Ward to inherit 37500 for kindness to a stranger
R Maxwell Ward of Columbia Cross Roads is named principal beneficiary in a will drawn by Oscar Wanderley after ten years of kindness. Ward, a Sioux City lineman in 1904, paid a stranger’s meal, hotel, and doctor bills. The article also notes a county soldiers hall plan, farm sales, harvest prospects, and local incidents across Iowa.
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R. Maxwell Ward
Columbia Cross Roads
Ward
Sioux City
Oscar J. Wanderley
Black Hawk County
G. D. Becker
William Smith
John Call
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Iowa
Jowa
Cedar Falls Record
Cedar Falls Gazette
Waterloo Courier and Reporter
Waterloo Times-Tribune
Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids Times
Cedar Rapids Aventue Gazette
Iowa City Republican
Newa City Citizen
Iowa City Press
Iowa City Daily Iowan
Davenport
Charlies Ridell
Sheldon
Spirit Lake
F. Gratt
Des Moines
A. W. Howell
DeSoto
Mumm
Reinbeck
J. H W. McGrew
Thomas Copley
McGrew
Julius Rohner
Ida Grove
Clarke
Baltimore
Iowa State University
Horace Blake
Missouri Valley
Nora Burk
Blake
Tiz the Feet to Dance Away Foot Pain
The ad touts TIZ to relieve tired burning feet and corns callouses and blisters. It promises acids and poisons drawn out and foot comfort after hours of work or dancing. A 26 cent box is sold by druggists and department stores.
Unsound Remedy Claims Meat Harm and Kidney Relief
A dubious health blurb advises reducing meat to ease back and kidney pain. It claims uric acid from meat damages kidneys and promotes sluggishness, then promotes a concoction of salts, lemon juice, and lithic to “neutralize” the supposed effects and restore kidney function.
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Cnrise
Convict Escape Highlights Camp at Iowa State College
A convict escape disrupts the new road camp at Iowa State College where inmates, housed in the transportation building, enjoy campus sights and recreation with guard supervision. The missing man remains unrecovered as authorities assess the breach of privilege and trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa Sees Stable Real Estate Values Amid Property Tax Shifts
Des Moines reports no new real estate assessment this year, with last year’s valuation standing. Officials seek to bolster personal property taxes to satisfy state bureaus, noting a rise in money and credits to 260,218,178 and a net personal property gain of about 23,000,000. Hog cholera remains concentrated in Dallas County with seven affected herds and strict quarantines in place.
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Des Moines
Executive Council
Iowa
Perry
Dallas
Towa Center For
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B. LG. Hollis
State Savings Bank
North Presbyterian Church
Florence Fuller
Relfe
C. C. Delle
Bruce-Smith Company
Towa
C. H. Moon
First National Bank
J.H. Allen
C. D. Atkinson
Allen & Atkinson
Pocahontas
H. C. Barnes
D. V
Chicago Veterinary College
Rolie
H. W. Lyon
Rolie Town
Rolfe, Iowa
Buxbom
Rolfe
Owa
Jas. Fox
Twin Cities
N. A. Lind
Minneapolis
Minn
Washington Avenue
Tie Wiewel Dyug.Co
Ady
Henry Knapp
Greene
Butler County
Marshalltown
Fort Dodge
Methodist Church
Stratford
W. M. Runyan
Baldwin
Kan
Nellie S. Stewart
William L. Stewart
Pol
Taylor County
Ed Gorman
Brohnsteel
Samuel Payne
Red Oak
Lutheran Mmanuel
Ogden
J. &. Rydback
Cowrie
Lutheran Iowa Conference
Augustana Synod
Central Iowa Luther League
Stater
United Lutheran Church
Casino Beach Park
Storm Lake
F. D. Babcock, Jr
Peter Lund
Nichols
West Liberty Fair Grounds
Telative
Germany
Car Wiese
L. Kindy
Donohie
Mount Ayr
C. R. Lyon
James Peters
Carroll
Adams County
First National Bank of Lawler
Capital
Ettle Parker
May
P. Bailey
Fannie P. Himes
G. E. Himes
Henrietta Martin
Lewis Johnson
W. 8
Johnson
The
Newton Record
Johnson, Jr
Coe College
Johnson & Johnson
J. J. Muir
Warren County
Frank Phillips
Mary Bradley
John Bradley
Shenandoah
Burné
Colonel Hare
A. R
Iowa Infantry
Muscatine
John Krouse
Schaller
United States Senate
Raymond Dubois
J. L. Dubois
Correctionville
Bonaparte
Blackhawk
Lane Walsh-Shuler
Illinois Central Railroad
Rosalind Cook
Webster City
Ellsworth College of Music
Iowa Falls
Greent
Boone
Guthrie
Wise’s Grove
Dawson
Epworth League
Colfax
Odd Fellows
Order
Ford
Cesle
DEACO
Detroit
White Bros
H. M. Schreiber
Jay Benson
Rolfe Roller
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