Centervillefraud case ties W G Clark to local invest firm
Appanoose County residents confront alleged cases of lengthy fraud tied to W G Clark of the Clark Peatman company. The firm allegedly used client funds to loan, misposted mortgage payments, and paid investors with new money while hush money kept the scheme hidden. Indictments loom as public confidence erodes and Clark faces exposure after thirty years.
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Appanoose County
Iowa
Ces
W. M. Peatman
Oregon
Clark
Ifle
Miss Edith Vogt Found Dead in Lake Washington
Le Mars Iowa May 25 Advices from Seattle report the finding of Edith Vogt body in Lake Washington Seattle college coed missing for several days. Evidence suggests murder or accident possibly linked to a love affair. Her father James Vogt was a former postmaster at Le Mars The family left years ago Edith about 22 handsome and well known details follow after days of searching
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le Mars
Seattle
Wash
Edith Vogt
Lake Washington
Seattle College
James Vogt
Cleveland
Edith
Farmington Hit Hard by Cloudburst Flooding
Farmington Iowa reports a severe cloudburst last night with nearly a foot of rain from 7:30 to 10:30. Cellars flooded and crops damaged while country roads bridges and culverts suffered. Rock Island line between Farmington and Croton washed out almost the entire distance halting trains. Ottumwa trains reach Bonaparte and return north.
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Farmington
Rock Island
Croton
Ottumwa
Bonaparte
Run Away With the Circus at Carroll Iowa
Two ten year old Omaha boys sought work with Gentry Bros. circus in Carroll. After being refused they cried and asked to go home. Marshal Chambers held the youths and notified their parents who immediately wired tickets for their return.
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Carroll
Omaha
Gentry Bros
Marshal Chambers
Made Insane By Fakir In Nichols Muskateine Incident
James A. Chambers, a wealthy Nichols farmer, barricaded his house and loaded artillery after a clairvoyant prophesied a three man plot to kill him. Enticed to Muscatine, he was deemed insane and to be sent to Mt. Pleasant asylum. The con artist fleeced him for $50.
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Fakir
Muscatine
James A. Chambers
Nichols
Mt. Pleasant
Tragic 14 Year Old Girl Falls From Muscatine Bridge
In Muscatine Iowa on May 25 a 14 year old girl Miss Cozette Kepple daughter of a wealthy resident died by suicide after a quarrel with her 16 year old lover Des mond Vanatta. A search for her body continued as the swift river current hampered recovery.
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Muscatine
Cozette Kepple
Mississippi River
Miss Kepple
Electric Park
Desmond Vanatta
Friend's pursuit ends in Iowa suicide tragedy
In Oelwein Iowa May 25 Charles Ward trailed his friend Thomas McGuire for an hour fearing a self inflicted death. McGuire aged 34 drew a pistol from his pocket and fired twice killing himself near Hawkeye. Ward arrived too late to intervene and Coroner J J Cole held an inquest.
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Oelwein
Charles Ward
Thomas McGuire
Hawkeye
McGuire
Ward
J. J. Cole
Deserts Wife for Nurse Girl in Ot tumwa
Mrs Emma Shanahan pleads with police to find her husband Robert Q Shanahan who has been away ten days. She accuses him of abandoning home life for an infatuation with Pearl Putnam a nurse at the Cottage hospital in Creston Iowa May 27 report notes the missing husband.
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Ottumwa
Emma Shanahan
Robert Q. Shanahan
Injured railroad man linked to alleged infatuation
Shanahan, a Creston yards worker, lost a leg after an accident at the Cottage hospital. Mrs. Shanahan accuses him of an attachment to Miss Putnam during sickness, while police note he left hospital and returned to Ottumwa. She may pursue wife desertion if he cannot be located.
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Shanahan
Creston
Cottage Hospital
Ottumwa
Five Cornell Professors Quit in Resignations
Mt. Vernon Ia May 26 Five professors will resign from the faculty of Cornell university at the end of the present school year. It is not known if the resignations stem from the trustees dispute and student dissent over fraternity membership.
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Cornell
Mt. Vernon
Cornell University
Farmer Hurt in Murray Colt Accident
Murray Iowa May 25 John Watson a farmer eight miles southwest of Murray was thrown from a wagon while helping break a colt. He sustained a fractured ankle in the mishap occurring last evening, with his injuries reportedly serious.
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Murray
John Watson
Boy Burned to Death Near Hopkinton Farm
Hopkinton Iowa May 24 Lloyd Huggins three year old son of Mr and Mrs Mel Huggins living west of town was burned to death on the farm. His clothing caught fire near a brush pile and before aid could reach him he fell into glowing coals dying several hours later in terrible agony.
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Hopkinton
Lloyd
Mel Huggins
Farmer fatally injured by auto near Beaman in Vienna township
William Rying a Beaman area farmer was struck on a public road by an unknown driver Saturday and hurled thirty feet. Details on the auto remain unavailable as authorities seek the vehicle and operator.
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Marshalltown
William Rying
Beaman
Vienna Township
Tragic shotgun accident kills nine year old Sudbrac
Middletown Louisiana May 24 nine year old John Sudbrac died instantly when a shotgun discharged while he and Frank Elliott played in a vacant house near Elliott home. No witness to the moment, coroner exempt from inquest. family poverty noted. others ill with measles. Elliott family mourns. whisky sale alleged in broader local trouble.
Inebriate father confesses to feeding son alcohol
Mason City Iowa May 24 One of the most startling stories of depravity was revealed by the Associated Charities G W Wood an inebriate confessed to making his little son seven years old drunk and keeping him that way for days Ladies of the Associated Charities visited the Wood home and found the child starving
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G. W. Woods
Mason City
Associated Charities
G. W. Wood
Wood Home
Sunday accepts Sioux Falls revival visit for next year
Dr Frank Fox, pastor of Sioux Falls Congregational church, reports evangelist Billy Sunday has accepted the invitation to visit Sioux Falls. He cannot come this year but will arrive in the latter part of March next year for a series of revival meetings long contemplated by local church people.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Frank Fox
Billy” Sunday
Grandview Man Falls From Moving Train to Death
Muscatine Iowa May 24 Thomas Nevins a Grandview resident lost balance on a train trestle and fell forty feet into mud dying before witnesses on board noticed. His body lay hidden until a rowboat pair spotted it later. He is son of Patrick Nevins who a year earlier was found burned to death in his cottage in a presumed robbery murder.
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Muscatine
Thomas Nevins
Grandview
Patrick Nevins
High School Girl Elopes in Rock Island Affair
Miss Josephine Ostrander a 17 year old junior at Muscatine High School eloped to Rock Island with Walter Harrington also 17 and married there. They planned a secret until January after her graduation, but the license appeared in a Rock Island paper revealing the union. The girl is noted as among the prettiest and most popular in her school and classmates reacted with consternation.
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Muscatine
Josephine Ostrander
Rock Island
Walter Harrington
Rock Island Paper
Fraser Citizens In Running Fight Over Barber Shop Clash
In Fraser Boone County May 24 a barber shop duel between William Coleman and Elkhorn Billy Phipps ended with assault and battery charges. Coleman struck Phipps with a hook and Phipps drew a knife, prompting a chase through Fraser. A shovel enabled Coleman to strike at Phipps neck, but bystanders intervened and the fight was declared a draw. Both men later made peace.
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Boone
Fraser
William Coleman
Elkhorn
Billy Phipps
Coleman
Phipps
Elkhorn Billy
Pat Crowe Acquitted In Iowa Robbery Case
Pat Crowe was acquitted by a district court jury in Council Bluffs Iowa of holding up two street cars and robbing crews two years ago. A key witness testified Crowe was not one of the masked robbers, ending the last criminal charge against the man once linked to the E A Cudahy kidnapping case in Omaha.
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Pat Crowe
Council Bluffs
Iowa
District Court
Crowe
E. A. Cudahy
Omaha
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Hart Schaffner
Marx
Appanoose County Vms
Ker W. G. Clark
W. G. Clark
Atman Company
Centerville
Clark & Peatman Impany
Acts
Gobble & Heer
Len
Young John Sudbrac
Middletown
John Sudbrac
A. H. Sudbrac
Frank Elliott
Tornado School
Elliott
Sudbrac
Wood
McConlogue
Knoxville
Fraser Citizens
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