Mysterious nameless woman found near Iowa tracks
A Kansas City detective probes a nameless woman found sitting on a Fort Dodge railroad track awaiting a train. She is tall with a mole on her neck, no front teeth, dark hair, brown eyes, and a diary shows recent travels to Omaha Glenwood Davenport and Rock Island. An envelope without a railroad ticket is found on her.
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Kansas City
Ft. Dodge
Omaha
Glenwood
Davenport
Rock Island
Clarissa A. Bider
Linn County
Bider
Iowa Senate Deliberates Garst Plan and Tax Measures
Iowa senators debated the Garst state fund plan under the workmen's compensation act with votes for postponement and opposition from manufacturers. The session also covered a exclusive taxation bill for railroad property, committee reductions, highway commission reappointment, epileptic colony funding, and a substitute for Rayburn inspections amid broader appropriations previews.
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Des Moines
Clarkson
Garat Plan
Denate Insurance Committee
Senate
Jackson
Insurance Committee
Crist
White
Iowa
Eversmeyer
Garst
Towa
Senate Ways and Means
General Assembly
Ways and Means
Doran
Helmer
Fate 100 Much for Chicago Man
Joe Macaluso came to America with dreams of a fortune, but a wrongful extradition to Italy and a year in prison shattered his life. Returned home to find his wife and daughter dead and poverty lingering. He died in a Chicago hospital after years of hardship and bitterness.
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Chicago
Joseph Macaluso
Macaluso
Metropole of the Lakes
Amerlos
America
United States
Italy
Joe
Angelina
Call It Horse and Horse Goes Haywire in Sudden Duck Shot
San Jose, Cal. Sydney Farrington, a wealthy rancher and Huntington club member, was knocked cold by a duck after firing at two high-flying birds. A misfire led to a ricocheting shot down his neck, leaving him unconscious for several seconds.
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San Jose
Cal
Sydney Farrington
South Bay
Huntington Club
Farrington
One Hundred Dollar Tree in Stanislaus National Forest
A treapagner cut a sugar pine in California's Stanislaus National Forest earning $99.40 from a timber sale. The 18,993 board foot tree yielded lumber sufficient for a two mile wooden walk or a fine house, valued at about 5.25 thousand feet, an unusually high forest timber value for a single tree. Officers note no prior national forest timber surpassed this value per foot.
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Board of Supervisors
Greene County
Sioux City
Linn County
Michigan
Springville
Bernice Babcock
Council Bluffs
Campell
Superior Court
Charles Berryman
Berryman Drug Company
Lewis Kronkright
Birmingham
Des Moines
Swan
Elkader County
Rock Rapids
Lyon County Board of Supervisors
John McDonald
Monticello
Jones County
Stanislaus National Forest
California
Forest Service
National Forest
Ever Happen to You Bill it is said there are 925
A witty item notes that the watchmaking process involves 925 separate operations to produce a one dollar watch. It contrasts this with a stopped device needing a helper to restart, implying complexity and effort in repair.
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Bill
Jill
Trusty Maid Jokes Highlight Household Trust Issues
A lighthearted cartoon caption questions maid trustworthiness with a punchline about lending access to the bread box, illustrating domestic humor. The setup imagines a maid given a key to the bread box, poking at reliability and privacy in home life.
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F. Dickingon
Estherville
Twin Bridges
Valley Junction
Walnut Creek
Hoe
John Greeley
Iowa State College
Fort Des Moines
West Point
Cumming
Annapolis
Farmers’ Incorporated Co-operative Society of Greene
General Conference
The
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Lamont
Samuel McKowan
Nodaway
McKowan
T. T. Blaise
D. W. Vroom
Mason City
Red Oak
Arthur
William Shapcott
A. N. Keys
Union County
Des
Living Lake
United Presbyterian Church
Washington County
Buchanan County
Fairbanks
United States District Court
Kenneth Whitmere
Corning
Wos
van Valkenburgh
West Liberty
Weat Liberty
Frost
John Schulzen
New Hampton
Alta Vista
Kanawha
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Dubuque
Jolly
George Baskarville
Commercial Club
Luxemburg Savings Bank
Glarkson
State Fund
Chase
House
Ringaald
Francis
H, C
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H, C, Beard
Mount Ayr
State Highway Commission
Clarke
Mr. Beard
Highway Commission
Board of Control
Woodward
Thirty-sixth General Assembly
Axia
House Committee On Appropriations
Dilla
Barry
Linn
State Board of Control
Barrya
Kimball
Larrabee
J. M. Fierce
Legislative Committee On
John M. Jamieson
Piarce
Rayburn Bil
House Public Health Committee
Rayburn
Fish and Game Committee
Thirty-third General Assembly
Guy Feely
Supreme Court
Cosson
Signa Perkins
State Medical College
Iowa City
House Committee On Public Health
Christian Science
Atkinson
FATE
Demon of Ill
Bird
Alek
Dean
Illinois
W. L. Parker
Sity Montoa
Charlestom
Ili
Doan
ARN CO
Buffalo, N.Y
Sloan
James B. Alexander
North Flattrell
Ade
Sach
Earl 5S
Sloan, Inc
Philadelphia
Carter
Millioun
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