George Snyder seeks habeas corpus over Knox ville confinement
George S. Snyder of Charleston Lae County filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Keokuk superior court seeking release from the Knox ville inebriate hospital. He alleges forced trench digging in December with no boots after voluntary admission in Knoxville. Ten Iowa Historical Society curators elected included Jacob Lewis and Charles F. Wennerstrum. George J. Long, long-time editor of the Manson Journal, died after a prolonged illness.
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George S. Snyder
Charleston
Lae County
Keokuk
Knoxville
Snider
State Historical Society
Board of Curators
Jacob Lewis
Charles F. Wennerstrum
Des Moines
Glenn N. Merry
John B. Briggs
Frances Moon
Q. K. Patton
Iowa City
Seine B. DePres
Sioux Center
J. W. Myers
South Bend
Wash
Bernard Murphy
Vinton
Leight H. Wallace
Washington
George J. Long
Iowa
Long
Manson Journal
Mr. Long
Manson
Frederick A. Timble
Creston
Justge Herring
Herring
Crooked Creek
Webster City
Lehigh
New Sharon
Democratic
Waton Brothers
N. M. Eaton
Senate
F. Douglas
Dysart
J. W. Cannon
Elma
Eleventh Judicial District
F. M. Williams
Tows Falls
Allbrook
Iowa State College
Semaster
J. C. Paterson
Ir. Townsend
Globe-Post
LeMars
W. F. Miller
Mr. Miller
Independence Conservative
Ed Cook
Winterget
Charles Drincoll
Cook
Erle Padgett
Olive Spencer
Elias Spencer
Missouri Valley
Joseph H. Anderson
Thompson
Winnebago County
Thomas 4
Buckley
Oxford
Iowa Leads in Livestock Value Despite Texas Beef Lead
Iowa tops the nation in total livestock value with over 470 million dollars invested on farms, led by horses and swine. Texas holds beef cattle lead, while Iowa surpasses in horses, swine, and dairy cows, with Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas following in rank.
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den. Moines
Iowa
Texas
State Board of Agriculture
Lone Star
Ulinois
Union
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
United States
Towa
Thaxted Church to undergo careful repair funds sought
Thaxted in Essex seeks 26000 pounds to fund sympathetic repairs to its famed medieval church. The building highlights late perpendicular features with earlier nave arches, a unique Lady Chapel celatura, and pre Reformation crucifixes. Repairs aim to halt weather damage while preserving medieval atmosphere.
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Thaxted
Papn's Head For Museum
London describes how headhunting persists as a market activity, tracing a British collector and an Australian visitor to Malekula in the South Pacific. Natives bind stones to infant foreheads creating peaked skulls sought by curio collectors, though deaths do not meet demand. One buyer is shown horror when a skull arrives belonging to the buyer's father, who died two weeks earlier.
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London
New Hebrides
South Pacific
Malekula
Hamlel
HELD UP ENTIRE LITTER IN PORTLAND SEARCH
Portland businessman Eugene Simpson of this city bought a Bangliah setter named Gypsy Girl in Nanaimo B C. The dog gave birth to six puppies en route to Portland and customs officials detained the animal and pups claiming the manifest listed one dog. Simpson may appeal to Washington for his canine family.
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Portland
Ore
Eugene Simpson
Nanaimo
B. C
Beattie Oustome
Mr. Simpson
Washington
Artists to Mark Canvases in Paris on Angel Prints
Paris artists urge imprinting Angel prints on all canvases to curb the sale of fake originals. The move aims to authenticate works and protect buyers from counterfeit art.
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Paris
What $10 did for this woman in Danville Virginia
Mrs. Matra Halhy of 601 Colquhonne Street Danville Virginia reports spending ten dollars on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and experiencing relief from bearing down pain better sleep and renewed health. The advertisement touts the products as a forty year old tonic and invites readers to write for confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
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Danville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tam
Matra Halhy
Colquhone Street
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Honesty and virtue in 19th century talk by Harvey Woodruff
The speaker, G. A. R. historian Harvey Woodruff of Houston, argues that honesty leads to wealth and virtue creates poverty. He cites Aunt Martha Washington Clay visiting a New Orleans lawyer asking for a divorce, saying Cal has found religion and she has not tasted chicken for four months.
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Iowa
New State
Iowa State College
C. H. Stange
State Laboratory
Ames
Harvey Woodruff
Houston
George Washington
Martha Washington Clay
Martha
Nola Chucky
Cal
Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills Ad Promotes Health
An advertisement extols Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claiming relief for millions in 16 years. It asserts to regulate the bowels stimulate the liver and purify the blood urging readers to consider a trial of the remedy.
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Wright
Fragmented Ad Copy and Pastiche Dialogues Page
A mishmash of quotations and vintage ad lines. It mixes jokes about Goethe with a fake drug promo for Bromo Quinine and a cosmetic dye pitch. The text also references a playful exchange about diamonds and a wife baking biscotti, ending with a cash versus diplomacy quip.
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Iowa News
Bernice Miller
Carl Leerst
Muscatine
Mra
D. Q. Shoemaker
Mra. Shoemaker
Buent
Julia H. Sinnett
W. S. Hamilton
Lee County
Richard ©. Smith
J. C. Hubinger Bros
Bathen
Waucoma
Robert Twamley
Clayton Teeple
Gus Pickett
Baldwin
Teeples
Maquoketa
Andrew Idick
Lansing
Norway
Ittck
Davenport
Tri-city Poultry Fanciers’ Association
Centerville
Claude R. Porter
Mount Calvary Lodge
West Liberty
Masonic Temple
Calhoun Street
Monticello
Leo Campbell
Willams
Ben Greet
Kryl
Governor Glynn
F. C. Koontz
Waukon Junction
August Schultz
Hayes Township
Ida County
Mondamin
James Blake
Guthrie Center
Frank Nadolsky
Haying
J. H. Applegate
William Taylor
Sioux City
Iowa Master Bakers’ Association
Burlington
Board OF Agriculture
Hawkeye State
McHenry
Washington County
State House
J. H. Henderson
Commerce
Clifford Thorne
Jeff
Interstate Commerce Commission
Iowa Shippers
Cosson
Missisannck
Waterbury
Ingersoll Avenue
Aittle
Warren Garst
J. D. Whisenand
C. Waterbury
State Railroad Commission
Capitol
State Highway Commission
N. 8
Ketchum
Highway Commission
Drys
Byron Preston
Supreme Court
Williams
Ayres
District Court
Aquor Foes
H. M. Havner
George A. Jewatt
The
Citizens’ Apsociation
Hayner
Judge Ayres
Fair Grounds
Freem Conaway
Essex
England
St. Albana
Apr Darsney
Andy
Storonto
Goethe
E.W. Grove
Lia
Putnam
Iit
Los
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