Iowa Troops Ordered to Fort Des Moines for Border Duty
War Department orders four Iowa national guard cavalry troops to report to Fort Des Moines for mobilization and border patrol duty at Brownsville after 103 men refused the federal oath. Tax growth and funding pressures loom as counties seek higher levies and school funds rise. Iowa regiments impress in Fort Brown review amid broader state governance and labor shifts.
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War Department
Fort Des Moines
Des Moines
Iowa National Guard
Logan
United States
Lews
Brownsville
Executive Council
F. S. Shaw
Iowa
Virginia
Fort Brown
Parker
Allen
United States Fourth Infantry
Red Oak
Jtat
Henry Albert
State Board of Health
State University of Town
J. A. Koon
Dallas
Ames
Adj
Guy B. Logan
Washington
Newton
Frank Carson
Iowa City
Carson
Cargon
H. M. Havner
Iowa Women's Christian Temperance Union
Scott County
Towa
Story
Buena Vista
Story County
Ira Miller
Lois Miller
Clarence Finkey
Paul
Ruth Miller
Millers
North Western
Stanwood Junction
Tipton
Laws
Iowa Railroad Commission
Aidy
Chicago and Alton
Springfeld
Kansas City
Illinois
Orton Brothers
Three Ring Circus
Orton Circus
Lancaster
A. Z. Orton
Ortonville
William Hall
James Bentley
Clifford and Wint Good
Hamburg
McPaul
Percival and
Payne
F. C. Timzell
College of Homeopathic Medicine
the State University
Hugh Burris
Cherokee County
Burris
Conspiracy charge against Lily Lewis in Iowa fraud case
Lily Lewis of Sewall is bound over to federal court on charges of a broad conspiracy to defraud insurance companies across Iowa and neighboring states. The alleged scheme includes insuring valuable horses, poisoning and substituting bodies to claim large sums, with cases mirroring similar suspicious deaths under trees and bark stripped as if struck by lightning.
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Iowa
Mra
Lily Lewis
Sewall
United States
J. C. Hunt
Lewis
Ughtning
Phil R. Wilkinson
Leutenant
Iowa Regiment
Madison County
Bennett
Washington
Ed Byers
Des Moines
Rodney Fagen
Smith Brookhart
General Allen
Brownsville
Charles Kublas
John A. Stewart
F. S. Hird
Wilkinson
Hird
Boone
Jeff Hoffman
Luther
Emil Johnson
Hoffman
Johnson
Ions State College
Iowa Brigade, Artillery and Engineers Company
Government Base Hospital
Harry Lindgren
Flrst Regiment
Ralph Stevena
el Cline
Penn College
Oskaloosa
Brittain & Co
Pork
Marshalltown
Iumers
T. L. Boyd
London
Eng
Baptist
New Hampton
Congregational Hospital
James Braden
Carson
Trichinesia
Blind and Deaf Man Runs Bank in Havana Illinois
Havana resident W H McFadden, ninety and almost blind, runs McFadden & Co. from behind a secretary who copies all his letters in two inch high lettera. He reads war news and oversees vast land and property holdings in Mason county Kansas and other sites while supporting the North in Civil War memories.
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Havana
H. W. McFadden
McFadden
New York State
Ilinois
Peorii
G. C. McFadden
B. B. McFadden
Peoria County
Mason County
Kansas
Coffey County
Chicago
Waverly
Hails Summit
Kan
Jail Term for Libeling Washington Named in Court
Paul H. Hater of Tacoma Washington convicted of libeling the memory of George Washington is sentenced to four months in jail. The court states the sentence is to cover costs in the case.
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Washington
Tacoma
Wash
Paul H. Hater
George Washington
Death in Chicago as man clutching solitaire rack found
Howard F. Erzinger was found dead in his Chicago room by his wife who entered to watch a game of solitaire. He lay face down with the rack of clubs in his hand, indicating a sudden end during the match.
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Chicago
Howard F. Erzinger
California Congressman Tours Mexico Cab Ride Bargain
Representative William Kettner of California toured Mexico City with a string of seven carriages, renting all available in front of his hotel for about an hour’s ride at 200 cents each. The party, mostly empty carriages except the lead, formed a funeral procession as Kettner enjoyed the bargain.
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William Kettner
California
Mexico
Kettner
Mexico City
Suniday
Red rough sore hands advertise Cuticura remedy
A vintage ad promotes Cuticura products for red rough and irritated hands. It touts soaking with hot Cuticura noupsuds and finishing with Cuticura Ointment. A one night treatment is claimed to work, with free samples by mail and a postcard address to Cuticura Dept. L in Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Bostom
All-Seeing Eye Copying Typewriter Invention
A Brooklyn electrical engineer develops an eye attached to a typewriter to copy printed matter. The device uses a large sphere with six lenses and a selenium cell retina, reflecting one letter at a time as the carriage moves. Popular Mechanics explains how it operates.
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Brooklyn
Popular Mechanics
England Uses Repulped Paper
The London Globe notes a paper shortage leading to repulping of used sheets. Deeply impressed letters survive the process, revealing stray letters like an “o” and an “h” in unexpected places on otherwise blank sheets.
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England
London Globe
Utterly Squelched at Pyramids and Poverty Cure Debate
A fragment recalls a Cairo encounter with "Forty centuries" watching from the pyramids. Pa Wome bat replies to a guide, then remarks on Europe's head waiters. The piece argues social insurance as a cure but favors steady work and thrift. It notes boys should become men.
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Pa Wome
Europe
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