Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1912 -
Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
January 1, 1912
Loses Gem, Finds a Bride.
Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 18 -- A romance which originated in the
loss of a diamond stud at the Savery hotel came to a happy issue
in the marriage of William H. Halpenny, salesman for the
Studebaker Vehicle company, and Miss Lena Morey, maid at the
Savery hotel, which was celebrated at Newton, Iowa several days
ago. The young couple went to Marshalltown to spend a few days at
the bride's home, and will return to Des Moines where they will
live. The diamond which led to the wedding was lost by Halpenny a
few months ago at the Savery, where Halpenny had made his home
since the death of his wife a year ago. The stone was found and
returned by Miss Morey, who was employed as a maid at the hotel.
As a result of the meeting, the romance ended in the wedding last
week. the diamond which brought it about has been set in a ring,
and is now the property of the bride.
[transcribed by S.F., Oct. 2003 ]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
January 15, 1912
Outside Sporting Dope.
Minneapolis, Dec. 14 -- Henry Ordemann, of Minneapolis, tonight
defeated Jess Reimer (Westergaard) of Des Moines, Iowa, taking
first and third falls on a grueling match. The first fall went to
the Minneapolis man on a half-Nelson and crotch hold after
fifty-seven minutes and thirty-five seconds of strenuous
wrestling. On the return to the mat for the second go, however,
Reimer showed brilliant form and in six minutes and twenty
seconds pinned Ordemann to the mat with a head scissor hold, but
he himself fell victim on the third go to the same hold and a
half-Nelson in twenty minutes and forty-five seconds. Although
Reimer had slightly the advantage of Ordemann in weight, the
former going in at 210 and the later at 198, the men were well
matched and the outcome was in doubt until the last fall was
awarded.
[transcribed by by S.F., Oct. 2003 ]
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Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
January 22, 1912
HONEY CREEK HEROINE DEAD
Kate Shelly Crept Across Bridge in Storm to Save Train.
Boone, Iowa, Jan. 21- Kate Shelly, heroine of the Honey Creek
flood in 1881, died today at her home, a quarter of a mile from
the Moingona bridge across the Des Moines River, the scene of her
heroic act. Six months ago she was operated on for appendicitis,
and before she recovered, Bright's disease set in.
During a violent storm 30 years ago Miss Shelly, who was station
agent at Moingona, crossed the bridge on her hands and knees at
midnight to flag a passenger train on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad and save it from plunging into Honey Creek,
over which the bridge had been washed away. For her bravery the
Iowa legislature awarded her a medal and a sum of money. She also
received substantial recognition from the railroad.
[transcribed by by C.J.L., March 2004]
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Oxnard Courier
Oxnard, California
February 2, 1912
Former Iowans To Have Annual Picnic Soon
To the many former Iowans who reside in this city and section an
announcement of some big doings to be held by the Iowa Society of
Southern California wil be interesting. The following is the
announcement sent out by that association:
Fellow Iowans:
The Iowa Iowa Association of Southern California will hold its
annual picnic February 22, 1912, at Eastlake Park, Los Angeles.
At this great gathering of resident and visiting Iowans the
opportunity will be given, as in former years, to renew and form
acquaintances and to promote the fraternal spirit in those who
come from the grand commonwealth of Iowa. Should the weather be
rainy for a day or two preceding the 22nd, or on that day, a
postponement will be made to Saturday, March 2nd, at the same
place. We desire to extend a cordial invitation to all Iowans to
meet with us this year. Ninety-nine county headquarters will be
established and there each one may meet and greet old friends and
form new acquaintances. The county headquarters will be located
as on the map of the State which is the best possible way to
enable all to find them. Everyone is urged to go to his or her
county and register promptly. Your friends will want to know if
you are there, and we want your name on the list. A new feature
this year will be a reunion at headquarters where everyone in
Southern California, who was born in Iowa before December 28,
1846 (Iowa's admission day) is requested to go and register and
meet the others. We want to find who is the oldest native-born
Iowan in Southern California.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2007]
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Fairbanks Daily
Times
Fairbanks, Alaska Territory
February 7, 1912
Veteran Who Died in Des Moines Yesterday Eyed White House.
Des Moines, Ia. Feb 6 -- General James B. Weaver, at one time
candidate of the People's party for president of the United
States, died in this city today. He was seventy-nine years old.
Up to his latest years he retained much of the vigor of his
earlier days. From 1904 to 1906 he served with ablity as mayor of
Colfax, Iowa [Jasper co.], his home town. General Weaver served
with credit throughout the war of the secession. He entered as a
private and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. After the war
he held political offices, and for a time was editor of the 'Iowa
Tribune' of Des Moines. He served three terms in congress. In
1880 he was Greenback candidate for president of the United
States. In 1892, as candidate of the People's party, he received
22 electoral votes.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2007]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
February 12, 1912
Fatal Fire.
Maxwell, [Story co.] Iowa, Feb. 10 -- Last night three children
were burned to death and the owner of the building fatally
injured when the Smith home was destroyed by fire.
[transcribed by by S.F., Nov. 2003 ]
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New York Times
New York, New York
February 17, 1912
Miss Newgass to Wed on March 2.
The marriage of Miss Sylvia Pauline Newgass, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis M. Newgass, to William Cornish Beck of Sioux City,
Iowa, will take palce on March 2 in the Church of the Heavenly
Rest. The Rev. Herbert Shipman will officiate. The couple will
leave immediately after the ceremony for Bermuda, where they will
spend their honeymoon. Mr. and Mrs. Newgass will give a dinner on
March 1, at the Hotel Knickerbocker for the bride.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2007]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
February 19, 1912
Personal Mention
Information regarding the present whereabouts of Rod McCord is
asked by his mother, Mrs. D.D. McCord, 1121 25th street, Des
Moines, Iowa.
Outside Sporting Dope.
Decorah, Iowa, Jan. 14 -- If Decorah needed a boomer slogan it
now has it in "Watch Al Palzer." What Frank Gotch has
been to Humboldt as an advertising medium Palzer is expected to
be for Decorah, and then some. Since he was able to subdue
Kauffman in New York city, Palzer has been the talk of the town,
and everywhere is heard the logical "white man's hope"
to go against Jack Johnson. Albert Palzer, who will ever be known
here at his home as "Big Foot," was raised on a farm
near Ossian. He would never have been
picked out as a professional boxer. He was looked upon as a big,
awkward, brawny, good-natured, big-hearted chap, who was always
popular with the kids of the neighborhood. Farm life got a little
too monotonous for him and he came to town and was a roustabout
at the J.L. Anderson feed barns. It was
not until the navy sought him out and he was put through some of
the physical training necessary that he discovered himself and
his friends then discovered him and put him in training. He
recently paid the old home a visit and partook of some of
"mother's meals." One thing about "Big Foot",
unless he changes mightily, if he ever attains to the honors of
champion pugilist of the world, the country will be free from
braggadocio. Palzer has a host of friends here who are willing to
back up most any sort of promotion if Palzer would only give a
little encouragement. Thus far he, with his manager, O'Rourke,
have never sought any financial backing from the people of this
locality.
[transcribed by by S.F., Nov. 2003 ]
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Akron Weekly
Pioneer Press
Akron, Washington co. Colorado
March 1, 1912
Henry Items
Mrs. Cline and her daughter Josephine, recently returned from
Sioux City, Iowa, their old home, where they have been the
greater part of the winter.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2014]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
March 4, 1912
Chloroform Stops Woman's Laughter.
Ames, Iowa, Jan. 29 -- Chloroform and three doctors were
necessary to stop Mrs. A. Fox of this city from laughing over he
daughters story concerning an incident at a circus. She is slowly
recovering from the illness which resulted from the laughing
spell. Mrs. Fox and her daughter were working about the house
when the latter happened to remember something she once saw at a
circus, and told about it. The mother had been laughing two hours
when medical aid was summoned, and chlorofom administered. It was
with great difficulty that the physicians suppressed their
laughter, and members of the family and friends ceased laughing
only after they had learned of the serious nature of the case.
Iowa Heroine is Dead.
Boone, Ia., Jan. 29 -- Kate Shelly, Iowa's heroine, is dead here,
after a lingering illness at her home near the scene of her
heroic act in 1881. During a violent storm thirty years ago Miss
Shelley, who was station agent at Moingona, crossed the bridge
over the Des Moines river on her hands and knees at midnight to
flag a Chicago & Northwestern train and save it from plunging
into Honey creek, over which the bridge had been washed away. A
year engine with an engineer and two firemen went through the
Honey creek bridge which was only a short distance from the
Moingona bridge, and Miss Shelley realized she must act quickly
in order to save the passenger train from disaster. She stopped
the train with her lantern only a few feet from the broken
bridge. Through rewards of the Northwestern company, the Iowa
legislature, newspaper funds and a Kate Shelly fund sent from all
parts of the country, Miss Shelly was settled in comfortable
financial circumstances, but with modest industry she remained
for many years an agent for the company and Moingona, near her
home and the place where she risked her life for her fellow-men.
[transcribed by by S.F., Jan. 2004]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
April 8, 1912
Ole Vige is Inquired For.
In the last mail the following inquiry was received by Mrs.
Cornwall of the Clark House: Ordway, Colo., March 28, 1912.
"In connection with an estate I am trying to secure the
address, if living, or proof of death of Ole Olson Vige, born in
Norway, about 1858; came to the United States with his parents
about 1872; lived near Clinton, Iowa, until 1890, then moved to
the state of Oregon where he remained until 1899, then went to
Alaska. From 1899 to September, 1903, when last heard from, O.O.
Vige worked as a miner and laborer in various camps in the
vicinity of Dawson, Nome and Fairbanks, and at other points.
Owing to his peculiar name, the nick-name "Murphy"
attached itself to him and he was perhaps better known by it in
the North than his own -- O.O. Vige. He was born in Norway, in
1858, was 5 feet 11 inches tall; weighted about 190 pounds; light
brown hair, inclined to be curly at the ends; blue eyes; sandy
mustache and beard when worn. When last heard from, September,
1903, was employed as fireman on some Yukon boat between Nome and
Dawson; had previously been a deck-hand, miner and laborer.
Information regarding his place of residence or place of death
will be gratefully received in his interest or that of others of
the family." Very
truly yours, E.A. Metz.
[transcribed by by S.F., Jan. 2004]
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Deming Headlight
Deming, New Mexico
April 12, 1912
W.L. DeClow, America's largest Horse and Jack Importer, is
preparing to move his business from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to El
Paso, Texas, or some nearby point. His first shipment will be
about January 1, 1912. Write him at once for prices on Horses,
Jacks, Registered Short Horn and Hereford Bulls, and Shropshire
Bucks. Owing to the extreme cold weather it is impossible for me
to open a branch barn in El Paso as I had anticipated, until some
indefinite date. Therefore parties in need of stock will please
write me at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and I will be glad to correspond.
[transcribed by by S.F., April 2007]
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The Libby Herald
Libby, Montana
April 18, 1912
The funeral of Mrs. T.K. Hireen, aged 70 years, the Spokane pioneer, was held Tuesday. Mrs. Hireen was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She crossed the plains with members of her family, settling at Virginia City, Mont. in 1865.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2014]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
June 17, 1912
C.J. M'Connell Wanted.
Charles J. McConnell, of Ida Grove, Iowa, has written inquiring
for the whereabouts of his brother, George M. McDonnell, who was
last heard of in Fairbanks in 1907, when he was working on the
railroad.
Fiendish Crime in Iowa.
Des Moines, June 10 -- With their heads crushed by an axe, the
bodies of eight people were found today in the residence of J.B.
Moore. The murdered people are J.B. Moore and wife, their four
children, and two unidentified women.
[transcribed by by S.F., Jan. 2004]
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Alaska Citizen
Fairbanks, Alaska
August 12, 1912
Sisters Wedded Same Day.
Mrs. Paul J. Rickert has just received some snapshots of Mr. and
Mrs. R.J. DeLeo (Miss Mae Parzybok), taken the day they were
married, and one of them was just as the young people boarded the
train from Chitina for Cordova. Immense quantities of rice can be
seen on the platform of the train, and a note on the picture
states that the car had to be swept out before the passengers
could take their places. Miss Parzybok was married at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Horace Leach, in Chitina, on the 26th of June,
to Mr. R.J. DeLeo, chief clerk of the Copper River &
Northwestern railway. They are making Cordova their home. Miss
Parzybok was formerly a resident of Fairbanks and very popular.
On the same day, in far-off Iowa, in the city of Marion, another
sister of Mrs. Rickert's also was married, the bride being Miss
Maurine Parzybok, and the groom Mr. Redmond D. Smith. The young
lady is said to be one of Iowa's most beautiful girls, and the
wedding was a notable social event. the color scheme of both
weddings was pink and white -- in that of the Northern sister
wild roses formed the principal decoration, while in the service
of the sister in the Middle West cut roses, sweet peas and smilax
predominated.
[transcribed by by S.F., Oct. 2003]
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
October 13, 1912
Men Who Have Made the City of Deer Lodge
Dr. W.G. Dye.
Dr. Willoughby G. Dye was born in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, on
a farm, in 1872. when he was yet a boy his parents moved to
Macedonia, Iowa. He was graduated from the public schools there
and later became a graduate of Simpson college at Indianola,
Iowa, completing both the preparatory and collegiate work. After
his graduation from this school in 1894 he held a clerical
position with a banking firm at Dubuque, Iowa. In 1897 he entered
Northwestern university at Chicago and graduated in 1901. He had
two years' hospital service at Mercy hospital in Chicago. He came
directly to Deer Lodge in 1903 and has practiced here since that
time. He is surgeon for the Northern Pacific and Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroads. He is also surgeon for the
St. Joseph hospital here. He is a member of the school board and
was formerly health officer, but now merely retains the work as
county physician. He has brought a nice home here and will rear
his family in Deer Lodge.
Dr. G.M. Crabb
Dr. George M. Crabb was born in 1882 at Greenfield, Iowa. He was
graduated from Grinnell college in 1908. He attended the rush
Medical college in Chicago and became a graduate of that
well-known school in 1910. He served two years in the Cook county
hospital at Chicago and came direct to Deer Lodge in January of
this year. He is division surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul. though he has been here but a short time, Dr. Crabb has
made many friends and has proven a most successful practitioner.
He is building a fine new home and otherwise preparing to
establish his family permanently in this location.
C.H. Williams
C.H. Williams was born at Centerville, Iowa, in 1856. He came
overland with a team to Deer Lodge in 1882 enduring many
hardships en route. He bagan the ranching business and has made a
great success of the raising of sheep and cattle. He has the
finest ranch in Powell county and one that is said to be the best
in the West. He has built a beautiful country home on his ranch
and has unusually good improvements on the farm. He is a modest,
unassuming man, popular in the community, and a liberal supporter
of all movements to make Deer Lodge valley the most highly
developed agricultural region in the West. In commendation of his
character he has been nominated on the republican ticket for
state senator.
W.J. Paul
W.J. Paul was born at Laurel Iowa, in 1881. He was a student at
Highland Park college at Des Moines, Iowa. After being graduated
from this school he was admitted to the Iowa state bar and came
west to begin his law practice. He came to Deer Lodge in 1904,
where he early associated himself with E. Scharnikow, the firm
now being known as Scharnikow & Paul. He was elected as a
member of the Twelfth session of the Montana state legislature,
which office will not expire until the legislature again
convenes. He is a member of the Commercial club, serving on the
executive committee and has been identifed with all movements for
the betterment of the town. He owns a comfortable home in Deer
Lodge and farming land in the valley. He has been honored bythe
republican party with the nomination for attorney general of this
state.
[Transcriber note: the article containing these biographies was titled: "Men Who Have Made the City of Deer Lodge", I transcribed the bios of the men who were born in Iowa; a photo of each of the men accompanied the article. Transcribed by by S.F., December 2009]
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Akron Weekly
Pioneer Press
Akron, Washington co. Colorado
November 15, 1912
Obituary
Clarice Eleanor Streeby was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, May 18, 1855
[or 1835]. She continued to live with her parents in that city
until she was 18 years of age, when she was united in marriage to
T.J. Bailey. One year after the young couple moved to Monona
county, Ia., where they resided until two years ago, when they
came to Washington county, Colo. Mrs. Bailey was a member of the
Christian church. She leaves a husband, two daughters, Mrs. Judd
Brown and Miss Emily Bailey, four grandsons, all of Akron. She
was a loving wife, a devoted mother and a good neighbor. Five
years ago a daughter died leaving two little girls who live in
Iowa, and two brothers to mourn her loss. Short funeral services
were held at the home at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Rev. White of the
Presbyterian church spoke encouraging words; sweet songs were
sung, and after a last look at the departed the remains were
taken to the depot and left for Ute, Monroe county, Iowa, where
interment will take place. Mr. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Jud Brown and
Miss Emma Bailey accompanied the remains.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2005]