Peat Bed Fires Threaten Latimer Land And Road
In Latimer Iowa a peat bed on the Nels Sorensen farm continues burning. Firefighting focuses on saving adjacent land and a township road rather than extinguishing the blaze. Crews dig trenches and widen drainage works to block the fire’s advance while awaiting sustained water supply.
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Dows
Nels Sorensen
Latimer
Sorensen Farm
Scott
Morgan Townships
Sorenson
C. J. Taft
Jens Johansen
Taft Field
Soren- Son
Postoffice Looted by Yeggs in Ryan Heist
Cedar Rapids reports fifteen hundred dollars in stamps and currency stolen from the Ryan post office. The safe was blown with minimal disturbance, and robbers masked their exit. No clues found. federal officers expected to investigate the case.
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Cedar Rapids
Ryan
Yeggs
Trains Collide With Cattle Killing Two Crew Members
A Wabash stock freight train ran into resting cattle one and a half miles north of Runnells Des Moines area, killing fireman Henry Lang and brakeman Arthur Cobb and injuring engineer Frank Liman and second brakeman Elmer Childs. Conductor M. Carlis survived in the caboose. The crash occurred after the herd appeared on the curve delaying the train bound for St Louis. In a separate note, convicts at the state prison in Lansing were baptized in the laundry with thirteen women among the converts.
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Des Moines
Runnells
Henry Lang
Moulton
Arthur Cobb
Lovilla
Mercy Hospital
Frank Liman
Elmer Childs
M. Carlis
St. Louis
Luman
Lang
Water. Pump it with a Sandew engine for sale
For sale by CG F Gardner contact 7 1663. Engine advertised as water pumping unit with Sandew engine. Price listed as £3. Item described briefly with no additional details.
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CG. F. Gardner
Two Bold Bandits Rob Mail Car On Fast Train
Two unknown white men boarded the Louisville & Nashville No. 4 near Calera Alabama and robbed the mail car on its northbound run from New Orleans. Clerks George Hoover E G York were handcuffed together the iron cuffs burned off and Chief Clerk Harry Everett bound with twine. The robbers fired a shot at Everett narrowly missing his head then fled at Birmingham after the 33 mile run. The robbers took all registered mail and escaped before police could catch them.
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Birningham
Ala
Louisville & Nashville
New Orleans
Birmingham
George Hoover
E. G. York
Harry Everett
Calera
Everett
Fourteenth Street
Death at threshing rig claims Howard Summerville
Rock Rapids August 6 The first fatal threshing season accident killed Howard Summerville a hired hand at the A. Hunt ranch three miles south of town He was crushed while trying to throw a bolt on the engine dragged into the fly wheel Death was instantaneous and the injuries were internal The body was not mangled Summerville was a stranger to the area with possible relatives in Illinois whose location is unknown.
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Rock Rapids
Howard Summerville
Summerville
Ilinois
Celebrations as liquor ban lifted in Centerville
Centerville Iowa residents rejoice after Adams Express removes restriction on beer shipments into Appanoose county. Italian miners in Streepyville parade with bicycles chained together and an accordion wagon, signaling the change. A carload of beer was shipped to mining camps, with local officials noting potential for personal use shipments and no involvement in injunction suits against United States Express. BR A, Boysen, Dentist, Second St.
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Centerville
Adams Express Company
Appanoose County
Streepyville
Adams Company
Express
United States Express Company
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Baker
Franklin County
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Wall Lake
Kilsworth
Belmond
Wabash
Lansing
Kan
State Prison
Webster City
The
Freeman- Tribune
Birm
Ingham, Ala
Cash & Lehnhard’s
Ville
BR A
Boysen
Second St
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