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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1916

Page

3

Farmers on Des Moines area prison farm work?convicts toil

Walle many sons of prosperous farmers are discontented with their Jot. Twenty men employed on a farm ten miles west of Des Moines are thankful for the chance to return to the soil. They are convicts from the Ft Madison penitentiary given work on the state custodial farm. The 780 acre farm is supervised by manager Charles Sullivan who also runs a general farming operation including 300 acres of corn, cattle, hogs, horses and a milk truck serving nearby dairies.

Sullivan Des Moines Iowa A. R. Corey State Fair Association Clayton Ida Wayne Colleges Cornell College Grinnell Coe Town University Drake Lee County Board of Supervisors Green Bay Atals Ft. Madison Burlington Cooper Keokuk John Taylor Grant Taylor Booneville Young Taylor Clarinda Charles Duckworth Shenandoah Ed Duckworth Creston Cousing Iowe Stata College Mt. Ayr United States Army Army H. H. Naak Perry Terril Warner Iowa National Guard War Department War Department Higs Infantry Adj Guy H. Logan Committee On Agriculture Iowa Banker’ Association Ames Iowa State College Iowna Bankers’ Association Tara Hawk Blackhawk County Farm Improvement Association United States Amea Miss Hawk Nmitations State House Lykas Northwestern States Portland Cement Company Mason City Theodore Lykas Tisk Lamoille Board of Supervisors Lincoln Highway Lincoln Highway Association Linn Creek Ira J. Stoddard Central College Palla Plainfield N. J Stoddard Colgate India America Pelta Central University S. W. Neal Washington Washington County Gazette State Senate Helen J. J. Evans J. M. Buoy Corydon Chris Christensen Humboldt A. D. Coy Farragut John Day Afton F. EB. DeButts Melbourne Lows Federation of Real Estate Denlara Federation Europe Hanford Produce Co Sioux City England Mexico California Towa Fort Madison

Board Cuts Budget For State Institutions In 1918 Outline

Des Moines reports the board of control seeks a biennial appropriation of 1,461,539 for state institutions, down from 1,703,835 two years ago. Land purchases, new buildings at Woodward, Rockwell City, and Fort Madison plans, and a planned quarry expansion accompany talks on jail and hospital expansions. Governor-elect Harding to be inaugurated January 31, legislature to convene January 8.

Des Moines Board of Control Woodward Women's Reformatory Rockwell City Lyon County Anamosa Fort Madison State Hospital Women’s Reformatory State Executive Council Executive Council State Highway Commission State Board of Audit General Assembly

Emperor Francis Joseph Dies Suddenly in Vienna

London dispatches report Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary died at Schoenbrunn Palace after a brief illness. His heir Archduke Charles Francis is slated to govern from December 2, the date marking the emperor’s accession anniversary.

Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria Vienna London Francis Joseph Austria-Hungary Schoenbrunnenstle Amsterdam Archduke Charles Francis Archduke Charles Genevi Reuter’s Peter Francis Joseph Budapest Tisza House of Hapsburg Hapsburg Europe Archduke Francis Ferdinand Bosnia Austria Ferdinand I Hungary Jnat William Germany Peter Serbia Archduke Ferdinand France Sardiniin Lombardy Italy Archduke Mitxinilllag Mexico Paris Stahrenberg Rudolf John Orth Francis Ferdinand Sophie Chotek Sarajevo Geneva Elizabeth

Blond Eskimos Peril Party

Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson warns that blond Eskimos may threaten his Arctic expedition. In a Cape Baffin letter to Dr. Herbert J. Spinden at the American Museum of Natural History he recalls a falling out with the Kaughiryuarmint bondEskimos. He reports the captain’s party was stripped of belongings.

New York Vilhjalmur Stefansson Cape Kellett Bank Nnd Arctic Herbert J. Spinden American Museum of Natural History Stefansson Jed

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