Crushed Skull Found In Flooded Cellar Murder Near Shellsburg
In July a crushed skull was found on Mrs. William Gime in Shellsburg after a house burned. Authorities suspect her husband Clark Glime 22 killed her and set the fire. Ten gallons gasoline poured in the building. Both Mrs. Glime and her son were found in the cellar. The father and another son worked at a neighboring farm and the boy was said to be driven insane by heat.
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Cedar Rapids
William Gime
Shellsburg
Here
Wah
Clark Glime
State Insane Asylum
Senator Lippitt Attacks Wilson on Mexican Policy
Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island criticized President Wilson's Mexican policy in a prepared Senate speech. He cited relations since the Madero overthrow and challenged the administration's approach, while Democratic colleagues offered brief replies. He accused the president of vacillation between war threats and pacifism and of keeping the issue away from Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Lippitt
Rhode Island
Wilson
Mexico
Madero
Sloan's Liniment for muscle relief and travel use
A vintage advertisement proclaims Sloan's Liniment cures muscle soreness after exercise and stiffness, helps with sudden pains from toothache to backache, bites, stings, and other vacation mishaps, and claims readers would not travel without it.
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Sloan
Twenty Bushels Best in Pike
Crop report across Adams and surrounding counties notes wheat generally light with exceptional yields of twenty bushels per acre in places and some thirty bushels or more. Early corn suffers from heat and drought. late corn moderate. Oats range 20 to 50 bushels, hay breaks records in parts, crops overall not promising without rain, several towns report lighter yields and rain shortages.
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Adams
Pike County
Elza Barton
Lyndle King
John Usherwood
Will Ledberry
Camp Point
Maywood
Perry, TL
la Prairie
West Ely
Denver
Rhett Thompson
Joe Polings
Walter Nicloy
Scott Duffy
Green City
Marion County Seeks State Aid For Roads
Marion County asks for state aid after approving costs on the Palmyra at Taylor and Palmyra Philadelphia road projects. Total expenditures cited reach 6712.42 with 5193.17 on Palmyra Philadelphia and 1539.25 on Palmyra Taylor. state auditor support sought for 3186.44 under 1909 statutes.
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Marion
Palmyra
A. V. Ely
Philadelphia
Palmyra and
Taylor Road
General State Aid Fund
Marion County
AL V. Ely
Taylor
C. E. Legcett
Sen
T. K. Gash
Ashville
N. C
Charley Lauck
Lewistown
Joel Quest
S. A. Scranton
Heat Prostration Causes Sixty Deaths in Chicago
Excessive heat is blamed for fifty six deaths in Chicago in the last 24 hours with forty fatalities between midnight and 4 pm Friday and sixteen late Thursday night. Many others were overcome as a 97 degree government reading topped street thermometers at 100.
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Chicago
Government Weather Bureau
British Captain Executed After German Trial
Berlin reports Captain Charles Fryatt of the Great Eastern Railway steamer Mussels was shot after a German naval court martial. Fryatt, captured with the vessel by German destroyers, was executed for alleged actions related to attempting to ram a German submarine. The story notes poverty as a broader issue.
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Berlin
Sayville
Charles Fryatt
Great Eastern Railway
Mussels
Zeebrugge
Fryatt
British Attacks on Somme Fail Under German Fire
Berlin reports British assaults on Foreaux wood in the Somme region broke down under German fire. Berlin also says two Russian corps attacked east of Cordische in Baranovichi area but failed to gain ground. Russians pressed southeast of Vladimir Volynski in southern Volhynia and penetrated Gen Van Jeinsingen's lines near Sviniuchy, yet faced strong German counterattacks.
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Berlin
London
Foreaux Wood
Somme
Anny
Sayville
Cordiesche
Baranovichi
Vladimir Volynski
Volhynia
van Jeinsingens
Sviniuchy
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Illinois
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Cuincy Saving & Loan Office
T.c.poling & CO
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Samuel Woods
T. C. Poling Jr
Blackstone Bldg
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Moving Picture Show
Palmyra, Missouri
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State Board of Equalization
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Fifteenth Congressional District
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Sanford C. Pitney
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Landis
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