Militia maneuvers and crime notes across Iowa
Iowa National Guards plan summer camps with separate regimental sites in Cedar Rapids Des Moines Des Moines and other locations. Also reported a masked robber one shot wounded after attempting to rob C B James store in Goldfield. suspect unnamed, captured in Clarion with multiple gunshots sustaining injuries.
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Union News Surfice
Des Moines
Iowa National Guards
Infantry Military Board
State House
Cedar Rapids
Tobyhanna
Sparta
Wis
Mount Vernon
Camp Dodge
Camp Douglass
Field
Camp Robinson
Oo Medical Officers
Goldfield
C. B. James Mercantile
James
Clarion
Police seize liquor at Rock Island depot
Des Moines detectives seized fifty barrels of beer and fifty cases of whisky at the Rock Island freight depot. They say the cargo was consigned to fictitious persons and had been watched for two days for someone to claim it.
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Des Moines
Rock Island
From Frying Pan to Prison Again Fort Madison
Edwin Smith a negro who finished a five year term at the state penitentiary left the prison and was handed to Parola officer P D Clarkson of Joliet to serve his unexpired term. Rich German farmer JurGen Peterson of Denison died at his breakfast table after moving to Denison this spring. Melvin Jenson in Fort Dodge survived severe neck and head wounds from his mother in a delusion and doctors expect his recovery. Mrs Jensen also recovered from her temporary insanity.
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Fort Madison
Edwin Smith
State’ Penitentiary
Parola
P. D. Clarkson
Joliet
Denison
Jurgen Peterson
Hanover Township
Jenson
Will
Fort’ Dodge
Melvin Jenson
Charles Jensen
Three Hawarden Girls Drown in Big Sioux River
At Hawarden a group of about twenty five pupils and teachers went to a picnic and entered boats on the Big Sioux River. The last boat, carrying Miss Elizabeth McCartney and five students, was swept over a dam. Alma McGoughlin and Benda Sidewell leaped and were saved, but Edna Boreman Neva Johnson and Marjorie Fairbrother drowned before rescue attempts succeeded. Bodies recovered about twenty minutes later.
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Big Sioux
Hawarden
Elizabeth McCartney
Edna Boreman
Neva Johnson
Mar-jorie Fairbrother
Benita Sidewell
Alma McGoughlin
Alma Me Gloughlin
Benda Sidewell
John Conrad
Miss MeCartney
Marjorie Fairbrother
Fires destroy Updyke elevator and oats at Lake City
A fire of unknown origin wiped out the main elevator of Updyke Grain Co at Lake City along with 5 000 bushels of oats while a second elevator and Northwestern station coal chutes were saved by rapid effort. Nearby Mase farm losses include a large barn grain machinery and five horses. Two Iowa Falls girls biked to Webster City 86 miles for exercise and to visit a sister.
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Updyke Grain Company
Lake City
Northwestern
Jasper County
Allfree
Newton Commercial Association
James Mase
LeMars
Fiv
Mase
Bettine Smith
Elda May Platt
Iowa Teachers College
Iowa Falls
Webster City
Miss Smith
R. W. Pete
State Agent Report Highlights Ford Gang Sentences
Des Moines agent Rock reported to the attorney general on work since September 1915. He helped capture 30 criminals and aided in breaking up the Ford gang at Sioux City, securing evidence that sent Charles Ford Paddy Driscoll James Kehoe West Williams Arthur Pierce John Cook Arthur Long James Ellington John Dillon to prison. Cholera serum availability noted at Iowa State College. Mount Ayr books to be audited following a petition by 50 citizens.
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Des Moines
O. O. Rock
Sioux City
Ford
Rock
Charles Ford
Paddy Driscoll
James Kehoe
West Williams
Arthur Pierce
John Cook
Arthur Long
James Ellington
John Dillon
Mount Ayr
Unequaled Variety in Taffeta Suits
A fashion feature notes the wide range of taffeta silk suits and coats this season as May shifts demand to lighter cottons and voiles. It highlights a pictured short loose coated design with a decorative belt, white soutache trim, cape collar, and a long full skirt with bias bands.
Filmy Hats of Hair Braid for Midsummer Styles
Lace hair braid hats showcased for midsummer wear feature wide brims faced with marines and delicate crepe or chiffon. Most hats are white or black, with white favored for lace braid and ostrich feather decorations, while black models pair lace braid with black malines and paradise feathers for refined evening looks.
Health for women readers from Lydia Pinkham’s remedy
Letters from grateful women describe relief from displacement pain fatigue and irregularity after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Mayme Aspacu Mrs A L McCastano and Mrs B M Osacop recount personal health improvements and urge others to seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
North Crandon
Wis
Havin
Lydia S. Pinkham
Mayme Aspacu
Lawton
Okla
Lydia Eb, Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkhan
A. L. McCastano
Oklo
Massachusetts
Roxbury
Mass
Lydia K. Pinkham
B. M. Osacop
Haynes Park
Lydia
Worms and worm remedies in a rural ad and jokes
An old column combines an ad for Spohn's Compound claiming it cures stomach worms and improves appetite without harsh physic. It follows with humor sketches about grace at meals and a village anecdote about a lectern donation and a daughter praising Clarke, plus a quip about a bail-out.
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Spohn
Sporn Medical CQ
Goren
Ind
U. 5
A Famous Physician Promotes Anuric Remedy
Buffalo based Dr. Pierce announces that Anuric is the best uric acid solvent and remedy for scalding urine inflammation and rheumatic pains. The ad claims kidneys, blood, and dropsical swelling improve when taking Anuric with hot water before meals. Consumers are urged to request or mail for trial packs.
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Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Pierce
Pierce We
Haven't the Nine Points
A witty exchange highlights social pretensions and urban bustle as characters trade quips about meekness possessions and domestic life. The deacon cites scripture while a skeptic jokes about inheritance. A room hunter and an agent volley remarks on blinds and saloons.
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General Assembly
J. I. Gibson
Dallas County
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