Looting the Rock Island System Revealed in Report
The Interstate Commerce Commission outlines vast losses from Rock Island finances. It details bond issues, large director payments, and misrepresented assets. The report urges stronger regulation and holds directors accountable for dissipation of funds. Prosecutions may follow as justice decides next steps.
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Washingtons
Interstate ‘Omberce Commission
Puneral
Rock Is- Janik Railway Company
Howse
Green
Ninth Laws District
Rock Island
House
Jeaders
Congress
Denin
Groelkholdera
Petr
W. B. Leeds
D. Bb. Reid
W. H. Moore
J. H. Moore
Reid
Commission
Iowa
Ulinois
Middle West
Vinton Notes of Passing Interest
Funeral services for Maria Long are reported with details of her New Jersey birth in 1846 and later life in Illinois and Benton County. The piece also covers a highway collision near Bear Garrison, a pair of buggy accidents, a Chautauqua update, and a barber shop theft by a man using a union card under the name Jones.
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Vinton
Maria Long
Long
New Jersey
Illinals
Frank Lang
Benton County
N. Ft
Barber
Tommy Keagle
C.P. Harrison
Jones
Convict Hogan Wins Freedom After Habitual Crime Sentence
James Hogan, inmate at Fort Madison, stood in district court as the judge prepared to rule on his case against the warden. The decision would determine whether he would be freed or return to prison for another twenty five years under the habitual criminal act. Hogan, from Winneshiek County, reacted with visible emotion as the judge announced the liberty outcome, unable to speak clearly amid the crowded courtroom.
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Woaris
Anamoss
Mogsa
Tan
Eos
LY Mont
Watt
Hiw
Jaek
Hogan
Offles
Leltar
Fa Mogat
Petiton
Weber App Peared
Fort Madison
James Hogan
State Conitentiary
Winneshiek County
Grief Over War Drives Bavarian Page to Despair
Ernest Kuespert once served as cup bearer to Ludwig I and later joined the Prussian army before moving to America. Grief over relatives in the German army and news of their deaths is believed to have driven him to kill himself by gas in his boarding house, where he died after locking the door and turning on jets.
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Benest Gotlieb Waldinle
Erich von Kwyespert
Keokuk
Ernest Kuespert
Ludwig I
Bavaria
Weig
Munich
Kuespert
Ludwig
Ruespert
Ald Oeding
America
Herman Iofige
10. C. F
Policy suit over accidental death claim in Iowa case
Mrs. Thompson sues the Iowa State Traveling Men's Association for $5,000 after her husband Metcal Thompson died from alleged dental bridge injury. She argues his death in 1915 was accidental under his 1909 $35,000 policy. the association denied the claim in 1914 as not accidental. Des Moines, Aug. 18.
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Des Moines
William Albert Thompson
Maryland
Iowa State Travelingmen'’s Association
Thompson
Iowa
Town Stats Travelingmen’s Association
Corn Is Showing a Rapid Growth
Weekly bulletin from the Weather and Crop Service at Des Moines by Geo AL Chappel reports favorable week for belated farm work and rapid corn growth. Sunshine near normal, rainfall below average, warm days with cool nights, harvest largely finished except in southern counties. Shack threshing started, stacking progressed, northern counties showing heavy threshing returns.
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Town Weather and Crop Service
Des Moines
Geo. AL. Chappel
How Women Avoid Operations in Cleveland and Hanover
Advert reads how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased female troubles and avoided surgery for women in Cleveland Ohio and Hanover Pennsylvania. Mrs C H Griffin of Cleveland reports relief after years of pain and doctors having no remedy. Mrs Ada Wilt of Hanover says the preparation let her work again after severe illness. Letter to Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co promises confidential handling and personal reply.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lydia &. Pinkham
C. H. Grifriti
Constant
Hanover
Lydia B. Pinkham
Ada Wilt
Welnut St
Lydia
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Wilt Shar in Estate Leaves Davenport Women Rich
Davenport mourns the sudden Aug. death of Mrs Charles Garros Greene, once a leading New York soprano. Her will bequeaths $100,000 to Mrs Alice Dutton Atwill, her sister Mrs Kate Dutton of Bettendorf, and their nephew William A. Dutton, a former Davenport resident. The estate stems from Greene's marriage to Charles Burros-Greene, a New York businessman.
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Davenport
Alice Dutton Atwill
Tri-City
Msgs
Kate Dutton
Bettendorf
William A. Dutton
Charles Garros- Greens
Jennie Dutton
New York City
Paris
Greene
Tannersville
N. Y
Charles Burros-Greene
New York
Atwill
Widow Mrs Atwill Remains in New York After Death Report
News item notes the death of a sister and a foggy Monday in New York City. Mrs Atwill lived for fifteen years at a country home on Bettendor E bluffs overlooking the river and ran a piano studio for a large class of pupils.
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New York City
Howe
Atwilk
Bettendor E. Bluffs
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