Washington Taft denies land claims in Mexico by Japan
Taft informed the Senate that the State Department has no evidence of any land acquisition or intent by Japan in Mexico. Post office funding bill ends the ban on federal employees criticizing the post office. Titanic inquiry witness Bruce Ismay testifies and is allowed to depart Washington. Senate adopts Culbertson resolution for full matter on campaign contributions since 1904. Myto Shrine convention in Los Angeles draws thousands. A girl in New York feeds a diamond ring to her uncle’s horse. A woman impersonating a man works in mines to find her missing husband. A tablet at Harriman marks the first telegraphic train order, sent 61 years ago. Suffragists parade in New York. Mississippi levee collapse threatens sugar plantations. Anthracite miners demand wage rise or strike. Missouri ministers push against President Tait and Secretary Wilson. Chicago newspapers muted except the Daily Socialist. Union strike affecting delivery wagons. Senator Tillman warned health limits hinder speeches. St. Louis statesman bitten by dog but no rabies. A yacht-like schooner runs aground near Bridgeport. Cable ship Minla aborts body search for Titanic victims and heads to Halifax. Over 100,000 homeless in Torras district from levee break. Southern delegates press for a Black bishop at Minneapolis meeting. eastern railroads face high costs from locomotive firemen strike. Hillsville murder trial jury seated. Beale torpedo boat destroyer launched at Cramp. Broadway Bargain chief pleads guilty to mail fraud. South Bend employment bureau reports more jobs than applicants. Milwaukee streetcars run amid a strike.
Czarina in grave anxiety amid heart illness
Reports from St. Peters burg state the czarina suffers acute melancholia and requires constant surveillance as doctors monitor her fragile heart. News also arrives of a massive tidal wave that devastates Funa Point in Fiji with about 200 lives lost or missing.
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St. Petersburg
Funa Point
Victoria
B. C
Papal Delegate Arrives in New York From Rome
Personal Rt Rev Monsignor Cievann RBon zano titular archbishop of Maylere and new papal delegate to the United States arrives in New York aboard the Koenig Albert from Rome. He is formally received at St Patrick's Cathedral by Cardinal Farley and others rescued from the Titanic. He will sail for England on June 6.
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Monsignor Cievann Rbonzano
Maylere
United States
Cardinal Falconio
New York
Koenig Albert
Rome
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Farley
Various Iowa News Tidbits From Hawkeye State Ledger
A long list of short items from Des Moines to Dubuque notes deaths, legal actions, and local developments. Thomas Cleveland Dawson, 46, diplomat at Washington, dies after weeks of illness. Rev Elias Skinner, 86, found dead near Waterloo. Keokuk suit over damages. Gas substation planned for Keokuk at 100000. Iowa Falls aims to host Y M C A outings. Davenport Three I buys and releases players. Teachers seek raise amid higher living costs. Various arrests, indictments, and community concerns across towns including Ames, Fort Dodge, Oskaloosa, and Cedar Rapids. Elevator accident in Dubuque. Mehan shoots Burton in Oskaloosa. Transit and railway expansions loom for Anamosa and Water loo.
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Thomas Cleveland Dawson
State Department
Washington, D. C
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Dawgon
Latin-America
Elias Skinner
Upper Iowa
Cedar River
Waterloo
Mr. Skinner
Iowa
Frank E. Fisher
Hawkeye Pearl Button Company
Keokuk
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railround Company
Frank A. Fisher, Jr
Rock Island
Keokuk Gas & Electric Company
J. A. Trawick
Btone & Webster Utilities Company
Iowa Falls
Y. M. C. A. Boys
Association
Cedar Rapides
Davenport
Joe Wilkes
Pepper” Walah
Chicago
John Sullivan
Peoria
Fitcher
Martin Carey
St. Louis
Earl Halterman
Atkinson
Ill
Keokuk Hawa
Board of Education
John Ware
United States
Bryant
Creston
Dr. O. A. Cover
William
Shaw Lands Money to Buy Atlantic North & South Line
Des Moines reports Lesle M. Shaw has secured English funds to buy the Atlantic North & South railroad by selling Iowa & Omaha bonds. The option on the Atlantic line expired, and Judge Arthur will extend the time to May 16. Shaw says the deal enables the Iowa & Omaha to issue $5,000,000 in bonds to extend east from Council Bluffs.
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Des Moines
Lesle M. Shaw
Iowa
London
Atlantic North & South Railroad
Iowa & Omaha Road
Council Bluffs
Treynor
Bhaw
England
Iowa Medical Women Meet in Burlington May 6
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Iowa medical women will be in Burlington on Tuesday. Dr Nelle Noble will address The Importance of Pure Milk and Good Water Supply. Dr Lenna Means will greet and Dr Georgia Stewart will speak on The Early Diagnosis of Cancer. Eastern women physicians will give several addresses.
Iowa Guard to Join Fall Maneuvers at Fort Leavenworth
Des Moines reports from Chicago headquarters announce the Iowa National Guard units Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth regiments will depart August 19 to Fort Leavenworth Kansas for the annual fall maneuvers with US regulars. Col. B. H. Bennett will command the Fifty-fourth and Col. R. P. Howell will command the Fifty-fifth at Des Moines area posts.
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National Guard
Leavenworth
Col
R. P. Howell
Pin Found in Miss Tubbs’s Appendix Amputation Proceeded
Miss Mabel Tubbs of Lake City, Iowa, had a pin removed from her appendix and the appendix amputated after doctors at the state university medical college located the pin. She recalls swallowing the pin three years earlier, around age twelve in 1909.
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Town City
Ottumwa Hosts P. E. B. C. Convention Delegates
Ottumwa prepares for the P. E. B. C. convention with reservations in hotels and private homes for 256 delegates from Iowa chapters. Women attendees are expected to participate in the grand chapter sessions this week in the city.
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P.E. Q
Ottumwe
Iowa
P. EB. C
Ottumwa
Iowa Postmasters Association elects Nimocky president
Trank A Nimocky of Ottumwa was chosen president of the Iowa Postmasters Association at the state convention. George C True of Oskaloosa was named secretary treasurer, with Perry selected for the 1918 meeting duties at the closing session.
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Ottumwa
Trank A. Nimocky
Towa
Perry
George C. True
Oskaloosa
Boys Fire Vulgar Act At Gray School
Three high school boys Gordon Shafter Harold Carpenter and Vernon Linderman visited a rural Gray School and fired on property. They damaged windows an organ a lamp and other equipment in sight. Local authorities investigate motive and potential charges.
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Boya
New Hampton
Gordon’ Shafter
Harold Carpenter
Vernon Linderman
Gray School
Perhaps the Surest Thing in This Life to the Friend You Can't Depend On
A concise reflection on friendship and reliability, noting that true support can be scarce when most needed and that trust in friends often falters in critical moments. The line underscores the gap between intention and action in close relationships.
Stop the Pain Burn and Cut Remedy Ad
An old time advertisement promises quick healing from burns and cuts with Cole's Carbolisalve. It claims fast relief and prevention of scars, offering 250 and Blo by drug stores and a free sample by writing to W Cole & Co in Binok River Falls, Wisconsin.
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Cole
Cole & Co
Binok River Falls
Wla
Saving Steps and Small Rooms in Tmaile Homes
The exchange notes that houses near the station are cramped with rooms too small for easy baby care. The agent confirms the baby must be walked only eight feet from the crib, reflecting tight living conditions described in Harper's Bazaar style.
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Gibson
Tmaile
Harper
John Brownt’s Excuse for Forehead Wound Incites Wife
John Brownt returned home at an odd hour with a deep gash on his forehead. His wife pressed for an explanation and he claimed he bit himself while standing on a chair. The farcical defense strained credibility as she questioned the bizarre tale.
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John
John Brownt
What Every Woman Knows Peculiar Wordplay
A Cleveland teacher asks students to distinguish between a while and a time. A bright boy answers, saving the class’s intellectual honor by noting that when papa goes out for a while mother says she knows he’s going out for a time. The quip reflects a Cleveland Plain Dealer citation of the line.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Plain Dealer
How His Brother Identified Him Story of a 40 year servant
Uncle Harris a longtime servant in Colonel Blemmens of Monticello Arkansas returns from Memphis and tells the colonel's daughter of finding a brother he hadn't seen in thirty years. Harris recalls a spare built man asking him on the street if he was his brother and Harris replies with a bold, Who is you.
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Harris
Blemmens
Monticello
Ark
Memphis
Migs Slemmens
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Bruce Ismay
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Culbertson
Los Angeles
Misa Georgia Goodwin
Alexandra Zeleski
Erie
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Baton Rouge
Point Coupes
West Baton Rouge
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Methodist General Conference
Missouri
Tait
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John Goninbriy
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Conn
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Grand Trunk Railway Company
Torras
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Minn
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Floyd Allen
Carrot County
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Bagan
Ife
Beale
Cramp Shipyard
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John R. McLean
Samuel Keller
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State Free Employment Bureau
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Texas
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Asiatic Turkey
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Edward
Robert
Georgette Madill
Elizabeth N. Allen
Frederick Dent Grant
Ida Honore Grant
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Cantacuzene
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Thomas Wevelang DawsOn
Hawk Eye State. News
William Mehan
M. & St. L. Railroad
Howard Burton
Burton
Marion
J. B. Fry
Harsham
Fayette L. Thompson
Methodist Brotherhood of America
Herbert Campbell
Emmet Brennan
A. David
Persia
Crystal Lake Ice Company
Clear Lake
Iowa Drainage’ Association
Burlington
Clemons
Marshall County
Ames Savings Bank
Ringgold County Grand Jury
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Lamont
Gaylord
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Swell
Modern Woodmen of America
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Samuel B. Groves
H. BH. Ashley
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Bayard
Edward Sammon
John Menning
Castle Grove
John LL
Martin
Calamus
John Henter
Coon Rapids
Walter Harned
Hidora
William C. Harris
Kellerton
Elizabeth J. Warwick
John Shilling
Knoxville
Archibald D. Stinson
Red Oak
Anna Z. Wright
West Liberty
Corn Belt Packing Company
Fort Dodge
Sulzberger & Sons of
Sioux Palla
W. P. Jones
Sioux City
Scotland
America
Big McCoy
Mason City
Lehigh and
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Hazel Ong
Brookfield
George J. Johnson
Wapello
West Liberty Fairgrounds
Iowa City
Elmer BH. Cannam
Cannam
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Elmer
Mertes
Henry
Collins Manufacturing Company
Dubuque
Yeni Howard Burton
Louis Raf Way
Lincoln
Nebr
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Success
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Kalooming Cole
Wong
Alabastine Company
Grandville Road
Rand Rapids
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Desk
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