Opening of Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations
President Taft proclaims opening of half a million acres for settlement in the Rosebud Reservation in Mellette County and the Pine Ridge Reservation in Bennett County South Dakota. Registration points are Gregory Dallas and Rapid City from October 2 to 21, 1911. Drawing at Gregory on October 24 with North Western Line service. Ticket agents or A C Johnson can provide literature.
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Taft
Rosebud
Mellette County
Pine Ridge’ Reservation
Bennett County
Dakota
Gregory
Dallas
Rapid City
S. D
North Western Line
Chicago
North Wester
A. C. Johnson
T. M
Jackson Blvd
Spend Your Vacation in COLORADO
Special low rate round trip tickets on sale daily until Sept. 30th to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo. No better place on earth to spend your vacation and this is the time of year when Colorado is at its best. Secure your tickets via the Chicago Union Pacific North Western Line. Any North Western Line Agent will quote rates and make sleeping car reservations.
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Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colorado
Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western
North Western Line
Lost Ship 15 Found Seven Dead In Storm
Macon Ga Aug 30 The Clyde line steamer Apache which left Charleston Sunday for Jacksonville with 20 passengers was located off Charleston in tow of a tug after wireless calls for aid. Seven persons five men and two women were killed as the gale caused $1 500 000 damage in Savannah and Charleston. The storm wrecked boats piers and trees while ships at sea suffered heavy damage and relief measures were launched. The steamer Cretan was due in Savannah and searchers failed to locate the Apache or other vessels in distress.
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Macon
Clyde Line
Charleston
Jacksonville
J. J. Staples
Georgia
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Savannah
Osterhaus to Direct Naval War Maneuvers
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus has been chosen by the navy department to lead the naval maneuvers off the Virginia capes early next month. The war game will be more elaborate than the Cape Cod bay drills, with battleships including the South Carolina and the Michigan scheduled to participate in September.
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Washington
Hugo Osterhaus
Navy Department
Virginia Capes
Cape Cod Bay
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Michigan
Ghost sighting drives man to insanity in Meriden
In Meriden Connecticut Anthony Zundt of Berlin reported seeing the ghost of murdered friend Anthony Vrezia on a table in his home. The sighting left Zundt speechless until Mass Sunday when he spoke briefly, then became hopelessly insane.
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Meriden
Conn
Anthony Zundt
Berlin
Zundt
Anthony Vrezia
Merchant's Daughter Thief
New York police arrest Jeanette Schuster twenty daughter of a leather merchant living on Fifth Avenue charged with burglary. She allegedly entered a neighbor’s apartment by leaping an air shaft four stories high and stole jewelry valued at over one hundred dollars.
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New York
Jeanette Schuster
Fifth Avenue
Lineman Survives 2,200 Volts After Live-Wire Contact
Frederick Overpeck, a lineman for the Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Co, hung ten minutes from a pole with 2,200 volts coursing through his body and survived. He was repairing high tension wires when he touched a live conductor in Terre Haute Indiana on August 30.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Frederick Overpeck
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Overpeck
Iron Mines Shops Burn in Nashwauk Fire
Fire destroyed the machine shops of the Hawkins mine, owned by the International Harvester company of Chicago, at Nashwauk on the Jessaba Iron range. Damage estimated at 50000 dollars.
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International Harvester Company
Minnesota
Duluth
Minn
Hawkins Wine
Inernational Harvester Company of Chicago
Nashwauk
Jessaba
A Lawyer and A Simpleton True Story of Hidden Treasure
A dying man’s will leaves his son Peter, a village simpleton, fortune in notional wealth. A lawyer schemes to claim the treasure, yet the pit yields a box of 25000 English sovereigns from a Revolutionary War hoard, while a tintype hints at loss. The tale ends with a blunt lesson on cleverness versus folly.
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John Cairnes
Peter
John
Henderson
Ruan
Hendson
Pete
Attorney Henderson
Attendance Records At Iowa State Fair Old Soldiers Day
More than 60 000 people entered the Des Moines state fair grounds on Old Soldiers Day surpassing prior records. Attendance reached 62 699, with crowds filling gates, paddock, bleachers and hill northeast for a perfect weather day as officials hope to raise 150 000 to cover exhibition costs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
NOW FACES MURDER CHARGE
Anamosa August 30 Charles Smith and half brother A D Mecum escaped from Anamosa penitentiary with Guard Ha maker. They allegedly killed a Winnipeg constable while avoiding arrest and face murder charges. Canadian authorities will not return them to Iowa for punishment. Identification of the men is said to be thorough.
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Anamosa
Charles Smith
A. D. Mecum
William A. Hamaker
Anamosa Penitentiary
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Hogan
Smith
Mecum
Iowa
Hamaker
Be Stabbed Fatally in Dispute Over a Dollar
Ottumwa report states Jack Donahue lies in a near fatal condition from a deep groin wound believed caused by pocket knife during a dispute over a dollar with Charles Hix. Donahue’s prognosis is death likely. Boone item notes railway conductor James H. Phillips badly injured at Carroll when a bolt struck him, severing his arm.
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Ottumwa
Jack Donahue
Nea
Charles Hix
Donahue
Boone
James H. Phillips
Northwestern Railway
Carroll
Bolteaur
Teachers Attend Normal Institute at Council Bluffs
Over 300 teachers gathered in Council Bluffs for the normal institute. Prof. R. H. Lyman of the University of Wisconsin lectured on Labor Leisure and Life.
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Council Bluffs
Purty Normal Institute
R. H. Lyman
University of Wisconsin
Ex Senator Smith Dies In Cedar Rapids Home
Cedar Rapids, Aug. 30. Dr. Jesse J. Smith capitalist and over thirty years as president of the Farmers Insurance company died at his home today.
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Smith
Cedar Rapids
Jesse ‘J. Smith
The
Farmers’ Insurance Company
Fatally Hurt In Runaway
Newton Aug 30 George Shields of Eldon aged 40 was fatally injured in a runaway when he was thrown from a buggy his head striking the curbing Humboldt Second Dam Completed
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Newton
George Shields
Eldon
Railroad Time Card Details Interurban Schedules 1911
Time card shows June 18 1911 activation for interurban cars to Des Moines and Fort Dodge at 7 10 daily except Sunday with additional 2 07 4 00 and 5 0 p m. Sunday Boone 12 40 am. Arrivals from Des Moines and Fort Dodge at 9 40 and 11 96 am plus other minutes. Cars depart from Ames and West Gate with numerous listed times.
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Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Sad P. mi
Boone
Gre
West Gate
Chicago & Northwester
Denver
Overland ‘Limited
Los Angeles
China
Japan
Edar Rapids-Ames
Maha
Chicago-Des” Moines
Centennial State
Ames-Carroll
wLam ‘Overland Limited
Chica Moines
Chicago
Eastern Express
Iowa
Dakota
Taylor
Chicazo
Moines
Towa
Minn
Ames-Des Moines
Salor
Des Moines Express
Wonderful climate draws settlers to Pecos valley New Mexico
This item highlights migration to the Pecos valley area as statehood nears. Col. Chas. E. Baker, now based in Roswell, praises the region’s sunshine and fruit, offering advice to those seeking winter or permanent relocation and inviting contact at Roswell, New Mexico.
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Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Col
Chas. E. Baker
New York Life
Cedar Rapids
Roswell
Notice to Contractors Ames High School project bid opening
Ames Iowa school board invites bids for general contract heating plumbing and electric wiring for a high school building. Bids due Sept 1 1911 1 30 PM at the secretary office Ames Town. Plans filed at Proudfoot Bird Rawson Des Moines. Board may reject any bid. By order of Prof A B Noble. Also a note on a Des Moines woman cured by Chamberlains Cholera Diarrhoea Remedy and a joke about a horse advertised with a guarantee regarding airplanes.
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Seaten
School Board
Ames
Iowa
Ames Town
Flynn Proudfoot
Bird & Rawson
Des Moines
Proudfoot
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J&k
Bauge & Alm
Victor-Victrola
C. R. Quade
Wes'ions
Edison
Edison Records
Victrola IX
Gravenelle
Inter-State Rubber CO
Lindsey
Omaha
Nebras
A. C
Osterhaus
Connecticut
Indiana
Humboldt
Northern
Iowa Power and Light Company
Des Moines River
Muscatine
Iowa City
Hawkeye Button Factory
C. B. Nelson Construction Co
DODGE
DES Moine Southern
A. B. Noble
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