Briefly Told Happenings of the Past Week
A compact review covers Captain Arthur Resiron receiving a gold medal from Taft for aiding Titanic survivors, the Webb liquor bill's Senate repassage, three money trust reports before Congress, and various federal actions. Also notes naval appropriation, pension bill passage, a Kansas City police killing, a New York marriage hoax, labor strikes, and other midyear political and social items.
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Arthur II. Resiron
Taft
Congress
Foreign Death on the Guillotine and War Losses Reported
Four mobile bandits face the guillotine after months of terror in Paris, with others condemned to long prison terms and one deaths in a cell post sentence. A German airman Helfensnider died and Lt Linke injured near Muelhausen. Mexico asks Diaz to return to active service. Antarctic explorers Adèle Land, Ninnis, and Merz die. Laughlin becomes first US ambassador to London. Hilles receives a silver cup. Women’s industrial exposition offered to New York by Straus.
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Paris
France
Lfe
Davenport Women’s club candidate faced by Pat Crowe backers
A Davenport school director race sparks opposition tied to Pat Crowe’s temperance lecture at the Burtis opera house. Opponents claim Tiv Tucker benefited from Crowe’s visit, while other city items note a parolee sobbing on return to reform school and a Knoxville man debunking Osler theories about elderly value.
Retiring bank president MeKihinney to stay in finance
Fayette FL MeKihinney 42, president of Black Hawk National Bank and Security Savings Bank at Waterloo, plans retirement from active labor but will retain leadership roles and oversee investments. He estimates wealth near $300,000 and intends to travel heavily.
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Brayton, Sayings Bank
Niels P. Hoegh
William P. Hoegh
M. B. Nelson
John R. Heiken
Atlantic
Jesse Nymand
John C. Nelson
American Bible Society
Kelloge
Henry W. Wulf
Magnolia
Frazier
Harvey, Johnson
Presbyterian Church of State
Henry Love
State Center
Rock Island Road
Berdina Schroeder
Davenport
Elizabeth Struthers
Mount Pleasant
Eliza
Hillsboro
Washington
Rock Island Arsenal
Fred Schuman
Sullivan
Mason City
Clark
A. P. Hendrickson
Marshalltown
Jacob Viele
Grinnell
Bryn Mawr College For Women
Ames
Bryn Mawr
Charles Mulberry
Rock Island
Manley
U Nsong
Iowa Northern Railway Company, & G
Tabor
Ray Weatherhead
Burden of Actual Lawmaking Push Amid Overtime Assembly
Des Moines notes lawmakers reconvened after vacation as the Thirty-fifth assembly faces an overtime schedule to clear a record bill file. Veteran observers doubt adjournment before May 1, 1911, with 504 bills on file versus 111 a year earlier. Jacobs and Allen named potential leaders in the house and senate.
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Des Moines
Thirty-fifth Assembly
Senate
House
Assembly
Thirty-fourth Assembly
Thirty Fifth Assembly
Clarke
John W. Jacobs
Calhoun County
Joseph H. Allen
Pocahontas
Death summons Iowa lawmaker Thayer dies at 59
Frank A. Thayer, a Franklin county representative, died suddenly at his home from heart failure on Saturday morning. He had just returned from Des Moines after attending the Thirty-fifth assembly session and planned to reconvene with the legislature. Thayer, 59, had lived in Iowa for 45 years and was born in New York. He was elected last fall as a Republican member of the Thirty fifth assembly.
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New York
Assembly
Humboldt Drugists Hit Fines Paid to County
From the Humboldt county grand jury in session, drugstore proprietors paid 1800 in fines to the county. Fred Maher of Gilmore City and H G Paulsen of Thor were fined 400 and 300 respectively. I L Maher of Gilmore City, W G Butler of Bradgate and O B Nerby of Thor were fined 400 200 and 200 respectively.
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Humboldt
Humboldt County Grand Jury
Fred Maher
Gilmore City
H. G. Paulsen
Thor
I. Maher
W. G. Butler
Bradgate
O. B. Nerby
Oldest Hopkinton Citizens Attend Banquet
The oldest residents gathered at A. B. Wheeles home last week for a banquet. Attendees included Richard Cook 90 Peter Guthrie 90 William Danford 87 David Gearhart 85 A. B. Wheeless 87 Mrs Gearhart 80 H Moulton 83 R Millis 81 and other patriarchs.
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Hopkinton
A. B. Wheeles
Richard Cook
Peter Guthrie
Willam Danford
David Gearhart
A. B. Wheeless
Mrs. Gearhart
H. Moulton
R. Millis
Boggs Sentenced for Embezzlement in Morrison Bank Case
E A Boggs, former Waterloo businessman, received an indeterminate term not to exceed five years after a Morrison bank larceny by embezzlement conviction for $350. The verdict came from a Grundy Center jury two weeks ago.
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E. A. Boggs
Grundy Center
Waterloo
Morrison Bank
Steal Btock Near Ames Nevada Reported
Two horses a wagon and heavy double harness were stolen from farmers south of Ames Nevada. Authorities in nearby towns have been furnished with a description of the stock but no other clues have been found.
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Ames
Nevada
Postoffice Clerks Meet in Ottumwa June 4
The state association of postoffice clerks will meet in Ottumwa on June 4. Fort Dodge is listed as the host city for the gathering, with plans to discuss union affairs and related clerical topics.
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Postoffice Clerka
Fort Dodge
State Association of Postoffice Clerks
Ottumwa
Collision Kills Engineer in Goose Lake Collision
Wesley Hunt a Clinton engineer aged 61 was killed instantly when a Chicago and Northwestern freight and a passenger train collided head on near Goose Lake. Fireman Schonnfeldt was seriously injured and six passengers sustained injuries none serious.
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Clinton
Wesley Hunt
Wreman Schonnfeldt
Chicago & Northwestern
Goose Lake
Holst Hog Sale Draws Crowd at Denison
The Holst sale of Cheater White hogshare attracted a large turnout in Denison. Forty one hogs were sold at all over, indicating strong demand for the line.
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Denison
Western Canada's Phenomenal Development
Western Canada shows rapid growth with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta boasting vast arable lands and rising immigration. Farm land values lure American farmers seeking 160 acre homesteads and potential profits. vast mineral and forest wealth await development as cultivation stands at roughly 15 percent of 218 million acres.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Chicago
Canadian
Prairies
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
Brown, Muscle and Sinew
Western
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House Money Trust Committee
J. P. Morgan & Co
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Department of Labor
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Arizona
Joe
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Homer Riggle
Kansas City
Hubert G. A. Hassler
Mabel V. Broadie
New Trunswick
N. 4
Majestic Athletic Association of
Jackson
Miss
City Hall
Hassler
Reaton
Allis Chalmers Company
Milwaukee
James W. Wallace
John H. McClementy
Francis
Bangs
Sulzer
Whitman
John Wussell
Matteawan
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Harry K. Thaw
Doctor Russell
Hyde
Peterfield
Frank P. Walsh
John H. Lucas
Henderson
Panama Hatters and Trimmers
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Missouri
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Frieda Trost
Trost
Garment Workers
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Manhattan
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Witte Staethipee
Bo Heb Apedaet
Helfensnider
Linke
Muelhausen
Germany
Helfersnider
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Cairo
Egypt
Porfirio Diaz
The
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Antarctic
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Adele Land
Ninnis
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Merz
Douglas Mawson
Irwin B. Laughlin
London
Charles D. Hilles
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Burtis Opera House
Pat
Genevieve Tucker
Davenport Women’s Club
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Anamosa Reformatory
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H. D. McCoy
Knoxville
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Tama Jim” Wilson
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Turk
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Heli
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