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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
1
Baron Komura, Japan's Portsmouth Conference plenipotentiary, arrived from Vancouver to Tokio to a tepid welcome. Dignitaries greeted him at the station as troops and police held the street, then he rode to the palace in an imperial carriage.
Mrs. Millie Loan, 74, died after a stroke at her West Court street home. Born in Jeannette Pennsylvania she lived in Michigan and Johnson County most of her life and is survived by husband G W Loan and two sons Lewis and William. Funeral scheduled Wednesday at 10 a.m. from the residence with burial in Burge cemetery Pleasant Valley township.
This morning at 7:30 the Langenberg barn was destroyed by fire. H Langenberg arrived minutes before, found the structure ablaze and partially in ruins. The blaze destroyed almost all contents including a new set of harness, causing several hundred dollars in losses. He cannot explain how the fire started.
The latest report from Philadelphia states that T. C. Carson is resting easier and his recovery looks favorable. His temperature is normal and he has been sanacious most of the time since the operation. he is a little past seventy with strong health aiding his recovery.
Mrs. Eli Vene Jones remains practically the same three months after her operation. Her condition is not hopeful but not worsening, with continued fortitude and sustaining power noted as cause for comment.
A large crowd waited at city hall as the mayor freed about six in a quiet show of leniency. One offender paid a fine and was released but returned to the patrol house shortly after noon.
Benjamin Harry Egline died Saturday at the corner Burlington and Johnston streets after a two month illness from cancer. Born in Ohio in 1855, he moved to Chicago then to Town City after marrying Viola Willits. He worked as a traveling salesman for hardware firms and had two surviving sons, John and LeRoy. Funeral held today at two o clock conducted by the Elks with Rev Wiley delivering the sermon.
Hubert Remley, long based in Minneapolis, begins a project at Huntley Montana expected to take the entire winter. Mia Remley and the children will join him later this month. Mrs. Remley visits Rock Valley Iowa. Howard Bateman shows a birch bark canoe sixteen feet long, made by an Indian, now on the river.
Late Saturday night burglars tried to enter the Reynolds and Gilbert street residence of Martin Gerber. His awakened children saw a man climbing in, prompting a quick response from Mr. Gerber before the intruders fled. Police searched but found no suspects.
Judge Byington announced plans to open court at Marengo Saturday afternoon and hear equity cases. He expects the Heath case to not fill the week and may hear Amana case arguments if the court opens as planned.
A. Brown shows in his window a large cut of the Iowa football squad from the Minneapolis Journal. Also pictured is Andy Chalmers with a note on his fitness for scrimmage due to an injured ankle.
From October 22 to 25 the state meeting of the Town Association of Unitarian Churches will be held in Des Moines. Dr. D J B Ward will speak on The Musquakie Religion Its God Creator Services and Funerals. Roy Vestal will present a paper titled The Attitude of the Young Man of Today Toward the Church.
Mrs G A Ivins of Iowa Halls and Mrs Thomas John of Des Moines joined Mrs John T Jones at her home Saturday night. The four sisters will visit Mrs Edward Tudor in Union township tomorrow, continuing their yearly gathering tradition at a different sister's home.
Prof W C Walcox has arranged winter extension lectures at Burlington. A possible finale to the season may feature the university freshman eleven against St Ambrose College of Davenport before the season ends.
The Heath will contest trial stretched into the morning with Judge Jackson late due to train connections. Judge Wade faced cross examination over dealings with Col. Heath about guardianship and will trustees. The jury toured the Heath home for context, witnesses testified on Heaths mind, and more testimony followed as the trial neared a jury decision.
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