Naval Experts Push Skeleton Masts for Range Accuracy
Naval writers argue persistent target practice and elevated observing stations are key to long range gunnery. They cite Rear Admiral Evans on gaining the range first to unleash devastating first-fire damage in the opening minutes of battle, stressing durable top-mounted observers for precise range finding.
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Ashington
Evans
Admiralty
Fiske
Hibernia
Dominion
The
Navy
Phus
Tsushima Straits
Bouvaroff
Rosestvevsky
Semenof
Monitor Florida mast test shows fire control advances
The Florida mast test near Thimble Light Shoal demonstrated a 96 foot spiral steel mast with dual opposing spirals standing after hits. Observers aloft tracked splash to adjust range as Arkasas fired at 350 yard reduced charges. experts debate fire control resilience and need for airborne range finders in future battles.
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Monitor
Florida
Arkansas
Thimble Light Shoal
Olid Point Comfort
Cape Charles
Cape Henry
United Service Gazette
Didnt Look Like Shoe Horn At Dinner With Tigers
Hugh Jennings of the Detroit Tigers spoke in New York about Cornell after a seashore game in June. A bath house incident involved a dog with hair and a joke about a shoe horn prompting laughter from the audience.
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Hugh Jennings
Detroit Tigers
New York
Mr. Jennings
Cornell
Depositors Win Tactical Advantage in $350000 Case
Depositors of the defunct First National Bank gain a procedural edge as the Modern Woodmen of America shift from plaintiff to defendant after a comptroller ruling. Stuart & Stuart secured the reversal requiring the Woodmen to prove their bona fide deposit status, with a bond posted to cover costs. About $260,000 remains for depositors. a dividend may be paid after preferred claims are ruled, and an appeal to the circuit court is likely.
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Charlton
First National Bank
Woodmen of America
Stuart, Stuart & Stuart
Woodmen
Stuart
Comptroller
Jamison
Smith McPherson
Lucas County
Circuit Court of Appeals
McPherson
Three Brown in Lake Gasoline Launch Explodes
Muscatine. A crowded launch capsized on Resley lake near Muscatine during a picnic. Three people, two girls and a boy, drowned when the gasoline reservoir exploded and the craft could not bear the weight. Two others, Richard Waters and Elmer Hain of Atalissa, escaped. Marie Garnes of Muscatine, Ether Crozen of Atalissa, and Clyde Slater of Muscatine were named among the drowned.
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Muscatine
Resley Lake
Marie Garnes
Ether Crozen
Atalissa
Clyde Slater
Richard Waters
Elmer Hain
Robbers Bet His All Value Satchel Stolen
Humboldt man H Meyers had a satchel stolen in the Illinois Central waiting room while waiting for an eastbound train. The bag contained notes and papers valued between 5000 and 6000 dollars. He and his wife were bound for Indianapolis. he had recently left a firm after 29 years and nearly 5000 dollars in salary and commissions were in the settlement. Police are investigating with no lead yet.
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Humboldt
Fort Dodge
H. Meyers
Ilinois Central
Indianapolis
Grip
Sioux City Board Urges Rail Co-operation to Expand Switching
The Sioux City board of trade adopted a resolution calling on railroads centering in Sioux City to cooperate with the stock yards company to increase switching facilities. Stock and grain interests anticipate heavy cattle and hog shipments and thousands of grain cars weekly this summer. The stock yards company favors constructing extra tracks.
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Sioux City
Sioux City Board of Trade
Stock Yards Company
Yale finds sermons of Daggett and Clapp from 1741 to 1760
A Yale Divinity School closet discovery yielded manuscript sermons by Presidents Daggett and Clapp dated 1741 to 1760. Found with old books and papers in a cardboard box, the aged contents will be moved to Yale University Library.
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Yale
Yale Divinity School
Daggett
Clapp
University
Dubuque Boy's Body Recovered From Mississippi River
The body of 12 year old Arnold Luschinger has been recovered from the Mississippi River after drowning Sunday in Dubuque authorities report.
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Dubuque
Arnold Luschinger
Mississippi
Woman Captures Thief in Iowa City
Mrs. Leonard Evans, wife of Officer Evans, held at gunpoint intruder Frank Falick who tried to enter her home while her husband was on duty. Accomplice Marlin Tek fled. police later arrested Tek. The woman, described as well trained with a gun, summoned help by telephone.
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Towa City
Leonard Evans
Evans
Frank Falick
Judge Frees Des Moines Boy in Slaying Case
Judge McHenry releases Kenneth Reeves a 10 year old boy who killed Cecil Jenkins indirectly after Jenkins struck him first. The court will present the case to the grand jury next fall but remands the boy to parental care in the interim. The judge cites self defense and notes the death likely came from the fall on brick rather than the mopstick blow. He condemns parental neglect as a common cause of juvenile court cases.
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Bay
Des Moines
Kenneth Reeves
Cecil Jenkins
Jenkins
McHenry
Kenneth
Grand Jury
Cecil
Wreck Kills One in Des Moines Interurban Collision
A Great Western engine with caboose backed into the Rock Island local near East Seventeenth street in Des Moines. Brakeman W H Urbahn s was killed when hurled against a trunk. Several passengers injured as smoking car overturned and trapped occupants. Causes unclear with engineers conflicting over right of way.
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Des Moines
W. H. Urbahns
Rock Island Island
Great Western
Rock Island
East Seventeenth Street
Urbahns
BANKO A FARMER. Wealthy Scott County Man Robbed of 2000
Davenport retiree Herman Ehlmann a wealthy farmer was duped by two strangers into driving to a county farm and to the Scott County Savings Bank to obtain 2000 for a supposed purchase. The thieves fled, leaving a tin box with a brick and a taunting note claiming they would be in Canada.
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Scott County
Davenport
Herman Ehlmann
Scott County Savings Bank
Ehlmann
Cannada
Canada
Stallion Bite Proves Fatal to Farmer Near Belma
Matt H. Doyle a leading local farmer died of blood poisoning after a stallion bite on his hand. He cared for the animal a week earlier. the small wound grew infected as poison spread through his system. Delirium lasted three days before his death.
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Belma
Matt H. Doyle
Here
Brakeman Hurt by Fall in Marshalltown
A Chicago Great Western freight brakeman J. C. Fredie from St. Joseph Missouri, 26, attempted to step between cars after an uncoupling. He fell to the ground and suffered a broken right leg above the ankle and a fractured heel. Fredie was taken to St. Thomas hospital.
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Marshalltown
J. CG
Fredie
St. Joseph
Chicago Great Western
Fredia
St. Thoms Hospital
Mere Boy Dies A Drunkard Dike Earl Jackson
A young man named Earl Jackson, once a boy, succumbed to acute alcoholism after a life of drinking. He started at a young age, faced a dip into dissipation, and after a period of effort to reform, relapsed amid temptations from drinking peers and died prematurely.
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Earl Jackson
Young Jackson
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