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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
2
A stream of short items covers varied topics from William Rockefeller to marriages in nobility, economic observations on living costs, beggar welfare views, a Seattle women’s Good Cheer Society, and royal marriage anecdotes. It sketches a kaleidoscope of early 20th century concerns and curiosities.
A discussion on a royal marriage alliance links Portugal Britain and the British crown. Commentary cites patriotism commerce and national power, noting tensions between duty and political gains amid historical rivalry and modern civic responsibility.
Roger Pease, long a leading glassmaker, predicts within ten years Americans will live in glass houses with concrete foundations, wired glass walls and roofs, tiled floors, and Hecht shielding. He envisions indestructible, fireproof, moistureproof homes in any color needing no interior finish.
Two elderly patrons wander the public library in Boston and study a bronze relief. They comment aloud about a mysterious inscription while observers translate and joke about the exhibit. The scene features stray notes about names and fashion terms, reflecting a noisy, garbled encounter.
A patriotic piece honors George Washington on his birthday and notes enduring meaning of freedom. It includes biographical facts such as his role as commander in chief, pay, inauguration, and anecdotes about his life and endurance, framed to celebrate national ideals and the founding era.
A compact essay notes Washington and Lincoln as embodiments of the United States path to unity. It argues Washington shaped early national identity while Lincoln defined unionism after the Civil War, linking their biographies to democracy and national ideals.
A dialect dialogue recalls the legend of George Washington and the idea he never lied. Sinele Ephraim challenges the purity of the tale, suggesting any admission would have sounded suspicious or staged.
Report notes President Storms will submit annual report to the state board of education in Cedar Rapids on March 2. Resignation speculation swirls as he declines to confirm or deny severing ties with Ames College at year’s end. Charles B. Shelton, former Simpson College president, is floated as a possible successor.
Francisco Guthrie and Gi Eddy are charged with the murder of Guthrie's wife in Belle Plaine ten years ago. Guthrie was arrested in Shell Lake Wisconsin and Eddy in Belle Plaine where he worked as a day laborer. A coroner’s jury found the death accidental, but later evidence suggests planning and bribery involving a prominent Belle Plaine citizen. Eddy allegedly received 250 for helping but denies complicity while admitting receiving a revolver. Guthrie was a Belle Plaine businessman and Eddy was his longtime employee.
Peter Christensen of Clinton swallowed a dollar during a Low Moor party game and, after laughing, could not remove it. Doctors used massage but found no trace in Clinton. X rays showed the coin had entered the intestine days earlier and caused no pain beyond discomfort.
The state board of education will meet this month to decide if three veteran teachers from the college system are to be placed on the Carnegie Pension List. Several educators already connected with state colleges have been added to the list by special provision.
Attorney General issued a directive requiring the June primary voting lists to show names and party affiliations as recorded in the last June primary and those listed in the special primary of November. Additions to the lists must reflect subsequent changes.
Alva Watael age 25 of Council Bluffs, delirious from typhoid fever, leaped from the third floor of Omaha General Hospital Thursday night and was killed. Reports attribute Woetzel's death to typhoid fever and the coroner investigates those responsible for the error and for the death.
Marshalltown labor groups led by the Tawa Central Shopmen plan to visit every business owner and urge removal of telephones as part of a city wide labor action. The effort signals escalating tension in the local communications dispute.
A Thursday closing at Ida Grove saw John Smith the Gollfield Colorado Millionaire and A G B Bell purchase the Werkan ranch of 840 acres from John C Weston of Clinton Tawa. The property lies on the edge of Ida Grove.
The supreme court declares vital science as practicing medicine in Java and requires practitioners to hold a state board medical license, issued after certification.
A new hotel in Muncatine with a value of 8.2 million dollars was virtually assured at a meeting of city manufacturers and business leaders. Construction is planned to begin in the spring.
Col. Pabner a candidate for re election as state railway commissioner and has authorized the announcement of his candidacy.
Several hundred bushels of carefully selected seed corn were scattered in Des Moines after a collision when a Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger train crashed into a freight car near the railroad yards.
Mrs. Ida Knight, 49, of Council Bluffs, left with four children to hire storage, was struck and killed by a passing engine late Tuesday night. Neighbors found her body mangled, with speculation she may have intended suicide before the crash, and relatives in the church community are involved.
Emma Donohue a 26 year old Council Bluffs wife of Patrick Donohue shot herself in the temple at about 2 pm Wednesday. The pair had been married about four months and were alone when Donohue after returning home found her body in the sleeping room with the revolver nearby. The husband runs a saloon.
Andrew Rikenboom of Prim ghar was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for butter theft after the supreme court affirmed the district court verdict. He devised a method of stealing by selling keeps of Duster to dealers then hiding portions en route, creating shortages at destinations. A special railroad agent investigated and apprehended him.
A daughter was born Tuesday night to Mr and Mrs James Bolander after arriving at the onion station in Des Moines just in time for the birth. The parents were en route to East Peru but the stork beat them to reach their new arrival.
J. M W. Wooda, 87, a pioneer resident of Des Moines, was crushed to death between two switching trains in the Rock Island yards in east Des Moines early Tuesday. He had lived in Des Moines for decades and was known in the community.
The Tikes' hall in Mason City is under construction and expected to be ready for occupancy by March 1. Proclaimed to have palatial club rooms, the interior work shows significant progress.
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