Iowa Liquor Shipment Law Tested in Missouri Court
Iowa battles its liquor shipment law as Harvester Distilling seeks to block C O D imports to 94 Iowa points via Ames Express. A Kansas City court issued a temporary restraining order, with potential fines if shipments resume, while similar federal rulings in Kansas favored express carriers.
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Maines
Iowa
Kansas City
Ams Express Company
Harvester Distillmpany
Mpany
Harvester King Distilling PY
Eua
Arily
Laintiff Company
John C. Pollock
Kansas On
Comlaw
Kansas
Island Railroads Take Politics Off Policy Shift
Des Moines July 20. President B F Winchell of Rock Island declares new policy to stay out of politics and let legislation be decided as business. He urges railroads to avoid hostile framing and support only neutral state action, noting changes if enemies arise. Rock Island officials present include President B F Cell and VP H Mudge with agents Sebastian and Melcher.
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Item
Des Moines
Greater Des
Winchell
the Rock
B. F. Cell
H. Mudge
T. Sebastian
Mantz F. O. Melcher
Hero Jumps to Death After Saving Eleven Lives
Bohumil Iderka, 37, custodian of the Wa City bath, died during an exhibition at the Iowa river bridge. He dived 150 feet, fought in the maelstrom for ten minutes, and sank before hundreds of spectators after previously saving eleven people in the past two years. His daughter, ten, is left orphaned.
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Owa City
Bohumil Iderka
Bath ‘Se
University of Vadam
Iowa River Bridge
Pwa
Engineer Goes Insane in Cab on Rock Island Line
Ben Merke, a Rock Island engineer from Valley June, was removed from his engine in another state of mental distress. He claimed a traveling engineer was concealed within the cab, provoking the incident.
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Atlantic
Ben Merke
Rock Island
Valley June
Relapsed Illness Sparks Concern Over Missing Man
A 38 year old man, believed to be seeking drugs, developed alarming symptoms after traveling from Valley Junction to Adair. He has suffered illness for some time, but appeared well when last seen leaving Valley Junction.
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Adair
Valley Junction
Cresco White Hero Saves Little Boy On Mississippi
Muscatine Iowa July 19 Captain Cresco White star of the State university football team leaped from a government steamboat deck into the Mississippi River to rescue Ralph Tuey’s five year old son. After a fifty yard swim he reached the boy as he began to sink and pulled him to safety.
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Muscatine
Pathos in injunction as dying wish seeks Luz sermon
In Dubuque Iowa Mrs Charles Bremer dies and asks that Rev Henry Luz conduct her funeral services at the Lutheran church despite an injunction preventing him from officiating as pastor. The court will confer with attorneys to decide if the injunction can be temporarily lifted to honor the dead woman’s request.
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Charles Bremer
Henry Luz
Dubuque
Lutheran Church
Luz
Cedar Rapids Man Confuses Baseball Urgently Needs Team
Ted Cavanaugh a Cedar Rapids railroad man and former semi pro player, is believed to be suffering a mental episode. He traveled to his old home near Greene seeking medical rest after showing delusions that his services were badly needed by the local Three I team. He has been seen at ballpark activities and purchased a full baseball outfit amid the hallucination. Cavanaugh previously played with the T. M. Sinclair Cedar Rapids City league and various semi pro teams.
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Cedar Rapids
Ted Cavanaugh
Greene
Cavanaugh
Ben Davis
T. M. Sinclair
Little Girl Terribly Burned in Gasoline Stove Explosion
Eleven year old Pauline Judson of 422 North Wapello street was severely burned when a gasoline stove exploded while she lit it during laundry work to support herself and her ill grandmother Mary Judson. She escaped outside and bystander aid removed burning clothing before hospital admission.
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Ottumwa
Pauline Judson
North Wapello Street
Ottumwa Hospital
Mary Judson
Rifle Range Accident Hurts Corp. Boyd Humble
At the rifle range north of Washington Iowa, July 18, Corp. Boyd Humble was accidentally shot when a rifle discharged while being taken down from a rack. The bullet passed through the range house and struck Humble in the nose and face, mangling the nose and cheek and removing six teeth. A physician attended, and conditions are favorable for recovery.
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Rifle Range
Washington
Corp
Boyd Humble
Humble
Boy Dies After Toy Pistol Cartridges Misuse
Lawrence Fritz aged nine died in Dubuque Iowa from blood poisoning after placing cartridges found in his pockets into his mouth. The cartridges had been used in a toy pistol and caused his head to swell severely before death. Doctors are puzzled by the case.
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Dubuque
Lawrence Fritz
Iowa Rail Road Assessment Up On Real and Personal Property
Des Moines July 20 An executive council decision raises Iowa railroad assessments by 1 131 756 in total taxable value boosting realty up 16 225 057 and personal property 6 624 556 including telegraph and telephone property and interurbans output while per mile values on main lines rise for several trunk lines. The Des Moines Union Tankage Company gains 25 000 a mile to 100 000 a mile reinforcing the surge in corporate property value. The state levy remains 3 4 mills with mixed county adjustments.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Executive Council
Telegraph and Telephone Company
Express Company
Des Moines Union Company
Burlington
Great Western
Milwaukee
Northwestern
Adams
Delaware
Chickasaw
Kossuth
Winnebago
Fremont
Lucas
Madison
Monona
Boone Cedar
Cherokee
Marshall
Montgomery
Muscatine
Polk and
Worth
Johnson, Jones and Hamilton
Ees Seiale
Great Northern
United States
Wells-Fargo
Creston Youth in Chicago Hospital After Jaw Injury
Chas. Scheck, a Creston boy and former Burlington railroad worker, lies dying in a Chicago hospital from a decaying jaw bone caused by a spring street attack by local thugs seeking revenge for his criminal warrant. The assault injured Scheck and a companion, who were attacked on a Creston street.
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Creston
Chas. Scheck
Burlington Railroad
Chicago
Scheck
Cornell Student Jumps From Moving Train in Iowa
A. G. Anderson, a Cornell graduate en route to Cherokee hospital for the insane, jumped from a passenger coach window while the train traveled at forty miles per hour. He landed in the mud and escaped injury, citing overstudy and a nervous breakdown.
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Mason City
A. G. Anderson
Cornell
Cherokee Hospital For
Anderson
Rev W P Ferguson suspended for alleged illicit relations
Former Iowa Wesleyan professor and Methodist minister Rev W P Ferguson, once a university professor in Mt Pleasant Iowa, is suspended from the First Methodist Church of University Place near Lincoln Nebraska over alleged improper relations with a congregant Mrs Kane Cross. The incident followed a powerful sermon he delivered last Sunday morning.
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Iowa Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
W. P. Ferguson
Iowa Wesleyan University
First Methodist Church
University Place
Lincoln
Neb
Kane Cross
Ferguson
Nebraska University Place Charge Ends with Clergy Suspensions
Mrs Cross admitted guilt along with Ferguson after a church board meeting and a two day trial by seven Methodist ministers. Ferguson was suspended yesterday as Mrs Cross, moved by the pastor’s call for clean living, resolved to expose the man who urged others toward virtue. The University Place charge is noted as a major Nebraska ministry.
New Statute Is Hard to Enforce in Iowa Factories
State Factory Inspectors report great trouble enforcing child labor laws as mothers and fathers offer dubious excuses for employing underage children. Muscatine and Des Moines cases show repeated filings, with only four inspectors handling vast statewide duties, prompting calls for more staff and public tips to uncover violations.
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Des Moines
Muscatine
Justice Court
Cownie
State Labor Commission
Labor Commissioner
Brigham
Deputy Ness Attacks Inebriety Institutions at Sheriff Convention
Polk Deputy B. J. Ness of Des Moines sharply criticized the Knoxville inebriate asylum and the new gentlemen inebriate law during a paper at the state sheriffs conference in Cedar Rapids. He called the hospital useless for booze fighters and blasted the statute as nonsensical and incompetent.
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Des Moines
Knoxville
Ile
Ness
Reunion after fifty years renews sister and brother ties
Mrs. Sarah Brown of Cantril Iowa welcomed her brother Lewis Walker for a visit in the past week. The siblings had not seen each other for more than fifty years.
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United After
Century
Cantril
Sarah Brown
Lewis Walker
He Who Realizes His Own Weakness Gains Strength
A concise aphorism stating that recognizing personal weakness is the first step toward building strength. Emphasizes self awareness as a catalyst for improvement.
Mosquitoes Stop Train Near Badgley Iowa
A Minneapolis and St. Louis train stalled for two hours at Badgley as millions of mosquitoes swarmed into open coaches driven by hot weather. Passengers fled and built fires along the track to smudge them away, with many suffering bites before relief.
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Badgley
Iowa
Des Moines
Minneapolis and
St. Louis
Iowa Elope Couple Saga Ends in Jail
Mason City IowaJuly 20 A dozen years after an Iowa elopement George Hi Carver his wife and five children left Lansing with neighbor Will Anderson a baseball player Anderson followed and the affair led to a Colorado elopement Anderson later using the name Adams An Allamakee County indictment for adultery faced by Anderson now jailed after failing to post a $1000 bond The estranged wife is older than the man and tensions run high.
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Mason City
George Hi. Carver
Lansing
Will Anderson
Anderson
Carver
Waucoma
Colorado
Adams
Allamakee County
Denver
Four Heat Deaths Mark Philadelphia Elks Parade
Thousands fainted from heat at the Elks parade in Philadelphia. About one hundred sought hospital care, with four deaths attributed to heat and humidity and roughly a dozen serious cases. All victims were local residents, aided by rapid hospital and emergency medical response.
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Philadelphia
Wife of Late A. W. Lee to Bring Body to America
Ottumwa Iowa July 22 Alfred W. Lee died in Nottingham July 15 while a European voyage with his wife and mother in law. The steamer Virginia carried his body from Liverpool July 16 and is due back to Montreal July 27 likely with interment at Cedar Rapids near his two young sons.
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A. W. Lee
America
Ottumwa
Virginia
Liverpool
England
Alfred W. Lee
W. W. Walker
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Mr. Lee
Nottingham
Montreal
Child Swallows Potato Bug in Carroll
A 3 year old boy in Carroll Iowa swallowed a striped potato bug while playing in a garden with his sister. He became dangerously ill within hours and required a stomach pump to remove the poison or irritant.
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Carroll
W. A. Bedford
Child Saved After Prolonged Illness Restoratives Used
The report notes a child remained alive only through continuous use of restoratives and is now described as well as ever.
Nine Year Old Lad Killed By Mowing Accident
Salem Ta July 20 Little Joe Maxwell nine son of Mr and Mrs Enos Maxwell was driving a mower when lines tangled and horse kicked him under the mower. He suffered a broken leg crushed shoulder and arm and possible internal injuries. He was taken to Keokuk hospital and no word received since.
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Salem
Little Joe
Enos Maxwell
Keokuk
Harlan Doan
Walter Shriner
Ranney Estate Bequeathed to State University for Fine Arts
Mrs Martha Ranney leaves nearly her entire estate valued at 75000 to the State University of Town to establish a college of fine arts in memory of her husband Dr Mark Ranney. The fund will be known as The Mark Ranney Memorial Fund. A small reserve funds care for grave and an annuity for the maid caretaker.
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Towa City
Martha Ranney
State University of Town
Mark Ranney
Mt. Pleasant
University College of Medicine
University
Cowboy rides into town in Cheyenne show causes arrest
In Ottumwa Iowa on July 20 J B Murray a cowboy with the Cheyenne Wild West show rode a pony into three downtown saloons ordering drinks from the saddle. He was arrested for intoxication and pleaded guilty in police court. Judge Kirby released him on promise to refrain while in town.
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Ottumwa
J. B. Murray
Murray
Kirby
Creston Fair Adds Pawnee Bill Wild West Show
Creston Ia July 22 Arrangements by Creston Fair management include Pawnee Bill's Wild West show for the third day of the district fair to protect attendance. The show was to have appeared under its own management on that day.
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Creston
Creston Fair Management
Pawnee
Fortune Awaits Her In Lost Heiress Tale
In Muscatine Iowa on July 20 a Columus Junction woman Mrs Susie Brandt is missing and thought to be in Muscatine. A vast fortune awaiting her is alleged from a father’s bequest with a husband’s death preceding her disappearance. Attorneys seek her through local factories.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Susie Brandt
Columus Junction
Northwestern Engineer Killed in Collision
Oskaloosa Iowa July 20 Engineer Will Elliott of the Northwestern was killed in a rear end collision near Belle Plaine yesterday morning.
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Northwestern
Oskaloosa
Will Elliott
The
Belle Plaine
Ottumwa Elk Prostrated By Heat In Procession
In Philadelphia during the Elks procession on July 18 A H Nelson of Ottumwa was overcome by heat and is hospitalized at Jefferson Hospital.
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Ottumwa
Philadelphia
A. H. Nelson
Jefferson Hospital
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Tk Island
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River
U. S
College of Fine Arts
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