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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1910
Page
7
A Miller trained dogs Reeves and Guthrie comedy singers drew a good audience at the Air Dome. The program featured a three round prize fight with dogs imitating Johnson and Jeffries, plus new film subjects and fresh vaudeville acts. Change of program nightly. Friday is ladies souvenir night.
Harry McCulley, who sold his barber shop to Dick Allen and Ralph Gibson, has taken back the shop and will run it in the future. Ill health prompted the sale, but his health has improved and he will lead the business as before. Dick and Ralph will assist but prefer to let an older head handle proprietorship for now.
Thieves break into a location overnight and steal various goods. Police investigate and seek leads to recover the stolen merchandise and identify suspects.
A woman died in what investigators deem a gasoline fueled blaze at Council Bluffs. Officers say the incident appears accidental with no immediate signs of foul play. Authorities are reviewing the scene and awaiting autopsy results to determine the precise cause.
Mediapolis Iowa August 10 Dice's general store was robbed Monday night with a large haul of shoes clothing socks ties and notions taken. Thieves used a conveyance to move the goods and two strangers were seen in town that day. Police of neighboring towns asked to watch for the burglars.
Council Bluffs on Monday Mrs Charles Tetan suffered severe burns when gasoline ignited while she tried to fill a gasoline stove. Her clothing burned off as her husband and brother fought to extinguish the flames.
Cedar Rapids Aug 10 Mrs Elizabeth Mohn age about 75 resident with her son at Lisbon committed suicide yesterday afternoon. She had worried over finances and is believed to have been unbalanced. She went to a water tank nearby and jumped in. She was found dead shortly after.
Des Moines reports the death of prominent physician Drakely Rood at his home from appendicitis. He practiced in Des Moines for ten years and was 49. Survived by his wife.
Howell, 59, died Monday night after a long period of apparent hopeless vitality. Doctors call the case the most remarkable display of lingering life on record.
Des Moines reports the state board of health distributed the first anti-toxin to physicians via local boards at cost under a new rule. Readouts came from Council Bluffs and Marengo as of August 10.
Plaintiffs D D L Klopenstein and Donald J. Ross sue numerous defendants in Washington County Iowa for quieting title to Lots Eighty Five and Eighty Six in Smouse's East Side Addition and adjacent Lot Eight in Block Four. They claim fee simple ownership by open continuous possession for over twenty years and seek title quieted and claims barred. The notice sets August 1 1910 filing of petition and September 6 1910 term with default judgment possible.
Governor Carroll and the Iowa highway commission will spend three days on an inspection trip along the river to river road. The journey starts Thursday from Council Bluffs and ends Saturday in Davenport with meals planned at Atlantic Guthrie Center Des Moines and Iowa City.
Des Moines Aug 10 Senator Cummins said he would soon issue a reply to President Ripley of the Atchison railroad about railroad capitalization as to values He returned from Colfax and will stay for a while He has declined several requests from eastern papers to add to his speech on national issues or engage in discussion with others
A movement in Muscatine Iowa aims to build a new city hall. By winter a plan will be presented seeking a twenty year bond issue to raise funds for the improvement.
In Oskaloosa Louisiana on August 10, Mrs J lies in a dire medical condition after four months with a crushed spinal column and collapsing flesh in the lower limbs. Life hangs by a thread as doctors struggle to save her.
A lengthy district court notice in Washington County Iowa Sept term 1910 names W M Tucker and F Beaty as plaintiffs and numerous heirs and parties including James Delong John Coffman John Baker Howard Edwards George Easter E T Reeves Thomas Coppock and many more. The document describes land described by legal metes and bounds and initiates action against unknown defendants and the heirs of several deceased individuals.
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