Amusing Berlin posthumous play notice and diverse items
A Berlin paper reprinted an amusing posthumous Tannhaeuser program note by Wagner’s widow arguing the hero and heroine marry at the end, not die. The column also reports on New York ice water fountains plans, Masonry charter curios, tenants and children anecdotes, Washington and Chicago briefs, and brisk city observations.
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Berlin
Tannhaeuser
Wagner
Lanthaeuser
Richard Wagner
Tannhouser
Elizabeth
Reine
No Money To Enforce Game Laws Overlooked By Senate
Des Moines reports that a $16,000 appropriation for the state fish and game commission was omitted by the legislature. Fish and game warden George A. Lincoln awaits details as departments lack funds for deputies and enforcement, leaving Sabula fish ponds unfunded and inland waters restocking halted. The oversight follows passage in the house and a reported postponement in the senate.
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Des Moines
Davison
Executive Council
Fish and Game Commission
Lincoln
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Ginealn
Sabula
Lambert
Carnegie Grants $20000 to Mason City Library
Mason City IA April 16 Mason Oill reports Andrew Carnegie will give Mason City a $20000 donation for a public library. The gift, arranged after J B Blythe met Carnegie in New York and with Secretary Shiv, exceeds Carnegie’s original plan for cities of this size by $7000.
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Womans’ Municipal League of
New York City
Charen Tempernce Society
Andrew Carnegie
Mason City
Mason Oill
J. B
Blythe
Washington
Shiv
New York
Carnegie
Early crop bulletin reports ahead season but retard in growth
The crop bulletin notes the season is at least ten days ahead of average in the Des Moines area yet seed germination and vegetation growth are retarded by cold and dry weather. March warmer than usual. early April cold with high winds and light rainfall. Seeding of small grain nearly complete. plowing for canning progresses. hay outlook poor. winter grains fared fairly well. clover meadows damaged. fruit trees in good condition except peaches. rye stack condition below average with no disease losses.
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Des Moines
Towa
Oold
Meayeh
Hye Stack
Rifle Practice Camp Set for May in Iowa
Adjutant Byers to issue orders for the annual rifle practice camp. It will be held at Cedar Rapids May 4 to 29 with Colonel Morse of Al-Bova in charge. Guard company members will be detailed to receive instruction and the state rifle unit will be organized.
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Byers
Des Moines
Tiedap Rapids
WW. I. H. Morse
al- Bova
Cedar Rapids
Keokuk medical and dental colleges hold joint exercises
Medics pharmacists and dentists of Keokuk hold joint exercises and graduation events. Sixty four medical students, thirteen dental students and five pharmacists were graduated. Alumni association plans a meeting tonight with expected wide attendance.
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Keokuk
Kenokuk Medical College
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Keokuk Dental College
Keokuk School of Pharmacy
Funeral for Rev Talmage Held at Washington Church
Funeral services for Rev T DeWitt Talmage were held at the Church of the Covenant in Washington. The crowded ceremony featured ministers from New York and Brooklyn, a White House floral wreath, and tributes calling him one of the century’s great preachers. The casket lay before the pulpit as hymns were sung and prayers offered before burial preparations in New York.
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Washington
Church of the Sovenant
T. DeWitt Talmage
Xelock
Tennis 8
Hamlin
Church of the Covenant
Chalmers Easton
S. J. Nichols
United States Supreme Court
Gullum
Imnois
Buttons
Michigan
Delliver
Town
Willam Alden Smith
Tohn W. Foster
Louis i Klapsch
New York
Bittinger and
Piske
G. L. Magruder
A. H. Branch
FM. Lawrence
Brooklyn
B. H. Warner
Dr. Talmage
Ir. Hamlin
Mr. Talmage
Ir. Talmage
Demarest
Dr. Valmage
Gaston
Paul
Beecher
Spurgeon
Talmage
Mangan
Donnan
Richmond
Pennsylvania Railroad
Attorney General Letter On Beef Trust Inquiry Began
Washington April 1. A letter from the attorney general to Representative Ray chair of the House Judiciary Committee discusses the beef trust allegations. It says no formal evidence exists yet and urges a federal district attorney led investigation, noting widespread notoriety and that no legal steps should be taken before full fact gathering.
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Washington
Aftoriles
United States
Death of Samuel M. Scoville Son-in-Law of Beecher
The Rev Dr Samuel M Scoville assistant pastor of Plymouth church Brooklyn died today after a complication of diseases He was the son in law of the late Henry Ward Beecher Philadelphia April 16
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Beecher
Philadelphia
Samuel M. Scoville
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
Des Moines Despatch on Twentieth-Ninth Iowa Assembly Close
The Des Moines report chronicles the final adjournment of the twenty-ninth Iowa General Assembly. It notes clocks were stopped at noon, sessions extended in the House and Senate, the gifting of a Philippines wood cane to the governor, and the passage or defeat of key measures including railroad taxation and merger bills. It comments on the session as extravagant, under corporate influence, with rising salaries and levies, and political maneuvering ahead of 1904 contests.
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Des Moines
Twenty-third General Assembly
Hutchord
House
Northwest Iowa
Senate
Cumming
Executive Council
Garst
Mattes
Sac
Carter
Cowles
Wilson
Bugna Vista
Sweeley
Gilchrist
Longan
Crawford
Iowa
Cummins
Cedar Rapids
General Assembly
Isis
Rish
Coroner exonerates motor man in McLean death
In Council Bluffs on April 11 the coroner's jury said Nathan S. McLean died after wandering on Omaha Council Bluffs line tracks. No blame on the motor company. Witness J. W. French, conductor of motor No. 50, testified McLean tried to alight near the bridge and pull the bell cord before the car halted at Twenty-third Street.
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Motorman and Company
Council Bluffs
Nathan S. McLean
Omaha
Mclean Tme
Motor Company
J. W. French
Motor No
Douglas Street
McLean
French
Twenty-Third Street
Agen
Thirty-seventh Street
Jail Break at Audubon Details Escape of Two Prisoners
Audubon Iowa April 14 two prisoners Meid for robbery Winch ell and Albert Ables escaped by cutting window jambs and prying bricks from a jail grating. Outside help suspected as a saw and knife were found near the jail and brick fragments lay around the exterior. Ables about 22, 5 feet 8, 140 pounds, light mustache, bald spot. Winchell about 23, nearly 6 feet, 176 pounds, small face, light hair, long beard style.
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Meid
Audubon
Hirk Winchell
Albert Ables
Grand Jury
Extra
Abies
Winchell
General Smith to face court martial for cruelty charges
Cabinet and secretary of war discuss possible court martial for General Jacob H. Smith over alleged cruelty in the Philippines. Testimony ties Smith to orders to kill and burn with “Everything over 20” as the age limit. officials plan further investigations and potential trials, including Major Waller and others. Cases, witnesses, and dates cited, with emphasis on full, decisive action by military authorities.
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Washington
Filipinas
United States
Roat
Chaffee
Manila
Waller
Marine Corpa
Jacob H. Smith
Smith
Senate Committee On
Charles Riley
Lewis Smith
Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry
Igbarras
Kallo -Province
Panay
Highteenth Infantry
Arthur L. Conger
Edoward F. Glenn
Twenty-ffth Infantry
Palmer Lyon
Conger
Lyon
Eighteenth Infantry
Secretary of War
L. Ir. ‘Grenn
Twentieth Infantry
San Francisco
Department of California
Philippine Islands
Igbarrag
Philippines
Gie
Siennas
Tila
Gardner
Hay
Shibu Root
Mark for Misfortune Wealthy Kansas Stockman Faces Relentless Fate
John Kirsch a Marysville Kansas area stockman and farmer has endured a string of disasters. His son was killed when a cable broke on a stump puller and in recent months his father mother wife mother in law and two children died. His farm livestock and property suffered destruction and he is believed to be severely ill. If he dies no blood relatives remain in the family of ten.
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Kansas
St. Joseph
John Kirsch
Marysvile
Kan
National Association of Manufacturers Holds Seventh Convention
The seventh annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers opened in Indianapolis this morning with welcoming remarks from State Auditor Hart and Mayor Bookwalter and responses from President Search as the group presented its annual report.
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Indianapols
National Association of Manufacturers
Hart
Bookwalter
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