Illinoist Judge Fulfills Last Promise to Father
Judge Thomas Harris of Lincoln Illinois has paid debts totaling two to three thousand dollars to Bedford creditors, fulfilling a dying promise to his father. Harris, raised near Bedford after a farm start, studied law in Illinois and rose to the Circuit Court judgeship. He tracked creditors who had moved or died, delivering settlements and placing drafts with authorities to reach heirs.
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Thomas Harris
Lincoln
Tiinois
Ilinois
Gome
Henderliter Taken to Clarinda for Insanity Treatment
Henry R. Henderliter, stepson of Nathan Taylor, the Creston murder victim, has been declared insane and removed to Clarinda for treatment. The killer Bert Henderliter was convicted largely on his brother’s testimony and sent to Anamosa’s insane ward. The mother Belle Taylor Booth remarried, and suspicions of her involvement arose but were unproven.
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Cox
Nathan Taylor
Clyinda
Henry R. Henderliter
Creston
Bert Henderliter
Henry
Clarinda
Belle “Taylor Booth
Anamosa
Henry Henderster Hag
Man Slaps Minister After Alleged Insult at Pleasantville
Jacob Camp, a Wakpala India schools teacher visiting Pleasantville, slapped Augustus Jones, a Lincoln evangelist, following a Saturday night sermon where Jones reportedly used offensive words toward Camp's wife. By- standers intervened as the altercation escalated after Sunday morning church returns.
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Jacob Camp
Wakpala
S. D
Pleasantville
Augustus Jones
Lincoln
Neb
Tally
Camp
Bridge Collapse Sends Family Into Swollen Creek
White James Lacey, his wife and their 6-year-old son fell about twenty feet into four feet of water when a bridge four miles south of Bedford collapsed during a crossing. They escaped with minor injuries except Mrs. Lacey who suffered a badly sprained hip and the boy with facial scratches. The horses and buggy were damaged but no one was seriously hurt. The bridge had been in constant use and carries heavy loads, with traffic only the day before.
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James Lacey
Hundred and Two Creek
Bedford
Woman rider survives horse plunge in Connell mishap
Miss Helen Hewitt of Council Bluffs was riding when her horse stepped on a recently laid cover and sank feet into the ground. The animal disappeared into a hollow, dumping her to the ground. Hewitt was stunned but unhurt and authorities had to spend over an hour to extricate the horse. Miles Hewitt aided in reining the horse to safety.
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Connell Blut
Helen Hewitt
Council Bluffs
Miles Hewitt
Miss Hewitt
Panora Man Nervous Wreck Taken by Police in Des Moines
I U Genith Melted Up by Dex Matues police report notes the Panora man suffered a shattered nervous system after a school land deal cost him his last Dover. L H Griffith, once a wealthy Panora stock raiser and financier, was arrested and handed to Des Moines city officials for care.
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I. UW
Marshalltown Saloon Actions Dismissed After Conference
County Attorney J H Ogermeyer dismissed actions against fourteen Marshalltown saloons after a conference with the sheriff and officers. Senator George Cosson advised the move, saying officers could not prove the seized liquors matched the stocks cited in warrants. A reopened saloon prepared to resume business following the dismissal.
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Marshalltown
J. H. Ogermeyer
George Cosson
Audubon
Attorney General
Glenwood Prosecution Under New Smoke Law
Deputy Sheriff Estes arrested Otto Anderson and brought him before Squire Edwards who imposed the minimum fine for the minor smoking offense. The new state law allows up to a $20 fine or three days in jail per offense, and youths under 21 without a guardian may be arrested without warrant for smoking or possessing cigarettes.
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Squire
Edwards
Glenwood
Estes
Otto Anderson
Squire Edwards
Income Tax Endorsement Fears Governor Call Delay
Governor B F Carroll has not decided whether to call the Iowa Legislature to vote on the income tax amendment. Most state officials expect near unanimous support in the legislature. Secretary Hayward leads as a prominent ex ante proponent, with Attorney General Byers, Special Counsel Cosson and State Senator Dowell sharing cautious optimism.
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Omfelain
B. F. Carroll
Towa
Iowa
Hayward
Byers
Cosson
Dowell
Des Moines
Woman Follons Self and Babes in West Branch
Mrs. William Olyphant near West Branch telephoned Dr. Leach after poisoning herself and her four children. An infant died at eight, others gravely ill but expected to survive. Despondent over family troubles she had given the children strychnine and taken it herself along with carbolic acid.
Famous Iowa marksman dead after long career
J W Haughawout, a Fort Dodge dentist and inventor who practiced across Iowa and in Omaha and Carthage, Mo., died Sunday night aged 68 from diabetes. A Civil War veteran with the Twenty third Wisconsin, he also farmed, served as a dentist, and invented devices including a rotary snow plow and target traps. His wife survives. the couple were famed marksmen.
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Juhyn W. Haugghawout
Dodge
Vietha
John W. Haughawout
Iowa
Omaha
Neb
Carthage
Fort Dodge
Wisconsin
Marks
State News in Brief and Pumpkin Days in Orient
J F Bishop former editor of the Grand Army Advocate of Des Moines is drafting a book on moving the U S capital from Washington to Des Moines. Pumpkin Days are September 22 and 23 at Orient with festival activities expanded this year. Town real and personal property value is 2 445 468 961 dollars per state auditor report. Land and town lots valued at 1 941 842 528 with personal property 504 002 823. Average town land per acre 42 43 dollars. Iowa cattle appraised at 70 570 540 and horses 77 683 512. Total stock value 8 175 886 898. Married Frad Mead and Edna Graham by Rev William Robertson at his Searsboro home. Mead, 17, a leading farmer. Albert Froebel, 55, a Great Western shops employee in Dubuque, found dead by wife. rope suspended from bedpost. Despondency listed as cause.
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State News
J. F. Bishop
Grand Army Advoecate
Des Moines
United States
Washington
Orient
the Auditor of State
Iowa
William Robertson
Searsboro
Frad Mead
Edna Graham
Mead
Albert Froebel
Great Western
Dubuque
Inroads of the Big Mail Order Houses in the Midwest
A new regional association unites 6000 country merchants and many manufacturers to counter Chicago based mail order houses. The plan pools small orders to beat bulk pricing, allowing local shops to stock staple goods at lower prices, shrinking mail order sales across the Middle West.
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Middle West
Mall
Sioux City
Fia
Chicago
Association
Mauretania Sets New Western Voyage Record
The Mauretania arrived in New York on Friday and set a new western voyage record of four days sixteen hours and thirty six minutes.
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Mauretania
New York
Sutton in Duell at Inquiry Over Lieutenant Sutton Death
Report from Annapolis details a second inquiry into Lieutenant James N. Sutton's death. Mothers and sister push murder claim while new witnesses, including Thomas Lee, may testify. Documentary evidence reportedly links a duel challenge and a signatory banker corroborates a chilling letter.
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James N. Sutton
Annapolis
Leutenant
Rose Sutton Parker
Sutton
Parker
Thomas Lee
Academy
Lee
Button
Parada
First Hudson Tunnel Opens Linking Jersey City to Broadway
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad opened with an official test run at 10 am guiding Jersey City within three minutes of Broadway New York. Festivities followed in New York and Jersey City with officials like W A McAdoo governor Fort and Secretary Dickinson speaking. A fireworks display lit the night and 11 000 electric lights brightened West Side Fork while Miss Harriett McAdoo pressed the power button to start the tunnel system.
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Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company Subway
Jersey City
Broadway
New York
Hudson River
Jersey
Sea Wall Saves Galveston From Killer Hurricane
The Galveston sea wall protected the city as a hurricane battered the coast. Only about sixteen deaths are reported locally, with no loss inside the city. A new tarpon fishing pier at the north jetty six miles away suffered fatalities among thirteen guests and Capt Bettison his wife and daughter. An estimated fifty fishermen narrowly escaped. The wall’s seventeen foot high concrete barrier across the gulf side preserved the city from further disaster.
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Galveston
Hfe
Gulf
Island
Woman and companion hospitalised after reckless San Diego crash
Mrs. Cleanor Hudson of Los Angeles dies in a highway collision that also injures one of her five companions when 19 year old Howard McGann, driving two weeks, tried to pass a gasoline motor rail car at San Diego California. McGann's injuries are reported as possibly fatal.
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Milla
Cleanor Hudson
Los Angeles
Howard McGann
San Diego
Cal
McGann
Chicagoan Surrenders to Police Over Local Fraud
Chicagoan Joe Novak, former treasurer of a Modern Woodsmen’s local in Chicago, confessed to defaulting $170. He surrendered to Little Rock Chief of Police McMahon, citing conscience and fear of arrest.
Gingles Acquitted Amid Turbulent Chicago Trial
In Judge Bren tano’s Chicago court, Ella Gingles is acquitted of theft after seven hours of deliberation and five ballots. The verdict clears her of charges linked to alleged “white slavery” stories and upholds the State’s vindication of her account of mistreatment by Miss Agnes Barrette and an associate.
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Hila
Gingles
Agnes Barrette
Brentano
Chicago
Miss Barrette
Bila Gingles
Wellington
West Needs 50 000 Men to Harvest Crops
A Washington appeal from Department of Commerce and Labor officials and Representative Stevens of Minnesota urges recruiting 50 000 able bodied men from the West to harvest wheat and other crops. Officials cite immigrant conditions and propose $250 landing funds, with railroads offering cost transport to work sites and return shipments of crops to rail hubs.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Stevena
Minnesota
McHarg
Stevens
West
Williams
Ellis Island
Lnbor
Boy Prince Made Shah After Persian Assembly
Mohamed Ali Shah of Persia was dethroned as the crown prince Sultan Ahmed Mirza was proclaimed shah by the National Assembly. The new ruler, under a regency led by Azad uli Mulk, faces a crowd in Tehran while Mohamed Ali seeks refuge at the Russian legation in Zarzende protected by Cossacks and Sepoys. Sipahdar takes the post of minister of war and governor of Tehran.
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National Assembly
Mohamed Ali
Shah
Persia
Sultan Ahmed Mirza
Parliament Square
Taheran
Zarzende
Zeraends
Pew Shah
Azad Uli Mulk
Kajar Famly
Sipahdar
Offici Ag
Teheran
Davis Daughter of Jefferson Davis Dies in Colorado Springs
Mrs J Addison Hayes 64 daughter of the late Confederacy president died at her home after an illness of eight months. Widow of the First National Bank president, she leaves four children and is survived by two sisters Winnie Davis and a Virginia Webb. A prior report notes a later England execution of William Hampton and a large fire in Masontown West Virginia causing substantial losses.
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Hayes
Provident
Confederacy
J. Addison Hayes
Jefferson Davis
Colorado Springs
First National Bank
Misa Winnie Davis
New York
Senate Veracts and Public Sentiment in Turbulent Times
A collage of editorials and quips from A B C papers. The Atlanta Constitution mocks the Senate for tariff debates while the Indianapolis Star notes public anger at senators. The Galveston News and Washington Star chide lawmakers for heat talk and politicking. Jokes about theft in the Senate gallery and monarchic peace talks mirror early 20th century press tone.
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Senate
Chautauqua
Atlanta Constitution
Indianapolis Star
Taft
Galveston News
Washington Star
Washington
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Washington Times
Trenton Councilman Loses Barn Fire Over Nickel
Oscar Niedt, councilman of Trenton New Jersey, fails to call fire department due to lacking a nickel to drop in the telephone slot. A polite exchange girl refuses to notify headquarters without payment. Niedt pleads and later sends a call, but too late. his barn and contents burn to ashes around 10 o clock.
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Harn
Central
Talika
Oscar Niedt
Trenton
N. J
Niedt
Pirt
Loretta Lorey to Enter Convent After Courtship Dilemma
Loretta Lorey, 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolph Lorey of Boston, plans into a convent rather than choose among three suitors who allegedly faked her engagement. Her parents explain she loves all three and does not wish to offend any by selecting one.
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Loretta Lorey
Adolph Lorey
Boston
Care for Women Withdrawn by Hudson Subway Company
The Hudson Subway Company in New York ends the special care for women claiming insufficient use by female patrons. The move follows a policy evaluation and cites lack of patronage as the reason for removal.
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Hudson Subway Company
New York
Man’s Frenzy Over Shaved Mustache Ends in Killing
In Girardville Pennsylvania Esplane Tosta killed his cousin Merlana Tos ta after a dispute over a shaved moustache. The incident describes a man driven to violence by a practical joke gone wrong. The case names local ties and the violent outcome in a small community.
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Woku Cosin
Esplane Tosta
Merlana Tosta
Girardville, Pa
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Jacob Camp Asxyulian
Rev
G. Auguston Jones
Bridge
Cullapren
Panora Man
America
Organixe For
Jion
Hudson
New Bore
Tury
Ella Gingles
National Capital
Jeif Davis
William Hampton
Inh Peming
Mich
Badmin
England
Emily Tredres
St. Grth
L. H. Miller'a Department
Masontown
W. Va
Fanston
Cleveland
Germany
Russia
Hureppa
William
Near Nicholas
Judas
Indianapolia Star
Ohio
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