Iowa lawmakers discuss life insurance reform bills
Sioux City Iowa October news reports the general assembly will consider two bills to cleanse life insurance practices. One ends deferred dividends by mandating periodic profit distributions to policyholders. The other would place premium funds under state oversight and require Iowa investments. Representative C N Jepson says the measures will likely be enacted this winter and plans to introduce them.
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Sioux City
General Assembly of
Iowa
Assembly
C. N. Jepson
Woodbury County
Insurance Committee
Jepson
New Discovery Advertised By Local Druggist
Full of tragic meaning these lines from J. H. Simmons of Casey Indiana recount a terrible cough. He claims Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds cured him and relieves throat and lung diseases. Sold by Frank S Shriner druggist with trial bottle free. Oct.
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J. H. Simmons
Casey
Dr. King
Frank S. Shriner
Fire at Salem: two blazes devastate home and depot
Salem Ia Oct 23 fires both home of Milo Fenn owned by Mrs Cramer and a Burlington depot burned within hours. Fire crews saved most Fenn belongings but damage approx 800 dollars. depot fire destroyed passenger office and trunks, typewriter and tools. Suspected incendiary activity voiced by witnesses.
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Cramer
Burlington Depot
Salem
Milo Fenn
Farmington
Jones
Threatening letter from Black Hand targets mayor
Mayor Inkledue of Marshalltown Iowa received a letter signed K K K Black Hand threatening his life for official acts. The note demands his resignation within a month or the threat will be carried out.
Woman Slays Officer During Attempted Writ Service
Cedar Rapids Iowa Oct 23 Constable Pete Martin of Mation was shot in Cedar Rapids while serving a writ and removing furniture from a home. Martin a 15 year veteran and Civil War veteran, leaves an invalid wife and six grown children. Mrs Zetta Eckles fired twice one shot to the heart and another into the ceiling before Martin died.
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Pete Martin
Cedar Rapids
Mation
Cedar
Zetta Eckles
Odd Fellows to Build $45,000 Orphans Home in Mason City
Cedar Rapids reports the Iowa Odd Fellows convention votes a $45,000 appropriation for a new orphans home to be erected at Mason City. A 50 cent per member tax will fund the project. A committee will study plans for a home for aged dependents south of the Chicago Northwestern line. next meeting at Dubuque.
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Iowa Odd Fellows
Cedar Rapids
Odd Fellows
Mason City
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Iowa Lodge
Dubuque
Iowa Dairy Lead Promised In State Report
Des Moines reports State Dairy Commissioner H R Wright will argue in the forthcoming biennial report that Iowa is a dairy state far beyond cattle feeding. Auditor figures show cows and heifers surpass other cattle in value, with $30,288,802 for cows three years and over and $41,268,965 for cows and heifers one to two years, while all other cattle total $30,369,874.
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Iowa
Des Moines
H. R. Wright
Auditor’s Office
Gas at 35 Cents a Thousand Near Letts Iowa
Gas in paying quantities found north of Letts on the C N Grosean farm. By sinking six wells gas will supply surrounding country and cities and factories. Letts lies at the center of the gas region with wells within six miles. Gas could be piped to Muscatine for 35 cents per thousand, but local use at Letts would be cheaper without piping.
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Letts
Iowa
C. N. Grosean
Muscatine
Centerville Mine Burns in Iowa Burned Section
Centerville Relay Mine No 3 of Centerville Black Coal Co suffered a night fire destroying part of the workings. Loss about 5000 dollars insured by the New York Underwriters. Rebuilding started today leaving 200 miners idle until completion.
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Centerville
Centerville Black Coal Co
New York
Jury Finds Dunning Not Guilty in Fraud Case
Creston Iowa October 23 jury retires after arguments in the fraudulent banking case against Clyde Dunning of Mt. Ayr and returns a not guilty verdict at 7:45 p m.
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Dunning
Creston
Clyde Dunning
Mt. Ayr
Des Moines Man Kills Self to Help Family
Disheartened by failure to keep up payments on a home Robert Phillips shot himself to death so his wife could claim his life insurance benefits. The tragedy occurred in Des Moines Iowa on October 23.
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Des Moines
Robert Phillips
Former Iowan killed in Santa Fe wreck in New Mexico
Grundy Center Iowa October 23 Arthur Wagner once a Grundy Center businessman died in a railroad wreck on the Santa Fe line in New Mexico. He was the sole fatality in the accident caused by spreading rails.
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New Mexico
Grundy Center
Arthur Wagner
Santa Fe
Rock Island Sells Homeseekers Excursion Tickets
Rock Island announces cheap Homeseekers excursion tickets to the southwest at 75 percent of the usual round trip rate on October 17 November 7 21 and December 5 19. The sale makes a lower fare than any prior offer. For details contact the railroad at the address provided.
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Rock Island
Pioneer Iowan W B Arnold Dies Sudden at 76
Okoboji October 21 W B Arnold pioneer Iowan and founder of Arnolds park died of heart disease while painting his pool hall yesterday. His body was found on the back porch. He was 76, very wealthy, owning a large hotel at Lake Okoboji a row of stores amusement venues a boat line and a lighting plant. Arnold had lived in Okoboji forty years.
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Okoboji
W. B. Arnold
Winder Leaves 30000 to Baptist Home Mission Society
Colfax resident W. A. Winder a wealthy church member leaves thirty thousand dollars to the Baptist Home Missionary Society in his will. He is survived by a wife and no children.
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W. A. Winder
Colfax
The
Baptist Church
Baptist Home Missionary Society
Mr. Winder
Iowa Presbyterians Ban Marrying Divorced Persons
Iowa Presbyterians adopt strong resolutions prohibiting ministers from marrying divorced persons with strict standards. The assembly urges adherence to rules on marriage and divorce and advises ministers to refuse such marriages unless the innocent party and a one year period after divorce are satisfied. The next convention is set for Vinton.
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Iowa Presbyterians
Cedar Rapids
Buffalo
Inter-Church Conference
Vinton
With You in a Deserted Place Verse Entry
A stark poem fragment imagines a level grassless expanse turned paradise with you A hut in a deserted space a sodhouse in a lonely place an island by unknown seas and a Chicago flat with hash and tough steak amid austere surroundings
Whist Tale Packs Kings and Ace in Chicago Style
A man describes returning from a trip and boasting of playing whist with a king. The listener retorts that four kings and an ace beat that, in a sharp Chicago Journal exchange about card games and bragging.
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Chicago Journal
How to Cure Corns and Bunions
How to treat corns and bunions with soaking and careful paring. Apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice daily for five minutes per use. Wear a corn plaster for protection and use Pain Balm as a general liniment for sprains bruises lameness and rheumatism sold by Frank S Shriner October.
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Chamberlain
Frank S. Shriner
Wife of Dubuque Player Tries Death by Carbolic Acid
Mrs George Klack wife of a Dubuque ball player drank two ounces of carbolic acid in a personal crisis today and may die Domestic troubles were alleged as the cause in Dubuque Iowa on Oct 23.
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Dubuque
Dubuque, Towa
George Klack
Notice to heirs and claimants over land in Iowa case
State of Iowa Jefferson County to Thomas Berry Margaret Berry Platena Kauffman Ora Berry John Berry Lizzie Berry Samuel Berry William Berry heirs at law of Samuel Taylor Berry and devisees executor administrator and unknown claimants of the West half of the Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section seven Township 72 Range eight contending over 20 acres. You are notified that on or before November 16.
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State of
Iowa
Jefferson County
Thomas Berry
Margaret Berry
Platena Kauffman
Ora Berry
John Berry
Lizzie Berry
Samuel Berry
William Berry
Samuel Taylor Berry
Hamlins Seek Title to West Half of Quarter Section in Jefferson County
Fred A Hamlin and Mary F Hamlin file a petition in Jefferson County Iowa seeking to quiet title to the West half of the Southwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section 7 Township 72 North Range 8 West totaling 20 acres. They claim 57 years of adverse possession and note a prior 1848 deed to Joseph Berry mis drawn. The suit names heirs of Samuel Taylor Berry as unknown except Platena Kauffman of Iowa. If not answered by November 27 1905 default will be entered. Attorney I D Jones represents plaintiffs. The notice was ordered to be published six weeks in the Fairfield Tribune.
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A. D
District Court
Jefferson County
State of
Iowa
Fred A. Hamlin
Mary F. Hamlin
Samuel Taylor Berry
Maria
Joseph Berry
Platena Kauffman
West
Township
Fairfield
I. D. Jones
Fairfield Tribune
Western trains schedules and Golden State Limited notes
The clipping lists westbound and eastbound train numbers and times including No 3 DGhY No 29 Calif Fast Mail No 11 Daily No 43 Golden State Ltd No 71 Freight daily except Sunday and corresponding eastbound trains No 4 Daily No 30 Daily No 1a Daily No 44 Golden State Ltd No 72 Freight daily except Sunday with remarks that the Golden State Limited stops only for El Paso and west points.
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Chicago Express
Burlington and
Peoria
Golden State Ltd
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