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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1909
Page
7
In the town of Gray Oxey residents report a mysterious rider seen at night on horseback pastures and fields. Fences are found cut in various spots and a merchant firing from his window caused a brief confrontation as a gunshot frightened a fleeing silhouette. Overnight damage includes broken glass at a hardware store and a nearby blacksmith shop, with no thefts evident.
Dean Mabel Volland of the University of Texas introduces a new rule limiting coed visitors at Ranney Hall to one male caller per week. Dates are banned except as allowed, study hours and a retiring hour are set, music timed, fudge parties limited to Saturdays, and chat diaries banned.
A jail breakout attempt by two inmates was thwarted when Frank Shampoon used a knife as a pick crowbar and shovel to breach the calaboose walls. Officers interrupted the men as they neared freedom after breaching three brick courses and bending sheet steel.
Timber culture emerges as a potential industry in the Northwest. John Koehn of Luverne Minn plans to plant 10,000 trees on his farm as an experimental effort. He expects wider adoption and future income for the next generation.
Dwight I. Moyer, 20, of Greenfield, son of a southern town’s banker, was arrested in St. Louis on forgery charges. He allegedly forged his father’s signature on checks in Des Moines and St. Louis. Myer had recently joined an afternoon newspaper’s advertising department.
Sensational testimony emerged at the Down Toward inquest in Des Moines. W. ed Brooks testified that three additional morphing tibleta of one sixth of a grain were given by Dr. B C Rice to the dean as he rallied from stupor. Earlier injections were deemed sufficient to cause the dean's death. Coroner Newton censured Dr. Mier for not remaining with the dean after administering the drug. The jury will probe the case further.
In Monday the State Legislature will be asked to pass a bill prohibiting feeder activities in Iowa high schools. A bill drafted by the education committee with three sections will determine the fate of school frats and secret student organizations.
Coroner's jury returns an open verdict on Dean Mownd's death in Des Moines after physicians fail to agree on state chemist analysis. The dean, who died on Thanksgiving Day, had organs in bad condition and angina pectoris with arteriosclerosis. Insufficient morphine found to prove physician or attendant guilt. no documents from the dean's apartment admitted as evidence.
WOWA reporting on the fifty third Iowa Legislature as the 1908 session opens. Fesly named temporary speaker and officers chosen by Republicans. Governor Carroll plans businesslike governance with a state insurance department school reform rural consolidation and a tighter attorney general oversight.
A fragmentary record shows a sister and brother exchanging opaque lines about glue and tins. The text hints at a domestic scene with unreadable phrases and incomplete speech, leaving the identities and intentions unclear.
A garbled passage depicts a person asking about a visit with references to a cart and a missive about not finding work or a house. Names and places are unclear, but the gist concerns an inquiry during a visit and a missing home or job context amid confusing dialogue.
Cleveland Lender reports uncertainty over whether a storm event damaged a house as cleanup and assessment continue with no definitive findings.
Governor Carroll delivers his inaugural in the House Chamber calling for a public awakening and arguing for strict regulation of big capital, ethical standards, and a balanced approach to corporate rights and public interests. He urges legislative action on voting reform, public utilities, revenue revision, forest and soil conservation, and law enforcement.
A long mixed chronology lists events from 1521 to early 1900s including excommunication, colonial foundations, battles, political shifts, fires, assassinations, and appointments. Among named entities are Plymouth, Quebec, Philadelphia, Richmond, Osage, Indiana, Mexico, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Cape Colony, London Ontario, Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Taft era references, and various governors and officials. The entry interweaves dates, places, and people without coherent narrative.
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