Death of Mrs Joe Link after illness in Iowa
Mrs Elizabeth Boeckenstedt Link died December 20 1905 in Washington Iowa after a five week illness of bowel and lung trouble. She leaves husband Joe and three children Ella Nellie and Arnold. Service is at St James Church tomorrow at 10 AM with interment at Elo Grove cemetery.
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Ella
Nellie
Arnold
Link
Frank
Minnesota
John
Edward
New Vienna
Rosa
Anna
Joe Moore
Missoula
St. James Catholic
St. James Church
Father Soeppel
Elo Grove Cemetery
Canal costs meet calls for free hand over red tape
Congress debates Panama Canal expenditures with aim to limit controls on salaries and procurement while supporters push for broad authority to hire labor and source supplies. Republicans display discipline in committee appointments as party leaders discuss seniority and governance of military matters.
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Washington
Congress
Panama Canal
House
Botany Bay
Jim Tawney
Appropriations
Jim Mann
Mlinois
Overstreet
Indiana
Sherman
New York
Cooper
Wisconsin
Bartholdt
Missouri
Fire at Blackwell's Island Workhouse Traps Prisoners
Fire at the workhouse on Blackwell's Island destroys half the facility including the women's prison and hospital. About 500 prisoners, mainly women, flee as officials and male inmates risked their lives to rescue others. Guards assisted in the efforts while some remained locked in cells.
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Wart York
Tree
Blackwell's Island
Afty
Reepitel
Lost in mountains Ralph Loughborough and Mise Vivien George reported missing
Ralph Loughborough a newspaper artist from Nalinagewa and Mise Vivien George heiress of Los Angeles are reported lost in the mountains fifty miles from Trenver after a hunting party from Drowns mining camp became separated during a autumn storm. Rescue hopes fade as the blizzard rages and survivors may only come upon scattered mining camps. Loughborough from a noted Walamazoo family is 23 and gained fame as a cartoonist who had been resting since illness.
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Nalinagewa
Miel
Ralph Looughbrough
Mise Vivien George
Los Angeles
Cal
Trenver
Ooston
Loughbrowgh
Stupmer
Thuwe
Pigeon Follows Banker to Bank Daily in Mooresville
In Mooresville Indiana on December 21 Fverard H Hadley assistant cashier at Farmers Bank is a pigeon fancier. His white pet pigeon follows Jim to the bank each day and returns home with him. If late the bird flies to the bank taps the window with its wings until doors open or perches nearby waiting for a patron. When it lands on Hadleys shoulder it rides into the bank seeking a position.
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Mooresville
Ind
Fverard H. Hadley
Farmers’ Rank
Jin
O'Brien Wins the Fight in Thirteenth Round
The boxing match at Mechanics Pavilion ends in the thirteenth round with O'Brien defeating Fitzsimmons after Fitzsimmons collapses. Other brief items note a brick-wall money found by Laney Gee, a new parlor car porters union in New York, and Japan's fourth exchequer bond repayments.
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San Francoisco
Fitzsimmons
O'Brien
Mechanics Pavillion
Fitzsimons
New York
Dee
United States
New York City
American Association of Railway
Uehida
Japan
Department of Finance
Tokio
Pocket book theft leads to arrest in Charlotte
Ben Stewart found a pocket book last week containing 125 dollars and several hundred dollars' worth of negotiable paper belonging to Eldridge Lee, a Carmel township farmer. Officers arrested Stewart on a larceny charge after an investigation. He confessed taking the purse but claimed he did not know the owner’s identity.
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Charlotte, Mich
Ben Stewart
Eldridge Lee
Carmel Township
Stewart
Third Victim of a Crossing in Lapeer Mich
Lapeer Michigan December 21 Jerome Sullivan aged 75 stepped onto Grand Trunk tracks on Main Street as an express train passed. He was struck and killed instantly. The crossing is the same where Phineas White and Captain H K White were killed in 1898.
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Lapeer
Mich
Mia
Jeremiah Sullivan
Grand Trunk
Main Street
Phineas White
H. K. White
Yuletide Gift Hint for Men and Women
A festive note hints at warm accessories and charming pins as ideal gifts. It mentions baby mittens and a set of Fars fancy pins Saques as possible selections for a holiday season.
Christmas Ready Made Wear and Home Goods Sale
A catalog listing shows ready made skirts handkerchiefs furs wrappers shopping bags towels ribbons mufflers shawls opera shawls table linens carpets rugs towels carpet sweepers and more available for holiday shoppers.
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Mrs
Joe Link
Portland Sleighs
City Feed Yard
Mason Transfer & Storage Co
Holly
J.c.smiths
Cash Grocery
Casey
St Alles
Payne's Livery Barn
West Chester Savings Bank
West Chester
Arthur Miller
Iowa
Milton Dayton
Dr. &. Huff
Home Office
Sigourney
A. Antrim Davis
McCreery
Dr. King
Forsvar Ri Ae
Triad
la Bollette
Senate
Robert M. la Follette
Congressional Directory
la Pollette
John C. Spooner
la Follette
House of Representatives
Republican Party
la Fellette
la Pellette
Hale le Senior
ISS
Frye
Hale
Hannibal Tramlin
Prye
James G. Blaine
Allison
Sito
Aaron Gove
Colorado
Committee On Ways and Means
Taft Party
Philippines
Major Gove
National Guard
Arthur W. Dunn
Kalamazoo
Los Nucles
Jim Daily
St. Joe
Laney Gee
Gee
Low
Schwartz
Negro Car Porters
Union
Muftlera
Stires
Underwood Typewriter
Shicago
Wabash Ave
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