Multiple local incidents splash into Iowa headlines
The report lists a Cambridge post office safe robbery of 300 dollars, a 14 year old dies from eating too many peanuts near Cedar Falls, and thefts at Hasty and Jacobs clothing store in Delta. It notes Mason City's signs removed, injuries from a Lone Tree gas plant explosion, a Denison post office robbery case involvement, a boxcar derailment near Malay killing three, Joseph Reynolds fined for drunkenness in Boone, Monroe High School expanding to four years, and Taft dropping a college year.
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Hasty and Jacobs
Delta
Mason City
Monroe
Meek
Taft
Telegraph Assessment in Marion County Iowa 1909 Declared
In compliance with Chapter 42 Acts of 28th General Assembly of Iowa, it is ordered that the following be declared to be the length and assessed value of the Telegraph Companies in Marion County Iowa lying in each township city school and road district to wit and then ends with the listed particulars.
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H General Assembly of
Iowa
Marion County
Western Union Telegraph Co
C.b.&q
D. M
Burlington & Western
Lake Prairie
Knoxville
Pella Corporation
Pleasant Grove
Swan Wees Eeeers Tenet
Wabash
Wee Boi & P
Oskaloosa
Des Moines & St. Louis
Western Union
Liberty
Hamilton
Portersville
Rock Island At
Clay
Bussey
Summit
Virginia
Cedar Valley
Polk
Red Rock
Clay Eureka
Perryweer
Clay Cedar Valley
Tola- Tracy
Lincoln
Des Moines
Flaglerbush
St. Louis
Eureka
Seeree
Iola
Elm Ridge Liberty
Busseyo
McMillan
Aenee
McMillandards
Flagler Weweee
Oskaloosa Division
Elm Ridge
Tracy Pere
Knoxville City
Eureka Eace
Des Moines Vall
Fairview
Seis
C. R
Amsterdam
Pleasantville
Swan City
Harvey Corporation
CBE
Brush Creek
Q RR
Keokuk
Fair Oaks
Western Union Telegraph Co, Co. R
Western Union Tregraph Co
Silver Grove
Amit
Silver Grove Hamilton, Corporation
Otley
Perry c
Western Union Telegrapth
C.rl
Cities & P
Keokuk & Des Moines
Bel
Clayweeneer Tracy
Bussey, Corporation
Hamilton, Corporation
Western Union Telcoo Harvey, Corporation
Wweeetwee
Burlington & Weater
Vrewweteowenurs Cosas Boe
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Multiple Iowa incidents lead front pages across Sept notes
A Rock Island freight hold up near Burlington ends with a bandit captured in the Burlington yards and a trainman killed after being dragged by a wheel. Peter Pinch pleads guilty to child murder in Vinton and receives a ten year term for hiding a newborn in a suitcase. Ida Grove residents donate 15000 to Morningside College, amid Hill’s 10000 gift. Sioux City claims Peary used Sioux City eggs to reach the Pole, while Lacey of Oskaloosa is elected colonel of a U S Volunteer Regimental Reunion. The Chicago Northwestern reports no Iowa passenger deaths and 24 injuries due to double tracks and signals. Rose Brace and others are returned to Mitchellville reform school for parole violations, and a Fireman saves a 7-year-old from a moving Omaha engine. Carnegie medal advocacy grows for Chilson’s rescue on the Floyd river bridge.
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Wm. McCullum
Conolidation Coal Company
Buxton
Vinton
Peter Pinch
Pinch
Nancy Heilman
Ida Grove
Morningside College
College
James J Hill
Sioux City
Peary
North Pole
Far North
Omaha
M. J. Chilson
Floyd River
Chilso
No Mail If Dog Bites
Washington dispatch reports a post office rule denying mail delivery to homes with vicious dogs allowed to run at large. Carriers are not required to deliver mail there. residents with such dogs must call at the post office to collect their mail. The regulation aims to protect mail carriers from dangerous dogs and to ensure receipt of correspondence through office pickup.
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Washington
Post Office Department
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Wormhoudt
Wormhoudt’s Furniture
Cambridge
Edward Erikson
Cedar Falls
Timmeran
Lone Tree
Earl C. Johnson
State Penitentiary
Dennison
Chicago Great Western
Joseph F. Reynolds
Chicago
Bone Electric Lines
Boone
Owa
Assal
Mili
Eyrat
Wh Co.,school Dist
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Lake Prairie Summit
Union Telexrapt
Tow
Opt
Don Smith
Rock Island
Burlington
John F. Lacey
Iowa U. S
Mackey
Sigjourney
Toit
Chicago Northwestern Railroad
State Railroad Commission
Marshalltown
Rose , Brace
Edna Mullison
Shenandoah
Kate Cartee
Mitchellville Reform School
Rosa Liebig
Katherine Hummer
Board of Control
Board of Supervisors
Vander Wal & de Boer
Cole’s Drug Store
Cole
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