Death penalty sought for John Mercer in Tipton murder case
Iowa officials planned to seek the death sentence for John Mercer 27 held in San Francisco for the 1930 murder of Tipton merchant R G Sproat a vigilante. Mercer confessed saying he fired the killing with his brother Roy driving and gang member Wain Kile in the back. Mercer to be transferred to Anamosa and then to court after return.
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Des Moines
INS
John Mercer
San Francisco
R. G. Sproat
Tipton
Glen Schmidt
State Bureau of Investigation
B. J. Maxwell
W. W. Christian
Schmidt
Christian
Mercer
Iowa
Roy
Wain Kile
Sproat
Davenport
Maxwell
Kile
Fort Madison Penitentiary
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Philadelphia
Charles Nelson, 79, Former Cedar Rapids Resident, Dies
Charles Nelson, 79, who lived in Cedar Rapids from 1908 to 1930 before moving to Troy Mills, died at 6 30 am Wednesday after a lingering illness. He ran Turkish baths at the Delavan and Magnus hotels in Cedar Rapids. Born in Sweden, he came to the United States in 1876 and lived in Chicago and Kansas City before Cedar Rapids. Surviving are his wife and four children, Charles N. and Chris of Cedar Rapids, Tillie Nahr of Kansas City, and Louise Theda of Troy Mills. Funeral services will be announced later.
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Troy Mills
Charles Nelson
Cedar Rapids
Nelson
Delavan
Magnus
Sweden
United States
Chicago
Kansas City
Charles N
Chris
Tillie Nahr
Louise Theda
Relief load in Iowa falls to 14000 in June
DES MOINES UP The Iowa Emergency Relief Administration reports the direct relief load dropped to a new June low of 14 000. About 18500 workers are employed on WPA projects in Iowa. Officials fear July relief needs may exceed 17000 due to heat and grasshopper damage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Jeanette McGregor
Relief Administration
Miss McGregor
J A Leonard Dies From Heat Near Prairieburg
James A Leonard 81 died at his Prairieburg area home after being overcome by heat. Funeral services set for Thursday at 9 a m in Castle Grove. Born in Galena Illinois he is survived by daughters Mrs John McNamara Prairieburg and Mrs Josie Keager Ryan. Body at McNamara chapel Anamosa.
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Prairieburg
James A. Leonard
Castle Grove
Leonard
Galena
Ill
John McNamara
Josie Keager
Ryan
McNamara
Anamosa
Funeral Rites Held For Edgewood Civil War Veteran
John A Richards 90 Edgewood’s last Civil War veteran died after eight months illness. Funeral at Congregational church with Rev. Charles H True presiding. Burial in Greenhill cemetery. Born 1846 in Buffalo New York he moved to Iowa with his mother and lived near Edgewood. He served in Company B Fourth Iowa Cavalry and later farmed near Edgewood before years of carpentry. He survived by his wife Sarah Hammond and five children and two grandchildren.
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Edgewood
John A. Richards
Congregational Church
Charles H. True
Greenhill Cemetery
Mr. Richards
Buffalo
N. Y
Abel
Anne Ferry Richards
Iowa
Lodomille Township
Fourth
Iowa Cavalry
Peters
Delhi
Vicksburg
Guntown
Tenn
Marmaduke
Missouri
Missouri River
Jefferson City
St. Louis
Lee
Atlanta
Chatahooshie River
Lydia A. Allaway
Ora Richards
Les. Richards
Manchester
Adelle Palmer
Margaret Harris
Near Greeley
Harold Richards
Chicago
Gretchen Richards
New York City
Richards
Sarah Hammond
Robert Richards
Junior Richards
Unger
Town
H. C. Unger
la Porte City
Bess McQuirk
la Porte
Iowa Canning Company
Trowel Lodge
A. F
A. M
Methodist Church
Harold Clark
R. T. Paige
Clifford M
Red Oak
C. D. James
Masons
West View Cemetery
Slight Increase In Benton County Budget 1937 Vision
Benton county board of supervisors adopted a budget estimate totaling 526 224 for 1937. Operating expenses are projected to rise about 17 250 largely due to a 250 000 road program. Tax receipts are 362 950 with 88 000 from other sources. Cash balance 282 834 with an estimated 58 000 surplus on Jan 1 1937.
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Vinton
Benton County Board of Supervisors
Arlington Youth Killed in Crash Near Arlington
Carl Thomas eighteen son of Mr and Mrs Roy Thomas near Arlington died two hours after a Tuesday road accident. His roadster struck a mailbox and milk stand crushing him. he died at Oelwein hospital. He is survived by his parents and several siblings.
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West Union
Carl Thomas
Roy Thomas
Arlington
Thomas
Oelwein Hospital
Chain Stores May Pay Gross Receipt Tax Under Protest
Des Moines reports state board of assessment and review will treat chain stores equally on taxes while awaiting supreme court rulings. Units tax due July 1 must be paid. gross receipts tax due Aug 1 can be paid under protest or not at all until court decisions. Penalties apply if the tax remains unpaid and is later upheld.
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Des Moines
State Board of Assessment
Supreme Court
United States
Linn County Tuberculosis Seals Sale Totals Six Cents Per Person
Des Moines reports the 1935 Iowa tuberculous Christmas Seals sale totaled 83177.14 dollars. Linn County contributed 5305.70 dollars, a per capita 6.44 cents, with Iowa statewide per capita at 3.36 cents. The statewide 1935 total topped 1934 by about ten percent. Linn County 1934 seals reached 4471.49 dollars.
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Linn County
T. B. Seals
Des Moines
Iowa
Town Tuberculosis Association
Water Lilies Bloom On Dry Land At Marquette
Tourists cross the Prairie du Chien Marquette bridge to view pond lilies blooming on dry land. The river’s low water lets the normally submerged stems rest on the slough bed, creating an unusual shore sight as the surface water recedes to a one foot level.
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Marquette
Prairie du Chien- Marquette Bridge
Summer session convocation at University of Iowa
Approximately 200 degrees will be awarded at the first summer session convocation with President Eugene A. Gilmore delivering the address. Dr. Walter A. Jessup, former UI president and Carnegie Foundation head, will speak. About 2,000 students will register for the second term, which opens July 20.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Eugene A. Gilmore
Maine
Walter A. Jessup
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Fire guts business block at Lake Park
Lake Park Iowa fire, likely from a sawdust room at Anderson Lumber, destroys nearly a block of the business district. Damage estimated 75 000 to 100 000 dollars as 10 towns assist the Lake Park department. wind helped keep the blaze from spreading into town. James and Mrs Price escaped with few belongings. Firemen drew water from Silver Lake to control the fire discovered about 11 30 Tuesday night and tamed it by dawn.
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Lake Park
Anderson Lumber Company
Farmers Exchange
Rock Island
The
Lumber Company
James Price
Silver Lake
Paving Blows Up West of Maynard
Special to The Gazette. Heat last week caused pavement on No 11 near mile corner west of town to explode Tuesday afternoon. The blast widened the road two feet between the Patridge and Vern Logan farms. The noise rattled the Patridge brick house windows a few rods away and bent steel reinforcements. no vehicles were present.
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the Gazette
Maynard
Mile Corner
I. A. Patridge
Vern Logan
Patridges
Brothers Die of Heat Prostration Near Manchester
A brother and sister living near Ryan died within a half hour of each other on Tuesday night from heat prostration. William Mangold, 54, a farmer fifteen miles southeast of Manchester, collapsed while operating a binder and died at Monticello hospital at 9 p.m. Mrs. Gus Steinkopf, 67, of fifteen miles southeast of Manchester, was found unconscious and died at 8:30 p.m. Both did not regain consciousness. Mangold is survived by his wife, three sons, two daughters, two sisters and five brothers. Steinkopf is survived by her husband and son Jacob.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Ryan
William Mangold
Monticello Hospital
Gus Steinkopf
Mangold
Solon Teacher Laura Connelly 76 Dies After Illness
Laura M. Connelly of Solon a longtime Solon public schools teacher and secretary of the board of education died in an Iowa City hospital Tuesday evening after a lingering illness. She is survived by one sister and funeral services set for Friday at 8 30 a.m. at the Solon Methodist church with burial in Oakland cemetery. Friends may call at the Frank A Brosh chapel in Solon.
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Solon
Laura M. Connelly
Iowa City
Board of Education
Charles Ham
Methodist
Oakland Cemetery
Frank A. Brosh
Urbana’s Last Civil War Veteran David Lane Dies
David Nelson Lane 91 longtime Urbana resident and last Civil War veteran died Tuesday at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown after a long illness. Born May 30 1845 in New York he joined the 14th United States Infantry in 1862 at age 16 and served through notable battles including Bull Run Seven Days battles Appomattox and the final surrender. He witnessed the Army of the Potomac review in Washington and later helped dedicate a monument in Elmira New York. Lane lived in Urbana since 1874 with earlier stints in Yankton South Carolina and Elmira prior to settling back in Urbana. He was a charter member of Altar Lodge No 362 A F and A M and remained active for 68 years. He married Maria Remner who died earlier. they had three children Eugene Delbert Lane and Stella Harrison.
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Urbana
David Nelson Lane
Marshalltown
Lane
Fourteenth
United States Infantry
Army of the Potomac
Bull Run
Richmond
McClelland
Grant
Appomattox
Lee
Washington
Elmira
N. Y
Mr. Lane
New York
David Lane
Masonic Order
Emma Harlan 88 Pioneer of Iowa Dies in Dubuque
Mrs. Emma Harlan aged 88 a longtime Iowa pioneer and mother of Dr C D Harlan of Keswick died at her daughter Mrs George Harlan’s Dubuque home Monday Funeral services were set for Thursday at 3 p m at Dr Harlan’s home followed by 4 p m services at What Cheer Baptist Church of which she was a 68 year member Burial will be in Indianapolis near What Cheer She was born in Indiana came to Iowa in a covered wagon and married Humphrey Harlan in 1867 a daughter Mrs F B Palmer lives in Denver
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Williamsburg
Albert Seimer Willa
Fred Eichorst
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
T. H. Joeckel
Wille
Germany
United States
Iowa Township
Homestead
Henry von Ashen
Fred Kleinmeyer
Keswick
Emma Harlan
Iowa
C. D. Harlan
George Harlan
Dubuque
Harlan
W. Y. Cole
What Cheer Baptist Church
Indianapolis
What Cheer
Indiana
Humphrey Harlan
F. B. Palmer
Denver
Elgin Farmer Found Dead From Heat In Field
Charles Hoelzer, 60, an unmarried farmer near Elgin, did not return for supper after shocking oats. A search found him dead in a field from heat exhaustion. A brother and sister also live on the farm.
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West Union
Charles Hoelzer
Elgin
Sullivan Bohren Nuptials in Dubuque Archdiocese
Independence announces the marriage of Miss Alverna Sullivan daughter of Mr and Mrs D E Sullivan Independence to Fred J Bohren of Iowa City at the archbishop's residence in Dubuque on July 8. Monsignor W T Donohue of St Johns Catholic church performed the ceremony with attendants Agnes A Donohue and R M Michael of Dubuque.
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Independence
Alverna Sullivan
D. E. Sullivan
Fred J. Bohren
Iowa City
Dubuque
W. T. Donohue
St. John’s Catholic Church
Agnes A. Donohue
R. M. Michael
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Newhall
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Wilma
Mardean
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Pearl
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Virgil
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Keith
Waterloo
Jean Kelly
Muscatine
E. L. Wertman
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Wells
Minn
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George Staton
Freddie
Winthrop
Earl Zellar
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Leland
Alvin Wright
Oren Wright
Denessia
Meril
Wayne
Charles A. Bowman
Barrow
Oxford Mills
Monticello
Oxford Junction
American Legion
Peterson
Oxford Junction Schools
D. J. Meade
C. E. Unger
John Clark
Mr. Unger
Louis Kuddes
Henry Hanselmann
Conroy
Kuddes
Ohio
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Hemple
Henry
Cleveland
Duffe
Paul Jesse
J. M. Chamberlain
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van Horne
A. O. Reinhardt
Harry G. Bensinger
Watkins
George Lieb
Atkins
North Liberty
O. L. Foster
Curtis Foster
Letts
Ida Bowman
Bertha Black
Harry
Curtis
Sally Files
Elmer Bowman
United Brethren Church
Fire Guts
Laura Connelly
Detroit Special Equipment
de Soto
Detroit
Commercial Credit Company
Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth
Wagner Motor Company
Third Avenue
Eighth Street
DIAL
David N. Lane
Elgin Farmer
OF Women’s
Armstrong’s New Swim Shop
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