Louden Dairy Show Exhibit Tops Milwaukee Display
The Louden Machinery Company in Milwaukee presents what local observers call the finest dairy and barn equipment exhibit at the national dairy show. The display centers the arena with a full line of London goods and a massive revolving sign bearing US and Canadian flags among others, drawing crowds from across the United States and Europe.
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Louden Machinery Company
Fional
Sesn
Milwaukee
Ich
United States
Europe
Canada
A. H. Neller
Georgetephens
Facory
H. M. Miller
R. B. Louden
William Loulen
Chicago
Louden Company
Short Course Directors Meet to Plan December Session
The Short Course directors will convene in Fairfield's Library Building on October 23 at 1 30 p m to perfect December session plans. The group expects strong ticket sales and growth over last year as Iowa expands support and emphasizes attendee benefits. Theo Hochuly serves as secretary and urges full director attendance.
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Fairfield
Iowa
Theo Hochuly
Cook plans Mt McKinley ascent expedition
New York report says Dr. Frederick A. Cook announced he has organized an expedition to reclaim Mt. McKinley Peak. Details on dates and team were not disclosed in the brief statement.
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Cook
MT. Mckinley Peak
New York
Frederick A. Cook
AJTO Kills Boy Showing Courage
George Iowa Oct 20 Reinhard Schmidt six year old son of Dick Schmidt was killed when he was struck by a lamp on a passing auto. A E Leach and family of Millbank South Dakota were in the car. Witnesses say the driver did all possible to avoid the collision as the boys crowded the street hoping to display courage.
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Schmidt
Leach
Iowa Bakers Plan Dubuque Meeting and Flour Tests
The Iowa Association of Master Bakers executive committee selected Dubuque as the next meeting place and February’s second week as the date. W H Kern of Davenport met with A B Storms at Iowa College to discuss flour tests in the college lab. Bakers oppose bleaching flour and warn it allows use of inferior wheat, though they deny any stake in the practice.
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Bluffs
Iowa
Iowa Association of Master Bakers
Dubuque
W. H. Kern
Davenport
Ames
A. B. Storms
Iowa College
Fairfield High School Loses To Burlington 12 to 6
Fairfield High School met Burlington in a hard fought game at Burlington last Saturday. The Fairfield eleven, meeting its old rival, fell behind but fought hard to the end, with the hosts winning 12 to 6 after inflicting and absorbing heavy line smashing plays. No forward pass or outside kick scored.
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Burlington
Fairfield High School
Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington High School
Fairfield
Department of Manual Training Begins in Fairfield Schools
This article hails the new manual training department led by F. E. Hiler in Fairfield public schools. Pupils from sixth to eighth grade have two weeks of five sessions each, with High School boys in three weekly periods. The shop houses twenty tool sets and benches, aims to broaden faculties through tool use, drawing, blueprints, and pattern making, and emphasizes practical articles for daily life.
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Fairfield
F. E. Hiler
Mr. Hiler
Hamer
Hackett Sues Wife Over Premarital Property Claim
Joplin Missouri reports William H Hackett a mine operator sues Susan Rebecca Meltzer Hackett to divest her of title to real estate and mining stock he says he conveyed before their March 9 1909 marriage in a Jasper county circuit court hearing set for January 1910.
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Joplin, Mo
William H. Hackett
Joplin
Susan Rebecca Meltzer Hackett
Jasper County
Hackett
Cook Cancels Lectures to Compile Arctic Data
Dr. F A Cook the arctic explorer announced at a New York dinner that he will cancel engagements to gather data for Copenhagen University and other societies. He denied hiring an attorney against former guide Edward Barrill over a Mount McKinley summit dispute and noted a possible free lecture in Hamilton Montana. He expected to submit completed records to Copenhagen University in two to three months.
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Mount McKinley
Edward N. Barrill
Dr. Cook
New York
Board of Aldermen
Cook
Mount
Barrill
F. A. Cook
University At
Copenhagen
Danes Society of
Edward Barrill
Barill
Paralyzed by a fall at the depot steps
Grant Brown of Letts was seriously injured Monday night when he tumbled down depot steps in darkness and struck a railroad track. He remained unconscious until this morning and has lost use of his left side. His brother Charles ferried him home to Letts.
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Columbus Junction
Iowa
Grant Brown
Letts
Charles
Fredonia
Priest Adriaan VanHulst Found Dead in Chicago
Rev Adriaan N VanHulst aged 93 one of the United States oldest priests was found dead in his room at St Venus college Chicago by accidental asphyxiation He was ordained in 1839 served as a mathematics professor at St Louis University and decades of charitable work in Chicago are noted
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Chicago
Adriaan N. VanHulst
United ‘States
St. Venatus College
St. Louis University
St. Louis
Tall women win usher posts at Philadelphia opera house
Fifty tall young women applied for usher jobs at the Philadelphia Opera House yesterday afternoon and thirty were hired for the coming season. Oscar Hammerstein sought tall staff to be seen in crowds. many applicants over six feet tall competed.
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Philadelphia
Opera House
Oscar Hammerstein
Mehuis Sentenced to Thirty Years for Attempted Murder
LeMars Iowa October 19 Judge Mould in district court sentenced Caspar Mehuis to thirty years in the penitentiary for attempted murder of Anna Weagles a 17 year old girl on April 14 He pleaded guilty after firing five shots into her body following her refusal of his attentions.
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LeMars
Iowa
Mould
Caspar Mehuis
Mehuis
Anna Weagles
Lost jewelry worth five thousand in Boone incident
Mrs John Reynolds wife of the Boone Electric company manager says she left a handbag with jewelry worth five thousand dollars at the Boone station of the Northwestern road during a trip to Clinton and Chicago. Despite a liberal reward no trace has been found.
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John Reynolds of
Boone
Boone, Ia
John Reynolds
Boone Electric Company
Clinton
Chicago
Boone Station
Northwestern Road
Deserted Pal for 200 Dollars in Labor Day Murder
Charles Rastus Johnson, a Black man, surrendered to police in Des Moines Iowa after a fellow tramp reported his confession to killing his brother in law at Harrisburg Illinois on Labor Day. Johnson's friend claimed the crime for a $200 reward.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rastus Johnson
Harrisburg
Johnson
Sewer Plan Blocked by One Negative Vote
The city council defeated a proposal to contract for sewer plan specifications with Iowa Engineering due to one negative vote by Councilman Healy. Absent members G. Y. Ross and Ellsworth Turney left the measure awaiting their return. debate centered on sewer disposal needs and the $1,600 cost.
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Town Engineering Company
G. Y. Ross
Ellsworth Turney
Iowa Engineering Company
Healy
the Tribune
Clarke
Council insists on exhaustive survey per contract terms
The council maintains that only a full survey like the one contemplated in the contract with Iowa Engineering Co can determine the needed outcome. This stance emphasizes adherence to the contractual scope and calls for a comprehensive assessment.
Iowa University Unearths More Skeletons From Past Eras
Fragments of fossilized skeletons of three elephant types and two mastodons are added to the Iowa State geological survey collection. Camels, wild horses, and other specimens were exhumed in Harrison Woodbury and Pottawattamie counties. The animals were once common in South America Asia and Siberia.
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Iowa City
Samuel Calvin
Iowa State Geological Survey
Harrison
Woodbury
Pottawattamie
South America
Asia
Siberia
Old-Fashioned Musket Found Near Raccoon River
Isaac Parris found a flintlock musket near Lake City Iowa dated to early 1800s. The wood stock rotted but the iron remains intact, suggesting a trapper or hunter’s weapon possibly lost before 1830. locals doubt earlier settlers owned such guns. it may be donated to a historical society.
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Lake City
Iowa
Isaac Parris
Raccoon River
Domestic Science Short Course Meeting Friday
The Domestic Science department will meet in the library Friday afternoon October 22 at 2 30. The meeting is important and women of Fairfield and Jefferson County are urged to attend.
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Fairfield
Jefferson County
Sunday Smoke Up Tests Sunday Closing Law
Amos Smith of New Chicago was fined $1 for selling one cigar in a Sunday case. He appealed to the district court, with the matter seen as a test of strict Sabbath observance and the city’s Sunday closing enforcement. The defense argued cigars aid a smoker as meals do, while prosecutors said the sale violated the Sunday law and would decide enforcement in Jefferson county.
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Amos Smith
New Chicago
Sunady
Court of Justice
A. W. Jaques
District Court
Jefferson County
Marriage Licenses Listed for Spur and Lindsay
Andrew R. Spur of Fairfield aged 47 and Elizabeth Lindsay of Brighton aged 37 appear in marriage license records confirming their intended union.
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Andrew R. Spur
Fairfield
Elizabeth Lindsay
Brighton
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