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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Jan. 14, 1907
Cocaine Sellers Look Out
Mayor Bennett Says He Will Prosecute if Parties are Discovered.
“Some druggist or other is selling cocaine to a bunch of drug fiends about town,” said Mayor Bennett this morning. “I don’t know who it is but if we find out they will be prosecuted to the limit. They will do almost anything to get the drug but that is no excuse for a merchant and if the thing keeps up somebody will have to sweat for it good and plenty.”
Tags: 1907, Bennett
The Fort Dodge Messenger: Jan. 14, 1907
Fort Dodger Invents
Ernest Green Has Automatic Equipment to Close Switches
Ernest Green, a former Fort Dodge young man, is the inventor of a railroad device that promises to come into general use on all traffic lines. It is believed that no little fame is in store for its inventor. Regarding a test of the appliance recently made the Buffalo Express has the following:
“Ernest Green’s device for automatically closing an open switch before an oncoming train was recently tested with great success on the Lake Shore at Silver Creek where Mr. Green lives.
“Freight locomotive No. 5830 was used in the tests and was run over the portion of the track equipped at speeds that varied from 25 to 55 miles an hour. Roadmaster Connors and other officials who witness the test say the device worked perfectly and promptly.
“It appears to be a very simple and inexpensive equipment. It makes it possible for a train to take an open switch. A switch left open carelessly or by design closes automatically in front of the train.”
Tags: 1907, Connors, Green
The Fort Dodge Messenger: Jan. 14, 1903
Town of Clare is Agitated
Three Sticks of Dynamite and Matches Found on Steps of State Bank.
Bank Robbers Suspected
Supposed They were Ftightened (sic) Away Before Securing Entrance to Bank Building
Three sticks of dynamite and several matches, found on the steps of the State Bank at Clare, are mute witnesses of what might have been a daring attempt of safe breakers on Tuesday night. Where they came from no one knows. Who placed them there is equally a mystery, but there they reposed this morning, to greet the gaze of the Clare citizens as they started for their place of business.
The whole town is in a ferment over the matter and dynamite and safe blowers formed the sole topics of conversation in Clare today.
There is absolutely no clue to indicate how the dynamite came to be where it was found. The only natural supposition is that safe blowers had started to do their work on the bank, and had fled in haste, leaving their explosives behind them. It is reported that there was considerable money in the bank at the time. The people of Clare are keeping a sharp look out for suspicious strangers.
Tags: 1903
