Des Moines engineer dies after boiler explosion and hiccups
E B Blackmer chief engineer at the Des Moines Edison light plant died at 4 AM after a siege of hiccoughs lasting since Thursday. He was blown from a boiler Tuesday night and died from inhaling hot steam and severe burns. Survived by wife Florence a daughter a mother and two sisters. Funeral planned for Plymouth Massachusetts. He was 42 a Congregationalist and member of the I C C F. He remained conscious to the end and wished burial in Massachusetts. His body suffered extensive burns from knees upward.
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Des Moines
E. B. Blackmer
Des Moines Edison Lght
Blackmer
Florence
Seattle
Plymouth
Mass
Congregational Church
Massachusetts
Iowa Ranked Sixth in Student Enrollment in Public Schools
Iowa ranks sixth in the nation for students enrolled in elementary and secondary public schools, with 29,619 teachers overall and 26,021 female teachers among them. New York and Pennsylvania lead in teacher numbers, while Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Missouri top enrollment. The state’s 26.82 percent population enrollment trails three states with higher ratios.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Commissioner of Education
Texas
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Missouri
Texas Fever In Livestock Sweeps Jasper County
Texas fever spreads across northern and southern Marshall counties after cattle owners reported a strange malady. Assistant State Veterinarian F J Neiman quarantined 459 head and ordered several ill animals killed. The disease, highly infectious and deadly to cattle, began with fever and can cause jaundice and enlarged spleen. Incubation ranges from ten to fifty days.
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Jasper
Marshalltown
Marshall Counties
F. 3. Neiman
Collins
Juener County
Kansas City
Farmer held as silk thief in Waterloo case
Jacob Shops of Maynard is charged with grand larceny for stealing a number of silk ribbons from Rock Island freight house last December. Detectives tracked him through several cities before arrest. Shops, a well to do farmer, was brought to Waterloo to answer the charge after his household goods moved from Rowley.
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Jacob Shops
Maynard
Waterloo
Shops
Rock Island
Rowley
Maquoketa Readies Homecoming and Reunion Events
Maquoketa prepares for a large homecoming celebration with hundreds of former residents expected to visit. Elaborate programs and extensive plans aim to accommodate attendees for the nineteenth annual Jackson County Veterans Association reunion and the county fair.
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Maquoketa
Jackson County
Busy September term foreseen for Polk County court
Des Moines reports a heavy September term with 568 new appearance docket cases since the May filing. Of these 508 await trial, 60 are divorces either decreed or dismissed. The docket splits 280 law and 228 equity cases, with three civil division judges focused on new matters. Seven murder trials are planned alongside minor cases. County Attorney De Graff targets Dickinson murder trial in week two, followed by Dr. Gadd. Irene Blydenburgh’s death remains central, and Nurse Anna Beattie faces trial for alleged complicity with Mrs. Fred West in the Baby Jim murder, with Mrs West also slated for trial.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Brennan
de Graff
H. B. Dickinson
Irene Blydenburgh
Dr. Gadd
Dickinson
Anna Beattie
Fred West
Jim
Newspaper Man Turns Monk in Dubuque
George Fishley a prominent western newspaper man has joined the Trappist monastery at New Mellory near Dubuque. He will proceed with novitiate and wear the haircloth shirt rising at 3 a.m. after transferring from Gethsemane Kentucky. Previously with the Chicago Inter Ocean, Fishley leaves metropolitan journalism for religious seclusion.
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George Fishley
Dubuque
West
New Mellory
Fishley
Order of Trappists
Geth’ Semane
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Fruit and starch touted by secretary in Washington
James Wilson the secretary of agriculture discusses aid to farmers in Washington. He cites darum wheat the wheat testing machine and Branite potash extraction as benefits. He predicts cheaper products for all, touches on a boy and grapes story and notes laundering with Defiance starch. A short conversation closes with a farewell line about poker stories.
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James Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Mr. Wilson
Jack
Madge
Plays in hay with fire ends in fatal barn blaze
In Knoxville a 3 year old boy, son of Marion County farmer William Reed, was not recovered after a barn fire started when a worker retrieved matches. The blaze destroyed the barn and its contents including five horses cattle and a gasoline engine, with losses around $7,000.
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Knoxville
William Reed
Marion County
Saloons Ordered Closed In Scott County Decrees
Davenport judge J W Bollinger signed decrees against 214 Scott county saloons requiring 10 pm closing, ban on free lunches, and adherence to Iowa liquor laws. Atttorney C W Heal collected 57.12 in fees. saloonkeeper costs total nearly 10 000.
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Davenport
J. W. Bollinger
Scott County District Court
Scott Country
Iowa
C. Wheal
Boy Killed by Street Car in Council Bluffs
Eleven year old Lawrence Sawyer was killed near the Rock Island depot when a street car struck him as he and other boys played tag. The boy, visiting from Montana with his mother, was run over after colliding with the car, his head severely injured and his body mangled under the wheels. The boy was staying with his uncle W F Dassinger.
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Council Bluffs
Lawrence Sawyer
Rock Island
Sawyer
Montana
W F. Dassinger
Bones Found Solves Farm Disappearance Mystery
Exhuming a skeleton buried near Sam Robinson’s farm outside Paton reveals the unresolved disappearance of a farm hand four years ago. Two young men were hired. one vanished, the other left after months. Authorities suspect murder by the second man and plan a search.
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Fort Dodge
Sam Robinson
Paton
Robinson
Physicians Recommend Castoria in Health Journal Note
The medical journal cites Castoria as harmless and effective for stomach pains and nervous distress. It emphasizes safe, non narcotic properties, a preferable substitute for castor oil, and warns against dangerous practices in child remedies.
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Bateman
Godfrey
Haiti
Journal of Health
Beware of Mercury Ointments and Circassian Slavery Image
Fragmented ad filled with medical warnings about mercury in catarrh remedies and slur on Circassians, followed by promos for Defiance Starch and Allen’s Foot Ease. Mentions colleges as fire risks with loss figures and a noted quotation on reading and thinking.
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Ahanarnsiy
Pete
Guns Traps Decoys At Lowest Prices In Catalog No1
Buy from T. W. Hide & Fur Co. Minneapolis Minnesota as advertised. The fragment notes firearms gear and hunting accessories at reduced prices, with mention of a blonde lawyer as a curious aside.
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T. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
Mina
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