Longtime Wyoming resident Naomi Easton dies at 93
Naomi Davis Easton, born November 21, 1820 in London, died October 8, 1914 in Logan Iowa at 93 years 10 months 17 days. She married Peter Easton in 1868, lived in Wyoming 24 years with sister Mrs John Crissick, and after her sister’s death moved to Logan to be cared for by nephew J M Davis. She was a Presbyterian and served at home before illness.
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Hale
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Chicago
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Canada
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Monticello
J. W. Wherry
John Bahnsen
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Davenport
Prairieburg Obituary and Local Notices
Manshloe Rowley died at his brother C. O. Rowley’s Prairieburg home on October 7 after a five week typhoid battle. He was 26, survived by wife May Valentine and a son, with services led by Rev. W. E. Ruston and burial in Cedar Rapids. The notice also lists community updates and visits.
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Manshloe Rowley
C. O. Rowley
W. E. Ruston
Coggon
Cedar Rapids
Mansiloe
St. Clair Racking Co
May Valentine
E. F. Monnier
Detroit
Michigan
O. Rowley
Anamosa Sanitarium
Howard Caldwell
Oarl Jenkins
O. A. de Lancey
LeClair
Monticallo
Seward Smith
Harry Dice
West Liberty
James Smith
Ed Burlingham
M. Rowley
Burke
Dr. Wilkinson
Anamosa
John Yunker
Arkansas
Grandpa Carson recalls corn palace visit in Mitchell
Grandpa Carson returned from Dakota with vivid praise for Mitchell’s corn palace seating 17 000 and walls covered in multicolored corn designs. Mervin Sinclair and M G Alsever drove to Chicago to bring home Donald Sinclair’s new 1915 Hupmobile arriving Sunday. Mrs Roland Glenn underwent surgery at Anamosa sanitarium Saturday and remains seriously ill. her daughter is mentioned.
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Grandpa Carson
Dakota
Mitchell
Mervin Sinclair
M. G. Alsever
Chicago
Donald Sinclair
Roland Glenn
Anamosa Sanitarium
Center Junction Church Hosts Large Children’s Program
A well attended Sunday event at the Presbyterian church featured older pupils performing refined music and younger ones enacting a foreign children arriving in the country. Ninety one pupils studied the lesson and two thousand six hundred fifty joined the special exercises, under W. S. Pangburn’s leadership.
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Warren Dodge
Center Point
Myron
John Hanken’s
Coulrse
Maude Stevens
Jim Smith
New Mexico
Smith
Elmer Andrews
Monticello
Wilbur Leggett
Canter Junction
Onslow News Briefs from Wynot Nebraska Visit
Mr and Mrs N B Noyes return from Wynot Nebraska reporting a poor corn crop across Sioux City to Wynot with dry summers and underdeveloped poultry yet alfalfa and sweet clover thrive. Local buildings gain electric lighting with Moore pool room and Greiser hotel among new wired structures. Lou Stimson of North Dakota visits old friends while August Hansen plans a carload of New York apples. George Hall and daughter visit. Hall has a newly plastered house.
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N. B. Noyes
Wynot
Nebraska
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Lou Stimson
North Dakota
August Hansen
New York
George Hall
G. B. Hall
Narrow Gauge Widening Debate for Iowa Rail Line
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway proposes options to widen its Bellevue to Cascade line. Engineers say current canyon and turns make standard gauge impractical on the present route, with three cost scenarios: widen and keep route, widen with reduced grades, or build a new line south of the canyon. The commission will weigh the estimates and potential salvage value before ruling.
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Railroad Commissioners
Bellevue
Cascade
Iowa
Railroad Commission
Paradise
Zwingle
Washington Mills
Jones County
Iowa Court Records Describe Guilty Verdicts and Asset Division
A compiled Iowa court docket lists guilty verdicts for Conyers and Drew in escape cases and a nuisance ruling for Baldwin. It details sentences to Ft Madison Penitentiary, appeal bonds, and immediate sentencing requests, with guardianship and probate actions, judgments, and estate distributions across numerous cases. The document records verdicts by juries, court orders to abate nuisances, and administrator appointments, with bonds set and final reports approved.
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State of Iowa
Clell Conyers
Reformatory
C. W. Preston
Ft. Madison
James E. Remley
Lyman Baldwin
T. J. Finn
Leroy Drew
James E. Kemley
Anna Powlishta
Frank Stehblik
Equity
Cora Cramer
James Cramer
Mary B. Dunn
Robert Johnson
Belle Glick
Harry Glick
Chas. W. Spear
S. H. Merritt
Newton Baker
Mae Alta Baker
C. J. Cash
Margaret Clarke
John H. Dirks
Burton Price Co
Houser Bagley
Beck & Corbit Iron Co
J. H. Sherman
Allen Olmstead
Will Decker
J. A. Hertzler
R. D. Cooley
O. C. Cooley
J. H. Hertzler
Brainard Cycle Co
Martin Brickley
Joe Sherman
Algar
Paul Coleman
George C. Gorman
Mary L. Meyers
Herman F. Wilken
Water Meter Rates at Manchester
Manchester Press argues that prior to metering water users abused the system with continuous winter taps and lavish summer sprinkling. Installing meters lowered usage but raised bills for careful patrons, making water a new tax on prudent citizens while the town recovers costs from years of neglect.
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Anamosa Journal Praises Jail Population Boost
The Cedar Rapids Republican notes the Anamosa Journal claims sixteen prisoners are in the Jones county jail, nine of them federal, due to Linn county jail conditions. The piece asserts Anamosa gains business from this arrangement as food and clothing are bought locally.
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Cedar Rapids
Anamosa Journal
Jones County
Linn County
Anamosa
Increase cigarette tax to curb cigaret fiends
Opinion piece from Charles City Intelligencer argues for higher tobacco taxes to punish smokers and reduce cigarette use, proposing harsher prices and stricter enforcement to drive demand down and curb tobacco consumption.
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Charles City Intelligencer
Tax Receipt Study Urged Ahead of Fall Vote
Tipton Advertiser reports the Town Democratic state committee urges voters to study tax receipts before the election. They claim notices show most taxes are local and assign blame to local officials, urging reasons beyond tax hikes to oppose Governor Clarke's re election.
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Tipton
Clarke
Tracr Star-Clipper War Tax Debate Sparks Party Split
The piece argues a tariff for revenue acts as a peace time war tax. It claims only the Democratic Party would back such a measure and implies none other party would see need for it.
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Tracr Star-Clipper
Democratic Party
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