Team TOSSED OFF RAILROAD BRIDGE
Nashua Iowa special report describes Tom Craine near Nashua losing horses Sunday morning as they broke loose from a hitching post after midnight. The team wandered onto Main Street then along the railroad track to a bridge near Oak Hill, where a 1:17 a.m. passenger train struck and killed them instantly.
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Nashua
Der
Tom Craine
Lost & Apan
Main Street
G. K. Smith
Oak Hill Terratory
Veteran mail clerk Eddy dies on Christmas morning
United States mail clerk Dee Eddy, about 75, was found dead in a Bellevue Iowa mall car at 10 on Christmas morning. He appeared to die of heart failure after a long career in the mail service along the Milwaukee railroad line.
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Dubuque
Dee
J. S. Eddy
United States
Hellevue
Iowa
Eddy
Bellevue
Wddy
United States Mail Service
Billwaukea
Callahan estate pays record collateral inheritance tax
Des Moines reports the James Callahan estate will pay 28508.65 in collateral inheritance tax, the largest such payment since the law's enactment. The estate's appraised value stood at 1077686.05 with 160000 exempt. Tax computed on 790170.92 present worth after deferred bequests, prompting extensive questions to Deputy Treasurer Willis who produced pages of opinions guiding the settlement to avoid lawsuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Town
James Callahan
Callahan
Willis
Treasury
Death of Capitol Builder Jamenky Crawshaw
Des Moines December 26 Jamenky Crawshaw an old soldier and prominent resident for 35 years and superintendent of construction when the state capitol was built fell dead of apoplexy in his rooms at the Gladstone hotel. He was general superintendent of improvements under the capitol commission and held a similar post under the oil commission. He oversaw the present building heating plant and recent state house improvements. An early settler and prominent Mason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Jamenky Crawshaw
Thil City
State Capitol
Bonday
Gladstone Hotel
Crawshaw
Capitol Commission
Oil Commission
Drought in Atlantic to Stay Declared by Judge Thornell
Judge A B Thornell issues a lengthy decree in the census case, ruling for the plaintiff and setting aside GC W Needles’s census return. Costs totaling 4723 are taxed to the defense as the court lists names deemed wrongly enumerated as residents. The order restrains exec cornell from publishing census data and leaves publication optional with the defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
A. B. Thornell
District Court
GC. W. Needles
Execu
Cornell
Court Reallocates Deposit for Census Enumeration Costs
The court orders the $260 deposited by the plaintiffs with the clerk of the Courts to be used to cover the expenses of enumeration and tabulation of the census if the latter is pursued. This directs funding responsibility for the census process and outlines the administrative steps for payment.
Wedding for Wednesday at Eagle Center Church
Miss Lizzie Rasier and Ad Gregory to wed at the Catholic church with Rev Father Talin officiating. After the ceremony a wedding feast will be served at the bride's home. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs Pater Rasier and has many friends in the neighborhood. The groom is a young man of sterling qualities and will reside with his bride near here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Center
Lizzie Rasier
Ad. Gregory
Father Talin
Pater Rasier
Gregory
F. W. Walrath
Lohengrin
Irma Wright
Iraq’ Mountain
Evdom
Duebuque
Waterloo
Wil
Fergun Atreet
Bluff Street
Hag
Waterlolo
Empéris
Kansas
Miss Wallaty
Glarkayiile
M. A. Walrath
Clarksville
John Walrath
Afr
ZT. Shaw
Ade Shaw
Clarkesville
Iron Mountain
Michigan
Snyder Banker Pleads Guilty in Anamosa Case
Former Olin banker H. Snyder who caused deposits worth 100000 to be lost was fined 100 and costs after creditors pleaded for clemency. He admitted fraudulent banking in a guilty plea.
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Cedar Rapiis
Laws
H.bnyder
Olin
Anamosa
Snyder
Derailing of Two Engines In Rock Island Yards
City and Rock Island officials search for a boy believed responsible for derailing a double header north bound in Rock Island yards Saturday evening. The youth, about fifteen, opened a switch causing both engines to derail, delaying Christmas operations. the front engine derailed completely and the rear wheel set left the track. He wore a light coat and is sought to face consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snginesr
Rattle Snake Jack Miss Oliver Swanton Wins Land Claim
Miss Oliver Swanton of Menno South Dakota earned final proof on her Rosebud Indian Reservation quarter section in the Bone steel country. She gained the nickname due to slaying rattlesnakes on her land named Rattle snake island while enduring pioneer hardships.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Oliver Swanton
Rosebud
Menno
Miss Swanton
Carnegie Library Buildings Accepted by Commission
The Carnegie Library Commission met this forenoon to inspect the new library buildings and accept them from contractors C Atkinson of Webster City and George Seales of Big City. They found completion satisfactory though minor details remain due to slow staff production. Both contractors attended the meeting. Dedication is set for early next month with date to be finalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Library Commission
Newbrary
C. ©. Atkinson
Webster City
George Seales
Big d City
Ois
Merchant sefl commits suicide in Walford store rear
Special communication from Walford reports Charley Zaborkitsky a Walford postmaster and local merchant shot himself at 11 this morning. The suicide followed domestic trouble and he was brother in law to Frank Novak the man serving a life sentence for the Ed Murray murder in Anamosa penitentiary. The act occurred in the family living quarters behind the store with bystanders nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Walford
Benton County
Charley Zaborkitsky
Mr. Zavorkitski
Frank Novak
Murray
Anamosa
Zaborkitsky
Unlucky Thirteenth Haunts Sioux Falls Prisoner
James Collins, a slippery inmate in the Sioux Falls penitentiary, is believed to be using a false name Collina. He has reportedly served twelve prior jail terms and escaped eleven times, making his current thirteenth confinement cast as a possible final restriction.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
James Collins
Yankton County
Collins
Collina
South Dakota
Missing Spokane woman Ella Dacey sought by anxious relatives
Relatives of Ella Dacey seek news of her fate after years without contact. Last letter from Dacey dated from Spokane, Washington, with a photo enclosed for siblings. Court clerk holds over $1,000 bequest from her late brother John Dacey, died in 1903 in Albert Lea Minnesota.
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Miss Wu Dacey
Miss Dacey
Spokane
Washington
John Dacey
Albert Lea
Minn
Illinois Central
Lfe
Three Corn Belt workers plead guilty to cable theft
Mortn Brown and a second employee of the Corn Belt Telephone company pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of cable ends. Material was recovered from a junk shop where it had been discarded. The mayor has not yet fixed sentence. One worker earned five dollars daily as a spricer and their earnings reached seven dollars.
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A, Mortn
Brown
Corn Best Telephone Company
Corn Belt
Epiicer
Eplicer
Manchesters Special: Mosgrove Beaten Over A Insult
On Christmas day in Manchester a boy named Ramer attacked Specials Tim Mosgrove with a stake from a baggage track, breaking his nose and beating his face. The incident followed a brief exchange of words and Mosgrove lay unconscious for a time.
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Manchester
Tim i Mosgrove
Ramer
Betan
Mosgrove
Distress family aided by charities travels toward St Paul
John Boyits family with wife and two children, living in Marke Tree Arkansas, were transported from Waterloo to Del welh by associated charities. Malaria and sickness left the father unable to work, the mother struggled to support them, and they moved via Springfield, Kansas City, and Marshalltown with aid from various groups. At arrival in Waterloo the father had 16 cents for medicine for the sick baby.
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John Boyits
Waterloo
Delwelh
Associated Charities
Marke Tree
Blackhawk County
Arkansas
Boyds
St. Paul
Springfield
Mr. Royals
Kansas
Mrs. Teeple Dies at 75 in Waterloo Home
Nancy Teeple, longtime resident of Waterloo and former Davenport, died Monday at 6 46 am at her daughter's home 310 Wellington street from old age and complications. She was born May 9 1830 in Mayville Kentucky married John D Temple May 24 1947. Surviving children include John T Hock Waterloo R Teepte Marshalltown and A Teaple Cedar Rapids. Funeral service Wednesday at 2 30 pm at 310 Wellington street. she was a Universalist church member.
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Nancy Teeple
Towa
Waterloo
John T. Rock
Wellington Street
Nashville
Marion
Davenport
Vilelage
John D. Temple
Airg
John T. Hock
R. Teepte
Marshalltown
A.teaple
Cedar Rapne
John D. Teepte
Husband's tantrums halt hospital transfer in west side case
A west side husband opposed his wife’s hospital transfer for abscess treatment after doctors and family urged care. He attacked his wife’s sisters, threatened violence, and a police escort ensured the patient’s removal. He faced a mayoral admonition for conduct. A separate note records Mrs. White receiving a solid gold cross, crafted from mined material, as a Christmas gift from H. B. White.
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West Side
Iwospital
Alazo
Yolleeman
Tha J Hospital
Ben Willing
White
H. B. White
Waterloo
Iowa
New Mexico Mining Pool Milling Co
Day With the Poor Dinner Aids 450 Needy in Waterloo
A Salvation Army Christmas program drew about 300 children and 150 volunteers at the Hast Fifth hall. Baskets of dinner for five were distributed to Waterloo’s needy before 7:30 a.m. Several jail inmates enjoyed a holiday dinner, while Christ Church and First Lutheran hosted services and programs. The Briden family held a fiftieth annual Christmas gathering near Janesville with a Santa delivering gifts, and Waterloo groups contributed candy and goods to county aid efforts.
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Salvation Army Corps
Mt Up
Tripp
Assistents
Santa Claus
Obrist
Salvation Army
Waterloo
J. D. Caldwell
JD. K. Bond
Davis
Garvin
First Baptist Sunday School
Mra
J. M. McStay
Mra.iGlepny
Briden
Fred Garth
Janes Villa
H. W. Briden
Mary Brnden
John Briden
Meher Briden
Charles Hutton
Pregent
Yuletide Blessing Hailed By Grace M E Church
Christmas exercises at Grace M E church highlighted city school efforts with classes donating food and cash to the mercy department of Epworth league for distribution. Superintendent C R Rhode to resign. election set for Thursday. Epworth league cabinet to meet Dec 29 for spring convention planning.
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Grace M. E
Mercy Department
Epworth League
Rossi
Jas
Sunes ‘School of Grace M
C. R. Rhode
Upper Iowa
Waterloo Congrational Church Severs Tie With Pastor Amid Christmas Program
The Waterloo Congregational church held a Christmas program featuring the Grinnell College Glee Club and Sunday school exercises. Rev. Chas H. Seccombe, four years pastor, announced he will leave, remain active in Waterloo preaching, and a new pastor will be sought to fill the vacancy beginning next Sunday with Decorah’s pastor as the first candidate.
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Waterloo
Congregational
Chas. H. Seccombe
Jeary
Riiager
Waterloo Chautauqua and Bible Institute
Glenclub
Iowa
College
Grinnell
A. A. MacEachrin
Glee Club
Seccombe
Roy
Decorah
Secombe
Christmas Weddings and Local Notices in Waterloo
Christmas weddings unfold at 19 Ferguson Street with Misa ne and Franklin Jump marrying under a lace bell parlor setting, Rev Noah Garwick officiating. The couple plans a return to Waterloo after a brief visit to Duebuque, then residence at 19 Ferguson Street. Also: Traxia Ganslt wed Oswald Potts at John C Kenigg home after a small gathering. James Hamilton, early Buchanan County settler and Republican figure, dies at 78.
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Treatle
Mail Glerk
U. G. Eddy
Tallahan
Capitol
W.or. Crawshaw
State House
Sentenge
Soy
Greene
Merchant
Sui
Novak's
Ang Ts
Ella Dacey
Oswald Potts
Jessie
Gansit
Gen. W. Dankenbring
Auoa Alma Widmean
Frank
Iamp
Laura B. Walrath
Albert D. Simmer
Myrite I. van Vleck
Tra Owen
Capron
Okla
Lucy French
Dunkerton
Cabic
Boyals
Mrs, Teeple
J. T. Rocg
Universalist Church
Hub
Colymus
Christopiceapal Eturch
Christman
Musdvs
M. C. Ruvano
Harry Byrnes
Relph Lew
Roht
Lew
Ruvane
Plorence Lichty
Millicent Lake
Jessie Cooley
Kessey
A. G. Randall
M. C. Ravane
Christ Church
Christ Episcopal Church
Rmidor
W. Hinkle
Tloyd
First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran
West Waterloo
Life House of Worship
Hasskarl
Christian Work
Grace M. E. Church
Rhode
C. M. Downs
Downs
Chas
Iowa College Glee Club
Love Ties
Ansirt-Potts
J. H. Hildebrand
John ¢. Kenigg
Cedar Etrest
Traxia Ganslt
Osweld Potts
Mike Carigg
Panama
Myr
Carigg
James Hamilton
Byron Township
Buchanan County
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