Greatest poultry exhibit opens at Coliseum with 3000 birds
Des Moines December 27 Gouvernor Carroll will deliver the welcome address at the opening of the greatest poultry exhibit in the middle west. More than 3000 chickens turkeys geese pigeons and fowls from breeders across the middle western territory are on display under W G Warner of Bloomfield Ia. Judges W S Russell Ottumwa Ia T C Bilson Minneapolis and C L McCard Danville HL will speak on thoroughbred poultry tomorrow and Wednesday. Ames experimental college will showcase every product and byproduct of the poultry industry throughout the event.
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Des Moines
Middle West
Middle Western
W. G. Warner
Bloomfield
Association For the Meeting
W. 8. Russell
Ottumwa
T. C. Bilson
Minneapolis
C. L. McCard
Danville
Association
Poultry Institute
Governor Carroll
Experimental College of Ames
Iowa writer arrested for forgery in San Francisco
Elizabeth Newman of Waterloo Iowa known as Bessie Murray magazine writer was arrested in San Francisco on forgery charges for signing her mother Mrs Murray’s name to a 250 dollar check. She had been arrested in Oakland a week earlier for issuing a worthless check on her mother’s Waterloo bank account. She said her mother left Waterloo without notifying her and withdrew all funds. Police say more charges are pending.
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Elizabeth Newman
Waterloo
San Francisco
Bessie Murray
Murray
Newman
Oakland
Huband
Mine Worker Joe Little Ends Life in Despair Near Olivet
Joe Little twenty four a mine worker at Olivet near Oskaloosa Des Moines died by self inflicted shotgun blast Despondency caused the act He left a letter for his father Silas Little of Olivet saying he could not face friends who had disgraced him and warned them to remember him when they came to town during a good time.
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Joe Little
Oskalooga
Oskaloosa
Olivet
Silas Little
Sportsmen protest diversion of license funds in Iowa
Sportsmen in this part of the state resist plans to divert hunters license funds held by the state. If an attempt is made to transfer funds raised last year under the new law, formal action will be taken. The sentiment is to use the funds to protect fish and game and to create a state game reserve with ample game for licensed hunters.
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Town Falls
Fire Wipes Out Guaranty Hosiery Mills in Des Moines
Des Moines reports the Guaranty Hosiery Mills building burned to the ground on Christmas Day. A meeting today will decide if spring orders worth over 50000 will be shifted to another firm or if operations resume in a new location. Machinery valued at 17000 and stock at 25000 were lost. Bellevue light plant fire leaves city in darkness. JP Leo Bead, prominent local figure and former adjutant general for Jones, dies at home.
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Guaranty Hosiery Mills
Des Moines
Guaranty Hosiery Mills Company
Calgery Tabernacle
Attack on Williams teacher shocks Webster City
Joseph Thomas a farmer living east of Williams severely thrashed Professor E. Coe, head of Williams Schools, and drove him from the building on December 24. The incident caused a major stir as Thomas’s 13 year old son, accused of defacing school walls, stood nearby. Coe said the matter would not be taken to court, though legal action was expected by some in Williams.
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Williams
Webster City
Joseph Thomas
E. Cos
Coe
Thomas
Farm engineers to meet in Ames at state college
The American Society of Agricultural Engineers will hold its third annual meeting at Iowa State College on December 28 and 29. The program features eminent authorities including W. D. Boyer from New York, Howard W. Riley of Cornell, and L. J. Smith of Manitoba, with other leaders from Wisconsin Ohio Illinois and Minnesota attending.
Woman Sues Railroad for $1999 Over Quarter-Mile Walk
Des Moines December 24 Mrs Helyn A Mansfield sues the Pullman Company and Burlington and Missouri River Railroad for 1999 claiming severe pain mental anguish and permanent injuries after they allegedly forced her and her child and two suitcases to walk a quarter mile beyond Albia and back through midsummer heat on August 21 1908.
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Helyn Mansfield
Des Moines
Helyn A. Mansfield
Pullman Company
Burlington Railroad
Mansfield
Albia
Barhydt Quits Burlington Moves to California Over Tax Dispute
Burlington resident T. W. Barhydt, among the city's wealthiest, relocated to Riverview, California, amid a tax fight. The district court upheld Burlington's board of review in assessing Barhydt’s personal property at 100,000, while he had previously listed 4,600.
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California
Burlington
T. W. Barhydt
Riverview
Cal
Withrow
Board of Review
Barhydt
Sioux City Franchise Defeated In City Election
In a 4687 vote total about half of Sioux City voters rejected the franchise ordinance from the Sioux City Service and Sioux City Gas and Electric companies. The measure failed by 1357 with 1640 for and 2997 against, varying by ward except ward five which supported it by 74.
Five Thousand Dollar Gift to Wesleyan School
Mount Pleasant Iowa Wes leyan university receives 5000 in first mortgage bonds from Mr and Mrs FP Musser of Muscatine who are traveling in the Orient The funds will bolster the university endowment. Alleged swindler brought back to Iowa M M McIntyre jailed on charges of flogging Neola citizens during a mining deal. Saloonkeeper fined for contempt of court and jailed for violating an injunction against selling liquor to miners. Lake City notes rising farm land values as Rudolph Johnson’s suicide and a 200 acre farm sale for 20000 after buying it in 1882 for 800. Vinton Christian church destroyed by fire with damages around 4000.
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Methodist School
Mount Pleasant
Mussera
Muscatine
Iowa Wesleyan University of Mount
Council Bluffs
Sheritf ‘Waddington
Sacramento
Cal
M. M. McIntyre
Neola
Boone
R. L. Finnegan
Wright
Lake City
Rudolph Johnson
C. Zybell
Eight Die In Mine Explosion At Herrin Illinois
Eight men died in an explosion at Mine A of the Chicago and Carterville company in Herrin. Rescuers saved three men, including A J Hueston, and expected all three to recover from gas effects. Firemen battled flames as hundreds were endangered, with ventilating gear strained but intact. News of the disaster caused panic among families gathered at the shaft house.
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Shaft
St. Louis
Chicago and Carterville Company
Herrin
Ill
W. T. Pierce
Eugene Barrett
Thomas Williams
George Snyder
Salvatore Greeco
Pietro Romeo
Thomas Harber
James Guinney
Robert Hueston
Pierce
A. J. Hueston
Charles Kiem
Albert Shelton
Hueston
Snyder
Greece
Rome
Harker
Guinney
Kermit Roosevelt Secures Fine Sitatunga in Uganda
Kermit Roosevelt wins a fine male sitatunga during a Kampala hunt as the expedition departs for Jolma. Colonel Roosevelt has not yet sighted the prized animal. The party shared luncheon at Mr Knowles before moving on. Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit plan a side trip to hunt leopards before rejoining the expedition today.
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Kampala
Uganda
Kermit Roosevelt
Roosevelt
J Olma
Shoppers witness death at Grand Central station
Crowded Christmas shoppers in New York watched Abraham Fineman leap before an express train at Grand Central, dying on impact. No motive is known. He leaves a widow and several children. Also reports of Mark Twain denying rumors of ill health and other brief items from Conn, N.Y., and Ind.
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New York
Grand Central
Abraham Fineman
Fineman
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