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Iowa State News Highlights From Across the State
A Iowa roundup reports fires in Radcliffe and Cedar Rapids with losses and destroyed homes. Atlantic opens with nearly 1000 scholars. new churches dedicated in Spring Creek and Fort Madison. Political shifts include Linn county Democrats backing Daniels and Montezuma’s J W Jones for rep. Notable crimes and roll call: embezzlement case in Taylor county, burglaries in Council Bluffs, and a murder near New Hampton. Local tales include editors moving, circuses, and temperance notes.
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Radcliffe
Peter Fledgler
Cedar Rapids
St. Paul’s Church
Council Bluffs
Jefferson Academy
Gallagher Opera House
Atlantic
New Methodist Church
Spring Creek
Cedar Falls
A. C. White
Congregational Church
Waverly
James Williams
J. H. Ely
Wyoming Journal
Sabula
Linn County
William P. Daniels
Montezuma
J. W. Jones
Episcopal Church of
Fort Madison
Guild
Iowa
James Thompson
New York
Stickney Organization
Miller
Des Moines Register
Fort Smith
Ark
Burlington
C. E. Kendal
Justice Court
Andrew Parsons
Marshalltown
George F Eliott
What Cheer Coal Company
Crescent Coal Company
Temperance League
What Cheer
Elizabeth Stevens
Iowa Penitentiaries
District Court
Fred Warner
New Hampton
Frangen