Iowa News Roundup Mixed with Local Notices
A wide assortment of Iowa items: New Vienna celebrates 50th wedding anniversary. Marshalltown plans a new multi-group club headquarters. Boone reports night prowlers and window breakages. a newborn’s body found near Muscatine. Mason City holds two bushels of cigarette papers for condemnation. Iowa Central rails against public drinking cups. a farm dispute over a sold team. a Cherokee street fight leaves a man near death. Mason City contracts for St Francis academy. Clarion IOOF buys a building. Greenfield selects a new school superintendent. Reinbeck land owner Fritz Strohbeben is the county’s largest holder. Ida Grove graduates twenty four. Sioux City judge sentences a manslaughter case. Clarinda hospital reports infections. Langdon cyclone narrowly spares a home. Des Moines area notes on clinics, legal notices, and local incidents. Oakdale TB sanatorium cottage project. Bonding Story City electric plant. Des Moines police charity levy. local engagements and social notes. Measles in Traer. Logan to vote on city expansion. county funds available for loans.
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Bockenstedt
New Vienna
Marshalltown
Merchants’ Association
Manufacturers’ and Jobbers Association
Traveling Men’s Commercial Clubs
Boone
Mississippi River
Muscatine
Catherine A. McCreary
Jacob Danaker
Otage
Danaker
Frank Stephenson
Cherokee
St. Francis Academy
Mason City
Clarion
L. J. White
Greenfield
Sheldon
Grundy County
Reinbeck
Fritz Strohbebn
Grundy
Ida Grove High School
Oliver
Sioux City
Red
Clayton
Anamosa
Mel
Grand Lodge
Davenpor
D. W. Clements
W. H.hutchinson
H. W.hughes
C. D. Becker
C. B E. Narcy
N. R. Parvin
A. N. Alberson
City Water Works
Washington
Charley McCulley
Frank Brown
Day Laboreres
Iowa Union Medical Society
Iowa City
Johhnson County Medical Society
J. C. Beck
Chicago
Hugh T. Patrick
H. HE. Kirschner
Iowa State Sanatorium
Oakdale
L. W. Dear
Dr. Crawford
Mt. Vernon
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Casper Schenk
del Saloon
Des Moines
F. Reimer
Will Sexton
Story City
Des’ Moines
James Shea
Young Women’s Christian Association
Bessie Sanders
Kramer Martin Gilbert
Eric P. Dodge
Ft. Madison
Cannon Bell
Miler
Rock Island
Battle Creek
George Phillips
Michigan
Bright
Walnut Streets
Central Fire Station
H. E. Agen Fritz
Boone District
Remarkable motor journey ends near Swakopmund after 19 months
Lieut. Paul Graetz completes a perilous east to southwest Africa crossing begun in Dar-es-Salaam in 1907. After 19 months of harsh travel across deserts and forests, he reaches German Southwest Africa at Gobabis and notes crossing the Kalahari on a grueling route with broken gear, scarce petrol, and native help before the final aid from a Boer farm.
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Paul Graetz
Dar-es-Salaam
German East Africa
German Southwest Africa
Swakopmund
Kalahari Desert
London Mail
Gobabis
Palapye Road
Bechuanaland
Pottletle Forest
Pottlette River
North Rietfontein
Kalahar Desert
Prison of horrors witness from Sebastopol prison
A letter from M Lontatidze, a member of the second duma, now jailed in Sebastopol, describes the brutal execution process for condemned prisoners. He details scaffold construction, how prisoners are bound and beaten, the muffling of screams, and the harrowing scenes as each man is led to the rope under a pear tree in the hospital courtyard.
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M. Lontatidze
Second
Duma
Sebastopol
Juvenile Court In Paris Compared To U S System
The Bellman notes that Paris adopts a weekly trial day at the palais de justice for juvenile offenders who are arrested by police and may be jailed with adults. No separate probation officer exists and reforming youths are turned over to parents or reformatories, highlighting shortcomings versus American practice.
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Paris
Palais de Justice
She Prefers to Stand Amid Crowded Subway Car
A delicate woman with a baby and a young child boarded a Brooklyn subway during rush hour. No seats were available. she steadied herself at a curve and fell forward. The crowd formed to help, but she refused offers, saying she would rather stand than thank those who only act at the last minute.
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Brooklyn
New York Tribune
After the Races and Sure Tips Exchange
A brief exchange recounts racing talk and betting tips with the claim of certainty, followed by a puzzled pause about logon certainty, highlighting a lively yet ambiguous horse racing discourse.
Before and After in the Couple's Secret Marriage
A brief exchange reveals a formerly inseparable couple drifted apart after not marrying a year ago. One character confirms they were not married then, suggesting a change in their relationship.
Signs of Age Overlooked in Daily Life
An author muses on how people misjudge others ages whom they see often and how aging creeps up unseen. He notes how friends seem the same when seen daily, yet birthdays and years surprise us when identity is revealed, even for ourselves, and ends with a note that Providence has kind ways.
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France
Department of Gascony
Gascony
Landes
Hoe
Mr. Pilekerton
Walkinshaw
Inen
Providence
Look Here Bluff About Africa Hunt Sparks Dental Debate
An excited man recalls encountering a rival who challenges his Africa lion hunt claim and vows to prove the boast. The talk escalates to threats of a standstill as a second speaker corrects the tale, mentioning wolves in Montana and plans to leave for work at ten.
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Africa
George
Montana
Foam for Fires from German Consular Report
A Prussian firm at Salzkotten near Minden has developed and tested a fire extinguishing foam. The device uses a simple two chamber metal cylinder with a long spout. One chamber holds an aqueous solution of potash alum and sodium sulphate, the other holds a solution of sodium bicarbonate sodium sulphate and licorice root extract.
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Germany
Salzkotten
Minden
Prussia
Johnny and His Boss Playful Office Exchange
The St Paul Dispatch recounts a tale where a stern boss questions Johnny about smoking and insists on taking a cigarette, prompting a nervous stammer from the youth as he claims he only smokes a little. The exchange unfolds in a tense yet humorous office scene.
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Johnny
St. Paul
Rosenthal’s witty reply to a struggling pianist in London
The well known pianist Herr Rosenthal returns to London after nine years. A pianist complains to him about losing money on recitals. Rosenthal answers with a sharp tip to reduce concerts to save earnings.
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Herr Rosenthal
London
Rosenthal
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Iowa News
A. H. Burton
Aingering
Burton
Zimmerman Steel Company
Lone Tree
Monroe National
Monroe Savings Banks
A. C. Warner
Egaistant
Retta Hastings
Henry Shepardo
Ileen
al M. Mott
Franklin County
James Nesbitt
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw
Knoxville
Charles Stewart
Algona
Logan
Traer
Sevyare
Boons County
Jones
Lieut. Graetz
East Africa
Toting Ngami Lake
Chansi
His Boss
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