Christmas Day Rescue Sparks Tale of Heroics and Secrets
A frantic holiday scene unfolds as a mother’s abandoned trust and a brave young woman save a four year old from a runaway horse. The rescuer bears a broken arm but the child remains unhurt while revelations about betrayal and a husband’s sorrow unfold, ending in a near tragedy and a Christmas reconciliation. The narrative shifts to plans for the Iowa building at the St Louis exposition with Proudfoot Bird, John Spencer, and Libbee Nourse Rasmussen profiles, detailing design, cost, and structural features.
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Richard Talbot
Doster
Charlotte
Edward
Des Moines
Iowa
Proudfoot & Bird
John Spencer
Dubuque
Libbee, Nourse & Rasmussen
Early Christmas Music in Germany and England
The piece notes old time customs of young choristers singing in streets on Christmas morning for alms in Germany and England. It highlights Martin Luther as a boy and mentions Jacob Praetorius harmonizing German hymns in the seventeenth century and Johann Sebastian Bach singing these waits in Lueneburg as a pupil, earning daisies from offerings.
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Germany
England
Alma
Martin Luther
Jacob
St. Michael's
Luneberg
Supreme Court delays executions in Phillips and Brooks cases
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed lower court rulings on two Greenville bank robbers Phillips and Brooks and Matt Hunter in separate murder trials. Executions dated December 16 are indefinitely postponed amid reconsideration of murder in the first and second degrees and trial procedures.
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Moines
Sup
Al +t
Ose
Ort G. Phillips
Louis Broo
Greenville
Ang
Matt Hunter
Hotb Beere
Mt. Ayr
Phillips
Brooks
Supreme Court
Clay County
Brook
Dolan
Albert City
Marshall Lodine
Buena Vista County
Eral
John Sunbald
Lodine
A. D. Baillie
Storm Lake
Weaver
Baillie
S. M. Hunter
Ringgold
R. L. Parrish
Matt” Hunter
Homer Holland
Drake University
Hunter
Fort Madison
Miles Reappointed at Eldora Industrial School
The board of control announces the reappointment of Superintendent B. J. Miles of the Eldora Industrial School for Boys. His new term begins January 1, and he is praised as an efficient chief executive with years of leadership at the institution.
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Board of Control
B. J. Miles
Industrial School For Boys
Eldora
Miles
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Supi
Gali
Phillips and
Deemer
Henry
R. H. Spence
Holland
News
Associated Press
Henrietta Cochran
Robert Browning
London
Mr. Browning
Kansas
Oklahoma
Michael Streckendorfer
Berlin
Ogain
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