Interesting Iowa News items about Taft visit and local incidents
J W Jarnagin reports scenes from Iowa towns including Eagle Grove where a freshman missed breakfast with former President Taft after staying at the Luther Brewer home in Cedar Rapids. Other items cover a highway collision near Corning, punchboard scams spreading in northwest Iowa, a polecat in a Corning auto, a Hawarden wedding delayed by snow, a dog Pal surviving eight days, a baby model for ads in Sidney, a Hawarden girl with heart on the right, a Spirit Lake Ford Model T aging well, Mine 9 miners hunting a rabbit in a shaft 168 feet underground.
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Dc. L. McDowell
Eagle Grove
Wright County
United States
State University of Iowa
Luther Brewer
Cedar Rapids
Brewer
William Howard Taft
McDowell
Taft
Miner Rescued After Glove Sled Work Succeeds
A strange accident ended when a miner slid into the shaft and survived. Fellow miners pulled him to the surface, gave him assistance, and released him safely at the top.
Silver fox taken by Iowa hunter rare feat for region
Eddie Fellmuth near Northwood Worth county shot a wild silver fox at the E. C. Seater farm after spotting it in the yard. The pelt is valued at about 40 to 50 dollars. Separately, L. H. Green of Rembrandt Buena Vista county bought and mounted a small snowplow on his truck to cope with winter drifts.
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Iowa
Eddie Fellmuth
Northwood
Worth County
Fellmuth
E. C. Seater Farm
L. H. Green
Rembrandt
Buena Vista County
Tombstones and False Doors in Egypts Ancient Tombs
The article traces Egypts tomb evolution from first dynasty round topped stelae to giant pyramid tombs. Offerings for the dead were placed on tables and lowered into niches called false doors for spirits to pass through when visiting the living. Later commoners copied kings creating simple tomb markers with surviving false door motifs.
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Egypt
Ground-bell tower claims world uniqueness at East Bergholt
In Suffolk's East Bergholt a church houses its bells on the ground with a wooden belleage between them. The 1450 Gabriel bell, 1601 Mary inscription, and 1727 coin-marked tenor form a famed ringers’ set. The tower’s ringer uses a wooden stick and ropes mainly for chimneys.
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Suffolk
East Bergholt
London
Chicago Tribune
Cardinal Wolsey
Chimminy
Gabriel
Mary
Charles I
Palm Sunday Concert at El Kabir Shrine Cedar Rapids
The El Kabir Shrine Temple in Cedar Rapids presents a Palm Sunday concert on March 21 in the Shrine Auditorium seating 2500. The Shrine band of 45 plus 40 guest musicians rehearsed under William Vesely will perform with vocal and instrumental solos and no admission charge.
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el Kabir Shrine Temple
Cedar Rapids
Shrine
William Vesely
Central West
Oxford Junction Man Shoots Self Thursday
George Bizek, 38, of Oxford Junction, died after shooting himself Thursday on the way to a hospital. He was son of Mr and Mrs Frank Bizek, unmarried, living with parents. Surviving brothers include Charles of Chicago and Ed Louie and Fred at home. He was born and raised in Oxford Junction and spent most of his life nearby. cause of the act is unknown.
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George Bizek
Oxford Junction
Prank Bizek
Charles
Chicago
Louie
Fred
Giant fossil tortoise shell found in India
A fossil tortoise shell unearthed in India measures over seven feet long and suggests a body mass near a ton. The report notes birds circling rising air columns must ride the currents to stay aloft, or else they must flap to continue.
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India
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