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Fretwork of Iowa News From Web City and Beyond
Iowa notes multiple local incidents. Gardner, 62, a Webster City hardware dealer, dies after five days illness. Newbury flagstaff elevator rises 100 feet costing over 15000 dollars. Frosts ruin northern corn. Dubuque area reports damaged lowland corn. Walter Detra uses pitchfork to stop a savage bull, saving his life. A. C. Wisebrook pleads murder. Lite shooting alleged at Greenfield fairgrounds. Pro-German tension surfaces in Ankeny and Waterloo arrests. Camp Dodge telephones go live with 10 cent per call. Elks convention set for Dubuque in September.
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Webster City
C. F. Gardner
Newbury
Dubuque
Moet
Walter Detra
A. C. Wisebrook
A. W. Lite
Greenfield
Wisebrook
Lite
Ankeny
Earl Krell
First
Iowa Cavalry
Oxford
Iowa City Canning Company
Chaddie Ryan
Kelly
Red Oak
Eggert Brown Croagswell
Davenport Aviation School
Lockport
A. G. Horn
Herman
Webbeking
Waterloo
E. R. Moore
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Turkey River
Iowa Infantry
J. L. Drake
Drake
Ralph Gnyder
Lima
F. R. Mether
Paul Stealy
Lynn J. Kelly
Villiscaux
Havner
Hastings
Macedonia
Vil- Neca
W. B. Mitchell
Court House
Hampton
Camp
Conover
Rashaen