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Iowa News Items Highlight Fatalities and Local Incidents
A survey of Iowa notices reports a mad dog attack in Mount Ayr wounding eighteen before it was killed. Marshalltown sees a Brights disease death of 60 year old Mrs H H Hanawalt. A 10 year old boy’s accidental shooting kills his sister Maxine Northrup. A Chariton clerk retires to find a rattlesnake in his bed. Cedar Rapids thief steals $22 from a home while a thief robs a back yard. Sioux County picnic attracts 5000 attendees and 800 cars. Waterloo triplets reportedly first in city vicinity. Mississippi Valley fair awards top swine prizes. Waterloo engraving firm wins state contract.
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Mount ‘Ayr
H. H. Hanawalt
Marshalltown
Bright
J. M. Northrup
Fairbanks
Maxine
Chariton
Matthew Tschirgi
Cedar Rapids
Sioux County Farm Bureau
Orange City
Charles M. Brees
Waterloo
Charles Kelley & Sop
Iowa City
Baird Brothers
Wapello
Chicago
Waterloo Engraving and Service Company of
The
Printing Board
G. H. Brooks
Whiting
Kendall
Pavey
Weeks
A. L. Frazier
Council Bluffs
George W. Bible
Creston
Towa
Frank 5. Mossman
Morningside College
Sioux City
Ralph Hellman
Northwestern
Fred Fisher
Benton County
Squire W. Stevens
Nevada
C. N. Stanton
Stanton
Newton
Pisgah Savings Bank
Bank of California
Los Angeles
J. H. Stimson
Clarinda
Thirty
General Assembly
Page County
Royal A. Rice
Cedar Falls
Red Oak
Collins Oil Station
Dearborn
Crystal Lake Park
South Dakota
Iowa
Hillett-Dixon
Ames
Samuel Dixon
Dixon