Taft tour and political notes from a varied week
A broad review of events this week includes President Taft's welcome in San Francisco and planned push for a ship subsidy law in Seattle. Other items mention Mrs. Pitts cured of pellagra, Ruth Brian seeking Congress, and officials Wickersham and Nagel returning to Washington.
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Taft
San Francisco
Seattle Exposition
Congress
E. E. Pitts
Laurens
D. C
Ruth Brian
Colorado
Wickersham
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Richard A. Sherman
Sherman
Eleanor Mills
Utica
Hitchcock
Flagstaff
Ariz
Yuma
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Gift of medals continued for Iowa students
The Town Society Sons of American Revolution will continue awarding medals to Iowa colleges and high schools for top records in U S history studies. Secretary authorized to obtain a suitable medal tie. Board members include Madiey Des Moines D C Mott Marengo and Leo Wi Stevens Ottumwa.
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Board of Managers
Town Society, Sons of American Revolution
Des Moines
United States
Madiey
D. C
New Professor of Physics At Iowa University
The Iowa board plans a new four story physics hall west of the liberal arts building. Dr. George W. Stewart will lead the physics department and visit Cornell Princeton Toronto and other sites to inform design. His rapid rise at the Dakota campus includes department leadership and athletics oversight.
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Iowa University
Liberal Arts
Board of Education
George W. Stewart
Cornell University
Princeton College
University of Toronto
Bureau of Standards
Washington
McGill University
Case School of Applied Sciences
Dartmouth College
University of Ilinois
University of Michigan
Department of Physics
Iowa
de Pauw University
Cornell
University of North Dakota
Dakota
Voard
Stewart
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma XJ
Redeem Their Pledge Brings Street Car to School for the Deaf
After years of waiting Council Bluffs completes a street car track to the school for the deaf three miles from the business district. A switch and side track at the power plant allow coal to be delivered directly, eliminating long uphill hauling by teams. The state board urged moving after a fire but did not seek relocation from Council Bluffs. The local populace believed preserving the old site would be essential.
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Cherokee
Independence
Mt. Pleasant
Council Bluffs
School For the Deaf
State Board of Control
Miss Katzenmayer wins judgment for vile remarks
Mrs. Maud Katzenmayer Hills wins a 750 judgment against Bert Ruppert in Iowa City after suing for 4600 for alleged vile writings and statements about her. Funeral services held for Mrs. A M Johnson of Spirit Lake following her death in a Minnaca accident. A man named Wesley Dennis, about 60, injured when wheels of Rock Island train No 10 pass over his left foot at Dexter. bystanders pull him clear and save his life. الص
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St. Charles
Missouri
Polish National Alliance
Milwaukee
Wis
West
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Peoria
Santa Fe Road
Topeka
Naphtaili Herz Imber
New York
Nashville
Tenn
Pittsburg
Detroit
J.C. Mabray
Omaha
Frederick A. Cook
Chicago
Dr. Cronk
New Brunswick
N. J
Board of Education
Mary Keegan
Thomas B. Kerry
Kerr
Oscar Dragege
New York Hospital
Denver
Francis Joseph
Prince Miguel of
Braganza
Prince Alexander Georgievitch Romanowski
Duke of
Leuchtenberg
Czar
Marjorie Gould
George Gould
F. A. Haight
John F. George
Harrington Leather Company
Elizabeth
United States Leather Company
John H. Reagan
Confederacy
Texas
Ocean
President Grant
Henry Hudson
Lake
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Rhode Island
Newhern
N. Y
Guv. Pothler
Colorado
Kansas City
H. B. Adair
Adna R. Chaffee
Los Angeles
North Pole
Peary Arctic Club
Peary
Bureau of Fisheries
Department of Commerce and Labor
George Washington Fund
George Washington
Maud Katzenmayer Hilla
Bert Ruppert
Iowa City
A. M. Johnson
Spirit Lake
Johnson
Lasure
Minn
Joli Kordenbam
Wesley Dennis
Rock Island
Dexter
Hough Missouri Galley
Hoo
Bats
Maud Katzenmayer Hills
Plaza
John Roddenhour
Strubla
Dave Crops
Ebay
Imma Sweeney
Dennis Sweeney
H.l Sweeney
Des Moines
Klondike
Saylorville
Sweeney
Gertrude von Petzold
Unitarian Church
Ibsen
Miss von Petzold
Shirley Gilland
Mabel Adair
Martha Pieray
Roy Howard
Leo H. Snyder
East Des Moines
Pieray
Howard
Wabello
Commercial Bank
H. O. Pease
Columbus Junction
H. A. Plitt
J. G. Keck
R. D. McCullough
Wapello
Charles B. Murrow
Ness
Sims
Newton
Greater
Italy
United States
Downie
Board of Control
Knoxville
Morrow
Agricultural College
Cooper Institute
Irma Rudis
J. R. Jicinsky
Cedar Rapids
Misa Rudis
Holland
Octi
McBride Drug Company
Nayor
Enola Bennet
Missouri Valley
Woodbine
Land values rise across Iowa say Allred and Franke
Representative Allred of Wayne county declares farm land values in all Iowa counties will continue to rise. He notes Wayne County land sells for over 100 dollars an acre and recalls rising eastern prices. Carl Franke of the Republican state central committee endorses the investment appeal, arguing growth moves east to west and land values have not yet peaked.
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Allred
Wayne County
Towa
Clarksons
Iowa’State Register
Iowa
Carl Franke
Republican State Central Committee
Iowa Farms
Franke
Pioneer woman Mary Bates dies at Des Moines Home
Mary J L Bates aged 86 and a seven year Des Moines Home for the Aged resident died there of paralysis. Born in Pennsylvania she came to Iowa as a girl and had no relatives.
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Mary JL. Bates
Home For
Des Moines
Villisca
W. M. Spargur
John Neill
Moss Moore
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Kansas
Wyandot
F. L. P. Hitchcock
Genung
California
Ruth Hall
West Union
Chicago Telephone Company
Hall
Chicago
Iowa City
James H. White
Polk County
District Court
Anamosa
Miller
Vinton
Sam Railsback
Harve Sanders
W. C. Wallace
Tom Sellars
William Cray
Mary Bryan
D. A. T. Bryan
Forest City
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
William H. Tucker
United States Army
Humboldt
Tucker
Tobogg
Storm Lake Chautauqua Assembly
Richland
B. H. Farmer
N. S. Hinshaw
Ben Hacussler
Monticello
Lydia Mae Alexander
Winterset
D. Alexander
Alexander
Bar
Joseph Smith
Sioux City
Not Sufferers at Resorts Ignite Ennui Debate
At the resort, locals argue over ennui with Gunner calling it laziness while Guyer counters that they are not suffering but enjoying it. The exchange frames ennui as a state of mild dissatisfaction rather than true hardship.
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Gunner
Guyer
H'm
Iowa State News reports a spate of burglaries and court actions
The column lists multiple Iowa incidents including burglaries in Shenandoah and Clarinda with losses of money and watches, a live contested claim of Charles G. Vail in Des Moines, marriage and divorce cases, bee swarms and farmland sales near Vinton, a Wa bello button factory project, a Des Moines murder money recovery twist, and various society and state institution crop and finance notes.
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Spain
Morocco
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Indian Service
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Tennessee
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Samuel C. Lemly
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Schley Court of Inquiry
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
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