Many Bridges Washed Out Prompting Highway Inquiries
The Iowa State Road Commission faced frequent inquiries on the new road law as Shelby and Carroll counties reported seventy five washed out bridges and sought instructions. An emergency provision allows waiving publication if a highway engineer certifies necessity while other counties, contracts and road maps drew attention across the state.
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Des‘ Moines
Cos
Shelby County
Highway Commission
Carroll County
Holden
F. R. White
Carroll and Harlan
B. Wright
Ames
Polk County
Commission
Skunk River
Fayette
Fremont
Henry
Union
West Union
Hawkeye
New Hampton
Quest for Blonde Eskimos Aims Arctic Continent Discovery
Stefansson the Blonde Eskimos discoverer returns from Europe to head a British backed Canadian expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. A 12 member team aboard the steam whaler Karluk plans summer exploration north through Behring Strait toward the Arctic coast with two anthropologists and two oceanographers aboard.
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American Museum of Natural History
New York
Stefanssen
Europe
Arctic
North Pole
Esquimault
B. C
Karluk
Hingland
Paris
Edward Janess
New Zealand
Behring Strait
Son is model for mother in painted likeness
James Concannon traveled from Kansas City to Lenora Kansas to secure a life like portrait of his mother. He saved seven months on a farm to pay two hundred fifty dollars for the painting which captures the features of his late mother and his own reflected likeness.
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Kansas City
James Concannon
Lenora
Kan
Concannon
Mantelpiece clocks fail when kept not level
A London clockmaker explains mantelpiece clocks go wrong when not perfectly horizontal. He notes people adjust hands to correct slant, causing the mechanism to misbehave until it stops ticking. Watches and traveling clocks differ and tolerate any position, so they are trusted for mobility.
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London
Visitation leads to arrest of 72 year old in Kansas
James M Goldsberry, 72, travelled from Nebraska to Leavenworth to visit his father Heyman Goldsberry, 103, an inmate at the Soldiers Home. He was arrested after drinking. Judge Brewster questioned sanity concerns as spectators sought further inquiry. The elder man quipped his son would reach 104 if he lives until next August.
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Railroad Commission
Marengo
Williamsburg
Parnell
North English
State Railway Commission
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Rock Island
Homestead
Iowa County
South Amana
Milwaukee
Leavenworth, Kan
James M. Goldsberry
Leavenworth
Heyman Goldsberry
Soldiers’ Home
Unknown Navy Officer Inmate A Mystery At Minnesota Hospital
Rochester officials at the state hospital for the insane seek Navy help to identify a mute, paralyzed man admitted in 1908 after being found unconscious on rail tracks near Waseca. He recalls naval life, signs initials J C, and says he attended Annapolis and served long in the service. Doctors sent descriptions and fingerprints to Washington to establish his identity.
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Rochester
Minn
State Hospital For the
Navy Department
Washington
Waseca
United States Navy
Navy
J. C
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Prisoner Hides in Shirt Box Escapes Train Car
Charles Dewey, a two to nine year highway robber, hid inside a packing box labeled shirts at the Wethersfield state prison. Trusties loaded him into a freight car and the box appeared securely closed. An inspection later revealed the disguise and a missing prisoner, with the door left open and believed to have fled into nearby woods.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Wethersfield
Charles Dewey
Dewey
French Sailors Tainted by Opium Smoking Crisis
Admiral Belleu warns French navy faces a dope epidemic as opium smoking spreads from Toulon to Brest Cherbourg Lorient Rochefort and elsewhere. The Matin reports 168 opium dens in Toulon and Deputy Leboucq plans to push harsher penalties when the new legislature opens.
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Paris
Belleu
Martin
Toulon
Brest
Cherbourg
Lorient
Rochefort
France
Leboucq
Woman deputy warden arrests man for trotlines in Kansas
Miss C. Fisher state deputy game warden arrested H. B. Stone at Topeka for fishing with more than one trotline, the first such arrest by a woman deputy warden in Kansas. Stone was fined 1 cent and costs and appealed.
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Topeka
Kan
C. 4. Fisher
H. B. Stone
Kansas
Mystery note points to buried cash on Litteer land
A note found on A J Litteer property directs discovery of 18000 dollars hidden in a cash box on about 400 acres now in dispute. A churn contains a dated document claiming ownership of the land by Ernest Lewis and a separate Kansas land by Henry Jewls, with more papers found in a hedge bottle. Digging for the jar has not revealed its location.
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Bedford
A. J. Litteer
A. J. Hvans
Litteer
A. J. Dultteer
Ernest Lewis
Randolph Widner
Kansas
Henry Jewls
Will
Persimmon
Court House
A. J. Tultteer
Cattle Man Palmer Uses Poison in Desperate Act
Sioux City cattle salesman Robert Palmer, from a wealthy family, swallowed bichloride of mercury tablets in a hotel. He shouted Ive done it and swallowed another tablet during the police restraining him. Doctors fear he may die within days. Palmer was once a noted football athlete in his youth.
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Sioux City
Robert Palmer
Palmer
Trains Stop For Sudden Appendicitis Death
Nora Junction reports 18 year old Mias Smythe, daughter of Mr and Mrs F A Irish of Hopkinton, taken ill with appendicitis aboard a train en route to Mason City. Train halted, she died at a nearby farmhouse before operation.
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Nora Junction
Mias Smythe
F. A. Irish
Hopkinton
Mason City
Cresco Debuts New Wild West Circus By Wheeler Family
Arizona Joe brand circus opens in Cresco as the Wheeler brothers who started with a local moving picture show and then toured the nation bring a revived wild west act to town this week.
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Cresco
Wheeler Boys
Davenport Saloon Closures Under Moon Law Schedule
Davenport city council identified thirty-one saloons to close by July 1 under the Moon law. An equal number will shut next year and another group the following year to bring the city into full compliance.
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Davenport
Prominent Socialist Sought Hidden Mind Clemency
Albert Thompson a socialist leader travels with the Mason City sheriff toward the insane asylum after confessing overexposure to the Appeal to Reason. He said the reading affected his mind and requested admission for treatment.
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Mason City
Albert Thompson
Reagan
Iowa Engineers Meeting Burlington Convention Ends
About 150 delegates attended the state convention of the National Association of Stationary Engineers in Burlington. The session closed after three days with a steamboat trip to Keokuk to inspect the new power dam as its feature event.
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Burlington
National Association of Stationary Id Engineers
Keokuk
School Board Fined for Lacking Fire Escapes in St Louis
Eleven members of the St Louis board of education were fined 300 dollars each for failing to equip three city school buildings with fire escapes. The trial revealed a 230000 dollar appropriation to fireproof all schools in the city.
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St. Louis
Board of Education
Cornerstone laid for new Episcopal church in Towa Falls
Bishop Longley of Des Moines officiated the ceremony for the new Episcopal church built in English mission style. The structure stands on a commanding site overlooking the Iowa river valley.
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Towa Falls
Longley
Des Moines
Iowa River
Goldsberry Admits Grandfather's Death and Ends Service
Goldsberry unhesitatingly admitted that his grandfather was dead but said he loved to be one hundred years old before Goldsberry was discharged.
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Goldsberry
Pioneer jeweler dies after daughter's death in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids A C G Taylor a pioneer jeweler died at his home within an hour after the death of his daughter Misa Bertha Taylor. He had been ill for three weeks.
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Cedar Rapids
Misa Bertha Taylor
A. C G. Taylor
Boy Bit Tongue In School Pall Collision
In Camden Arkansas Herman Hale bit off about an inch of his tongue during a pall game at second base. A collision with a baserunner caused the wound. Doctors stitched the injury and express hope for Hale’s recovery.
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Camden
Ark
Herman Hale
Hale
Russell Votes For Lights In Town Election
At the town election the proposition for electric lights carried by more than four to one. A line will be built to Chariton where it will connect with the Chariton plant.
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Russell
Chariton
Dispatch by Telephone Starts on Burlington Main Line
Dispatching trains by telephone has begun on the Burlington main line and will extend to the branch Nunes for all messages using the key system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
Burlington
Nunes
Salvation by Blood Aims Beyond Church Connection
The article argues that salvation is through the blood of Jesus Christ, not mere church membership or right living. It critiques evolution as a path to salvation, stresses personal devotion, Bible study, prayer, and true worship, and condemns hollow churchism lacking kernel faith.
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Luther
England
Wesley
Great Britain
Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
Earth
Alfred Tennyson
Paul
God
Christ
Apostles
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