Milford Water Works Plans and Iowa News Totals
Plans form for Milford water works while Denison plans Fourth of July celebrations. Reports of thefts in Cedar Rapids neighborhoods, a death near What Cheer from heart failure, and graduates at Logan High School June 8. Courthouse lightning at Cresco. Cyclone inspired cave talk in Terrill. Debating wins for Winterset and North Des Moines teams. Grinnell Iowa college commencement June 14 with fifty three diplomas. Labor statistics project under State Commissioner Brigham notes sourcing issues but growing unions.
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Milford
Denison
H. H. Shepman
Cellar Rapids
Thomas Gallaspie
Logan High School
Cresco
Masonic Lodge
Roland
Story County
Crittenden & Wentworth
Moorehead
Ben H. Gavitt
Missouri Valley
Winterset High School
North Des Moines
Iowa College
Grinnell
Martin Kierderling
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Terrill
Spirit Lake
Order of United Workmen Lodges of
Omaha
Fair Grounds Park
Grocers’ and Butchers’ Association of Omaha
W. A. Linklater
Iowa State College
Washington State Agricultural Collage
Pullman
Wash
St Louis Dispatch
Litchfield & Madison
Edwardsville
Francis Walsh
Stone City
B. A. Wilder
United States
Sibley
George M. Wilson
Seymour
May Kroll
Powell Clayton
Mexico
Des Moines
Clayton
Conger
China
Stock & Conklin Telephone Company
Griswold
Standard Grocery Company
Duumwea
W. TD
Carrie
Cedar Rapide
Cope
Iowa Banker Is Gaught Embezzler Snyder Returns to State
E. E. Snyder, Olin banker, disappeared in March, arrested in St. Louis, and brought to Cedar Rapids on charges of fraudulent banking and embezzlement totaling 125000. He founded a private bank at Olin Iowa twenty years ago with assets of 143000 before its collapse amid unwise railroad investments. His wife also vanished, leaving school funds and deposits at risk.
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E. E. Snyder
Cedar Rapids
Olin
St. Louiis
Iown
Des Moines
E. BE. Snyder
St. Louis
Anamosa
Snyder
Large Western Land Deal Closes in Monona County
A major sale closed with a first payment of 116000 dollars for 2200 acres in Franklin and Selvidere townships Monona county. The land, described as the home bottom farm, was handled by an Illinois syndicate with several local participants and Judge Addison Oliver acted as trustee or recipient of the first installment.
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Onawa
Addison Oliver
Dire Bottom
Franklin
Selvidere
Monona County
Illnois
Assailant of Wife Sentenced in Ames Case
Richard Fisher of Ames received a one year sentence in Anamosa penitentiary with hard labor for attempting to take his wife’s life at her father’s residence in Eagle Grove. He must also pay court costs.
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Ames
Richard Fisher
Amés
Eagle Grove
Anamosa
Body of Burlington jeweler brought home
The body of M. C. Conner, a well known Burlington jeweler, who died at Gibraltar while on a health tour of Europe, arrived home. He was one of Burlington's best known and most popular citizens.
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Burlington
M. C. Conner
Gibraltar
Europe
San Francisco dispatch on Iowa official and zoology trip
The Hon George Dobson of Iowa arrives in Oakland to sail for Hangchow and begin duties as consul. Dr Dailey of Coe College departs for British Honduras to study local fauna and collect specimens for the Coe College museum during his summer assignment with a government party.
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San Francisco
George Dobson
Iowa
Oakland
China
Hangchow
Cedar Rapids
Dailey
Department of Zoology
Coecollege
British Honduras
Coe College Museum
Government to send experts to Ames dairy building
A five year agreement between the government and the state agricultural college at Ames provides for the government to send an expert chemist and an expert bacteriologist to conduct experiments. The college recently completed a new dairy building, deemed the finest of its kind, which will be open to the government experts for use.
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Des Moines
State Agricultural College
Ames
State College
Webster
Washington
Executive council starts in July to set property values
The board of equalization will begin hearings on July 1 to adjust real estate assessments. The council plans to review rail line influences as soon as possible, with reports awaited from the Noorrh- Wealers and several lines including Iowa Coulee, Wabash, Burlington, and Great Western.
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Board of Equalization
Songs That Reached Men's Hearts and Civil War Verse
The piece recalls how war poetry emerged from Civil War trials and triumphs. It highlights Francis Miles Finch and his poem The Blue and the Gray in a Massachusetts Atlantic Monthly debut and explains Sherman’s March to the Sea as told by S H M Byers. It notes public reception, cross‑regional responses, and the poem’s lasting fame.
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Francis Miles Finch
Say
Boston Herald
North
South
Columbus
Miss
New York Tribune
Mias
Ithaca
N. Y
Finch
Atlantic Monthly
Boston
Sherman
S. H. M. Byers
Pennsylvania
Des Moines
Ian
Atlanta
Georgia
Ocean
Lincoln
Columbia
South Carolina
Confederacy
Savannah
Major Isett
Offcer
Rockwell
Music Houses
Grant
Carolinas
Thirsty Beers and a Publican's Thirst for Profit
A London publican, Thomas Sands of Westbourne Park Road, Paddington, fined £5 for adding green copperas to beer to arouse thirst. Inland revenue officers found twelve pounds of copperas per barrel, raising questions about disguising taste to drive repeat sales and nonstop income.
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Marleybone
London
Pittsburg
Thomas Sands
Westbourne Park Road
Paddington
Hawkins
Inland Revenue
Sands’ House
Mr. Plowden
Plowden
Interview with Royalty: Boy Meets William IV and Queen Adelaide
Henry IP Coke recalls an early 19th century interview with King William IV in naval uniform and Queen Adelaide. The boy remembers the throne, a question about his future as a sailor, a gold snuff box, and a coin given by the queen before being passed back to his mother.
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England
Rolling Stone
Henry IP
Coke
William IV
Queen Adelaide
Nelson
Adelaide
The Supremely Tactless Man at Dinner Party
Miss Helen Miller Gould cites tactlessness in a tale of a man who left his wife’s guest to sit with another woman at dinner. She questions whether such behavior is truly tactful while the wife recalls the missed opportunity to ask about the switch. The husband says he avoided Mrs A and told Mrs B nothing.
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Helen Miller Gould
Miss Gould
Mrs.a
It Doesn’t Pay In Campaign Life Says Illinois State Journal
A satirical verse laments political theater and endorsements that matter little to voters. It notes the allure of speeches and campaigns, contrasted with paying the bills and duties of everyday life. The poem ends with a jab at politicians who forget to settle their tab.
A Son of the Wheat Man and a Stock Manipulator
Thomas W. Lawson likens a stock manipulator to Ike the Paint Rock farmer. He vows to act deliberately, like the farmer’s son who toiled all morning to count his father’s wheat, while the lad confessed his father had little left.
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Thomas W. Lawson
Ike
Paint Rock
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