Keeper John Schaumberger and city workers corralled the animal back to its quarters after he had previously wandered toward a pheasant cage in prior escape.
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Poughkeepsie
Billy
Michigan Woods
John Schaumberger
Board of Public Works
Dismissed Sleuth Lands His Man
Patrick E. Moran a discharged Pittsburgh detective tracked and helped arrest Rocco Depippo in Wilkes-Barre after years of pursuit across the U S and Europe. Depippo faces 388 counts in Pittsburgh while Moran seeks vindication of being falsely branded. Moran’s pursuit ran through the East, France and England before the Wilkes-Barre arrest.
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Pittsburgh
Patrick E. Moran
Philadelphia
New York City
Paris
France
Wilkes-Barre
Rocco Depippo
Moran
Depippo
Cherbourg
States
England
Europe
Swordfish Pierces a Boat Off Georges Bank
The Nyoda crew recounts a four hour battle with an 850 pound swordfish near Georges Bank. Captain Charles Nelson says the monster ripped a three inch gash in the schooner's planking a foot above the water line, exhibited with the fish and a helicopter fragment.
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Boston
Mass
Georges Bank
Nyoda
Charles Nelson
Lightning Sealed Youth's Mouth in Lightning Strike
In Portland Maine Thomas Crocker was struck by lightning inside a building. His jaws became rigid and could not open. Companions forced his jaws open and summoned a physician. The boy recovered except for a headache. Doctors credited the quick action of his companions with saving him from serious harm.
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Portland
Thomas
Crocker
Edgeworth Tobacco Promises Fair Prices and Free Samples
A nostalgic note praises Edgeworth tobacco and ends with a call to pipe smokers to request free samples. The message urges fair pricing, recounts a tale of a mine traded for Edgeworth, and explains product forms Plug Slice and Ready-Rubbed, with mailing details for free samples from Larus & Brother Co.
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Edgeworth
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Shambaugh
Page County
Asa Turner
Asa
Maxwell
John V. Schurtz
Burlington
Lonnie Jantz
Baxter
Newton
Rosanna Mateva
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Dean
Little Elbert O’clair
A. L. O'Clair
Dickens
Clinton Mirror
Frank Neumann
W. L. Eaton
Eaton
Station Pdq Broadcasting
Miss B
Salt Lake Exposition
Salt Lake City
Rocky Mountain Group
Utah
Colorado
Nevada
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
New York
Eliza Jay
William Jay
John Jay
The
Sleuth
Colgate
William
Mister Larus & Bro. Co
Diddyrod
William Craigie Salchaket Post Office
Alaska
Larus & Brother Comannn
South 21St Street
Richmond, Va
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