Diverse World News Briefs From 1913
Consul reports Puerto Cortes Honduras banana exports to the U S total 1 460 000 bunches in five months. Brazil's foreign minister Muller ends U S visit aboard Minas Geraes for Rio. Two American gunboats Helena and Samara guard Kai Kiang as fighting rages. Numerous society notes and political moves pepper the dispatch.
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David J. D Myers
United States
Puerto Cortes
Honduras
Jauro Muller
Brazil
Minas Geraes
New York
Rio Janeiro
Peter J. Barnes
Kansas
Augusta Doty
Pleasant Valley
N. Y
Poughkeepsie
Arthur J. Francis
First Presbyterian Church
Englewood
Chicago
Watson
Indiana
Washington
Chautauqua
Gertrude Mordecai
T. M. Mordecai
Charleston
8. C
Hannah Folk
Troy
Cleveland
Rhea Ryan
Willard School
Narcissa Pillow Saunders
Buchanan
Nashville
Aaron V. Brown
Fo Buchanan
Gideon J. Pillow
Helen Frick
Pittsburgh
Iron Rail Club
Wenham
Mase
Representative Madden
Illinois
Imperial Tobacco Company
Tobacco Trust
Kentucky
Tobacco Belt
A. B. Garvis
Congressional Tobacco Commission
George W. Guthrie
Japan
San Francisco
Mongolia
California
Iowa items include crimes, crops, and civic notes
A long list of local Iowa notices reports a veteran jailed briefly over a revolver law, a $15,000 defamation suit, a river death of Frank Hackett, LDS reunion planning, county wheat yields, and school damages. It cites postmasters, land sales, farm coops, church building, and municipal franchise moves, with clan, civic, and agricultural updates across towns such as Muscatine, Mt. Ayr, Iowa Falls, Red Oak, Montezuma, Bettendorf, and Keokuk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fife
Mt. Ayr
Charles Ogden
St. Joseph
Fife
Ogden
Excise Board
Frank Hackett
Brantwood
Iowa Falls
Steward Houston
Red Oak
Montgomery County
Arthur Coram
Williams. Huffman
Huffman Brog
Knoxville
Hot Springs
S. D
Billy” Huffman
Iowa
Black Hawk
Coin
Frank Carpenter
Estherville
Stephen C. Maynard
Grand Junction
David D. Darby
Hamburg
Fred S&s. Stoddard
Jesup
Sam T. Manatt, Jr
Kalona
Charles K. Coontz
Lineville
Rudolph W. Schug
Strawberry Point
Thomas Geneva
What Cheer
John W. Hanna
Winfield
Albert D. Hix
Zearing
Bradley B. Hopkins
Forest City
Robert M. Reid
Lake City
Bessie C. Swan
Story City
Acacia Fraternity
University of Iowa
Acacia-Resd
Masonic Brotherhood
Chas. M. Dutcher
Dean H. Osborn
Abram O. Thomas
Charles M. Showers
Iowa State College
Kate R. Logan
Cherokee County
Black Hawk County
Keokuk
Spirit Lake
Order
C. W. Paschal
J. C. Milner
Belle Plaine
Clay County
W. A. Posey
Shenandoah
Western Normal College
Newton A. Carmean
Rhoades-Carmean Buggy Company
Marshalltown
Los Angeles
San Quentin
Carmean
Pearl Peterson
Atlantic
Burnea
Chautauqua
Burlington Road
Creston
Burlington
Pacific Junction
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
C. F. Weiss
Easy Fit Manufacturing Company
Grinnell
Cray
Gately & Co
Dubuque
G. W. Hill
Clinton
Bellevue
Will Lorenz
Gus Mitchell
Rockford
Foreign. Japan Seizes Australian Orange Market From California
A collection of international market notes reports Japan capturing the Australian orange market from California producers. It also describes a Chinese invasion rumor in Tibet and a counterfeit rupee scheme aimed at Tibetans. Other items note the Vienna rumor of Sofia revolution and King Ferdinand’s assassination, Johannesburg’s growth, Glasgow’s expansion, and Sicily’s farming progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
California
Tibet
London
England
London Chamber of Commerce
Europe
Vienna
Exchange Telegraph Company of London
Sofia
Ferdinand
Johannesburg
South Africa
Glasgow
Greater
Siam
Sicily
Italy
Germany
Texas
Constantine
Russia
Spirit Lake Power Plant Destroyed in Fire
Spirit Lake suffered a major setback when the electric light and power plant burned Sunday night. The cupola origin point likely from insulation wear on a heavy current wire caused the loss of the plant and building valued at 15000 dollars, with partial insurance. The outage leaves Spirit Lake and nearby resorts Orleans Arnold's Park and Templar Park in darkness until new power is supplied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Lake
Orleans
Arnold's Park
Templar Park
Sioux City Cow Beats New York Prize Winner
Sioux City’s Fanny, an eight year old Shorthorn Jersey cow owned by O S McAlister, outproduces the New York prize cow by turning out milk every thirteen and a half days. She averages sixty pounds of milk daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
New York
Fanny
Jersey
O. S. McAlister
Couple 70 Years Married In Quiet Knoxville Anniversary
In Knoxville at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Gregory on West Robinson Street, families marked the seventieth wedding anniversary of the couple. Heat and Mrs. Gregory's ill health kept the celebration small. Mr. Gregory, 89, claims he has never taken medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
James T. Gregory
West Robinson Street
Gregory
Sidney Man Injured in Auto Upset Near Here
An auto driven by W. B. Wightman a Sidney real estate dealer overturned near here injuring five occupants. C. L. Story escaped by jumping. George Reeves suffered a fractured collarbone as a passing car struck Wightman’s front wheel and capsized the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney
W. B. Wightman
C. L. Story
George Reeves
Wightman
New Pentecostal Church Dedication Set for Chariton
The Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene in Chariton will be dedicated August 3 with a dedicatory sermon by Rev. H. F. Reynolds of Oklahoma City. A camp meeting runs August 2 through August 13 in the grove at the south school building.
Big Class Initiation Set by Woodmen of the World
One of the largest candidate groups in region history is to be received by the Woodmen of the World camp on August 7. Forty two candidates from Dows will travel to Iowa Falls to receive initiatory degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Falls
Iowa
Woodmen of the World
Dows
Boy Killed In Hay Field Wagon Accident
Lawler Martin Wanderscheid age 15 died when the team he was driving ran away and collided with a ahead wagon. He was thrown from the load and both wheels passed over his body in the field incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hay Field
Lawler Martin Wanderscheid
Plan Undertakers Meet in Sioux City Convention
The Interstate Funeral Directors association holds its annual convention in Sioux City August 12 to 14. A highlight includes lectures and demonstrations by Dr. C. L. Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Interstate Funeral Directors’ Association
C. L. Barnes
Man Killed In Runaway Crash
Clinton Michael Hand twenty one died and Chris Suehl Miles Olson and Anton Schwartz were injured when their horse ran away after a speeding motorcycle frightened it and overturned the buggy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Michael Hand
Chris Suehl
Miles Olson
Anton Schwartz
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B. K. Leach
Bandon
Oregon
Bryan
Edward E. Phillips
Indianapolis
Leavenworth
Kan
Andrew Gunderson
Valley City
N. D
Wilson
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White House
Minnesota
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Minneapolis
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Walter H. Page
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Canada
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Niagara
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Fairport
Wolverine
Essex
Hne
Gaynor
Hoboken
George Hatton
Muscatine
Magnolia
James D. Stuart
A. M. Fyrando
Herman C. Smith
Lamont
R. C. Evans
Edward Kerker
Mount Pleasant
University Hospital
Iowa City
William Williams
Kossuth County
Mason City
Edward Nelson
Geneva
Montezuma
McKinley
Oskaloosa
Bettendorf
Adjt
Guy E. Logan
Iowa National Guard
Aden
William J. Bry@&h
Assembly
Chariton
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