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Iowa News Highlights Rail Franchises Fires Thefts and Politics
The report covers rail bulletins on election news, a Fort Dodge arson with a playful police figure, Mason City clothing thefts, Burlington burglaries, and a string of shopliftings. It notes Farmers and Merchants line gains a franchise, Iowa Republicans funding national efforts, and planned state telecom improvements. Court cases involve peonage claims, forgery in Mason City, and a Des Moines real estate manipulation indictment.
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Nels Central Railroad
Fort Dodge City
Jack
Ed. Jenkins
Mason City
Panatorium
Windom
Minn
Severson
Burlington
Grimes
Clinton Copeland
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Telephone Company
C. A. Baughman
Iowa
National Republican Committee
Chicago
Lafé Young
A. B. Funk
H. A. Miller
J. C. Sanders
State Reformatory
Fort Madison
Taft
Bryan
Bryn
Carroll
White
Fred Paulson
Paulsen
Matts
Blove Works
Paulson
Des Moines
James Feckles
Steve Platis
Greece
Eckles
Louis Brillis
Brills
America
Humane
Law
Towsby
Folk County Grand Jury
Polk County
Bronx City Commercial
Kankakee
Ill
Stowx City
George H. Betts
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
State Normal
Keenan
Shenandoah
Ames College
Jacob Hoffman
Dubuque
H.N. Smith
Holy Cross
Ladies Federated Clubs of
Creston
Marshalltown
Chafin
Good
Congress
Tracy
van Law
Stanton
Flora Schramm
Fred
Dunols
Bishop Hills
Texas Land Company
Texas
Charles Abeldt
Oakland
Macy
Aveca
District Court
Anamosa
Pullen
Abeldt
United States
Phelan
Ivis Dentrich
Fiarry Dawson
Fort Dodge
Meservey
Chicago Great Western
Swaiedale
Thornton
Dentrich
Johnston
New York
Webster City
Yeohl
McFarland
Stanhope
Milwaukee
San Franciso
Bernard Andrae
Hollander
Andrae
Andras
DeWat