Mitchellville riot shocks Iowa reform school students
Des Moines dispatch details the Mitchellville girls reform school riot starting Oct 22. A majority of the 186 inmates participated, triggered by punishment and aging policy, with police recapturing most rioters and a grand jury investigating, while damage capped under $300. Gov. Shaw welcomed Fifty-First volunteers returning from duty as Barrett pushes rural school consolidation to cut costs and improve education.
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State Board of Control
Denver
Polk County
Grand
Reform School
Mitchellville
Supreme Court voids Iowa insurance tax exemption seed
The court rules the state tax on insurers unconstitutionally exempts them from local taxes, forcing insurance, telegraph, and express firms to pay both state and local levies. It states the state tax cannot override local taxation and urges legislative relief if needed.
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Supreme Court
Iowa
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Express
Daring Deed At Loveland Station Desperado Captured
At Loveland station near Council Bluffs a horse thief shot Constable Hardin Moss and forced Deputy Joe Morgan to drive him away in the officers wagon. He later fled in the wagon with the body of the fallen officer, was pursued, and captured by Council Bluffs officers. The capture revealed A. J. Grett, a notorious western desperado.
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Council Bluffs
A. J. Grett
Attorney General Remley to appeal lake beds title case
Attorney General Remley will take the lake beds title dispute to the federal supreme court. He argues swamp land patents should not stand and will seek rehearing in the Owl lake case involving about 106000 dollars. If successful, titles to 40000 acres could be affected and the state could save millions in lake lands.
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Sioux City Liquor Dealers Back Sunday Dry Policy
Forty five dealers joined a movement to end Sunday liquor sales in Sioux City. The Liquor Dealers association voted to urge mayoral enforcement of the law in all city sale spots. Henry Hecker of Waukon allegedly obtained about 1200 from Chicago firms using bank checks and was arrested after returning to Chicago for trial. He previously ran a general store in Waukon before moving to Chicago last September.
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Boarding house keeper in Cedar Rapids attempts suicide in trunk
Miss Mary Gah, owner of a fashionable Cedar Rapids boarding house, had been ill for three weeks and, in a temporary fit of insanity, crawled into a large trunk and closed the lid. Found after more than an hour, she was near death but there is hope for recovery.
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Cedar Rapids
Catholic summer school to move from Madison to Dubuque
The Catholic summer school likely relocates from Madison Wisconsin to Dubuque. It serves Dubuque Milwaukee Santa Fe St Paul Cincinnati and St Louis with about 2000 attendees each year and Father Dalton of St Louis strongly favors Dubuque as the central site.
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State Baptist convention at Boone elects officers
The state Baptist convention at Boone elected officers for the ensuing year. Milton Remley of Anamosa was named president, D. C. Shull of Sioux City as vice president, E. B. Smith of Waterloo as second vice president, BE. B. Bartlett of Des Moines as secretary, Rev. C. W. Riches of Sidney as assistant secretary, and W. S. Cardell of Des Moines as treasurer.
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Waterloo
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Des Moines
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Sidney
W. S. Cardell
Iowa State Expenditures and Receipts Estimated for 1900 1902
The Auditor of State estimates Iowa's expenditures for the year starting July 1 1899 and ending June 30 1901 to cover salaries and expenses through April 1 1902 with a total estimated outlay of funds including agricultural colleges boards and various state services. Receipts for the next two years are projected at 4 564 200 from taxes licenses and miscellaneous sources, with allocations to prisons schools and aid programs.
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Prospectors Find Gold Bed Near Council Bluffs
In Pot tawattomie county a year ago borings eight miles south of Council Bluffs yielded no coal. Traces appeared like gold bearing sand. Taylor Woolsey N S Walker and C W Smallwood of Council Bluffs leased 100 acres and found a sand layer 70 feet deep and 140 feet thick. Samples assayed at the Omaha smelter reportedly totaled $17 per ton.
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Council Bluffs
Omaha
Doctors perform scalp graft on boy injured in mill
In Atlantic Drs Porterfield Morse and Campbell graft skin from volunteers to the boy Homer Everett's head after a sorghum mill accident left him scalped. A strip from volunteers' upper arms created a new scalp. The patient is recovering and expectations are good.
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Porterfield
Morse
Campbell
Homer Léverett
Everett
Iowa Board Must Detain Married Minors in Institution
The Iowa board of control found girls at Mitchellville’s institution had married before commitment, though under the age for commitment. The board asked the attorney general if it could detain them. The attorney general answered that detention is required, as the board cannot overturn the court’s commitment decision.
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Iowa
Board of Control
Mitchellville
Court Rules Mortgage Stamp Duty Applies on Transfers
In Keokuk Judge Woolson holds the war revenue act requires stamping mortgage documents at each transfer of ownership, not just at execution. The decision affects nearly all mortgages since the act took effect or changed hands, upholding the challenge to require stamps on each change of ownership.
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United States District Court
Keokuk
Woolson
Court Rejects Captain Watson's Birth Right Suit
Captain George Watson of Company J Kentieth Kansas failed to prove he is the natural son of Matt Watson of Maquo kela. Iowa Supreme Court rules the claim invalid and dismisses the $250,000 suit in state courts.
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Stomach Bitters Proclaimed Key to Health and Prosperity
The text touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy. It claims the bitters strengthen weak stomachs and torpid livers, describing health as essential to prosperity and humanity benefiting from the remedy.
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Hostetter
Tail and ears shortened fox terrier sparks sly remark
A New York society woman famed for humane causes defends her fox terrier Snap’s cropped tail and ears noting each thoroughbred expects such trimming. The remark amuses a visitor and highlights dainty canine fashion and nobless oblige ideas. Also appears postal-style ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and family pills with testimonials.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Snap
Cincinnati Enquirer
Automobile Hearse Bid Calls For Final Tribute
A distressed horse incident ends with the dying man asking for an automobile hearse at the funeral. The piece then shifts to a promotional note urging readers to consider John M Smyth Co Chicago mail order offers including a sewing machine for 14.25 and a catalogue with wholesale prices.
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Mammoth
Chicago
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Hey Mail
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Dotlin
The Frondike Money Question Revisited
A dialog contrasts burning money with incombustible gold in the Frondike and a weary speaker recalls a prior hour of idle chatter. A separate vignette shows a woman leaving a man after a half hour of conversation with him failing to speak ten words.
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Chicago Chronicle
Grain-O the new drink replaces coffee for all ages
Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it and it comes in a rich seal brown like Mocha or Java but is made from pure grain and gentle on delicate stomachs. Priced at 16 to 25 cents per package and sold by all grocers.
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National Commissioner of Education
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Nude departure noted in gown comparison
The Philadelphia Record captures a witty exchange where husband and wife discuss fashion lines. The wife notes dressmakers depart from last season's model lines, while the husband comments on a nude departure.
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Philadelphia Record
Lene's Family Medicine Promises Daily Bowels and Health
An old ad promotes Lene's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement aid and gentle action on the liver and kidneys. It asserts cures for headaches and lists a price of 26 and 50 cents.
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Parrot Quips at Antique Shop in Quiet Exchange
A dealer tests a parrot named Miss Antique in a calm shop. The bird responds politely, then delivers a cheeky line about swearing only when sworn to, prompting a lighthearted ducking moment.
Cure for colds and tonics in early 1900s ads
An OCR fragment compiles various outdated medical patent remedies and advertising slogans. It lists Vaxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Hale's Honey of Horehound, Pike's Youthache Drops, and generic claims of refunds if ineffective, with snippets from newspapers and personal testimonials.
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