Wreck Kills Forty-Nine on Great Western Line North of Green Mountain
A train collision on the Great Western Railroad near Green Mountain Marshall county killed forty nine and injured many as a rain soaked detour caused the Chicago Rock Island Pacific double train to crash at thirty miles per hour. Names of the deceased and injured list residents from Waterloo Cedar Rapids Minneapolis and other Iowa towns with several from Texas and Minnesota.
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Great Western Railroad
Green Mountain
Marshall County
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Great Western
Auschwager
Lauren
Minneapolis
Minn
Anderson
Lizzie
Vinton
Bambridge
John
Hartford
Conn
Betts
Thomas G
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Blair G. W
Sedalia
Bunt
George P
Waterloo
Eves
C. G
West Branch
Fisher
F. F
Fieck
William
Faust
Davis
Dalhart
Texas
Goodenough
J. S
Heacock
N. C
Westiberty
Hott, Caeser
P. O
Clerk
Nagle
A. H
Parish
Milton
Cedarville
Parrish
L. W
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Peak
Mrs
Gladbrook
Pennington
H. L
Galesburg
J. Phillips
Anthony
Price
Archie
Negro Porter
Purvis
Bessie
Washington
Robinson
Ross
Geo
Tangen
Ingebret L
Northwood
Town
Ward
White
Andrew J
Negro
St. Paul
Worthington
Great Western Pilot
Marshalltown
Young
Jennie
Supervisors Proceeding Day One March 7 1910
The board met with all members present and approved February 1 minutes. The Watson justice of the peace report and Madison township road report were entered. Various payments and bond approvals followed including Cedar Rapids National Bank 80000. The day ended with adjournment to March 8.
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Finn
Noyes
Murfield
Hale
Thomson
O. O. Watson
Madison Township
Calvert Co
O. F. Countryman
W.T. Sears
Chas. Sherman
Bridge Timber
Bert Clark
W.H. Preston
G. H. Andrews
J.N. Smith
J. A. McDonald
Thos. Dawson
Plank
A. E. Porter
C. W. Preston
Leech
Anamosa
Martele
Citizens Exchange Bank
Oxford Junction
First National Bank
Olin
Farmers Savings Bank
Martelle
Citizens Savings Bank
Oxford Junction Savings Bank
Onslow Savings Bank
Onslow
Cedar Rapids National Bank
Louis Gardner
Obituary: Horace P. Johnson Dies at 68 in Wyoming Iowa
Horace Porter Johnson aged 68 years 4 months 17 days died quietly early Monday March 21 1910 in Wyoming Iowa He was born November 4 1841 in Lagrange Lorain County Ohio and lived in Jones County since childhood He served as mayor of Oxford Junction and twice as Wyoming postmaster He was a Presbyterian church member and a Wyoming cemetery board trustee The funeral was held March 23 at the Presbyterian church Rev W H Sisley officiating
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Horace P. Johnson
Horace Johnson
Horace Porter Johnson
Lagrange
Lorain County
Ohio
Jones County
Pleasant Ridge
Lenox College
Hopkinton
Adelia Hogeboom
Mattie Elnora
Kate ‘Tasker
Mae Peck
Johnson
Presbyterian Church
Oxford Junction
Cleveland
Wyoming Cemetery Board of Trustees
W. H. Sisley
Maxwell
Iowa
Education Board Elects Officers and Fixes Teacher Salaries
The board of education met in regular session electing J. W. Coxsee as president and J. W. Doxsee as chair. T. M. Redmond qualified as director. Bonds were approved for E. G. Hicks at 10000 dollars. Assistant high school salaries set at sixty dollars monthly, stenography post left open. drawing and music teacher salaries at fifty five dollars. The meeting adjourned.
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Board of Education
J. W. Coxsee
J. E. Bateman
F. A. Hefner
George Inglis
F. B. Bolton
J. W. Doxsee
T. M. Redmond
J. W.doxsee
E. G. Hicks
Hidden Hand Dramatic Adaptation at Olympic Mar 31 1910
Mrs Southworths The Hidden Hand appeals to many creating a new drama by Eugene Moore. Fred G Conrad produces the dramatization to be shown at the Olympic opera house on March 31 1910 with Capitola and Black Donald as key figures. The play blends comedy pathos and romance against a Blue Ridge Mountain setting.
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Black Donald
Moore
Blue Ridge Mountain
He is Entitled to a Free Year
In Anamosa this week the Hureka office welcomed T. E. Booth as a venerable contact. E. M. Harvey called to renew his subscription, noting it was his fifty third such visit, a remarkable pattern that endears subscribers to the editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Hureka
T. E. Booth
E. M. Harvey
Harvey
Senator Cum ming defends government business methods
Fremont Tribune notes Cum ming, a versatile statesman, surprised some by defending government department business methods, a shift from his usual attacking specialty.
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Fremont Tribune
Cumming
Monticello Baseball Team Spurs Community Action
The piece urges Monticello to form a baseball team this summer. It calls for a prominent local business leader to organize efforts, elect officers, and boost support despite losing players to Dowden, Rogers, and Hollingsworth. It argues for affordable, well run plans to avoid a dull season.
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Monticello
Anamosa
Cascade
Manchester
Strawberry Point
Dowden
Indiana
Rogers
Dubuque
Hollingsworth
Galveston
H. YF. P
Real estate transfers in Anamosa and surrounding towns
A series of real estate deeds record transfers of land and lots in Anamosa Monticello Langworthy Moore Oxford Junction and neighboring areas. Transactions include Mary L Washburn to George Jackson for multiple lots and various parcels to and from Dubuque Realty Co Ira Oshler and others, with prices ranging from 500 to 17000 dollars and dates reflecting sec townships and ranges.
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H. M. Dirks
W. M. Dirks
Diedrich Dirks
Langworthy
Q. c
Robert
J. H. Fisher
Anamona
Gerd Janssen Dirks
Johanna Dirks
Dubuque Realty Co
Ira C. Oshler
Railrooad
Monticello
Edgar A. Hubbard
Nellie Hubbard
Henry Kray
H. B. Fortney
Merritt B. Fortney
Olin
Wyoming
Wm. Farnham
Jas
Jacob H. Miller
Nely Swit
Selj
M. M. Mott
Katharine M. Richardson
Anamosa
Fairview
Wm. Schodde
John H. Eden
H. P. Hansen
Frank Kolarik
Moore and Flannigan
Oxford Junction
John Young
Jay Sherman
Emerelt Spade
Albert Bizek
Martin Fritz
Rudolph Qcreenwald
John Hein
Paul A. Jacobs
Edw
J. Herren
J. B. Hutton
Henry Null
Charles Vanderham
Louisa K. Vanderham
Charles Mix
Dak
Robert C. Stirton
Owl
Matt Miller
John Shore
Sec
School rumors and student news from Onslow Iowa
A round of notes from Onslow High School covers lost and found, upcoming vacations, staff absences due to family illness, and seniors beginning ovations. Students discuss a recent eighth grade play The Courtship of Miles Standish, upcoming class fights in toga, and a music class recital. Local vendor Noyes offers California fruit nearly at cost.
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F. B. Bolton
Warnecke
Barry
Adams
Miles Standish
Opera
Rex Rickless
California
N. B. Noyes
Onslow
Iowa
Elusive Mission Ends With a Revolutionary Wife
An undercover agent recounts tracking Vera Treperhoff from Italy toward America after a failed ambush aboard a Genoa bound train. He misjudges her escape then meets her in a steamer chair in America, learns she outsmarted him via a side rail Y junction, and later marries her turning her into a devoted revolutionary spouse.
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Sergius
Vera Treperhoff
Austria
Venice
America
England
Genoa
Naples
Vera Lieperhoff
Alessandria
Moscow
Vera
Siberia
Russia
Vern Treperhoff
Piacenza
The Lash of a Fiend Cough Relief Promoted
Oswego New York resident A Cooper suffers a long night cough before trying Dr King s New Discover which cured him. The ad claims quick relief for colds coughs sore lungs la grippe asthma and more with a 50 cent trial and free trial bottle offered by O H Joetje.
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A. Cooper
Oswego
N. Y
O. H. Joetje
Clothing merchants relocate from Monticello to Manchester
The few clothing men who once operated in the Henderson building moved their stock to Manchester hoping to sell more goods than in Monticello. Hiram Arnold of Chicago, a former Jones county sheriff, visited local acquaintances last week. Fred Hardin, a Monticello painter recently working in Anamosa, was taken to a sanitarium there with typhoid fever. The Chicago Tribune notes Pinchot grows more cautious as the investigation continues. Attorney Vertrees asks Pinchot his age and he replies forty four or forty five.
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Henderson
Manchester
Monticello
Hiram Arnold
Chicago
Jones County
Fred Hardin
Anamosa
Chicago Tribune
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Cures Long-Standing Eczema
Watertown resident J A Swensen credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for healing ten years of eczema after 15 doctors failed. Advertises the salve as effective for skin eruptions, boils, fever sores, burns, scalds, cuts, and piles at 25 cents through O H Soetje.
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J. A. Swensen
Watertown
Wis
Bucklen
O. H. Soetje
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School Board
J. N. Peterson
E Foster
Jarman
Charlotte Adams
Josephine M Barry
Jessie Warnecke
Seeane
F B Bolton
Wee
Alica Whiting
Rachel R Megee
Florence Babcock
M Locher
Nellie Wale
Aletha Babcock
Elsie Bender
Pearl Green
Sereran
Grace Young
Florence Hefne
Ord
Bolton
Setence
Rachel R Magee
Jesse Warneke
B Sloan
Eclipse Lumber Co
Slauson
Ravanes
Peterson
Jin Peterson
JN Peterson
Kobt Young
Wood
Chris Tchantz
Monticello Electric Co
Voorhees Cou! Co
Jones County Times
Eaeaee
The
Olin Recorder
Mary L. Washburn
George Jackson
Scott and
Skinner
Strawberry Hill
Erin
Pat
Winslow Hunt
American Press Association
K ‘Bak
Edison
Victor
Locher Brothers
C. W. Brown
Jennie Armstrong
Puleston
Plymouth Rocks
F. H. Oltman
Perkins, Eclipse and Star -Wind
Leroy Clark
Minnesota
Kansas
Colorado
J. A. Voorhees
James Leech
Scotch Grove Township
R. O. Stirton
Timothy Sheed
Timothy
J. C. Balster
Scotch Grove
Locher Bros
Holison
Singer and Wheeler & Wilson
Fred Doerrmann
Main Street
Towa
Barney Coffman
Oph.d
Davenport
Lovell House
District Court
Jake Arduser
Charles Schmeiter
Casper Arduser
H. G. A. Harper
Jones Co
State of
Nancy Corbett
A. D
Blon K
Rk. C. Walters
Fred Puleston
Eilers & Holton
Oslls
E. E. Reed
Burrichter's Drygoods
Monticalio
W. E. Daly
Actioneer
Amber
Nye
E. Vogel, Jeweler
Cc. F. Pepin
Bort
W. First St
A. M. Maurice
Shallenberger
Lovell
Dr. Shallenberger
W. E. Shallenberger
Lake Ave
Chicago, Illinois
Drexel State Bank
Rach
Central Lumber & Coal Co
G. P. Rookstad
Nature
W. W. Stickford
Frank Carroll
Dalbey & Carroll
South 3Rd Street
Inglig & Stuhler
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