Fire at Fort Dodge destroys major hardware firm
Fort Dodge reports a blaze that wiped out Pritsig Hardware, a large wholesale and retail concern, also wrecking Collins Wil Paper and partly damaging Rude Sill Chow store. Stevens news stand suffered smoke and water damage as losses run into millions, with dynamite reportedly removed from the Prusla building. Firefighters faced equipment shortages in battling the inferno. In Ames, Mrs. D W Cooley, 62, was found dead in a bathtub with suspected suicide as the coroner orders no inquest.
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Citzess
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Local man vows to bust Blue Grass Trust
Heelan-Webb McConnell asserts a trusted group controls blue grass seed hides and rivals allege only threshing machines can handle the seed. He claims a new machine, described as flat, will break the trust and cites firms recently threshing large volumes in nearby counties.
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Heelan
Webb McConnell
McQonnel
Aipe
Bae
Grain elevator fire in Cedar Rapids destroys large loss
Fire at midnight gutted the Kueul Lainners grain elevator in Cedar Rapids. Insurance coverage of 40 009 dollars was in place but 3 000 bushels of oats and vast other grain were burned. Officials suspect spontaneous combustion in green vats on a loading platform sparked the blaze.
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Cedar Rapids
Kueul Lainners
Oldest Office Holder in Cedar Trails Stricken by Illness
Cedar Trails township justice of the peace and clerk Waterloo Lanisar Kuayy aged 61, long serving official since 187? era, fell ill with apoplexy at his home. He has held office for forty four years and served as gasensor for nearly forty years in Cedar Trails.
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Lanisar Kuayy
Cedar Tails
Cedar Trails Township
Middle West
Gasensor
Revenue stamps affix deed transferring Wabash assets
Revenue stamps totaling 15000 were placed on the deed transferring the Wabash Railroad to the Wabash Railway Company under reorganization. The document recorded in Page County included eighteen stamps of 1160 each and a recording fee of 9.20.
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Wabash Railroad Company
Wabash Rail Way Company
Comporasion
Page County
Kingsley Land Owner Sued in Matrimonial Suit
LeMatz Schuyler Smith files suit in Matriot court against M J Pott a Wingsley banker and landowner alleging he was intimate with Smiths wife and caused the break up of the Smith home. Pott's wife obtained a divorce at Isat farm court.
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Kingsley
LeMatz
Mrs Bailey to Prison. Sidney Judge B. BG
Lucinda Hailey sentenced to an indeterminate term up to eight years in the reformatory at Anamosa for the murder of her husband E Hailey at Perelya last June. Court overruled appeal for a new trial.
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Sidney
Weotrul
Lucinda Hailey
Ananosa
E. Hailey
Perelya
Death from glanders linked to old horse stable
The death of John Schaefer is attributed to glanders after exposure at an old stable. It is reported he contracted the disease through contact with horses and the illness developed over several years.
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Lowan
Glanders
Gidden
John Schaefer
Mr. Schiefer
Lightning King Boy Killed by Lightning Strike
Lightning King Boy Rockwell City-Raymond Raxton son of Mr and Mrs L B Saxton Caihoun county was killed by a stroke of lightning while on the way to sale when found lying dead beside the road.
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Raymond Raxton
L. B. Saxton
Caihoun County
Selace
Horses Panicked Onto Omaha Streets During Stampede
French and British agents recovered nearly all of 1000 horses released in Council Bluffs except perhaps 50 to 100. A toll collector feared soldiers approached Omaha as 160 horses charged across the Missouri River bridge into downtown Omaha and scattered through the city before dawn.
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Oglaha
State Capital News Roundup and Local Notices
Praises to Iowa officers for prompt action in a Western outbreak report though not the feared disease. Ames defeated Town 6 to 0 to win the state football title. Parole board fields requests to monitor ex-convicts. Textile chemistry courses expand at State College. Flynt Farm turned over to Sanders for prison use with dairy plans. Clerks and other officials receive pay raises under new election laws.
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IOWA NEWS NOTES Towa tales and local oddities
A jumble of short items from Iowa towns reports a coven guess club growth, a stolen car, berries on vines, proposed bank charter near a college, profit sharing adoption, a fatal scalding accident to a child, undefeated high school football teams, a missing 10 year old girl, cattle deaths from hog medicine, rising farm prices to Sioux City, post office robberies, a land sale near Letars, and other local notices.
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Davenport
Burlington
Port Dodge
Ido Grove
Des Moines
Louis Manke
Wobsic City
Sioux City
BE. C. Pane
Hancroft
Armored Moylan Wins City Council Seat in Major Victory
The article profiles David Moylan, a Cleves councilman and municipal judge who lost his right arm in an early railroad accident and later his left arm in a second mishap. Despite disabilities, he pursued law, passed the bar, practiced as a lawyer, and was elected to the city council four years ago. In the recent election he ran for municipal duce and was elected by a strong majority. the photograph shows how Judge Moylan will sign his decisions.
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Cleves
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Ego
Thae
Ani
Moylan
Doped Horses and Abuse Report Stir The Humane Society
A fragment describes horses punished and starved under harsh conditions. Allegations include beating and neglect and a master feeding gin and whisky with opiate to anger the animal. The Humane Society monitors the situation, noting no confirmed public action yet.
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Kor
Enorahor
Erty
Fragmented 19th century text half-broken voices
A garbled excerpt mentions women, a female lawyer, Dr Pidree, Pellata, and a puzzled speaker debating propriety and a show. The passage is incomplete with unclear names and context. The mood suggests satire or courtroom style discourse and a stage reference.
Farewell Visit Ends in Domestic Turmoil at Partholinar
A resigned Arminsaler, farewell calls, rencontre with a minister, and a drunken fracas unfold. A man engages in violent actions, his wife aghast, and the household altered by a chaotic scene lasting days with injuries and strained relations.
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Arminsaler
Paris Sights Through a Foreign Eye in a Fractured Tale
A French literary man asks if Paris sights can be seen. the traveler asserts the real sights are Notre Dame, the Seine, the Madeleine, and the Langre, while the Frenchman recalls the Louvre and Louvre collections in bewildered entreaty.
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Paris
Dais
Paria
Notre Dame
Home de Lettres
Louves
Giy Maigure
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