Plague Eradication Efforts Move to New Orleans
Public Health Service led by Surgeon General Blue takes charge of bubonic plague response in New Orleans after two cases and one death. Apparatus for rodent control and fumigation sent. warnings issued to Atlantic and Mississippi river states. New Orleans quarantine declared. incidents linked to Volunteers of America home and nearby hospital cases.
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Frontern Nowapapar Unlat
New Service
Washington
Blue
The
Public Health Service
New Orleans
Oscar Dowling
Louisiana Board of Health
Treasury Department
Dowling
Creel
Surgeon General
Atlantic Coast
Mississippi River
Iowa
Home of the Volunteers of America
Julia Street
Charles Lunsene
W. W. Wilkinson
Lindene
New York
J. O'Connell
Santiago
Cuba
Negroes to Hold Office Promise From President Wilson
President Wilson told Representative Smith that he will replace all current federal positions held by African Americans with other African Americans. He said the plan followed a request from a negro delegation after his inauguration and pledged to implement it soon.
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Washington, D. C
Wil- 800
Representative Smith
Maryland
District of Columbia
Wilson
Smith
Two Bishops Facing Suit Over Hospital Detention
Miss Mary Reginaerr of Lewisville Kentucky filed in U S district court a ten thousand dollar damages suit against Bishop Francis Silas Chaterd and Bishop Joseph Chartrand of Indianapolis along with Mary Curren of Jeffersonville and Jefffersonville police chief Michael Wall. She alleges she was forced to stay in a Dubuque Iowa hospital for the insane yielding financial losses to war controlled Jeffersonville and Columbus hospitals where she says she was general manager and treasurer and owned stock in the controlling corporation.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mary Reginaerr
Lewisville
Order of Sisters of Mercy
United States District Court
Francis Silas Chaterd
Joseph Chartrand
Mary F. Curren
Jeffersonville
Michael Wall
Miles Kerr
Dubuque
Tad
Columbus
Concerps
Chicago Joe Pays Penalty for murder in Stratford
Joseph Buonamo known as Chicago Joe was hanged in the state prison at Wethersfield Conn for the murder of Jennie Cavagliere of Chicago at Stratford almost two years earlier. He made a written confession to the warden Garner.
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Chicago
Joe
Wethersfield
Mellen Indicted in Hampden Railroad Financing Case
Middlesex county grand jury indicts Charles Mellen former NYNH and HRR president and Frederick C. Moseley of Boston for alleged financing irregularities connected to the Hampden railroad project. Indictments involve investment committees of two savings banks and related parties.
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Mellen
Cambridge
Mass
Charles
New York, New Haven and
Marlford
Hoston and Mazin
Frederick CM
F. S. Moseley & Co
Boston
Ralph D. Gillett
Wesfield
Savings
Middlesex County Grand Jary
Hampden Railroad
Gaudeville
Spring
World events note on nominations and Wilson policy
President Wilson listed nominees for postmaster at several towns including Palmyra and Palrbury. Missouri delegation backed Wilson’s agenda. a 700-woman suffrage deputation was planned for June 30. Wilson commuted sentences of four dynamiters. others must serve. House panels criticized Judge Speer. one authority to sell the Idaho and Mississippi battleships was granted. Supreme Court ruled on railroads and oil lands. tobacco grower law deemed constitutional. freight-rate cases favored railroads. Turkey protested U S battleship sale to Greece.
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Wilson
Harvey W. Wiley
Wisen
M. J. Hannan
F. K. Painter
F. J. Money
W. Shups
Indiangpalla
F. W. Ryan
Washington
Idaho
Mississippi
United States Supreme Court
Kentucky
Interstate Commerce Commission
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Spokane
Intermountain
Fires, deaths and financial losses sweep multiple states
A string of disasters and legal actions unfolds across New Hampshire, Missouri, Massachusetts, Kansas, California and Wisconsin. Damaging fires devastate Portamouth and Salem. a Missouri anti trust case settles with a payment from International Harvester. Tragic shootings, a cliff fall, a deadly auto crash in Kalamazoo, and a Milwaukee cyclone yield numerous fatalities and injuries. Political and banking turmoil emerge in Wisconsin and Chicago, with mob violence in Butte and a Lake Shore crash injuring many passengers.
Mexican War Ends Peace Pact at Niagara Falls
The Niagara Falls accord sets a provisional Mexican government to be formed by contending factions with the U S recognizing the new authority while restoring diplomatic ties. Brazil Argentina and Chile will recognize the provisional regime. Villa wins Zacatecas after five days of brutal fighting, destroying a large federal army and capturing thousands of troops and materiel.
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Niagara Falls
United Bates and Huerta
Mexico
U. S
United States
Mexico City
Eivil
Brazil
Argentine
Chile
Francisco Villa
Zacatecas
Villa
Barron
Notable Errant Royals and Disasters in Early 20th Century News
A string of fragmented reports recalls deaths in hotels, royal abdications, insurgent captures in Durazzo, and air and sea disasters. It notes Baron Forbes’s death by suicide in a Dundes hotel, Durazzo’s seizure by Albanian insurgents, a Russian aviator killed in St. Petersburg, a Glasgow suffragette jailed for arson, King Peter I’s abdication in Holgrade, and the Gothland liner wreck near Bishop's Rock with 1991 passengers saved by Ascanius and Mototezuma.
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Montreal
Rotterdam
Bishop's Rock Light House
Wilkt
Ascanius
Passengarg
Prize Old Couple Born and Married in Holland in Early Years
Sioux City residents Mr and Mrs John Tanken are billed as the oldest married couple in the northwest. They observed their seventy eighth wedding anniversary quietly beneath an elm at their daughter’s home. He is over 107, she nears 98 in November. Both remain healthy and active, with Mrs Tanken mending hosiery and him smoking a German pipe. The couple credits fresh air and a simple routine for their long life together.
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Sioux City
John.Tanken
Northwest
Thair
Mra. Tanken
Mr. Tanken
Dragged man found and arrested in town case
Dubuque Emory Faatz a 26 year old Wells Fargo Express driver who vanished two months ago with 500 silver dollars and 200 in collections was dragged from under a bed in his father’s house and placed under arrest. Police had a tip that he had returned to town.
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Dubuque
Emory Faatz
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Site chosen for New Woman's Building in Town City
The state board of education building committee selected a hillside site behind the old science hall for the new Woman's Building. Plans are drawn, work to begin this summer, with an estimated cost of 50 000 dollars.
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Town City
State Board of Education
Postmasters Appointed and Reassignments in Iowa
New Iowa postmaster changes list names such as Talmage Wu in county with Bert B White as former holder, Wightman in Calhoun county, Julia Gaffney replacing William Ferguson, and William Eisner reappointed at Nashville in Jackson county as announced.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Talmage
Wuion
Bert B. White
Frank B. Thompson
Wightman
Calhoun County
Julia
Gaffney
William C. Ferguson
William BE
Eisner
Nashville
Jackson County
Fiorscae Fatally Decapitated Under Rock Island Tracks
Neola Augustino Fiorscae, 30, one of sixty Rock Island workers rebuilding tracks, sought shade and rested under a bank. A gravel-car train was moved onto a side track and Fiorscae was decapitated in the incident.
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Neola —Augustino Fiorscae
Rock Island
Fiorscae
State Golfers at Ottumwa Open July 6
Secretary C F Rausch reports growing entry list for the Iowa state golf tournament at the Ottumwa Country Club course starting July 6 and running for a week. Marshalltown already places as the twentieth club with three or four more expected to enter.
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Ottumwa
C. F. Rauscher
Marshalltown
Interurban Manager Resigns for Mobile Rail Job
Muscatine Iowa Interurban announces the resignation of DP Crafts general manager of the Davenport and Muscatine Interurban and the Iowa and Illinois interurban lines. He has accepted the general management of the Mobile Alabama Light and Railway Company.
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Interurban
Muscatine
DP. P. Crafts
Davenport and Muscatine
Iowa and Illinois
Aged Woman Completes Knit Bed Spread
Schaller Mrs A M McLaughlin age 83 recently finished a hand knit bed spread containing 758 plecet er blocks. She has worked entirely by hand since January 1, using fifty nine balls of knitting cotton in one year.
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Schaller
A. M. McLaughlin
Hancock Pioneer Dies in Tama Area
Hancock—William A. A. Carter, aged 70, died recently. He was Hancock’s oldest resident, living there nearly forty years. Tama: Tracy reports six new rural school houses to be built in north Tama county this summer. Brick construction valued around 2500 dollars each.
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Hancock
William A. A. Carter
Houe
Tama
Tracy
Tama County
Cloudburst Floods Muscatine Streets Deep Two Feet
A cloudburst flooded downtown Muscatine with water reaching two feet in streets and driving the Mississippi to rise four inches. Downtown basements and ground floors were inundated with heavy losses reported.
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Muscatine
Mississippi
Bride Edith Worn Takes Poison in Melbourne
Edith Worn aged 21 wife of John T Hord farm laborer committed suicide in Melbourne after despondency following marriage of six months.
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Marshalltown
Edith Worn
Melbourne
John T. Hord
Des Moines Sees Upbeat Iowa Sweet Corn Canning Outlook
Des Moines reports Iowa corn canning industry voices optimism for a large fall pack. G W Drake notes 37 plants in Iowa, with expected pack about double last year amid 26 000 acres platted for sweet corn and bumper crop prospects.
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Des Moines
Big City
Iowa
G. W. Drake
Lumberman Pays Old Debt to Black Family Heirs
M G Norton of Winona Minnesota, a lumber merchant, has sent 1000 dollar checks to Higcouaing Mrs A M Hummel and T A Black, relatives of Thomas S Black of Lewisburg Pennsylvania. Black died before Norton could repay his benefactor, but eight of his eleven children are alive. Norton had built a business empire of eight million dollars.
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Waterloo
M. G. Norton
Winona
Minn
Higcouaing
Mrg
A. M. Hummel
T. A. Black
Mr. Norton
Conor’ Dirser
Black
Rains threaten major fill near Madrid and Woodward
Heavy rainfall caused a large slide on the Milwaukee viaduct approach over the Des Moines River west of Madrid. The north side of the fill shifted, prompting officials to shift traffic to the old road between Madrid and Woodward for two to three days while long piles were driven to stabilize the structure.
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Boone
Milwaukee
Des Moines River
Madrid
Woodward
Attorney Sued By Girl In Breach of Promise Suit
Cedar Rapids. William G. Clark a well known attorney was served with notice that he is defendant in a breach of promise suit for 25000 dollars. The plaintiff is Miss Theresa O Connell.
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Cedar Rapids
William G. Clark
Theressa O'Connell
Woman Kills Husband in Albia Quarrel
In Albia at a Sovilla home Victor Minella three years old, a mine worker, was shot to death during a quarrel with his wife. The woman was arrested, jailed, and police report she confessed to the fatal shooting.
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Albia
Victor Minella
Sovilla
Quimby Fire Destroys Multiple Businesses
A large fire swept through Quimby wiping out the business section near here with an estimated loss of 60000 dollars. The post office, drug store, two groceries, a barber shop and a furniture store were destroyed as part of the blaze. In Boone county, Anderson of Boone county bought a 225 acre farm near Spring Hill from T. Coffin for 100 dollars an acre, higher than Coffin paid years earlier.
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Quimby
Sioux City
Here
Boone C
Derson
Boone County
Spring Hill
N. Coffin
Mr. Coffin
Fires, Deaths, and a Sawmill Blaze Across Iowa Towns
Fragmented report covers multiple local incidents: 12-year-old Tohnnie Long dies after coal oil used to start a fire in Mount Pleasant. Henry Huss, 44, a farmer near Dubuque, struck by lightning while driving a cart to a barn. Clarence Blackman sawmill near Copsport destroyed by fire likely from a pentane blaze. 16-year-old Charles Witt drowns in a pond at Watking farm in Dex Maines township. Story County Pioneer George T. McFarland, longtime resident near Gilberts and State Center, dies in San Francisco at age 83.
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Mount Pleasant
Tohnnie Long
Nika
Sidney Long
Burna
Dubuque
Henry Huss
Artheresa’s
Dmbuque
Cartle
Story County
Diss. Boone
George T. McFarland
Gilbert
State Center
San Francisco
Land sells high near Dysart in Tama county
The Andrew Krambeck eighty acre farm adjoining Dysart was sold at public auction for 277.50 per acre, the highest Tama county land price. Six years earlier Krambeck had purchased the property for 160 per acre.
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Andrew Krambeck
Dysart
Tama County
Kramback
Cambridge to Build School Addition in Ames Contract
The independent Cambridge school district plans a material addition to its school house. Cole Brothers of Ames secured the contract for 10,183 dollars.
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Cambridge Improves School
Nevada
Cambridge
Cole Brothers
Ames
Industrial continuation schools urged by Iowa State College official
K G Smith of Iowa State College calls for plant based continuation schools to extend industrial education. Reports from Mason City Waterloo and Cedar Rapids show strong student enthusiasm. Plans include two to five hours weekly at the plant with pay and no trade operations. broader adoption hinges on legislative support and employer cooperation.
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Mason City
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Hias
H. M. Gilmore
Dr. Poole
Bvgary
Mayon City
William Bayless
Marshalltown
Charles City
Judge opposes concealed weapon law in Iowa case
Judge Snyder of Council Bluffs criticizes Iowa’s concealed weapon law as ineffective for criminals yet burdensome for law abiding citizens. Four harvest hands faced charges, were bound over to grand jury and jailed on bonds, while the judge urged licensing be reconsidered. In a separate note, 75 Iowa corporations face an $80 penalty for failing to file 1914 annual reports, with notices sent to delinquent firms.
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B. Snyder
Superior Court of
Council Bluffs
Iawa
Iowa
Secretary of State
Sampson
Duri ‘Ng
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Corps of Expert
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Wallington
Ipaia
Robert T. Ross
Palmyra
George H Franzon
Palrbury
Earnest L. Benson
Galva
David M. Flynn
Geneva
F. B. Pook
Gerard
Robert D. Bolen
Marca
Eddis M. Chenoweth
Piskilwa
Missouri
House
Champ Clark
Virginia
White House
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Hmory Speer
Georgia
Ate
Congress
Admiral Peary
Frederick A. Cooke
North Pole
Aixstory
Portamouth
N.H
Atata Supreme Court of Missouri
International Harvester Company of America
Salem
Sunt Brown
Hie
Neer Flanning
Kan
Robert Jenking
Whites Point
Los Angeles Harbor
California
Oye
Laura Townsend
Laura Townseend
Mize Myrtla Brandon
Harry Baker
Harry Harte
Kalamazoo
Mich
Misa ' Bernice
Mias
Lake Shore
Claire
Toho Ralyea
Louis Brakeman
Milas
Braven
Wisconsin
Minneapolis
Watertown
Madison
LaSalle Street Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago
James J. Brady
D. V. Harkin
Frederick Porter
State Auditor’s
William Lorimer
C. B. Munday
Brady
D. B. Harkin
Lorimer Munday Bank
Butte, Mont
Butte Miners’ Union
Uilmers’ Hall
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Sandusky
Cleveland
Horace Courtenay Gammell Forbes
Forbes
Scotland
Dundes
Durazzo
William
Borislawski
St. Petersburg
Misa Gordon
Glasgow
Peter I of
Servia
Holgrade
Alexander
George
Towa
Holland
BIG
Towa Sweet Corn Pack
Knoxville
Clarence Blackman
Copsport
India
Heny ‘Bampoon
State Manufacturers’ Association
A.B. Sale
P. W. Hall
Towa Bank
Era’ Association
C. EH. Wry
Iowa Retail Clothiers
L. C. Abbott
Tonto
Burlington
B.J. Salinger
Carroll
Breme
Seth Thoma Preme
of the Aupréme Court
Thomas
Sanders
Lone Rock
Kossuth
Ina Chafee
Fern A. Wetzel
Emory English
Wither
James HH. Wilson
Chase
Gues Emory English
Govert
Clarke
For
Railroad
Goms
Atate
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