Decoration Day Sparks and a Stolen Treasure Tale
A reflective piece on Decoration Day and patriotic duty contrasts with a short fiction excerpt where Miss Melissa and Bob uncover a forgotten treasure. A tramp, a cannon ball relic, and a hidden bag of gold propel a nighttime burglary thwarted by quick thinking and grit. The moment ends with the pair discovering a thirty year-old bag of gold beneath a loose board.
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Dob
Misa Melissa
Bob
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Night Roll Call on the Battlefield Echoes Loss
A disjointed wartime scene recalls a soldier named Kerr answering roll as heavy fire rages. The piece laments the cost of battle with bleeding centimeters of memory and a dwindling company of twenty from two hundred that went into the night.
Miss Meliss Short Encounters a Crying Boy by Fence
A ten year old, in threadbare clothes and worn shoes, stands by a fence crying as Miss Meliss Short confronts him. He insists he is crying and questions whether there is any law for age lost, while the girl regards him with sharp features and iron rimmed spectacles.
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Meliss
Melissa
Unknown poem excerpt and survival stat line
An archaic verse fragment depicts a soldier bowing to grief as his column marches, a wounded figure, a mournful reunion with a loved one, and a final line about a Boston translation noting that only 10 of 100000 children aged ten will live to 73. The fragment blends imagined wartime imagery with a grim demographic projection.
Town Shaked by Banker Embezzlement and Assassination
Otla Daoker Ja, a fugitive banker once in March, has been captured in St. Louis and returned to town on charges of embezzling $155,000. The case ties to a failed bank in Olin twenty years ago. In Hamburg, real estate dealer Cal Rees shot banker Joe Ballwin on the street, wounding him fatally as Rees claimed a child’s life protection. A surge of violent incidents and a series of lectures funding state education mark the era. Tornadoes near Downes and Centendale caused major property losses estimated at $100,000, while J. Dwight Lamb, Clinton boat and mill works head, drowned on the Mississippi near Hellerite.
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St. Louis
Olin
Grand Jues
Railroyds
Rhoote Nanker
Fitreet
Joe
Ballwin
Merchants Urchange Bank
Hamburg
Cal Rees
Baldia
Rees
Naganle
Unlnens Man Ie
Dwight Lamb
Lamb Boat and
Heller Works
Clinton
Mississippi
Hellerite
Marguerite
Urief State Happenings in Fayette County News
Ten smallpox cases reported at the poor farm in Fayette County. A move to build a municipal water plant at Lone Tree gains momentum. Harry Davis of Davenport jailed thirty days. George Heacon, a miner at Wiching, missing from home. Mascatine Sand tclon growers report healthy plants. Casey plans a $40,000 gay plant and aims to begin around July 1. Eastyan convicted of burglary in Davenport, three years’ sentence. Fairfield population exceeds 3,000 with a gain of about 500. Mayor and financier Philly Deltz of Walcott died at 61. Riverton to erect a pavilion in the village park for outdoor gatherings. Thirty-three graduates at Shenandoah high school season, fifteen boys and twelve girls. Sam Sullivan shot and killed in Chicago. Sophie Spiva seeks divorce in Davenport District Court. Mary McCiavern awarded $3,000 in personal injury suit against Thea Monica Interurban. Lon Relant, 20, sentenced to fifteen months for forgery in Winterset. Chas Benedict and John Brory arrested in Sydory for game law violations. fined $45 and costs.
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Fayette County
Lone Tree
Harry Davis
Bester
George Heacon
Wiching
Casey Ia
Eastyan
Davenport
Fairfield
Fiar Aml
Philly Deltz
Walcett
Rivertone
Shenaimlal High School
Sam Sullivan
United States Express Company
Dustinque
Chicago
Sophie Spiva
Mary McCiavern
Thea Monica Interurban
Winterset
Lon
Relant
Leno Gray
Fort Madlann Penitenthal
Forty Acre Farm Purchase Sparks Iowa Park Plan
The Marshalltown family city park project gains grounding as a directory item notes the purchase of a forty acre tract. Major local incidents follow, including a fatal lightning strike on a one-year-old in Chataworth and a Des Moines grading official fatally injured in a runaway accident.
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