Sioux City Confidence Men Indict Preston in Poker Scam
E G Preston a Coon Rapids farmer paid 2600 to learn poker and invest in a saloon stake but fell for a faro plant in Crystal Lake. Sioux City officers and county authorities, aided by Madison County officials, arrested Frank Robbins Charles Raphael Louis Seigel and Pat Daly on gambling charges. Preston awaits restitution as arrests continue.
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Sioux City
E. G. Preston
Coon Rapids
Crystal Lake
Sidney Frum
Dakota County
A. L. Mathwig
James Mahan
Frank Robbins
Alias Browning
Charles
First National Bank
George Pierce
Preston
Pierce
Daly
Robbins
Frum
Marshal Mathwig
Serge
Dakota City
Raphael
Farehead
Sylvia Pankhurst Arrested Again in London Parade
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst was blocked from interviewing Premier Asquith and arrested for the eighth time as she attempted to lead a militant procession. She was taken to Holloway jail after the incident near Westminster. The dispersed march followed without a clear leader. Separately, J M Fosdick bought a First Street lot for $950 to build a modern home.
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London
Sylvia Pankhurst
Westmister
Asquith
Miss Pankhurst
Hyde Park
Holloway
Rebels Threaten Road 10 in Vera Cruz Campaign
Washington dispatch reports 3000 constitutionalist troops under General Aguilar aim to sever rail links between Mexico City and Vera Cruz and to cut the route to Puerto Mexico. Funston says threats to trap Huerta’s cabinet are being monitored amid Niagara conference talks. other items note marriages and Minnesota WI farming movements.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Funston
War Department
Constitutionalist
Carranza
Huerta
Puerto Mexico
Aguilar
Col
Perez Romero
Madero
Gulf Ports
Feder
Fire claims seven lives in East Side tenement blaze
Seven people died and eight were badly burned in a fast moving fire in Old Style East Side tenements. The blaze started in a locker room under the stairs and spread quickly trapping many residents. A mother and her son leaped from a window to escape. another woman died in hospital, raising fatalities to eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
East Side
Two Boys Drown Near Waterloo After River Drowns
An 11 year old cousin recounted how Charles Edwards slipped into a water hole while wading a flooded bank. Agnes Coogan sought her neighbor John Magent who admitted he drowned Monday. both boys disappeared while a sister looked for him. Authorities search the creek but bodies remain missing.
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Waterloo
Agnes Coogan
Charles Magent
John
Charles Edwards
Coogan
OLD FAMILIES ENJOY STORM-SHIFTED SUPPER AT CARPENTER HOME
The H A Crandall and H L Hampton families and Mrs G B Pray were entertained Wednesday night at supper at the home of Mr and Mrs C D Carpenter three miles south of the city. Severe storm forced the event to become a house party with guests staying the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Crandall
H. L. Hampton
Three Newborn Daughters Reported in Local Homes
A seven pound girl was born June 7 1914 to Mr and Mrs O M Watson of James street. Irving McPheters and Mrs McPheters welcomed a ten pound girl born June 4 1914 on the east side. Mr and Mrs Irving Butler of Waterloo, former residents, are the parents of a seven pound baby daughter born Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. M. Watson
James Street
Irving McPheters
East Side
Irving Butler
Waterloo
Schoolmates donate skin to graft leg injury
In Fort Madison Iowa June 11 fifteen students from St Josephs Catholic school donated nearly 100 patches of skin to graft a boy named Clarence Kempker after a street car accident. Most volunteers were girls about 14. The physician said skin from sixty donors would be used and one girl fainted during the process.
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Harmony Center
Webster Township
Hamilton County
Iowa
W. A. Elkins
Webster City
W. J. Sharkey
Fort Madison
St. Joseph’s Catholic School
Clarence Kemp‘ker
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Quintana
Italy
Skildret
Switzerland
Redpath Grand Opera
Dunbar Singing Orchestra
Rogers and Grilly
The
Hinton- Mordilea Company
New Zealand
South Seas
Montraville Wood
Julius Caesar Nauphe
Athens
Frank J. Cannon
Robt. B. Glenn
George H. Bradford
Austin Fleming
Apostolic Mission House
Alva M. Reitzel
Frederic Poole
Henry A. Buchtel
E. Q. Preston
Coon Rapids, Vic
Tim
Faro
Westminster
J. M. Fosdick
H. E. Pringle
First Street
Joe McCaskie
Road 10
Vera
Myra Northcraft
Cleo R. Standley
Rock Springs
Wyoming
Woolstock
Boone
Will J. House
Wisconsin
Minong
Lake Nancy
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