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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1905
Page
3
The Titonka Topic pieces joke about insomnia and snoring, a livestock census plan, and assorted quirks from Chicago to Philadelphia. Vignettes reference a “scientific baby” Freeman Meinertz, Dewey at Manila, a Berlin professor, and a London theatre diamond necktie incident, weaving humor with social quirks.
A remark notes that the trouble with French statesmen is their excessive talking. If the adjective were omitted the meaning would be clearer and the ground would be covered.
Across Clarke county reports span sudden deaths from illness and suicide to a fatal barroom shooting. Mrs. J M Shepherd dies at home. Cedar Falls mother of Phil Hanna’s kinship noted. A fire destroys the home of Mrs George Jenna in Cedar Falls. Drownings, arson, and accidental deaths follow, including a miner crushed by slate in Des Moines and a man who killed himself after family distress.
In a quirky exchange from the Houston Post a reader notes seeing Weary Willie while Seven League Saunders says the character has posed as a callegs professor and plans to write about his life and habits. The column mentions a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into thirty feet of water and was rescued after expressing a wish to swim for a correspondence school.
Hon E Brown, former Iowa rail commission member and Sheldon State Bank president, was acquitted by a jury after a ten day trial. The defense argued assets exceeded loans and that shrinkage deposits were misrepresented. Brown and his two sons testified he was unaware of the bank's deposit shrinkage on the day of failure.
Eldora case notes Blydenburgh convicted of murdering his wife in May 1903 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Supreme Court affirmed the conviction, denying motion to overturn. The ruling blocks testimony about two earlier wives and cites farm motive and life insurance.
In Table Moines on October 27 a two year old child pulled a tablecloth from a lit lamp, the lamp fell and shattered. The child suffered serious head burns and flames were quenched by the mother who ripped up a rug. Recovery is doubtful.
Bert Tries, a hotel cook from Missouri, died after a fire on October 26 in the hotel range area. He had been fighting the blaze with gasoline when severely burned. died yesterday.
Miss Grace Dovera of Cedar Rapids fainted at noon yesterday and fell onto a Merited gasoline stove, suffering injuries described as probably fatal. details and condition unavailable pending further word.
At the Fairfield wreck inquest the remains of an unknown tramp were identified as probably Jodio Norbes of Yarkely California. The city has been notified and a complete identification is expected soon.
A fragmentary note mentions payments and relationship questions, raising questions about who pays large sums and whether two people are married. The readable bits suggest tension over financial support and implied domestic status.
Four killed and ten injured when Rock Island passenger trains No 11 and 12 collided one mile south of Fairfall Iowa at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Engineers Milks and Griffin among the dead. Grey suspended for dispatch errors. Relief teams dispatched from Eldon. service detoured via Ottumwa and Eldon.
The trial of John Martin in Sigourney for the murder of Arthur Lynch ended with a verdict of murder in the second degree after seven hours deliberation. He faces sentencing next Thursday before Judge Scroll. The crime happened last winter in Cracker's Neck, about eight miles west of here.
Eldora reports banker Gorvigt indicted again by Hardin County grand jury on charges tied to misappropriation of funds from the Home Savings bank. The new case involves Soule of Sioux Falls serving an 18 year sentence for falsifying recounts and fabricating city cash flows. Soule will be rearrested after parole on his release date.
Dubuque reports a bold forger vanished with $4000 after a claim of loan. A prominent local politician learned of the robbery and a man who pledged a loan through John Hoover of Linn County later claimed a purchase and filed a false deed to obtain the money. Hoover says no further payment has been made.
Falls obituary notes the death of John Tillson a respected elder and major figure in Plain Telephone and local business circles. He led the firm Just Co and was a longtime town manager shaping community services.
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