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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
8
An OCR damaged page fragment mentions names and places in a dated style. It reads like a society or public notice with scattered references to events, individuals, wards, and dates, though the text is largely unintelligible and highly corrupted. No clear event or outcome is discernible from the legible fragments.
William Simkowics the sixteen year old son of John Simkowitz of 81 Washington Place Persuate Nadah hanged himself in the bathroom at home, unable to endure taunts from schoolmates. He had suffered infantile paralysis, leaving a limp and a crippled gait, which caused isolation as friends mocked him. After days of neglect and exclusion, he found rope, tied to a water pipe, and hanged himself, his brother discovering him an hour later.
Readable segments show a marriage vow fragment with garbled text and missing clarity. The record preserves the event noting a couple intended to wed, but the OCR text is incomplete and difficult to interpret.
An assailant used a doped cigarette to choke an officer who remained conscious long enough to help obtain fingerprints linked to a train robbery. Physicians treated the officer for three hours, and the thief allegedly taunted the victim by claiming to have “got you that time.”
In Duluth Miou a case of animal cruelty was heard after a group attacked or neglected hogs by feeding waste and starving them. John Morgan received 30 days hard labor, and another defendant was fined $300 for allowing animals to starve or be devoured by companions.
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