Graettinger Labor Day Celebration 1914 Schedule
Graettinger Iowa on Monday Sept 7 hosts a full day of band concerts street attractions and a ball game Ringsted vs Ayrshire at 8:30 pm. Grand balloon ascent by Prof H L Richards. Highlights include races tug of war between Palo Alto and Emmet counties and a vaudeville style play The Divorce Question at the Hawkeye Opera House.
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Graettinger Military Band
Free Street
W. B. Quarton
Hawkeye Opera House
The
Hawkeye
Ayrshire
H. L. Richards
the Hawkeye
Palo Alto
Emmet County
Rose Maids in Swan Lake Case Near Trial
The Enterprise notes a state case arising from a morning incident at Swan Lake involving W. J. oped on a group of violators. Most pleaded guilty. trial will address how far the law applies and what it means to be caught with the goods, with little known about facts or evidence.
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Man Rawson
Europe
Iowa
United States
Senate
Cummins
Congress
Republican Party
Washington
55Th General Assembly
Republican
Gov. Clarke
Why Brown and not Rainbarger Paroled in a high profile murder case
John Brown of Manson was granted parole after a six year conviction for the murder of his daughter in law and a life term in the penitentiary. The case was one of the era's most noted murder mysteries, sparking debate over parole criteria and the fate of violent offenders.
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John Brown
Manson
Con
Brown
Hardin County
Johnson
T.R
Brown and Rainbargers murder trials heat Iowa politics
Narrative contrasts a brutal manslaughter by Brown with the Rainbargers’ first degree murder cases, urging paroled Brown while Rainbargers stay jailed. Iowa Republicans rally for 1914 victory, planning district conferences, praising Cummins, Clarke, and highway laws, while Democrats attack.
Local notes and tales from a rural Iowa town
The item lists visits and social events among area residents including Jacobson, Larson, Amdall, Jensen and Osher families. It notes a birthday surprise for Lewis Larson, a Fair trip to Des Moines, and a misprint correction about Maria Jacobsen. A serialized reminiscence recounts a Texan acquaintance aboard a ship during wartime and fears of German war actions at sea.
German boast as war, America threat, warned by rabbi
Rabbi Eugene Mannsheimer, returning to Des Moines after a European summer, reports German officers boasted they could whip the world and send a prince to America after crushing England and other powers. He says the boast was told to American medical students aboard the Teutonic.
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Germany
New York
Teutonic
Mexico
Uci
England
Europe
America
Eugene Mannsheimer
Des Moines
Mannsheimer
Emmetsburg Visit and Hagan Child Hospitalized
Jake Leduc and wife were in Emmetsburg on business Tuesday. The Catholic Ladies Aid plans a meeting at Mrs. Mike Bradley's on Wednesday August 9. Harold Hagan, ten, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hagan of Springfield township, was kicked by a horse last Monday. He initially survived a severe stomach injury, but his liver was ruptured and other organs damaged. He was taken to Mankato on Tuesday with his father and Dr. Blonge of Elmore. surgery showed the grave condition.
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Catholic Ladies Aid
Mike Bradley
Hirold
Chas. Hagan
Springfield Township
Bette
Mankalo
Blonge
Elmore
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Ringsted
W. J
Swan Lake
Et Meney
Iown
Emmetsburg
Towa
Republican State Central Committee
Rawson
State Committee
Republican State Committee
A. CG. Jacobson
Helen Christensen
Albert Christensen
C. B. Larson
Henry Bakka
Story City
Emma Osher
Alfred Nelson
Gilbert
Jake Amdall
Jimmy Jensen
Helen Jensen
Mortensen
U. S
Jake Leduc
Thompson’s
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