Audits shake up Iowa offices and rail questions
Des Moines reports Auditor B F Carroll cleans house in state offices except two deputies. Pension agent urges immediate cashing of about 38000 uncashed checks as Richard Clarkson prepares to take over. Iowa railroad report shows totals, wages, and injuries, with court rulings on city waterworks funding and army post expansion.
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Iowa
Des Moines
B. F. Carroll
Auditor of State
William Lewis
Amos Brandt
Brandt
Lewis
de O. Roe
Frank Paul
Manchester
C. L. Pennington
Bloomfield
Max Beehler
D. S. McKee
Mediapolis
S. M. Cormany
Woodbine
Fred W. Thompson
Thompson
M.A. Buchan
Berryhill
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
E. F. Sperry
Iowa-Nebraska Pension Agency
Richard P. Clarkson
Clarkson
Senate
State Railroad Commission
Turner
Des Moines Army Post
War Department
Mitchellville Institution For Girls
Board of Control
Davenport
Soldiers’ Orphans
Insane Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Mitchellville
Mutual Insurance Association
Bes Moines Neeting
Capitol Improvement Commission
State House
Capitol
Philip
Fiske
Boston
Fore River Ship Company
Quincy
Mass
Brenton
Thomas Nast dies in Guayaquil after illness
Consul General Thomas Nast dies in Guayaquil Ecuador after a three day illness from yellow fever. He was born in Landau Bavaria in 1840 and rose to fame as a leading caricaturist and cartoonist shaping Civil War era political imagery.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Thomas Nast
New York
Landau
Bavaria
United States
Daily Press
Nast
Leslie
School of Design
New York Illustrated News
England
Teenan
Sayres
Harper’s
Lincoln
Doans Kidney Pills End chronic back and kidney pain
Capt Alfred G Rigler of Hose Co No 4 Canton Ohio reports a lifelong kidney condition worsened to constant pain and urinary weakness before Doan's Kidney Pills provided relief. He endorses the remedy, noting improved kidney function after a short course and urges others to try it. A free trial is offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and Doan's is sold nationwide at 50 cents per box.
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Alfred G. Rigler
Hose Company No. 4
Canton
Ohio
Donn
Doan
Dean
Rigler
United States
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N.Y
EK. Paxton CO
Columbus Av
Boston
S. B. Hartman
Columbus
Sisters of Charity
Peruna Medicine Co
Tartanan
Worthington Convicted In Melbourne For Fraud
Mail from Australia reports Arthur Bentley Worthington once active in Salt Lake City and Detroit as a founder of the Students of Truth has been convicted in Melbourne. He allegedly duped a young widow out of 5000 pounds by posing as a clergyman and now awaits sentence.
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London
Australia
Arthur Bentley Worthington
Salt Lake City
Texas
Detroit
Canada
Students of Truth
Charleston
Melbourne
Worthington
United States
Two Local Suicides At Little's Hotel In Indianapolis
Robert Killian a musician from St Louis and Thomas Sharp a Meek Street resident died by their own actions in Indianapolis Sunday. Killian used morphine while Sharp harmed himself with rough on rats and died after being taken to the city hospital. Both men rented rooms Saturday night and were strangers to each other.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert Killian
St. Louis
Thomas Sharp
Meek Street
Little’s Hotel
Killian
Sharp
City Hospital
Wisdom of the dying man and the angel in the Koran
A quotation from the Koran notes that survivors seek the departed’s legacy of deeds while the angel questions the good deeds sent ahead, framing moral reckoning at life’s end.
Valuable Pointers About Texas Book Free On Request
A 144 page profusely illustrated volume on current conditions and prospects in Texas is available free on request. James Barker, agent, M. Ko & Th. Ry., 6501 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis. The note includes a Punch magazine cartoon caption about Miss Spooner and a polite chair gesture.
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Lone Star State
James Barker
M. Ko
Prison expansion urged with hefty tenchures
The Kansas City Journal quotes a dialogue portraying a demand for many prison expansions with million dollar tenures, arguing current penny peniten tiaries trap penny rascal inmates and fail to deter crime.
St Jacobs Oil touted for cures and sales across states
An 1900s promotional column touts St Jacobs Oil as a cure for rheumatism with numerous testimonials from readers and merchants. It includes assorted endorsements from George Scleyer, Mrs. Eberle, Rev. Pick, and others, plus mentions of other popular remedies and humorous quips.
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St. Jacobs Oil
George Scleyer
Chilton
Wis
Volksbate
St. Jacobs
Fred Eberle
Bellaire
B. Pick
Rochester
N. Y
Louis Hinkel
Mast
Poesten
Kill
Geo. G. Iliffe
Palestine
Otto Puls
Reading
Wrisco System New Observation Cafe Cars
Observation cafe cars operate on through chair car and Pullman sleeper service. The Mrisco System runs on STL and KC trains under red Harvey with free library observation rooms and platforms, easy chairs, reading materials, papers, and electric lifts and fans for passenger comfort. Trains depart Saint Louis and Kansas City daily via the risea System.
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Mrisco
Stx
Saint Louis
Kansas City
Red Harvey
Lonik
Risea
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National Guard
Hury
Harvester Combine
Marshall County
Marshal County
Silvara
Supreme Court
Henry FE. Fields
State Normal School
Tie
State Supreme Court
Missouri
Ernest Reed
C. E. Reed
Ruthven
Elk Lake
Titomas Nast
A, Worthington
America
Italy
Rome
Venezuela
Castro
Cincinnati
Brunswick, Balke, Callender Company
Union Savings & Trust Company
Chicago
Spooner
Yana
Ned
Mkansas City Journal
Chicago Daily News
Hale
Pike
Chicago Journal
Mulhall
Sioux City
Puck
Auifornia Fic Syed
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville, Ky
New York, N. Y
Mainstac Orkom
Lyon Manufacturing Co
South 5Th St
Brooklyn
Spain
Montgomery Ward & CO
Box Q
Atlanta, GA
Permaaney
Tartman
Mich
Meelison
Napoleon
Ohi
David Meelsison
Hartman
Papa
Th. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columnus
Wrisco
Richland
Nora
Anakesis Trerge
Kim Hr Tran
California
Golden State Limited
el Paso
Rock Island
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
A Jno
Sebastian
T.I.M
Chicago, Ill
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