Gopher bounty program pays out in Shelby County
The Shelby County gopher control effort rewards trappers at Lawn Inn with 8 cents per head for a bounty and 2 cents per trap per head. In year ten thousand seven hundred eighty gophers were trapped. this year thirty two thousand. Boys aged 8 to 16 dominate trapping while some farmers add bonus payments. Bert McKadden of Shelby is noted for a notable gopher claw collection.
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Shelby County
Supervinous
Lawn Inn
Buely
Timothy Meadows
Bert McKadden
Shelby
Navy Department
Naval Training Stations
Missing Iowa publisher William Gardner sought after
A diary note reports William Gardner of Atlantic has disappeared after warning his mother and Gardner Press office staff that he would return the next night. Searches in Des Moines fail to locate him while Mel Angen and others check likely spots. Charley Kringel, a local banker, gave $140 to send to Rock Island. hopes he delivered the check safely and was not harmed.
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William Gardner
Atlrintic
Des Moines
Willan Gardner
Gardner Press
Athiantic
Felonda
Sheen
Birt
Melangen
Hig
Charlea Kringel
Jadge
Gardner
Rock Island
Feariig
Wiliams
Billy
Willams
den ‘Moines
Nmnenia
Moline
Williams
Wire Stops Girl Wedding In Cripple Creek Case
Former U S Marshal Frank A Hadsell of Rawlins Wyoming rushed to Cripple Creek to halt the marriage of his daughter Grace to Hans Albert an eccentric musician. Grace left Otjojinwa secretly and was intercepted before the ceremony. Albert recently released from an asylum after two years of alleged insanity and parole.
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United States
Frank A. Hadsell
Rawlins
Wyo
Justice Harrington
Cripple Creek
Miss Grnce
Hans Albert
Miss Hadsell
Otfijmwa
Wyoming
Albert
Hat fire at hotel scene shocks Clear Lake
A young woman’s Merry Widow hat caught fire from a cigar store flame at the Elks hotel in Clear Lake. Enthusiastic bystanders fought the blaze, nearly pulling her hair and pounding her with clothing as they tried to extinguish the flames. She suffered serious bruises from the frenzied efforts.
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James
Elks
Clear Lake
Cormee
Woman Rescues Child Just Before Locomotive Crushes It
Mrs Willgm MacDonald risked her life at Bellersgrove to snatch a three year old from railway tracks as a locomotive sped toward the child. She narrowly escaped being struck herself as the engine passed, suffering injuries from a broken cane but saving the toddler from instant death.
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Evelne
Willgm MacDonald
Bellersgrove
Bank Robbers Put to Flight at Webster City
Leithoned from Webster City Bank Wake Excape on Train J A Mertz frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank in Webster City early Sunday morning. Returning home he found two men at work behind the bank. They captured him, fled toward a freight train pulling out of Northwestern yards, Mertz shouted for help, police pursued at the next stop but the robbers escaped.
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Webster City
Wake Excape
J. A. Mertz
First National Bank
Mertz
Sam
Ife
Treasury
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Ralph
City Court Rules City owes Martin Strelau Co for coal
Judge Benson awarded the Martin Strelau Company $42 735.46 against the city of Dubuque for coal supplied to the water works department. The city had argued no funds were available and that it was beyond indebtedness limits. The report also notes various fragmented items including a Des Moines man found after vanishing, a dangerous accident involving a skylight, and illnesses tied to a Fort Dodge businessman's death from ptomaine poisoning at a picnic.
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Dubuque
Con Hill
Benson
City of
Martin Strelau Company
Circus stunt goes fatally wrong in thrilling attempt
Vinneat Heath, son of a blacksmith from Trandolph, attempted a wire walk from a town windmill to a field stake. A kerosene soaked hoop on fire caused his clothing to ignite mid ascent and death occurred as flames enveloped him from head to toe after he reached the ground.
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Hanayx
Seeen
Vinneat Heath
Trandolph
Heath
Ellonth
Man shoots himself after firing at man and photograph
John T Lepley former Union worker shot through his head on an afternoon. He also fired at a man named Wmackf and struck a wall portrait of himself. The bullet pierced the photograph as it passed through the room, suggesting Lepley’s mind was unbalanced. He leaves a widow and several children.
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Win
John T Lepley
Wmackf
Lepley
T Lepley
Blackmail scheme and political race outcomes in Davenport case
A Davenport report describes a blackmail pattern where two youths receive beer while a man runs distraction, later exchange for photos. The piece also notes Judge Prouty losing to J A Hull by forty votes in the Republican Seventh District primary, and Charles H Keyes facing manslaughter charges after a motorcycle crash in Cornell Ghilfa. Keyes waives examination and awaits grand jury action.
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Hall
Judge Prouty
J. A.T. Hull
Trouty
Weld
Charles H. Keyes
Ant
Homas Wernley
Cornell Ghilfa
District Court
Postmaster appointment changes and local accidents
The Waterloo postmaster gets an extra letter beginning Oct 1 as John L. Adrington takes the Webb Clix post, while W. C. Conaway resigns. The region records drownings in Little Sioux and Skunk rivers, a child’s death from matches, and a bridge-accident fatality near Beverly. A Nevada man suffers severe burn injuries from a turpentine ignition after a machinery accident. Additional crimes include a Peoria arrest for theft and a Century City assault incident involving a man fighting his wife after a court dispute.
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Waterloo
John L. Adrington
Webb Clix
Vier
W. C. Conaway
Tease
Henry Abely
Spencer
Little Sioux
Agnes
Edward Boswell
St. Louis
Carl Mattigon
Skunk
Oskaloosy High School
Sam Long
Chariton
Beverly
J, Long
Russell
Marvin
Andrew J. Clark
Centerville
Bvorvin
Bla Ald
S. Armstrong
Nevada
Armatrong
Civil War Era Figures Highlight Lincoln Assassination Echoes
Mrs. Shelby A Cullom, wife of a Illinois senator, recalls Civil War days in Washington and Lincoln s assassination era while noting her husband s political rise. The piece also discusses emergency currency measures, vault delays, and proposed Washington statues, plus a riot at Riverview and Navy recruiting standards.
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Shelby A. Cullom
Dilnely
Washington
Lincoln
Cullom
Lower
Louse
Uunols
Phalpa Brown
Catherine Ridgley
Eleanor Cullom Ridgley
Senator Cullom
Name of the Lady Writer in the Society Column
A humorous fragment from Youths Companion about a public writer whose visit to a Scottish inn and a seaside town prompts gossip in the society column. The tale contrasts American literary honors with British attitudes and follows a featured writer, a short story author, as editors mix writers with society people.
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Xennyson
Lord Tennyson
America
Hagland
Uttia
Bimina
City Papers
Jook
Providence
Bunnit
Pareo
Erming
Wit and whimsy from a by gone Sunday page
A collage of schoolroom quips and a Marsden era humor note on Artemus Ward. Jests about letters after 1H and freckles appear alongside reflections on aging, crying children, and counting with toes. An anecdote recalls Ward's London lectures and a bit on drawing turned to turnips.
Quebecs Three Hundredth Anniversary Chronicle
The article recounts Champlain founding Quebec three centuries ago and the ensuing tercentenary celebrations in Quebec City. It highlights a grand naval presence from Britain France and the United States including Vice President Fairbanks and Admiral Cowles, along with foreign dignitaries, ceremonies, parades, and pageantry. It details Wolfe and Montcalm’s pivotal roles in the capture of Quebec, Wolfe’s daring landing at Anse du Poulon and the Plains of Abraham, Wolfe's death, Montcalm's fate, and the enduring memorials to both in Greenwich and Westminster Abbey.
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Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
New World
Canadlang
Prince of Wales
St. Lawrence River
United States
Pairbanks
W. 8. Cowles
Australia
Earl of Dudley
New Zealand
Earl of Ronfurley
Arthur de Villiers
South Africa
Canada
Champlain
St. Lawrence
Uen
Janes Wol
Laurier
Plains of Abroaham
Governor General of
Earl Gray
Plains of Abraham
Wolfe
Montcalm
Ste. Foy
James Wolfe
North Amerea
Gibraltar
America
Mtt
House of Commons
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Iowa
Wire
George Stanly
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Mey
William Dean
Bhuer Jorgensen
Mississippi
Siluy W. Corey
Fort Dodge
Belf
Kodak Picturesn
Imegal
Davenport
Kodak
Noah
Winkleman
Oskaloosa
Ucle
John Golden
Henry Bogardus
Peoria
Oscar Brephenson
Robert Caldivell
Magon City
Caldwell
Congress
Capitol
Greenough
Smithgonian Institution
McCall
House
J. Q. A. Ward
Custom House
New York
Frst
Riverview
Maryland
Potomac
United States Army
Fort Washington
Edward N. Macon
Eenee
Golen States
Viele
Margie
Artemua Ward
Artemius Ward
London
J. B. Preston Maddock
Artemus Ward
Europe
Maddock
Ward
Ouebecs
Ontinen
Loulaburg
Pitt
Pretch
Kiege
Ause-in-Poulon
de Verg
Anse-du-Roulon
Brel
Louisburg Grenadiers
Wolfe Law
Greenwich
Aig
DE Montcalm
Morial
Westmoinster Abbey
Montcalme
Charon
Duck—And
Tartier
Gen. Wolfe
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