Iowa Happenings Tales of Parslows in Missouri River Search
Sheriff Hock of Logan County Iowa pursues a murder and escape case tied to the Parslow brothers Ernest and Charles. Found dead in the Missouri River near Korene and an escaped cutoff on a Missouri River bank, the pair had prior burglary sentences in Fort Madison and Fairfield. A notebook photo of their grandparents aids the investigation. The letters and envelope link Davenport and Clinton connections. Ernest is 31, Charles 33, from a respectable Iowa family.
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Marshal Patelwr
Missouri Valles
Ernest Parslow
Misnouri
Korenes
Hock
Logan
Charles Parslow
Miscouri
Sindbac
Fort, Madison
Fairfield
Sheriff Rock
Marshal Butcher
Davenport
Charles
Clinton
Ernest
Ripley Street
Iowa
Monuments Promise Dedication At Lott Shaft Site
The Lott shaft dedication is set for September 10 near Stratford in Vegers cemetery. The project honors Mrs. Henry Lott, the first white woman to die in Hamilton and Webster counties, with a dedicatory address by Professor F C Runkle of Elsworth.
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Vegers
Stratford
Henry Lott
Old Settlers’ Association
Professor Runkle
James Bell
Surviving Fern Johnson Sues Northwestern for 40000
Fern Johnson, sole heir of the A F Johnson estate of Akron, sues Northwestern for 40000 over an August 9 Galva auto crash. Attorneys M White of Ida Grove and A Yeaton of Akron represent the survivor. the case hinges on whether the Galva crossing required extraordinary care beyond standard signals and precautions. The suit follows a coroner inquest and involves Chicago photographers and railroad officials. Fern Johnson, hospitalized in Sioux City, inherits a complex estate from earlier relatives who died after the crash.
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Northwestern
M. White
Ida Grove
A. Yeaton
Akron
Fern Johnson
A. F. Johnson
Galva
A. A. McLaughlin
Des Moines
Clarin Avent Lewis
Chicago
Lex
Morrison
Het
Dorothy
Florence
Fern
Moville
St. Joseph's Hospital
Sioux City
Johnson
Trouble at Muscatine unions threaten broad strike
Action by the Muscatine button workers union plans to name committees to levy relief assessments on members across factories. Manufacturers oppose the move. Union business agent O C Wilson warns opposition will trigger a walkout. An unlawful assembly at the McKee and Bliven plant involved about 100 people restraining four women who sought refuge in a nearby home.
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Muscatine
O. C. Wilson
McKee & Bliven
McKee
HER LOVER FAILS TO APPEAR IN BURLINGTON
Linn County girl Birdie Trimble, sixteen, wandered Burlington after police picked her up. neighbor Fred Oliphant, twenty three, bought her ticket and promised marriage but did not appear. Her father will come for her. Also notes on a Glenwood teachers’ institute and assorted local items.
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Linn County
Burlington
Birdie Trimble
Woddville
Fred Oliphant
Oliphant
Borden Leads Canadian Conservative Party Leader Speaks Against Reciprocity
R L Borden opposition leader of the dissolved Canadian house heads the Conservative party. In a recent speech he claims reciprocity with the United States is a step toward Canada’s annexation and cites Taft on Canada at the parting of the ways. Borden, K C, represents Halifax in the Canadian parliament. born 1854 in Grand Pre Nova Scotia. studied law and became king's counsel in 1890. entered parliament in 1896 and became Conservative leader in 1905.
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R. L. Borden
House of Commons
Conservative
Canada
Liberal Party
United States
Borden
Taft
Robert Laird Borden
K. C
Halifax
Grand Pre
N. 8
Acadia Villa Institute
Glenwood Institute
New Jersey
Nova Scotia
King’s Counsel
Conservative Party
Charles Tupper
Vardaman to Succeed Percy as Mississippi Senator
Mississippi politics shake out as James K. Vardaman wins the primary and is likely to fill the remaining year of the late A. J. McLaurin’s term and the subsequent six-year period. Leroy G. Percy plans to resign when the legislature meets in January, clearing the path for Vardaman. Vardaman, born in Texas, rose from Mississippi farm work to law, served as state speaker, and led in Cuba as a major during the Spanish American War. Women in Colorado vote 43 percent of total despite being outnumbered by men by 30,000.
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Mississippi
James K. Vardaman
United States
Leroy GC. Percy
A. J. McLaurin
Percy
Vardaman
Janes K. Vardaman
John Sharp Willams
Vita
Sematoe Vardwaman
Texas
Dubbs Fiftiheth
Cuba
Santiago
Edward Taylor
Congress
Colorado
Taylor
Harriman Official Comments on Possible Strike
Juling Kruttschnitt vice president of Harriman railway system visits Omaha en route to San Francisco. He says a strike is up to the men and not being sought by management and declines to discuss federation demands. In Chicago a gunpoint robbery leads to a chase and capture of Kitty Kinski and Paul Mawroi after a revolver fight.
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San Francisco
Juling Kruttschnitt
Harriman
Aries
Omaha
West
Arriman
Mr. Kriuttschnitt
Federated Labor Organizations
Mr. Kruttschnitt
Chicago
Castmer Kranz
Kitty Kinski
Paul Mawroi
Triple Murderer Confesses in Boonville Fire
William Lee aged twenty two confessed to killing his father Richard Lee mother and younger brother Clarence at their Boonville Indiana home and setting it ablaze to hide the crime His motive was anger over his parents not consenting to his marriage with Mina Taxlor
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Wiliam Lee
Richard Lee
Clarence
Boonville
Ind
Lee
Mina Taxlor
Child Killed by Tombstone at Woodland Cemetery Des Moines
Margaret McAnniff, only daughter of Charles McAnniff, died at Mercy Hospital after a tombstone fell upon her while she waved near Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines. The incident occurred as her gathering party moved through the area, and she had been taken to hospital following the injury.
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Margaret McAnnif
Charles McAnniff
Mercy Hospital
Woodland Cemetery
Des Moines
Coxton
Unclear crime report on factory belt accident and death
A damaged OCR fragment describes a factory incident involving a knife on a blower belt. A splice failed, the blade injured a bystander, and the worker died. The text mentions a supervisor Tony Crags and a rector at an observatory, with garbled place names and dates.
Still College to Be Closed and Sold at Auction
Still College at Astenpnarey will be permanently closed and sold at auction on Sept 18 by the board of trustees faculty and Mr L Taylor president. The college property at Fourteenth and Locust and the general hospital at East Twelfth and Nes Moine Streets will be included in the sheriff sale at Des Moines. Hasn't Had It All Bit And you say he's got a past Jill Indeed he has but he's got something coming to him yet You very Atatesman.
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Still College
Astenpnarey
Ben
Ss. L. Taylor
Fourteenth and Locust Streets
General Hospital
East Twelfth
Nes Moine
Des Moines
Jill
Atatesman
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