World Notes and Tragedies Compete for Attention in Rapid Roundup
A sweeping world brief outlines Navy budget talks with anticipated battleship recommendations, political pressure on James Wilson, and Taft urged to act. It reports crimes and disasters from Chicago to Troy, aviation deaths, Wall Street jitters, canal progress, and political shocks from Canada to Egypt. The summary captures prominent individuals, firms, places, and events, including Taft, Wilson, Falker, Miller, Palmer House, Wall Street, Panama Canal, Masons, and Prime political shifts.
Diverse Iowa items mark notable deaths and events
The Shawkeye column reports Joseph Brown’s mysterious treasure hoard, Captain H. L. Clark’s near‑death at 98, and a spectrum of Iowa happenings from tax rules on cigars to bank car robberies, court actions, university events, railroad cases, fires, accidents, and local political notes across Des Moines, Mason City, Ottumwa, and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Brown
Iowa
Fraser
H. L. Clark
Buffalo
Muscatine
Davenport
Internal Revenue
Ottumwns
Paul Benton Hart
Mason City
Judge Powers
Denison
Anti-Saloon League
Manilla
State University of Iowa
Bowman
Chicago Great Western
J. H. Glass
Shannon City
Mabray Fang
United States
Smith McPherson
Joe G. Myerly
Des Moines
Manhattan
Spirit Lake
George Harker
Kossuth
Clay Counties
Klank
Frank Gotch
Hack
Harry Ickis
Lon Ickis
Creston
Philippines
Moros
George Haroyn
Louise
Newton
Rock Island
Main Street
Helen Corby
Masom City
Standard Oil
Missouri Valley
Waterloo Presbytery
Toledo
Clear Lake
Frank Conley
Winfield
Mount Pleasant
Ibert B. Cummins
Nogistic
T.a Follette
Taft
Iowa Central Railroad
Minneapolis & St. Lounty Railway
Canadian Northern
Canada
W. J. Bird
J. G. Bowman
B. F. Carroll
Nebraska
Roy E. Griffith
Richardson County
Griffith
Clarion
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
John Moore
W. ©. Barnett
Valley Junction
Moore
Hamburg
James Kelley
Sioux City
Kelley
West Hotel
Anamosa
William Hardcastle
Iowa City
Minnesota
Bishop Neely
M. E
Shenandoah
J. D. Riste
Webster
Kellogg
HB. J. Adkins
William
Christopher Cavanaugh
Traer
Charles Cavanaugh
Edward Adkins
Tom Peterson
Landon Taylor
Dubuque
W. W. Bye
Thomas Parrin
Moorhead
Leading Topic at Kansas City Conservation Congress
The third national conservation congress opens in Convention hall Kansas City with President Taft defending Alaska policy and a line of notable speakers including Wilson Bryan Champ Clark and Fisher and Wallace. Sessions focus on soil reclamation farmer cooperation postal service railroads health livestock and roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Dunn
D. M. Kelleher
Fort Dodge
B. T. Moon
Waterloo
Department of Commerce and Labor
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Magon City
Iowa City Commercial Club
Congress
International Machinists
MB. Lee
Fremont
Kansas City
Alaska
Taft
Third National Conservation Congress
Walter Fisher
Woodrow Wilson
W. J. Bryan
Champ Clark
United States
Wallace
Herbert Quick
Farmer
Joseph L. Bristow
Kansas
Postal Service
Frederick B. Mumford
Curtis Hill
Jefferson City
W. A. Beard
Sacramento
Cal
Walter Page
New York
Harriet Wallace Ashby
Des Moines
Wilson
J. C. Lester
Commercial Club of
Darius A. Brown
Herbert S. Hadley
Missouri
Henry Wallace
National Conservation Congress
James 5. Sherman
Henry L. Stimson
James Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
New Jersey
Interior
Walter L. Wisher
Postoffice Robbed at Letts in September heist
The Letts post office was looted during the night, with $270 in money and the entire stamp supply taken. Entry was gained through a window. Stamps were later found on the Rock Island tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letts
Rock Island
Pentecostal Assembly Seventy Fifth Session Opens in Marshalltown
Over 100 delegates attend the seventh annual session of the Chicago Central district Nazarene church in Marshalltown. Delegates arrive from about six central western states, highlighting a regional religious gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Council
United States
Saratoga
Leon M. Abbott
Boston
Amos L. Pettibone
Chicago
Pentecostal Church
Marshalltown
Assembly of the
Chicago Central District
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
Central Western
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad Promo
A Chicago reader testimonials a woman cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after a clerks hesitation. The ad urges substitution awareness and asserts the product as a standard ills remedy for women dating back thirty years with widespread reports of restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Janet
Arch St
Ill
E. Pinkham
Most Expensive Hat Attracts Roumanian Fashion
Princess Micheson Bukharest owns a remarkable hat in Roumania described as the world's costliest. Made of black tagal straw and lined with silver lace, the enormous headpiece is covered with many flawless white osprey feathers and valued around $1,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Micheson Bukharest
Roumania
Buying Legislators in Tablets Show Wealth in Lobby
Writer Sloane Gordon in Success Magazine, once Ohio state legislator, displayed a large roll of bills in the Neil house lobby. A fellow member reacted in awe as the scene prompted a confused remark about hogs and a quip about being a hawes, revealing tense political theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloane Gordon
Success Magazine
Ohio House
Neil House
Ynas
Do Giraffes Catch a Cold When Wet Feet
A playful natural history quip about giraffes and weather from Heltere Welt. The exchange features a father answering his son with a humorous calendar twist, noting cold weather arriving next month.
Grape-Nuts Credit for Health Restored at Sixty Three
A Boston woman recounts chronic headaches and digestive trouble eased by Grape-Nuts. She started eating it years ago and now breakfast lunch and a bedtime bite keep her sleeping, end constipation and improve health. She cites the book The Road to Wellville and endorses the product with conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Wellville
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Washington
Navy Department
Agriculture
Conference of Free Methodists
Plymouth
Emil Dignes
William H. Falker
Hamilton Avenue
hCicago
Dignes
Dr. Falker
Frank Miller
Glenn Curtiss Camp of
Troy
Ohio
Miller
Palmer House
Charles W. Allen
Kenosha
Allen
Nathan Allen
Wall Street
United States Steel Corporation
Europe
Joliet
Marrow
Henry Phipps
St. Clair River
Alder Creek
Ukiah
Panama Canal
Culebra
Edmond H. Madison
Dodge City
Kan
Peter Prydendal
Crystal Plains
Kas
Frydenda
Youngstown
California
Edward P. Hurd
United Shoe Machinery Company
Beverly
Mass
Malcolm
Colorado Springs
Galo
Alice May Burnham
Henry F. Wayne
International Harvester Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Wickersham
Charles E. Unsted
Stanley Howe
Richard Tucker
Wallace Markward
Coatesville
Zack Walker
FP. E. Baxter
Charles B. Dodge
Cleveland
Orangeville Savinge Bank
Orangeville
China
The
Red Cross
Wilfrid Laurier
Dominion of Canada
Department of Justice
Trust
Elx
St. James’ Church
Wausau
Wis
George C. Gravis
Glavig
Lorimera
Cleveland National Forest
Idywild
San Bernardino Mountains
Richard le Gallienne
New York City
John W. Gates
Beaumont
Tex
West Chicago
Thomas Ewing Sherman
William T. Sherman
San Jose
San Francisco
Ahmed@ Arab Pasha
Egypt
Cairo
Khedive
Olympic
White Star Line
Southampton
Southampton Harbor
Hawke
Prants
Catania University
Sicily
Mount Etna
Dmitry Bogroff
Stolypin
Kiev
Russia
Ren Benee Ebi Cadady
State News
James Kane
Charles Owen
Charles Stevens
Woodstock
Nineteenth
Iowa Infantry Regiment
Fort Madison
Woolatosh
Tama
Woolstock
Fas
Pettis Eve Salve
Natural History
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