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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
2
A garbled OCR page reports on teaching plans in Suchaw with girls to train as kindergarteners, notes on James G. Hlaine and a Severance story, and lists various global statistics including Alaska purchase, trade, and industrial figures. It mentions a two hundred Colombian students trip, and a Chinese cook with caribou steak at an Alaska dinner.
The 36th annual Iowa State Dairy Association meeting runs alongside the Congress of Cattle and Dairy Industry. Exhibits from 15 states fill new headquarters with dairy and agricultural machinery, livestock displays, and free entertainment. An estimated 20 000 visitors are expected as hotels and eateries fill quotas.
A gang of young boys, aged up to 18, stole bicycles from shops and schools in Waterloo and sold wheels for small sums. In Davenport a Supreme Court term opens to decide if the Alcon law on sabbaths applies to charter cities, following a death in the case.
The estate of the late Jack Hunt seeks payment to Mrs. Mary Tuller who claims a swap for acres of land as part of a forged fortune. A spate of local incidents follows, including a fake holdup, a man shot in a street fight, a rough river accident, and multiple town updates across Mason City Avoca and Council Bluffs with weathering details and ongoing community notes.
Ames and University students protest Cedar Rapids board decisions to transfer 357 domestic science girls to the university and 170 engineers to the state college. They form a lobbying plan with alumni, Agriculture and Engineering clubs, and circulate petitions across campuses. In Iowa City, students join in opposing the engineering college move, calling it unconstitutional and harmful to education in Iowa.
Governor Carroll and Judge Robinson toured prison farms and road labor programs in the west and south advocating small scale prison farming and convict road labor. Des Moines faces a typhoid outbreak with 40 cases prompting water chlorination despite good taste reports. Telephone workers in Des Moines strike over a non union hire, signaling broader labor unrest.
Des Moines October 14 Capt Frank Lund of Webster City named unanimously as major of the Fifty sixth regiment I W G to succeed Lieutenant Colonel Batley of Sheldon. Death reported of Master Mechanic William Hutchinson of Chicago Northwestern in Kaukauna Wisconsin after heart failure burial in Chicago Sunday.
A jumble of town briefs describes a decomposed body found near Wreamwood, an inquest deemed unnecessary, and a man identified as Hershal Sivan. Other items note fires in Muscatine, legal actions in Council Bluffs, and a death by suicide in Des Moines river. Various city council and court updates follow including a new trial request, a grocery manager's arrest, library staff changes, and civic club formations.
Agronomists report early promising results from the Silver King corn across Algona, Algona City, Hurt, and Mason cities. Trials show high stands, strong yield potential, and earlier maturity, with seed distributed to farmers for next season to broaden northern Iowa production.
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