Week of Happenings: Resignations, Trials and Tragedies
Treasury official James F. Curtis contemplates resignation amid cabinet shifts while Postmaster Fisk refuses to quit San Francisco. Notable deaths include Charles R. Reike from underweighing fraud. waterway storms cause fatalities. airboat and train accidents injure many. Banks fail in Pittsburgh and McKeesport. public hearings probe federal officials. Italian murders spark regional action. Centennial Perry anniversary opens in Erie as Arkansas National Guard funding is cut.
Foreign rumors and regional violence ripple across Europe
The Daily Express reports Turkey courting Servia and Greece for an anti Bulgaria alliance. Bulgarian irregulars burn and execute 700 Kurkut prisoners in a mosque. The Zurich Sunday school convention opens. Cuba’s General Armando Riva is fatally shot amid a Havana pistol duel, blaming General Ernesto Albert and Representative Arias. The Servian Timok division suffers heavy casualties in battle with Austrians.
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Daily Express
Turkey
Servia
Greece
Bulgaria
Father Michel
Kirkish
Armando Riva
National Police of
Cuba
Prado
Havana
Riva
Ernesto Albert
Arias
Rural Carriers Meet at Waterloo August 11 12
Iowa State Rural Letter Carriers association schedules its state convention in Waterloo on Monday and Tuesday August 11 and 12 with high profile speakers including J P Blakeslee fourth assistant postmaster general. The event plans a Sunday halt in Waterloo and a major oratorical day on Tuesday.
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Towa Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Waterloo
J. P. Blakeslee
Washington
United States
Boone
Commercial Association
J. H. Hedstrom
California
Minneapolis
Clear Lake
Fred C. Williams
Oaks
Charles Johnson
The
Albert Cleaves
Lake Shore
Michael Callanan
John Gilmore
Nolte
Black Hawk County
Castle Hill
Greenwood
Waterloo Township
State Teachers’ College
Pick
Resignations and appointments populate early 1910s notes
Personal Charles 8S. Mellen resigns the presidency of the Boston and Maine railroad. Edward Leach of New York elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks to succeed Thom as B Mills of Superior Wis. McCombs, DNC chair, operated for appendicitis in Paris. Ex police sergeant Duffy sentenced at Sing Sing. Jack London operated on for appendicitis in Oakland. Adelphia Ward dies in Grand Rapids after long illness. Iowa and national items follow including university posts and local incidents.
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Edward Leach
New York
The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Thomas B. Mills
Superior
Wis
William F. McCombs
Democratic National Committee
France
Paris
Peter J. Duffy
Sing Sing
State Pharmacy Board praised for enforcing Pure Drug Act
Waterloo report notes Iowa Pharmaceutical Association address by President Frank Shane urging stricter law enforcement and continued prosecutions of violators. He backs revocation of certificates for illegal cocaine sales and condemns patent medicines. He warns against department store competition and urges a Des Moines legislative bureau.
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Waterloo
Iowa Pharmaceutical Association
Frank Shane
Shane
Des Moines
Road Work Rules Scrutinized by Ninth District Officials
Auditors trustees and township officials from the Ninth congressional district met for a two day road meeting in Atlantic. State figures J. W. Holden H. C. Beard Henry F. E. Sampson T. R. McDonald attended. They reviewed new road laws and sample work supervised by J. D. Adams of Indianapolis with a half mile of road near the city in progress.
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Atlantic
Ninth Congressional District
J. W. Holden
H. C. Beard
State Highway Commission
Henry FE. Sampson
T. R. McDonald
J. D. Adams
Indianapolis
TEST LIQUOR LAW IN WINTERSET
Des Moines reports the Iowa Anti Saloon League files a Winterset test case under the Webb Kenyon law to stop liquor shipments from wet to dry areas. Rev W G Hohanshelt pastors the case. a hearing before Winterset mayor is set for Friday July 18. A similar case awaits Ottumwa. focus is on shipments to bootleggers or individuals for personal use.
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Daily Iowan
State University
Ralph G. Graffield
Carson Township
Pottawattamie County
Manning Commercial Club
Des Moines
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Winterset
Webb-Kenyon
W. G. Hohanshelt
Methodist Church
Boone
Ottumwa
Claimed Slayer Unnerved in Mason City Jail
Louis Prescott, accused slayer of his wife, is described as a nervous wreck in the county jail. He collapsed and remained semi conscious for a day after learning of his spouse’s death, muttering and moaning.
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Mason City
Louis Prescott
Woman Seriously Injured In Auto Crash
Mrs. T. J. Barth suffered a broken hip in three places a torn collar bone and other serious injuries when she was thrown from an auto after the brakes suddenly set in Mason City.
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Mason City
T. J. Barth
Captain of Guards Quits in Iowa National Guard
Captain Robert B. Pike, captain of Company H Pitty-sixth Iowa National Guard, resigns his post effective immediately after the Storm Lake encampment, which will end about August 1.
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Quits
Sioux City
Robert B. Pike
H. Pitty
Iowa National Guard
Storm Lake
Sioux City Strike Fails
Sioux City reports that the Milwaukee railroad freight handlers strike has failed. Some strikers returned to work while remaining positions are filled by other laborers.
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Sioux City
Milwaukee Railroad
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T. P. Kane
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Cedar Falls
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Knoxville
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Sac City
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Ruth Wollman
Cincinnati, O
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