Despondent farmer Fred Cowles commits suicide at farm
Fred Cowles, a farmer living two miles from Council Bluffs, killed himself with a pistol early Sunday. He had been in poor health and had recent treatment for brain or nervous trouble. He left a wife, three brothers, and a sister. The body was found in the hayloft with a pistol and ammunition nearby.
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Aney
Peversl Mor
Ons
Cowlesh- Haou
Bbuve Kun
4Th Hospital
Omaha
Clyde
Ray
Montgomery
Los Angeles
Art Golden
Dallas
Mrs Dimmitt Funeral Follows Long Illness
Mrs Lavi Dimmitt, buried last Saturday, died from the white plague after years of poor health. She traveled east, west, north and south seeking relief. She leaves a husband, several sons and daughters, and many friends to mourn.
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Mra
Lavi Dimmitt
Porters Benegiss and Ed Benedict wed in Flaxex Hamburg
Benegiss Porter Birdie Porter and Ed Benedict, both from Hamburg, married in Flaxex this week and plan to live on a farm near Pacific Junction. The Reporter offers best wishes for lasting happiness amid local notes of the couple’s modest beginnings and shared life.
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Benegiss Porter
Birdie Porter
Ed Benedict
Hamburg
Pacific Junction
Birdie
Mrs Stella Dearing Visits Wright Family in City
Mrs Stella Dearing, formerly with The Reporter, is staying with her brothers Gene and John Wright. She and her husband have lived in Oregon for several years and find the western climate agreeable.
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Stella Dearing
Gene
John Wright
Oregon
Fiano Toulng 1 Plans Hamburg Visit For Tow Planes
Ernest Hinza describes a roadway incident last Sunday as foam spilled from a wagon injuring inmates but causing little damage. Miss Della Sykes tends her recovering mother at her east town residence while awaiting better health.
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Ernest Hinza
Differant
Heys
Della Sykes
Ira F Hendricks Dies In Council Bluffs At 50
Ira F Hendricks aged 50 died Tuesday at his home after a three week illness with diabetes. A longtime public figure he served as county auditor for five years and held a deputy US Marshal post. He later moved to Criswold as a bank receiver before settling in Malvern then Council Bluffs where he ran a private banking business and helped organize Farmers Savings Bank. Burial is at Fairview cemetery.
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B. Hendricks
Hendricks
Sluts
Matsral
United States
Frank Hradley
Criswold
First National Bank
Malvern
Gillere
Handricks
Council Bluffs
Sodies
Ber
Fairview Cemetery
Hendrickais
Farmers Saving Bank
Train wreck halts near town after trucks derail
A Saturday night mishap northeast of town involved a branch train and front trucks that jumped the track. The derailed equipment lay between the rails as the train halted and passengers remained aboard until after midnight before the wreck was cleared and the train resumed.
Services and programs in local churches announced
Morning and evening services across churches with Bible verses, Sunday school times, and special programs. Includes cordial welcomes, Youth, Epworth League, and Baptist Church notes. references to upcoming visits by Rev Dr Baxter and a strong sermon. notices for Sunday school and choir events.
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Epworth Lesgue
Baxter
Herbert W.dack
Pyle
W.H.M.S
Wilkerson
Valley Marin
GC. H. Werner
Paator
Fireman Scalded on Freight Engine Incident
A fireman was badly scalded last Monday when hot water and steam from faucets sprayed onto his arm and glove while operating a freight engine. Dr. Hoover attended promptly, providing relief as his automobile could reach the scene.
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Dr. Hoover
Rainless spring hits Texas crops hard says Birkhis
John Birkhises notes landing interests on the gulf coast in southern Texas report an especially dry early spring with no rain making planting nearly impossible. Ground remains hard and crops including rice small grain vegetables and corn are failing due to drought.
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John Birkhises
Gulf Coast
Texas
Notice of debts and travels across states
All persons indebted to me must settle by cash or due date July 1 2011. Dr. E E Richards Art Lawson and bride near Fay Engleman left on honeymoon visiting relatives and plan to move to Midland South Dakota. Dennis Teaford to spend weeks in Northwear Nebraska visiting James Tenford and friends.
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E. E. Richards
Art Lawson
Nea Fay Engleman
Midland
South Dakota
Dennis Teaford
Northwear
Nebraska
James 'Tenford
Fifty Years Ago Saloon Brawl Ends in Soldier's Death
In a St. Joseph News report a Union soldier was shot by a policeman named Burns after a brawl sparked by secessionist cheers for Jeff Davis. A second soldier was wounded with a Bowie knife as the crowd clashed outside a saloon amid Civil War era tensions.
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Burns
Jeff. Davis
Lincoln
St. Joseph
Former Madison Girlies Remembered in Obituary
Edna Davis Hudson died at her Buffalo New York home last Saturday after complications from an appendectomy. She was the sweet daughter of W P Davis and wife who lived in Madison township and Riverton then Shenandoah. Her father W P Davis now resides in Monrovia California, sisters in Red Oak Lincoln Nebraska and New York City, brothers in Kansas and Missouri.
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Shenaddoah Sentinel
Edna Davis Hudson
Buffalo
N. Y
Hudson
W. P. "Davis
Madison Township
Riverton
Shenandoah
W. P. Davis
Monrovia
California
Davis Dixon
Red Oak
Davis Platt
Lincoln
Nebraska
Davis Scheitien
New York City
Wilbur
Kansas
Paul
Missouri
Amr
Jim Rees Heads to Panama on Implied Excurse
Jim Rees, after visiting California relatives, wrote to his parents saying he is in San Francisco and ready to board a vessel to Panama. He expects a late July return and gave no reason for the trip, hinting at a brief excursion. Also printed is a Hamburg Iowa public notice restricting burning of waste near buildings, with city marshal duties and mayor G. Tiller’s enforcement.
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Jim Rees
California
Cal Rees
San Francisco
Panama
Smith
Ham
Hamburg
Wrenant County
Iowa
G. Tiller
An Interesting Display by Thompson and Thompson
A real estate office window features a tropical fruits and vegetables display. The collection arrived with A. Wing returning from Nicaragua where he holds large interests. Thompson explains the items to visitors as observer interest grows.
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Thompson & Thompson
Central
América
A. & Wing
Nicaragua
Thompson
Sunday Schools Meet in Riverton Convention
Fremont County Sunday School association holds its annual convention at the Methodist church in Riverton on Thursday and Friday June 18 and 19. The program lists devotional services led by Rev. C A Marshal and Rev J M Cummings, addresses on Sunday School as Evangelistic Agency and the Sunday School and the Church, round tables, and song and praise services with local leaders.
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Fremont County Sunday School Association
Riverton
C. A. Marshal
Hamburg
J. M. Cummings
Farragut
Ikor
WW. A. Boner
Riyarton
Munday School
Mission
Sachs Bidtie
Christian Schusl
Round Table
Mins Snell
D. H. Cramer
Sidney
Methodist Sunday School
Act. Martin
Audsers
Hey
A. W. Tandy
Bualneas
Birthday Remembers Henry Brumback Builder of Hamburg
S2ud Birthday Last Monday Reury Brumback celebrated his eighty second birthday. In Virginia nine children remain. two brothers older than Henry. Henry and one brother left the locality, the other stayed. Henry migrated to Hamburg about fifty years ago when it had few prospects. He built a business house on the site of B. G. Franklin's residence, ran a mercantile business until misfortune, followed Greely's advice and went west. He later returned to Hamburg, then growing with the railroad. He has been a key figure in Hamburg's development and visits his old home occasionally. some brothers have visited him here.
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B. G. Franklin
Greely
Embryo City
Iowa
Des Moines
Hamburg
Decoration Day Speech by English-born Rev Dack in Hamburg
The Decoration Day address at the M. B. church by Rev Herbert W. Dack of Hamburg drew high praise. An English-born speaker, he called himself an American by choice and Americans by birth, delivering a polished, patriotic sermon that drew marked attention.
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M. BR
Herbert W. Dack
Hamburg
Dack
Coin Gazette
Corn stalks five feet four inches tall at The Reporter sale
Notson submitted corn stalks five feet four inches high and a collection of oddities including a burrying wig from an apple tree twelve inches long. A lead pencil with thrifty growing apples, Charley Swanson and wife rumor a new Roosevelt era arrival, and Cal Rees toured a Madison farm as news notes of wet crops emerge.
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BR. P. S. Notson
John Hele
Cecal Lly
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