Rathbun in Anamosa Prison Amid Storm of Controversy
Anamosa Iowa April 26 prisoners know No 8711 Rathbun a long term inmate who learns tailoring and endures scrutiny from authorities. He mocks pardons and focuses on sewing calico uniforms while facing a life plus ten year sentence. He claims pressure and duress from attorney Bert Johnson and state agent Jim Risden forced his confession and parental coercion.
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Anamosa
Anamosa Reformatory
Harner
James Risden
Sil Sa Smpst Halibun
Ida Grove
Rathbun
Havner
Harding
Rioux City
Bert Johnson
Johnson
Jim Risdan
Sioux City
Hell
Risden
City official weighs county engineer post with $3000 salary
Des Moines reports John Budd, streets superintendent, considering resigning to become county engineer but will not accept unless salary exceeds 3000 dollars annually. The current city council salary is 3000, Budd draws that as a council member. An adjacent notice advertises a farm accounting outfit for 1918 from Waterloo Evening Courier.
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Des Moines
John Budd
Budd
Olive Tablets Offer Gentle Constipation Relief
Dr. Edwards promotes Olive Tablets as a calomel substitute for constipation and torpid liver. The sugar coated olive colored tablets are a non laxative force that stimulates normal bowel and liver action without griping. Many use one or two nightly to maintain regularity and a bright mouth. Available in 6¢ and 25¢ boxes at druggists.
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Edwards
Dr. Edwards
Wobbles Bank Account Aids Prisoner Releases
The I W W branch in Chicago reports a fund of 16 dollars on deposit used to propose 10 000 dollars for securing releases from prisons for order members. The convention authorized financing for organizers sent to oil fields in Kansas Oklahoma Texas mining areas of Utah fruit districts of California. Sioux City seen as national headquarters with one woman delegate present whose identity remained private. She appeared refined about 40 and known to leaders.Blows City, Ia April 26. the lo 00
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Chicago
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Utah
California
Sioux City
Blows City
Cherokee to pave cemetery road as sample of highway work
Cherokee Iowa April 26 Preparations for paving the cemetery road under a bill approved by the legislature, to be supervised by the state highway commission, with a 37000 dollar appropriation after initial requests for 40000. The project aims to connect hospital lands line to elev nth street, a 625 foot stretch, to serve as a model paved highway. Meanwhile Clarksville reports over four carloads of eggs purchased this month by the Clarksville Produce company, worth six thousand dollars per car, aiding Victory bond funds as four men sort and repack for shipment.
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G. F. Coburn
State Highway Commission
Cherokee
Eleventh Street
Iowa
Clarksville
Clarksville Produce Company
Iowa to Compile Complete World War Roster History
Des Moines April 26 lawmakers pass bill to create a detailed official history of Iowa’s World War participation. The roster will list each Iowa soldier sailor and marine with records from adjutant general and federal sources, plus casualty lists and honors. A $20,000 appropriation funds multiple volumes with 10 000 copies each for libraries and organizations.
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Des Moines
Thirty-eighth General Assembly
House
Senate
J. A. Williams
Pottawattamig County
Iowa
Gov
Harding
Adj
Lasher
Frank Lyman
Adjutant General’s Office
War Department
Washington
Navy Department
United States
State Executive Council
Little Town Not Afraid of High Paving Prices
The late town of Harey in O Brien county has let a contract for 300000 dollars worth of street paving at 2.72 dollars per square yard for asphaltic concrete. The bid on ordinary asphalt was nearly as high as asphaltic concrete. More than a million dollars worth of road work is being done in O Brien county this year.
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Harey
O Brien County
O'Brien
Newton Women Miss Elizabeth Edmundson Funeral Record
Miss Elizabeth Edmundson died aged about seventy and asked no publicity for her illness or age. Funeral services were held from her sister Miss Freda’s residence in Newton, where she had lived most of her life. She helped lay out Jasper county and Newton, owning land tied to the first county fair.
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Newton, Ja
Elizabeth Edmundson
Freda
Newton
Miss Edwardson
Herather
Jas County
Jasper County
Mr. Edmundson
City
America
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