Notable Honors and Unfolding Events Across World News
Theodore Roosevelt gains LL D from Cambridge in a quiet ceremony. Miss Mathilde Townsend wed Peter Goelet Gerry in a lavish Boston wedding gown. Stephen Higgins jokes about mistaking Thomas Lawson for a worker, Leroy Hendricks is touring the world on a painting-signs venture. Mrs Roosevelt visits Buckingham Palace. James A Patten plans retirement. Peary earns Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh amid praise. Taft brothers pivot politically. Samuel Spencer statue dedicated. Hetty Green faces a lawsuit in New York. Amos Snell dies in Chicago. World’s Sunday School association grants life memberships to Taft family, Diaz, Bryan, and others with $1,000 subscriptions.
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Theodore Roosevelt
LL. D
Cambridge
England
Mathilde Townsend
Washington, D. C
May Scott Townsend
Peter Goelet Gerry
New York
Elbridge T. Gerry
Boston
Mass
Stephen Higgins
Thomas W. Lawson
Leroy Hendricks
A. R. Hendricks
Sterling, UI
Buckingham Palace
Alexandra
Roosevelt
James A. Patten
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Georgia
Hetty Green
Albert J. Snell
Amos J. Snell
Chicago
Taft
Col
Theao Gore Roosevelt
King George
President Diaz
Mexico
William Jennings Bryan
World's
Sunday School Association
Washington
Prosecution plays trump in sugar trust case
The sugar trust weighing conspiracy trial heard Prose tutor Simpson as the government’s first witness Oliver Spitzer former Williamsburg docks superintendent and a recent underweighing convict. Other items include Standard Oil wage raises, a submarine sinking, bribery allegations in Indiana and New Jersey, and various legal and criminal incidents across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Simpson
Oliver Spitzer
Williiamsburg
E. ¥. Hutton & Co
New York
New York Stock Exchange
English Channel
Pluviois
Pluvioge
William‘ c. Blaly
Mount Vernon
Linda
General Assembly
Sanga Maniicipal Art Commission
Williamsburg
Atlanta
Henry 0. Havemeyer
Battle Creek
Mich
William EE. Parmless
Presbyterian General Assembly
Atlantic City
Cannon
Federal Commission
United States
Haldane Cleminson
McSurley
Chicago
Orange
N. J
Mlness
H. Clay Pierce
St. Louis
Pierce
West of Oklahoma
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
John J. Sloggart
New York City
Jackson Edwards
Denver
Col
Louis Gratch
James A. Patten
Bears
Chicago Board of Trade
Charles W. Morse
City Railway Company
Des Moines
Sarah E. Peck
Normal Department
Union College
United States District Court
Lincbolin
Neb
James M. Anderson
Hmil Winter
Workingmen’s Savings Bank and Trust Company of
Pittsburg
Catafalque
Edward VII
Westminster Hall
Queed
Alexandra
Roosevelt
Uckingham
Preparatory Garden Caution Amid Unusual Iowa Spring
The Hawkeye State warns gardeners not to rush planting tender crops due to abnormal spring conditions. Wesley Greene, secretary of the Horticultural Society, urges caution as frosts linger. Nearly fifty incidents, including accidents and local notes, follow from Nashua to Keokuk, Mason City, and Washington County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Greene
The
Horticultural Society
Greene
Ernest
John Kinnehart
Nashua
Delaware County
Halley
John Hempstead
Manchester
Hempstead
Hipley
Calhoun County Fair Association
John Scheidegger
Elgin
Neils Feldt
Clinton
Lincoln
Johnson County
Lone River
Iowa City
Iowa
Board of Health
Sioux City
United Commercial Traveler
Fort Madison
Encampment of Iowa Grand Army Set for Des Moines
Des Moines May 28 General orders from Commander McDonald announce the Iowa Grand Army encampment in Des Moines on June 9 and 10. The note emphasizes expected large attendance, Des Moines as a central invite, and views of the Army Post as a lasting memory for veterans.
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Des Moines
McDonald
Iowa Grand Army
Crocker
Kinsman
A. Burnap
J. H.kaons
Council of Administration
Adit
Geo. A. Newman
Thomas Graham
Logan
Fifty-fourth Regiment
Iowa
National Guard
War Department
Provisional Brigade
Sparta
Wis
Iowa Guard
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Iowa
Vena Barth
Greene
Williamson
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General News
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Hawkeye State News
OWA
R. D. McFarlane
Washington County
Mr. McFarlane
Lawrence County
Penn
James McFarlane
Sim Greene
Bio
Ann Dickson
Mahing County
Ohio
McFarlane
Mattle Kerr
Jackson Township
EB. McFarlane
Lake Andes
R. FL. McFarlane
West Cheater
Nettle Mayhew
Harve
May Brown
Macksbore
Blanche McFarlane
Mra McFarlane
Mason City
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
Woman's Suffrage Association
Charles City
Leo Chapman
Catt
Champaion
Jews Dairy Association
W. W. Marsh
Waterloo
Patrick Barnette
North McGregor
Monona
Girard Creek
Co. W. Wheeler
Norwalk
Burlington Railroad
Osceola
Union Yards
Des ‘Moines
Harrison Lumber Company
Keokuk
Art Kloos
August Wagner
Muscatine
Mary Wagner
Darlham
Treasury Department
Burdette Stover
Joseph Stover
Freeman
Iowa City Commercial Club
Masons of Independence
Masonic Temple Association of Independece
J. T. Stisgard
Dubuque
Era House
Herbert Higbee
Internal Revenue
Baa AL
Byers
John Doe
Sumner
G. H. Summer
State Board of Health
Iowa State Osteopathic Association
Parrish
State Druggists Association
Frankb
Clark
J. Finner
F. .A. Hayhorst
Gar
Ded Moines Gity Railway
Locust Streets
Deg Moines ‘Street Railway Company
Interurban Railway
Mary Lucile Fisher
Methodist Hospital
Warren S. Wright
Mount Ayr
E. T. Hagerman
Susan Hart Clay
Minnie Florence Jones
Ora Belle Gnagey
Hazel Grace Anderson
Sarah Markey-Smith
Anna Christine Peterson Lygum
Nora A. Collins
Loudeam Boatwright
Lydia Irene McDonald
Gertrude Vivian Myers
Jennie Elizabeth Andrews
Anpis F. Crawston Knipe
Vivian R. Briggs
Alvira B. Stengel
A. C. Page
Lafayette Young
E. D. Sampson
J. 5. Barnett
Fannie Wilkins-Ryan
Tolbert McRae
Adda Blakeslee
Mattie
Mattie Spelling-Collins-Robinson
Sterling
Fred Sterling
Hobby No
Court of Justice of the Peace Convoy
Spirit Lake
Iowa State Board of Health
WI Keep
J. W. Day
First Presbyterian Church
Iowa Constitutional Amendment Association
David
Bobb
Mra
J. He Miller
D. B
Stone
John MacVicar
Gcommittes
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