Packers Clean House Sparks Prohibition and Packing House Talk
A roundup of remarks from the Atlanta Journal and Cedar Rapids Republican notes volatile politics. Iowa prohibitionists nominate a governor candidate Coffin, gopher bounty paid in Pottawattamie, and packing-house investigations prompt calls for meat quality improvements. Ellsworth College gains improvements funded by Carnegie and others, while free seed distributions continue amid protests.
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Ellsworth College
Iowa Falls
Carnegie
Elleworth
Rollins School Board Demands Superintendent Resignation
The article reports Carroll calling for its school superintendent to resign. It notes similar dismissals are appearing in other regions, indicating a nationwide trend of administrative upheaval in districts during the period.
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Carroll
Civil War veterans in Congress and labor unrest in San Francisco
Sixty eight members of the present congress served in the civil war including twenty four representatives eleven federal veterans and thirteen confederates in the senate. In the house forty three federals and twenty five confederates. French socialist Guesde scoffs at work beyond eleven minutes a day. San Francisco labor leaders warn eastern members not to seek work here as 25,000 city workers are unemployed. Naval court indicts Rosessevensky for engaging Japan in the decisive Black Sea clash.
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Congress
Senate
House
San Francisco
Frisco
McCabe
Gilbert Station Class Play Tour Dates Announced
The graduating class planned a Story county tour with a class play visiting Roland on June 9, Maxwell on June 11, Cambridge on June 12, and Slater on June 18.
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Gilbert Station
Story County
Roland
Maxwell
Cambridge
Slater
Lincoln Birth Cabin Leaves New York for Hodgenville Site
The log cabin where Lincoln was born has been purchased by the Lincoln Farm Association and is beginning its transport from New York to Hodgenville Kentucky, the soil it was built on to be preserved there.
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Lincoln
Lincoln Farm Association
New York
Hodgenville
K.y
State Center
Beef Trust
Gov. Cummins
New Life Insurance Business Size Compared to U S Trade
The 1905 new life insurance business in the United States reached 2.4 billion dollars, rivaling the entire foreign trade of the nation. A Cleveland dispatch notes a fashion shift toward elbow sleeves, praised for ease of wear and practicality as women move between kitchen chores and gatherings.
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United States
Blood Purification and a Des Moines Visitor's Fatal Fall
The piece notes a critic’s opinion from the Lock Haven Times about a man who never lived in the country as a boy. It reports Mrs Margaret Bowman of Des Moines staying with her niece during Boone’s encampment, suffering a severe fall down stairs from the banister, causing a broken collar bone and brain congestion that led to her death that evening.
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Lock Haven
Margaret Bowman
Des Moines
L. W. Reynolds
Boone
Cummins Victory Momentum Moves Toward Gubernatorial Nomination
Campaign headquarters claim decisive wins across Iowa counties including West and East Waterloo Newton Grinnell Poweshiek and Fairfield boosting Cummins toward a majority on the first ballot for governor. Contests in Des Moines Chickasaw could swell the tally and push the nominee beyond 970.
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Gov. Cummins
Cummins
Waterloo
West Waterloo
East Waterloo
Newton
Grinnell
Brooklyn
Poweshiek
Fairfield
Dallas County
Wapello
Blackhawk
Jasper
Dallas
Jefferson
Scott
Winneshiek
Howard
Marion
Carroll
Buchanan
Allamakee
Audubon
Shelby
Des Moines
Chickasaw
Sac City class scolds slang in arithmetic cue
A Sac City public school teacher admonished pupils for using slang when asked how to solve a problem. She declared she would not stand the slang any longer, and the class laughed at her remark.
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Sac City
Young King of Spain Contemplates Assassination Rumor
A rumor suggests the young king fears assassination and may visit to watch or influence baseball games, a venture described as a bold, practical effort to “get the job done up right.”
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Spain
Political maneuvering hints at possible dark horse candidate
The Perkins campaign led by Ed Hunter faces reports that railroad-forces behind J W Blythe plan to back a new candidate if they can sway the convention. Named figures include Secretary Shaw Congressman Dawson Major Lacy Senator Naunders and others as potential backers.
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Perkins
Ed. Hunter
J. W. Blythe
Shaw
Dawson
Major Lacy
Naunders
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Barneys
Chase & Sanborn
B. A. Knudson
Pure Food Grocery and Meat Market
Ames
Iowa
Atlanta Journal
Mr. Coffin
Pottawattamie County
Reynolds
Cedar Rapids
Guesde
Naval Court of Inquiry
Rosesevensky
Black Sea
Ackley
Webster County
Court House
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Missouri
Rhode Island
National Capital
Times Republican
Philadelphia
W. J. Semmons
Bookery
Sowa
Mutual
City
Marinette
W. M. Bartlett
Wellington
the “Straubel
W.G. Stockwell
Bell
Ames, Iowa
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