Osceola Post Office Robbery and Local Trials
Osceola post office robbery in May 1919 led to the arrest of a suspect linked to a cashed government check and an army discharge. Iowa topics include a proposed federal auto theft law, a divorce suit in Clarke County, a Wright airplane dance stunt, gas striking on a Boone County farm, migratory bird law enforcement, and various local legal and social notes from Des Moines and across the state.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Osceola
Guy H. Smith
Harry A. Smith
Guy Smith
Copeland
Walnut
State of Washington
D. +. Quinter
Andrew Wright
Wallingford Local News and Social Happenings
In Wallingford and vicinity Miss Adelia Mickelson clerks in J Smy Haring’s store. The Ressell family toured the west and returned last week. Tom Natterstad hosted guests from Heron Lake. Geo Amdahl sold his farm southwest of here at 300 dollars per acre. Rev Murtagh of Estherville visited parishioners Thursday. Ernest Egertson returned from Estherville. Mrs L B Crim’s mother from Des Moines visits. Mr and Mrs F C Butler and Mabel leave for former home near Wa Mike Loeffing lays concrete sidewalks for Joe Haring. At the state fair the Natterstad boys bought a Ford runabout and returned by it. I G Gilbert came from Ames after a class reunion. Prof Hall of Jewell and Miss Leona Little visited. John Plath family motor trip to Schaller and points in Shelby county. D W Palmer family from Lake Park moved to Wallingford to run the former Simpkins confectionery. A few attended Labor Day in Graettinger. Wallingford prepares to switch from kerosene to electric lights from Armstrong. Farmers plan to hook onto the line. some plow, many wait for rain as ground is bone dry. Dickinson county fair ongoing. aeroplane overflights noted Friday despite troubles.
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Adelia Mickelson
J.smy Haring
Das. Ressell
West
Tom Natterstad
Heron Lake
Geo. Amdahl
Here
Father Murtagh
Estherville
Ernest Egertson
L. BE. Crim
Des Moines
F. C. Butler
Mabel
Waterloo
Mike Loeffing
Joe Haring
Natterstad Boys
I. G. Gilbert
Ames
Prof
Hall of
Jewell
Leona Little
Ellsworth
John Plath
Auto
Schaller
Shelby County
D. W. Palmer
Lake Park
Wallingford
Geo. Simpkins
Graettinger
Chester Torreson
George Richards
Omer
Martin Natterstad
Armstrong
Terril
Dickinson County
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Grate News
J. W. Jarnagin
John C. Scott
Iowan State Sheriff's Association
Keokuk
Ramseyer
House Judiciary Committee
Boies
Florence Robinson
Clarke County
William A. Robinson
Robinson
Camp Waco
Texas
Federal
Leavenworth
Kansas
Plorence Hedricks
Atty
Hedrick
Harald C. Donaldson
Milford
Ceylon
Minnesota
Interlaken Park
Sweet Home
Donaldson
W. Goodrich
Luther
O. D
Sprague
Ottumwa
France
Callie Dexter
Traveling
Internal Revenue
Louis Murphy
Dubuque
Wilson
168Th Infantry
Lou F., Morgans
Judge Farm
Boone County
John Cryder
Albert
E. C. Hinshaw
Hinshaw
Bellevue
Jackson County
Jana
Kelso
Union Township
Kossuth County
Sies
Alphonso Gutteell
Alphondo
Albert Jefferies
Cemetry
Alphonso
Gutsells
Jefferies
Ortonville
H. L. Penny
Little Cedar
Mitchell County
Town Tuberculosis Association
Sherman C. Kingsley
Welfare Association of
Cleveland
Kingsley
Mississippi Valley
L. J. Wood
Cedar Rapids
Abraham Lincoln
Decatur
Illinois
Wood
Springfield
Lincoln
White House
Emmetsburg
Moving Picture House
Missouri
Old Camp Ground
Unionville
Centerville
Appanoose County
J. H. Strunk
Ellsworth Bailey
L. L. White
Chillicothe
Eatonic
Tmichahls
STERN
Michaels-Stern
Nau Brothers
Grover
Thurs
Nick Fank
Cals, Poahier & Erb
Over Savings Bank
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