Encampment Plans Underway for 54th Regimental I N G Davenport
Arrangements are under way for the Fifty fourth Iowa National Guard encampment at Davenport this summer. The site and dates are to be announced by Adjutant General Thrift. The regiment will mobilize from Muscatine and march to Davenport, with a three day hike about thirty miles.
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Davenport
Iowa
Thrift of
Des Moines
Fiftyfourth I. N. G
Davenpom
McManus Field
Ball Park
Muscatine
Leavenport
Convention attractions listed for Knoxville event
Instruction by Miss Harpie Woodruff of Knoxville and Rev. Wm. A. Quayle are among the attractions at today’s convention.
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Harpie Woodruff
Knoxville
Wm. A. Quayle
Vinci Cod Liver Oil Tonic Promises Healthy Children
Cook and Sherman druggists tout Vinci as a non oily cod liver oil tonic for weak children. They guarantee refunds if it fails to make kids robust with flesh bone and red blood. Also an ad urges homestead land with five years rent free from Peck and Taylor, Washington Iowa.
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Cook & Sherman
Vinci
Sam
Peck & Taylor
Washington
Iowa
Venue change granted in McKinney case to Peoria court
Judge Ramsey sustained a defense motion to transfer the case of Mrs A McKinney from this county to Peoria for a fair trial. McKinney and ward Stella Grady had been involved after a prior conviction for mistreatment. A new trial motion was sustained and Judge Graves, who presided first trial, was unavailable as a witness.
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Graves
Breach of Promise Suit Begun in Johnson County
Miss Katie Hruby sues J H Hartman for 2000 alleging three years to consent to marriage and a broken engagement after a Christmas 1905 date. She claims Hartman grew cold on the Fourth of July and left her after a costly trousseau, seeking damages.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Johnson County District Court
Katie Hruby
J. H. Hartman
Trousseau
Southeastern Iowa Teachers Rally Opens in Ottumwa
Ottumwa hosts the twelfth annual Southeastern Iowa Teachers association rally as about five hundred visiting teachers arrive. Five round tables meet, the First Methodist church hosts the opening meeting, and Miss Mary Young presides over the primary and kindergarten round table with model music, reading, and sense training for about fifty Froebel pupils.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Southeastern Iowa
Southeastern Iowa Teachers’ Association
First Methodist Church
Mary Young
Washington
Color Line In the Church Forces Louisville Convention Postponement
The general Baptist convention of America postpones its Louisville meeting to May 16 next year and favors Jamestown Virginia for a tercentennial gathering. Whites oppose Negro support at mixed services and restrict Black members to balconies, sparking protest over reduced representation.
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Louisville
General Baptist Convention of America
St. Louis
Jamestown
Terrible German Disaster At Zum Hirsch Hotel
A German disaster at the Hotel Zum Hirsch in Nagold during a festive dinner collapsed the roof. About 200 people were present with 55 confirmed dead and 100 injured, many seriously, while twenty are missing. The feast followed a roof installation, and dancing may have contributed to the collapse.
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Nagold
Tietle Black Forest
Germany
Conductor Finds Lost Valise With Nine Thousand Dollars
Lake Shore Conductor William R. Miles found a valise aboard his train in Ashtabula containing $9000 in currency wrapped in $100 bundles. No owner identified. later traced to William C. Inman of Leon Ohio, who had withdrawn the money from a bank to pay workers and forgot the valise. The money was restored to the owner.
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Ashtabula, O
Lake Shore
William R. Miles
Oil City
Miles
William C. Inman
Leon, O
Ashtabula
Leon
Strikers seize Toulon police chief and hold him as hostage
April 6 in Toulon French strikers seized the city chief of police at a meeting aimed at reconciliation. They locked him in a dark room and announced they were holding him hostage until the prefect intervened and secured his release.
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Toulon
France
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Samuel Larimer
Equitable Bldg
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Carl Brady
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Collette
Flossie Swisher
Hart Schaffner
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