Iowa News Roundup Reflects Disturbances and Developments
A wide array of Iowa items include racial tensions in Aredale targeting Walter Davis of Mason City, Ottumwa’s first year of municipal water control and filtration, a hog cholera outbreak in Johnson County, and the recovery of Peter Howe in Sioux City. Other notes cover a Maine court judgment, a fort dodge burglary sentence, cooperative stores expanding into lumber, a bridge collision, naval officer promotions, and saloon closures in Lyon County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aredale
Walter Davis
Mason City
Ottumwa
Johnson County
Cosgrove
J. M. Thomas
Union
Peter Howe
Montgomery
Iowa
Sioux City
Iowa City
Frank
WH. Swenson
Fort Dodge
Fort, Dodge, Des Moines & Southern
Swenson
Iowa Central
Magon City
John A. Pickering
Charles Wegner
Davenport
Henry Claussen
Jacob Grossclose
Cambridge
Northwestern Poultry Association
Town Falls
Corning
F. Gutellus
Kobe
Japan
Towa Supreme Court
Misa Alma Lemke
Herman Franzenberg
House of Silence hoosier home in wish nothing has bred
Center Indiana profile of the long closed House of Silence where James Perry Mugg and the community recall a death angel visitation decades ago. The article details the neglected, decaying rooms and objects left untouched since the woman’s death, linking the past to the present through a single heir on nearby farmland.
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Death Angel
Center
Ind
James Perry
Mugg
James Perry Mugg
Crow cuisine praised by Topeka professor
Professor L. Dyche says eating crow is first class and compares young crow to guffea hen, noting its dark flesh has good flavor and texture. He also praises young red tailed hawk as indistinguishable from chicken when cooked properly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
L. Dyche
Hog Jn Well Lives 52 Days Near Henryetta
A hog trapped at the bottom of a dry well for 62 days in Henryetta Oklahoma was found alive by farmer John Jordan and a neighbor. The exhausted animal, relieved to be rescued, crawled a quarter mile to the barn after being hauled out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henryetta
Okla
John 4
Jordan
Decapitation in Spokane After Snow Slip On Rail Line
Robert Cool, a 74 year old retired Illinois farmer, was crossing a Great Northern track in Spokane Washington when he slipped on snow and was decapitated by an empty mail car being switched. His body was crushed beneath the wheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Robert Cool
Illinois
Judged by Their Clothes
Herman Fellner tells this story on himself as he passes three or four friends in Washington. He enters a cigar shop to buy cigars for them, but the clerk mocks his suit, calling them well dressed and offering a cheaper box, remarking that Fellner’s clothes fooled him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
State Dairy and Food Department
Stme Dairy, Association
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Ouli
Rock Island
Northwestern
Salvation Army of
Iowa City
John McCall Elts
Grand Jury
McCall
Mra
Mabel Davin
Towa City
Chicago
P. C. Jack
Agar Packing Company
Des Moines
Special Naval Investigating
Maine
A.C. Brice
Bedford
Matanzas
Cuba
Brice
McKinsey
Shorthill Company
Marshalltown
Slack
Richard Morrison
Channel Drug
Webster City
Vincent
Judd
Blairsburg
Woolstock
Kamrar
Wright
Avoca
Parks
Lincoln
Hetheny United Brethren Church
W. M. Weekley
Kansas City
Thomas Brennan
P. G. Swan
Independence
Winthrop
Reed Wilson
W. P. Danforth
Lewis H. Paul
Mills County
Lawrence J. Swift
Pipestone
Minn
William Graen
Owen Dillon
Green
Dillon
Herman Fellner
New York
Cincinnati Times Star
Washington
Fellner
Mr. Fellner
Eczema Disfigured Baby Recovers with Cuticura Remedies
A Nebraska mother describes her three year old Gilbert’s severe eczema with face sores from weeks old to a healed outcome after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She notes night restlessness, scratching, and rapid improvement within four weeks, praising the remedy and offering a free sample by mail through Cuticura Dept. 14 L, Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Eczama
Chicago
H. Albrecht
West Point
Neb
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Flying machine claimed by Bronson and Woodson
Bronson challenges the inventor Woodson who asserts the flying machine works. Bronson presses to determine its landing point, and Woodson confirms its flight capability as they discuss locating its light-off position.
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Bronson
Woodson
Modern Methods and Moliere’s Mockery of Medicine
The king Louis XIV asked Moliere about his physician after the author gained fame. Moliere replied that the doctor writes prescriptions he ignores, yet he remains cured, reflecting the comic critique of medicine in the life of the famed playwright.
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Moliere
Louis XIV
Not Uncommon Fallacy in Town Pride Conversation
Farmer Countessel asserts local pride and clever townsfolk will not miss bargains, insisting he avoids hometown investments because residents are too shrewd to let a real bargain slip away in this township.
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Countessel
Mia Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Teething Relief
A historical note describes Mia Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething infants claiming gum relief and wind colic cure. The entry mentions a two hour bottle and observes few shade trees in the average labor field.
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Mia
Winslow
Baltimore Boniface Seeks Paris Hotel Language Job
A Baltimore writer recently announced he began studying French claiming a Paris hotel offers a steady waiter post if he learns the language. The patron doubted the offer, but the man insisted the hotel needs waiters who understand Baltimore slang and French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Boniface Télis
Paris
Lippincott’s
Sainted Leg Little Girl and the Heaven Joke
Fragmentary verse and ad-like snippets remark on a sage of Saints and a veteran’s child. The text includes a pun about paya and leg references with heaven, a garbled medical line about lungs and consumption, a misread “Bignal” cue, and an ad praising Lewis' Bingle Binders cigars.
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Home Herald
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Thera
Denison
Mary Foster
Robert Boutel
House OF Silence
Perry
Randy
Willa
Agency
Oo Standard of Company
Putnam
Enore
Monroe
Fres Bockier
Monroe Drug CO
California Fig Syrup CO
California Fir Syrup Co
Kayo
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Qil
Carter
Ia Eiche
Defiance
Waren
E.coleman
Ware
Stet
Cotea
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