City Bus Line Order Line Calls For Frank Rogers
A city bus line urges callers to dial Phone No 1 and leave orders. Respondents should supply street and number for prompt service by Frank Rogers.
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Frank Rogers
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
4
The Giant Painter Faces Townsfolk Mockery
Grim proclaims grand art as Jack and friends jeer. The town wakes to find Grim’s works mocked and labeled a hoax, turning the artist into a notorious figure and a source of local notoriety.
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Jack
Grim
Honest Dog Returns Lost Coin After Hunger
Professor Bell recalls starting a day with a purse and a missing gold coin after dining at an inn. His dog, who had stayed home, later drops the coin at his feet, having spent the day guarding it in his mouth and going hungry to stay honest.
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Professor Bell
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Cats Aboard Liners Remarkable on Long Voyages
Describes large liners carrying six to ten cats to patrol ships and appear in ration records. Notes celebrated first class saloon cats on voyages to India and Australia and mentions high biddings for a saloon car. Staff guards it from admirers and occasionally finds it in luggage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Australia
Teacher’s Pie Lesson Shows Broken Shells In Fractions
In a primary class a teacher uses imaginary pies to teach one third. A student is asked if Mary finds a nest with six eggs and breaks two on the way home, what part of her eggs is broken. She answers that the shells would be broken, drawing amused approval from the class.
Clock Talk Poem Teaches Timely Routines
A short, rhythmic verse presents a child friendly clock teaching daily time cues. The little clock speaks in measured lines about waking, rising, meals, school, and activities to help children learn punctuality and keep track of the day.
Alleged Crook Arrested in Bancroft Swindle Case
Council Bluffs on June 16 indictment in district court charges Frank Scott with grand larceny in a Bancroft Iowa swindle involving John Hemerlbracht. Scott, a steerer with J. C. Maybray’s associates, was arrested in Sioux City at the county sheriff’s request. The April 25 scheme allegedly separated Hemerlbracht from $5,600, targeting a wealthy Bancroft farmer.
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Council Bluffs
John Hemerbracht
Bancroft
Neb
J. C. Maybray
Frank Scott
Near Pender
Sioux City
T. F. McCaffery
Scott
Hemerlbracht
Sus
Little Rock
Maybray
Granada
Grain and Provisions Prices Slide on Early Crop Availability
In Chicago on June 15 wheat futures fell as markets priced in earlier delivery options for the new crop. Declines touched corn oats and provisions with July wheat at 1.1519 and 1.15%, September at 1.091, and December at 1.07. Cash prices showed No. 2 hard wheat at 1.28 to 1.30 and No. 2 corn 44 to 75 cents. South Omaha live stock receipts included cattle at 5.00 to 6.00, hogs steady to higher at 7.50 to 7.85, and sheep steady with lambs 7.00 to 8.00.
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Chicago
Chicago Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago stock market note lists cattle receipts of 2,000 with steers 5.50 to 7.25, cows 4.00 to 5.25, heifers 3.60 to 6.00, bulls 3.75 to 5.25, calves 5.00 to 8.00, stockers 3.30 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 11,000 with heavy 7.90 to 8.05, light 7.40 to 7.70, packing 5.75 to 7.75, pigs 5.50 to 6.75. Sheep receipts 10,000 with sheep 3.75 to 6.25, lambs 4.50 to 9.00.
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South Omaha
Chicago
No man loves his chains not even gold
A concise proffered maxim echoes a Greek saying about the futility of binding wealth with personal liberty.
Fatal boiler blast rocks Denver plant
Denver June 16 three dead one fatally injured nine seriously hurt and three missing after a 200 ton boiler exploded at the Denver Gas and Electric company plant. The boiler was hurled into the air and wrecked the generator and roof. Joseph Perri seven was among the first bodies recovered. Dead include Joseph Perri Harry Lishner and an unknown man. Missing are Lawrence Sexton Arthur Richardson and Frederick Gunter. Nine injured were hospitalized and property damage is about 250000.
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Denver
Denver Gas and Electric Company
Joseph Perri
Harry Lishner
Lawrence Sexton
Arthur Richardson
Frederick Gunter
Peter the Great Jack Sired by Great Son of Custer
Cedar Rapids Iowa auction notice offers to purchase mules sired by the jack Peter the Great priced at 75 dollars at weaning. W L DeClow specializes Cedar Rapids Jack Emporium and will insure foal stand and suck for 15 dollars. J A Kolosick of Ainsworth Iowa advertises selling terms and location two miles southwest of Ainsworth.
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Jack
Custer
J. A. Kolesick
W. L. Declow
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
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Dankwardt
Kurtz
Exporterman Butchers
Dankwardt & Kurtz
Featuring
Messina
Mason Transfer &Storage Company
J.D. Dayton
West
Benton and
Washington Go
Owa
Caroline Wet
Ane
Cats
Steck’s Jewelry Store
Pender, Neb
Peter the Great
Peter Great
J. A. Kolosick
Ainsworth, Iowa
Stein Block
Ment
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