Winning at the Track by Double Cross Mastermind
In San Francisco, Doc Floyd and Hopkins plan to back a crooked book by Tom Camp. Tony the Tout reveals a scheme to beat Camp, and a race fix leads to a tense bet setup. Floyd and Tony trick Camp by betting against his plan, causing Applejack to be disqualified and securing profits.
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Doc Floyd
San Francisco
Col. Powley
Jack Cleland
Hopkins
Floyd
United States
New Orleans
Hopking
Tony
Hamburg
Tom Camp
Faro
Camp
Tony Floyd
Lemon Squeezer
Applejack
Young Hopkins
Doc
Thomas Camp
Hank Harlin
Harlin
Pal
Hank
W. G. Chapman
Crabtree Returns to Fort Des Moines in Manacled Flight
Des Moines dispatch reports former Corporal Lisle Crabtree paraded from Omaha handcuffed and shackled to a soldier on the way to Fort Des Moines to await review of his murder verdict. Defense attorney James M. Parsons predicts life imprisonment, while prosecutors seek justice after the court martial at Fort Crook.
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Des Moines
Lisle Crabtree
Fort Crook
John C. Raymond
Fort Des Moines
Omaha
Taft
Morton
Crabtree
Rock Island
Fourth Street
Court Avenue
James M. Parsons
Iowa
Raymond Bamberger
Signal Corps
Neb
Commercial Club
Fair Grounds
Annual Harvest Festival by Salvation Army
The Salvation Army conducts its annual harvest festival from September 5 to 11 to raise money and provisions for the poor during winter. A wireless telegram to Governor Carroll from former Kansas governor E. W. Hoch was received during the Ames Chautauqua and relayed to Des Moines.
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Salvation Army
Army
Woman's Body Found Near Whisky Jug in Cornfield
The body of Mrs. Katherine Fleck of Economy was found in a cornfield at Thirty second and North streets. A partially emptied whisky jug lay nearby as investigators secured the grisly scene.
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Katherine Fleck
Offices for Robinson Move for Des Moines City Beautiful
The Greater Des Moines committee will furnish offices for Charles Mulford Robinson the landscape architect who comes to Des Moines to make preliminary plans for the city beautiful scheme.
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Robinson
Greater
Applications for Optometry Certificates Open Before Sept Twenty-six
Applications for certificates under the new Optometry law are being received wholesale by Secretary Louis Thomas. Five years practice entitles the applicant to a certificate without examination if the application is made before Sept 26.
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Louis Thomas
Iowa Manufacturers Seek Machinery Exhibit Building Plan
Iowa manufacturers propose to ask the next legislature to fund a machinery exhibit building at the state fairgrounds. Secretary Wright of the Iowa manufacturers association is promoting the initiative during the state fair.
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Iowa
Wrightman
Ilowa Manufacturers’ Association
County Board Upgrades Army Post Road In First Class Grade
The board of supervisors improves the army post road from city limits to the post by grading and dragging to first class condition. Report filed. Cedar Rapids and Marion Railway files its annual report with the State Railroad Commission.
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Polk County
Board of Supervisors
Hull Avenue
East Fourteenth Street
East Sixth
Ninth
Army Post
The
Cedar Rapids and Marion Railway
State Railroad Commission
Local shippers intervene to contest rate ruling
Local shippers authorize a freight rate commissioner to intervene in a Chicago case. The Rock Island railroad seeks to overrule the Interstate Commerce Commission decision lowering rates from eastern points into Des Moines.
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Greater Des Moines
Chicago
Rock Island Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Des Moines
Bernard Divorce Case Filed by Mrs Pearl Bernard
Mrs Pearl Bernard initiates divorce proceedings against A E Bernard described as an Indian half-breed Carlisle graduate and private detective. The suit targets the husband’s separation from wife and remedies sought in the action.
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John Irving
High Rollers’ Club
Ock Floyd
Jack Cleland D
High Rollers
Reno
Nev
George Hopkins
Raymond
Iowa State Traveling Men's Association
Ella A. O’neill
Joseph H. O'Neill
O'Neill
Philadelphia
A. L. Urick
Iowa Federation of Labor
Federation
BE. Schremse
Dubuque
J. H. Strief
Sioux City
David J. Hemmy
Keoku
Norwalk
W. C. Hayward
J. C. O'Donnell
Jerry B. Sullivan
Savings Bank
H. M. Freeman
F. E B. Snyder
E. E. Guthrie
C. F. Crow
W. R. Dickson
E. W. Smith
L. J. Klemm
E. F E. Guthrie
J. C. Byram
Iowa Falls
Kepford
A. E. Kepford
State Board of Control
International Lyceum Association
Oshkosh
Wis
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