Iowa News Roundup: Trains Crashes Deaths and County Tales
A freight train crash west of Waterloo killed J P Kennedy 60 and seriously injured seven others including Henry Thompson engineer Frank Harback and several brakemen. Colonel A P Hanson 95 longtime timber merchant and Odd Fellow died in Newton. Endowment drive at Simpson nears 500000 with 115000 raised. Various legal rulings donations wildlife and civic events sweep Iowa with fires, obituaries, court actions, and public notices across multiple towns.
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Hainois
A. P. Hanson
Newton
United States
Simpson
Powers
Calhoun County
Chifford
Wilson
James
Mathew White
Sac City
Hare
I. B. Albrook
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Albrook
Jd. Heffelinger
Grundy Center
Oak Park
Lake City
William .H. Bradley
Norman H. Hutchinson
Bradley
Hutchinson
W. S. Kenyon
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
Men and Religion Forward Movement
Isaac Peterson
Great Western
Mason City
Clarion
Mower County
Minnesota
Des Moines
Farmers’ Institute
Williamsburg
Thomas Wallace
de Witt
Christina Walsh
Waterloo
William Bell
Hell
Bronx City
Hawkeye Commercial Men
Ottumwa
State University of Iowa
Bowman
Iowa
Coliseum
Heck
National Guard
Guy FR. Logan
Minnie A. Muhs
Alton
Jacquez A. Frech
Bancroft
Charlie B. Warner
Certral City
Daniél Anderson
Lamoni
George W. Wiltse
Mantezuma
Frank V. D. Bogert
Paullina
Abraham TL. Riseley
Rockwell City
Frank C. McClaskey
Toledo
Keokuk
Joseph
W. Steiger
Frank M. Ballinger
The
Independent Order of Owls
Prof
Kennedy
Ames College
T. A. McManus
Elizabeth Reynolds
Co. B. Winters
Te- Mars
Albert Winters
Western Poultry Panelers' Association
Cedar Rapids
Arthur Wundram
Davenport
Wundram
John F. Key
Mqnor
Torrey Smith
Sioux City
Montreal
Chick Hartman
Beatrice
Ned
Patrick Golden
Burlington
Park Board of
Charles City
Sherman Woods
Fred Z. Schlotfeldt
DeWitt
Iowa Aims High Growth for Agriculture and Mechanics
Secretary of State W. C. Hayward urges Iowa to push its state university and the normal college, expand the experiment station, and teach soil conservation to raise corn yields. He argues Iowa can lead in agricultural and mechanical arts with statewide growth and a proud continental stature. The article also covers inspector instructions for scales and a financial settlement to protect Iowa policyholders.
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. C. Hayward
New York
Teachers’ College
Parole board reports 1911 releases and inmate transfers
The 1911 Parole Board of Des Moines freed about 194 prisoners and anticipated up to 250 through clemency, while about 460 entered state prisons. Transfers from Fort Madison and Port Madison boosted reformatories, with numbers rising at both institutions. A tuberculosis warning urged stricter life expectancy losses and policy notes covered drug store alcohol rules, bankruptcies, patents, incorporations, and an upcoming Iowa health bulletin on typhoid and preventive medicine.
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Des Moines
The
State Board of Parole
Carrol
State Penitentiary
State Reformatory
J. R. Dobbins
Ainmeld
Reformatory
Fort Madison
Port Madison
Anamosa
Iowa State Board of Health
G. H. Sumier
Lourd
Castle on hill overlooks Puget Sound near Port Townsend
A brick castle like building sits atop a high hill behind Port Townsend Washington. Built years ago by an eccentric English hermit, it offers sweeping views of Puget Sound and the Olympics. After his death the property passed to the United States as a military reservation.
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Hermit Cast
Eng Tahman
Port Townsend
Wash
United States
America
Puget Sound
Olympics Range
Sol
Grand Canyon of the Arkansas Through the Rocky Alpine Gorge
Denver readers glimpse the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, a ten mile gorge carved by the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. Royst Gorge narrows to ten yards at a key bridge, with red granite walls, a ribbon river, and distant pine and cliffside vistas as trains toil through the rugged pass. Bands of mountain sheep are a common sight along the route as the line climbs toward the continental backbone.
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Denver
Colo
Grand Canyon
Arkansas
Rocky Mountains
Denver and Rio Grande
Royst Gorge
Lights on Baby Carts In Minnesota After Dark
The Minnesota legislature passed a law requiring warning lights on baby carriages in use after dark with two white lights in front and a red one in the rear. An Attorney General opinion says a wording error broadens the rule to apply to children velocipedes wheelbarrows and kiddies express wagons, though the intent was to aid automobilists and motorcyclists by forcing horse drawn vehicles to carry lights.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Almpson
Child Hair-Pulling Incident In Addison Toad
Little Phil Warriner of Addison Toad was caught pulling a baby’s hair during a fit of curiosity. He explained he wanted to know if the baby was cold storage, a teacher had said feathers tell a chicken’s state. Phil begins penance.
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Phil Warriner
Addison Toad
Phil
New York Times
Man Buys Bat Like Old One but Encounters Different with Woman
A man purchases a new bat seeking similarity to his prior model but finds it differs in handling with a woman, highlighting unexpected contrast in usability.
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Clinton
W. A. Jefbis
Otrmmwa
Monarch Telephone Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Sylvester Wanters
Jack Lanters
le Mars
Riba
Bays
Hayward
Beat College of Agriculture
of Mechanics Arta
W. B. Barney
Thirty-fourth General Assembly
W. J. Berry
Edger M. Davis
St. Louis
Audtor
Berry
Sult
Bleaklyne
Department of Missouri
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Milo Ward
Boutin
State House and Grounds
State House
J.W. Cox
Papla Polkra
Cox
Carroll
Captain Twombley
Electrical Workers of Town
Tis
Parole Board
Office of Commission
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Eac
Vipton
Beacon & Walleck
Lawrence de Graff
Perry
Thomas Stevenson
United States District Court
French
Silver & Robinson, Clothiers
Lowans
Lowana
Robert GG
Smith
Tama
Elmer A. Saltzman
Noble
George W. Hall
City
Karlet
Huff
Lineville
Kenry L. Peterson
Frederick IL
L. D. Warner
Eddyville
Monarch Telephone Manufacturing Company of
Capital
W. C. Chubb Abstract Company, Incorporated
Corning
B, & B. Auto Company
W. van Duyn
Mr. van Duyn
John A. Eddy
A. &. Uriel
George A. Wrightman
W. WH. Shannon
W. J. Ribble
TL. van Vleck
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BIG
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Arkansas River
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Penn
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