Dr Caldwell’s Syrup of Pips Offer For Trial
Letters from Dr W B Caldwell promote Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe laxative for the elderly and others. A reader from Johnston City credits six years of stomach trouble cured, claims many others benefited, and offers a free trial bottle and medical guidance without charge. The ad cites purity assurances and a money-back option through druggists.
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Caldwell
Felts
Johnston City
Mach
Iver
Gottia
Jr Home
Ten Des Moines College Students Fall Ill From Milk
Ten students at Des Moines College fell ill after drinking milk at a boarding house. State officials tested the milk but found no poison. investigators say substances might have evaporated before testing. None died and all are expected to recover.
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Des Moines College
Des Moines
Frisbie
Big Nebraska Prairie Fire Near Gordon Iowa Line
A prairie fire in Nebraska near Gordon and Merriai cut telephones and burned toward two directions ten miles west of Gordon. Rain was expected to halt further progress, but reports from the burned area were scarce by late hour. A separate Nevada, Iowa report says a 12-year-old son of G A Heard was killed in a gun accident after warning his parents to say goodbye.
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Big Nebraska
Merriai
Neb
Gordon
Rockford
Nevada
Papa
Mamma
G. A. Heard
Heard
Sons of the American Revolution to Meet in Des Moines
More than a hundred members will gather at the Shrine temple for the annual SAR meeting in Des Moines Iowa Delegates from across the state began arriving by Sunday and some as early as Saturday to see the performance of Ben Bur The convention runs through the week amid mentions of danger from storms.
American Consul Attacked in Tela by Native Attacker
Report from Mobile dated April 19 describes an assault on American Consul Hutchinson in Tela Honduras on April 9 while he walked with a friend. Hutchinson received a cut to the hand and a scalp wound. the assailant, a native, was captured.
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Mobile
Ala
Hutchinson
Tela
Honduras
Big Smelting Company Bankrupt in Idla Kansas
April 19 reports J O Rogers appointed receiver for Tanyon Zinc Company upon Parker acting for Trust Company of America as trustees for bondholders. Tanyon Zinc is described as one of the largest smelting works in the world.
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Big Smelting Co
Idla
Kan
Ailton A. Parker
Trust Company of America
J. O. Rogers
Tanyon Zinc Company
Iowa Treasury Agent’s Death By Suicide At Paris
William H. Bainbridge of Council Bluffs Iowa a special agent of the United States treasury department attached to the consulate here committed death by his own hand today in Paris It is believed he was temporarily in some distress at the time Bainbridge served in the treasury department and was stationed in Europe
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Iowa
Paris
Wm. H. Bainbridge
Council
Bluffs
United States Treasuray Department
Bainbridge
Johnson County
Iowa City
William Huston Woods
Atlanta
Travel salesman in Des Moines ends life in hotel room
M. M. Elam of Corydon, a traveling salesman for Red Cross Vinegar Co of St. Louis, drank whisky then killed himself with a single gunshot to the head in his Kirkwood hotel room Sunday night in Des Moines Indiana.
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Frew A
Des Moines
M. M. Elam
Corydon
Red Cross Vinegar Company of
St. Louis
Kirkwood Hotel
Census appropriation bill to fund first two years
Washington April 19 funds for the census will provide ten million dollars for expenses to the first two years of data collection for the thirteenth census. Representative Tawney will introduce the measure.
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Washington, D. C
Tawney
Two American Missionaries Killed in Adana
News from Constantinople confirms the killing of two American missionaries, Mr. Bowers and Mr. Maurer, at Adana. Other mission workers are safe and a relief effort proceeds. In Lisbon, authorities plan strict inspection in Angola to curb forced labor on cocoa plantations.
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Constantinople
Adana
Mr. Bowers
Mr. Maurer
Lisbon
Angola
Riga
Pork Is Cause of Death at Galva Funeral Dinner
A pork infected with trichina caused multiple deaths and illnesses after a funeral dinner in Galva. John Kolpin Jr and his wife Mia and their 14 year old son Herbert died, while others including Miss Minna Schuelke and Henry Schuelke were seriously ill at Galva and Sioux City hospitals. Dozens linked to the Kolpin household and Galva residents contracted the infection as the town reels from the outbreak.
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Broux City
John Kolpin
Mia
Herbert Kolpin
Galva
Minfa Schuelke
Henry Schuelke
Severe Storm Strikes Charles City Area and Across Floyd County
A severe electrical storm battered Charles City and Floyd County Saturday night. Lightning hit multiple houses and barns, killing livestock and injuring homes. Ringsted resident P M Peterson was killed. Harvey Jewell’s barn near Cedar Falls burned with extensive stock and grain losses. Prairie City suffered damage to the Rural and Toll City Telephone plant as water flooded conduits.
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Charles City
Floyd County
Cedar River
Prairis City
Rural and
Toll City Telephone Company
Elephant Victim Identified as Frank Bartlow
Mrs. Ida Washington of Oskaloosa identified the slain man as Frank Bartlow, not Charles. The victim, cousin to Mrs. Washington, was buried in Glendale cemetery. Washington said Bartlow married in Asia while with the Barnum show and left a wife and four children who are unlocated.
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Ida Washington
Oskalooga
Des Moines
Frank Bartlow
Tom
Robinson Circus
Oskaloosa
Frank
Charles
Brafford
Hastigs
Bartlow
Glendale Cemetery
Washington
Asia
Seven-Year-Old Attacked by Rat in Oskaloosa
In Oskaloosa on April 19 a rat entered a bedroom and bit off part of a seven-year-old girl Nel lie Jones's right forefinger. A physician treated the ugly wound. Initial fears of blood poisoning subsided as swelling eased and danger appeared past.
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Oskaloosa
Nellie Jones
Frank Jones
Bowery shooting shocks New York as slayer escapes
Billy OBrien, a Bowery figure, was shot through the heart in front of Stave Brodie's old galoon amid a police presence ten feet away. the killer fled. Cornell alumni in NYC form a Cornelian council to organize systematic donations to their university. Panama Canal work will require over 9,000,000 pounds of dynamite next fiscal year per division engineers. In Paris, sculptor Frederick MacMonnies, divorced, reportedly to wed Miss Jones of California. The War Department plans use of subtarget gun machinery for small arms marksmanship tests. Ground broken at Fourth and Main for a $1.5 million Salt Lake City hotel.
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Billy” O'Brien
the _Bowery
New ‘York
Stave Brodie
Bowery
O'Brien
Cornell
New York City
Cornelian Council
Panama Canal
Paris
Frederick MacMonnies
Miss Jones
California
War Department
Fourth
Main Streets
Salt Lake City
State courts barred from Missouri rate case
Kansas City Missouri Apr 19 Judge Smith MacPharson in an amended decree reserved exclusive federal jurisdiction over Missouri rate cases and ordered state courts kept out. The decree dissolves a state injunction against 18 railroads attempting to implement a three cent passenger rate and asserts federal control to prevent state interference. A supplementary decision will follow in a few days.
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Kansas City
Smith MacPharson
United States District Court
Missouri
Frank Hagerman
Missouri Railroad
Julge McPherson
Markets and livestock report from Chicago and Omaha
Markets brief shows flour and grain prices in Chicago with May and July contracts, butter and potato quotes, and live cattle hogs and sheep values. Livestock receipts and price ranges are noted from Omaha and Chicago, including steers, cows, heifers, calves, and hogs with varying grades and weights.
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Provisiona
Eto
Chicago
Minnesota
WHDAT
Gattle
Omata
Neb
Texas
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Worried Women
A Melbourne era letter extols Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female suffering. The testimonial from Mrs W P Valentine of Camden, New Jersey, asserts relief from back and side pains, headaches, poor appetite, fatigue, and weakness, crediting the remedy for restoring health.
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Damien, N. J
Lydia K. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
W. P. Valentine
Lincoln Ave
Camden, N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
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Estern
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Genasta
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B.T. Holmes
Jackson Street
St. Paul, Minn
Dency
Josiah Johnston
Walnut Street
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Ytta
Toy
Sioux City
Ringsted
Peterson
Harvey Jewell
Goy
Boles
Waterloo
Sycamore, Ill
H. B. Boles
Faith Hoyt
Mira Hoyt
Waterloo High School
Odd Fellows
Hancockavoca
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Hancock
Rebekah
Ohio
Bellbrook
Mary Watkins
E. A. Maxwell
Findlay, O
Sarah A. Strothers
W. CG
T. A
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Murphy
New York
Kansas
Mae Ryb
Western
F. O B
Erle
Pee E. Pinkham
Mra
J. P. Endlich
Erie
Steve
Rayo Lamp
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