John P Reese rises from mule driver to mine union leader
An Iowa mine workers record traces John P Reese from a ten year old mule driver in Ohio to president of the Iowa Miners' Association and a long career in miners' movement. The narrative highlights his honesty, eloquence, and ascent through unions, including roles as vice president and long service in the international executive.
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Ant of Iowa Mine Opalers’ Association
Reese
Ohio
Towa Ators’ Association
Reese Ia Neey
Cites
Waa
Tond
Hwiteman
Barre
Mitchell
Imide
Iowa
Iowa Union
Agadions
John Ut
Orden Coal Comits
Prosperators’ Association
Which he Was Jus Yeuchetuu in State Coal Aid Debate
A fragment notes a key state position and large investments in coal mining welfare. It claims millions of dollars are invested and about 16 000 miners depend on how mines are operated. The wording is garbled but points to political attention on mining operations and worker welfare.
Spanish War Veteran Bert Grace Dies in Perry Wreck
Spanish American War veteran Bert Grace 26, freight conductor for the interurban, was killed instantly at Perry when a Minneapolis and St. Louis line collision crushed his car. Grace lived at 2622 Amherst Des Moines left a wife and two children, funeral attended by many veterans. He enlisted in the Fifty first Iowa at outbreak of war and served in the Philippines as a trumpeter, slightly wounded in action.
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Bert, Grace
Perry
Bert Grace
Interurban
Minnenapolis
St. Louis
Grace
Amherst Street
Des Moines
Fifty-first
Iowa
Pilippines
Tie
Iowa Grange pushes postal savings bill and state highways plan
Iowa Grange leaders at Des Moines urge Congress to pass a postal savings bill pledged by the Taft platform. They call for a state highways commission to improve Iowa roads, noting progress in New York and Massachusetts and urging narrower road widths to ease reforms. Plans include reducing road width from sixty to forty feet where feasible.
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National Congress
Taft
Iowa Grange
Des Moines
West
Iowa
New York
Massachusetts
Sidi Ag
Siuy
Grange
Portrayal of Finiguerra and the damaged bundle scene
A fragment describes a woman with a wet bundle in a painter Viniguerra studio. He frees a needle from her injured hand and discovers the bundle rests on an engraved plate. The damp package leaves an impression resembling a painting on the plate.
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Pitti Palace
Finiguerra
Viniguerra
Des Moines Womanclaims Wedding to Frank Sparks Bigamy Battle
Miss Ethel Palmer of Des Moines says she was secretly married to Barney Kling Frank in Kansas City in 1908 and lived as his wife for a year. She disrupted his Davenport wedding to Miss Rae Goldstone, contends she will pursue wife desertion and bigamy charges, and claims a marriage certificate exists in an Omaha storage trunk.
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Ethel Palmer
Des Moines
Barney Kling Frank
Rae Goldstone
Davenport
Frank Winter
Kine
Kansas City
Frank
Misa Goldstone
Miss Palmer
Kline
Omaha
Booming Women's Clubs Leader Delaware Iowa Figure
Mrs Julian Richards of Waterloo leads active federation work visiting local clubs and aiding them to grow. She is president of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs and travels statewide, elected for the term in Davenport last May.
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Julian Richards
Waterloo
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Richarda
Richards
Davenport
Ninety Thousand Like Idle Are Ne Game Blosigan Muat Awa
Fragmentary OCR text yields few clear facts. The line appears to reference numbers and names but lacks coherent context or identifiable entities. No definite event date, place, or organization can be confirmed from the readable portion.
Avantern Town man dies after fire from oil soaked clothing
A man in Avantern Town died from burns after falling with a lit lantern while carrying an oil soaked lamp at his home north of Har Inn. His clothing caught fire, and he died within hours. Muscatine proclaims itself a Model City. For the first time in county history the grand jury met without criminal investigation in prospect, with the belief that conditions threaten saloon abolition.
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Frrinern
Avantern
Har Inn
Muscatine
Muscatinoe
Waterloo Couple Wedded Fifty Years in Early Waterloo
Mr and Mrs George FR Crittenden of Cedar Rapids celebrated a golden wedding. They were married in a Waterloo log cabin by A G Eberhart as snow and 16 below zero framed the moment. The couple later traveled by bobsled to Jackson County to visit relatives. He worked as a farmer, grocer, and for 25 years as city engineer of Waterloo, with early local history vividly recalled. The 1868 flood era and the construction of rail lines shaped the region's growth.
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George FR. Crittender
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mr. Crittenden
Annie Courson
Heart of
Waterloo
A. G. Eberhart
George R. Crittenden
Jackson County
Duubuque-Stonx City
Uinols Central
Old Gang
Snowbound Train Delays After Harsh Night
A train was stranded overnight as heavy snow accumulated delaying travel and forcing crews to abandon attempts to move the locomotive. The report notes a spring thaw awaited relief for passengers and operations.
Wright appointed state Food and Dairy Commissioner
Governor Carroll names W. B. Barney of Hampton to succeed Hilo coed H. R. Wright as state food and dairy commissioner. term expires April 30. Barney is president of the Iowa State Dairy Association. Also notes new packing company filings: Corn Bolt Packing of Augusta Me and associations including Farmers' Cooperative Elevator Company and Sauer Telephone Company of Hartley become incorporated.
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Carroll
W. B. Barney
Hampton
H. R. Wright
Iowa State Dairy Association
New. Packing Company
Iowa
Corn Bolt Packing Company
Augusta
Dod Moines
Fort Dodge
J. J. van
Des Moines
Farmers’ Co
Elévator.Kompany
Belmond
Sauer‘Telephone ‘Company
Harttey
Algo
Cummins Opens Battle at Progressive Dinner in Iowa
Des Moines reports Senator Albert B. Cummins used a Savery dinner platform to press progressive and Roosevelt principles, urging Iowa Republicans to back candidates who oppose standpatters. He warned governors and congressmen alike that tariff reform setbacks should fuel, not halt, progressive efforts and signaled a possible progressive bid for governor.
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Des Moines
Albert B. Cummins
Savery
Towa
Congress
Iowa
Hull
Cannon
C. OC. Dowel
B. F. Carroll
Dudge
Prouty
Nes Moines
Chase
Cummina
Pioneer Iowa Street Railway Builder Dies
Joh Weber Sr a seventy two year old pioneer Des Moines street railway builder and first brewery owner in Des Moines before prohibition died of pneumonia after being struck by a street car near his home in Sevastopol Des Moines He was born in Eslinger Germany and came to America at seventeen He built Des Moines first street car line and later sold to Plyll interests He leaves four children and much property
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Joh. Weber ‘Br
Bhigei
Des Moines
Sevastopol
Weber
Eslinger
Germany
Cana
America
Geventeen
Weean
Financiers Back Mississippi Keokuk Dam Project
A New York and Boston financed syndicate plans the second largest dam on the Mississippi at Keokuk. Three St. Louis firms will supply tower frames and assist construction under War Department supervision. Estimated cost 15 million dollars. The project spans 5,600 feet of river with a height of 37 feet and a seven foot foundation, extending into solid rock.
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New York
Boston
Keokuk Dam
Mississippi River
Keokuk
St. Louis
Furnigh
War Department
Kattom
Clams and Suites Case Sparks Des Moines Police Attention
A man identified as James Bretion sought police aid claiming penniless status after an alleged peonage incident in Des Moines. He stated he had been employed and earned money, but the details and authorities’ response remain unclear amid fragmented testimony.
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Des Moines
James Bretion
Unknown fragmented title from historical source
Fragmentary OCR reads like a garbled notice mentioning love secretary agriculture and party rhetoric. Core entities unreadable. cannot determine precise event or names from the damaged text.
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Ethel Palmer-Kline
George A. Gritten ‘En
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Barney Bucgeeds
Wright
Cummins
Dollar
Amato Ulli
Rideiaua
Iowa’ Street Railway
John Weber
Olay
Des. Moines Street
John Weber, Sr
Eldlo Bendige
Dea ‘Moines Powerbroker
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Rive
Albgeegy of Love
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Agricul
Toparty
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