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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
7
The eighty acre beet field near Clear Lake yielded 1000 tons at about twelve tons per acre with a price of 16 dollars per ton. The last shipment went to Waverly, totaling roughly 15000 dollars in value. Growers plan a much larger crop next season, with one grower renting land for 17 dollars per acre and 150 coal cars needed for shipping local harvest.
J H Winterode president of Citizens National Bank in Wintersat shot himself through the temple shortly after noon. The janitor and bookkeeper left him at the desk. half an hour later W J Cornell found him dead. He was a Pennsylvania native survived by wife and three children.
An 3 o'clock collision at a Plymouth crossing between a Milwaukee passenger train and a Rock Island express killed Patrick O'Neil a landseeker and injured many others. C K Hildreth of Kennebunk is severely hurt. The baggage car and smoker of the Rock Island train were smashed. the engines and cars of the Milwaukee train were badly damaged. The engineer and fireman jumped and escaped unhurt. A mistaken signal is blamed for the crash.
Iowa fourth class postoffices will become presidential offices on Jan 1 with appointments and salaries for postmasters listed. Names include Conrad Delmar Delta Earl Edgewat h Garden Grove Gilman Massena New Virginia Oxford Sheffield Springville Tripoli Cambridge Castann Churdan and Ruthven replaced by rural carrier Dugene Cape hhoxy with Carrie M Cope as substitute in Ruthven.
Palmer Rustad, brought from Mason City to Webster City, was sentenced to one day in jail and a $50 fine for contempt of court after defying a subpoena to testify before the grand jury. He was among key witnesses in drug store case proceedings.
Fort Dodge resident Tony Mist aims to buy his freedom from a twenty year penitentiary sentence by sending $700 toward the $800 required. He hopes his father, an Italian farmer, can borrow the remaining $100 to join him in the sunlit homeland.
A blaze at the old Tabernacle on Hast 5th street and Grand avenue Des Moines damaged the tabernacle and several adjacent buildings, threatening a full block. Loss estimated at $60,000. About thirty men were overcome but rescued from the smoke and flames.
J O Zornes of Pacific Junction a Foster lumber yard manager has been missing for several days. Relatives and friends fear for his welfare after he left home telling his wife he would return the next morning. No known domestic trouble or financial discrepancy exists.
Johns, a well known farmer near Mason City, caused an uproar at the rural school after his son was punished. He threatened the teacher and school director, disrupted the building, and arrested eight people before leaving, as a child ran home to alert parents.
Two Greek laborers Veta wi Olimie wo and George Kaperones were arrested in Ottumwa by U S Marshal Clark on murder charges from Greece in November 1908. They allegedly confessed to George Murrow of the St Louis immigration bureau and face possible extradition for trial. A Burlington fast mail wreck near Burlington left no serious injuries. Harry O West, head of a check forgery gang, pleaded guilty to forging a Davenport national bank check and received fifteen years imprisonment and a $1000 fine.
The article lists multiple local incidents and notes severe accidents and political moves. Key figures include W C Brown of Clarion. Dr Gr Moore of Campbell Nab. John Bennett of Council Bluffs. Lenox College’s agricultural program. Amos Clayson near Burlington. and John Eppet Sr of Boone. It reports scarlet fever closure, a bridge fatality near Dows, a train accident near Colfax, a shotgun injury to Mrs Margerun, and a Mills County Institute session in Glenwood with a corn show. It also mentions Sunday freight runs on the Calmar line and a Dubuque police captain seeking reinstatement.
An aged observer recounts how gull cruelty thrived at St Ives until Mr Ebblethwaite, arriving from the north in poor health, fed and defended the birds, spoke against abuse, and spurred local youths and fishermen to curb the cruelty without legal action, echoing Ruskin on decisive moral influence.
A long note describes two tame sea gulls named Paddy and Polly kept for five years. They were captured as chicks on Senrif Island, learned to eat scraps and garden pests, and ignore dogs and cats. They fly to sea, return for meals, and sometimes bring back young, with seasonal absences during mackerel fishing.
The Phillosopher of Wolly proclaims a dentiate trust will form and be known as the Seething Ring, while a note from the Cleveland Leader mentions wireless telegraph apparatus being prohibited in British India except with government licenses.
A 1919 era broadside attacks Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor, accusing leaders of labor trusts of court defiance and conspiracy to ruin unions. It contrasts lawful peaceful workers with violent tactics, urges readers to defend courts and oppose laws empowering labor or capital trusts to dictate daily life. It cites Bucks Stove Works, Toronto delegates, and Canadian views on American unions. It ends with a call to contact Congress and resist provocative labor legislation.
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