Lure of Travel Draws Farmer to Newsboy Job in Court
James F. Collins 68 left his Iowa Colorado Minnesota holdings and nine children to work as a newsboy on the Minneapolis St. Louis line. He returned home after months away, sparking his wife Annie Collins 58 to sue for separate maintenance and a court injunction to keep him from interfering with the homestead. The case, Annie Collins vs James P. Collins, unfolds in district court with heated testimony and court admonitions to proceed.
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Farmer
Fort Dodge
James F. Coles
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Iowa
Colorado
Minesota
Collins
Ain
Annie Collins
James P. Collins
Franklin County War Nurse Weds World War Vet in Geneva
Miss Oith Clock, Franklin County’s first war nurse and sole woman in the George A. Aldinger post of the American Legion, marries Floyd R. Miller of Decatur in Geneva. Clock, daughter of I J H Clock, studied at Lake University and the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Miller, an Equitable Life Insurance agent in New York with Decatur ties, is a Millikin graduate and former commissioned officer.
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Hampton
Missoith
American Conservatory of Music
Chicago
Miller
Equitable Life Insurance Company of
New York
Decatur
Millikin Universiy
Sigma Alpha Ipsilon
Ervice
Body of Vinton Boy to Arrive Soon from France
Vinton Indiana May 21 Mr and Mrs Chas Waddle have learned the body of their son who died in service in France is en route home and will arrive soon. The local American Legion post will conduct the funeral and a full military service will be held. Leo’s is the first Vinton boy to die in the war.
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Vinton Boy
France
Vinton, In
Firs
Chas. Waddle
Vinton
Roral Legion Postill
Leo
Vinten Beys
Musician From Band Buried In Toul After Death
France to be returned home for a musician who died on December 5 1919 and was buried at Toul. The article notes his band membership and requests repatriation of his remains.
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France
Toul
Town Man Charged with Big Oil Fraud
Davenport Iowa May 21 War ing Thomas formerly of this city was arrested and charged with a confidence game that fleeced hundreds and more than 100000 He waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury at Lewiston Idaho He had been released recently from a Chicago hospital and has shown declining health Physicians say Thomas allegedly organized the Thomas Petroleum Syndicate to develop oil lands in Oklahoma but it is said the company masked swindling operations.
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Davenport
Waring Thomas
Grand
Lewiston, Til
Thomas
Chicago
Thomas Petroleum Syndicate
Oklahoma
Foley's Honey and Tar Advertisement Endorsed
A testimonial from John G. Hekking of Passaic New Jersey praises Foley's Honey and Tar for fast relief of bronchial trouble and related anxiety. The ad asserts the product loosens mucus clears passages eases hoarseness and tickling throat and claims widespread availability.
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Foley
John G. Hekking
Burgess Place
Passaic
N. J
Woley
Untitled line from Imoia and Iowa venture claim
Thomas alleges a fraudulent farming venture bilking over $100 000 from farmers in Imoia and Iowa and states he personally lost 15000 in the deal.
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Imoia
Iowa
Thomas
Bors Fds
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