Con man Gleason arrested saving $10,000 bond
Davenport Iowa reports 64 year old C J Gleason, alias Connie, a suspected confidence man, was arrested with bond of $10,000 after a months long manhunt. He allegedly fleeced Henry Kathy of Muscatine for $10,000 in a planted stock broker scheme in Peoria.
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C. J
Connie
Bryson
Engand
France
Germany
Gleason
Europe
Belmont Hotel
New York
Moline
Kath of
Peoria
Kath
Rath
Longtime Principal Is Given Lighter Work
Cedar Rapids Iowa August 18 Miss Abbie S Abbott veteran principal of Washington high school was reassigned as mathematics instructor at Polk school with a 2100 salary. The board stated her pay reflects past service rather than current duties and that she requested relief from great responsibility.
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Cedar Rapids
Abbie S. Abbott
Washington High School
Board of Education
Polk School
Polk
Miss Abbott
Emigrant caravan nears Chicago on long cross country trip
From New York to Buhl Ida the advance party of a 25 car caravan and 30 families travels by army trucks and gas schooners. Delays from rain push arrival southward with three days behind schedule. General Scott leads the expedition amid bungalows and alfalfa lands, while losses include a $20000 security bag and a robbery of a secretary.
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Altho
Chicago
Buhl
Brooklyn
Scott
Schenectady
Marshalltown
New York
Ida
Sixtieth Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
Iowa
Clinton
Peter Vanderbutt
Reveile
General Scott
George A. Custer
Winchester Arms Company
Matt Soldin
Jesse O- Eastman
Buhi
Executive Council Resists Railroads Tax Raise Evasion
Des Moines reports the attorney general's office preparing to fight state cases brought by railroads and two major telephone companies to block fuel assessment increases. Temporary injunctions were served after certification, leading council members and the AG to expect dismissal at the federal hearing for a permanent injunction.
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Executive Council
Des Moines
Attorney General's Office
State Executive Council
Mississippi Paper Denies Pellagra Epidemic
Clippings from the Brookhaven Leader and a Columbus dispatch refute claims that pellagra is rampant in the South or that large parts of the population suffer famine. They note only six pellagra cases in Lowndes County Mississippi, per the dispatch.
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Brookhaven
Mra. C. M. Reeves
Austinville
Lowndes County
Miss
Columbus Dispatch
Health conditions in Panola County amid pellagra talk
Indianola reports malady confined largely to the colored race and possibly worse than last year. Officials cite improved overall health conditions while panic over famine rumors persists in Panola County.
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Panola County
Indianola
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