Denaturized alcohol plan eyed for Des Moines distillery
Des Moines could host a large scale plant if a federal bill removing revenue tax on denatured alcohol passes. The project leverages damaged grain, centers in Iowa, and aims for a 20 cent gallon price, boosting competition with gasoline and kerosene. State fair improvements also outlined with land purchases, new cattle barns, expanded streets, and new pavilions.
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Des Moines
Congress
Dial
Profess
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
I. N. McCash
Grole
Iowa
Washington
United States
Des Moines Commercial Club
Manjers
State House
Executive Committee
Ewine
Fair Management
Methods of Standard Oil Rivalry Unveiled At Chicago Hearing
Witnesses described tactics from 1899 to 1905 including fake rival firms, price cutting backed by Standard Oil, secret freight rates, bribed railroad workers, and dividing oil from same barrels at different prices. A canvass of independent dealers and targeted deception aimed to drive competitors out, with lamp tests proving inferior oil to win consumers.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Standard
Focal Oil
Santa Fe Railway
Ripley
Clements, Prouty
Cauntrell
Federal Building
Commission
J. T. Marehand
F. §. Monnett
Ohio
John &. Miller
Alfred D. Eddy
Gardiner Lathrop
Thomas R. Sturrow
John M. Baldwin
Brode
Decaiur
Harner Oil Company
Springfield
Kercher Bros
Springfeld Oi Company
John Maxon
Maxom
Decatur
Charles Kercher
Paris
Becuse
Charles T. Collins
Kentucky
Tha
Map of Standard Oil pipelines and tactics in oil wars
A commission inquiry reveals Standard Oil using passes, fake companies, and price rebates to crush independent rivals. Witness Maywood Maxon details methods including Republic Paragon operations, dealer rebates, and tactics that centralized control in Urbana Vandalia and other towns, with rail passes saving monthly fares.
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Fala
Republic Company
Standard
Maxon
Urbana
Vandalla
Florida Water Tragedy Claims Ducks Lake Indians Victims
Two more Indiana dead and six in a verkong condition as Florida water tragedy on the Duck Lake Indian reservation widens. Latest developments report ongoing investigations and rising toll among the社区 residents.
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Florida
Indiana
Duck Lake
Cholera Outbreak Aboard Steamer Frankle Near Fiji
Report from Sidney Nova Scotia notes the steamship Frankle en route from India to Suva Fiji. Of 124 aboard taken ill with cholera, 61 deaths recorded amid the voyage.
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Sidney
N.S. W
Frankle
India
Suva
Fiji Islands
Old Indian Feud Ends With Peace Bread and Pipe
Crazy Wolf a Sioux warrior fought for years with Little Scar. A starving Crazy Wolf near Pine Ridge meets a little girl Mary Walt who offers food and a peace pipe. He chooses peace, returning to the agency with the child guiding him, ending the feud. Frank Shooter resigns as Exeter bathing ground superintendent after 25 years saving over 300 lives.
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Crazy Wolf
Ivor
Little Scar
Crazy Walf
Pine Ridge Agency
Little Sear
Pine Ridge
Standing Rock
Rosebud
Nebraska
Little Scay
Wounded Knee
Calding Pine Ridge Agency
Miles
Bho
Agency
White Clay
Mary Walt
Frank Shooter
Exeter
Floating facts from a past era warning and wonder
The note lists diverse facts and curiosities including Bank of England note production cost, Church of England income, inhabited islands in the Indian Ocean, Japanese departure to the Pacific in 1645, a watch’s gain on Mount Blanc, light’s travel per tick, Nile cataracts, Parliament attendance, piano wood from wood intended, a vast sunk amount along the England to India route, and drowning as common accidental deaths.
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Bank of England
Church of England
Indian Ocean
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific
Mount Blanc
Nile
England
India
Boy's Head One Solid Sore Cured by Cuticura Remedies
Avard Oklahoma store proprietor A G Barnett reports his son’s severe eczema on the head and scalp. After three months with a physician and two Cuticura bottles plus Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the condition cleared, hair grew back, and no eczema returned. Barnett endorses Cuticura for eczema. March 30, 1905.
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A. G. Barnett
Avard
Oklahoma
Barnett
Wonders of the Ocean Life and Its Secrets
The text describes the beauty of coral reefs and sunken gardens, the diversity of marine life in varying waters, vast ocean depths and tides, plant and animal life, and the suggestion to read accessible books about sea life for general interest. It highlights eye variety, enormous depths, and the Fundy tide rise, urging popular books for lay readers.
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Bay of Fundy
Reversing It and the Farm Gate Turnip Refusal
A tramp pleads at an old farm gate for a raw turnip to satisfy hunger but is met with a firm refusal from the toll keeper. The scene captures a terse exchange reflecting hardship and stubborn duty in rural life.
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Toll
Chicago Daily News
Transformations Curious Results When Coffee Is Abandoned
An old coffee drinker can quit coffee and switch to Postum Food Coffee which tastes better to connoisseurs than many coffees. Within ten days to two weeks after stopping coffee the body changes as the nervous system adapts to a nourishing liquid. The text urges trial of Postum as a substitute for coffee.
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Executive Council
Northwestern
Iowa
Illinois Central
Burlington
Miwaukce
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George Reed
Ises Moines
United States Circuit Court
Witty-flrat
George A. ‘Wells
Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Supreme Court
Ladd
James Briley
Ames
McPherson
Indianola
Briley
Smith McPherson
Arthur Thompson
Maxwell
Federal Grand Jury
Montgomery Ward & Co
Minnesota
Thompson
Preston
Cedar Rapide
Carl Rabe
Pennsyl Ng
Sherrick
Indianapolis
Ind
David N. Sherrick
Louis
Doctor
Cuticura
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