Burlingon Route Publishes Eight Page Exposition Folder
The Alaska Y ukon Pacific Exposition at Seattle gains promotional help from railroad literature. The Burlington Route issues a forty page three color folder with a grounds map Seattle street map car lines and Puget Sound region map. It summarizes exposition details rates routes Pacific Coast tours and the Coast grand tour including the exposition and California trips.
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Seattle
Burlington
Puget Sound
California
Application to obtain rights from company agents
Fragments indicate an application may be had with any of the company's agents. Details on process or eligibility are not provided in the readable text.
Southeastern Iowa Field and Track Meet Planned at Parsons College
Plans are complete for the Southeastern Iowa Field and Track meet to be held Friday on Alumni Field at Parsons College. Officials report a full entry list from cities including Allerton Corydon Bloomfield Oskaloosa Ottumwa Seymour and Burlington with eighty five athletes. The program features sprints hurdles throws jumps and relay races led by general manager J E Johnson and a full slate of officers and student assistants.
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Southeastern Iowa
Parsons College
Allerton
Corydon
Bloomfield
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Seymour
J. E. Johnson
T. B. Turner
Bruce Gobble
Wirtz
McKenzie
Theodore Hochuly
Walt Wilson
Carter
Silver
Hodge and
McMurtry
James Crail
Harry Fulton
O. Wirtz
M. Gearhart
E. Roth
FE. Bean
D. Ewing
W. Ewing
M. Tibbetts
C. Davis
R. Gearhart
J. Ross
M. Allender
C. Downard
Numerous Fairfield Visitors Call on Local Residents
Miss Alice Robertson of Davenport arrives Saturday and stays until Tuesday with Mrs. Thomas L. James. Chester Scott of Quincy visits Fairfield friends. Mrs. J. S. Roberts of Wapello spends Tuesday here. Several other visitors from Ottumwa, Burlington, Chicago, and Peru visit Fairfield, attend meetings, or call on friends.
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Alice Robertson
Davenport
City
Thomas L. James
Chester Scott
Quincy, IL
Fairfield Friends
Court session opens April term to clear docket in Fairfield
The April term convened in Fairfield as equity work leads the docket with jury cases slated for early May. The grand jury met Tuesday and will likely finish by Friday. Assignments include Mace Loveless vs Lilly V Martin and others for quiet title injunctive and damages actions, with criminal cases State of Town v Harris and State v Clark listed.
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J. W. Courtney
Foreman
Louis Zeigler
al Johnson
John McCully
W. T. Abraham
J. H. Byers
R. H. Miller
Mace Loveless
Lilly
State of Town
John S[arris
Charles Clark
I D Jones Makes Steady Recovery At Home
I D Jones confined to his home for weeks due to illness is gaining satisfactorily and is expected to be able about again in a very short time, according to friends.
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I. D. Jones
Half-Witted Boy Kills Man on Wedding Day
Keokuk April 23 a nine year old half witted boy named John Alexander spanked by George W Jones this morning after threatening to shoot him returned with a shotgun and killed Jones instantly Jones was calling on the woman he was to marry tomorrow The Alexander boy is half witted
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Keokuk
George W. Jones
John Alexander
Jones
Alexander
Wanted Rags For Sale At This Office
Advert says Sloan and Hochuly seek clean cotton rags. A good price will be paid.
Freeman Adair wed Miss Minnie Freeman in Ottumwa
Miss Minnie Freeman of Burlington and Charles H. Adair of Spokane Washington married April 20 1909 at the J W Allen residence Ottumwa Rev C L Tennant officiated The bride wore blue silk and lace guests offered congratulations and a subsequent repast The groom a Spokane businessman will reside there for now they will visit Ottumwa first Daisy Belle Hubbs and Arthur Edward Lovedy wed April 21 1909 at English Lutheran church in Ottumwa The ceremony was conducted by Rev W Luther Bright they will start housekeeping on a Richland farm.
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Fairfield
Spokane
Washington
Adair
Ottumwa
Daisy Belle Hubbs
Arthur Edward Lovedy
Richland
Iowa
W. Luther Bright
Olive Lovedy
Roosevelt heads to hunts with famed African party
Naturalists J Loring Alden and Edmund Heller of the Smithsonian rejoin Roosevelt’s hunting party at Sir Alfred Pease's Athi river ranch after delayed gear arrival. George MacMillan and F C Selous join soon. buffalo counts at Heatley’s ranch exceed 160. Smallpox fears in Nairobi prompt precautions, but no epidemic.
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Teddy
Geo. MacMilan
Roosevelt
Pease Ranch
Mr. Roosevelt
F. C. Selous
Heatley
Africa
Kapiti Plain
Pease
Deaths in Jefferson county two long-time residents
Susan Williamson pioneer settler dies at home on West Hempstead Street aged 90. Born in England December 16, 1818 she and husband John Williamson sailed to America and settled in Dover before moving to Jefferson county. Funeral at residence Saturday 2 30 pm Evergreen cemetery. Also Millie Marie Lawson daughter of Laura and Abijah Lawson dies of scarlet fever April 15 1909 at age seven. Funeral prayer and verse accompany obituary.
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Susan Williamson
Jefferson County
West Hempstead Street
Susan Marsden Williamson
England
John Wiliamson
America
Boston Harbor
Dover
New Hampshire
Mrs. Williamson
Williamson
Fairfield
Evergreen Cemetery
Millie Marie Lawson
Laura
Abijah Lawson
Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus
Shepherd
H. B. Mitchell
West Adams Street
Mitchell
Abingdon
Washington County
Pennsylvania
L. Tennant
First Methodist
Infant Daughters Dead in Local Tragedies
Mr and Mrs Wilson Barr mourn an infant daughter who died at home near the city on Tuesday evening April 20 aged four months from stomach trouble after a brief illness The Barrs share the community’s sympathy In a separate note the infant of Mr and Mrs Frank Burkes died Saturday morning in this city and was buried at Pleasant Plain the newborn child was only a few days old
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Barr
Wilson Barr
Mrs. Barr
Frank Burkes
Pleasant Plain
Fire at Junkin Flat Causes Major Damage
Friday evening blaze in the Junkin flat occupied by A. W. Taylor destroyed two rooms of furniture and caused water damage to nearby offices and a drug store. Fire was confined with effort. origin undetermined. Separately, Mrs. F. K. Leedham died at 50 West Madison Street from stomach cancer, funeral to be held at Mt. Pleasant.
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Junkin
A. W. Taylor
Dr. W. O. Pool
Taylor
J. A. Copeland
F. K. Leedham
West
Madison Street
Death notices from Mt. Pleasant area 1901 1909
Obituary notes from Mt. Pleasant recount Alma Leadham born 1861 died at age 47 leaving husband three sons one daughter and mother. Also honors for Mrs. H B Mitchell who died in Fairfield after forty one years on a farm and nine children. A telegram reports Watts Young dead in Romeo Colorado from peritonitis. Mrs. Young and two children quarantined for scarlet fever.
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Mt. Pleasant
Alma S. Leadham
Oscar
Karl
Loward
Mary
Barber
Leedham
Watts Young
Romeo
Colorado
Young
Romeo, Colo
Death Claims Mr Young in Stewart Family Buried
The body of Mr Young was brought to Stewart where the family home was, and interment occurred Tuesday morning in the local cemetery. No further details are known, and friends extend sympathy to the wife and children left bereft of husband and father. The family had left town two months earlier to settle in the west.
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Mr. Young
Stewart
Woman of Wealth in Cell
Mrs. Frederick Oppenheimer of 5901 Princeton Avenue was brought before Judge Blake at Harrison Street station to answer a shoplifting charge. She admitted stealing goods valued at $18 from a State Street department store, was fined $1 plus costs, and sentenced to five days in county jail.
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Frederick Oppenheimer
Chicago
Princeton Avenue
Marriage Licenses Record
Harry Overturff of Selma Iowa age 35 and Mabel H Miller of Libertyville age 33. James E Hagans of Fairfield age 20 and Iola Wilson of Fairfield age 18. Arthur F E Lovedy of Richland age 28 and Daisy B Hubbs of Richland age 20.
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Harry Overturff
Selma
Mabel H. Miller
Libertyville
James E. Hagans
Fairfield
Iola Wilson
Arthur FE. Lovedy
Richland
Daisy B. Hubbs
Up Before the Bar
N H Brown of Pittsfield Vermont praises Dr Kings New Life Pills as a long trusted family medicine. The ad claims they ease chills constipation biliousness and sick headache and notes a 25 cent price at F S Shriner’s in April.
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N. H. Brown
Pittsfield
Dr. King
F. S. Shriner’s
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Nets
Madras
F. H. Wells & Co
Frank H. Wells & Co
E. C. Messett
Seattle Exposition
J. S. Roberts
Wapello
Roberts
Olive Coleson
Dr. S. E. Bigler
L. D. James
J. S. Chester
Cuba
Bessie McGregor
Lawrence White
Brighton
Ed Crew
Oklahoma
Frank Simmons
Birmingham High School
Angie Neal
Emmett Coleson
Alpine
Texas
Tillie Huglin
Perlee
Harry Thorne
Thorne Dry Goods
Orr Lawson
Onarga, Nl
Frank Crail
Bertha Bell
Rome
Mabel Falkner
Fred Wilkins
St. Joseph
Jack Antes
Baby
Keota
W. E. Parsons
J. F Hinkhouse
Southwestern Presbytery
Henry Hanson
Hanson
Miss Mae Warner
Batavia
William Louden
St. Paul
A. A. Fry
Waterloo
Mr. Louden
The
Iowa Manufacturers’ Insurance Company
F. H. Wells
Andrew Wordholdt
Lockridge
Clyde Bell
Chillicothe, II
Guy L. Bargar
the Tribune
Lillie Titus
Rapid City
South Dakota
Will
C. L. Tennant
Iowa City
Sloan & Hochuly
Gyers
Mame Oil Store
Demon
Edison! Phonograph
Mr. Edison
Edison Phonograph
Snyder & Co. Jewelers and Opticians
North Side Square
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