Fractured lives and wrecks dot Iowa headlines
A chaotic Iowa round of misfortunes reports a tumbling list of incidents. A man steps on a pitchfork then is treated for lockjaw. A Navy officer, Captain Milton Reed, earns promotion at Mare Island. Grain spills on a Northwest railroad right of way. A baby in Knoxville improves after swallowing a safety pin. Newton endures a hailstorm with damage. A Rock Island train near Joliet leads to a suicide. A marquise dergi Albizei drowns near Garda, Italy, with no renovation. A threshing machine accident in Bancroft leaves a man dead. Des Moines watchmaker George Phillips seeks bankruptcy. Holmes drowns in the Sioux River. A Buck Grove couple survives a crossing collision. Tar and feather mobs drive out a preacher after a tent meeting. A baby girl drowns in a watering trough near Clear Lake. A doctor in Reasoner suffers severe injuries in a car crash. F. W. Swearsogen creditors receive a 16 percent first dividend as liquidation continues.
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Carl” Frendenberg
Yorktown
Milton
Reed
Wankon
Beach
Mare’ Island Navy
Telies Smith
Knoxville
Improv
Newton
L. Tarlton
Allerton
Joliet
Tarlton
Chicago
Dergi Albizei
Mary Kifer
Bonix City
Thole Garda
Italy
Guat Wudtka
Bancroft
George Phillips
Des Moines
Alvin P. Strub
Marshalltown
John
Rmer
Creston
Jamon Hoy
Kansas
Ble i Holmes
Alta
Sioux River
Linn Grove
France
W. J. Wilfond
Oskaloosa
Little Virginia Ruth Knudson
C. B. Knudson
Clear Lake
High Farm
Frank Carpenter
Reasoner
Ruby
Louie Alliud
Carpenter
F. W. Swearsogen
B. 8. Flack
Bolsheviks Haggling Over American Relief Terms
A review notes Bolshevik officials slower to concede on relief terms for famine and postwar aid in Russia. It reports Litvinoff hardening limits on workers and expulsion rights, while American relief head Brown presses for broader access, amid fears of foreign interference.
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Aneail
Hunt
Oresson
Sapedol
Russia
Volga Valley
Gay Maxim Litvinoff
Soviet Famine Relief Commission
Walter J. Brown
American Relief Administration
Brown
Litvinoff
Atso
Lenin and
Trotzky
Hunger Drives Young Woman to Street in New York
Millie Renner, twenty four, collapsed in a West Forty-seventh Street precinct lobby after begging for food for weeks. She claimed to have lost $500 and said she had slept in halls and parks since arriving from Jersey City seeking work. Police detained her on a vagrancy charge as she recounted her desperate hunger and a reported loss of funds.
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New York
Putz
Weat Forty-seventh Street
Millie Renner
Jersey City
Milas Renner
Woman Found with Roll of Bills In Court Case
In a West aide court the young woman was described as discovering a roll of bills amounting to Biss near her waist, leading to her appearance before the magistrate who ordered ten days observation at Bellevue hospital.
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Biss
West Aide
Wives of Bigamist Husband Stand by Each Other
Chicago report says Edward Brauer faces trial for bigamy as two pretty wives, Mrs Sophie Daehr of Syracuse and Miss Frieda Sheen, await the proceedings. The trio became friends after Brauer, a former army sergeant, left his first wife for the West and married Frieda in Byana ton, TI. Wife No 1 voices calm, noting jealousy would do no good and praising Frieda as a dear partner.
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Chicago
Edward Brauer
Breuer
Byanaton
Frieda Sheen
Sophie Daehr
Syracuse
Frieda
Worst bear in battle traps cattleman in Blue Ridge
Walter Poster, a North Carolina cattleman, on a roundup in the Blue Ridge mountains, faced a mother bear and three cubs. He fought the animal with a pocket knife after it attacked him, dragging him through underbrush for about 200 yards before the bear was found dead.
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Asheville
N. C
Walter Poster
Blue Ridge Mountains
Poster
Testimonial and public notices on medicines and hunting profits
A Mrs Grorait Tegarden praises Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for easing years of menstrual pain and urges others to seek help. The piece also notes government hiring of hundreds of hunters and reports 1920 wildlife skin harvests totaling thousands of pelts for wolves coyotes lions and bobcats, highlighting livestock protection in western ranges.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Tydia E. Pinkham
Mre
Grorait Tegarden
Third Street
Moundsle
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia E. Medicine Co
Lynn
Massachusetts
Nothing Left but a Shelf After North Delaware Fire
A North Delaware Street home was nearly destroyed, leaving only a shelf after the blaze. A curious neighbor heard sounds and alerted his mother, noting the house was fully burned except for a lone shelf. The Indianapolis News reports the dramatic scene with local reactions.
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Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Justifiable Aloofness Quips Over Omar Khayyam
A Mrs Cay enne voices disdain for Omar Khayyam amid jazz poetry and bootlegging talk. She denies reading the poet, arguing he is not a proper person given circulating verse and alcohol incidents.
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Omar Khayyam
Cartoon Romance In A Moment Of Fate
Taken at once a playful cartoon caption presents a brief love exchange. He declares I love you and she responds with a warm acceptance, framed by magazine style humor and light narrative. The scene captures a crisp, charming instant of affection.
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