Canadian train robber held after $29,000 loot tale
William Gibbs a 20 year old from Los Angeles allegedly robbed a Canadian national mail car near Chatham Ont. and Prairie Siding then rode the Windsor bound train while authorities hunted him. Police recovered $23,000 in cash and currency packages totaling 22 000 to 100 000. Gibbs waives extradition and is held in Windsor as investigators verify the loot.
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Detroit
William Gibbs
Los Angeles
Canadian National Mail
Windsor
Ont
Gibbs
Chatham
Prairie Siding
Crown
Detroit River
Nobo
Break leads to arrest in tram holdup claim
A quoted remark notes a suspect saying a tram had been stuck up and that the arrest followed from a minor break. The speaker claims the arresting officer did not understand the incident.
Six of First 16 Hart-Parr Tractors Still in Operation
Hart-Parr of Charles City, exclusive tractor builders, notes six of its first sixteen models from 1901 to 1903 remain in use. Exhibiting at the Dairy Cattle Congress are the 12-24 18-36 and 28-50 drawbar and belt tractors. Company plans factory expansion as demand grows.
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Hart-Parr Company
Charles City
David Ainsworth
Dairy’Cattle Congress
Ainsworth
Hart- Parr Company
World Series broadcasts to air on two radio networks
New York City Oct 3 radio fans will hear every World Series game broadcast by two networks. NBC will provide play by play with Graham McNamee Edmund Machold and Phillips Carlin at the mic while CBS assigns Maj J Andrew White and Tea Hessing. Stations in the eng broadcast include WHO Des Moines WOC Davenport and WOW Omaha.
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New York City
New York
WHO
Des Moines
WOC
Davenport
WOW
Omaha
Catch Check Passer in Knoxville Forgery Case
Earl Shoemaker 39 faced up to 10 years in Fort Madison prison for forging checks in Knoxville. Detected after five-year span, he was arrested in Kenosha Wisconsin and returned for trial.
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Knoxville
Earl Shoemaker
Fort Madison
Kenosha
Wis
Miner 81 Dies From Auto Crash Injuries
W F Miner age 81, a Linn county farmer for about 75 years, died from injuries suffered in a September 22 automobile accident in Cellar Rapids Indiana. He had been a longtime resident of the county and passed away yesterday.
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Cellar Rapids
W. F. Miner
Linn County
Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern expands with heavier rails
The Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern railroad announced a city wide expansion adding heavier rails of 85 pounds per yard from the prior 56. The project includes revamping yards in Litchfield addition, expanding track length by about a mile, and installing a heavy passing track on Albany Street to improve Chicago Great Western transfers and terminal handling.
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Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railroad
Chicago Great Western
Highland
Litchfield Addiiton
Albany Street
Newell Street
Track and bridge work advance in city improvements
The engineering department backs Westfield avenue track upgrades and a double track between W C F N lines and the Rock Island and Great Western lines in Water Top west. Filling the John Deere Tractor property low ground progresses quickly, with completion in about two months and removal of the 360 foot bridge once filling ends. Foundry waste is recycled as fill material.
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Newell Street
Davenport Secures Stationery Factory Plant in Davenport
Davenport Iowa October 3 the Davenport industrial commission announced that the main western plant of White and Wyckoff Manufacturing Co a Holyoke Massachusetts stationery concern will locate in Davenport occupying the old White Lily Manufacturing plant More than 100 workers will be employed at first with plans to grow to 800 to 1000 within five to ten years
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Davenport
White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Co
Holyoke
Mass
Davenport Industrial Commission
White Lily Manufacturing Company
Reed Extradited To Arkansas For 16 Year Old Murder
Joehn Reed 47 was arrested in Des Moines and taken to Paragould Arkansas to stand trial for the 16 year old murder of his wife after information from his son William 18 Marshalltown. Reed had been living under the alias Si Gibbs near Des Moines with a brother. Winthrop Garage Burns In Fire At Diggin Residence.
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Des Moines
Joehn Reed
William
Marshalltown
J. B. Farrell
Paragould
Ark
Reed
Si Gibbs
Winthrop Garage
Winthrop, Fa
John Diggins
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Immigration
J. Miller
Robert Drug Co
MecChane’s Pharmacy
Berg Drug Co
Panhandle Plains
Texas
Panhandle-Plains
Dairy Cattle Congress
Panhandle Plains of Texas, Inc
City Auditorium
Amarillo
Waterloo
White Sea
Omr
Iowa
White Sea Sun
White Sea Inn
the New
West Fourth St
Schulte Bldg
Black Hawk
Goodrich
Silvertowns
Silvertown
NEW Goodrich
Russell-Lamson Garage
Commercial St
Vulcanizing & Battery Service
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