Emerson Murder Case Trials Focus On Insanity Defense
Mount Ayr Iowa June 30 A Creston Ringgold county murder case centers on whether Charles Emerson’s son will be deemed insane to escape the hangman His attorneys and experts prepare to argue mental incapacity amid conflicting theories including epileptic fits and a brain injury and the state seeks a guilty verdict with trial set in Ringgold county. Emerson 37 with a 12-year mental age is debated by doctors and lawyers as to responsibility. The defense may seek commitment to Anamosa if found insane, and the case brings in Judge Mitchell with local legal aides and Emerson’s wife vowing support.
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Mount Ayr
Creston
Ringgold
Charles Emerson
Emerson
Young Amerson
Himerson
Ringgold County
J. W. Coakley
Anamosa
W. B. Mitchell
Council Bluffs
Hmerson
Thomas L. Maxwell
Kenneth Dayen
E. L. Carroll
D. Wrigbee
Homer A. Fuller
Winter
Roy
Manchester Youth Killed by High Tension Wire Accident
Herman Young, about 21, was killed Saturday near Ryan while working on a new telephone line for Delaware County. An inquest found accidental death after he likely slipped and touched a charged conductor. colleagues cut the line to recover his body as officials offered aid.
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Manchester
Herman Young
Town Electric Company
Ryan
Delaware County Telephone Company
TD. Brown
Log Cabin Erected in Tama City Park Hopes
Tama Iowa June 20 The civic improvement league plans a log cabin in the city park to be used by Boy Scouts and similar groups. The trees for the cabin come from the cemetery and were donated by the city council. Great Patterson Shows Roloth Cedar River park promotes week starting Monday July 7.
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Tama
Civic Improvement League
Boy Scouts
Patterson
Roloth
Cedar River Park
Great Patterson
Bolo Club
Farmer Pays 6300 to Rent Back His Farm for Week
Newton Iowa June 30 H C Battles of Clear Creek township Jasper county paid more than 6300 to learn his farm’s value and to live on it for a week. He had sold 254 acres to G L Rumbaugh at 300 an acre and then repurchased at 325 an acre after surveying nearby farm prices.
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Newton
H. C. Battles
Clear Creek Township
Jasper County
G. L. Rumbaugh
G. L. Rumbaugh For the Sum of $300 An Acre. He Then Told Mr. Rumbaugh
Battles
Mitchellville
Colfax
Ceremonial Fourth Degree Exemplar Planned in Dubuque
Davenport Iowa June 30 prominent Knights of Columbus from across the state will gather in Dubuque Sunday October 12 for an exemplification of the fourth degree the highest honorary rank. Joe Dougherty Iowa master says the event marks a return after requests since the 1918 Sioux City gathering and aligns with Columbus Day a legal holiday in three states.
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Davenport
Knights of Columbus
Dubuque
Joe J. Dougherty
Iowa
Sioux City
Dougherty
America
Berries Mean Money in Southeastern Iowa
Keokuk Iowa June 30 The Montrose bank has paid over 40000 to owners of strawberry farms in the area this season An even larger sum has been paid in Nauvo across the river Dealers ran out of shipping crates leading to thousands in losses Farmers salvaged unsent berries by supplying their own containers and picking them up Great Patterson Shows under Bolo club Cedar River park plus community notices from First Congregational Church and Rainbow Boys chaplain share the page
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Keokuk
Montrose
Nau‘yoo
Rainbow Boys
First Congregational Church
Blanket Sorrow Forbids Jubilee In East Dubuque
East Dubuque Iowa saw a quiet wet Saturday night as thousands visited the Illinois side for the last pre Prohibition Eve. Police kept order with few arrests while saloonmen planned a Monday reopening and big shipments of “wet goods” were anticipated.
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East Dubuque
John Barleycorn
Dubuque
Fourth Street
Toledo to vote on bonds to extend water system
Toledo voters face a special election on a bonding plan to rehabilitate and expand the municipal water system. A July or August date is possible, with the library proposition and the State Orphans Home likely to be voted on then. The State Board of Control designated Toledo as the site for the new orphan's home on former Leander Clark college grounds. The dedication is set for July 4 as part of Tama county Soldiers and Sailors homecoming events.
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Toledo
State Orphans’ Home
State Board of Control
Leander Clark College
Tama County
Soldiers and Sailors
Lincoln 18 Building Waterworks and Bank in Lincoln
Lincoln La June 30 Among current city improvements a waterworks system is under construction with a drilled well to supply the town. The project costs about 8500 and a new home for Lincoln Savings Bank is excavated and slated as fireproof and modern at roughly 38000.
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Lincoln
Lincoln Savings Bank
Old Poke named business head at Davenport Times
Davenport Iowa June 30 Al O Hern publisher and editor of The Caravel now becomes business manager of the Daily Times. He has served in all editorial posts and is known as Old Poke from his days as sporting editor.
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Poke
Davenport Times
Davenport
al. O'Hern
Rescue from Drowning in Cedar River at Tama
Miss Lyle Shaffer, Cornell college student, nearly drowned in the Cedar River near Tama after stepping into a hole while bathing. Rescuers Ivan Hedges and Merrill Torrance pulled her from the water only once she was unconscious.
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Tama
Lyle Shaffer
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Cedar River
Miss Shaffer
Ivan Hedges
Merrill Torrance
Ivan
Colored girl earns first Simpson College degree
Leta Jusagita White, Indianola, becomes the first colored student to receive a degree from Simpson College. She completed with the class of 19a, after a junior recital in her first semester and a noted senior revital during commencement week. White is the daughter of Martha F. White.
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Indianola
Leta
Jusagita White
Simpson College
Midgerton Hall
Miss. White
Indianola High School
Martha F. White
1 F.C. W
Voters in Polk and Tama Counties weigh road proposal
Des Moines area voters decide on a hard surface roads measure that would yield thirteen million dollars for paving if approved in both Polk and Tama counties, while Story County voters oppose. Bond issues are also on ballots in the two counties.
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Des Moines
Supe Su
Polk
Tama
Story County
Dressmaker Saved From Operation in Ithaca
Mrs. Per Milla of 218 E Fall St Ithaca New York recounts severe right side pains of three years with leg and back pain, diagnosed as an abscess, bed rest, and impending surgery. After six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovered, works as a dressmaker, and highly endorses the remedy for female trouble. May use her name.
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Mrs. Permilla
E. Fall St
Ithaca
Lydia E. Pinkham
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