Local News Flashes from The Star Tonight
Local brief items report hot rolls at the Vien na and a star night event. Capt Wilson ill with la grippe. Chas Harley visits city with relatives. Walter Statler Steve Crawford and Tom West from West Chester in town. Dr. W M Terry travels to Des Moines for the Iowa State Dental meeting. May Brookhart leaves for a western visit via Utah and Washington to visit brothers.
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Star
W. A. Wilson
Lagrippe
Chas, Harley
West Chester
Walter Statler
Steve Crawford
Tom West
W. M. Terry
Des Moines
Iowa State Dental Association
May Brookhart
West
Qeden
Utah
G. W. Brookhart
Pocatello
Washington
N. D. Brookhart
Unusual double marriage shocks Muscatine society
Walter Harrington and Mrs. Josephine Ostrander wed at 10 p m after Harrington’s divorce six months earlier. Both are prominent locals, with Harrington at Muscatine Produce and Ostrander formerly at Boston Store. They set up housekeeping at 123 Park Avenue. The Navajo club meets tomorrow at 2 30 p m with Mrs. Harrie Horne.
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Harrington
Walter Harrington
Josephine Ostrander
H. S. Howe
Washington
Navajo Club
Harrie Horne
Local news briefs plus school fundraiser and politics in Washington county
Local notes report residents traveling to Chicago Oskaloosa Aurora and Keota. An electrical vibrator massage service opens in town. A kindergarten fundraiser for school pictures runs this weekend with admission at 10 cents. Miss Margaret Doolittle announces candidacy for county superintendent in Washington county.
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Margaret Doolittle
Washington County
Miss Doolittle
Fremont
Washington
Fremont Gazette
Local travelers and visitors pass through Keota area
Win Smouse rode the Firefly this morning. James Wilson traveled to Ottumwa on business. Mrs. Frank Wells of Fairfield is visiting the Leonard Smouse home. G A Smith left for Kansas City with Standard Land Co. J L Brookhart on an excursion to Texas for George H Paul Co. Mr and Mrs E C Smith from Winfield visited West Chester. W O Wood of Rockford Illinois was bound for Davenport. His family visits Yar mouth and will tour Keota and Ainsworth before returning home.
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Frank
Robert Ross
Mr. Parker
West Chester
W. L. Dusenberry
Aurora
George Paul Co
Kansas City
A. Sprague
Columbus Junction
A. L. Graham
Keota
Sherm Welch
Win Smouse
James Wilson
Ottumwa
Frank Wells
Fair'eld
Leonard Smouse
G. A. Smith
Standard Land Co
J. L. Brookhart
Texas
George H. Paul Co
E. C. Smith
Winfield
W. O. Wood
Rockford, Ill
Davenport
Yarmouth
Ainsworth
Rockford
Ohio Fears Invasion as Farmers Guard Tobacco Beds
Columbus reports grave conditions in southern Ohio Burley district with farmers guarding fields overnight amid fear of raids. Adjutant General Critchfield says no outbreak expected for 48 hours while Kentucky growers meet at Augusta to rally against crop rises. Brown County residents live in terror as policy decisions await state authorities. In Davidson County Night Riders burn tobacco beds marking first occurrence in region.
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Columbus
Burley
Ohio
Critelfeld
Kentucky
Augusta
Aberdeen
Critchfield
Harris
Miller
Brown County
Winston Salem
N. C
F. O. Fishel
Friedberg
Davidson County
Texas land scheme dispute roils Indiana investors
Indianapolis May 5. Jack W Johnson supervises six Union Central Railroad of Texas car parties touring Indiana. He says 1700 Hoosiers bought land in Texas with escrowed 40,000 acres and 5000 forfeited to Palestine if the railroad is not built within six months. Johnson defends project against Deaton claims of deception. Letters from Texas banks show escrowed land and funds. Investigations by Indiana residents report land as timber, promise of a branch line, and growth in Trenton with five stores, two churches, and a school.
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Indianapolis
Jack W. Johnson
Union Central Railroad of Texas
Indiana
Teaasland
Texas
Johson
Deaton
John F. Baldwin
South Bend Tribune
Twin Cities and Lake Superior Railway Company formed
New Hallway Incorporated Madison Wisconsin May 5 reports articles of incorporation filed with the secretary of state's office to build a line from Sunrise Peet and Fox Boro to Superior. The extension will run 128 miles, with fifty miles in Wisconsin, linking Minneapolis and Superior.
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Madison
Wis
Secretary of State
Minneapolis
Superior
Twin Cities and Lake Superior Railway Company
Sunrise Peet
Fox Boro
Iin
Wisconsin
Riot in Hudson Mines Leaves Two Dead
In Hudson near Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on May 5 a riot between Poles and Italians left many injured and two dead. The clash began when Poles replaced striking Italians in the mines and Italians ambushed a Polish party with stilettos.
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Wilkes-Barre
Hudson
Here
Radicals Gain in France Municipal Elections
Paris reports show the Radical and Radical Socialist parties scoring gains across France in municipal elections. They advanced at the expense of extreme Socialists and reactionary Nationalists, with the Nationalists losing 45,000 votes in Paris alone.
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Paris
Radical
France
Iowa Bank Cashier Drowned in Bridge Railing Crash
May 5 report from Ottumwa says R. E. Lowry, cashier of the Bank of Seymour, was killed when his team ran through a bridge railing during an electrical storm and the wagon fell into swollen creeks below.
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Iowa Bank
Ottumwa
R. E. Lowry
Bank of Seymour
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