Engineers Arrive in Centerville to Line Southwest Rock Island Track
Chief Engineer L Ramsdell leads a party of Rock Island locating engineers to Centerville to adjust the southwest division. The group, lodging at the Y M C A and Merchants hotel, will work several weeks from Chicago headquarters, inspecting track high spots and kinks.
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Centerville
L. Ramsdé
Rock Island
Corps of Locating Engineers
Southwest
Chicago
Merchants’ Hotel
S. L. Ramsdell
KE. F. Underhill
BE. M. Peterson
G. M. Johnson
T. Hicklin
B. S. Smedley
A. Grandpie
W. KE. Britton
C. L. Young
J. L. Wigham
Mourned man found alive after Des Moines river disappearance
Virgil White long presumed dead after his boat was found in the Des Moines river a week earlier is alive. He was located near Defiance in Shelby county working on a farm and identified by friends. White said he was tired and wandered off. His friends rejoice while he recovers and returns to Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Virgil White
Defiance
Shelby County
White
Lawson to speak at Missouri Valley fair grounds July 12
Missouri Valley Iowa July 12 set for Thomas W. Lawson author of Frenzied Finance to address critics at the fair grounds after a telegram urging that questions be invited on Standard Oil and Systems Lawson warns that failure to answer may provoke strong reaction thousands expected to attend as only Iowa appearance
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Missouri Valley
Iowa
Thomas W. Lawson
Fair Grounds
Standard Oil
Lawson
Couple Arrested After Suspicious Funeral Murder Bid
Lake City Iowa reports a sensational halt to Cyrus Pratt's funeral as his wife and the hired man Will Kersing are arrested for murder. Authorities suspect a love affair drove the plan to kill Pratt. Mrs Pratt had bought poison twice at Yetter drug store recently. John Palmer arrived on the Rock Island last evening.
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Lake City
Iowa
Cyrus Pratt
Will Kersing
John Palmer
Rock Island
Tragedy in Oclwein Death of 16 Year Old After Swim
A fatal incident at Oclwein Iowa details a dispute among youths returning from swimming. Roy Holubar 16 delivered a blow to Fred Brown 16 causing a neck injury at the base of the brain. Death occurred instantly despite medical aid and restoratives.
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Oclwein
Iowa
Jone
Fred Brown
Roy Holubar
Elwell memorial scholarship awarded to Henry Coleman
Henry Coleman, a top graduate and the first recipient of the Elwell memorial scholarship, will travel to Cornell College Mt Vernon to begin a four year program. The award, established by J K Elwell in memory of his wife, was the unanimous choice of the committee.
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Boone
Iowa
Elwell
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Henry Coleman
Coleman
J. K. Elwell
Fireman a Hero, May Die
In Nebraska near Powell a two and a half year old child wandered onto the railroad track. George Voshi a St. Joseph and Grand Island fireman saved the child by lifting it from the track but lost his left leg and is now in a hospital with death momentarily expected.
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St. Joseph
Powell
Neb
George Voshi
St. Joseph and
Grand Island
Posh
Railroad assessment hearings scheduled for July dates
Des Moines officials set hearing dates for railroad assessments on July 10 with July 11 for all other property interests including special streetcar lines and telephones. The executive council announced the schedule for this year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Cannon Runs Foot Race at Burlington Station
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and visiting congressmen paused in Burlington Iowa on Monday evening June 28 and while the train stood he ran a lively footrace with a young woman from the party on the station platform.
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Cannon
Burlington
Iowa
Joseph G. Cannon
Alaska
Portland
Farmer dies after hayfield accident near Forest Home
Sam Camp aged fifty five of Forest Home vicinity was fatally injured while raking clover hay last Friday. He was dragged by horses through a barbed wire fence across a plowed field and died Monday from his injuries at an area hospital.
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Montezuma
Iowa
Sam Camp
Forest Home
Elder lovers wed after 65 years apart in Burlington
L. B. Jenney aged 85 and Miss Mary Douglas aged 80 from Keithsburg Illinois married in Burlington Iowa yesterday after reuniting by chance. The couple had been sweethearts in youth and separated long ago before reuniting for marriage.
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Burlington
Iowa
Jenney
Mary Douglas
Keithsburg
Ill
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claimuyor Deafness Remedy
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and promises a cure through constitutional remedies. It claims nine of ten deafness cases stem from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any incurable case, via F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio, with sale through Fenang 75e and a tagline for Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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