Poisoned pledge pins murder in fraternity case
Stuart Jordan dies during initiation into Mu Beta Sigma from conine poisoning. Detective Tommy Rankin uncovers a web of suspects including attorney Edward Fletcher and guardian Howard Merrick. A hidden hypodermic needle found in Fletcher’s car links him to the crime while shoes marked with tacks point to tampering in Jordan’s rooms and a stolen poison from the university lab. Risk and intrigue escalate as Rankin questions Ralph Buckley Walter Randall Ned Patterson and Mrs Hogan while the motive around a large inheritance unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mu Beta Sigma
Stuart Jordan
Tommy Rankin
Philadelphia
Jordan
Rankin
Howard Merrick
St. Louis
Vandalia
Ralph Buckley
Walter Randall
Arnold Prince
Edward Fletcher
Larry Palmer
Beta Sigma
Universty
Ned Patterson
Fletcher
Patterson
Mr. Fletcher
Mr. Sykes
Sykes
Gordon
Croft Hall
Molly Hogan
Lester
Mr. Merrick
Tommy
Board Proceedings Continued Form Tuesday
Financial ledger lists rents for E Bradshaw 8.00 Dally Zitterich 16.00 Mrs Sam Tangen 8.00 Mrs Freda Segner postage 9.47 Mary Waldron stenographer 39.55 Western Union telegrams 17.48 County Farm provisions 72.48 clothing and hardware 223.? County Farm maintenance and engineer labor totals itemized with many names and amounts including Dr Birney medical aid 14.75 and drugs 14.16. list covers maintenance fund mileage fuel and labor for numerous individuals and suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter B. Lunden
E. Bradshaw
L. E. Stockdale
Dally, Zitterich
Sam Tangen
Freed
Freda P. Segner
Mary M. Waldron
Stenocopter
Tebees
Hell Telephone
Tele- Western Union
Ressen
Chris Larson
Roy Lucas
Labor County
Farmers Elevator Co
Grinding County
EB. Jormtad
Hardwar
County Farm
C. B. Birney
Operatio
Baker O
C E. Birney
Mediical Aid Countty Farm
Estherville Drus
Medicine County
Herman Oransky Inc
Clothne County Farm
Town State Penitentiary
Clothing County Farm
Northern Lumber Co
Material County Farm
C. L. Torreson Oil Co
Kemsine
J.C. Penney Co
M. T. Morton
Medical Aid
Wava Spaulding
Rosenberger
HK. G. Schryver
Labor County Farm
C. L. Groth
Freight County Farm
L. L. Boggess
Nolan Boggess
N. K. Brown
Ralph Ebeling
Stes Bargedadice
C. Smith
Chris M. Christensen
A. M. Christopher
Richard Cronk
Albert Dick
Harold Dally
W. F. Fuller
Bert Gillett
Ed Griece
Paul Hilker
Emil Hanson
Julius Hanson
Clyde Houk
Syaqaraat
Darrel Huntley
Martin Johnson
Bertha Johnson
Gertie Gage
Margaret Gebert
Rose Laffey
Lillian J, Nourse
Bert S. Olson
Frances Reynolds
Leone Amdal
Mae Wingerson
Libbie Hoppus
Mattie Maloney
Wilma Méster
Mollie Marley
Mary Halverson
Carrie Payne
Mary Alice Hayden
Lottie Palmer
A. G. Fréy
Olson
Mino
Sifrit
Algy
Eave Slene
Ehler
Dahna
Howard, Nelson, Johnson
Gibbons’ Bros
Anderson
Lola M. Brown
Charles Lowe
Nels Lauritzen
Spee
John W. Munden
John C. Madsen
Ed McNally
A. D. Ruddy
Renee
Charles Strom
Joe Tusler
Eee Knute Thomson
President’s Advisers on Managed Currency List of Labor and Gravel Payments
A ledger style record lists payments and allocations involving labor, gravel, materials, and public notices. Names include R. R. Knox, A. Ramhorst, Ed Hanson, J. Huff, O. E. Jorstad, and many others. Funds cover construction, library, drainage, soldiers relief, insane fund, and institute programs. Public notices from Estherville area appear among the entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Knox
A. Ramhorst
Ed Hanson
E. Conrad
Herb Whorley
Kinneth Harding
Labor
T. L. Johnson
H. H. Hansen
Clyde Miller
J. A. Huff
A. M. Brown
L. Eb, Sargent
Enet Aly
Ole Egeland
Emil Andreasén
Sconberg & Kilgore
City of
Estherville
N. W. Bell Telephone Co
Assn. Insurance
Eeu Eae
Jerry Wegs
O. E
Kepler's
H. S. Roth
Nels A. Nelson
Owatonna Tool Co
Matarigd
Barton-Warner Co
Mater— Dam
Keuffel & Esser Co
Cccccsuecees
Pacific Carbon & Ribbon Mig. Co
Cement Products Co
Mai
Nn Rr
Nielsen & Son
North
Rn Lumber Co
The
Dakota Iron Store
Ccc
Standard Oil Company
Estherville Enterprise
Ringsted Dispatch
Estherville Daily News
Vindicator & Republican
H. B. Sturtevant
Emmet County Poor Fund
For Sale Typewriter Pro at Vindicator Office
Classified notice offers a typewriter with paper and ribbons plus carbon paper for sale at the Vindicator and Republican office. The ad signals practical, economical gear for writers and offices seeking basic typing equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vindicator and Republican
Overcoming constipation with liquid laxatives claim
An old advertisement urges readers that constipation can be overcome not with salts or habit forming laxatives but with a gentle liquid laxative. It promotes syrup of pepsin and Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as safe effective options for adults and children, stressing measured dosing and non dependence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Caldwell
Water and Vitamins in Poultry Diets
The text explains water’s role in food softening, vegetable matter transport, and body temperature regulation for birds, noting a bird dies after 10 percent body weight loss from thirst. It outlines vitamins A, B, D, E with eye, nervous, mineral assimilation, and fertility effects, mentions vitamin G essential though its need unclear, and suggests vitamin C may not be necessary in poultry rations.
Rainey Couple Travel to Des Moines on Business Trip
Mr and Mrs Jas Rainey left Tuesday morning for Des Moines on a business trip. Mrs John Law of Armstrong visited daughter Mrs Ernest Smith over the weekend. Miss Delores Simpson and her companion Veldy spent the weekend with Mr Veldys relatives in Fergus Falls Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Rainey
Des Moines
John Law of
Armstrong
Ernest Smith
Delores Simpson
Herman Veldy
Mr. Veldy
Fergus Falls
Minn
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Milton Propper
Daniel Gilmore
Ralph Bucksley
Apartmnt
Eettie
Gfe
Seavickh
Milken Propper
Standard Supply Company
J.D. Adamsm Company
Machinery
Thos
Nivison
F. J
Logios
Geo
F. J. Logios
Brandt
Emlet Twite
Tom Brant
Per Laven
Thos. Nivison
Casper Laven
R. i
Geo. A
State
R. V. Collins
Henry Olson
Wm. C. Olson
Mud R. Leonard
Wilcox & Follett Company
Walter H. Sabin
Adam Bieber
D. Tet
Editis Ali Balsa
Labor & Material
D. D
Rude Fischer
EB & KL Wee
H. T. Mangold
Hutchinson
Wm. Olson
Nourse
Ceee Eevee
S. Bingham
Ripode Grain Company
Knight
J. H. McKay & Son
Blair
Charlie Piggot
L. A. Rhodes
Caroline Knight
Hill
Frank Gebert
Glenn Lesher
Grant Croner
Insane ‘Fund
C. E. Birney
Wm. Ss. Johnston
Emiet Twite
F. F. Frott
Eicke
Vern Weller
H. H. Tosdal
Sabc
Imogene Knutson
Yaks
H. M. Ireland
P. Butler
Dorothy Klopp
Poulin Fy Fuller Deaird
Klerewith
Roosevelt
James H. Rogers
Yale
George F. Warren
Cornell
Dean Acheson
the Treasury
Woodin
Armour
Orson
Shealth Department
Journal of American Medical Association
Tone
Lowa
Herbert Nasby
Petersburg
Thurs
Cockburn Foshier & Burns
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