Pure Food Laws Highlight Iowa Prosecutions
Des Moines reports that Iowa dairy and food prosecutions have risen since 1906 with most cases involving careless handling rather than deliberate deception. Commissioner Barney notes that major manufacturers have stopped using injurious substances, while negligent producers still face action.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Dairy and Food Department
Department
Barney
Towa
Thei Lown
Local Notes From Clarksville and Surrounding Areas
Clarksville reports on residents visiting relatives. Ed Labmon suffered a severe appendicitis episode. Miss Rose Wedeking becomes phone operator replacing Misa Lina Wameley. Twenty one readers share church and communal events including a Presbyterian guild supper raising funds. Several residents travel for visits, teaching appointments, or family matters with minor health notes and weather mentions.
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Clarksville
FM. Ramsey
Green
M. S. Kline
Waterloo
M. J. Johnson
Ed Labmon
Presbyterian Guild
Jake Hickle
New Church Fund
Glenn Rowley
Union
M. E
Christian Church
S. Stevens
Waverly
Ada Taylor
Nancy Taylor
Ruben Ray
Ionia Bs Auto
M. A. Taylor
Donald
Delwe
Roha
Hester
Axtell
Strawberry Point
Katie Gilbert
John Hickle
Misaen Blanche
Gladys Amatiazan
McAllister
Okla
Howard King
Cassville
Viet
J. F. King
Roxey Neal
Mt. Vernon
Roy Marquand
Rosalie Talbert
Gretchen
Shell Rock Thursoo
Pastor Jailed for Libel Prompted Wife to Scrub
Boston reports Rev. Edgar E. Bayliss, pastor of a Somerville Congregational church, jailed for three months over a $250 libel fine. His wife Elizabeth Bayliss, 62, works as a scrub-woman and laundress to support themselves, often at congregants’ homes, while funds are raised to pay the fine. Local clergy and supporters plan to cover the penalty.
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Boston
Elizabeth Bayliss
Edgar E. Bayliss
Somerville
Bayliss
John Woods
Woods
Conrad
Park Street
Real Estate Transfers and a Bat Sighting in Waterloo
Real estate transfers in Cedar Falls and Waterloo include Cornell college to L. Crum, $31,600. Santee to Rasmussen $1. Bruner to Rasmussen $1. Illingworth to Elizabeth McWilliams $1. Risk to Lois Carlisle $3,600. Purdy to the public and Liffring $1. Cedar Valley Development to Jago $1,606. Kendall to Gateway-Gibson $1. Cranston to Brink $950. A janitor at First M.E. church, O. J. Conrey, found a large gray bat with two suckling young at his home, 614 Randolph, and expects to relocate them.
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Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Arley E. Cherney
Manson
Waterloo
Anne L. Purdy
John D. Liffring
Cedar Valley Development Co
John C. Jago
Pleasant View
Edwin W. Kendall
Galloway-Gibson Investment Co
Prospect Hills
George Cranston
Henry Brink
Riehl
O. J. Conrey
M.es
Randolph Street
The One Who et Hurt
A fragment shows a courtroom style exchange where a question about a husband’s involvement elicits a defensive reply. Mrs. Firmgilt denies wrongdoing and explains the husband’s act was simply to draw a check for cheeses.
Construction of a Business Block at Fourth and Washington
Large Boulder Unearthed During Excavation for a block to be erected by Congressman E Pickett at Fourth and Washington on the old Bamberger property. The basement stone weighs about 7 206 pounds, with foundation walls planned at 40 by 80 feet. The two story building will have ground floor store rooms facing Fourth street and living rooms upstairs. Bernbrock and Sibert plan to lease the corner room for a branch laundry. The project, built solidly, signals a significant investment and will alter the historic Bamberger home site once a city showplace.
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E. Pickett
Fourth
Washington Streets
Bkambergar
Fourth Street
Bernbrock & Sibert
Bamberger
Iowa
Hudson Social News and Wedding at Knudsen Home
In Hudson on June 27 social updates include Martha Schiefelbein’s Chicago visit, Grace Marie Knudsen’s wedding to Le Roy Joils of Waterloo, and local guests. Articles note illnesses, vacations, garden and ball game activities, dances, club meetings, a Wade family funeral, and a sale notice for 20 shares of Tow a Mausoleum Company stock.
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Webster City
Jeder
R. EB. Hallick and Son
Waterloo
J. C. Knudsen
Grace Marie Knudsen
le Roy Joils
E. Sbodenham
The
Baptist Church
Bertha
Mary Borer
Carl Mastain
U. R
Maude Knudsen
Lois Starr
Starland Wood
Walter Ritchey
Delhi
J. Shimer
St. Paul
Shimer
Dan Gutknecht
Wisconsin
Hudson Boys
Chris. Struddle
Gutknecht
A. F. Joder
Iva Seufferlein
Storm Lake
Tom Cummings
W. G. Straver
Montana
Bmre
R. H. Pyres
Fedfern
W. J. Gutknecht
Carl Schaffer
Jocer
Gen
Johnson
Joder
Martin Grady
Towa Mausoleum Company
4Cas Bank
Manning
Iowa
Millionaires Face Arrest in Jewelry Smuggling Case
New York reports reveal a scheme involving a New York broker and banker, a Wisconsin feather goods maker, and a Tennessee coal merchant in smuggling Mrs. Helen Dwella Jenkins jewelry valued at $300,000 from Paris. Customs officials probe possible complicity and multiple officers are said to be paid for lax inspections as District Attorney Wise weighs indictments.
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New York
Helen Dwella Jenkins
Chicago
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Paris
Loeb
United States
Wise
New Yorker
North Waterloo eyes private water works at Fort Dodge
Illinois Central plans a private water works near the Bobtown bridge at Fort Dodge, with an estimated high cost but a $5,000 yearly saving for the railroad and a corresponding loss to the city. The North Waterloo item also notes staff changes at the store department and local social updates.
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Iltnois Central
Fort Dodge
Bobtown Bridge
W. T. McGuire
Chicago
North End
F. R. Doxey
I. G
Iowa Falls
Harry Nauman
Dubuque
Waterloo
R. B. Downing
Rose & Downing
Downing
I. C
New Orleans
Fd. Reilly
Hmliness Central Service
Reilly
W. D. Stokes
W. A. Atwell
Chapman
North
Illinois Central Opens Educational Bureau for Employees
Illinois Central announces a new educational bureau to advance employes. D. C. Buell will head the bureau, which aims to promote internal promotions, improve skill, and prepare workers for higher posts. Programs include telegraph training and a four week Chicago course starting July 15, 1912, with applications and physicals required.
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Bureau
Chicago
Wyeth Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Youthful Hair
Darkens hair restoring youthful beauty and may stop dandruff and hair loss. Promoted by H W Taggart as special agent at 37 Commercial Street with a money back guarantee. Available at druggists for fifty cents a bottle.
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Wyeth
H. W. Taggart
Commercial Street
Waterlooan Jailed at Freeport Illinois
Freeport Illinois June 28 Fred Kephardt and a man named Moore were arrested Monday evening on a warrant from Ralph Heneke alleging stolen revolvers razors and clothing from Waterloo Town Heneke and an accompanying friend traced them to Freeport and authorities detained them over night A preliminary hearing led to Moore being released for lack of evidence while Kephardt was bound over to the September grand jury in 250 bond and jailed when unable to post it
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Freeport
Ill
Fred Kephardt
Moore
Ralph Heneke
Waterloo
Heneke
Kephardt
Hencke
Quest
Daughters Cured by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Baltimore letter tells of Alice a fifteen year old cured after three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The note from Mrs L A Corgran of Baltimore praises the treatment once doctors diagnosed Green Sickness. The company reports many letters like this and urges anxious mothers to write for advice.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
L. A. Corgkran
Hutland Street
Lynn
Mass
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F. Q. Brown
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Los Angeles
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Ore
Fred Seitz
Portland
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Pickett
Hudson
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Ilinois Central Railroad
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Union Pacific Railroad
Parks
Illinois Central Railroad
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Union Pacific
Bureaya
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Freeport, Ill
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Standard Oil Company Tincorporated
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F. Hayes
Waterloo, Ia
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