Bear hunt on Linville Mountain ends with 261-pound prize
In October near Linville Mountain North Carolina a rugged bear chase unfolds with John and Mex guiding a party of hunters. After hours of braving briars and laurels Edgar fires a buckshot at close range, then the bear is cornered in a rock den. The 261-pound bear is hauled to the settlement with shared meat among locals and pelts split among four hunters.
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Blue Ridge
Linville Mountain
John
North Carolina
Devil's Gap
Max
Lingilie
William Linville
Hesslonghide
Mex
Edgar
Bruin
The
Chase
Wwe
Bogn
Watson Lifers Parole Refusal and Court Actions
Des Moines lifer Watson, jailed for first degree murder, was denied parole by the state board, which rejected claims of published photos as fakes and noted his deathly prognosis. Federal receivers seek to vacate Fort Dodge line. Sanitation probes target Fort Madison prison conditions. ice cream can hygiene urged. Winterset demands a new railway depot. Aug 28 trial set for express injunction case. hearings hinge on temporary injunction details.
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Des Moines
Thomas W. Watson
State Penitentiary
State Board of Parole
Carroll
Watgon
Watson
Smith McPherson
Federal Court
Homer Loring
Parley Sheldon
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Interurban
Des Moines Junction
Goddard
Cosson
State Railway Commission
Federal
Wil
Pan
Sumner
State Board of Health
Fort Madison
Bumner
Probe Commission
Ast
Winterset
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Express Telal
Trudze McPherson
Express
Lafayette Higgins
Higgins
Decrease in coal output across several counties
Polk, Dallas, Boone, Webster, Guthrie, Greene and Scott counties saw 67,259 tons less coal produced in the year ending June 30 1914 versus the prior year according to state mine inspectors. The report notes a total district drop of 401,448 tons but Jasper county was reassigned to a different district affecting year to year comparisons.
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Ded Mones
Polk
Dallas
Boone
Webster
Guthrie
Greene
Scott Counties
Edward Sweeney
Louis B. Stamm
Jasper County
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Aids Sick Women
Creston Iowa testimonial from Mrs Seals praising Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing inflammation pain headaches and nervous symptoms after other medicines failed. The ad notes roots and herbs use and offers confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts with free assistance for twenty years.
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Creston
Iowa
Lyais
Pinkham
Lydia
Wt. Seals
Howard St
Tuberculosate Patients Neglected in State Hospitals
A National Association statement reveals that among over 228 public insane asylums housing about 160000 people, fewer than one third provide any tuberculosis care. About 70 hospitals across 28 states offer TB beds for insane patients, totaling roughly 3350 beds, while TB deaths in this group exceed general population rates by 60 to 200 percent.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Boventy Hospitals
Could Take Her Choice Joke Visited by Train Door
A Galesburg Mail excerpt recalls an elderly traveler asking which door to exit as a railroad train stops at both ends. The conductor replies with polite humor that any door will do since the car stops at both ends.
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Galesburg
Short Duration of Plunker Plot Flourish
In a brief exchange, Pumply fears asking Mr. Plunker about his daughter’s band. Plumper admits a brief lie, claiming he stood with the old man only in a vestibule during a shower, a remark seen as a minor social incident.
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Pumply
Mr. Plunker
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Frank
Bricknell
Fort Madisen
Barney
Dairy and Food Department
Alver Power
Miller
Des Moines Power Company
Des Moines River
Dos Moines
W. H. Morley
Chicago
William A. Burch
William G. Rigby
N. C. Rigby
Stamwood
B.C. Jewatt
Eagle Grova
Ila
New York Herald
Stle
Oskaloosa Co-operative Industrial Sociery
Oskaloosa
Capital Stock
Dayton Co-operative Creamery Company
Dayton
Capital Stocks
State Food and Dairy Department
Comralsstongy Barney
Carter’s
Burale Easae
Corea Coin Lad
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