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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
2
A damaged OCR fragment from Omaha Nebraska hints at an ad or notice. It references Or tha lines and Antonia. The readable text mentions East and West routes, a price point, and a street or area in Omaha, with unclear quantities or dates.
The allied order demands a fee and the Fallroad officials refuse to accept the union's terms. Labor leaders meet Monday at 12, with a third party’s mediation sought. Governor Rhehart is asked to intervene as the general advisor remains unavailable.
Severe floods hit Sebastian and nearby towns in Castile, Spain, last week. Benavente with about 4000 residents was submerged for five days, transportation by boats, and only three houses remained standing in one village. Vallebra village destroyed. crops across Castile plateau ruined.
Thimble Shoal lighthouse in the lower Chesapeake Bay burned early Monday. The keeper and his family are believed to have escaped in life boats and taken refuge on relief boats that hurried from Hampton Roads to the beacon. A relief crew was sent from Norfolk to Mathews, and the Steamer Hampton aided in the response.
Fragmentary text reports multiple people seriously hurt in a Sunday incident at an office in Chicago during Christmas week. Names and specifics are unreadable due to damaged OCR.
A.J. Haskil is wanted by Mason City police for allegedly duping nearly fifty residents. He canvassed for two months posing as a representative from the De Moines Premium company, selling 100 books at low prices while promising a premium from a catalog. customers were charged full value and paid him $5 to $20 each, with some more.
The Anti-Saloon League plans major reforms in Iowa in 1910. It will petition Governor Carroll to back changes to the Interstate Commerce Act to curb shipment of liquor into dry areas and seek to shift many jury cases to equity courts as part of new measures.
Winterset Citizens National Bank president J. Winterode killed himself with a pistol at the bank shortly after noon on Christmas day. The janitor and bookkeeper left him at the desk a half hour earlier. W. J. Cornell, the cashier, found him with a bullet wound to the head. He was a Pennsylvania native and left a wife and three children.
Two men threatened to rob the North Western depot in Lake City late at night. They attacked night agent A. L. Hunt when he intervened. Hearkening cries drew two strangers who approached, causing the robbers to flee, thinking the marshal approached. Hunt provided suspect descriptions as a lookout is issued.
In Cedar Rapids on Wednesday Judge Smith sentenced J. A. Harris to life imprisonment for the May shooting of Mayor Carmody and for burglarizing the Luberger home. He had earlier been convicted of robbing Dr. J. H. Smith and given an indeterminate twenty year term. Harris faces a pending murder charge regarding Mayor Carmody, but trial is unlikely. A life sentence is possible in the Luberger burglary due to Harris being armed.
T M Hubbell filed in Des Moines for a temporary injunction restraining hotel inspector Lafayette Higgins from duties under the new hotel inspection law and seeking a permanent injunction after trial. Judge W H McHenry recently ruled the law unconstitutional and contrary to the public interest.
A major blaze at the old Des Moines tabernacle site in West Des Moines, now housing Guarantee Hosiery mills, caused an estimated 60 000 dollar loss to building and contents on Saturday noon. Firefighters saved nearby structures but two firefighters were overcome by smoke. Origin of the fire unknown.
Sixty thousand dollars saved by children over eight years per Penny Savings Association report. Two and a half tens of thousands remain in the bank. Officers listed: Mrs. W. R. Witmer president, Mrs. Walter Brown vice president, Mrs. H. L. Carroll secretary. Educations are the aim for most savers.
Albert I, crowned king beside Queen Elisabeth, processed to the capital as cannon boomed and crowds cried long live Albert. In a sweeping speech he paid tribute to Leopold I and II, while pledging a humane, progressive colonial policy in the Kongo and Belgium's steadfast devotion to constitutional liberty and scientific advancement.
A grand launch at Camden New Jersey witnessed the Utah the United States greatest battleship afloat leaving the Ways as thousands cheered Mary Alice Spry daughter of Utahs governor broke a champagne bottle on the keel. The event followed by other ship launchings stirs public enthusiasm amid river whistles. A second fire destroyed Sol and Sig Frieb egers whisky warehouse in Cincinnati costing about 125000 in whisky and over 200000 in total loss with the blaze threatening nearby blocks.
Former State Senator Dickinson of Henry County secures Democratic nomination for Congress in Missouri's Sixth District on the final ballot after 675 votes. J W Sudbath gathers 32, Dickinson 42 on the last roll. The vacancy followed De Armond's death.
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