Iowa Soldiers Home reports steady growth and needed improvements
Commandant C. C. Horton submitted the annual report for the Iowa Soldiers' Home ending June 30, 1906. The home shows rising membership, improved health, and calls for capital projects including a gateway, quartermaster building, pump room addition, grounds work, and water main. He urges state aid for dam-related ice supply or an artificial plant if a new dam is not built, with total askings around 20050 dollars.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
C. C. Horton
Iowa Soldiers’ Home
State Board of Control
Horton
Holly
Thirteenth Street
Takes Depot Job Again
Johnnie Miller resigns from The Journal to resume as night agent at the Rock Island depot. The position had been discontinued and Miller held it when restored. Ralph Shannon will succeed him at The Journal with prior experience and capability.
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Johnnie Miller
Journal
Rock Island
Johnie
Ralph Shannon
Iowa’s Rural Telephones Drive Rapid Progress in Ten Years
Des Moines reports Iowa now hosts 22 percent of the nation’s rural telephone lines and more farmers use telephones than in any other state. The 1902 census shows 710 exchanges in Iowa, 68 Bell and 642 independent. By July 31, 1905, 138,818 independent and 27,260 Bell telephones existed, with independents listing 5,056 miles of copper wire and Bell 6,114 miles, per George T. Hawes’ figures.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
United States Census Bureau
Bell
Executive Council
Be! Company
George T. Hawes
Foot Amputation Planned After Train Yard Injury
George Brennan, injured when his foot was mashed under a freight train in the yards, was transported to Iowa City hospital where doctors planned to amputate the foot. The injury is described as likely leaving him a cripple for life.
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George Brennan
Iowa City
Local remedy saled out amid dysentery cases
The demand for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has been so great that stock cannot keep up. It has cured dysentery when other remedies failed. Frank Jones of Pikeville Indiana reports success. For sale by Cook and Sherman and Stewart's Pharmacy.
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Chamberlain
Frank Jones
Pikeville
Ind
Cook & Sherman and
Stewart's Pharmacy
Baptist Choir Notices Regular Rehearsal Tonight
Regular rehearsal tonight at o oclock sharp. Please be there. A horse named Fan ll frightened by camels at the Rock Island depot caused the Express wagon shafts to break. Mr Shearer intervened to assist with morning deliveries during the incident.
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Baptist Choir
United States Express Company
Fan Ll
Rock Island
Mr. Shearer
Rattlesnake Exhibited By Jap Bidwell A Calm Find
Jap Bidwell brought a dead timber rattlesnake to town yesterday. The three foot seven inch specimen had six rattles and a button and was noted as large for its age. A. F. Cherry returns from a trip to Des Moines Knoxville Indianola and Lacona reporting fine crops especially corn and abundant fruit.
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Charles Mercer
Dwight Norton
Eureka
Washington County
Jap Bidwell
Messrs
Mercer
Norton
A. F. Cherry
Des Moines
Knoxville
Indianola
Lacona
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Cures Piles Fast Says Editor
Major Hamm editor of the Constitutionalist Eminence Kentucky recounts a four year old attack and says Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured his piles in ten days with no recurrence. Noted as a quick healer for burns sores cuts and wounds available at Stewart's drugstore for 50c.
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Major Hamm
The
Constitutionalist
Eminence
Bucklen
Stewart's
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Roy Y.stichter
Lumbus Junction
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Dave Coskir
Eureka Sator
A. Bunce
Groendycke
Polite Opera House
Soldiers’ Home
Board of Control
Hawkeye State
Philippines
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District Court of
Brooklyn
Jno. T. Scott
S.S.S
S. S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
U. S
Columbus Junction
Windsor Grocery
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South Side
Nebraska
Whitman
Neb
Scottsbluff
Ellsworth
Mullen
Hyannis
Omaha
J. E. Kunath
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