De Graff Sworn In As Polk County Judge in Des Moines
Governor Carroll appointed Lawrence De Graff to succeed Jesse A. Miller on the Polk County district bench. The Polk board of supervisors named Assistant County Attorney Thomas Guthrie to the vacancy. DeGraff was sworn in at 2 p.m. and took over the criminal division, with Judge Howe reassigned to the equity bench.
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Thomas Guthrie
Board of Supervisors
Lawrence DeGraff
Des Moines
Carroll
Lawrence
Graff
Polk County
Jesse
A. Miller
De-Graff
de Graff
Polk County Board ‘of Supervisors
McHenry
Howe
Equity
Golden Peake of Dr and Mrs Van Ambérg Celebrate Wedding
A large gathering at the Van Ambérg home near Charles City marked the celebration of Nora Golden Peake’s wedding to Dr Van Ambérg. The couple, long time Iowa residents since 1862, came from Beloit Wisconsin after their marriage. Dr Van Ambérg, 71, has been prominent with Charles City College. his wife is 70.
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Gelebrate
Golden
Nora
B. van Ambérg
Charles City
van Ambérs
Iowa
Beloit
Wis
van Amberg
Charles
Husking Record Set By Nevada Farmer John Mayne
John Mayne, a young farmer near Colo Nevada, completed a notable corn husking season. He husked and cribbed 2,044 bushels at an average of 11 344 bushels per day despite light yield and bad weather this season.
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Nevada
John Mayne
Colo
Four Die in Explosion Near Ollie Bell Mine
Four men died in a blast at a powder house at the Ollie Bell mine mouth two miles south of Benton. Victims include John Oldberg 40 Benton Wik, H I Sullivan 34 Lead Mine Wis, C H Morton 24, and Thomas Clegg 30 New Diggins Wis.
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Dubuque
John Oldberg
Benton, Wik
H.l Sullivan
Wis
C. H. Morton
Thomas Clegg
New Diggins
Ollie’ Bell
Benton
Council Revokes Milk License in Waterloo
Waterloo city council acting as board of health revokes the license of Sindinger Sanitary Dairy to sell milk and cream for violating the ordinance requiring milk and cream to come only from tested cows.
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Waterloo
Board ‘of Health
Sindinger Sanitary Dairy
Iowa Farmer to Be Judge at National Stock Show
Lake City Iowa farmer C D Martin of Churdan has been selected to judge Angus breeding cattle at the national stock show in Denver next month. He has also been named to a committee to judge the steers at the event.
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Iowa
Lake City
C.- d.Martin
Celebrate Golden Wedding of Nevada Couple Nickerson
Mr and Mrs John Nickerson celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on a ranch west of town. Thirty guests attended from Nebraska Illinois and other states.
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Golden
Nevada
John Nickerson
Here
Nebraska
Illinois
States
Big Cigar Factory Sold in Oskaloosa
After twenty two years under the same management the C. Hower Cigar Co. was sold to Frank E. Nowels. The factory is one of the largest in the state.
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Oskaloosa
C. ®. Hower Cigar Co
Frank E. Nowels
Prominent Woman Irene Gibbs Kirschbaum Dies at 82
Ottumwa reports the death of Irene Gibbs Kirschbaum aged 82, three days after reaching her eighty second mile. Former Burlington resident, she died at her daughter Mrs. Fred Hall’s home.
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Ottumwa
Irene Gibbs Kirschbaum
Burlington
Fred Hall
Farmer Rescues Self After Ice Hole Plunge
Atlantic Fred Hunt fell into an ice hole in the river near here. He froze his clothing to the ice edge to hold himself and pulled himself out, narrowly escaping drowning.
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Farmer
Fred Hunt
Dr. Gilmore Found Guilty In Gertrude Jackson Death
Anamosa Monticello physician J E Gilmore found guilty of performing a criminal operation that caused the death of Miss Gertrude Jackson after a two week trial. The verdict concludes the high profile case and awaits sentencing.
Trains by Telephone Debuts Successfully on C M St P Route
Cedar Rapids reports success of the new trains by telephone system on the C M St P line between Marion and Council Bluffs. The service is said to have proven effective from its launch with positive early results.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Council Bluffs
University of Iowa students mostly come from farms
Statistics show Iowa University students largely hail from farming families. Among arts college attendees the average age is 23.4 for women and 22.7 for men, reflecting more women over 25 pursuing college work than men.
Dairy license ruling blocks local fees in Council Bluffs
Judge Snyder of the superior court nullified the city’s dairy license ordinance ruling that the state alone collects dairy licenses and local statutes do not authorize such fees. The decision leaves health board powers to enforce tuberculin tests and other safety measures intact.
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Council Bluffs
Snyder
Superior Court
Health Board
Lake City Hunting Booms As Snow Reveals Rabbits
In Calhoun county forests the recent heavy snow has lured many hunters. Cottontails are abundant, allowing even young boys to kill scores with clubs. Muskrat and mink populations rise, with occasional skunks and opossums found.
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Lake ‘City
Calhoun ‘County
Old Ladies Home Promised For Aged Women In Iowa City
The Mary O. Coldren Home for Aged Women will open in spring in Iowa City. Funded by Stevens O. Coldren, the facility is being fitted out and has many applicants awaiting admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Stevens O. Coldren
Milwaukee Road surveys new line east of Charles City
Surveyors for the Milwaukee Road under assistant engineer Paul Montgomery map a new eastward line from Charles City to ease grades shorten distance and remove curves. A possible extension between Lawler and Wacoma is considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
Milwaukee Road
Charles City
Paul Montgomery
Lawler
Wacoma
University of Iowa receives gift chair from state pen inmate
President G. F. Mac Lean of the University of Iowa has been given a chair by Warden Sanders of Fort Madison State Penitentiary as a Christmas token. The chair was crafted by a man serving a life term in the pen.
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Iowa City
G. F. MacLean
University of Iowa
Sanders
Fort Madison
Iowa's Biggest Chicken Hawk Shot in Sidney Area
Samuel Mitchell, the son of Robert Mitchell, killed the county's largest chicken hawk. The bird, 4 feet 8 inches from wing tip to wing tip, had caused extensive losses to local poultry flocks near Sidney Iowa.
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Iowa
Sidney
Samuel Mitchell
Robert Mitchell
Man Falls Twenty Feet Injuring Brick Plant Foreman
William Booth, pit foreman at the American Brick and Tile company, fractured ribs when he plunged twenty feet onto frozen clay and tools. The inury was severe though not fatal at the scene.
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Mason City
William Booth
American Brick and Tile Company
Suit for damages against physician in Clinton
Dr. J. D. Hullinger is defendant in a $10 000 suit arising from the Cramer case of last year. The suit follows the physician's arrest for causing the death of Alice Cramer during a criminal operation.
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Clinton
J. D. Hullinger
Cramer
Alice Cramer
Four wed in double wedding at Allison parsonage
Four well known young people participated in a double wedding at the M E B parsonage in Allison. The couples were Fred Christiansen with Miss Katie Westerman and Charles Hiller with an unnamed partner.
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Allison
Iowa
M. EB. Parsonage
Fred Christiansen
Katie Westerman
Charles Hiller
Six Goedken Sisters Enter Cloister in Dubuque
In Dubuque Miss Agnes Goedken and Miss Emma Goedken daughters of Mr and Mrs John G Goedken have entered the cloister making six daughters from the same family to renounce the world for church work.
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Veil
Dubuque
Agnes
Emma Goedken
John G. Goedken
Council Bluffs Restaurateur Passes After Illness
Taylor Woolsey, owner of a Council Bluffs restaurant for thirty years and resident for forty, died of Wrights disease.
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Council Bluffs
Taylor Woolsey
Wrights
Detroit Woman Drives Laundry Wagon for Fresh Air
Miss Chiooe Hunter of Detroit aged 20 enters the laundry business as a wagon driver boosting her firm’s sales by about 25 percent. She left clerical work for outdoor duties, hired a new clerk, and handles the route herself. She praises the work as easy, healthful, and exciting despite gawkers and social doubt.
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Chiooe Hunter
Detroit
Mich
Chioe Hunter
J. J. Callahan
Estabishment
Miss Hunter
Origin of the Boycott Word and Its Rise in Ireland
The term boycott traces to 1880 and Captain Boycott a farmer and land agent in Connemara. Tenants formed a secret compact to ruin both agent and absentee landlord Lord Ervé prompting a practice and word that spread across the English speaking world and European languages.
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Capt
Boycott
Lough Mask
Connemara
Lord Ervé
Ireland
The Childs Longing
A Delineator excerpt reflects on the ache of orphaned children craving affection and a steady guardian. It describes how youths seek warmth from any person offering care, even a stranger posing as an uncle, highlighting mass institutional loss and emotional hunger.
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Soying
Hps
Fuzzy Frank Demands a Drink and Operates Water Pump
In a dim scene, Fuzzy Frank asks for water and insists on turning the handle for several minutes while Lady offers the tumbler and points to the pump. The exchange hints at a tense domestic moment.
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Fuzzy. Frank
Fuzzy Frank
Deafness Cure Claim and Catarrh Notice
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers $100 for any case of catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Lightning Change Sparks Office Gossip
Maria, the spider-legged visitor who comes to see Bessie two or three times weekly, is identified as young Mr. Welloph the junior partner at Spotcash & Co. John wonders why she does not encourage him more.
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Maria
Bessie
John
Mr. Welloph
Spotcash & Co
Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago Eye Book Free
Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago offers a 48 page illustrated Eye Book free that guides proper application for eye troubles. Druggists say Marine remedies strengthen weak eyes soothe eye pain and do not smart, selling for 50 cents.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Fragmented quotes and health notes from a 19th century page
The excerpt mixes literary quotes about beauty and calumny with a medical tip for chest tightness and a line about memories shaping later happiness. It presents a mosaic of advice and witticisms from Victorian era sources, with references to Lavater, Hamlins Wizard Oil, and Dr Alexander Bain.
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Alexander Bain
Harvard Scored Yale Visitors Hunted Harried Campus
In Cambridge on the Yale Harvard game day two Yale students seek Harvard University but a grim Yale-hunting undergraduate explains the campus is closed with 80 Yale admirers in town.
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Harvard
Cambridge
New Haven
Yale
A Jar of Resinol Ointment for Skin Troubles
A nurse with twenty years of experience praises Resinol Ointment as the best remedy for skin troubles and eczema. The ointment is noted to have a cooling healing effect on sore nipples and is endorsed by Mrs. T. B. Henderson of Albany.
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T. B. Henderson
Albany
Just the Place
A terrified man flees into a doorway crying for help while declaring killers approach He is reassured by a calm proprietor who notes the setting is an undertaker establishment and unlikely to deter attackers. The exchange preserves a tense mood in a single dramatic moment.
Pious Prose and Punchy Patter from a Bygone Ad Page
A collage of vintage ad copy contrasts risqué flirtations with health pitches and consumer nags. It teases social woes, promotes Allen's Lung Balsam and PAZO OINTMENT for piles, touts cigars and education costs, and ends with a humorous jab at a boy in Sunday clothes.
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Foster
Lewis
William Foster
Foster's
Grand
Louis Bemis -of - Spencer
Grand Avenue
Colfax
Bob
Robert Hanley
Hanley
Newton
H. S. Russell
Rabbit Hunters
McLean
Bright
Doan
James Doan
J. R. Black
Roos
Dean
Black
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
W.nlu
Mes
James Crooks
First St
N. W
American Fork
Utah
Crooks
Miss Rogers
Fond
Wheeling. Va
Dalby
Miss Cayenne
Allen
Phare
National
National Daly Machine Company
Gouden
Ind
Teady Steights
Vivory
Standard Oil Company
W. Fe Young
Temple St
Springfield
Dus
Las Allen
Mall
J.2.allen
Dept. AL St.Paul
Minn
Arizona
Arizona Houthwehterrn Copper CO
Board of TradeHidge
Pueblo
Cal
Cascarets
Fred C. Witten
Elm St
Newark
N. J
Sterling Remedy Company
J. W. Underwood
Bank of Commerce Stuttgart
Ark
Don' Mlan
Clement Leonard
One Broadway
New York
Clir
Watson E. Coleman
Wash- P
Ingtop
D.C
Sixth Street
Philadelphia
Munson, Fenwick & Lawrence
Washington, D.C
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