Starvation Sanitarium Case Trials Woman Doctor
Dorothea Williamson testifies in the murder trial of Mrs. Hazel Hazzard accused of starving Claire Williamson to death at a starvation sanitarium. Witness describes meals, confinement, and Mrs. Hazzard taking jewelry and pressuring for actions. The defendant faces first degree murder charges over alleged deliberate starvation.
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Jules
Seale
J. Ga
Misa Williamson
Claire
Hazzard
Dorothier
Dorothea
Dorothes
Olalla
Perathes
Shuster Criticizes British Russian Persia Policy
W Morgan Shuster, recently dismissed Persia treasurer general, arrives in Vienna and denounces British and Russian actions in Persia. He says the moves destroy progress toward peace, destabilize finances for constitutional government, and cost hundreds of lives. He blames the legations as de facto rulers and warns of Muslim-Christian tensions.
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Vienna
Persia
Ita
W. Morgan Shuster
Mr. Bhidter
Great’ Britain
Golid
Pargiu
Comte de Beauchamp Claims Electric Hail Destroyer
Paris reports Comte de Beauchamp a famed physician and farmer helper who, with General de Negrier, claims to have perfected an aerial electricity draining device like a lightning conductor. He says it shields rural areas from hail, reducing farmers losses estimated at 40 million dollars annually.
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Paris
Comte de Beauchamp
France
Hall
General de Negrier
Turks Lose Fierce Battle Near Tripoli
A large Turkish force attacked a marching Italian column about ten miles from Tripoli. The Italians held a line and fortified trenches, but the enemy pressed the assault all day and withdrew only after heavy losses. Turkish destroyers seized the French steamer Manuchba bound to Marebhea with twenty nine Turkish Red Cross personnel aboard, officers in disguise. Disease turns a woman's flesh black in Elgin. Elgin Illinois reports Raynaud’s disease causing gangrene and numb flesh on Mrs. Abel Hart. In Peoria a daylight robbery hits wholesale liquor dealer Mr. Gross, two men beat him and flee with $200. Mayor of Newport Kentucky offered $1000 cash and $100 per month for racing pool approval in Cincinnati.
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Enemry
Int
Marecifbea
Red Cross
Elgin
Abel Hart
Raynond
Peoria
Gross
Main Street
Jana
Texan Breaks Quarantine Warning Ends in Killing
Stockman George Lock was killed by a constable for violating a meningitis quarantine at Buda Texas. He was en route to see his mother when warned not to enter the town, dying on her porch.
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Stockman
Austin
Tex
George Lock
Buda
Lock
Travel Men Indorse Cummins for President at Iowa Convention
Indorsing resolutions were adopted by the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association at its annual convention. Senator A B Cummins, former general counsel, receives congratulations on his Republican presidential candidacy. Over 1,000 ballots chose Walter St John Robert A Borrowman James M Bowle and Thomas J Needham for the board of directors with John A Manchard as vice president.
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den Meines
Thonena
Iowa
Traveling Men's Association
Neile
Cummins
Board of Directors
Rader
Senator Cumming
Washington
A. B. Cumming
Walter St. John
Robert A. Borrowman
James M. Bowle
Thomas J. Needham
Milo Ward
John A. Manchard
Elmer D. [Shant
D. J. Huber
E. C. Evans
Jamien L. Hunt
Nat Thompson
J. W. Hii
A. W. Rader
Oliver Hi. P. Belmont
New York
Robert Bacon
France
Harvard Corporation
Overscore
Georges W. Stack
Loula
B. P. Waggoner
Missouri Pacific Railway
Atchison, Kan
Howard Gould
Port Washington
Sabath
Alinola
Ways and Means
Interstate Commerce Commissions
Cora Garratt
Chester Carpenter
St. Joeph
Wickersham Nesured
House
International - Harvester. Company
Congressional
Government Aids Settlors And Telegraph Line Debate
Government aides settlers through a nunc pay rule. Reclamation Service says public notice of payments does not require construction charges with 60 cents per acre paid. Representative Kinkaid reports Director Newell confirms. many settlers have already paid 50 cents. In a separate item Representative Carey proposes government ownership of telegraph lines, referred to the Post Office Committee.
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Reclamation Service
Washington
Kinkaid
Water Users’ Association
James T. Whitehead
Mitchell
Newell
Telegrapha
Tive Carey
Hitchcock
Post Ofice Committee
Global headlines mix of war rumors and political moves
Reports from Grayaquil Chicago and Los Angeles touch on peace efforts a Roosevelt nomination and aviation entries. Obscure crimes and political developments surface including a headless body found in St Louis and a murder by electricity in Logansport Indiana.
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Los Angeles
Turkish Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Rarold Oleon
Minneapolis
Belfast
Winston Churchill
North Ninth Street
St. Louis
Cox LH
Porto Tileo
Albert G. Cummins
Iowa
J. F. Merrill
Chicago Board of Trade
Council of Grain Exchanges
Edward F. Dunne
Tilmnorp
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Samuel Watking
Edith Schroeder
Watking
Logansport
Ind
John J. McDonald
Lincoln
Grant
Sherman
George Graham Rice
Mining
United States District Court
New York
Ray
Des Moines Moves to Ban Palmists and Forms Special Fire Board
Iowa news notes describe Des Moines council action banning professional palmists clairvoyants and similar frauds. Governor Carroll promotes a statewide road improvement week and a veterans reunion plan in Des Moines with focus on Shiloh. A Missouri official requests a temporary board for Century Fire Insurance to wind up affairs after a $24000 securities loss.
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Des Moines
Pal Niers
Clairvoyants
Special Board For Risk Company
T. F. Carreth
Towa
Wiiry
Tiverstothver
Carroll
Pal
Iowa
Lot Abraham
Mt. Pleasant
Townland Army of the Republic
Des Molinos
Battle of Shiloh
John MacVicar
Sounet
Blyke
Missouri
Century Fire Insurance Company
Barrett Insanity Case Taken Under Advisement
The Barrett insanity case from Dunlap heard in Logan was taken under advisement. Ed Barrett with counsel John P. Organ and H. H. Rondifer led witnesses arguing Tom Taylor, a Dunlap resident, is insane and dangerous and should be sent to the asylum, while others testified Taylor is sane and trusted with large insurance business.
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Logan
Barrett
Dunlap
Ed Barrett
John P. Organ
Council Bluffs
H. H. Rondifer
Tom Taylor
Resi Dent
Taylor
Taylor Is Not Only Insae
BE. H. Barrett
Mr. Taylor
Larrabee's 80th Birthday Celebrated at Stormont Home
Former Governor William Larrabee turned eighty with a party at his Stormont country home near Glermont. He remains active in public life, supervising rural work as neighbors recall his long service and daily labor on his estate.
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Stormont
William Larrabee
Glermont
Larrabee
Highest price for corn at Webster City auction
Webster City Iowa January 22 corn sold at 25 cents per ear auction followed the week long show and short course in farming. W G McConnell won the prize car at 25 dollars while Miner son of Randall bid in the prize bushel and Mr Anderson bid ten ears. Prices likely set records for low grade corn and the short course may lead to an Iowa state experiment station in Ames.
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Webster City
W. G. McConnell
Minerson
Randall
Nearly Laughs To Death In Circus Tale
In Ames Illinois a mother Mrs A Fox fell into a two hour laughing spell after her daughter recalled a circus story. Chloroform and three doctors were needed to stop the fit as family and friends restrained their own laughter. Mrs Fox slowly recovers from the illness caused by the laughing incident.
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Ames
Ill
Administrator pursues insurance suit over Ham policy
Iowa news items report administrator W. J. McDonald of the late Jared Ham suing General Fire and Life Insurance of Scotland claiming a $500 policy payment is due. The insurer plans a petition arguing Ham died by self destruction rather than foul play.
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Jared Ham
Town City
W. J. McDonald
General Fire and Life Insurance Company of Scotland
Ham
Auselda
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