Tragic killings haunt Marshalltown in triple murder case
Ray mond Hardy, 19, held on suspicion of murdering his father mother and brother Earl, allegedly attempted suicide in his cell after conflicting statements. A note of sale for 1000 dollars dated 1909 was found and Hardy admitted it was a joke. The case centers on inheritance of a 225 acre farm in Humboldt county and a forthcoming marriage to a woman linked to Mirris family.
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Marshalltown
Raymond Hardy
Karl
Young Hardy
Hardy
Hts
Earl
Raymond
Burial in Cedar Falls
The bodies of James Hardy his wife Levina and son Earl Hardy found slain in their Van Cleve home were brought to Cedar Falls for burial. The Hardy family, once living nearby, were well known in this vicinity.
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Cedar Falls
James Hardy
Levina
Earl Hardy
van Cleve
Hardy
Child of Barnum mayor drowns in tub
Fort Dodge Iowa June 9 Francis fourteen months old son of the Barnum mayor drowned in a tub of water while playing in the yard. The mother found him before life was extinct but could not revive him. He was the youngest of six children.
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Fort Dodge
Francis
Barnum
Clara Brune Suicide at Eagle Point Bridge
In Dubuque Iowa Clara Brune 22 leaped 75 feet from Eagle Point high bridge into the river Tuesday night drowning before aid arrived. A quarrel with her lover is blamed. She left a note to a man named Fred expressing love and intent to die. The bridge-keeper had sold her a ticket minutes earlier. the body was recovered.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Clara Brune
Eagle Point High
Fred
Elopes With His Housekeeper From Humboldt County
Thomas Mirris a 55 year old Humboldt county farmer eloped with his housekeeper Mrs Cassie Good a 33 year old Chicago widow and mother of an 18 month old child. They were married at the Duncombe hotel in Fort Dodge Iowa at five this afternoon after leaving Mirris Arnold home yesterday. Mirris has six children four sons and two daughters.
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Kk. D. Clank
Mirra
Fort Dodge
Thomas Mirris
Humboldt County
Arnold
Duncombe
Cassie Good
Chicago
Mirris
Fort Dodge Students Work Overtime Over Copying Criticism
In Fort Dodge Iowa on June 9 thirty high school students rushed to prepare original book criticisms after an instructor discovered copied phrases from famous reviewers in magazines. The lapse occurred as the term ended.
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Fort Dodge
Iowa
High Se
Parisian Sage touted as cure for dandruff and hair loss
The ad credits Dr. Sangerhand of Paris with linking dandruff and falling hair to a microbe and promotes Parisian Sage as a cure sold in the United States. It promises a money back guarantee if it does not banish dandruff and stop hair loss within two weeks and notes distribution by Lemmon's pharmacy and Giroux Mtg. Co. Buffalo New York with customer testimonial from Mrs. Francis Koegl of St. Paul Minnesota dated November 16, 1969.
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Sangerhand
Paris
America
Lemmon
Giroux Mtg. Co
Buffalo N. Y
Francis Koegl
President of Fruit Company Arrives for Washington Meetings
George H. Imbrie, president of Pan American Fruit and Fibre Company, arrives in Washington to address local stockholders. Meetings at the Commercial Club on June 10 and 11 will explain the company’s business, land prospects in Nicaragua, and potential profits from bananas, rubber, and other tropical crops.
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Washington
Pan-American Fruit & Fibre Company
Rio Iwande
Nicarac
Texas
Panama Canal
Japan
Commercial Club
George H. Lubrie
Imbrie
Fitch on Mother’s Day Virtue of a Full Day Tribute
George Cityh Peoria humorist proposes a detailed Mother’s Day program to replace a single white carnation. The plan runs from 7am breakfast to 11pm theatre and chores, ending with a kiss and wish for weekly Mother’s Day. Local readers in Iowa recall his prior magazine fame and goodwill.
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Mother
Fitch
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Tout
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Mason Transfer and Storage Co
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