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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1916

Page

3

Iowa farm convicts work on state custodial farm near Des Moines

The Ft. Madison penitentiary convicts, 20 men with terms up to years or longer, toil on a 780 acre custodial farm near Des Moines under manager Charles Sullivan. Besides 300 acres of crops, the operation includes cattle, hogs, horses, milk production, and an auto truck for delivering dairy milk from the farm to a Des Moines dairy.

Des Moines Ft. Madison Charles Sullivan Sullivan A. R. Corey State Fair Association Black Hawk Buchanan Calhoun Chickasaw Henry Jones Keokuk Lees Poweshlek O'Brian Page Linn Louisa Mahaska Marshall Muscatine Clayton Ida Wayne Colleges of Iowan Cornell College Grinnell Coe Iowa University Draka Lea County Board of Supervisors Green Bay Burlington Mississippi Cooper John Taylor Grant Taylor Booneville Young Taylor Clarinda Charles Duckworth Shenandoah Rd Duckworth Creston Iowa State Collage Mt. Ayr Iowa United States Army Army H. H. Nash Perry Laws National Guard War Department Infantry Guy B. Logan Iowa National Guard Iowa Bankers’ Association Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association Ames Iowa State College Bankers’ Association Tara Hawk Blackhawk County Farm Improvement Association United States iShe Miss Hawk Arbitration Commission State House Lukas Portland Clement Company Mason City Theodore Lykas Lamoule Board of Supervisors Lincoln Highway Lincoln Highway Association Lamoille Linn Creek Ira J. Stoddard Central College Pella Plainfield N. J Ray Stoddard Colgate India Washington County Gazette State Senate Helen J. L. Evans J. M. Buoy Corydon Chris Christensen Humboldt A. D. Coy Farragut John Day Atton F. BE. DeRuttia Melbourne E. E. Graft Greenburg R. C. Lorenz Rockford Ll. V. Wilson L. &.Wheeler Fairfield H. E. Willington Iowa Federation of Real Estate Dealers Federation Europe Hanford Produce Ca Sioux City England Mexico California Fort Madison

Board Guts Budget Report From Board of Control

Des Moines report shows nearly 250000 dollars reduced for state institutions for the 1918-19 biennium. Land purchases, new buildings, and a quarry project at Lyon county are outlined with costs and proposed incomes. Governor-elect Harding to be inaugurated January 11, legislature to canvass votes January 9 and 14.

Des Moines Board of Control Woodward Rockwell City Lyon County Anamasa Fort Madison State Hospital Rockwall City State Executive Council Harry Shropshire Pharmacy Commission Eaton G. A. Sumner State Board of Health Board of Health Iowa Executive Council State Highway Commission State Board of Audit General Assembly Atl State Board of Control Woldeng

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Dies at Vienna

London reports Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary died at Schoenbrunn Castle at nine o'clock Tuesday night. His death ends a reign of about 68 years marked by wars and internal upheavals, with Archduke Charles Francis named to govern from December 2.

London Francis Joseph Austria-Hungary Schoenbrunn Castle Reuter Vienna Amsterdam Archduke Charles Francia Archduke Charles Geneva Reuter’s Katolische Zeitung Wimperor Joseph Archduke Charles Francis Hag Budapest Tisza House of Hapsburg Hapsburg Europe Archduke Prang Cis Ferdinand Bosnia Austria Ferdinand I Hungary William Germany Peter Serbia Archduke Ferdinand Fraters Joseph Serbin Interiya France Sardinia Lombardy Italy Duchy of Holstein Prussia Venice Kossuth Hig Persoont Lfe Maximilian Mexico Paris Stubrenberg Lake Studolf John Orth Francis Ferdinand Sophie Chotek Sarajevo Elizabeth

Blond Eskimos Peril Party at Arctic Expedition

Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson warns blond Eskimos may threaten his polar voyage in a letter from Cape Kellett to Dr. Herbert J. Spinden at the American Museum of Natural History. He recounts a clash where the Polar Bear crew was stripped of belongings, including drinking cups and plates, by the Klondike Eskimos.

Republic of Today Austria Italy Spain Japan Continents Russsha Turkey Persia United States New York Vilhjalmur Stefansson Cape Kellett Bunk Ialand Arctic Herbert J. Spinden American Museum of Natural History Stefinsson

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