Deposits and State Bank Notes from Iowa Report
Iowa auditors report state and savings banks show deposits rose nearly 20 million from July 1901 to July 1902, with a first period decline since 1895. Personal property value up about 13 million. realty around 419 million. Mount Pleasant hospital ward for inebriates faces capacity limits. 50 to 60 beds only. National guard to attend Philippine veterans encampment in uniform. also notes on livestock values and cattle exhibits at the state fair. President Roosevelt may visit Iowa late September to early October. statehouse roof to be repaired with tile. interurban line Des Moines to Altoona completed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Merriam
Mount Pleasant Hospital
National Guard
Red Oak
Glenwood
Corning
Council Bluffs
Philippines
Atlantic
Mount Pleasant
Board of Control
Applegate
Altoona
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Mason City
Clear Lake
Colfax
Newton
S. B. Packard
Marshalltown
Guv. Packard
Railroads Told to Post Train Bulletin Notices
The railroad commission mails letters to railroads statewide urging posting bulletins in depots with train arrival and departure times. The law, effective July 4, aims to inform passengers, but several stations have no such notices according to commission members.
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The
Railroad Commission
General Assembly
Dubuque Race Meet Talk Seeks September Decision
In Dubuque discussions arise about staging a major harness racing meet this September. Four years ago the nation’s largest trotting event occurred there with $100000 in stakes but failed financially, and only one meeting has occurred since. Nutwood Park owners plan a meeting to decide on this year’s event.
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Dubuque
United States
Nutwood Park
Ades
Dr Crafford Freed On Bond In Controversial Case
Sequres Hi Liberty reports Dr J W Crafford sentenced last fall in Mont La to 13 years in the state penitentiary for the death of Miss Maid Stone through a criminal operation. He has secured liberty by a $50,000 bond. Ira Hammond, charged with complicity, was acquitted. The Crafford case has been appealed to the supreme court.
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Sequres Hi Liberty
J. W. Crafford
la ‘Mont
State ‘Penitentiary
Mount Pleasant Hospital Year Report 1902 Details Inmates and Outcomes
The Mount Pleasant Hospital report for the year ended June 30 1902 lists 1006 inmates, 587 males and 479 females. Discharges and deaths total 285 with 116 discharged recovered and 91 died. Dr Applegate notes 40 percent of admissions were recovered and estimates recoveries may reach 65 percent. Inibriates: 52 males and seven females committed. 28 men and five women discharged or died, leaving 24 male and two female here.
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Mount Pleasant
Applegate
Commissioners of Ingenity
Board of Control
District Court
Binding Twine Prices Rise Amid Scarcity
Town farmers pay about 17 cents for binding twine, up from 13 cents last year due to short supply. Retailers and jobbers in flood and wind affected sections are attempting to move large spring purchases. Mills are rushing orders but demand is delayed by unsettled weather and late mid July sales. Some Iowa twine jobbers struggle to fill orders as they adapt to higher prices and tighter stock.
Roll Grows Smaller at Marshalltown Soldiers Home
The Iowa soldiers home at Marshalltown reports 1089 veterans cared for in the year ended June 30, 1902. Four male and four female deaths occurred, with 400 hospital, 250 ward, and 782 sick bed treatments. Aggregate hospital enrollment at year end: 675 men and 78 women, total 753.
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Marshalltown
Board of Control
C. C. Horton
Des Moines Uses Oil Remedy to Fight Malaria Mosquitoes
The city sprayed standing water with air slaked lime or covered it with kerosene oil after floods. Physicians advised the oil as a mosquito preventative, aiming to curb malaria transmission. About 50 barrels of kerosene were used. doctors report few malaria cases and credit the treatment.
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Des Moines
Ladies' Militant Auxiliary Sought by Odd Fellows
The Ladles' Militant plans to form the Indies' Militant as an auxiliary of the patriarchs' militant. Des Moines hosts a supreme lodge meeting where women may be recognized as an independent affiliated group. Illinois and Town already have preliminary chapters seeking supreme body recognition.
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Supreme Lodges of
Odd Fellows
Des Moines
Patriarchs’ Militant
Indies’ Militant
Patriarchs
Ilinois
Without Protection Sheldon Lacks Police Support
The mayor in Sheldon appointed a marshal who does not salt and the council cut his $50 monthly salary to only fees of three or four dollars. He ignores the office, leaving the town filled with tramps and other bad characters who loot what they please and face no interference.
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Sheldon
Glaciers Flow and Ice Forms a Winding River
The article explains glacier movement and the behavior of ice as it flows through valleys. It describes how accumulated snow creates heavy ice rivers that bend and recongeal, forming larger glaciers. Experiments with ice illustrate how solid ice can flow and rejoin after cracking.
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Fice
Switzerland
Chas Barnard
N. Y. Herald
Be. no TREASONABLE CHILD: Kam fretful and cross
A verse by Carolyn Wells in Success contrasts a fretful child who demands control with a pleasant compliant one. The speaker admits craving the best and resents equal sharing, then promises to be merry if allowed to have her own way, reflecting child psychology and behavior notes.
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Carolyn. Wells
Spectacular Brussels St Bernard Funeral Draws 200 Workers
A Brussels owner buried his cherished St Bernard in grand style with a costly coffin. Two hundred employees attended, viewing the dog in a glass-tlid coffin before the procession to a garden grave. The master wept, while workers were told they could spend the rest of the day as they wished.
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Brussels
St. Bernard
Pretty Party Trick with Floating Glasses
A detailed 19th century drinking trick uses two equal goblets A and B filled with water. The upright A and inverted B are joined brim to brim, then dried. B remains full as wine is moved from C into B without spilling, via a double operation where wine in C is first removed and then allowed to penetrate B through a capillary transfer.
Mermaid Love and Rail Tales From a Fragmented Page
A fanciful tale from the Los Angeles Herald describes a maiden mermaid and her lover amid seasick scenes on a rail car, interwoven with musings on Union Pacific engineering. The piece comments on straight roads, comfort, safety, and speed, urging railroads to reduce grades and optimize routes. It also notes a brief joke about a new preacher provoking a wife’s remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Los Angeles Herald
Union Pacific
Brooklyn Eagle
Keights Pythias Biennial Meeting in San Francisco
Announcement for the Keights Pythias biennial meeting in San Francisco this August offers round trip excursion tickets from Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles for $50 via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Short Line. Two through trains daily with sleeping and dining car service, maps and timetables available from F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Also includes a Baltimore World joke fragment about chicken dates.
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Keights Pythias
San Francisco
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry
Chicago
Los Angeles
Chicago, Milwaukee
East
Est
F. A. Miller
Cascarets and a Subtle Price Trick
A reader warns against cheaper imitations of Cascarets claiming equal value. The genuine tablets, stamped "0.0," sell in 10 25 and 50 cent boxes at drug stores. Headlines mention a well digger joke and an ocean cruise advertisement from Chicago to Norfolk with Chesapeake and Ohio Railway details.
Allen's Foot-Ease Advertises Comfort for Feet
A historic advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for swollen, sweaty, hot and aching feet. Priced at 25 cents with a free trial package offered, the ad urges druggists to stock and warns to accept no substitute. It includes endorsements and unrelated quotes from period publications.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Mischief by a Jackdaw Lands Man in Dartmoor Prison
Fergus, freed from Dartmoor after three years for allegedly stealing Lady Allenvale's diamond, claimed his pet jackdaw hid the ring and flew off. Police doubted him, but two years later a jackdaw skeleton was found under a garret trapdoor at Lady Allenvale’s house, and Fergus was pardoned.
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Fergus
Dartmoor
England
Lady Allenvale
Lady Allen
Houge
Tergus
Remarkable Rail Ties and Farm Recruitment Notes
Fragmented OCR notes describe railroad lines and passenger tickets across New York and Pennsylvania, highlighting two cent per mile fares and farm labor demand in Minnesota and North Dakota. It mentions Max Bass and a moving scene with a father-son exchange, plus H J Titus being appointed Mobil Ohio Rail Superintendent, all reflecting early 20th century railway and agricultural activity.
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New York
Buffalo
Own. & Ogdensburg
An & Avoaatk
Movewrence Irondack
Vania Division
New West Shore Railroad
Wallkill Valley Brane Joston & Albany Railroad
Buffalo, Rochester & Pitted Central Railroad
Pennsburg
Johnstown, Ebensburg
Philadelphia
Raa
Atlantic City Railroad
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Gain
State Hospital
William L. Black
Texas
Black
N. MicHubbard
Cedar Rapids
N. N. Jones
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Henry Tracy
Washington
Seattle
Fort Madison
Jones
Matt Hunter
Mount Ayr
Homer Holland
Drake University
Hunter
Roosevelt
Gov. Cummins
State
Capital Improvement Commission
Statehouse
Capitol Improvement Commission
Mt, Pleasant Hospital
Roll
Soldiers’ Home
Ich
Baltimore World
Indianapolis News
Virginia Mountain
Seashore
Norfolk
Old Dominion Line
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Clark St
Chicago, IL
Chicago Daily Ews
Atchison Globe
New York Central
Franklin
Piso
Chicago Journal
Ram's
Ard
al Orm
Hamlin
Eee
Renee Cee Aes
Agian
Yeasree
Michael Athe Boomton House
Ara
Nocent
Gra
Minnesota
Wetl
Minot
Max Bass
South
Clark Etter
Tommy
Chicago& Way
H. J. Titus
Alton
Mo Railway
Chicago & Alton Railway
Titus
Mobil Ohio
Jackson
United 8
Saturday Evening Post
Boxsel
Phe Curtis
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