Forest Products Laboratory Opens At Madison Wis
Madison Wisconsin prepares to open a new forest products laboratory June 4 funded by the state light heat and power from the university building. The United States Department of Agriculture provides equipment and a staff of thirty five to forty experts to study wood waste decay treatment preservation and uses for paper and other products.
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Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
Washington
Chicago News
University of Wisconsin
United States Department of Agriculture
University
Rockefeller’s Carriage Rides Delight Tarrytown Friends
In Tarrytown New York John D Rockefeller invites neighbors to carriage and auto rides. He customarily wears a paper vest for cold protection and offers guests the same. After rides he keeps the vest, leaving many homes with souvenir garments from these outings.
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John D. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
Rockefeller
Hyde Convicted of First Degree Murder in Kansas City
Dr. B C Hyde was found guilty of first degree murder in Kansas City for poisoning his wife’s uncle Col Thomas H Swope, a millionaire. Life imprisonment was fixed. Frank P Walsh plans a motion for a new trial and appeal. The verdict followed long deliberation and elicited gasps from the courtroom.
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B. C. Hyde
Kansas City
Col
Thomas H. Swope
Frank P. Walsh
Dr. Hyde
Death of Edward B Garriott Chief Forecaster at 67
Edward B Garriott longtime United States Weather Bureau chief forecaster died at his Washington home from acute indigestion aged 67. He served over thirty years in government weather work and fifteen as supervising forecaster. A writer lecturer and member of National Geographic Society AAAS and Academy of Sciences. Born in Lockland Ohio he graduated Washington University in 1870. Survived by his wife and an unmarried daughter.
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Edward B. Garriott
United States Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Garriott
Weather Bureau
National Geographic Society
American Association For the Advancement of Science
The
Academy of Sciences
Lockland
Ohio
Washington University
Illinois reports winter crop loss eleven percent
The state board of agriculture reports eleven percent of Illinois winter wheat seeded last fall for 1910 harvest has been killed. Losses are blamed on Hessian fly and floods with reports from multiple counties. May 1 condition stands at 87 percent of normal and regional prospects vary.
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Illinois
State Board of Agriculture
J. K. Dickerson
Central
Northern
Southern Illinois
Moultrie
Schuyler
Scott, Clay
Clinton
Gallatin
Jackson
Massac
Monroe
Perry
Randolph
St. Clair
Marion
Washington
Pope
Wolves Attack Farmhouse Near Streator
Michael Harvey, a farmer nine miles southeast of Streator, repelled two adult wolves attacking his farmhouse. The wolves had trailed eight captive cubs kept there and dragged off two cubs as Harvey returned with a shotgun to drive them away.
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Michael Harvey
Streator
Harvey
Livingston County
Eleanor Table
Chaddock Boys’ School
Quincy
Johnson
Denver
Miss* Johnson
Fire wipes out entire family in Coulterville blaze
A fire started by an incubator lamp explosion in the basement of George Douglass’s house near Coulterville destroyed the second floor family home. Five members, the father, mother and three sons, perished, with neighbors finding only embers and charred remains within half an hour. The family was buried in one grave.
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George Douglass
Coulterville
Representative Blair Hurt Returns Home Bruised in Chicago Incident
Representative Blair Hurt and Representative W. C. Blair arrived at Mount Vernon after a Chicago assault left him with numerous severe bruises to the head and body. He was knocked down on a street, struck by a fast-moving street car, and hurled to the ground by the impact. A heavy hailstorm caused extensive crop damage across Burksville Monrovia and Poe Station with losses to wheat potatoes fruit trees and strawberries estimated over 60000 in Monore County alone.
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Blair
W. C. Blair
Mount Vernon
Chicago
Burksville
Monrovia
Poe Station
Monoroe County
Forty Year Sentence for Killing in Herrin Restaurant
Peter Gosnell received a forty year sentence in the penitentiary for the February killing of John Boal in a Herrin restaurant. The court heard that the shooting was without provocation, with Gosnell claiming he acted under the mistaken belief the victim was an Italian a "round head."
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Peter Gosnell
John Boal
Herrin
Short State Items From Local Papers In Illinois
A compilation of brief notices across towns including Altona Mo line Pone mah Edina Streator Rankin Piper City Vernon Benton Galesburg Earlville Maroa Granite City Zeigler Kewanee Rockford Galesburg De Kalb Sycamore Mendota Belleville Streator Coal City Livingston County West Union Dimmick and other locales. Highlights include golden anniversaries, strikes, deaths from lightning and illness, disappearances, expansions, ordinances, and local incidents such as wolf sightings and a bank closure.
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Nels Martin
Altona
Moline
Harold Thompson
Ponemah
Edina
Rose Dugo
Streator
Elijah Chenoweth
Rankin
Piper City
Sol Morton
Vernon
Paul Robinson
Benton
Earlville
Burlington
Galesburg
Zeigler
Keithsburg
Kewanee
Oliver Smith
Deere
Rockford
Grand Old Man of Pedagogy Rev C G Snow Retires
Illinois educator Rev C G Snow longtime public school teacher retires to Jacksonville after sixty years in classrooms He was born December 30 1817 in Oswego County New York started teaching in 1837 and later led Greenfield public schools joining Illinois in 1841 and once taught a class in Winchester succeeding Stephen A Douglas.
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C. G. Snow
Illinois
Jacksonville
United States
Oswego County
New York
Ohio
Snow
Macoupin County
Winchester
Scott County
Stephen A Douglas
Greenfield Pubiic
Century-old educator and preacher recalls Illinois career
The text notes a veteran educator who led several Carrollton schools and other Central Illinois institutions until 1897, retiring at age 80. He occasionally taught as an emergency instructor since then and remains in good health near the century mark. Rev Mr Snow earned a Methodist license in 1854 from circuit rider Peter Cartwright.
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Fears
Carrollton
Sentral
Illinois
Mr. Snow
Peter Cartwright
Mine Law Broken at Cherry Coroner's Jury Verdict
The coroner's jury reports Illinois mining laws violated over escape methods in the Cherry disaster. Findings place responsibility with mine inspectors for District No. 2 and vindicate engineer John Cowly aboard the rescue cage. Deaths stemmed from signals confusion and a hay fire near the airshaft, with delay in warning miners.
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Oroner
Illinois
Quincy Boys Robbed School in Early Burglary
Three Quincy youths aged 16 to 18 confessed after detectives questioned them about a school burglary. They entered a paper hanging store, carried off a small safe on a fish cart, broke it for $11, then dumped the safe in a creek. Muddy wagon tracks led to their arrest.
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George L. Strotman
Albert Dussicker
Harry Krueger
Quincy
Convict McMahon Granted New Trial On Bail
James McMahon, convicted of the murder of 16 year old Mary Hetrick of Tiskilwa, is placed on twelve thousand dollars bail furnished by his father. He has served eighteen months of a twenty year sentence in Joliet penitentiary. A second trial is set for the September term of court in Princeton.
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James McMahon
Mary Hetrick
Tiskilwa
McMahon
Joliet Penitentiary
Princeton
Woman awarded damages for husband’s death in mine blast
In the circuit court Mrs. Nora Conover was granted 5500 damages against Harrisburg Southern Coal Company after her husband was killed in the company mine by a gas explosion last July.
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Nora Conover
Harrisburg Southern Coal Company
Bishop Dunne Visits Streator Confirms 150 at Immaculate Conception
Bishop Dunne of Peoria made his first visit to Streator since installation. A large gathering from Catholic societies met him at the train and escorted him to the Church of the Immaculate Conception where he confirmed a class of 150.
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Dunne
Streator
Peoria
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Whistler Friends and Poultry Tips in One Issue
Ford Madox Hueffer recalls Whistler and his Chelsea circle while Madox Brown urges patrons to buy Whistler etchings during his indigent period. The issue shifts to poultry degrees with notes on hens, roosters, turkey feeds, green foods, egg shells, and keeping stock lean for best laying.
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Whistler
Ford Madox Hueffer
Harper’s Magazine
Madox Brown
Whistlers
Chelsea
The Art of the Breeder of Fowls in Omro Wis
Joseph McKeen, a Wyandotte breeder and former sailor, created a golden Wyandotte without native Wyandotte blood. He bred with simple tools and hens, crossing with See prizht bantam to develop rose comb and laced feathers, then a Partridge Cochin cross to fix color and increase size.
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Plymouth Rock
St. Louis Republic
Turkey
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Joseph McKeen
Omro
Wis
McKeen
Trans-Siberian Railroad Seen As Poor Engineering Work
Realization grows that the Trans-Siberian Railroad was poorly engineered. Critics point to structural weaknesses, maintenance challenges, and long-term reliability concerns affecting operations and safety.
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Madison, Wis
Physician
Illinois State News
Purington Brick Yards
de Kalb County
John Alfred Johnson
Sycamore
West Union
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
Nokomis
Charles Harvey
Louisville & Nashville
Belleville
John Greb
Dimmick Township
Mendota
Thomas Howard
Coal City
C.G. Snow
Cherry C
Quincy Boy
Irom B. Matthews
Indiana
Farmers Home Journal
Orpingtons
New York Press
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