Ottumwa crimes and local notices mix amid wide Iowa gossip
A sprawling Ottumwa area page reports Charles Young confessing to multiple crimes including the murder of Thomas McGrath and an attempted murder of Fred Miller, with mob threats and a jail transfer to Oskaloosa. Local items cover travel, emigration delays, canning plans, saloon tax figures, a doctor’s illness, a sheriff’s report, and several minor accidents and resignations in Des Moines area rail service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
William Knox
Charles Young
Thomas McGrath
Fred Miller
Tom Santeen
Young
Captain Mier
Oskaloosa
Edyth Sargent
Alton
Evelyn Hospers
Will Hospers
Gerrit Slob
Orange City
LeMara
Marion Hinds
Bill Hospers
Carnes
Handa
Herald
Pella
Des Moines
Iowa
Itisa
Tracy-Pierre
Dakotas
Local musings mix fashion blame and court news
A collage of quotes and opinions covers fashion violence and law. The New York Sun lampoons hats while notes from the Iowa Supreme Court ponder monopolies and dissolution. Pella and Red Oak paving plans spark town rivalries as college bells ring and marriages stumble in Polk County politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Oak
Pella
Knoxville Journal
Hazard
Iowa
Polk van
Vanderpol sale draws crowds amid busy planting season
The Jim Vanderpol sale drew many bargain hunters daily despite corn planting and house cleaning. Commencement is two weeks away as the Johnson building on the square is readied for occupancy. Frank Warner renovates a grocery store into one of the region’s finest. Everett Bloem and helpers laid a new street crossing near J M Cox property after the old crossing broke. The old soldiers plan a Memorial Day program as the Buckingham family is released from quarantine Tuesday noon.
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Monroe
Tre Sty
Wichita
Kan
Bertha Noble
Clinton
Frank Patterson
Newton
van der Ploeg
New Holland State Bank
Jim
Coal Man
Everet
Increasing use of fertilizers in the United States
The article notes rising popularity and value of imported fertilizers reaching 40 million dollars in 1910, with domestic output expanding for phosphates and overall fertilizer manufacture. It cites Bureau of Statistics figures, Geological Survey data, and census values from 1890 to 1910, while noting U.S. fertilizer exports near 10 million dollars and total annual farm consumption around 100 million dollars in that period. A piano bargain ad follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bureau of ‘Statistica
Department of Commerce
Labor
Geological Survey
Censua
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Old advertisement touts Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children claiming quick relief from colds fevers headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and worms. Promises free sample by mail from Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen S, Olmsted
LeRoy. N. Y
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Wormhoudt’s. Clothing House
Frans Vanden Berg
Friesland Netherlands
Hospers
Ellis Island
Vanden Berg
John Nieuwenhuis
Steamship Company
Dirk Vanden Berg
Belle Plaine Canning Company
Scott County
Dubuque
Polk
Woodbury
Ernest Gutch
Albia
Chicago
EB. L. Reeve
Gutch
Joseph Bauer
Milwaukee Railroad
Harley Edgerton
Laredo
Edgerton
Bauer
Eddyville Tribune
Bert Ward
Kirkville
Tribune
Eiffel Towers
New York Sun
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company
Tobacco Trust
Towa
Vander Linden
M. Vander Linden
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