Hazards of water and crime in midwest notes
A Fayette County Union tale warns boys about swimming dangers after a 15 year old near Gabe Hall’s steps became overheated and nearly drowned. The Creston Plaindealer cites Acresds Cutting soliciting injunctions against seven Saloons with J C Richmond serving papers. The Minnesota pardons board commutes Lewis Kellihan’s death sentence to life for a bank cashier robbery, with a posse pursuit across northern Iowa. The Prison Mirror from Stillwater reports no printers among inmates. Pete Monroe suffers a bad leg break on the B C Ry & N near Hazelton after a rail mishap while unloading, a freight train approaching.
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Fayette County Union
Win
Thompson
Gabe Hall
Alice
Lewis
Kellihan
Minnesota
Pete Monroe
Washburn
Hazelton
Monroe
Newspaper Advertising and Job Printing Prices
The home newspaper may charge more for job printing than city offices yet offers two dollars of local sulvertisemments free of charge. Advertisers get free puffs at times, while those who subscribe or advertise in the home paper often do not, showing the reciprocal support a newspaper provides to its patrons.
No More Taxes Law Expands Homestead Exemption
The reform law widens tax relief on homesteads for widows and honorably discharged Union veterans. It exempts up to $800 for widow homesteads and $400 for veterans unable to work, with other real estate deducted from exemptions and subject to review board reversal. Father Augustus Tolton, a noted Black Roman Catholic priest, is highlighted as a historic figure in the Regard. He was born to slave parents in Missouri and became the first Black American ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He later served in Illinois after ordination in Rome and led St. Mon-yew’s church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Revere
Board of Review
Augustus Tolton
Chicago
United States
Missouri
Tinois
Yhandon Farms
Rome
Fholy Nant
Feel
Ruther Toltan
Iowa Iron Ore Deposits Highlighted by Professor Calvin
At the international gold mining convention in Denver, Prof. Samuel Calvin of State University reported Iowa’s iron ore resources. He cited large bodies in Jackson, Delaware, Dubuque, Allamakee, and other northeastern counties, including a 300 acre bed in Allamakee County containing about ten million tons and ore testing 66.92 percent pure iron.
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Denver
Samuel Calvin
The
State University
Iowa
Jackson
Delaware
Dubuque
Allamakea
Outrage against 13-year-old girl shocks Elk township
In Giayton County Elk township and nearby areas, a brutal attempted assault on the daughter of David Leighty, a 13 or 14 year old girl returning from Wikport, shocked residents. She was seized in a barn yard, forced to drink a drug, escaped into a cornfield, and was found unconscious around 9 PM. Several arrests have been made, but no definite links have been proven. the community urges patience and adherence to due process.
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Elk Township
David Leighty
Wikport
Elkader Democrat
Elkader Seeks New Rail Lines to Elgin and Elgin Outlet
Local Elkader papers push for two rail routes to break isolation and lower freight costs. Proposals discuss a Burlington line to Elgin along the river, or a Cedar Rapids & Northern link from Elkader to improve south west and north west access, with mixed council guidance and newspaper commentary.
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Elknader
Ccnyenies
Eukader
Elgin
Elkader
Etiauler
Bula Junction
Burlington
Ellader
Democrat
Whit Eikader
Darlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad
Council
Ragister
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Staples
THOMA
Diehl Bros
West Union
Bank of West
Union
Telephone
Elgin Roller Mills
Light of Elgin
Graham Per
LY. Exruich, Proprietor
Caraful Boys
Somerville
Cresto
Acresds Cutting
Decorah
Harlan
Ehna
J. C. Richmond
Riceville
Campbell
Minnsota
Stillwater
Mines
Iowa II
Giayton County
Mikwder
Dalwein
Damocrat
NWO
A. Ely
Hardware Merchant
George Neuenschwander
Bed Rock
Hans Beisief
ESE
Csitt
Rageville
Renee
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