Poisoned pancake mystery and other Iowa news
A sequence of Iowa items reports a family sickened by arsenic in pancake flour with one death, confession from two men in a separate murder case, Charities and Corrections leaders chosen, and multiple local incidents. Wehrman, Cooper, and Kirby figures noted alongside accidents, trials, and community events across towns like Fort Dodge, Ames, and Cedar Rapids.
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Pleasant
J. B. Jordan
Cyrus
Inez
Reynolds
Hagle Grove
Caboose
Northwestern
Bradgate
Rutland
Clyde Spiker
Ray James
Gilmore City
Spiker
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Ft. Dodge
G. P. Wykoff
Grinnell
Mra
Mississippi Valley
United States
D. F. Meroin
Bronx City
N. H. Peterson
Alta
Sweden
Hardin County
J. P. Peterson
Humboldt College
W. C. Brown
Grand Forks
N. C
George F. Kirby
Fidelity Savings Bank
Marshalltown
Jennie Reed Kirby
Walter Delahhoyd
Avoca
Avota
Council Binifa
F. B. Bell
Ames
Iowa
Ed Fitzgerald
Ball
Magon City
Iowa City
Henry Wedekind
Muscatine
Harry Gove
Newton
California
Louis Sherman
Sully Bank
Louis
Mexico
Goya
Wayne Rupe
Ottumwa
Rupe
Iowa Defends Cost Mark Fight Amid Drug Gist Protests
Iowa officials report the attorney general may rule against the universal cost mark used by pharmacists. The pharmacy commission plans warnings before prosecutions, while druggists vow to resist. The move draws support from the National Association of Retail Druggists and concerns the labeling practice on prescriptions. Additional items note prison land expansion, livestock transport disputes, and state drainage plans.
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Des Moines
State Pharmacy Commission
National Association of Retail Druggists
Cosson
Department of Justice
National Association
Iowa Pharmacists
Pharmac
Iit
Iowa
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Pharmacy Commission
Fort Madison
Anamosa
Knoxville
Death by Own Action Ended In Unusual Method
Chicago report notes that several attempted personal crisis stories have been frustrated while others succeeded, and records show no prior case of a death by own action being prevented in the same way as John Doyle. Doyle, a metal polisher out of work three months, said I’m going to end it all and stole...
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Iowan Beskeepers’ Association
Ames
Des Moines
C. BR. Bartholomew
B. T. Bloatedale
8. W. Snyder
Center Point
Ft. Dodge
Minneapolis’ & St. Louis
Mra
R. N. Roush
Beryl Roush
Warl
Smiley Francis
Jolly
John Berner
Francis
Rockwell City
Society of Friends of
David Edwards
Penn College
Oskalooga
Harry R. Keats
Jasper Hadley
Iowa Falls
Clarke
Mathew O’donnell
Lee County
O’donnell
American Express Company
Kossuth County
van Neys
W. 8
Kenyon
Fort Dodge
Maurice O'Connor
Clayton County
Buena Vista County
A. R. Biddlen
Storm Lake
Northwestern
Bradgate
Rutland
Reynolds
Eagle Grove
Rowan Methodist Church
Seventh Day Adventists
Center Church
Lake City
John Melnerny
Hermosillo
Mex
Myra
J. J. Melnerny
Burlington
Ulysses Armstrong
Barnes City
F. H. Christy
West
Branch
Adam Scharf
Newton
John Palmer
Renwick
Bss
B. Z. Price
Kanyon, Kelleher
Walter Delahoyd
Avoca
Omaha
Executive Council
State Executive Sound
Trumbull Lake
Rush Lake
Chicago
John Doyle
Doyle
Man hangs from trestle rope rescued by train crew
A man climbed the Rock Island trestle at Seven ty-third Street, tied a rope to a rail and attempted suicide by hanging. A switch engine brushing the rope broke it, and he fell about ten seconds before being jolted to the ground by impact. Trainmen brought him to the bridgewell Hospital for treatment.
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Clothestine
Rock Island Railroad
Seventy-third Street
Doyle
Bride Well Hospital
Bare Handed Kill of Bear Stuns Solon Springs Tale
Special Deputy Sheriff Brown of Solon Springs says he killed a 200 pound black bear with his bare hands after a nighttime ambush as the animal ransacked his camp larder. He claims the bear charged, he grappled, lost his knife, and strangled the creature with his hands. His clothes were torn in the struggle.
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Solon Springs
Will
Redasperate Struggld
Brown
Thin Place
Eagle Attacks Ship At Sea Off Delaware Capes
A brown feathered eagle about five feet across attacked crew aboard the British tramp steamer Longeear after entering near Huslon, Spain. Boatswain Smith suffered a cut above the eye and Seaman Hughes a scratched right hand as the exhausted bird fought for freedom before being captured after a three hour pursuit and a final cornering on the foremast.
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Philadelphia
Huslon
Spain
Delaware Capes
Smith
Thief Caught By Chemicals In Philadelphia
James Seidel of Philadelphia was held for court on a charge of looting lockers in a telephone building after detectives used chemically treated colina to trap him. Employees reported regular disappearances of money and clothing, and investigators found a coat pocket with the treated powder. Seidel was later found in a lavatory to wash off the green substance.
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Philadelphia
Coia
James Seidel
Beldel
Machine Guns Across Armies and Test Fire Rates
Reports on machine guns in British French Austrian and German forces note two guns per battalion and high firing speeds. A British test shows 42 first-case shots, 228 rounds fired with 69 hits. 42 marksmans fired 408 rounds with 62 hits.
Conscience Drives Ragged Forer Trudging Back to Do Snow Sweep
A sunlit garden path scene shows a weary beggar returning to a house after winter visit. He admits to a gracious hostess that he ate but did not clear snow from the yard as promised, saying his conscience spurred him to complete the task despite the heat.
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Wayforer
Society Notes From the Reservation Item
The editor of a western journal urges reporting on local Indian society, urging Bud Youah and readers to roam the wigwams and gather social items for the paper to avoid neglecting Indian subscribers.
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Bud
Grouthwestern
Youah
Wigwams
Geo
She Had Forgotten
Mrs. Gabb confronts her husband about hair found on his vest from last winter. He replies that she was blond then, implying a past before memory faded. The exchange centers on suspicion and remembered appearance within a domestic dialogue.
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Mrs. Gabb
Mr. Gabb
The Opportunist Yeacher Mary Apples Dilemma
The riddle asks how to divide five apples among six children. Mary answers by making apple sauce, transforming the five apples into a shareable form without leftover portions.
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Yeacher
Mary
I want to take a flyer but what is the stock or aeroplane
A brief line from the Baltimore American notes a conversation about taking a flyer and questions whether the subject refers to stock or an aeroplane, hinting at everyday talk or literary device without a clear event or person.
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Baltimore American
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George Cosson
J. J. Gibson
A. A. Spurgeon
Cedar Rapide
Clyde McFarlin
Montezuma
Lillian Leffert
State Land Department
Marion County
E. W. van Duyn
State Bureau of Weights and Measures
Ydown
Eee
House
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Muscatine Slough
Keokuk Lake
Odessa Lake
Louisa Counties
Attorney General's Office
Capitol Extension
Supreme Court
Mad
Animal
EAGLE
Big Bird
Foldoran Requeak
L. BH. Waterman Company
New York
Big Florida
de Soto Co
O. W. Walter
Arcadia
Florida
Texas
Gell Ar
Aares
Brasarl
Raird Rael
Wits Morge Gxelauil
Coundien
Foo
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