Iowa News Notes Tackle Health, Industry and Politics
A two year lodgment of a brass tack in a Vin ton boy’s lung is reported as recovering after x ray confirmation. Maytag announces $500 life policies for fourteen workers as part of its $1 million capital base. Cedar Rapids fights to renew or void its phone franchise amid proposed action by the city council. Harry Sloan, ex Logan, named VP and assistant to the chairman of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific with a $10,000 salary. Bellevue light and water plant burns, $6,000 loss, city dark for weeks. Fort Dodge to move tile orders to Lehigh for a four mile ditch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Rasley
W. C. Rastey
Vinton
Philip Rastey
Maytag Company of
Newton
Parsons Band Cutter and Self Feeder Co
Parsons Hawkeye Manufacturing Co
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Telephone Company
Tates
Harry Sloan
Logan
New York City
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Bellevue
Rockwell City
Lehigh Sewer Pipe and Tile Company
Fort Dodge
T. G. Keir
Lake City
Sac City
George C. Read
Towa
Iowa
Lost Nalon
B. C. Mill
Ida Grove
Iowa City
City Federation of Women’s Clubs of
Ottumwa
Kendall
Congress
O. D. Wheeler
District Court
Council Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Afton
Charles Olinger
Sunday’s Broncho Buster Fred Seifert Story
Fred Seifert known as Sunday’s Broncho Buster is a longtime Iowa figure connected to Billy Sunday tabernacles. A former westward cow-puncher, he blended cowboy lingo with religious talk while guarding tabernacles and calming rowdy crowds. He recalls a Chicago fair broncho ride that earned him twenty five and his later conversion to saver of souls while living in tabernacles most of the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Seifert
Billy Sunday Tabernacles
Waverly
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Fred
West
Seifert
Iowa
Chicago
Buffalo Bill
Boulder
Tabernacle
Iowa Cities Test Milk Tuberculin Requirement
The government lists US cities needing tuberculin tests for cows supplying city milk. In Iowa, Council Bluffs Marshalltown Ottumwa Dubuque Cedar Rapids and Waterloo require the test. Fort Dodge Burlington Davenport Sioux City Muscatine Clinton and Des Moines do not. The list was sent to Washington by Staty Ford and Dairy Commissioner Wright.
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United States
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Marshalltown
Ottumwa
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Burlington
Davenport
Sioux City
Muscatine
Clinton
Des Moines
Washington
Staty Ford
Wright
Oldest Knights of Pythias member recounts Golden Gate tale
G F Breithaupt of Ackley Hardin County Iowa the oldest Knights of Pythias member alive recalls his California days. He joined Golden Gate Lodge No 3 in 1869 and survived the sinking of the Golden Gate while losing about ten thousand dollars in gold coin and dust from the 1849 era. Reports from San Francisco say cargo has been salvaged partially and Wells Fargo recovered some property.
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G. F. Breithaupt
Ackley
Hardin County
Knights of Pything
U. S. Golden Gate
San Francisco
Boston
Golden Gate
Wells, Fargo & Company
Breithaupt
California
Bret Harte
The
Sierras
John Mackay
Jacquin Miller
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Golden Gate Lodge No. 3
Iowa poised to become a major packing center
Dubuque investors plan a $100,000 packing plant to supply Midwest and export markets. The argument notes that local slaughterhouses raise prices for farmers, boost Iowa labor and taxes, and leverage proximity to Chicago packers. With new plants, Iowa could ship dressed meats south and east and even compete for export after improvements to canals and river transport.
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Iowa
Chicago
Sycamore
Ill
Dubuque
Dyersville
Wisconsin
Ohio
Panama Canal
Old Kangaroo building torn down in Keokuk landmark
The frame Kangaroo building at Johnson street foot in Keokuk, long a landmark, was condemned by the city council and ordered torn down. It stood on its current site for over forty years, having been moved from uptown, originally erected on Main between Second and Third where the Grand hotel now stands, and relocated to the levee in 1868.
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Johnson Street
Keokuk
Kana
Main Street
Corporations Report Shows Townwide Business Decline
A secretary of state report indicates 6,340 corporations in Town filed reports while over 6,000 are legally dead or defunct and 2,500 failed to file any report at all.
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Secretary of State
Pastor of rich farmers leads Eldora Lutherans to organ honor
The St. John's Lutheran church of Eldora, Iowa, with a wealthy farming membership, has built up vast central Iowa landholdings and prosperity. The Isidora church has contracted for a magnificent pipe organ. Rev. C. H. Guenther will serve as organist, having trained as a pipe organist in Germany.
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Iowa
St. John’s Lutheran Church of
Eldora
Germany
Isidora Church
C. H. Guenther
Iowa Man Appointed Immigration Inspector in Chicago
Dr. P. L. Prentiss, an Iowa native and former three term legislator from Decatur county, has been named immigration inspector in Chicago. Appointed to protect Iowa interests at the St. Louis exposition, he resigned early to join federal service and has served at Vancouver and Port Huron, focusing on limiting entry of Chinese and other undesirables.
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P. L. Prentiss
Chicago
Iowa
Decalir County
Cumming Tok Place
St. Louis Exposition
Vancouver
Port Huron
Bavrh Born in Iowa
Hierman Raehr, who toppled Mayor Tom J. Johnson's eight-year Cleveland tenure, hails from Keokuk. Born in 1866, he studied in German and New York scientific schools, becomes a skilled chemist and serves as Cleveland County recorder.
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Hierman Raehr
Tom J. Johnson
Cleveland
Keokuk
Germany
New York
Ile
Giffen Succeeds Thurman at Atlantic Furniture Firm
J A Giffen becomes successor to C Thurman Furniture Co at 05 Chestnut Street Atlantic Iowa the firm also offers furniture and undertaking with W M Bailey licensed embalmer services. Day and night phones Munson 169 and Musson 46.
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Wood & Savery
John H. Wood
BEN U. Wood Co
W. Savery
Sixth and
Chestnut Sts
Atlantic
Iowa
J. A. Giffen
C. Thurman Furniture Company
W. M. Bailey
Munson
Musson
Chestnut St
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Commonwealth
Independence
Iowa Sheep Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ Association
Jake Conley
Mount Pleasant
Woodbury Building Company
Henry Keyser
Sidney
William A. Engelke
Mrs. Engelke
Charles
Oklahoma City Okla
W. E. Mitchell Bd
George Engelke
Engelke
Fremont County
Calhoun County
Rudolph Johnson
T. Hutchinson
C. Zybell
Board of Supervisors
Nora Springs
G. W. Crum
Floyd County
Creston
Russell
Kan
A P. Stephens
Walt Cantillion
Washington, D. C
Cantillion
Washington Capitol
George W. Hanna
United Presbyterian Church
Charlotte
N. C
Hanna
Simpson
Daniel Robertson
Helen Abbott
Fourth Presbyterian Church of
Charles Wolfinger
Dexter
Clinton Congregational Society
Jennie Maple
Amog Clayson
Perry
Mary Jarman
Monticello
Eurepe
Greece
Des Moines Commercial Club
Fred Selfert
Iowa Cities
Pythias
Corporation Report
C. E. Guenther
IOWAN
Baehr
Chas. A. Grubb
4Th and
Chestnut Streets
C. B. Clovis
Melcher's
T. B
Swan
Villa
J. B, Rockafellow
D. O. Herbert
East Fifth Street
Flax Emmert
Ofice—Musson
Bell
C. G. Clark
Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
R. A. Gamble
Opera House
Lowa
Chas. D. Finley
Chestnut Street
L. Campbell
Gillespie Building
A. S. Mullins
W. C. Heers
Smiley
Music Store
G. R. Miller
Butte
Gilleaple Building
Butler
M. H. Butler
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