Danbury Fire Destroys Three Azore Buildings and Parish School
Two blazes in Danbury caused about 35000 in losses. The first fire began at Oday drug store and spread to J H Hares meat market then to Godfrey Durst County Board office and Danbury Review office. Water pressure was low limiting efforts, St Patrick’s school and priest’s house were at risk but saved.
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Danbury
Oday
Offce
J. H. Hare
Godfrey Durst
County Board of Supervisors
Danbury Review
L. B. Jenness
St. Patrick's School
Woman Attacked by Carbolic Acid Thrower at Door
Mrs. Jack Logan wife of Bloomfield liveryman was struck by carbolic acid at her rear door at about 8 pm. The assault burned her face chest and arms and possibly endangers her sight. She could not name her attacker or give a motive. Doctors treated her after she staggered back into the house.
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Wafertuante
Jack Logan
Bloomfield
School Head Defies Court Over Body Sale Case
Billt Lean refuses to surrender the body of Rollin G. Caldwell. A writ of replevin was served on University of Iowa President George B. MacLean. Caldwell's widow sold the body to the university for 20 dollars citing unidentified status without the anatomy professor. Mrs. M. C. Mains of Chicago, Caldwell’s daughter, filed the writ.
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Billt Lean
Rollin GC
Caldwell
George &. MacLean
University of Iowa
Universty
MacLean
M. C. Mains
Chicago
Calilwell
Children Die in Fire as Mother Absent at Neighbors
Clifford Pierce of Douglas Township loses two young children, a four year old girl and a one year old boy, when a house burns while the mother is visiting neighbors half a mile away. The bodies were found among bed springs beneath the ruined remains, and the father was at a sawmill nearby unable to see the blaze due to heavy timber.
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Clifford Pierce
Douglas Township
Minor State Items From North Iowa News Briefs
A roundup of short notices reports sales at the Crossley sale near Garrison with a draft charges sale at 505 dollars and a brood mare at 2900 dollars. Incidents include a Perry Taylor farm barn fire near Sully valued at 3000 dollars and a Colfax revival begun by Rev. Redua.
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Crossley
Garrison
Everatt Pratt
Will Heywood
Des Moines
Denver
Perry Taylor
Sully
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Colfax
ReDua
Charles Copeland
Batavia
Harry Murdock
Lone True
Lucky
Knosxville
William Hoyt
Lone Tree
William Minder
Walton
McCartney
Mayweather
Kittie Fread
Ames
John W. Bush
Mason City
H. Y. Lyon
Algona
Fenton
Chas
C. Orvis
Oskaloosa
Explosion Warning After House Blast In Laurel
A morning gas leak in Laurel led Gus Schnoor to strike a match to inspect the acetylene lighting plant. The ensuing blast destroyed the house, buried Schnoor, and injured his daughter Minnie likely fatally while Mrs. Schnoor escaped. Schnoor’s loss estimated at 2000 dollars. Leroy Ware freed by Iowa Supreme Court, paroled by State Board of Parole for prisoners before 1907.
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Kan
Gus Schnoor
Laurel
Schnoor
Minnie
Leroy Ware
Iowa Supreme Court
Farmers and Drovers’ Bank
Seymour
Ware
State Board of Parole
Night of Stabbings and House Fire Hit Cres ton Area
Eldon man Eldon, Herbert Box, was stabbed on Main Street Ottumwa by an unknown assailant. His companion George Mulvaney was stabbed in the neck. Wesley Greenup, a local, is jailed but claims alibi. Also a Cres ton family woke to a house fire in night clothes. home destroyed with most contents lost.
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Eldon
Herbert Box
Main Street
Ottumwa
George Mulvaney
Elden
Wesley Greenup
Folly
John ‘Little
Creston
Charlton Store Robbery Sparks Safe Stolen Cash Value
Charlton and Melville furniture store on Charlton and Levind entered by burglars who took $234 in cash and valuable papers from the safe before escaping.
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Charlton
Barelays
Melville Furniture
Chicago Packers Indicted by Jersey Grand Jury
Indictments in New Jersey charge National Packing Company directors for conspiring to keep foodstuff in cold storage to raise prices. The list includes Armour Swift McLaren Wingate and others. cases expected to advance to Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze. Federal probe in Chicago continues for weeks ahead and may yield more indictments.
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National Packing Company
Chicago
Grand
Hudson County
New Jersey
Jersey City
Kenneth K. McLaren
Jersey
National Company
Supreme Court
Francis J. Swayze
Snowbound Indiana and Ohio Close Schools Amid Heavy Snowfall
A ferocious snowstorm blankets Indiana and Ohio with up to twenty inches, closing Indianapolis area schools and many small towns. Interurban trains run slowly, highways blocked by drifts, and temperatures fall to 2 to 6 degrees below zero after a 48 hour storm. In Marton Ohio schools were dismissed as children could not reach buildings, while Zanesville reports a collapsed auditorium from the heavy snow and central Ohio farmers fear livestock drought due to frozen streams.
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Indiana
Ohio
Indianapolis
Marton
Zanesville
Around Anti-Trust Law Diet of Food Dealers
Chair D W Williams of the legislative food probe committee says letters show large food concerns evade Valentine anti-trust law by appointing wholesalers and retailers as their agents to dispose of products. He says the system lets manufacturers set wholesale and retail prices, blocking direct purchases and adding a middleman. If no law violation is found, bills may aim to prohibit and curb price dilations.
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Ohia
D. W. Williams
Legislative Food Probe Committee
Williams
Bank Robbery Confession Ties Four Men to Ford Heist
Hutchinson Kansas sheriff reports J Bear in custody confessed involvement in the Ford bank robbery. Bear named four other suspects including Earl Maw, an 18 year old chauffeur who drove the gang to the bank. Bear says he helped plan the raid but was in Oklahoma during the robbery.
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Kanana
J. Bear
Hutchinson
Kan
Ford
Bell
Bear
Earl Maw
Oklahoma
Percy 18 Mississippi Senator Wins Unexpired Term
Bretkeen La Roy Percy of Greenville was elected United States Senator from Mississippi to fill the unexpired term of A J McLaurin who died December 23. The selection came on the 68th ballot by the legislative caucus after a long deadlock since January 4. The final tally showed Percy 87 votes and Vardaman 82 amid a scene of confusion.
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McLaurin Bretkeen
Roy Percy
Greenville
Mississippi
United States
A. J. MecLaurn
Dee
Legislative Caucus
Percy
Vardaman
Train Collision Kills Fireman in North Dakota Snow
An east-bound Northern Pacific passenger train collided with a stalled west-bound freight train one mile east of Stewartsdale North Dakota during a blizzard. Fireman Dahl was fatally injured, Engineer Wendall sustained minor injuries.
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Clyde Scott
Fred Campbell
Chicago Great Western
Waterloo Yards
Northern Pacific
Stewartsdale
N. D
Dahl
Wendall
Restores Three Cent Rail Fare in Oklahoma
Judge Hook of St Louis grants temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of 2 cent passenger rate. Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad begins charging 3 cents per mile in Oklahoma under the ruling.
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Judge Hook
St. Louis
Oklahoma Corporation , Commission
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company
Oklahoma
Roasting Fowls and Egg Food Tips from Farmers' Home Journal
A Farmers' Home Journal excerpt advises on roasting fowls and broilers, notes the value of stock shows for reputation, and details egg preservation using water glass. It covers feeding buckwheat, corn on the cob, and kitchen practices for poultry care, with practical notes on egg storage by months and maintaining clean, ventilated hen houses.
CARD OF THE FLOCK HEALTH AND PROSPERITY IN POULTRY
A rural reader argues strong constitutions in a poultry flock drive profit more than beauty. Healthy, vigorous stock yields better egg output and survivability. avoid overcrowded housing and unhealthy birds. Advice covers sourcing from honest breeders and keeping a well managed yard. A Connecticut station bulletin adds egg preservation tips including health of the flock and proper handling and storage.
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Nevelg
E. C
Indiana
Shooting Jackrabbits In Kansas Stubborn Decline or Not
A St Paul Dispatch excerpt quotes W J McIntyre of Fredonia describing jackrabbits as remaining plentiful in Kansas. He notes their rapid bursts and holes in pastures as key challenges to shooting them and suggests vast yearly numbers killed, yet rabbits persist.
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Kansas
Rocky Mountains
W. J. McIntyre
Fredonia
St. Paul Diapateh
Musical meeting over heard at yesterday's show
A reader recounts a brief afternoon encounter at a musical, noting the daughter’s singing was enjoyed while the pianist’s playing overwhelmed the performance, as mentioned in a Chicago Record Herald excerpt.
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Chicago
Herald
Chicago Trade Review Notes Mixed Prospects and Defaults
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review of Chicago trade reports softer bank payments and freight delays from storms, rising security markets, and higher breadstuffs and meats. It notes slower new demands in manufacturing but overall business outlook remains confident. Defaults are down this year, while credit positions grow stronger and production advances. Hides and leather buying stay steady as building materials remain in demand for spring. Country buyers purchase dry goods, millinery, clothing, and house furnishings. Failures in Chicago district total 10, with mobility over 5000 dollars cited and figures compared to prior periods.
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Chicago
R. G. Dun & Co
Trade Reports Cheerful Expansion in Jobbing Trade
New York reports show visible expansion in the jobbing trade as buyers in landing markets, especially in the West, Southwest and South, take hold more freely. High prices for breadstuffs, meats, animals and cotton weigh on export and farm product trade, with business failures for the week ending Feb 17 at 269, compared to prior weeks and years.
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New York
Southwest
United States
Bradatrost
Market price list from multiple Midwestern cities
After six weeks' work the steamer Wisethicken which went ashore on Outer Duck Island upper Lake Huron Dec 12 has been ronted. The coopstage plant of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at Little Rock Ark was destroyed by fire bous 75 900 no ingurang.
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Wisethicken
Duck Island
Lake Huron
Coopstage
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Little Rock
Ark
Bous
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