Cox Will Get No Aid From Wilson
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson will stay largely out of the campaign for his successor. Cox has not invited Wilson to stump, and Wilson cites leg condition and proprieties as reasons not to campaign personally. Tumulty’s replies on Ireland are the only presidential input blamed on the White House.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterloo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
James M. Cox
Alcot
Joseph P. Tumulty
Pacific
Wilson
League and Ireland
Gov
Cox
Democratic National
White House
Kansas
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Farmers Savings Bank of Colesburg Sets High Interest Rates
The Farmers Savings Bank of Colesburg Iowa offers 5 percent interest on one year savings and 412 percent on six month deposits. The Colesburg district is among Iowa’s wealthiest, with a large corn crop and substantial small grain yield. Oil stock salesmen and packing plant promoters failed to absorb all county money.
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Manchester
Farmers Savings Bank of
Colesburg
Iowa
Delaware County
Bailiff H W Barker Dies After Street Car Accident
Sioux City Iowa Oct 5 W H Barker 911 Douglass St bailiff in district court died yesterday from injuries after being struck by a street car at Seventh and Pierce streets Sunday night He suffered skull base fracture and a compound fracture of the left leg He was thrown 25 feet and taken to Samaritan hospital in a partially conscious condition. A Missouri farmer mounted his automobile on a wheeled tractor frame to work his farm using the car’s rear wheels geared to the truck noting practical use of the pleasure vehicle as a replacement for horses.
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Sioux City
W. H. Barker
Douglass Street
Seventh
Pierce Streets
Samaritan Hospital
Missouri
Lanesboro Bank Robbers in Jail in Carroll County
Corliss Bruntlet and Cleo Moore two Glidden men are jailed in Carroll charged with robbing the Lanesboro Savings Bank Saturday noon. They allegedly confessed and recovered all the cash part hidden near the river. The capture followed a large search and chase that drew crowds from Glidden and Lanesboro.
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Glidden
Lanesboro
A Romance of the Forties Imposture in Iowa
Ham S. Johnson recounts an 1840s imposture in Iowa’s Buchanan county where a man posing as Bill Johnson and a woman posing as his daughter inspired a lynching, elopement, and a pistol duel before the bride’s recapture and the real Canadian patriot traced to New York state.
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Iowa
Ham S. Johnson
State Historical Society
Bill Johnson
Thousand Islands
St. Lawrence
Quasqueton
Buchanan County
Johnson
Dubuque
Kate
Peck
New York
Nine Hurt in Auto Accidents Near Iowa City
Two crashes near Iowa City injure nine people. Mrs Hutchinson suffers a fractured skull and broken bones on a Cedar county country road. Her son Ernest and husband also hurt. Albert Phelps family bruised and shocked. Miss Marty Cochrane drowned throat injuries and others to hospital. Cochrane expected to recover.
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Iowa City
G. &. Butchinson
Cedar County
Ernest
Albert Phelps
Marty Cochrane
Herman Myers
Meyers
Civil War Discharges Recorded at Allison
County recorder recorded two Civil War discharges in a week brought by Jacob Hickle of Clarksville, age over 80, marking the first such records in 45 years. The article also notes P F Dalley’s six acre apple orchard west of Allison with yields near 1000 bushels and trees yielding unusually. he owns 130 acres where he has lived 63 years.
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Angon
Jacob Hickle
Hickle
Clarksville
P. FL. Dalley
Allison
Union
Dalley
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Cerns
Niler
Don Sung
Imo
Barrett-Durger Co
Columbia Ride
Indianapolis
Ind
E. 5Th ST
Phove Black
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