Condensed Weekly News Notes Mix Campaigns and Trials
A week’s snapshot reports Col Theodore Roosevelt rallying 4000 in Des Moines Iowa and endorsing Cummins and Republicans. Prison wardens plan using moving pictures to inform inmates. Edward T Rosenheimer is acquitted in New York over a fatal auto accident. Premier Briand forms a full cabinet as Parliament gaps until November. Hugh Grant dies of heart failure in New York. Frank J Gould’s Edinburgh church wedding noted. Houston financier Sherman Brady dies in a car mishap during a test run.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Cummins
Charles Qgrilk
Congress
Hicket
R. W. McClaughry
J. K. Codding
Leavenworth Federal
Lansing
Edward T. Rosenheimer
New York City
Jace Hough
Bia
Briand
Hugh Grant
Grant
Frank J. Gould
New York
St. Giles Church
Edinburgh
Scotland
Sherman. Brady
Houston
Tex
Multiple Crises Mark Global News Signals and Local Disasters
United States gunboat Princeton trains on the governor’s residence in Honduras amid a revolt, threatening to fire if foreigners are harmed. Navy economy reforms reportedly target the construction and pay corps and several yards. Nome Alaska endures record high water and wreckage as heavy surf destroys houses, sheds, and ships. A midwinter Atlantic storm delivers snow and rain, causing 21 inches of snow inland in Pennsylvania and widespread telegraph, telephone, and electric line disruption. Manitoba’s Brandon asylum burns, $250000 loss, 600 inmates evacuated with a staffer blamed for matches. A Denver child dies after a hallo ween tick tick fright device triggers convulsions. New York sets a plan for uniform mailboxes nationwide. An Oregon estate man is shot dead by highwaymen who rob him of $5000.
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United States
Princeton
Amapala
Honduras
Jose Valladares
Davila
Hayes
Revoluionist
Navy Department
Taft
Meyer
Construction Corps
Pay Corps
Davy
Nome
Alasa
Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Insane Asylum
Manitoba
Brandon
Earl Loeschel
G. FP. Loeschel
Denver
Col
Municipal Art Commission of
New York City
J. B. Roberts
Neri
Ore
Padlock bill passes Spanish senate on religious colonies
Multiple items fill the page: Spain approves a padlock bill barring new religious establishments until the concordat revision with the Vatican is finished. Manuel Quezon is re elected Philippine delegate. US aeronautical reserve at Columbia University plans winter lectures. Yale orders discontinuing chapel study under threat of gun pension. railroad collision near Middleton kills twenty three. Honduras imposes martial law amid Valladares revolt. indictments target coal land fraud in Spokane. Nebraska ranchers face conspiracy charges. Eckert estate battle arises. other items include church capstone blessing in Denver and labor strike talk in New York.
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Spain
Vatican
Senate
Madrid
Philippine Assembly
Manuel Quezon
Congress
United States Aeronautical Reserve
Columbia University
New York
Yale University
New Haven
Jose Valladares
Amapala
Federal Grand Jury
Spokane
Wesh
Alaska
James N. Gillett
California
McLachlin
Henry T. Oznard
American Beet Sugar Company
Federal
Grand Jury
Nebraska
Omaha
Neb
Semarlé
Kinkaid
United States
Alexander 9. Clay
Marietta
Atlanta
Fullerton
Cal
postoMlce Department
Washington
Herbert Jackson
Athena
Ed. Dimson
Jackson
Dimson
Honolulu
Daniel J. Keefe
Thomas T. Eckert
West End
N. J
Western Union Telegraph Company
Clendennin Eckert
William Eckert
Nicholas G. Matz
Diocese of
Colorado
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Jersey City
International Brotherhood of Team
Sters
M. Briand
Falleres
P. M. Guiou
Nevada
Kan
Newton
Mont
Northern Pacific
Owen Jones
Ben Wilson
John Pollard
John Peterson
Taft
W. 8. McKinley
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Republicana
Leopard
Butte
Pirike
Chicago
Richest Eminent Divine Discusses Iowa's Future
Newell Dwight Hillis born in Magnolia Iowa addressed Drake auditorium on The America of Today and Tomorrow praising Iowa as the world’s richest land with 3 feet soil versus New York’s six inches. He forecast westward population shift to Des Moines, growth of manufacturing, and farmers’ wealth impacting railroads and immigration to irrigate the west. He praised Cummins for the Iowa idea and tariff reduction and urged 10 million immigrants via New Orleans to lower rail costs. He warned about foreign influence and the role of public schools in assimilation.
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Des Moines
New York
Seattle
Iowa
Newell Dwight Hillis
Magnolia
Drake Auditorium
America
Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Gladstone
Nissouri
Minnesota
London
United States
Cummins
Republican
Washington
Shriners to Hold State Meeting in Des Moines
Three thousand Shriners from across Iowa converge on Des Moines November 26 for a landmark state reunion. The one day event features a grand parade, afternoon business session, and elaborate evening ceremonies with drill teams, speakers, and a royal welcome organized by John C. Petty of ZaGaztg temple.
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Des Moines
Mystic Shrine
Iowa
John C. Petty
Mlustrioua
Zagaztg Temple
Corner Ninth and
Pleasant Streets
E, Olin Soule
el Kabir
Cedar Rapids
I. L. Sears
Kaaba
Davenport
I.S. Lamar
Abu Bekr
Sioux City
Shriners
Jonathan P. Doliiver
Order
MAWANAAH ELECTED AS TEACHERS OPPOSE PRIVATE FUNDS PLAN
The Iowa Teachers Association adjourned after a large convention with bitter opposition to Congress bills that would divert state school funds to private or sectarian institutions in the District of Columbia for agriculture and mechanic arts instruction. They urged medical inspection, expanded rural high school training, and more normal schools, reporting strong financial health and electing Fred Mahannah as president and A C G Puller, Miss Minnie Babcock, and G W Weber to key posts.
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Des
Tescherst
Jowa
Congress
District of Columbia
State Teachers’ Association
Iowa Teachers’ Association
Fred Mahannah
Mason City
A. C G. Puller
Washington
Minnie Babcock
Humboldt
G. W. Weber
Columbus Junction
A. H. Bennett
Fayette
Educational Council
W. S. Mitchell
Clinton
F. C. Norton
Des Moines
Des Moines consolidates two phone systems into one
In Des Moines a hundreds‑strong team completed the merger of Mutual and Iowa Telephone into a single service at 12 08 a.m. on Sunday. Within sixty seconds 14 000 telephones were on the consolidated directory and operators switched to the new system. The rapid result followed months of prep and large expenditures for the largest consolidation project in U.S. telecom history.
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Des Moines
Mutual
Mutual Telephone System
United States
Des Moihes
Des Moihes Were Combined Into One Service. “Go Shead
F. W. Rulison
Iowa Company
Seventh Street
Grand Avenue
Taft Declares 1910 Thanksgiving Proclamation Issued
President Taft issues the annual Thanksgiving day proclamation praising the United States growth population harvests and peace as reasons for gratitude in the year 1910.
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Washington
D.C
Taft
Missing farmer Loveland sought by river drag and dynamite
The Missouri river near Hamburg is being dragged and dynamited as authorities search for Charles Loveland who disappeared from home last seen on the river bank with indications he leaped into deep water. Loveland was a prosperous farmer living with his widowed mother. In London Kentucky a hotel fire burned a large section of the business district, with one person reportedly escaping.
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Miasouri
Hamburg
Charles Loveland
Hving
Cured Six Years Says Mrs Josih Clinker Kidney Relief
Mrs Josih Clinker of State Street Tama Iowa reports kidney trouble began with back pain and spread to the whole body. She describes heavy fatigue and weight loss before using Doan's Kidney Pills, which she credits with driving pains away and restoring normal kidney function. She has been free from kidney trouble for six years. Doan's sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Doan
Thought She Had Practised
Claude Grahame White praised American camaraderie at a New York dinner. He joked that while Americans are good fellows, angels are scarce among men and women abroad, noting a wry tale of a French fiancé who laments his sweetheart’s affectionate return from America.
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Claude Grahame White
New York
Good Fellowship of Americadss
America
Itching scalp cured by Cuticura remedies
Miss Lillian Brown of Liberty Maine recounts a two year struggle with a severe itchy scalp that caused raw bleeding and hair loss. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for six weeks then continuing during a spring relapse she reports complete relief with no further scalp trouble to date.
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Lillian ‘Brown
RF. D
Liverty
Death by Self Inflicted Wounds Reported at St Fashion Hotel
A hurried hotel death is reported with a man described as similar in size to a certain stranger. He used a .22 caliber revolver near a dress suit at the Mine, then was moved to the morgue for examination. The fragmentary text hints at medical cautions and public reaction.
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Tim Self
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