Local notes from Tuesday sightings and visitors
Mrs Harvey Easton travels to Beighton for a short stay with relatives and friends. J M Stimson returns from three weeks in Des Moines. Donald and Mrs McGregor were called for the funeral of Mrs Templeton and return to Des Moines. Mrs John Schaefer visits her daughter and family in Des Moines. Jemes H Buchanan and others visit Pella. Gertrude Schaefer visits Monmouth Ill. Mrs Walter Van Tassel and daughter Maurine visit Fairfield. Martin Edwards of Fairfield and Carrie Webber on Depot Street are noted. Marjory Easton, ill with pneumonia, shows some improvement. Mrs W F Harris returns from Mosscapolis Minn after a three week visit. A Munger plans to visit Mankato then Mansfield and beyond.
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Marjory Easton
Oscar Easton
W. FE. Harris
Rosalie Harris
Mosscapolis
Minn. A
Campaign drives $50,000 Parsons fund on day two
The second day of the campaign for a fifty thousand dollar Parsons endowment shows prolific results. Organizers report strong public support and several donations.
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Parsons
Campaign raises pledges for Parsons endowment drive
A campaign on Broadway and Court streets reports $10,000 pledged toward the $50,000 Parsons endowment fund goal. Committees say subscriptions average $5,000 daily with eight days left to raise the remaining $40,000 as part of the Fairfield $325,000 apportionment. College officials express confidence in a favorable outcome.
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Broadway
Court Streets
Parsons
Fairfield
De Luxe Train Service Resumes Between Chicago and California
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway inaugurated the second season of its De Luxe train service linking Chicago and southern California. A weekly train runs each direction between Chicago and Los Angeles throughout the winter season.
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Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road
Oxford Bible Press Sees Large Daily Output
The Bible press of Oxford produces about 3,000 copies of the Bible daily and also prints prayer books. Each year about 100,000 animal skins are used for the covers of Oxford Bibles.
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Bible Press of
Oxford
Oxford Bibles
Rebate Suit Upheld Against Chicago Packing Firm
The Supreme Court sustained the Interstate Commerce Commission over the Union Stockyards and Transit Co of Chicago. It affirmed the commission’s right to block the $50,000 contract with Pfaelzer & Sons for a plant beside its tracks, ruling the case involves interstate commerce. The decision directs the lower court to enjoin enforcement of the Pfaelzer contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Stockyards and Transit Company of
Chicago
Supreme Court
Pfaelzer & Sons, Packers
Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commission
Commerce Court
Union Stockyards and Transit Company
Chicago Junction Railway Company
Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stockyards Company
Commission
Justice Day
Pfaelzer
Auerbach Sentenced to Life for Fisher Murder
O M Auerbach of Chicago a 1909 Princeton graduate was given life imprisonment at Jackson for murdering his employer Harry W Fisher a former Chicago promoter The killing occurred during a hunting trip with Auerbach who called it an accident He has appealed to the supreme court Judge Withey said the verdict is warranted by the proof and will be tested at the March term He also asked the warden to grant Auerbach comfortable treatment pending review.
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Baldwin
Mich
O. M. Auerbach
Chicago
Princeton
Jackson
Harry W. Fisher
Fisher
Auerbach
Supreme Court
Withey
Mellen's Testimony Doubtful Before Grand Jury
New York December 10 President Mellen of the New Haven railroad may not be allowed to testify before the federal grand jury probing ties with the Grand Trunk United States District Attorney Wise said the matter is directed by Attorney General Wickersham and immunity from prosecution cannot be waived under the Sherman act according to his interpretation
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New York
Mellen
New Haven Railroad
Federal
Grand Trunk
United States
Wise
President Mellen
Wickersham
Mr. Mellen
Runs Amuck in Ohio Jail
Herbert Mowery thirty five armed with an iron bar assaulted prisoners and Superintendent W H Workman in the Lima city prison corridor. He fled by leaping from a second story window but was captured after terrorizing pedestrians. Three inmates and the superintendent remain in serious condition. Mowery had been confined a week with delirium tremens.
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Lima
Herbert Mowery
W. H. Workman
Workman
Mowery
Edison on Moonshine Whisky
Edison quips that moonshine whisky is strong. He says two drops would send a rabbit running and make a bulldog spit in a opponent’s face.
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Edison
Breach Between Austria and Servia Widens Amid Balkan Tensions
London reports the Austria Servia rift deepens as Servia focuses on the Balkan war. Citizens are arrested for spying inflaming tensions with warnings of a second war. Roumania eyes Turkey realignment with Parliament backing a prepared army. Cholera reaches Trieste with mild quarantine for Mediterranean arrivals.
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London
Austria
Servia
Belgrade
Roumania
European Turkey
Charles
Trieste
Balkan Battle Ground
Mediterranean
Adriatic
U. S. Bars Common Towel in Interstate Travel
Secretary MacVeagh ordered the abolition of the common towel from railroad cars vessels and all interstate vehicles and stations. Towels may be reused only after sterilization continuing a series of hygiene measures alongside the ban on the common drinking cup from interstate carriers.
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Washington
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
New 14 Inch Gun Bursts at Sandy Hook Test Site
A fourteen inch gun burst during a test at the Sandy Hook proving grounds in New Jersey. The muzzle was blown back about a hundred yards and the temporary carriage shattered. No injuries were reported. The gun had undergone several prior tests, all reported successful.
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Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Sandy Hook
N. J
Transatlantic Steamships Set to Sail for Christmas Exodus
In New York on December 10 nearly twenty steamers are slated to depart this week carrying about 30,000 steerage passengers. The mass departure marks the floodtide of Europeans returning home for Christmas.
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New York
High Diver Charles Strohl Dies After Operation
Charles Strohl aged thirty, a famed high diver from Rockford Illinois, died in a sanitarium in Kansas City Missouri after an operation. Known in amusement circles from coast to coast, Strohl had been living in Kansas City at the time of his death on December 10.
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Kansas City
Charles Strohl
Strohl
Rockford
Police Rescue 30 From Fire in Conners Building
In Joliet Indiana on December 10 police officers Parker and Mason saved thirty people from a smoke filled building. Firefighters found flames in a restaurant kitchen on the top floor and the rescuers entered at once to warn residents who were asleep. The escapees moved through thick smoke to safety.
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Joliet
Parker and
Mason
Conners
J. T. Davies Undertaker and Embalmer
Local obituary notice for J. T. Davies detailing services as undertaker and embalmer with day and night contact numbers.
Couple Found Slain at Swartswood Lake Bungalow
The bodies of Ludwig Palmer and an unidentified woman were found in a Swartswood Lake bungalow. Palmer 49, of South Orange, head of Palmer & brother contractors, left for New York Friday. He had introduced the woman as his wife and took a short vacation. both were shot in the head.
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Newton
N. J
Ludwig Palmer
Palmer & Brother
South Orange
Swartswood Lake
Palmer
New York
Emmons
Archbold Trial Bores Senate With Delayed Testimony
Impeachment trial of Judge Robert W. Archbold of the commerce court faces possible night sessions as senators grow impatient with witness examinations. Much evidence repeats material reviewed by the House Judiciary Committee. Current testimony concerns deals for the Katy-Aid calm dump and Archbold alleged to have influenced Erie railroad officials to obtain options on refuse coal dumps controlled by Erie subsidiary companies for himself and E. J. Williams of Scranton.
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Washington
Robert W. Archbald
Commerce Court
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Archbald
Erie Railroad
E. J. Williams
Scranton
Erie
Original Notice in Jefferson County court
State of Town in Jefferson County issues notice to William Kimberly and his wife Philip Kimberly and their unknown heirs at law Jessie Kim as part of the legal proceeding. The record captures a fragment indicating a notice to named parties and heirs.
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Jefferson County
William Kimberly
Philip Kimberly
Jessie Kim
Property suit seeks fee title to 34 1/100 and 15 100 acre tracts
Plaintiff George Hartman seeks a decree quieting title to described lands in Jefferson County Iowa. The action targets Lot 1 in section 27 and accompanying parcels in township 73 range 8 including a 34 100 acre tract and a 15 100 acre tract plus adjoining described parcels. Defendants and unknown heirs and claimants are named. The case cites prior transfers from William Kimberly Harriett Kimberly Werner Heyde Jesse Kimberly and John H Bense with deeds lost or not of record. Court set for February 3 1913 at Fairfield Iowa with publication in The Fairfield Tribune.
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Berly
Harriett Kimberly
Jacob Pigler
John H. Bense
Jefferson County
Iowa
Sey Swy
New NW
Northwest Quarter
Township 73
Christian Kientz
District Court
George Hartman
William Kimberly
United States
Williams Kimberly
Philip
Werner Heyde
Jesse Kimberly
Harriett
Jacob Pilger
Recorder’s Office
Said
Jacob Knerr
Knerr
Fairfield
I. D. Tones
Fairfield Tribune
D. M. Anderson
2D Judicial District of
Towa
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Harvey Easton
Beighton
J. M. Stimson
Des Moines
Donald McGregor
Wm. Templeton
Des Moenes
Mrcs
John Schaefer
Fameily
Chas. Fletcher
Des Moaenes
Jemes H. Buchanan
Pella
Gertrude Schaefer
Monmouth
Walter van Tassel
Little Daephiter
Maurine
Keokuk
City
Martin Edwards
Mt. Pleasant
Soba Webber
Stockport
Douglas
South D Street
Carrie Webber
Depot Street
Union Stock Yards
Great Central Market
Rock Island Lines
T. F. McNew
Stock Yards Company
Chicago Packing Company
Bar Mellen
New Haven
Ohio
U. S
Joliet, Ill
Black Seal Cigars
Raible Segars
J. T. Davies
Undertaker
New Jersey
Jefferson
Iowa Homestead
the Tribune
Lowa
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