Veterinarian to Receive 25 Weekly Reward for Bandits
Des Moines reports Dr. Fuller of Murray joining Sheriff West in the pursuit of bandits who looted stores in Columbia and Attica. He will receive $25 weekly for life from the National Travelers Benefit Association. The bandits were captured. one leader killed in Wichita, others jailed for life. Also notes on game wardens cracking illegal fishing, gold in Iowa, mad dog treatments, Mexican sale of Shorthorns, a statewide Bible conference, legal distinctions for women prisoners, a Missouri strawberry train, and upcoming Grand Army events in Des Moines.
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Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Missouri
Dr. Fuller
Murray
Clark County
Sheriff West
Columbia
Attica
Marion County
National Travelers’ Benefit Association
West
Eddie Adama
Kansas
Wichita
Osceola
Fort Madison
Iowa approves three-quarters million dam projects for Des Moines area
Oska loosa votes near unanimously to invest 750000 dollars to build a dam across the Des Moines river near Harvey Marion county to power Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Cedar Rapids based Iowa Railway and Light Co will construct a Cedar river dam creating a 3000 acre lake. The firm also plans three Des Moines river dams near Boone to maintain power with spaced locations and create three large lakes.
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Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Harvey
Marion County
Cedar County
Iowa Railway and Light Co
Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Boone
Vermont alum Rev George Gaby Rice oldest U S graduate
The University of Vermont notes alumnus Rev George Gaby Rice of Council Bluffs Iowa as the oldest college graduate in America. Born September 22 1819 in Enosburg Falls he would reach 103 if he lives a few months more. Rice is in good spirits and eats well while confined to a wheelchair at his daughter Mrs O W Otis home in Council Bluffs.
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University of Vermont
America
George Gaby Rice
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Vermont
Rice
Enosburg Falls
O. W. Otis
Abandoned Babe Seeks Mother After 25 Years
Beck, now a mature man living in LaCrosse Wisconsin, writes to Clarion Wright County newspapers seeking his deserted mother. Burt Harwood of Clarion recalls the incident. About 25 years ago A O Beck worked as a Rock Island operator in Clarion. the couple later quarreled in Belmond where the mother took the four year old child.
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Cedar Rapids
Beck
LaCrosse
Wisconsin
Clarion
Wright County
Burt Harwood
A. O. Beck
Rock Island Road
Ola Brownley
Belmond
Summerlee mining town in Fayette County described
Summerlee is one of fifteen New River Company mining towns with 115 miners homes housing over 130 workers. Located in a valley near Fayette County seat, homes offer 4 or 5 rooms with running water electric lights and a rear garden, renting from 7 to 12 dollars monthly. The town provides amusements for children and adults including a play court motion picture houses baseball parks and churches for white and colored residents. White Sunday School attendance averages high while the colored Sunday School averages 44. Public white schools serve about 70 children. the colored school averages 20.
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Summerlee
New River Company
Fayette County
Ored
Mother Missing After Leaving Iowa Child in Cedar Rapids
A mother who left her months old baby in a Cedar Rapids hotel room vanished after a one night stay. The baby was saved by a hotel maid and the father learned the truth only recently. Beck seeks to locate his mother while noting she may have a home with him. Major George P. Hippee of Des Moines has been named Knight of the Crown of Italy for saving a comrade in World War I. He now holds the right to audience with the Italian king and two medals.
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Cedar Rapids
Beck
St. Louis
George P. Hippee
Des Moines
Italy
Hippee
Costa
Beatrice
Red Mask
Hed Mask
Joe Darrell
Beh Darrell
Bob
Joe
Bee
Outlan
Marker proposed for Jesse Hiatt Delicious apple
Arthur Goshorn of Winterset protests a proposed marker in Peru Madison county for Jesse Hiatt and his Delicious apple noting Hiatt did not originate the variety but discovered it and urged recognition. He argues no nursery should graft its name to the apple and urges resolutions protesting any grafting of Uncle Jesse Hiatt’s name onto Delicious.
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Arthur Goshorn
Winterset
Jesse Hiatt
Peru
Madison County
Hiatt
Jesse bUata
April Bridal Warning From Popular Belief
April brides are said to be mercurial in temperament and will make good mothers but trying wives, according to common belief.
Man's Hidden Fear Observed by Sympathetic Wonmmin
A St. Joseph News Press snippet notes a man’s anxious look as a sympathetic Wonmmin says she understands him, hinting at an underlying fear. The brief item suggests emotional tension and interpersonal insight in a local feature.
War chariot hunt at Bethshan excites excavators
Excavators in Bethshan seek an iron war chariot among ruins once held by Philistines and Israelites. The site recalls Saul's fall at Gilboa and his body displayed on city walls before Jabesh Gilead’s rescue and burial. Solomon later conquered Bethshan, replacing pagan shrines with Jewish temples.
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Beth«han
Palestine
Joshua
Promised Land
Bethshan
Ashtaroth
Saul
Israel
Gilboa
Jabesh-Gilead
Jabesh
Jordan
Hethshan
Solomon
Baal
Bethshal
The London Club Tale of a Blind Man Regains Sight
A famous London club veteran who has been nearly blind for years finally regains sight after an eye operation. The celebratory dinner turns comic when he meets his fellows and vanishes into a taxi, never seen at the club again. A string of misheard lines and misdirection follows in a playful, ribbing style.
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London
Pemier
Boner
Beatrice Solves Outlaw Red Mask Tale of Love and Duty
Beatrice Dunkly breaks an engagement with Bob Darrell after his expulsion from college for theft. He becomes an outlaw known as Red Mask. In a mountain town Beatrice treats Joe Darrell wounded by Bob during a banked pursuit. The revelation untangles romance and crime, ending with a change in their lives.
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Matt Sheard
Beatrice Dunkly
Seenun
Bob Darrell
Great General's Foible and Simple Habits
The essay notes how famed leaders like the Iron Duke Duke of Wellington preferred austere rest, sleeping on a hard cot without springs and avoiding luxury beds when compelled to relax. It highlights humble routines among powerful figures.
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Duke of Wellington
Duke
Understanding. To realize that we don't under stand everything is understanding.
Atchison Globe notes a philosophical reflection on awareness and knowledge. The piece presents a concise meditation on understanding itself as the realization of limits in knowledge. No named individuals or organizations are specified.
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Atchison Globe
White House Interior in Monroe Era Described
Jonathan Elliott’s History of the Ten Mile Square recounts the White House in the early republic with rich details. The oval room featured crinken paper gilt borders silk drapes a large carpet with United States arms and ornate mirrors. The enormous east room had lemon papery walls mantels of black marble and gold, chandeliers, and extensive Brussels carpet.
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Jonathan Elliott
Ten Mile Square
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Jackson
United States
Sefas
Where Camphor Comes From
Camphor largely comes from Formosa Japan and China. In China entire families sometimes hold shares in one camphor tree and ownership can be shared by as many as 2,000 people.
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Formosa
Japan
China
Neighbors Praise Mrs. Mary Phillppe’s Restored Health
An advertisement features Mrs. Mary Phillipe of 2058 Fourth St Madison asserting Tanlaee improved her stomach kidneys and liver. She describes relief from headaches dizziness back pain and night nerves, gaining ten pounds and returning to daily tasks. Tanlaee is sold by druggists.
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Mary. Phillipe
Fourth St
Madison
Taniac
Advt
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Graettinger
Palo Alto
Harke
J. J. Kelly
Betty Westbrook
Wapello
Pasteur
Universty Hospital
Frank Fry
Fred Nabb
Elma
Howard County
Bates
Mexico City
Mexico
Nabb
Cedar Falls
Parley E. Zartmann
Nebraska
Illinois
Minnesota
South Dakota
G. Campbell Morgan
W. E. Biederwolf
Homer C. Stuntz
W. M. Holder
Los Angeles
Tai
Tom Wah
Chinatown
Rockwell City
Sioux City
Kansas City
City
Arkansas
Grand Army of the Republic
Clyde Herring
W. G. Harding
Grand Army
Agnes H. Parker
Boston
Mass
Louise B. Benson
The
Daughters of Veterans
Oakland
Margaret Stevens
A. R
Philadelphia
Marie L. Basham
Ruby J. Kekerson
Ada Wood
Des Moines Corps
Lola Elliott
Nathan E. Kendall
Kendall
Carl M. Garver
Frank Armstrong
Bt. H. Tomlinson
Des Moines Women's Club
Addie Hammer
Ladies of the
Frederick Windsor Hubbell
Jefferson H. Polk
James B. Green
Frederick Stewart
Clyde L. Herring
F. O. Norton
Iowa National Guards
Ernest R. Bennett
West Virginia
Charleston
Gladys
Mary
Outlaw
Lololsrolois
Lene Lee Red
Ieee
Bybdivat4
Nis
John Fredericks
Scoville
Fredericks
Quentin
Ted Mark
Folka
Pye
White House
Executive Mansion
Bone Yard
West Point
Wayland
Auto Bone Yard
Washington, Iowa
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