Lamphere Sr Defends Son in Murders Charge At Laporte
W W Lamphere senior arrives from Springfield to assist in Ray Lamphere’s defense as prosecutors seek interview permission. Attorney Worden says he will push for the interview with the father. Lamphere asserts his son is innocent and incapable of the murders. Interwoven are remarks on Arg Guinness and Ray’s intended marriage, plus funeral oddities surrounding Philip Gunness and Mrs Gunness.
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Ray Jam
Lamphere
Guiness
Ray
Gunness
Poverty Saved Him Says Testimony About Mrs Gunness
George Anderson of Tarkio Missouri tells of nearly being murdered by Mrs Belle Gunness near Indiana after answering her advertisements. He traveled to Chicago to testify and provide letters he received. He recalls Gunness probing his wealth and later a frightful visit at her farmhouse before his escape.
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Missouri
St. Joseph
Gunness
Aporte
Ind
George Anderson
Tarkio
Rock Island
Chicago
Guntess
Shed
Anderson
iMonteith
Mich
Pesh
She Speaks Out In Quoted Exchange
A fragment from the St. Louis Republic quotes a woman challenging a young man about earnings and living costs. The exchange emphasizes shared finances and a desire not to live cheaply together as a couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
French Public Opinion Over Castro Treatment Of Foreigners
Paris reports incensed French public opinion after eight French expels from Venezuela. The Temps reviews the crisis and urges stronger action, noting U S willingness for Roosevelt to act as peacemaker, with calls for decisive measures against Castro.
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Castro
Paris
Venezuela
The
Temps
France
Puerto Cabello
M.taigny
United States
Sesetor
Culleni
Roosevelt
Vous Muela
Washington
Boy Kills His Father in Niagara Falls Mystery
Norman White, fifteen, told police his father abused his mother for years. He saved for a revolver and fired five shots when attacked, four missed but the last struck the father in the lung. The wounded man is not expected to live. Norman is under arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
Norman White
White
Norman
Senator Rayner Introduces Resolution on Fort Grant Inquiry
Senator Rayner introduces a resolution authorizing the president to convene a court of inquiry to consist of five officers from the abandoned fort at Fort Grant Arizona. The measure will be laid on the table for a day before action is expected, with Rayner set to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rayner
Washington
Manistary
Fort Grant
Ariz
She’ Geuate
Johnson Men in Control in St Paul Delegation
St Paul May 12 Johnson leaders head into the state convention with about 25 delegates out of 935 total. The Bryanites hold 116 Doll fide delegates with 218 contesting. With Johnsonites in control likely, at most fifteen por tion may be seated from the contested group.
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Johnson
St. Paul
Market Quotations From Minneapolis and Duluth
Minneapolis wheat values for May, MOS, July at $1.05% and $1.03, with Sept. van Slaze. Lard No 1 at $1.41, No 1 Northern at $1.03, No 2 Northern around $1.06 to $1.07 and 9c $1.04. St Paul yards show cattle, veals, lambs and sheep price ranges. Duluth wheat on track No 1 hard $1.10% and No 1 Northern around $1.08, No 2 Northern near $1.04, May at $1.06 1/4, July $1.11 1/2, flax on track $1.22 May and $3.22 July, Sept $1.24 43 Oct $1. Data reflects current grain and livestock quotations from Minneapolis and Duluth markets.
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Minneapolis
May
Mos
van Slaze
Northern
St. Paul Union
St. Paul
Duluth
Cattle and Hog Market Report from Sincago Union Stock Yards
May 11 cattle and hog prices listed for Reeves and Fevans with Western cattle stockers, cows, heifers, calves, and hog classes. Prices shown include light and mixed hogs, rough and good heavy categories, plus shoe stock and lamb figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Grain and Proviatgris market notes
Chicago grain and provisions report shows Wheat May July and Sept prices with mixed figures across months and contracts. Corn May July Sept pricing scattered with several decimal and percentage-like marks. Oats and pork futures listed with varied values. Butter creamery figures, eggs and poultry items noted with unit pricing and totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Girl Wife Irene Dolph Sentenced Eight Years for Murder
Irene Dolph, seventeen year old girl wife, convicted of manslaughter in Clinton for the murder of her husband Fred Dolph. She was sentenced to eight years in prison. The case revealed a troubled life and early marriage, with family mental health issues and a quarrel preceding the crime. The jury found guilt but implied partial lack of full responsibility.
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Irene Dolph
Clinton
Iowa
Fred Dolph
Dolph
Dolp
Dream Haunts Rocker in Iowa Supreme Court Appeal
Charles Rocker of Lyon county faces a third Iowa Supreme Court hearing over his 1920 murder conviction. The defendant’s sleep talking, alleged by his wife as evidence, led to repeated reversals and fresh appeals by his lawyer this month as Rocker contends the speech was a harmless dream, not guilt.
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Mocker Cave
Supreme Tribunal of the State
Dream
Supreme Court of Iowa
Nan
Charles Rocker
Lyon County
Rocker
August Schroeiler
Supreme Court
Divorced Woman Ends Life in Fort Dodge Hotel Room
Alice Overman aged nineteen and a divorcee drank poison in her Duncombe hotel room after believing her lover Henry Bruillette had broken an appointment. From Sioux City, Bruillette sought help from police as a note to her mother explained the act.
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Henry Bruillette
Alice Overman
Duncombe Hotel
Fort Dodge
Bruillette
Sioux City
Instinct Defined As Innate Tendency in Quote
A fragment quotes Mr. Daoley on instinct, describing it as a natural tendency to act when filled with desire and to turn toward one's wife, illustrating a brief, personal reflection.
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Mr. Daoley
Girl Held a Prisoner Rescued From Sioux City Resort
Mrs. Bond of Chicago recovered her daughter Myrtle after an eight month search. The girl wrote she was detained and guarded at a Sioux City resort run by Cora Lee. Dr. Donovan, a Chicago attorney, intervened to separate mother and resort keeper. Civil and criminal proceedings were planned against the keeper. The trio planned to return to Chicago once travel possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Bond
Chicago
West Side
Myrtle
Sionx City
Donovan Reid
Prieguer
Lee
Hond
Miss. Bond
Ruin of Bank of Corwith Prompts Court Sessions
Claims against the defunct Bank of Corwith total between $250,000 and $296,000 as pending in Hancock county district court. Judge Smith ordered two special sessions, one in June and another in August, to handle the bank's budget. Numerous cases stretch to Fort Dodge and Traverse county Minnesota, with the cashier still missing. It is believed he took about $60,000.
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Bank of Corwith
District Court
Hancock County
Smith
Fort Dodge
Traverse County
Minnesota
Otumwa Hearing Set On Freight Rate Discrimination
Special Commissioner Clark of the Interstets commerce commission will hear three cases of alleged discrimination in freight rates against railroad companies in Ottumwa May. The Otumwa Commercial Association brought the cases, pairing Ottumwa Brick and Construction Co versus Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad, Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co versus Milwaukee, and Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co versus Rock Island.
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Clark
Interstets, Commerce- Commission
Otumwa
Otumwe’ Commercial Association
Ottumwa Brick and Constriction Company
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
Ottumwa Box Car Loader Company
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Strikebreakers Driven Out at Marshalltown Depot
More than twenty strikebreakers imported from Chicago and Minneapolis to replace striking Iowa Central shop workers were surrounded in Marshalltown by strikers in the depot district. They were driven toward the city limits as a mob of about fifty armed men followed along the railroad right of way for more than a mile. Several of the strikebreakers were roughly handled, but no one was seriously hurt.
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Iowa Central
Chicago
Minneapolis
Marshalltown
Dry South Sioux City ends saloon era after license denial
Covington once famed for eighteen saloons now has no liquor sales as council refuses to renew J. B. Ennis license amid a dispute over liquor sales to Winnebago Indians. In De Witt a section hand, August Hitler, 33, was killed instantly by a locomotive on the C and NW tracks while at work with a crew, not hearing the approaching engine.
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Sioux City
Covingston
Covington
Ennis
Winnebago
August Hitler
de Witt
Chicago and North- Western
Bridge Foreman Killed at Sibley on Windmill Tower Load
W P McGown of Worthington a bridge foreman for the Chicago St Paul Milwaukee and Omaha railroad died instantly at Sibley. He was taking down a windmill tower when a rope supporting a heavy casting broke. The rope struck him and broke his neck.
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W. P. McGown
Worthington
Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee and Omaha
Sibley
Guessed It Guest Detects Sleeped Bed in Landlord's Bed
A quarrel erupts as a guest accuses the landlord of using a slept in bed. The landlord retorts the bed is meant for guests, sparking a terse exchange over comfort and propriety in the dwelling.
Child shoots mother then dies in barn fire tragedy
In Mason City a five year old boy discharged a revolver while the woman, Abs. Charles Hall, was fatally wounded in the stomach after the gun lay under a pillow. Separately at Spencer six year old George Fate perished in a neighbor barn fire. he was playing near the hay when it ignited accidentally.
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Charles Hall
Mason City
George Fate
Abr
Grant Fate
Spencer
Romani People Target Jesup Town In Robbery Spree
Reports indicate Romani groups robbed the High & Hope butcher shop of 15 dollars and a fortune teller named Laman lost 18 dollars. A woman at a farmhouse was frightened into yielding food and grain while other locals reported losses totaling around 100 dollars.
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Jesup
High & Hope
Laman
Tost
Davis Sentenced in Second Degree Murder Case
Edgar Davis, accused of shooting his wife while intoxicated and wounding the attending city physician, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Des Moines and received a prison term of eighteen years.
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Edgar Davis
Des Moines
Cavalryman Runs Amuck in Manila Tragedy
A telegram to the adjutant general reports Prigate Mike Beacham of the First United States Cavalry ran amuck killing three and wounding three comrades in Troop F. The dead are First Sergeant William Heer, Private G Wilson, and Private Thomas Woodward. Private Edward Woodward died of his wounds. Beacham is presumed insane.
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Manila
Adjutant General
Prigate
Mike Beacham
First United States Cavalry
Willian Heey
G Wilson
Thomas Woodward
Edward Woodward
First Cavalry
Beacham
Death of Sir Alexander Candie Stephen GK CM
Sir Alexander Candie Stephen born 1850, longtime groom in waiting to the king, has died. Senate action increased the Miscellaneous appropriation for the forestry service from 500000 to 1000000 by a 34 to 23 vote, to fund roads fire lanes and telephone lines.
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Alexander Candie Stephen
Senate
Forestry Service
Garrick’s Wit at Tyburn Stirs Crowd of Vowel Name
London’s Saturday Review recalls David Garrick passing Tyburn where 43 assembled to witness a criminal’s execution. A spectator asks, Who is he. Garrick mutters about a name and vowels, noting the joke on the vowel itself.
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Garrick
David Garrick
Tyburn
Sereg
London Saturday Review
The Shadow of the Earth Question at College
A genial late professor Greene, author of Greene's Analysis and the English Grammar, presides over a mathematics and astronomy class at a Western English college. A slow student named Jones struggles with text, and the professor asks if he has ever been in the shadow of the earth, prompting Jones to refuse to answer.
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Greene
Mr Jones
Jones
Professor
Universalist
Banquets In Elizabeth's Time From a Folio Note
An old notice describes Elizabethan banquets with courses starting from whest en summery and stews to fish dishes like sturgeon, then various puddings and meats. It mentions sweets and wines, mentions Swiss chamois and future fashion in skins, and ends with eclectic lines about Mary’s lamb and distant lands.
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Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
New York
Bntena
Siberia
Acentina
Mas-S Coring
Natural Anxiety Dialogue at a Quiet Visit
A playful anecdote about a talkative boy allowed to attend a friend's gathering with a rule that he may not speak unless spoken to. He stays silent for thirty minutes, then asks his father when the questions will begin, highlighting a child's eager curiosity.
Antiquated exchange on snake bite remedies in travel tale
A fragmentary quip from a Philadelphia press item centers on a tourist asking for snake bite antidotes and an explorer’s bemused response. The garbled text hints at a period piece humor column with colloquial banter and misspelled names.
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Philadelphis
Phi Dig Hist Press
Eldortaa
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Ray Lamphere
Laporte, Ind
Colonel Stewart
Sincago Union Stock Yards
Church Ganqueters
Rockwell City
Methodist Church
Viands
H. W. Beebe
Prop
Davis
Amuck
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