Spring Commencement Plans at State University Iowa City
The State University at Iowa City prepares for spring commencement March 15 to 17 with large graduating classes across medicine dentistry and pharmacy. Ex-Governor Larraben of Clermont will address the medical department with 75 grads. Rev J L Cathell of Des Moines speaks to the homeopathic class of 18. Walter L Bierring M D of Iowa City delivers the dental address to 34 graduates. 14 pharmacy grads will receive degrees in the opera house March 17. Grain Thieves Plague Hes Moines County Farmers. 600 plus bushels stolen, no clue, organized gang suspected. Stout Beats OBrien in ten round boxing match at Visitors Athletic Club in Cincinnati. Tramp nuisance reports show 2,814 tramps expelled from Iowa Falls in year ending March 1, 1897, with 212 given shelter. New creamery at Williams starts operations. Mr Payne supports city water plant and creamery, pledging milk from 300 cows. Prosperous farmer Shapley Moore dies by self-inflicted gunshot at Charleston Township Keokuk. suspected temporary insanity. Glorinda insane hospital February report included. Fatal shoe factory accident: 14-year-old Andrew Carlson crushed when belt tore machine at Hulskamp factory Keokuk.
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Iowa City
Larraben
Clermont
J. EL. Cathell
Des Moines
Dental
Walter TL. Bierring
Opera House
Directors Meet at Sixth District Funeral Directors Association
The convention ran over two days with a large Oak post display and feature demonstrations by WB Mathensell of Iowa. Evening sessions highlighted the event as part of the district meeting of funeral directors.
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Vuneral Directors’ Association
Cannual
Wb, Mathensell
Lowa Nduresa
Municipal Elections Bring Shifts Across Iowa Fronts
Across Iowa cities voters chose new mayors and aldermen with Republicans prevailing in many wards while Democrats gained seats in others. Notable outcomes included Rock Rapids, Ottumwa, Clinton, Iowa City, Mason City, Marshalltown, Grinnell, Waterloo, Oskaloosa, Burlington, Creston, and others installing new officials and confirming incumbents in key posts.
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LeMarson
Repubiicans
Norwich
Rock Rapids
J. W. Roach
J. W. Ramsey
J. M. Parsons
J. J. Nagle
Atlantic
Jones
G. W. Brett
Mason City
Ireton
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Marshalltown
Frank G. Pierce
Grinnell
Citizens
W. CG. Rayburn
S. Nelson
Cornell Bluffs
Burlington
Creston
Iowa Rail Rates Prompt State Board Reply to Agriculturists
W W Field of Odebolt, president of the Town State Agricultural Society, pressed the Iowa Board of Railroad Commissioners for fair passenger rates. Secretary Ainsworth replies that reduced rates would harm small carriers, citing 2.27 cents per passenger mile in 1904 05 and a national trend of lower fares amid reduced passenger business. The board notes the cost of transport and fixed charges, and declines to urge a legislature reduction, urging cooperation instead with a formal request.
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W. W. Field
Odebolt
Town State Agricultural Society
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W. W. Ainsworth
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State Chase
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Yeatt
Iowa
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England
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Winans
Latoeia
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New Ugha
Rail fares and travel habits in Iowa study notes contrasts
An Iowa transportation inquiry reports average fare per passenger at 70.04 cents and per traveler across all routes 81.12 cents with a 2 cent fare baseline. It questions if reduced fares would boost travel for business, necessity, or pleasure and discusses service efficiency, potential declines in ridership, and the need for capital improvements like new tracks and equipment across railroads.
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Sidocreaae
End of a Joker Masson the Paris Hoaxer Dies at Strasbourg
Masson a noted prankster and former Algerie and Chandernagore judge died at Strasbourg. He worked in Paris Bibliotheque Nationale and staged elaborate hoaxes from forged notices to false news. He sent forged wedding notices, charades to officials, and invented schemes to alarm newspapers and the public.
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Wassiog
Theodore Tlook
Oul Masson
Strasburg
Fle
Algerie
Ghandernagore
Bibliotheque Nationale
Paris
Ahnsel
Peopl
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Flen
Lemice-errieux
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Museo Goimet
Cernusehl
Osiris
Moissomier
French Academy
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Academie Des Sciences
Saint Maude
Academy
M. Bertrand
Opera House
Trade totals show US exports to Europe and Asia
Farm reports reveal Europe imported 560 077 bushels of wheat valued at 200 798 and 62 718 gallons of uncerdoll at 87 363. Americans shipped 27 001 187 bushels of corn to Europe worth 14 050 767 and exported 800 212 pounds of beeswax for 60 875.
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Brazil
Europe
Asia
United States
China
Curious tale of a pigeon attacking chickens in Ohio
Ny Desting narrates a strange story about a pigeon with the instinct of a butcher bird. In Fronton, Ohio, a friend with a large pigeon whel stales observed two or three week old chicks dead with broken necks. A pigeon then attacked a chicken, breaking its neck and flying off without eating. The motive remains unknown.
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Lronton
Ohio
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Promoted as Safe Remedy
An article cautions invalids against self dosing and dangerous medicines, urging proper care in eating and medicine use. It extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as the best safe substitute for ailments described as material, rheumatic, dyspeptic, nervous, and bilious, presenting it as a preferred remedy.
Fox Hunt Marauders End in Fog Enigma
A fox hunt in Quota country ended abruptly when the hounds vanished in a dense fog and could not be located again until the next lay, leaving handlers puzzled about the missing pack and the day’s chase.
On to the Hootenai and mining rush tales
The note describes the KootenaiCreek frontier with rich mineral finds in gold, silver, copper, lead and iron across Idaho and British Columbia. It mentions Rossland’s population surge from 200 to 800 in 20 months and promises free maps from the Sioux City and Northern Railroad. It also notes Lope de Vega as a prolific playwright and cites a Kansas reader endorsing Piao’s cure for consumption, plus a London census figure of 411,300 women workers.
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Kootenai
Mottland
Idaho
British Columbia
Rossland
W. Oo. MaNider
G. A
Sioux City
No-to-Bao and No-Ta-ding Tobacco Cure Ad
An ancient style ad touts No-to-Bao for fifty cents claiming 400000 cures and urges regulation removal. It references tobacco use by Dutch and mentions a 10c candy product. The snippet also oddly cites total theological students in the country at 7058.
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