Interesting Events Of Iowa News
A collection of short Iowa items: L. B. Hoofnagle and family of Hampton picked up two young men whose car had ditched after a Mason City robbery. the Sibley alarm system failed to trigger a real crime when the treasurer’s buzzer malfunctioned. In Renwick a bullsnake was found inside a removed gas pump area, possibly embedded for years. Elkader tears down its 65-year-old ice house with a new smaller one rising. Knoxville crews watch a clerk pretend a dance with matches in his vest pocket. Spencer farmer Emil Groth yields 106 bushels daily over 18 days. Cedar Rapids student John W. Linsley builds a 17-foot Eskimo kayak, only one in Iowa. Eagle Grove man Ivan Wigaard storms a relief office, gets jailed 30 days. Red Oak druggist opens Christmas morning, declines chloroform for a dog. Garden Grove’s 33-year-old aged mare Bert Kentner dies. Marathon man William R. Gillispie, missing five years, found in North Carolina.
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Emil Groth
Spencer
Clay County
Groth
Gillispie Alive but in Veterans Hospital with TB
Regina Pierson, Buena Vista county recorder, received a discharge papers request for Gillispie and later a letter from him. He is in a veterans hospital at Oteen North Carolina suffering from tuberculosis and must remain two years. His wife has two children, one born since his disappearance. Wesley Thomas, known as Doe, completes sixty years as a What Cheer businessman in Keokuk county since 1874. Now confined to a wheelchair, he still directs his tobacco and confectionery business.
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Gillispie
Regina Pierson
Buena Vista County Recorder
Oteen
N. C
Wesley Thomas
What Cheer
Keokuk County
Thomas
Doe
Springfield
Petersburg
Prairie City man fooled by lookalike car swap
Earl Frank of Prairie City in Jasper county was tricked when a Colfax resident claimed his car had been driven off. He borrowed a vehicle that looked identical to his, but the owner’s car remained nearby, and both parties laughed off the mix up after resolution. In a separate incident in Fonda, a man attacked Marshal George Kinney’s home in revenge, slashing a glass door and confessing after blood stains led to his capture.
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Earl Frank
Prairie City
Jasper County
E. J. Peters
Colfax
Peters
Frank
Fonda
Pocahontas County
George Kinney
Marshal Kinney
Tragedy: Traer man dies in accidental rifle discharge
Marvin Winters, 23, of Traer Tama county, died after a .22 rifle discharged while he held it to his body. A hunting dog reportedly brushed the trigger causing the loaded gun to fire into his abdomen. Authorities note it as another fatal firearm accident.
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Marvin Winters
Traer
Tama County
Radio Laughs Reveal Daughters Echo and Local Dramas
Fragments recount a Decorah man recognizing his daughter Frances’s laugh from a Jack Benny broadcast 2000 miles away. Other notes cover a Fort Dodge police car seized to satisfy a $350 judgment, a Santa actor burned by a prank, corn cob fuel lines at Adams ranch, and a Cass county couple surviving on goat meat until theft.
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Frances
B. M. Graham
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Jack Benny
Jack
Graham
University of Southern California
Grahams
Fort Dodge
Webster County
Ida Walton
Maurice Breen
Breen
Judge Hornby Suspends Fessenden Sentence After Celebration
Fessenden, who claimed mixed luck with job loss and wife leaving then returning, celebrated by getting drunk and was arrested. Judge John Hornby accepted the sequence of events as grounds for clemency, suspending the sentence and releasing him.
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John Hornby
Fessenden
Webster City father dies after transfusion to save daughter
Fred Beisner, 62, of Webster City in Webster County, died after donating blood to aid his daughter who had just given birth to triplets. The daughter and two of the triplets died, ending the courage shown by the father in a dramatic medical sacrifice.
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Fred Beisner
Webster City
Webster County
Beisner
Way Back in Monticello Remembered by Local Resident
A nostalgic recollection recalls Monticello's past when railways ran on cord wood, residents crossed the Maquoketa by rope bridge for Fourth of July, wagons lined Proctor’s store to unload grain, and neighbors shared crocks of cord wood and dried apples. It notes old telephones, sociables, and church offerings, with crowds, protests, and community acts shaping a close knit era.
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Monticello
Maquoketa
Proctor's
Anamosa
Fireproof Floors Now Within Farmers' Reach
Iowa State College agricultural engineer Professor Henry Giese announces a new fireproof flooring system for rural homes, schools, barns, and farm buildings. Precast hollow tile beams, perfected by C. T. Bridgman, cost about 25 to 28 cents per square foot for small farms, with higher costs for heavier barn structures. Construction uses inverted T-shaped tile units, cement, steel reinforcing, and a concrete topping. floors resist fire and termites, eliminate squeaks, and can be built by two workers with options for carpeting or hardwood over concrete. Tests show comparable or greater strength than standard wood floors, with easy cleaning in barns for fire protection.
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Henry Giese
Iowa State College
C. T. Bridgman
Professor Giese
Middle West
Giese
Agricultural Engineering Department
Ames
Leum
Iowa State
Items Of Occurrences Twenty-Five Years Ago
Monticello notes recall obituaries and marriages from twenty five years ago with Mrs Eliza Sloan Fawcett buried in Oakwood Cleveland died at eighty in Monticello Marie Clark dies after ten day illness at eighty in Monticello Henry W Perrine dies at eighty eight in Siloam Springs Arkansas Bricks daughter of Dara Bricks marries Addie Murphy Lands couple Ernest and wife welcome a son Balsiger wed Samuel Semmert of Dubuque Balear officiates Henry Cha-
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Wood Cemetery
Eliza Sloan Fawcett
J. W. Coxsee
Cleveland
Ohio
Monticello
Oak
Marie Clark
John Clark
Henry W. Perrine
J. S. Perrine
F. M. Podhaski
Alt Siloam Springs
Arkansas
Charles Bricks
Dara Bricks
Addie Murphy
Waterloo
Ernest Landis
Prieda Balsiger
Samuel Semmert
Dubuque
B. T. Balear
Henry Cha
Monticello Sacred Heart Church Event On 28th
Loupka and Mary Valanta, also occurred on the 28th, at the Sacred Heart church in Monticello.
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Loupka
Mary Valanta
Sacred Heart Church
Monticello
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Iowa
J. W. Jarnagin
Sibley
Osceola County
Snake Story
Renwick
Humboldt County
Walter Craig
Ralph Anderson
S. H. Klassie
Turkey River
Elkader
Clayton County
L. C. Leath
Joe Kramer
Knoxville
Marion County
Frank Fisher
Eskimo Sport
John W. Linsley
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Far North
Linsley
Ivan Wigaard
Eagle Grove
Wright County
Miss Ruth Wesp
Miss Wesp
Wigaard
Red Oak
Montgomery County
Ralph
Bert Kentner
Garden Grove
Decatur County
Mentner
William R. Gillispie
Marathon
Buena Vista County
North Carolina
Albert Bender
Grant
Cass County
Omaha
Baty
California
Brown Beauty Coffee
Chase “Urorn
Roosevelt
Winterset
Madison County
Carlton Smith
Smith
Ed M. Smith
Corpee
Santa
Osceola
Clarke County
Santa Claus
Milt Ford
Adams Ranch
Odeboit
Sac County
Paul Steffin
Atlantic
Harvey Fessenden
Davenport
Scott County
Penick Ford
Ibs
Methodist Church
Ling
Austria
Hawkeye Gazette
Princess
John Boles
Dixie Lee
Charlie Chan
Shanghai
Kay Francis
Stella Parisis
Sanders
Eeting
Germantown
Scranton
Stevens P
Shirley Temple
Axminster
Neavy
Beery
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