Plattsmouth Busy with Court House Visits and Local News
Local scene features numerous residents traveling to and from Plattsmouth on court house business. Among those noted are Mr. Carter Albin, Mr. F. M. Martin, Miss Florence Cory, Dr. J. Kelley, Mrs. H. K. Dunbar, and many others with trips to Omaha Lincoln and Cedar Creek. The item also reports a pending marriage for Clara Edith Bonaparte Martin to Mathew Furnis Morton.
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Carter Albin
Union
Court House
Florence Cory
Omaha
George Thierolf
Cedar Creek
Plattemouth
Schuyler
Josiah Bonaparte Martin
Clara Edith
Mathew Furnis Morton
Plattsmouth
Morton
Fairfax
South Dakota
W. H. Pool
Lincoln
Pool
Drouth
Government announces nationwide exams for postal clerks
Government jobs offer wages from 800 to 1200 dollars for Railway Mail Clerks and up to 2500 dollars for other positions. Examinations will select Clerks, Stenographers, Bookkeepers and more. Open to men and women over 18 nationwide with free information from the Bureau of Instruction Rochester New York.
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Gvernment
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Instruction
J, Hamlin Building
Rochester
N. Y
Visitor reports father in improved condition
Mr. Walter Ports of California visiting his father. Mr. Peter Perry, an Omaha traveler this afternoon, says his father's condition is considerably improved.
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Walter Ports
California
Peter Perry
Omaha
Mr. Perry
Dealers Fight Parcel Post in Iowa Convention
Iowa Implement Dealers' association meeting in Des Moines opposes a parcels post plan, arguing it would hurt small merchants. Treasurer reports thriving finances with 558.70 balance and a push for a new machinery building at the state fair grounds. They also seek lower express rates and note current charges of 10 cents on carts worth 50 cents.
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Des Moines
United States
Iowa Implement Dealers’ Association
E. P. Armknecht
Donnellson
State Fair Ground
General Assembly
Stamp Out Typhoid Effort In Des Moines
Health boards and city council in Des Moines unite to investigate every food item and location where typhoid may breed. They aim to gather data on current cases and then remove conditions that could spread the disease.
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Des Moines
State Health Board
City Health Board
State House
What Cheer Liquor Trade Halted by Injunctions
Permanent injunctions were granted against seven saloonists and druggists in Keokuk county district court in What Cheer Iowa. The orders prohibit involvement in selling intoxicating liquor. County Anti Saloon League attorney C M Brown led the case with defense by Dean Hamilton and T C Legow. The injunctions effectively end the liquor business in What Cheer.
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What Cheer
Drugeista
Keokuk County
C. M. Brown
County Anti Saloon League
Dean Hamilton
T. C. Legow
Iowa National Guard Armory Plan For Des Moines
Adjutant General Logan urges a state arsenal in Des Moines to store arms and paraphernalia from the War Department and to serve as an armory for Des Moines guardsmen. He also asks that stocks and bonds issued to fund armory construction be tax exempt.
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Des Moines
Carroll
Logan
Iowa National Guard
United States War Department
Accident during hunt wounds farmer near Sidney
Sidney Dec 2 Chester Brack ley a farmer living near Sidney sustained a serious injury to his right hand when a gun discharged while he crawled through a fence. The hammer caught in a grapevine and the load traveled through the palm necessitating a population procedure.
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Sidney
Chester Brackley
Memorial fund grows for late senator in Iowa
General Grenville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs sent Colonel W. Chantland a $100 check to aid the Dodge Dolliver Memorial Association. The fund total now exceeds $1,500 as that effort continues in Fort Dodge.
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General Dodge Aldise Dolliver
Fort Dodge
Grenville M. Dodge
Council Bluffs
W. ‘Il. Chantland
Dollivar
Fire destroys nine buildings in Packwood area
A December blaze in Packwood, Fairfield County, destroyed nine buildings of unknown origin. The estimated loss stands at about 75,000 dollars with the fire starting in the office of the Review.
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Fairfield
Packwood
Lous
Office of the Review
City Scores In Car Trial
From testimony in Adel Iowa on December 2 the city’s lawyers argued for a ruling on the Des Moines Railway company use of city assets. G H Hippee testified extensions were built under the Turner franchise, while cross examination suggested these extensions were built under separate city franchises.
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Adel
G. H. Hippee
Des Moines
Atorneys
Hippee
Turner
Clark
Bank Robbers Bind Boy and Escape in Iowa Hole up
Ottumwa Iowa Dec 2 robbers attempting to force the State Bank of Russell bound John Stearns a youth who saw them to prevent alarm and fled without taking any money. Stearns found in the book and described seeing the men an hour before midnight. The bandits fired fourteen shots of nitroglycerin to open the vault wrecking the bank building.
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Ottumwa
State Bank of Russell
John Stearns
Stearns
Des Moines Charity Board Names Hollingsworth Secretary
Horace Hollingsworth, assistant cashier of Valley National Bank, resigns after eighteen years to become secretary and superintendent of the Des Moines Associated Charities. He takes over January 1, following Emma Youngquist’s recent departure to pursue charitable work.
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Des Moines
Des Moines Associated Charities
Horace 5
Hollingworth
The
Valley National Bank
Hollingsworth
Associated Charities
Emma Youngquist
Shamrock II Brings $660 At Public Auction
Shamrock II, the grand champion steer from the International Live Stock exposition, sold at public auction to a local butcher for 660 dollars. The 1,100 pound baby beef weight fetched 60 cents a pound. The steer, owned by Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, is praised as one of the finest animals exhibited.
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Chicago
Iowa State Agricultural College
Ames
Weleghs
Assistant Attorney General seeks abandonment of old railroad
Des Moines Dec 2 Assistant Attorney General George Cosson filed in federal court an amended and substituted petition asking an order for operation of the old Newton and Northwestern Railroad now owned by the Fort Dodge and Southern Interurban. The company asks to abandon part of the road claiming non abandonment would imperil the entire system's business.
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Des Moines
George Cosson
Mesherson
Federel Court
Newton and Northwestern
Fort Dodge and Southern Interurban
Romance from New Providence Ends in California Marriage
Masa Sadie Gidley once of New Providence and Oscar L. Baldwin a wealth rancher of Whit tier Calif married in Whit tier California. The pair met as schoolmates at the New Providence academy about twenty years ago and rekindled their romance there.
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Union
New Providence
Whittier
Cal
Masa Sadie Gidley
Oscar L. Baldwin
Ten-year-old boy injured by hayfork accident in Ida Grove
Ida Grove December reports Walter Hixson’s son, 10, sliding from a haystack and falling onto an upturned pitchfork. One tine penetrated the lung and another the abdomen, tearing the intestines badly. He has a fair chance for recovery.
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Ida Grove
Walter Hixson
William Hixson
Ada Friend Marries Jesse Barker in Marshalltown
In Marshalltown Iowa on December 2 Miss Ada Friend age fourteen wed Jesse R Barker age sixteen setting local records for young marriages. The ceremony marked a historic note in the town’s marriage records.
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Marshalltown
Ada Friend
Jesse R. Barker
No Haircut in Ninety Years Nashville Ind
Elbert Mer Ida died at his Nashville area home aged ninety after living his life without shaving or trimming his hair. He succumbed to typhoid fever.
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Nashville
Ind
Elbert Mer Ida
Here
Fatal Quarrel in Kansas Leads to Stepson Assault
In Cherryvale Kansas on December 2 Philip Graham aged sixty died two hours after being kicked in the stomach by his stepson Herman Williama. The incident occurred in the city and follows a quarrel that escalated to fatal violence.
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Cherryvale
Kan
Philip Graham
Herman Williama
Pullman Upper Berth Rates Under Fire At Hearing
The Pullman company offers a 20 percent cut on upper berths where lowers exceed 1.50, making uppers 1.25, while some lower rates fall. Four state attorneys general and two railroads oppose the plan as insufficient or too costly, with Great Northern protesting as it would absorb losses. The ICC will hear further arguments and may take evidence in a consolidated hearing.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pulman Company
Pullman
James Bingham
Indiana
John §. Dawson
Kansas
Luther Walters
Northwood
Arkansas
Charles West
Oklahoma
Lane
Clarke
Federal Circuit Court
Great Northern
Great Northern Railroad
G. 8
Fernald
Goverlor
Grahame-White Sails for England After $100,000 Earned
New York dispatch reports aviator Grahame-White has sailed for England following a stay in the United States during which he earned about $100,000.
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New York
Grahame-White
England
Upturn in wheat fuels broad market gains
Sensational bull market on winter wheat in Oklahoma drives trading. Chicago closes higher across staples with corn and oats up, and soybeans mixed. Wheat futures rise with Dec at 81 4, May 97 1/2, July 101 3/4. Pork and beef futures also advance with January lard at 9.87 and ribs at 9.32. Cash prices see No 2 hard wheat at 3.94 to 3.96 cents, No 2 corn 48 to 48 1/2, No 2 oats 33 4 to 34 4 cents.
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Chicago
Oklahoma
Chicago Cattle and Sheep Receipts Report
Chicago cattle and sheep receipts show 9 000 cattle weak 4.50 to 7.60 for western steers 4.25 to 6.40, stockers 3.30 to 5.75, cows 2.25 to 6.30, calves 7.00 to 9.00. Hog receipts at 25 000 up about 10 cents with light 6.85 to 7.00, mixed 6.00 to 7.35, heavy 6.90 to 7.35, bulk 7.10 to 7.20. Sheep receipts 20 000 steady native 2.25 to 4.20, western 2.75 to 4.25, yearlings 4.20 to 6.25, lambs 4.25 to 6.70.
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Chicago
Live Stock Prices And Receipts From South Omaha
South Omaha cattle receipts total 3,000 with beef steers 4.75 to 6.75, cows and heifers 3.00 to 6.15, stockers and feeders 4.00 to 4.75, calves 4.50 to 8.00. Hog receipts 6,766 up to 150 higher. bulk sold 7.10 to 7.15, light hogs to 7.25. Sheep receipts 9,400 down 10 cents. lambs to 6.40, fall lambs 5.90, good yearlings 5.15, good nonfuelers 3.60.
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South Omaha
Tariff reform debate shifts as Dalhousie support sparks Liberal counter
London reports say the opposition debate on tariff reform continues with Gladstone supporters accusing Unionists of shifting policy for votes. Andrew Bonar Law asserts unionist push for tariff reform if a majority is won. First parliament returns expected to be Unionist. many constituencies offer no contest. Campaign weather worsens with outdoor meetings canceled and door to door canvassing continuing.
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London
Dalfour
Manchester
Andrew Bonar Law
Osborne guilty in second degree murder verdict
Fremont Neb The jury found Osborne guilty of murder in the second degree for killing T Hector in the Fremont railroad yards months earlier. County Attorney Cook cited evidence and the defendant's acts. Osborne watched with hands to his head as the verdict was read.
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Fremont, Neb
Osborne
T. Hector
Fremont
Cook
Rate order vacated by ICC on Western Trunk Line tariffs
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission vacated parts of a November tariff suspension by the Western Trunk Line association. The move removes unrelated commodity tariffs from the Burnham Hanna Munger case. Hearing renewed for Burnham Hanna Munger on December 19.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roade
Western Trunk Line Association
Burnham-Hanna- Munger
Burnham Hanna-Monger
Omaha Firms Forfeit Charters Over Delinquent Taxes
Several Omaha companies lost their charters for failure to pay corporation taxes. The deadline to pay delinquencies and penalties was November 0. Named firms include Ralduff Candy Co Council Bluffs and Omaha Transfer Co Millard Hotel Co Miller Hotel Co Nebraska Transfer Co Neal Institute Waterloo Creamery Co and Standard Automobile Co.
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Lincoln
Omaha
Ralduff Candy Co
Council Bluffs and Omaha Transfer Co
Millard Hotel Co
Miller Hotel Co
Nebraska Transfer Co
Neal Matitute
Waterloo Creamery Co
Standard Automobile Co
Burlington raises cash for YMCA building fund
Burlington Iowa December 2 amid enthusiasm the completion of subscriptions to the $100000 YMCA building fund was announced. The last dollar was subscribed at a meeting of workers at the Commercial exchange attended by many prominent men and women. The entire sum was raised in a ten day campaign.
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Burlington
Commercial Exchange
Chicago to New York Passenger Fares Rise to $20
First class fare between Chicago and New York on the Michigan Central and Panhandle routes will be $20 after January 15. The rate follows a New York meeting among representatives of the Michigan Central Panhandle Erie Wabash and Grand Trunk railroads and raises the prospect of a rate war.
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Chicago
New York
Panhandle
Erie
Wabash
Grand Trunk
Squirrels and Prairie Chickens Free From Hunting
Lincoln reports wildlife in the area enjoy a two month hunting hiatus as the open season on squirrels ends November 90 and no complaints have been filed about depredations.
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Lincoln
Iron worker killed in fall at power house site
Omaha a Dec 2 Instant death overtook Phillip Walters an iron worker when he fell from the top of the street car power house under construction at Fifth and Jones streets He landed 140 feet to the basement floor crushing his skull and breaking the principal bones
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Omaha, Neb
Phillip Walters
Fifth and
Jones Streets
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