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Polk County, Iowa Genealogy Trails Newspaper Articles |
| After the Liquor Dealers Des Moines, Ia., March 5, - special County Attorney Sparrier this afternoon began proceedings against some twenty-five liquor sellers and the owners of buildings in which the liquor is handled. The cases are set for hearing March 14, when an effort will be made to have the defendants enjoined temporarily until the suits for permanent injunctions can be heard at the April term. [Morning World Herald, March 6, 1891, Submitted by Frances Cooley] HAD A GET-RICH SCHEME Des Moines, Iowa, July 8 -- W. H. Miller and R. Gibson were brought back from New Hampton by Deputy Sheriff Johnson on the charge of sending in fake insurance applications and securing the agents' commissions on them. Miller and Gibson were employed by a Des Moines insurance company to solicit insurance from farmers on their crops, the farmers to give notes to be payable in the fall. The two men, it is claimed, went to New Hampton and wrote a large number of applications without ever leaving their hotel. Fictitious names, it is alleged, were signed and the applications sent in to the Des Moines office. The agents' commissions were promptly paid on receipt of the notes. When the postmaster of New Hampton sent back all the policies for the reason that there were no such persons, there the office at once investigated and Miller and Gibson were arrested. [The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Friday, July 8, 1904 - Submitted by Karen Hammer] |
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