Banks Warned as Yeggmen Strike at Iowa Safes
The Iowa Bankers Association with secretary Frank Warner warns all Iowa banks after a wave of post office safes being blown. Warners note that only one bank safe has been blown so far while smaller town safes face frequent breaks. Banks urged to inspect suspects, record descriptions, and notify local police. The association works with W J Burns and the American protective department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deg Moines
Iowa
Frank Warner
Iowa Bankers Association
Bankers
Mr. Warner
W. J. Burns International Detective Agency
American Bankers Association
Iowa girl farmer markets fruit and vegetables
Edna OHarra a 1916 University of Iowa graduate titled her produce business Iowa girl farm products She moved to a Clairmont Florida twenty seven acre farm with her mother and aims to prove teaching is not the only path for women graduates She ships high grade fruit and vegetables to market under the name Iowa girl farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
Edna O’harra
University of Iowa
Clairmont
Fla
O’harra
Florida
Entitled to Fees In Liquor Nuisance Cases Iowa Rule
Iowa Supreme Court holds prosecuting attorneys receive a flat 10 percent fee on fines up to 200 dollars and 5 percent on amounts from 200 to 500 dollars in liquor nuisance and contempt cases. The ruling follows a dispute with County Attorney Fred E. Hanson over fees retrospectively owed to the county, and will influence other counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Towa
Iowa Supreme Court
Fred E. Hanson
State Auditor’s Office
Hansen
Iowa City Students Celebrate Iowa Victory in Destruction
About 1,500 University of Iowa students participated in a victory celebration that turned destructive. Police reported damaged and stolen property, store break-ins, and burned wagons and boxes, with revolvers drawn to disperse the crowd and claims of several hundred dollars in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City—State University of Iowa
Iowa
Ames
Delice
Movies Barred From Prison Fort Madison
Prison at Fort Madison bans weekly motion pictures after state fire inspectors call for better protection. No shows until a nonflammable machine booth is installed. no accidents reported so far, but precautions required before resuming entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Fire Destroys New Hartford School Building
Fire destroyed the high school building in New Hartford. Loss estimated at 15000 dollars with 4000 dollars insured. Flames likely started by spontaneous combustion in the coal bin. Fire occurred at noon when the building was empty. Classes to resume in churches and hall. city left with only a small primary school building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hartford
Record Long Married Life for Fort Dodge Couple
In Fort Dodge area the Wakemans of Otho mark their seventieth wedding anniversary. Mrs Wakeman aged eighty six is chair bound but in good health otherwise. Mr Wakeman five years older remains hale. Much of their marriage has been in Webster county since 1864.
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Fort Dodge
H. W. Wakeman
Otho
Wake Man
Mr. Wakeman
Webster County
State Horticultural Show Opens In Des Moines
The three day annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society is set in the state house corridors for the apple show. A $500 prize awaits the best apple varieties as growers report fair 1916 crops despite orchard neglect and limited care.
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Des Moines
State Horticultural Society
State House
Tom Phillips Hears Trail Sermon in Ottumwa Revival
Tom J. Phillips once a leading Iowa wet, former Ottumwa mayor, and 1901 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, attended Evangelist Charles Reign Scoville revival. His presence sparked a large demonstration among about 2,000 in the tabernacle, recalling his last mayoral win.
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Ottumwa
Tom J. Phillips
Iowa
Phillips
George Cosson
Cummins
Billy Sunday
Charles Reign Scoville
Evangelist Scoville
Tabernacle
Refuse To Switch Cars In Iowa Rail System
Des Moines reports show many Iowa railroads refuse to turn freight cars to rival lines for sidetrack unloading due to a car shortage. Shippers complain at numerous points about not getting cars for unloading despite sidings. Railroads say they must keep cars to meet demand and claim cars returned by competitors never come back. Coal operators say coal car service has been fair so far.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Eight Hour Law Challenge Filed in Federal Court
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad sues in U S district court seeking a ruling that the Adams eight hour law is unconstitutional and an injunction against enforcement by the federal government and against railway brotherhood strikes if the law is ignored by the company. This provision is not present in similar petitions from other area companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
United States
Santa Fe launches typhus fumigation crusade from Fort Madison
Four special cars with fumigating equipment and quarters for doctors and nurses left Fort Madison to tour the Santa Fe system west of here. The train will stop at every Mexican camp to fumigate living quarters and disinfect laborers and families.
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Fort Madison
Santa Fe
Iowa dairy products valued at one third of 1916 corn crop
The Iowa food and dairy commission lists 1916 year ending July 1 values for dairy products excluding calves. Creamery butter leads at 27,127,228 dollars, followed by country butter 21,649,337, market milk 20,940,000, condensed milk 558,000, skim and butter milk fed by farmers 10,050,000, and ice cream 4,000,000, totaling 105,369,565 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Food and Dairy Commission
Iowa
Swindlers Sentenced in Fort Madison Horse Race Case
J W Reeves Harold Ward and J W Brown three operators of fake horse races pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were sentenced to three years each in the penitentiary. The gang operated across the middle west persuading farmers to wager on "figure" races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
J. W. Reeves
Harold Ward
J. W. Brown
Middle West
Raid Temp Bars in Keokuk Seizes Liquor Stock
State officers Terril Risden and Rock raided seven temporary bars where injunctions had been issued. They seized a large quantity of beer whisky and gin and stored it in the county jail. Proceedings against the proprietors have been filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keokuk
Terril, Risden and
Rock
Coal Prices Advancing in Des Moines Forecast
Des Moines reports Iowa coal could rise to six dollars a ton if cold weather returns this winter. Local dealers note coal sells at four fifty, with delivery tight. a car of steam coal went to Omaha at three dollars a ton while Des Moines contracts price steam coal at two thirteen. Illinois coal ranges from six seventy five to seven dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Omaha
Illinois
Former State Senator S W Neal Dies at 72 in Washington
Former senator S W Neal died at his Washington home after a year plus illness caused by arterial hardening. He was 72, edited the Washington County Gazette for fourteen years, served two terms as county clerk, and was elected to the state senate in 1910 for two terms. He was active in Sunday school work statewide. Survived by widow and daughter Helen.
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Washington
S. W. Neal
Washington County Gazette
State Senate
Helen
Iowa Board Cuts Antitoxin Prices, Expands Stations
Des Moines reports the Iowa state board of health awarded a contract for antitoxin at far lower prices, expanding public access from 250 to 300 distribution stations. Diphtheria and tetanus antitoxin, typhoid vaccine, and smallpox vaccine see substantial price cuts, with specifics on unit packages and old rates. The board also discussed housing law and funding increases, while noting no formal resolution was adopted.
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Des Moines
State Board of Health
Iowa
Fort Madison
G. H. Sumner
Farm Boys Profit From Cooperative Baby Beef Sale
Eleven Henry county lads earned $500 in pocket money and $1000 in baby beef feeding experience after co operatively selling 22 690 pounds of baby beef to a Chicago dealer. Under county agent Don E Fish they benefited from reduced freight rates and higher prices for bulk sale. Calves grew from an average 462.91 pounds to 1 098.19 pounds, a gain of 635.28 pounds per calf, at a cost of 6 dollars per hundred pounds gained.
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Iowa Beef Producers’ Association
Explosion wrecks Collins Methodist Church
A lighting plant explosion wrecked the Collins Methodist church. One boy, George Jingles, was seriously injured when a splintered door struck him on the forehead and he was knocked unconscious. Windows were blown out and the brick foundation damaged. Estimated church damage is 1500 dollars.
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Collins
George Jingles
Young Jingles
Destructive Fire at Carroll Destroys Drug Store
Mrs. Ann Sullivan, night telephone operator, remained at her post and summoned volunteers despite smoke as a blaze in the lower floor gutted the Bebenberger drug store in Carroll. Losses run to several thousand dollars and the telephone exchange apparatus was badly damaged.
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Carroll. Carroll
Ann Sullivan
Bebenberger Drug Store
Telephone Exchange
Cedar Rapids Suffers Coal Shortage Amid Plant Closures
Cedar Rapids faces an acute coal famine as a major factory shuts down for lack of steam coal and others scramble for supplies. A Chicago coke firm cancelled its contract due to coal shortages. Pocahontas coal sells at 9.25 per ton, the highest in the city’s history. anthracite is 11.50 per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Chicago Coke Company
Pocahontas
Illinois Central Plans Double Tracking East of Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge indications show the Illinois Central will double track its line east to the state line. Workmen widen the roadbed as a large amount of material has been gathered along the route. The line splits toward Sioux City and Omaha, and heavy traffic has caused congestion on the eastern tracks for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Illinois Central Railroad
Sioux City
Omaha
Craiova Falls to Falkenhayn Forces in Romania
London reports Craiova, a 45 000 population city and key rail hub in western Wallachia, fell to General von Falkenhayn at noon Tuesday. The loss endangers King Ferdinand’s army, with Teutons 120 miles west of Bucharest and threatening to sever Romanian forces south of the Transylvanian Alps.
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London
Craiova
Roumania
von Falkenhayn
Ferdinand
Wallachia
Britannic sinks in Aegean. about fifty dead
British official says the White Star liner Britannic, 47 000 tons and one of the largest vessels afloat, was sunk by a mine or torpedo in the Aegean Sea with about fifty lives lost and 1106 survivors. A report from New York claims American medical staff aboard. later denied by the consulate.
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London
White Star
Aegean Sea
New York
Hold Up Fast Chicago Train
Two masked robbers boarded a Chicago and Northwestern express train near Clybourn Junction Chicago. They gagged and bound the messenger, looted the strong box for about $1000 in cash and valuables, rifled packages, and dropped off as the train stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern
Hey
Clybourn Junction
Baltimore Labor Demands Eight Hour Day in Rail Crisis
Five hundred AFL delegates in Baltimore rally behind Samuel Gompers. They threaten a January 1 railroad strike if the Adamson law isn’t enforced and pledge full union support to the railroad brotherhoods and a universal eight hour day. Gompers vows workers will fight if needed.
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Baltimore
Organized Labor
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
New York
Miners Leaders Sentenced to Six Months in Jail
Four organizers and district officials of the United Mine Workers of America were resentenced by Judge Dalton in the U S district court to six months in jail for violating an injunction tied to the 1912 Colliers coal strike. They had served about three months awaiting a Supreme Court appeal that upheld Judge Dayton. Defendants are Miss Fannie Selling Frank Ledvinka James Oates and Hiram Stevens.
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Frank Ledvinka
James Oates
Hiram Stevans
Bombs Found on U S Ship Sarnia in Cherbourg
Twenty unexploded bombs were found in the sugar cargo of the American steamship Sarnia after its arrival at Cherbourg France. The voyage began in New York September 2 and the ship caught fire from an unknown cause during the trip. Fourth Mate Wybrance reported the find to investigators.
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New York
Sarnia
Cherbourg
France
Wybrance
American Line
Liverpool
Villa 18 Defeated Carranzistas After Seven Hour Battle
Francisco Villa withdrew his surviving forces from Chihuahua City after a seven hour battle. General Trevino's 5,000 men and heavy artillery repelled Villa's fourth mass attack, many Villa prisoners were taken, and the Carranza forces pursued the bandits southward toward Juarez. Villa rode horseback with a crutch strapped to his saddle as the fight raged around Chihuahua City.
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el Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua City
Trevino
Villa
Juarez
Gonzales
Carranza
Santa Rosa
Railroads Demand Reform to Avert Government Ownership
General Counsel A P Thom told the Newlands committee that unless railroad government control is reformed, government ownership of the entire system is inevitable. He opened testimony outlining the railroads position on regulation and said the current system has nearly blocked new construction and endangered railroad credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
A. P. Thom
Railroad Executives’ Committee
Newlands Joint Congressional Committee
Liner La Touraine Narrowly Escapes Torpedo Attack
The French liner La Touraine barely avoided torpedo by a pursuing submarine after leaving Bordeaux. Captain Caussin reported a distress signal from a nearby vessel with a broken propeller, then withdrew when a wireless warned of a torpedoed steamer Columbian.
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la Touraine
New York
Bordeaux
Caussin
Columbian
Russian dreadnaught Imperatrista Maria sunk in explosion
Russia announces loss of the Imperatrista Maria with 200 missing after an internal explosion. The ship built in 1918 displaced 22,600 tons, powered at 26,500 horsepower, capable of 21 knots.
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Petrograd
London
Russia
Freed in Mann Act Case
Julius Heilner a wealthy New Yorker will not be prosecuted for violating the Mann act. He was indicted for transporting Miss Florence Giddens a Chicago girl to other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Julius Heilner
New Yorker
Heilner
Florence Giddens
Manufacturer Ends Life in Illinois Athletic Club Library
William L. Kroeschell, 55, secretary of Kroeschell Bros. ventilator makers, Winnetka, shot himself in the library of the Illinois Athletic Club in Chicago on November 25.
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Chicago
William L. Kroeschell
Winnetka
Kroeschell Bros. Company
Illinois Athletic Club
Three Men Rob Boswell Bank of About Eight Thousand
Three masked men robbed the First National Bank of Boswell Oklahoma on Wednesday taking approximately eight thousand dollars. The three men forced the bank staff into the vault and held them there during the robbery.
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Ardmore
Okla
First National Bank of
Boswell
Grange Urges Nationwide Prohibition Inclusive of DC
The National Grange adopted resolutions urging nation wide prohibition and specifically asking Congress to include the District of Columbia in any national prohibition legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Washington
Congress
National Grange
District of Columbia
Automobile Bandit Killed in St Louis Hold Up
In St Louis on November 25 a pharmacy hold up ended with one bandit killed when a police sergeant intervened and a clerk shot the second bandit. the surviving robber was captured.
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St. Louis
China O. K.'s Chicago Loan Approved
The lower house of parliament unanimously approved a three year loan from a Chicago bank secured by wine and tobacco tax revenue. The loan carries six percent interest.
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China O. K
Chicago
Peking
Congdon Dies in St Paul Wealthy Minnesota Republican Figure
Chester A. Congdon former member of the Republican national committee from Minnesota and reputed state’s wealthiest man died in St Paul after a heart ailment early Tuesday.
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Chester A. Congdon
St. Paul
Minn
Republican National Committee
Minnesota
National Chamber to Hold Daylight Saving Convention
Robert Garland, chairman of the daylight saving committee, issued a call for the first convention to be held in Pittsburgh on December 5.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Garland
National Chamber of Commerce
Commission backs Danish West Indies sale to United States
A special commission in Copenhagen reports the opposition to selling the Danish West Indies to the United States has collapsed. The panel now favors the sale.
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West Indies
Copenhagen
Danish West Indies
United States
Greek steamer Erissos seized by German submarine
The Greek steamer Erissos arrived at Marseilles reporting it was stopped by a German submarine that seized 118 sacks of mail and compelled the ship to cast its cargo overboard.
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Marseilles
Erissos
Record Cold Crushes West and South Crops
The Weather Bureau issued a special bulletin noting widespread and severe crop damage across the West and South due to the record breaking cold wave of 10-17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Papal Intervention Spurs Halt of Executions in Hasselt
Amsterdam dispatch reports that Pope Benedict’s nuncio in Brussels secured mercy for condemned spies. Of 18 Hasselt espionage defendants, 14 escaped the death penalty while four were executed after the intervention.
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Amsterdam
Brussels
Pope Benedict
Hasselt
Hughes Congratulates Wilson After Close California Vote
Republican candidate Charles B. Hughes sent a telegram to President Wilson congratulating him on re election noting the close California count. Wilson acknowledged Hughes message expressing thanks and good wishes for the years ahead.
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Lakewood
N. J
Charles B. Hughes
Wilson
Hughes
California
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes
White House
William R. Willcox
Republcan
Adamson Law Deemed Unconstitutional by Kansas City Judge
Judge William Hook of the United States district court rules the Adamson eight hour law unconstitutional. He directs Missouri Oklahoma & Gulf railroad receivers to aid government in expediting appeal to the Supreme Court and invites all railroads to participate in hearings. Frank Hargerman, government special counsel, announces an appeal.
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Kansas City
William ©. Hook
United States District Court
Hook
Missouri, Oklahoma ,& Gulf Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Frank Hargerman
Indictment Hinted for Chicago Food and Coal Speculators
Federal grand jury in Chicago began hearing evidence from District Attorney Charles F. Clyne as investigators report vast quantities of food and coal stored in railroad yards and warehouses to influence prices amid shortages.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Federal
Charles F. Clyne
Deutschland Starts Return Voyage From New London
The Deutschland left New London on Tuesday afternoon for Bremen with a cargo valued at $2,000,000. Thousands lined the Thames river banks to watch and cheer its departure as the merchant submarine begins its homeward voyage.
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New London
Conn
Bremen
Thames River
Four Parral mining men reach Nogales in U.S. border
Four American mining men who escaped from Parral have arrived in Nogales Arizona. The group includes Leslie Webb and T S Hawkins Jr with two others. They traveled from Parral to reach the United States and are now in Nogales seeking asylum or processing.
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Parral
U. S. el Paso
Tex
Leslie, Webb
T. S. Hawkins, Jr
Nogales, Ariz
Baker names fire control board for coast defenses
Secretary Baker appointed Col. R. H. Davis Lieut. Col. Frank W. Coe and a district engineer officer at Los Angeles to study the fire control project for the coast defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Fire Control Board
Washington
R. H. Davis
Frank W. Coe
Los Angeles
Coast Defenses
Large Wall Street Election Bets Paid Off
In New York on November 25 many holders of major presidential election wagers began settling bets. Estimates put the total amount wagered between 5 million and 8 million dollars as bettors collected winnings.
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New York
Wall Street
Representative Fitzgerald Seeks Food Embargo Plan
Washington November 24 Representative Fitzgerald a Democrat announced support for an embargo on food stuffs and stated his plan to prepare a bill and press the issue early in the upcoming congressional session.
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Washington
Fitzgerald
Congress
Greek Steamer Sparti Sunk Likely Torpedoed
The Sparti, a Greek steamer, was sunk according to The Daily Mail Athens correspondent. The captain suspects torpedoing, but nearly all aboard were saved.
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London
Daily Mail
Athens
Sparti
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West Virginia
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