Deficit Triggers Closure of Milwaukee Avenue Bank Chicago
Chicago August 7 The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago is closed by State Bank Examiner C C Jones amid an estimated deficit near 1 million dollars. Officials vanish and a riotous crowd, many foreigners and women, watches the event as deposits loom at risk.
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Chicago
Ita
Mi- Bukee Avenue State Bank
C. C. Jones
J. G. Visser
Oval League
Fresi
Paul G. Stensland
Abomt
Theodore
Wrtten
St. Paul
Henry W. Hering
2 Weyrant
Train Kills Veteran at Cedar Rapids Visit
Joseph Murphy an inmate of the Indiana Soldiers Home was visiting in Cedar Rapids when he was struck and killed by a train. He did not hear the warning whistle.
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Joseph Murphy
Indiana Soldiers’ Home
Cedar Rapids
Large Ottumwa Fire Destroys Stables and Feed Barns
A blaze last week in Ottumwa caused $60,000 in losses, damaging Daggett and Son's livery ELF and Durner's feed barn along with L. R. Feener's feed fare. Five valuable horses perished in the fire. In a separate incident, Phoebe Livermore, eighteen, was struck and killed by lightning at Palo while at a washtub.
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Ottumwa
HE. Daggett & Son
Elf. Durner
L. R. Feener
Phoebe Livermore
Palo
Cummins Renominated At Iowa Republican Convention
Governor Albert B. Cummins won re nomination on the first ballot at Des Moines with 933 votes to Perkins 603 and Tathbun 104. The party named Warren Garst for lieutenant governor and other officers while endorsing Roosevelt’s administration and reform measures. Two children died and three were injured in a Lehigh road accident involving Axel Johnson’s family on a steep hill.
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A. B. Cummins
Iowa
Des Moines
Cummins
Perkins
Tathbun
W. H. Byers
Supreme Court
E. McLean
John C. Sherwin
John F. Riggs
John C. Crockett
W. W. Cornwall
W. L. Eaton
David J. Palmer
State Central Committee
Perkins Delecates
Committee
Republican Party
Roosevelt
Iown
Range Ernor Cummins
Aes Uy Ca
Dpeluc Lates Eentttors
Opppoos
Avuwe
B. Henderson
Aliscon
Lehigh
Axel Johnson
Soda Bottles Break Glass Injuring Eye In Riotous Scene
A chaotic incident at a soda fountain ends with a glass shattering and striking a patron in the eye. The proprietor, Sweitzer, and several bystanders were involved as they restrained the commotion and attended the injured man. The victim is reported to be recovering.
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Sweitzer
Tak Tiel Mound
Engineer Ed Youncer Killed in Lake Kane Pistol Duel
Ed Youncer a Great Western engineer recently from Joler WL was killed in a pistol duel at Lake Kane Wa a resort near Council Phiffs. His wife and two children witnessed the tragedy as several deputy sheriffs were involved.
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Ed Youncer
Joler
Body Pulled From Ottumwa Tailrace
The body of Joseph Pollock of Albuquerque New Mexico nineteen years old was recovered from the tailrace west of Court street at Ottumwa. Authorities have not determined if the death was accidental or a suicide.
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Joseph Pollock
Albuquerque
N. M
Court Street
Ottumwa
Monmouth Justice Fined Self In Bass Fishing Case
Justice of the Peace John Belcher of Monmouth pleaded guilty to fishing out of season and fined himself 92.95 dollars as the other party, John Case, paid 103.70 dollars on twenty two counts. The two prominent citizens were tried in Belcher's own court after their arrest by Deputy Warden Frank Carson following a bright May morning at Mineral Creek where they caught eighty one bass.
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Justice of the
John Belcher
Monmouth
John Case
Mineral Creek
Maquokesa
Lincoln
Frank Carson
Case
Belcher
Jackson County
Des Moines Forms Federation to Fight Mail Order Lines
The lown Ste's Federation of fer cantile assents representing 30 606 retake in most trades across the state was organized at Des Moines last week. It aims to protect retailers jobbers and manufacturers from catalogue houses. It will seek agreements with manufacturers and jobbers not to sell to catalogue houses and will appoint a committee to pressure them.
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Lown Ste
Federation of
Fercantile
Des Moines
Boy Hit by Train Near Cambridge in Critical Condition
Stewart Calsem nine stepson of A K Olson was struck by a passenger train on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line near Cambridge while near the main track. He did not hear the approaching train and is in critical condition.
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Stewart Calsem
A. K. Olson
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Cambridge
Train wreck halts freight as caboose blows off track
A heavy freight car, the sixth front caboose of the Northwestern line near Scarville station north of Mason City, was blown from the wind and drawn away by the drawbars. The train moved on and other cars were unaffected. no serious country damage reported.
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Scarvil Station
Mason City
Fall of Aeronaut Ends in Fatal Parachute Failure
Joseph Meliann the aeronaut died after a fall at Salt Palace Salt Bake City last week when his parachute failed He died at Haly Cross hospital MecMann s home was near Des Moines
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C. C G. Jones
Visser
Henry Koepke
Jon
Stensland
Theodore Stensland
Joseph Meliann
Salt Palace
Salt Bake City
Haly Cross
MecMann
Des Meines
Fatally Injured Man Dies After Electric Line Accident
Elmer Hugelt aged twenty two fell between cars on the Meson City and Clear Lake electric line and suffered severe injuries. He will die, with parents living at Marble Rock.
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Elmer Hugelt
Meson City
Clear Lake
Armand
Marble Rock
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Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank OF Chicago
Bank Examiner
Ure
Train
News OF
Albert B. Cummins Renomi
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Ashinge
CIA Association
A. C. Hutchins
Brewster
Xoutese
Clothiers
H.W. Beebe
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