State to Spend 456000 on Iowa Institution Buildings
Des Moines reports the state board of control will allocate 456,577 for immediate building at the state institutions from legislative appropriations. Plans cover around a hundred structures with contracts to be let. details list costs by location including Mount Pleasant and Glenwood projects and remaining funds from prior appropriations.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Dearinosa Sx Cay
Mitchell Ville
Ncceesen
Nccesinds
Mount Pleasant
Cwwarinda
Eldora
Mitchellville
Palm House
Breenhouse
Lane Fe
Fort Madison
Virton
Council
Glenwood
Marshalltown
Davenport
Anamosa
Ninth Corn Belt Editorial session in Le Mars
The ninth annual session was held in Le Mars with Sioux City Mayor E Weattwett delivering a Pioneer Newspapering in Iowa address. A business session featured papers read and discussed, a city tour, and a Washington hall banquet with toast program. Next year’s meeting will be in Sioux City. Ford Reichman was elected president KE. W. Caldwell secretary and D. O. Stone treasurer.
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Corn Belt Editorial Association
le Mars
E.weattwett
Sioux City
Pioneer
Iowa
Washington Hall
Ford Reichman
KE. W. Caldwell
D. O. Stone
Hawarden
Tragic Train Collision Kills Woman and Infant in Cedar Falls Incident
Mrs. Herbert Heskett and her baby died after a passenger train struck a baby carriage on an Illinois Central trestle near Cedar Falls. Mrs. Heskett, returning from a funeral, traveled with two companions. one escaped onto a timber while the other leaped from the trestle.
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Ilinois Central
Cedar Falls
Herbert Heskett
Heskett
National Bank Reserves and Specie Report for Iowa
The April 30 report to the comptroller of the currency shows Iowa banks with an average reserve of 26.65 percent, down from 28.20 percent in February. Loans and discounts rose from 88,148,459 to 66,874,756, gold coin increased from 1,782,874 to 2,117,168, total specie grew from 18,167,940 to 3,486,911, lawful money reserve from 4,912.72 to 5,318,785, and individual deposits surged from 5,648,434 to 65,746,322.
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National Banks of
Towa
Dees Moines
Jury at Shenandoah sentences three in Wabash murder case
The jury found Wesley Irwin guilty of murder in the second degree and handed down life terms. Edward Dennis also received a life sentence for the same crime. Eugene Mason was acquitted, while Oscar Miller was the victim in the December shooting at a Wabash landing house.
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Shenandoah
Wesley Irwin
Oscar Miller
Wabash
Edward Dennis
Eugene Mason
Woman Tries Suicide Over Love Triangle in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Mary Jands, distraught over an affair with a married man, leaped before a switch engine in Cedar Rapids. A brakeman's quick intervention saved her. she was taken to the police station and threatens further self harm if denied the relationship.
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Mary Jands
Cedar Rapids
Crop Outlook From Washington Weather Bureau Iowa Report
The weekly crop report notes unusually warm weather with heavy showers over most of Iowa. It cites damage from washing and floods in limited areas, delayed corn planting in the northeast, some replanting, and overall fairly good crop conditions. Grass and small grains show rapid growth in much of the state.
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Washington Weather Bureau
Iowa
News in Brief from Des Moines and Surrounding Areas
Obituaries report the deaths of Noah Brookway Beacon at 102 and a longtime U S Express agent J B Kisselle in Dubuque. A temperance convention convened in Dubuque with 200 delegates and library bids in Marshalltown were rejected for being over budget. Ottumwa reports ghouls raiding John O Donnell's funeral home with the corpse of A J Raymond found. no arrests. Elizabeth Colescott Clarkson dies in Des Moines at 82 after two days illness. Rock Island train derailment injures several Grinnell and Iowa City students returning from Des Moines. Daniel B Walthall and wife celebrate 50th wedding anniversary at Iowa Falls. Louise post office in Black Hawk county discontinued. mail to Laporte City. Crockerrigade reunion set for Muscatine September 24–25, 1902.
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Noah
Des Moines
Rock Island
Grinnell
Iowa City
Daniel B. Walthall
Iowa Falls
Louise
Black Hawk County
Laporte City
Muscatine
Vicksburg Trip Reveals War Cemetery Secrets and Guns
A veteran recounts visiting Vicksburg with W. S. Browning to locate his brother's grave and those of 24 others from the 25th Iowa. He describes the national cemetery records, markers, and the battlesite terrain, noting Whistling Dick and Crawford's battery battles, plus local history and the river changes.
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W.S. Browning
Winfield
St. Louis
Gulf
Illinois Central
Vicksburg
Company A
J. M. Patterson
Patterson
Lexington
R. B. White
Max Patterson
Landgraver
C. W. Payne
WB. Browning
Henry County
Iowa
Thomas O’shea
Gen. Lawton
O’shea
Geronimo
J.W. Dickey
Vick’s Landing
Mississippi
Young’s Point
Centennial Lake
Grant’s
Yazoo
Piazza
Browning
Confederate Works
Lady Davis
Baby Davis
Grant
Will Payne
Bill Browning
Old Dick
J. W. Whippo
Company B
Lee
Crawford
Alex Lee
Tenth Wedding Anniversary Surprise at Williams Home
Rev and Mrs Rolland Williams observed their tenth wedding anniversary with a surprise party at their Ainsworth residence on Monday evening. Friends from Cotter Bethel and Ainsworth attended, bringing refreshments and gifts of kitchen tinware and money as tokens of appreciation.
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Rolland Williams
Ainsworth
Cotter
Bethel
D L Baird Heads to Fairfield on Wednesday
D L Baird traveled to Fairfield on Wednesday according to local notes in the column.
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D. L. Baird
Fairfield
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Byers
Ames College
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McKinley
Canton
William McKinley
G. S. Gilbertson
Noah Brockaway Bacon
Westmoreland
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Wisconsin
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Daniel F. Bradley
Town College
Andover Theological Seminary
Eastern College
Davis
Marion
Monroe
Oak Story Tenner Pi Hey
Taylor
van Buren
Renee
ASU
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Warne One
Warren
Eine
Corn Belt Editors
Train
Marion Crawford
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Vedev
Saenese
Thomas Jeffers
Edgars
John F Cating
Chas
O. Johnson
Godrick
R. I Herke
Geo T. Jones
Ae Wim. Johnston Ria
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Ewes
Neal Ee
Hoyt
Ae Patterson
Ous
Marion Swinford
Ruben Shiffer
Doe W.H. Shields
George Thompsonee
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