Wide Ranging News From The Newton Record
A Miscellany of notes covers science and industry including asbestos usage in homes fireproof building ideas and veterinary ethics on horse tails. business fraud in Jersey City. Central American unity efforts and Central American ruler Barrias. Australian climate and population insights. Indiana public kindergartens and insane asylum care. and reflections on the Chinese Japanese war battles.
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Indiana
Hoosier
State
Selected Hawkeye Mention Crime Forgery Scandal
A Hubbard landowner Mrs. Fete Willis owned eighty acres and sought 82 200. Willis arranged loans in Eldora forging her signature to papers and drafts, with W. E. Keenman’s name forged. The scheme included a second mortgage and a Hubbard bank draft, leading to arrest in Hubbard jail. One suspect, Jones, faces trial after prior arrests including arson in Ackley six years ago.
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Fete Willis
Hubbard
Willis
Eldora and
Arranr
Marty
Potes
W. E. Keenman
Keenman
Eldora
Hubbard Bank
Ortgage
J Ones
Ackley
Fire at Adel destroys multiple businesses and horses
An early morning blaze about 2:20 o clock in Adel started in A D Morse livery stable destroying eight horses and causing extensive losses across several shops. Bailey dry goods Row Hook grocery Tice restaurant Campbell tailoring Masonic Lodge Roland properties suffered heavy damage with limited insurance. Total losses approach several tens of thousands of dollars.
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Apri
A.D. Morse
D. Bailey
Row & Hook
J. Tice
G. W. Campbell
Masonic Temp
Ston Rapeety
Dee Roland
Masonic PLC
Roland
J. Roland
Sioux City Boodlers Grow as Supervisors Face Charges
October 7 report notes two county supervisors Hunting and Strange charged with obtaining money under false pretenses for falsified county bills. Arrests accompany the cases and officials expect further indictments of additional board members. Strange is jailed on eighty three thousand dollars bond.
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Crry
Board of Supervisors
Hunting
Strange
Shoot the Marshal and Ambush Near Depot
United States Marshal Wray arrested one to three suspects from Hiteman on revenue law violations. A gun battle erupted as the marshal and his squad entered the city from the Chicago Burlington & Quincy depot. Shots struck the marshal in the back but his condition is not believed serious.
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Australia
United States
Alaska
New South Wales
Canada
Queensland
Jamaica
Marshal Auto
Hiteman
Wray
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Orge Johnson
Cass County Bank Trial Opens in Artaxrie
The Cass County bank president Yetzer faces trial in Artaxrie after a continuance motion was overruled by Judge Smith. Proceedings began yesterday with the case moving forward on the bank leadership’s alleged conduct.
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Yetzer
Artaxrie
Cass County Bank
Smith
Woman Almost Poisoned By Laudanum Mixup
Oct 10. Miss Robinson the first woman to vote under the town ballot law for women nearly died after taking laudanum instead of cough medicine while treating her mother. An all day walk preceded the incident and both women were later declared out of danger.
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Staovaxey
Miss Robinson
Murderer Jack Tellew Sentenced to Life in Prison
Fort Donan Oct. 10 Jack Tellew, who confessed to killing Joe Titany, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He claimed he expected a lighter sentence if he pleaded not guilty to save his aunt the cost, and admitted the crime was for money. He expressed satisfaction with the verdict.
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Retlew
Tly
Pte Dodge
Fort Donan
Jack Tellew
Joe Titany
Heilew
Aeclub
Double Tragedy Reported In Iowa City Footnote
In Iowa City on October 1 Chad Kimes Sr. of Peasant Valley township was found dead at the foot of a culvert along the Noel Island railway. Authorities say he lay there unconscious and mangled after an apparent fall from the embankment while intoxicated. The text also mentions a separate incident where Reams allegedly murdered his wife with a chair and then harmed himself.
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Towa City
Chad Kimes
Peasant Valley Teeenship
Jobson County
Noel Island
Iowa City
Fort Dodge News Briefs Mixed with Robberies and Trials
Reports from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas cover a man from Cedar withdrawing a not guilty plea and entering a guilty plea, a failed attempt on Brooklyn's First National Bank, a lost pocketbook tied to a murder case, a damaging explosion that shredded bonds and coins, a juvenile kidnapping petition, and a fatal gasoline stove accident in Hoone.
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Herbert Goodking Wan
Cedar Iifany
Fort Dovige
Guil
First National Bank
Brooklyn
Maral
Anna Weise
Marde
Marshalltown
Herth
Treat
Areen Mountain
Byre
Thomas D. Hurke
Justice of the Peace
Marengo
Grand Jury
S. Lake
Hopits
Ray Elliott
War Footings and Armament Summary From Notes
The War Department lists world military forces with figures for Austria-Hungary Italy France and England among others. The excerpt cites totals for regulars and national populations, noting large contrasts in mobilization scales and resources across nations.
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Raormone
Wasmsaron
War Department
Austria-Hun
Colom
England
Halys Jem
Switzen
Campaign of 96: Harrison, Hill and Russell in play
Fragmentary 1806 era speculation sketches Gen Harrison’s possible nomination course. A friend of Harrison disputes his desire for the nomination, while Hill is tipped as a possible presidential candidate. The text also hints at Russell Harrison’s stance in New York politics and a cautious gubernatorial outlook.
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Gen. Harrison
Russell Harrison
Hill
Senate
New York
Swindle Involving Three-Card Game Ends With Lost Wager
Henry Keistel fell for a rural swindle when two well-dressed men and a third stranger lured him with promises of buying his farm and a high stakes three card wager. After gathering $14,000 in cash, the tin box was found to contain waste paper and Keistel’s $1,000 vanished while the three con artists escaped.
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Henry Keistel
Keistel
Meister
Kiestel
Duel with Axes Ends in Fatal Woes near KinTey
Two farmers, Raymond Martin and Robert, quarreled over a woman on October 10 near KinTey. The dispute ended when both men suffered severe injuries including severed arms and fatal head and chest wounds. Authorities investigated the incident as a deadly altercation.
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Kent
Raymond Martin
Robert
Czar's Illness Reported Hopeless by Vienna Source
Vienna correspondent cites a trusted source saying the czar's condition is hopeless. He remains conscious and has lately been seen writing his political testament while suffering Bright's disease and related complications.
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Ondon
Vienna
Bright
Lopetens
JAPANESE TROOPS LAND NEAR PORT ARTHUR REPORT
A Times dispatch from Yokohama confirms Che Foo capture and notes Japanese landing at Tarasenda near Port Arthur. HK telegraphs say Foo Chow is sealed for siege and a Beijing panic spreads. Tsin reports 5,000 Russian troops on the Corean frontier facing Japan at Hun Chun.
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Loxpox
Times
Yokohama
Che Foo
Tarasenda
Port Arthur
Hong Kong
Foo Chow
Pekin
Everett P Wheeler Named for Governor in New York Race
Everett P Wheeler, a lawyer from Kings County, is named by anti Hill Democrats in New York as their governor candidate. The ticket endorses regular Democratic nominee for judge, with Charles C as campaign chairman. Wheeler, about 60, is a longtime county democracy member and on the hundred member committee that organized the New York state democracy.
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Everett P. Wheeler
New Yon
Kings County
Everett P. Wheele
Wand
Daniel L. Lockwood Brown
Shepard
Charles C, Child
Mald County Democracy
Committee of One Hundred
New York
Gubernatorial Nomination News in York Honored
Charles Newburg was nominated for reea... in the plac enor, with Senator Hill and Lockwood present. The national committee's distinguished members attended. Rourke Cochran introduced the candidates and spoke. Senator Hill argued the nomination was undeserved, reflecting on the party's past prosperity.
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York
Charles Newburg
Placenor
Hill
Lockwood
Ainating
Rourke Cochran
Catastrophic Explosion Reported With Major Damage
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a terrible catastrophe with a blast destroying a barracks area and wounding many. The text mentions a Massachusetts state convention renominating Gor and various officials including Greenhalge, Phillips, Kimball, Knowlton, and roles such as treasurer and attorney general.
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Bost
Massachusetts
Gor
FT. Greenhalge
Acela Illips
J. W. Kimball
M. Knowlton
Cockran Retires From Candidacy For Renovation
Bourke Cockran says he will not be a candidate for reno vation. He cites illness and fatigue from the past year and states he feels it is proper to retire from nomination.
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Tue
Europe
Italy
Bourke Cockran
Mis Dieter
Naught Colonel and Political Alignments Reported
Brecking ridge's friends plan to bring him out for senator with names including Secretary Carlisle Senior Blackburn Gov Brown Buckner and Henry Watterson among those mentioned Judge Gaynor writes to the New York Democratic State Committee declining the office of judge of the appeals a Sultan assassination plot is alleged in a September cablegram Turks with dynamite confessing intent to kill the sultan wreck victims wash ashore near West Florida bodies found drifted from wrecks Prof David Swing dies in Chicago of blood poisoning born Cincinnati 1830 Flying Jib breaks world pacing record at 1 58 in Chillicothe US Charleston arrives at Yokohama five US warships in the east to be joined by three more Detroit Machias Yorktown soon
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Gaynor
Theew York Democratic State Committee
Sultan
West
Fla
David Swing
Chicago
Bromby
Wing
Cincinnati
Ohio
Westminster P Dyterian Church
Central Church
Chillicothe
Westmont
United States
Charleston
Yokohama
Japan
Baltimore
Monocacy
Concord
Petrel
Detroit
Machias
Yorktown
Able Poet Dr Holmes Dies in Boston Hoxton
Dr Holmes, a noted poet, died of heart disease at his home on Texcon Street Boston yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. He had suffered heart trouble for years and spent the summer in Beverly before returning home. Dr Putnam attended him as he faded, and the physician found him nearly unconscious before his death.
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Hoxton
Roston
Mass
Holmes
Texcon Street
Boston
Buck
Beverly Runs
Noted Patriot Governor Curtin Dies After Brain Debility
The death of Gov Andrew G Curtin ends his term as Rhode Island war governor. He suffered brain troubles and general debility in old age, with friends and statesmen nearby. Ex-Governor Wood of Iowa was expected to follow soon.
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Hellxrosty
Penn
Qet
Gov. Curtin
Rhode Island
Govert Wood
Lowa
Curtin
Massachusetts Democrats Name Russell for Governor
Mass Democratic circles announce Russell as a candidate for governor with backing from key party figures. The brief notes mentions Stratton and Ost and references other potential state leaders in support of the nomination.
Discovery Sold for One Million Dollars
A promising medical discovery by Frank Schrage was sold for 1,000,000 dollars to Syniemre. Reports say several investors contributed amounts including 100.06 per year notes, while Cook, Lyncroft, and a trust official referenced law involved in the deal. The contract was reportedly completed last week.
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Frank Schrage
Syniemre
Nk Schrage
Cook
Lyncroft
Ait
Th Trust Law
Literary Notes and Magazine Highlights in October
New York clergyman contributes to The Ladies' Home Journal October issue. Richards of Yale presents Football Situation. Harper's and Scribner's outline October offerings including Worth costumes and Dr J West Roosevelt Hospital piece. Harper's features two novels priced with subscription.
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New York
Insford
Ladies’ Home Journal
Popular Science Monthly
Richards
Yale
Harper's Razor
Sandoz
Chapuis
Worth
Scribner’s Magazine
J. West Roosevelt
Harper's
Golden House
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