Betrays Her Lover in Northern Pacific Train Robbery Case
Des Moines report details Owen Ball alias Owen Coleman and Mrs. Sherman Morris alias Mrs. Frank Shercliffe arrested in Marshalltown for a Minneapolis night train robbery on April 16. Detectives probe love letters and motives linked to the Morris home. Ball confesses to the train holdup and a St Paul drugstore theft. Shercliffe denies elopement claims. Leadville and Leadville-linked figures appear in the aftermath.
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Des Moines
Owen Ball
Owen Coleman
Marshalltown
Sherman Morris
Frank Shercliffe
Northern Pacific
Minneapolis
Col
E. E. Johnston
Shereliffe
Ball i
McIetredge
Col. Johnston
Ball
Shercliffe
Chas. Bayer
McCurnin Drug Company
Sims and
Brunnemer
Johnston
Highland Park
Leadville
Cal
Coleman
Morris
St. Paul
McFetridge
Colo
Tries to Kill Himself Near Macedonia
George Lyon a young man living south of Macedonia attempted suicide twice first by attempting to drown in a tank and then by slashing his throat with a razor. He received twenty five stitches and may recover. No motive is known.
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Council Bluffs
George Lyon
Macedonia
Thieves Break in at Emery Drug Store
Mason City thieves broke a door and shattered a large plate glass window at the J. E. Emery drug store. About fifty dollars in cash and miscellaneous goods were stolen. No clues have been discovered.
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Mason City
J. E. Emery Drug Store
Boone Man Hurt After Farm Road Accident
Louis Goeppinger, Boone pioneer and county figure, was badly injured when a cart overturned after hitting a dirt pile on a road near his farm. He sustained cuts to the forehead nose and face and is expected to recover. The piece notes earlier, Colored globes in drug-store windows were first displayed by the Moors.
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Boone
Louis Goeppinger
Youn
Victim of Conscience Ends Life After Nation's Rebuke
Des Moines mourns Vernie Dawson also known as Ann Sperry a 24 year old woman blamed by Carrie Nation for alleged sins died by mercury poisoning after a night of revelry at 210 Hast Court Avenue. She told inmates she had abducted her two children from Davenport Children's Home two weeks earlier and died after a brief hospital stay.
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Des Moines
Carrie Nation
Ann D. Sperry
Vernie Dawson
Hast Court Avenue
Davenport
Gatesburg
Kills the Town Marshal in Gowrie
Town Marshal Tom Nichols, 41, was shot and killed by 22 year old William Carr after arresting him following a Rock Island train altercation. Carr fled home, returned with a Winchester, and killed Nichols later that day. Coroner in Fort Dodge ruled Nichols died at Carr's hands. Carr’s father is jailed for 30 days for intoxication.
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Gowrie
Tom Nichols
William Carr
Rock Island
Nichols
Carr
Winchester
Fort Dodge
Lowrie
Smallpox Claims Victim in Council Bluffs
Frank Boyd aged thirty one died of smallpox at his home in the western part of Council Bluffs the second death from the disease in a week Mrs J F Snyder a sister of Snyder died of a form of the disease Boyd became delirious from the illness and created a reign of terror by running about the neighborhood Church services in the western section have been ordered discontinued for a time.
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Council Bluffs
Frank Boyd
J. F. Snyder
Snyder
Boyd
Firebugs Attack Saloon in Near Burning of Callahan’s
An attempt to burn John J. Callahan’s saloon failed to gain headway due to calm air. Smoke and kerosene saturated the front, with a newspaper and a keg of wine burned beside the wreckage. Callahan finds no known enemies behind the act.
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Farley
John J. Callahan
Mr. Calahan
Fire destroys Griswold clothing store and meat market
W. J. Woodward & Son clothing store and EB. S. Jenkins meat market in Griswold were burned, with losses over 7000 dollars. Woodward property a total loss while Jenkins partly saved. Insurance valued at 4000 dollars. Cause of fire not known.
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Griswold
W. J. Woodward & Son
EB. S. Jenkins
Woodward
Jenkins
Hobson Repeats Statement at Chautauqua Platform
Webster City July 12 Capt Hobson repeated the remark that drew riot at the democratic convention claiming he heard President Roosevelt say that a Japanese exclusion act meant certain and immediate war with Japan.
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Hobson
Webster City
Chautauqua
Capt
Roosevelt
Japan
Preacher Hires Band for Summer Concerts in Waterloo
The Rev. Walter H L Rollins of the new Congregational Church in Waterloo hires the Cedar Falls concert band of forty players to give sacred concerts each Sunday evening through July. The pastor expects the music to draw new faces to his services.
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Waterloo
Walter HL. Rollins
New Congregational Church
Cedar Falls
Bill Returns to Find Jim's Baby Life Anew
William Temple visits Jim Hudson and his wife to meet their baby after years away out west. The scene shifts from old memories to Jim's parenting role, with Bill noting the contrast and trying to steer conversation away from infants while Jim describes baths, fussiness, and daily toddler antics.
Pie Knife Dilemma At Tiffanys Farm Store
On a rural farm, Farmer Barker seeks a gift for his wife while an elegant clerk suggests a pie knife. Barker insists on good land and questions why a pie knife isn’t used, closing with a reminder about proper table manners.
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Tiffany’s
Wanted Too Much With Wife by Amy Ricard
Amy Ricard promotes woman suffrage at a New York tea recounting a tale of a young western man who prizes a wife’s home making while she counters with her own education and accomplishments. The anecdote ends with the woman leaving the room in mock scorn.
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Amy Ricard
New York
West
Old Shakespearean Actor Dies in Cleveland Fire Scare
Eugene Jepson, noted Shakespearean actor, died of heart disease during a fire scare at a Cleveland vaudeville house. He worked with Ada Behan and others under Daly management in London Paris and New York, coached Margaret Mather, and supported Maude Adams for Frohman. His famed role was Lord Rintoul in The Little Minister.
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Eugene Jepson
Cleveland
Ada Behan
Margaret Mather
Friar Lawrence
Capulet
Juliet
J. H. Hill
Charles Frohman
Maude Adams
Lord Rintoul
Barrie
the Little Minister
Hotel Clerk star sparks kitchen confusion in staged tale
Harry Fisher, star of Alfred Aarons musical The Hotel Clerk, triggers a comic misunderstanding in a restaurant when he requests two fried eggs one side and the other. The Ethiopian waiter, puzzled and mocked, finally says eggs must be boiled as he cannot fry them as requested.
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Harry Fisher
Alfred Aarons
Fisher
Son of Tail
Footlight Flashes Preview of Next Season
Theatre gossip notes major revivals and debuts including Robert Mantell in Richelieu and the 300th performance of The Merry Widow at New Amsterdam. Annie Russell to star Emma in Paid in Full in London Easter Monday 1909, with English engagement expected to be open ended. Eva Tanguay to rest two months. Rose Coghlan to join Jack Straw with John Drew. Harold Heaton to perform The Music Lesson in vaudeville.
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Robert B. Mantell
Richelieu
Merry Widow
New Amsterdam
Annie Russell
London
Emma
Eugena Walter
Little Nemo
Gabriel
Buster Brown
James M. Barrie
Eva Tanguay
Suzanne Westford
Lillian Russell
Emma Janvier
Boston
W. Somerset Maugham
Harold Heaton
Vaudevilla
Mari Hubert Frohman
Professional Card for Legal Services in Atlantic Iowa
Professional cards note specialties in abstracts opinions of titles real estate and probate law. Located at the corner of 4th and Chestnut Streets Atlantic Iowa formerly Internes Hospital State University of Iowa. House phone 461 Black office 263 Black.
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4Th & Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Iowa
Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
Black
Office
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Cook
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
G. R. Miller
Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlante
Co. G. Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
Opera House Black
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T. B, Swan
C. L. Campbell
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Ben A. Wood
U. S. Mullins
Chas, D. Finley
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Finley & Finley
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Butler
M. H. Butler
C. J. Litterst
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