Submarine War Near U S Coasts Worries Officials
Central Powers observers in Washington warn against extrapolating more warfare near American shores. Officials note no ships were sunk without warning in one day of operations and stress adherence to international law. Debate continues whether a flotilla or lone U boats are off the coast near U S ports and how commerce would be affected.
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Washington
United States
New York
France
Great Hrstein
Deutschland
Bremen
Rose
Germany
Auto Theft Gang Operates Across Midwest States
A gang of automobile thieves reportedly operated in Minneapolis, Sioux City, Omaha, St. Joseph and Kansas City since July, with at least fourteen cars stolen and sold. Ben Lyons of Sioux City confessed to respective thefts and to being Roger Morris of Correctionville Iowa, son of the county school superintendent. Four cars have been recovered in Sioux City and multiple officers work with investigators to locate remaining vehicles. Assman, a druggist from Omaha, and Harry Goddard from Council Bluffs are detained, with Assman refusing to talk.
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Sioux City
Minneapolis
Omaha
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Ben* Lyons
J. J. Mergena
A. I. Assman
Neb
Assman
Harry Goddard
Council Bluffs
Atsman
Spanish War Sea Hero Dies in Northampton
Northampton Mass Rear Admiral Prancia A Cook A N retired who earned praise for eminent conduct in Battle of Santiago de Cuba died suddenly at his home. Born in Northampton in 1843 he served forty years in the American navy and was retired in 1903. St Louis board of missions proposes 2 1 million dollars for missionary work next year.
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Northampton
Mass
Prancia A. Cook
Brooklyn
Santiago de Cuba
Admiral Cook
Government refutes TB plague report on German camps
Berlin asserted in an official statement to Overseas News that the published claim prisoners in German camps were deliberately infected with tuberculosis and sent home or abroad to spread the disease is false. Yonkers man John Reid, long considered a pioneer of golf in America, dies at 78. He hailed from Dunfermline, Scotland.
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Berlin
Yonkers
N. Y
John Reid
America
Dunfermiine
Scotland
Volhynia
Lutsk
Somme
Thae Front
Douglas Haig
London
World War News and Related Incidents In Brief
Military updates from Transylvania to the Struma front share Romanian withdrawals and Bulgarian actions, plus Russian defeats and Serbian advances. Also noted: sinking of the Cunard liner Tranconia, city riots in Chicago, Detroit police bonus plan, and a fatal fire at Christian Brothers College in St. Louis with student escape and significant losses.
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Nike
Christian Brothers’ College
St. Louis
Christian Brothers’ Order
Tien
Multiple Crises and Accidents Stir Early 20th Century News
Domestic Major Gebaral Goethals and two officials face ban by President Wilson from a congress created board probing the eight hour law. A Chicago Alton train derails near Granite City injuring none of 150 aboard. A Covington bank robbery nets 2000 dollars, two perpetrators captured after a posse chase. Detroit police hear confession linking a Michigan Central wreck at Bridgeport Ontario with two deaths. Pittsburgh telegraph firm approves a 45 percent wage rise affecting nearly 260 workers. A Winnolg Powder mill explosion in Grafton kills three and injures several.
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Gebaral Goethals
Panga Capit
George Rublee
Clark
Loterstate Commerce Board
Wilson
Congress
Wilson speeches and wartime stance noted in brief
Washington officials dispute reports of German peace overture while a war department inquiry finds no officer inefficiency in aeronautics. Hughes visits Newark. Sherman rejects debate with Gompers. Wilson outlines war aims and a future League of Nations after the conflict.
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Special War Department Board
Washington
Military Aeronautics
Army
Mexican decree orders death penalty for robbers in capital
The Mexican government prepared a decree at Mexico City providing for the dead penalty for robbers bandits and those convicted of holdups. The decree mirrors Juarez era measures and has drawn protests from the British and French embassies in Washington over Mexico City seizure of British and French banking assets.
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Mexico City
Benito Juarez
State Department
Washington
Carranga
Mexico
World figures urge peace as trade war fears rise
Foreign Viscount Bryce of Dechmont urged a league to restrain aggression and compel arbitration at a Birmingham union meeting. General Euitilana Chamorre was elected president of Nicaragua Field. Field Marshal TerauchI was named premier of Japan replacing Count Okuma. A Frankfurt meeting called for early peace. An Amsterdam dispatch to London reports the developments.
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Viscount Bryce of Dechmont
Washington
Congregational Union
Birmingham
England
Terauch
Count Okuma
Japan
Tokyo
Frankfort
Amsterdam
London
Iowa Mortality and Auto Fatalities Prompt Warnings
Iowa health officials report rising auto deaths in June and July, with 124 May fatalities from violence and a total 1,910 deaths from all causes that month. The bulletin emphasizes infantile paralysis, urges reporting new cases, and notes state actions on fire safety, parole grants, and the auto registration penalty increase to 40 percent.
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Des Moines
State Board of Health
Butler
Sounty
Dallas
Sime
Woodbury
Chibuque
Muacatine
Polk County
Cherokee
Fayette
Floyd
Fremont
Jaeper
Marshal
O'Brien
Pottawattamie
Sac
Scott
Tama
Keokuk
Polk
Calhoun
Greene
Ila
Mabaska
Marshall
Shelby
Winneshiek
Iowa
State Automobile Registration Department
State Department
Iowa Banks Reach Large Deposits As Of Sept Statement
Des Moines reports state banks savings banks and trust companies under the state banking department show robust finances. Deposits total 261 988 688 95 at the Sept 12 call up 183 049 88 from the June 30 call and up 39 312 663 85 from a year ago. Overdrafts and bills receivable rise while gold coin falls. The average reserve stands at 18 5 percent with eight new banks since June and forty nine since Sept 11.
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Des Moines
Stata Banking Department
State Banking Department
Mora Paving Project Planned for Algona Next Year
Algona plans extensive paving next year adding nearly 75 blocks of sephartic concrete pavement. Five miles of pavement will be laid in spring and summer with commercial club petitions backing the move. Estimated cost approaches $100,000.
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Mora
Algona
Commercial Club
Second Iowa Unit to Be First Demobilized From Border
Reports from Greeley indicate the Second Infantry of the National Guard will be the first Iowa unit released from border duty after demobilization orders. A letter from a Second Regiment officer, deemed authentic, says Brig. Gen. H A Allen recommended to General Funston that the Second Regiment be the first removed from border service.
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Iowa
Ft. Dodge
N. G
Grownville
H. A. Allen
Funston
May Return To Border
Yowa City border patrol affects State university causing many prominent men to be unable to resume work at the fall term. Several have received thirty day releases and returned to campus hoping comrades will be freed by the end of their absence, though some may have to leave again for the border.
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Iowa
Guy’ B. Logan
War Department
Brownsville
Yowa City
State University
Hogs Die of Cholera Near Luther and Grand Prairie
Information from local farmers reports hogs dying from cholera in the Luther and Grand Prairie area. A government veterinarian is holding meetings in school houses to discuss eradication methods and the epidemic.
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Boone
Luther and
Grand Prairie
New College Department to be Established in Cedar Rapids
An announcement states a new college department will be formed in Cedar Rapids with a patriat chair soon. A 47, Cobv subscription has been secured and a campaign aims to raise 60000 dollars to ensure the department's permanency.
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New College
Cedar Rapids
Cancollage
Iowa Leads In Autos Des Moines Report
Statistics from the department of agriculture in Washington show one person out of forty nationwide owns a car. In Iowa one in twelve people owns a machine, a higher rate than any other state.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Tha Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
United States
Towa
Dedicata New School Ames Dedicated by Governor Clarke
Citizens of Roland dedicate a new school building valued at 50000 dollars with Governor George W. Clarke as chief speaker and State Superintendent DeVoal on the program.
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Dedicata
Ames
Roland
Ichoolhouse
George W. Clarke
Devoo
Starts Big Damage Suit in Missouri City
Sheriff Jackson of Montgomery county served notices on nine defendants in a $26,000 damage suit. Senator F Jonas of the city and Detective J N Wilkerson of the Byrne Detective agency Kansas City are named with eight others, mostly business leaders and farmers. They are accused of injuring him by imputing he financed the crime in Joe Moore’s home on June 9 1912.
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Williaca
Jackson
Montgomery County
F. Jonas
J.N. Wilkerson
Byrne Detective Agency
Kansas City
Otf
Joe Moore
Wireless center plan to send nationwide messages
Davenport announces a wireless center plan under Willie Will to send weekly transmissions across the United States. A five thousand station network will cover the country in circles with centers at each transmitting point. The system aims to be ready for general alarm or invasion, officials say.
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Davenport
Ax’ Transmission ‘Center
Willie ‘Will
United States
Wi' H. Kirwan
Thomielale
SXB
Kirwan
Joseph Turdully
Portland
Acceptanc
Ita Center
Lapa
Ita
Back From War Zone To Fort Dodge
Miss Genevieve Bigley of Graettinger returns from the fighting front in France. She served six months with the Chicago Unit under Dr. J. B. Murphy and was stationed near Brantes, eighty five miles north of Paris, where censorship limits details of experiences.
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Fort Dodge
Mise
Genevieve Bigley
Graattinger
France
Thalr
Higley
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
J. B. Murphy
Brantes
Paris
Fatal Auto Wreck at Bloomfield Claimed Miss Barnes
Miss Clara Barnes a domestic science teacher in the Moulton schools died from injuries after an automobile crash near Bloomfield. August Post president of the National Bank of Moulton, owner of the wrecked car, was injured and later reported improved. Mrs Barnes and Rost among the few passengers sustained injuries as the machine overturned and burned. Barnes was trapped beneath the wreckage with severe burns.
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Bloomfield
Clara Barnes
Moulton
August Post
the National Bank of Moulton
J Mias Barnes
Rost
FeYon
Migs Barnes
Plague Closes Webster City Schools
Webster City schools shut down amid outbreak of infantile paralysis with three cases in a week. One death reported. remaining patients are mild. Buildings to be fumigated and one case isolated at the county farm hospital.
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Webster City
Hoever
Iowa Boys and Girls Club Winners Named
The States Relations Service of the U S Department of Agriculture released Iowa winners in corn and pig clubs. Wade Hauser of Union led corn with 166.10 bushels per acre at cost and a profit of 106.21 dollars, while Earl Dayton led pigs with two 120 day pigs gaining 470 pounds at a cost of 22.83 dollars and a profit of 12.98 dollars.
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Ames
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wade Hauser
Union
Iowa
Earl’ Bla! Dayton
Waterloo to Build Gravel Roads Milestone Project
Waterloo secures a contract for an ambitious gravel road experiment. About five miles of road will be built with one mile gravelled on each main artery from the business center. Roadways will be twelve feet wide and gravel layer ten inches deep.
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Waterloo
Iowa Guardsman Drowns at Fort Dodge Incident
The body of James Rhodes a 20 year old private with Second Infantry Iowa National Guard was found drowned in a canal near the Growneville Texas training camp. Rhodes home was in Brushy nearby.
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Iowa
Fort Dodge
James Rhodes
Pany
Iowa National Guard
Growneville
Texas
Rhodes
Brushy
Hare
Judging Team Chosen for Kansas City Competition
After the Kentast competition the Iowa State College Judging Team was selected to contest against other colleges at Royal Stock Show in Kansas City. Prof. Pew, head of the animal husbandry department, named the team of women and alternates Chiia Christenson W. W. LaGrange L. EK. Wheelar J. K. Evans and V. B. Petars.
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Plek
Ames
Iowa State College
Royal Stockshaw
Kansas City
Prof. Pew
Anna Husbandry Department
Chiia Christenson
W. W. LaGrange
L. EK. Wheelar
J. K. Evans
V. B. Petars
Ames Students Win Honore at American Royal Livestock Show
Ames college students took first honors at the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City and the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress. Teams from Missouri Kansas and Nebraska colleges competed, with Waterloo's unit featuring Leslia V Wilson Grinnell J AY Sturdevant and Walter Ly Henderson. Wilson of the Ames team earned top placing overall.
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Ames
Ames College
Kansas City
Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Waterloo
Leslia
Wilson
Grinnell
AY Sturdevant
Sioux City
Walter Ly Henderson
Randolph
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New York Evening Post
Charles 14. Hughes
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Ja Baptise Church
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Samuel Goupers
American Federation of Labor
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League of Nations
Euitilana Chamorre
Hava
Nicara ,Gua
Koto Toll
G. H. Sumner
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C. E. Cameron
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N.Y
Dubuque
J. C. Sanders
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Giahia Wietek
Guy
Logedsesh
T Delieve
Baby Mambera
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Brownaville
A. J. Latteer
Taylor County
Helga Koraasen
Winnenbiek
Ole Rassing
Humboldt County
Chafing
Howard
Linn County
John Coler
Chicakasaw
Edwin Pratt
State
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Department of Public Instruction
Allen
Ivanhoe Whitted
Department of Agriculture
Williamsburg
Fort Des Moines
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Sixth Cavalry
Conny
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