Iowa Board of Control Seeks Large Epileptic Colony
State board of control files a biennial report to the governor urging 405,850 for existing institutions and 71,000 for land purchase to form an epileptic colony, with total requests at 476,850 the smallest in ten years. It notes rising insanity totals and argues for substantial epilepsy care facilities, suggesting 640 acres for a new colony.
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Board of Control
Des Moines
State Board of Control
Jact
Board of Trustees
Iowa State College
Ames
Executive Council
Iowa
Childree
Hunts Reptiles for the Market He Keeps Snake Trade Alive
Walter F. Ryan, snake hunter, travels with his family to supply side show proprietors and gather venom, hides, and by products. He claims a territory spanning Missouri to Texas and says he once captured 227 rattlesnakes in a single den in southern Oklahoma.
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Walter F. Ryan
Ryan
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Mexico
Kansas City
Fort Smith
Ark
Elmwood Cemetery
San Antonio
Jealous husband chains wife in hut near Glamis
In El Centro California a laborer Francisco Pinea allegedly confined his young wife to a tied hut since early July. She escaped, rode to Yuma, found shelter, and alerted authorities. Pinea was jailed for vagrancy and faced a false imprisonment warrant from District Attorney Leman.
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el Centro
Cal
Glamis
Francisco Pinea
Southern Pacific
Pinea
Yuma
Wilson
Justice Redondo
Meadows
Leman
Buck
Salamander Found Near Little Rock In Fourche River
Reports from Little Rock detail a foot long amphibian with a forked tongue, teeth set back, gills, and plume shaped ears found in the Fourche south of the city by Philip Bloom. The creature matches a salamander once captured in St. Louis and is identified as a true amphibian linked to frogs.
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Little Rock
Ark
St. Louis
Fourche
Philip Bloom
Shakespeare
T. Brown
Barrel wedding voyage ends with surprise train stop
In Mahanoy City Pennsylvania a school teacher John Filer and his bride Miss May Snyder rode a delivery wagon perched on a barrel as bells rang and shouting boys cheered. The train had begun to depart when a helpful conductor halted it about 100 yards away and brought the couple aboard. The wedding crowned a long high school romance.
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Mahanoy City
John Filer
May Snyder
Woman Struck by Loco Tossed Into Pond in Iowa Incident
Mrs. Samuel Neuber of West Liberty was struck by a locomotive near Muscatine Iowa and hurled into a five foot deep pond. The engine pilot tore off her clothing, leaving her in stockings and one shoe, then tossed her into the icy water. She escaped unharmed.
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Muscatine
Samuel Neuber
Judge Neuber
West Liberty
Edits, Omens, and Oddities From a Louisiana Sentinel
A collection of pithy pieces and anecdotes from a small town editor, including a tale of a wife coaxing her Ohio editor husband to church where a thief swaps rubbers and an umbrella, reflections on poetry and fishing on Sunday, rural virtue versus city life, and light humor about Autumn and a nursery prayer. It blends editorials, verse, and brief anecdotes from judges and editors.
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Ohio
Missouri
Dentist G R Miller Office in Gillespie Building
Dentist G R Miller operates from Suite 2 in the Gillespie Building with Musson and Atlantic listings. Office phone 396.
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Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlantic
Res
Formerly Interne Hospital State University of Iowa
House phone Black Office 263 Black Atlantia.
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Interne Hospital State
University of Iowa
Black
Atlantia
Wills drawn and probated in Atlantia era practice
Wills drawn and probated with reports for administrators and guardians. Appointments secured. Probate practice highlighted as a specialty within general law business. Atlantia.
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Atlantia
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A. D. Scougal
Sioux City
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J. W. Pring
Valley Junction
Scougal
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Mr. Pring
Boiler Makers’ Union
BH. R. Watchins
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C. F. Wennerstrum
Shaw
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Cummins
Iowa House of Representatives
Nels J. Lee
Estherville
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Guy Feely
Waterloo
Black Hawk
W. L. Harding
Woodbury County
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Lawndale Avenue
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New Jersey
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Vuk
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Attorney AT Law
4Th & Chestnut Streets
G, R, Miller
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R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic and Medical Physician
Opera House
Orrich
Towa
T. B. Swan
DR. C. L, Campbell
Ben A. Wood
U. S. Mullins
OPERA
X-Ray Laboratory
Charles D. Finley
Josephine Cook
Finley
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Fierse
Butler
M. H. Butler
GC. J. Litterst
Walnut Street
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