Indictments Near Mason City Highlight Multiple Cases
Mason City Iowa September grand jury returns indictments for Tony Skarlis on an attempted statutory offense against Carmel Cabello and for Fred Rastedt in an attempted murder case involving Lefa Shaffer. Other charges include Doc Phillips for falsifying instruments and Atchie Burgess for forgery. C D Whipperman and Rufus Hovel are also named in separate indictments for auto bandit activity and related forgery charges.
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Mason City
Tony Skartis
Carmel Cabello
Northwestern Cement Cottage No. d
Skarks
Tom Capolis
Jasper
Hej
Cabello
Carmel
Skarlis
Peter Haikalis
Tony Skarlis
Fred Rastedt
Lefa Shaffer
Doc” Phillips
Phillips
W R. Cothern
Insane Asylum
E Atchie Burgess
J. &. &. Markley
C. D. Whipperman
St. Paul
Rufus Hovel
Meeting to Discuss Iowa State Park Sites and Themes
Des Moines reports a conference called by Dr. L H Fammel president of the state board of conservation. The Sept 24 and 25 meeting at the state historical building aims to gather information on Iowa park plans and related topics. Officials in park establishment maintenance or acquisition are urged to attend.
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Des Moines
L. H. Fammel
State Board of Conservation
Iowa
Pammel
Fish and Game Department
Elderly minister struck by train in Iowa city
Rev. J. F. Chamberlin aged 67 was struck by a northbound Burlington train in Princeton Iowa after driving onto the track. He survived long enough to be taken to Agatha hospital in Clinton with a broken leg a broken arm and a fractured skull. He had planned to visit a son in Muscatine and had lived in Davenport and Iowa City. He was a longtime church worker and speaker with ties to several denominations. The Canton China section notes Canton as a principal inland port inland from Hong Kong with rail and water routes and ranks third in foreign trade behind Shanghai and Dairies.
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Princeton
F. Chamberlin
Burlington
Chamberlin
Agatha Hospital
Clinton
Church of God
Canton
South Kina
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Daires
Arithmetic Class Computes Materials For West High Building
In a classroom exercise at West High, students calculate cement 8,000,000 pounds and crushed rock 20,000,000 pounds plus sand 22,900,000 pounds needed for the new Fifth and Locust street school. Bricks total 2,203,000 with various types, laid end to end would span about 287 miles.
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West High
Willie Brown
West High School
Fifth and Locust Streets
Willie
Waterloo
Chicago
Association names new board members
Three new directors were elected to the International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association from five candidates. Elected: George C. Aydiott Nebraska Robert Morningstar Chicago and Ralph Bingham Philadelphia who succeeds himself. Officers elected without opposition: William H. Stout Indianapolis president Wallace Bruce Amsbury Chicago vice president Louis Runner Chicago secretary Paul H. Kemerer Carlston Q treasurer Business sessions concluded this morning. Two English electricians invented an automatic switch to cut off current from electric motors in mines if deadly fire damp is present.
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International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association
George C. Aydiott
Nebraska
Robert Morningstar
Chicago
Ralph Bingham
Philadelphia
Association
William H. Stout
Indianapolis
Wallace Bruce
Amsbury
Louis Q. Runner
Paul H. Kemerer
Carl ‘Rolston
Break Window of Store Steals Jewelry in Des Moines
Thieves shattered the Metropolitan Jewelry store window with a brick at about 5 a m Sunday and fled with over 1500 dollars in watches rings and a gold mesh bag. The heist mirrors a prior break in within a year. Proprietor Benjamin L Zaxat confirmed insurance coverage and notified police.
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Des Moines
Metropolitan Jewelry
Benjamin L. Zaxat
Zaxat
Paralysis After Dentist Visit Shocks Davenport Family
Davenport Iowa Sept 20 Mr and Mrs Arthur Breiter of 101% West Seventh Street Davenport were summoned to Clinton Indiana after learning Mrs Peter Nicholson died following a stroke of paralysis while in a dentist chair Nicholson a Cedar Rapids area resident had travelled to Clinton for a tooth extraction She died Thursday night at her daughter Minnie Hayes home in Clinton Also reported New Virginia twin children two years old died after a haystack fire trapped them in a barn four miles southeast of town Parents are Mr and Mrs D Foreman of New Virginia Sept 20 193? local report
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Davenport
Arthur Breiter
West Seventh Street
Clinton
Peter Nicholson
Calmanche
Minnie Hayes
New Virginia
D. Foreman
Deserter Surrenders Near Starvation in Atlantic
Ralph A. Shook alleged deserter from Camp Grant Illinois surrenders to officers in Atlantic Iowa nearly famished after alighting from a Rock Island train. He is held awaiting a guard to escort him back. Ray Carter another alleged deserter refused to accompany him.
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Atlantic
Ralph A. Shook
Camp Grant
Shook
Rock Island
Ray Carter
Escape plan halted as two prisoners flee parole
Prisoners Shook and Carter fled from a camp prison while on parole without guards. Shook, 18, from Company G Sixteenth machine gun battalion, claims Carter proposed the escape. Carter, 21, attached to the field artillery, was sentenced for stealing government property and selling it, with a possible fif teen year term.
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Shook
Carter
Battali
G. iCarter
Field
Victrola Question Mentioned as Their “Other”
A fragment notes a Victrola being described as their “other” item in a broader context. The line implies a comparison or alternative to a primary object, but lacks further details on who speaks or the setting.
Great Western Payroll Figures At Oelwein
The Great Western railroad payroll for August shows a local employment total of 273,901.78 dollars and a terminal payroll of 41,674.56 dollars, with grand total wages for local train crews and staff approaching 400,000 dollars. Social notes report obsequies for Richard Campbell and marriages and social arrivals around Oelwein, Maynard, and Dubuque, plus a Philadelphia hospital aid innovation and local school officers elected for the coming year.
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Oelwein
Septaldia
Chicago, Great Western Railroad
Smen
Richard Campbell
West
Lf Qelweth
Rairbank
Waddings
Misa Cecelia Johnson
Yg M. Sulu
Bisw Tnah Kraft
Oet Pweth
Leroy Hinkle
Dubuque
Grace Myers
Andrew Gantenbein
Maynard
Vern Robinson
Varadena
Cal
Oborda
Jacob Young
B. A
Acer
Yvoung
Independence
Ibeen
Ds Aled
No Burglar Works in a Lighted Room
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Tom Skartis
Miss Shaffer
Rastedt
Louis Moore
Victor
Victrola
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, New Jersey
ASS Masters
Camden, N, d
Great Western
Scheel T
Thomas Stevens
First National Bank Building
Oxford
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