Fortune in His Casket for Richard Dept Store Owner
The body of Richard, a wealthy department store owner who died last week, lies in a bronze coffin with $100,000 in waistcoat pearls and gems. Executors order burial with him. The coffin is ornate and heavy, carried by fourteen men. An unrelated testimonial from J W Lewis of Nichols Iowa praises Dr Shallenberger for curing piles without surgery.
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Aris
Uchard
Detment
Legion of ‘Honor
Chauchard
Social notes from Ottumwa and surrounding towns
A roundup of visitors and residents in Ottumwa and nearby towns includes Mr. and Mrs. Miles Bradford of Collett hosting friends, Miss Anna Larson visiting Des Moines, Mrs. Mary Wilson to Monmouth NL, Misses Sappenfield in Davenport, and many others visiting relatives, attending weddings, or traveling to cities like Chicago Des Moines and Ottumwa for extended stays, trips and social events.
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Miles Bradford
Collett
Fairfield
Anna Larson
Des Moines
Mary Wilson
Monmouth
Walter Motsinger
Davenport
Sappenfield
Kate Freshwater
Mt. Pleasant
S. J. Morris
C. E. George
W. D. Morris
Anna
Fern Sappenfield
Charles Gabbert
Cochran
West Burlington Street
New London
Fry Copeland
Voorhies
West Jefferson Street
R. 5
McKee
Charles
Ottumwa
Alice McElhaney
Chicago
Glendora Waters
Iva Scheffel
Mary Gren
Los Angeles
Cala
Gustison
S. S. van Buren
Charles Robinson
Omaha
Maddox
West Broadway
N. C. Anstead
Abingdon
Mary Harkness
New Orleans
Earl Tinsley
Hoagland
J. E. Johnson
Oxford Junction
LaRue Barnett
Mt. Zion
H. D. Thomas
Volney
Canada
Olive Williams
Jimmie Predicts Family Looks For New Baby
Jimmie fears the new baby will inherit everyone’s traits and jokes the infant has his grandpa’s teeth. The visitor notes the child arrived last Tuesday night and resembles no one yet, prompting more light banter about family features.
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Jimmie
Sarah
Des Moines Drowning Issue Sparks City Ordinance Push
Dubuque Times Journal reports the Des Moines city council plans to regulate boating after numerous drownings. The proposed rules ban youths under nineteen from the river without a guardian and require life preservers and a swimming attendant aboard launches.
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Dubuque
Neptune
Gambrinus
Strange Regimental Customs of Twelfth Lancers
An English regiment, the Twelfth Lancers, keeps a nightly ritual after the Last Post by playing three melodies the Vesper hymn the Spanish chant and the Russian national anthem. The Vesper hymn began after an officer's wife gifted instruments with the condition that the hymn be played every night. The Spanish chant is a penance for the sack of a convent during the Peninsular War. No reason is given for the Russian anthem.
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Twelfth Lancers
Paris Omnibus Row Ends At Police Station
A Paris omnibus crew and passengers including a young woman an old man a small dog and the conductor clashed after a remark about the dog. The dispute led to a free fight and the entire party went to a police station where all names were recorded causing the omnibus to arrive two hours late.
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Paris
Iowa Town Wrecked by 200-Pound Dynamite Blast
Waterloo Iowa reports a large dynamite explosion last night destroying a structure. Police investigate motives and source while residents assess damage. No injuries reported as authorities secure the scene and search for clues.
Optometrist J E Gribbin Serves Fairfield Patients
J E Gribbin, a Fairfield optometrist with an office above Higley's Drug Store on East Side Square, specializes in correcting eye defects with lenses. He guarantees satisfaction and will not take payment from glasses that do not benefit the wearer, inviting those unsuccessfully fitted elsewhere to try his services. He devotes his full time to the profession, uses no drugs, and offers reasonable prices.
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Fairfield
Higley
East Side Square
J. E. Gribbin
Fredericksburg Business District Incident Injures Score
A disturbance in Fredericksburg's business district leaves a score of people injured as authorities respond. Investigations continue into the causes and those affected are receiving aid.
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Fredericksburg
Finds a Friend in Court Head Noted by Justice Harlan
A West Virginia circuit session in which Justice Harlan presided featured a lawyer with a bald head who asked for a drafty window to be closed. The judge replied with a courtesy remark, noting he shared the same head condition.
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Justice Harlan
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Mr. Harlan
Corner Stone Laid for Keokuk County Court House
The corner stone of Keokuk county's new 150000 dollar courthouse was laid Thursday in a Masonic ceremony led by officers of the Iowa Grand Lodge. A large crowd gathered despite poor weather. Rev. Charles W. Wilson of What Cheer delivered the oration.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Masonic
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Iowa
Charles W. Wilson
DeWitts Little Early Risers Liver Pills Sold by Shriner
A brief note praises DeWitts Little Early Risers as the famous small gentle liver pills with a reputation. The pills are sold by Frank S. Shriner's drug store in June.
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DeWitt
Frank S. Shriner
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Workman-Raney
William
Robert Louden
Mabel Sandiland
Emerson
Parsons College
Rev. T. S. Pool
Lowa Wesleyan Theological School
T. B. Turner
Corning
Charles D. Leggett
Iowa City
Leggett
Law Department
The
State University
Dillon Carter
Kansas
Haze White
Bernice
Mankato
G. W. White
West Kirkwood Street
W. Fordyce
J. A. Roth
Burlington
Frank Liblin
Mae Kierns
Julia Edwards
Manatrey
East Burlington
Stamp
Seymour
F. H.hopkinson
James Templeton
Thomas Osborn
Helen
Muscatine
Richard Hughes
Ray Kirkpatrick
Edgewood
Alice Frasher
Nellie Turner
W. F. Bevering
Virginia
Beckwith
Jessie Whitaker
W. W. Whitaker
East Lowe Street
May Scott
Ypsilanti
Council Bluffs
Bruce Russell
Herring Grocery Company
Colorado
Clinton Unkrich
Ruth Colby
Savana
Missouri
Batistes
Corbetts
Waterloo
J E. Gribbin
Optometrist
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