Food to the Starving Col Womry is Dead
Shanghai dispatch reports 85000 from the United States famine relief committee bought half a million pounds of dried potatoes for front line use. A Chinese official offers steamboat transit above Grand Canal locks, promising faster food delivery. Distress details say villagers eat pond scum white clay and rice hulls. Milk has been secured for 100 babies at one depot though 400 more may die.
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Shanghai
China
United States
Famine Relief Committee
Grand Canal
Colonel Mowry Dies in Excelsior Springs
Des Moines Iowa April 16 Col Welcome Mowry a noted Iowa public man and former representative and railroad commissioner died yesterday in Excelsior Springs Missouri cancer of the stomach named as the cause His career spanned from post civil war Tama county to state leadership and public service as a respected soldier and official
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Des Moines
Iowa
Welcome Mowry of
Tracr
Excelsior Springs
Mowry
Tama County
Canon City Attorney Charged After Iowa Altercation
Mt Pleasant Iowa April 16 Attorney J C McCord suffered head and facial injuries in a dispute with R L Faulkner of Canon City Texas. Faulkner arrested for assault with intent to murder and bound over to the April 22 grand jury on $82 000 bond posted by J M Holland W L Monger William Stewart and J M Pope.
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Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
J. C. McCord
R. L. Faulkner
Canon City
Tex
Faulkner
Campbell
Dugdale
Mothers Protest Halts Roof Work at Washington School
In Burlington Iowa April 16 angry mothers confronted carpenters l hoping to repair a burned Washington school. The mayor and building commissioner condemned the structure forbidding repairs and announcing a new building will be erected. Miss Cora Morrow returned home to Ainsworth after a serious illness in her brother KK M Morrow.
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Burlington
Iowa
Washington School
Cora Morrow
Ainsworth
Kk. M. Morrow
Shoop's Cough Cure Promoted as Safe Choice
An advertisement urges choosing Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure over other mixtures. It cites U.S. labeling laws prohibiting poisons and claims Shoop's has no poison marks, praising safety and a 20 year track record. Sold by J. H. Stewart.
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Dr. Shoop
J. H. Stewart
Few Civil War Officers Left in Active Service
Major General James F. Wade, longtime head of the Atlantic division with headquarters at Governor's Island, retires after 46 years in the U S Army. He will live in Jefferson Ohio. General Wade notes that no officer now holds a commission from the Civil War era and predicts by 1910 the last Civil War veteran will be retired. Wade is son of Senator Ben Wade of Ohio.
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New York
James F. Wade
Division of the Atlantic
Governor's Island
Frederick LD. Grant
Wade
Jefferson, O
Ben” Wade
Ohio
Buckeye
Supposed Murder in Evansville Linked to $25 Claim
Richard Bell cross-tie contractor whose remains were found on Southern railroad tracks near Evansville Indiana last Friday is believed to have been killed for a rumored $25. The Rockport prosecuting attorney orders an investigation. The train engineer says he did not see Bell, suggesting he was already on the track.
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Evansville
Ind
Richard Bell
Southern Railroad
Here
Rockport
Bell
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana and Michigan
The forecast up to 8 pm calls for snow flurries and colder weather in Illinois Indiana and lower Michigan with northwest winds. Wisconsin faces threatening and colder conditions with likely snow flurries in the north as winds shift from south to northwest. Iowa remains fair but colder with northwest winds in the east and central regions.
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Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Markets Echo Chicago Board of Trade Quotation Report
Chicago and East Buffalo markets report commodity prices for wheat corn oats and fats with cash sales and live stock data. Hog cattle sheep and hay prices listed with receipts tallied and noted regional merchants and quotes. A Shakespeare entertainment note and local items on wolves and a student return conclude the column.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Real Cure for Lung Trouble Promised by Dr. King's Discovery
Mrs. Fannie Connor of Georgetown Rural Route 1 credits Dr. King's New Discovery with stopping her persistent cough and restoring her weak lungs after pneumonia. The ad claims it is the only real cough cure and states guaranteed relief from Stewart's pharmacy with trial bottle free.
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Fannie Connor
Georgetown
Teen
Dr. King
Stewart's Pharmacy
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Wead Cycle Company
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Aluse
L. S
Col. W. Mowry
R. R
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Chicago Grain
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo Live
C. P. Funck
Academy Chapel
Muscatine Journal
Musser Public Library
Charles Phillip Funck
Shakespeare
John Kauffman
Marion Township
Court House
Mrs. Wolf
Dora Montgomery
Iowa City
University
Windsor
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South Side
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