Unusual deaths and divings mark county news in Iowa
A crash of a heavy ice wagon causes the death of Donald Overman, a 2 year old from Yilnsea after a foot injury. Louis Berry and Clarence Smith face Eldora reform school terms for theft. Mrs Eliza Clark of Marshalltown dies after a tooth extraction rupture. Former Mayor Jim Brenton is fined for horse abuse. Legal notices include Oscar Rosengren seeking damages for a hit run in Marshalltown. Divers search the Mississippi mud for lumber with potential dredging. Lightning destroys barns, crops, and animals in Cartersville and Indianola. Two divorce suits surface in Mason City court as social tensions rise.
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Donald
G. B. Overman
Eldora
Frank
Yate
Derry
Clarence Smith
Madrid
Eliza Clark
Marshalltown
DB. B. Conney
Jim Brenton
Des Moines
Stewart
Brenton
Humane Society
Oscar A. Rosengren
W. K. Leech
F. J. Michaels
Leech
Rosengren
Elsie Hicknatt
Keokuk
Burlington
Cerro Gordo
County Board of Supervisors
Eugene Ferrig
Ferris
Mississippi River
Mississippi
No Man Can Live to Himself
A reflection on modern life and professional independence tracing how individuals now join or rely on larger institutions. It notes that many rise within corporate or institutional structures rather than building entirely autonomous ventures, citing President Woodrow Wilson as an example of merged individual character with collective enterprise.
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Hachman
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Wheat in the Far North report to Parliament
The standing committee on agriculture and colonization presents to Parliament a report noting that G. B. Young, superintendent, is involved in northern grain issues and related agricultural administration. The document emphasizes northern wheat production and policy implications.
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Standing Committee of the Commons On Agriculture and Colonization
G. B. Young
Cold bath saves mad dog at Coney Island station
Policeman Hannon restrained a brindle bull dog owned by Mrs. Garrett Smith of Brooklyn. The dog collapsed on Seaside Beach and, after assistance from Capt. Kelley and Lieut. Nedwell, was dunked in a cold-water bath in the captain’s room. The dog recovered within minutes, regaining its senses and was fine after about 15 minutes.
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Hannon
Coney Island
Seaside Park
Garrett Smith
Quincy Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wheat and oats from Yukon regions praised by officials
Strongholds of the Young Turks noted wheat success at Fort Simpson nine hundred miles north of the border and five hundred miles north of Edmonton. Dr. Thompson presented a Yukon sample of white oats grown at sixty two degrees north latitude. Seed Commissioner Clark analyzed the sample, finding forty six pounds per bushel and superior milling quality.
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Department of the Interior
Fort Simpson
International Boundary
Edmonton
Thompson
Yukon
Clark
Ottawa
St. John Sun
Ibsen House dispute stirs Christiania civic debate
The Ibsen lovers worldwide follow a heated quarrel in Christiania over buying the Ibsen house Sigurd Ibsen says his father never owned the house and only rented rooms while citizens see the site as a potential tourist draw Fire of genius challenges mercenary burgher views in the Norwegian city
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Ibsen
Christiania
Sigurd Ibsen
Great Endurance Observed in Famous Figure
Busting praises Barlow for exceptional physical endurance and stiff constitution. Gargoyle concurs calling him having the constitution of a debutante.
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Barlow
Busting
Gargoyle
Guthrie Tax Valuation Soars This Year
Guthrie Oklahoma capital reports a sharp rise in wealth with taxable valuation totaling 5.5 million dollars this year, up from 1.5 million dollars last year.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
Earls Voyage Ends in Island Rescue After Delay
A South Sea voyage with a young country doctor ends in a castaway stay on the island. The pair miss the steamer to England and endure a long wait. The earl, recalling the episode with humor, says the doctor became the guiding force. They are finally rescued by a passing boat and reach old England.
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South Sea
England
Earl
Barrie
Doctor
Old England
Subtraction Lesson Sparks Tiny Heist in Village Class
In a Wifeshire village the teacher offered three pennies to the cleverest answer after a punishing subtraction lesson. Pupils puzzled over taking numbers of different names. A boy cried out for three pennies from one purse, prompting a wry classroom moment.
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Wifeshire
When She Removed His Boots Pledge Talk In London
Western detective H K Adair cites a London banquet speech by Lord Roberts about a semi total pledge allowing husbands to go to the club after lunch and dinner. Wives would not need to vigilantly oversee husbands as closely, the anecdote notes, with a joke about a wife removing boots. The Niagara Falls water supply is noted as a long standing city fixture at the brink of the great precipice.
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London
H. K. Adair
Lord Roberts
Niagara
Niagara Falls
Modesty a Fading Figure in Historical Literary Nonsense
A fragmented reflection on modesty tracing its imagined travels from Mayflower times to modern cities. It paints modesty as a recluse, abandoned pews, and isolation, claiming New York’s smart set and urban life left it obsolete and unseen.
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Modesty
Rebecca
Boston
New York
Lippincott’s
Remarkable Green Leaf Found in Limestone Bed Near Latrobe
A geologist notes a rare fossil find on John R. Sanderson’s farm near Latrobe. On Tuesday July 7, while Charles D. Fausold dug a hole six feet square through soft limestone, a green leaf fossil emerged as a remarkable freak of nature.
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John R. Sanderson
Latrobe
Charles D. Fausold
Commission Journal Water Supply Proposes River Tunnel Plan
A commission is formed to study water supply issues amid poor current conditions. The leading feasible idea is tunneling under the river to reach Canadian water. A limestone rock fractured by a pick yielded a fresh grapevine leaf, green and tender, placed in a 18-acre corn field center as reported by the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia
Clergyman Paul Hickok Meets Drunk Man On Street
A Wednesday night encounter between Rev. Paul L. Hickok and a severely intoxicated man ends with a playful exchange. The man asks for the clergyman’s name, and Hickok replies with a playful alias. The drunken inquiry about a letter to the Ephesians punctuates the moment.
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Paul L. Hickok
Paul
Shay
Ephesians
The Slang Fiend Again and Jokes on Delivery
A comic exchange from a Kansas City Times feature centers on a character called the express man who reliably delivers the goods. A Detroit Free Press joke follows about meeting a wife and the humor of memory.
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Mick
Kansas City Times
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