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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1911 -
New York Times
New York, New York
March 8, 1911
RELEASED BY CREDITORS.
C. L. Trout & Co. of Maiden Lane to Continue in Business.
Charles L. Trout & Co. Wholesale jeweler, 2 Maiden Lane, who
have been in business for fifteen years, have arranged with their
creditors for a settlement out of court. Their attorney said
yesterday that the creditors have given a general release on
their surrender of notes and securities. The firm has turned over
all its assets to trustees except for $5000 worth of jewelry and
fixtures. The firm will continue in business. It is expected that
when the assets are liquidated by the trustees the creditors will
receive 60 to 70 per cent of their claims. The liabilites were
$127,000 and assets about $92,000.
[Transcriber's notes: Charles L. Trout was born and raised in Maquoketa, Iowa. He was the son of Thomas Trout and the former Amanda Knittle. Charles returned to Maquoketa where he died in 1936. He is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Transcribed by M.J.M., December 2007]
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Bismarck Daily Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota
March 11, 1911
J.P. Ferris was called away suddenly two weeks ago to Bayard
[Guthrie co.], Ia., where his mother was very ill. He arrived too
late for the funeral, she having died soon after the news reached
him.
[transcribed by S.F. March 2006]
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Elbert County
Banner
Elizabeth, Elbert co. Colorado
May 26, 1911
At the home of her sister, Mrs. Asa W. Norris, Mrs. Geo. Wacker
died Sunday night at 9:05. Mrs. Wacker was formerly Adelia
Margaret Romig, she was 35 years, 9 months and 28 days old at the
time of her death. She was born at Littleport, Iowa, was married
to Geo. Wacker June 26th, 1894, she was a member of the third
Presbyterian Church of Dubuque, Iowa, and is survived by her
husband, 1 son, mother and 3 sisters. Mrs. Wacker died with
Hemorrhage of the lungs. Her remains were shipped to Dubuque for
burial. Mrs. Wacker belongs to the Rebeccas of Dubuque and the
America Orders of Nobles of Elkader, Iowa. She arrived in
Colorado April the 29th, coming here in the hopes that the
climate of Colo would benefit her health.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2005]
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Watertown Herald
Watertown, Jefferson Co. N.Y.
Saturday, June 3, 1911
Engineer Dies in His Cab
Marshalltown, Iowa, June 1 -- With his hand on the throttle of
his engine on the Iowa Central, A.E. Ede, aged 63 [or 65], of
Oskaloosa, Iowa, died. As the train was approaching Pickering,
Ede's fireman noticed that he did not appear to be watching
signals.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2008]
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Evening News
Ada, Oklahoma
June 6, 1911
Wanted Taft to Pay a Mortgage.
Washington, June 5 -- When President Taft arrived at the Union
station here this morning from his Chicago trip a man tried to
break through the police lines and struggled frantically to reach
the president. He was over-powered and hustled into an automobile
and locked up in the first precinct police
station. It was ascertained that he is John Rusterholz, of
Crawford City, Iowa. No arms were found on him. He told the
police that he wanted to get President Taft to pay off a mortgage
on his farm in Iowa. He is being held for examination as to his
sanity. The incident created much excitement.
[transcribed by S.F., Dec. 2003]
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New York Times
New York, New York
August 29, 1911
Married.
Hopkins-O'Rourke -- On Aug. 24, 1911, in Dubuque, Iowa, L. Thomas
Hopkins of Truro, Mass., and Kathleen B. O'Rourke, formerly of
New York City.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2008]
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New York Times
New York, New York
October 8, 1911
Miss Dorothea Geddes Weds.
Daughter of Mrs. C.P. Geddes is Married to Abram B. Chittenden.
Special to The New York Times
Greenwich, Conn., Oct 7. -- The wedding of Miss Dorothea W.
Geddes, daughter of Mrs. C.P. Geddes of New York, and Abram
Baldwin Chittenden of Burlington, Iowa, took place here this
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in Christ Church. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. M. George Thompson, rector of the church.
Mrs. Charles Baldwin Parsons, sister of the bride, was matron of
honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Mary Chittenden, sister of the
bridegroom, Miss Dorothea Carson, both of Burlington, Iowa; Miss
Eva Marie Gullauden of Morristown, N.J.; Miss Alice Presby, Miss
Laurada Chipman, Miss Alice Muller, and Miss Virginia Geddes of
New York. Mr. Chittenden's best man was Herbert Chittenden. The
ushers were Frank Olmstead and Henry Dubois of New York, Walter
Cruden of St. Louis, Herbert Porter of Philadelphia. Edwin
Carpenter, Wailliam Baldwin of Burlington, Iowa and Charles
Bateman Parsons of New Britain, Conn. A reception, attended by
nearly a thousand persons, followed the ceremony, being held at
Kenilworth, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kissam Brown,
near the Greenwich Country Club. When the young people return
from their honeymoon trip they will reside in Burlington, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2008]