Poultry and Pet Stock Show Promises Record Entries
Des Moines reports the Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock association will host a Coliseum show next week with over 4000 in merchandise prizes and 26 silver trophies. Entries close tonight with expectations of 2300 to 2500 entrants, a record. Exhibits span tame fowl Angora cats and blooded dogs as dog breeders mount large displays.
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Des Moines
George §. Phillips
Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Iowa
Jobs Open to Census Takers in Des Moines
Des Moines announces census enumerator jobs for April with applications due by January 25 and exams February 6 in Des Moines. About 100 workers are needed, districts cover ten days canvassing each, pay 3 cents per name with potential earnings between 40 and 50 dollars in some areas. Duplicate applications go to Cam Culbertson of Knoxville, district superintendent.
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Des Moines
Commercial Club
Polk County
Cam Culbertson
Knoxville
Votes tax to new railroad in Clarinda Iowa
The city voted a one percent tax to aid the Iowa and Southwestern railway by a four to one margin. The line will run from Clarinda to College Springs and Blanchard with construction starting by April 1, 1910. Promoted by Engineering Construction and Securities of Chicago under contract with the Clarinda Commercial Club, credit goes to C. A. Ross, president, and chief engineer Charles Judd.
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Clarinda
Iowa & Southwestern Railway
College Springs
Blanchard
Engineering Construction & Securities Company of Chicago
Clarinda Commercial Club
C. A. Ross
Charles Judd
Iowa Corn Growers Exposition Profits Expected
John Sundberg, president of the Iowa Corn Growers' association, is in Des Moines to wind up the seventh Iowa corn exposition. Despite light attendance, growers are expected to profit financially. Exact profit figures will be known in several days.
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Des Moines
John Sundberg
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Central City millman found dead in shafting
Liddington, a 60 year old night miller at Central City mills, was found strangled with his clothes caught in the shafting by his employer. The Cedar Rapids Ja Dee report notes death attributed to strangulation.
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Cedar Rapids
Ja. Dee
L. Liddington
Central City
Des Moines Press Club Banquet Guests Named
Des Moines December 24 Senator A B Cumming and Congressman A T Wall will attend a Press club banquet at the Savery hotel on the evening of December 30.
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Dine Hall
Cummins
Des Moines
A. B. Cumming
A. T. Wall
Press Club of
Savery Hotel
Estrada wins Rama battle in Nicaragua with heavy casualties
Gen Estrada's forces rout government troops at Rama, with about 600 killed or wounded and 1900 Zelaya's men surrendering including Gen Gonzales. Two Americans reported killed as surgeons from the Des Moines land to tend the wounded. Tatumbla and Rocreo fall, Capt Godfrey Fowler among the firing line, and Americans seek protection amid Granada riots. Jose Madriz inaugurated as president.
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Bluefields
Nicaragua
Estrada
Rama
Zelaya
Gonzales
Shipley
Des Moines
Rocreo
Vasquez
Tatumbla
Recreo
Mena
Godfrey Fowler
Thirty-third Infantry
Managua
United States
Granada
Corinto
Madriz
Rudolph Downing
Jose Madriz
Loyal 10 Cook Defends His Own Course
New York reports Dr Maurice F Egan the American minister to Denmark says Danes still partly blame his strong Cook support for the reception of the explorer. Anthony Fiala and Captain Osbon rebut doubt with hints of upcoming developments and claims Cook is not yet defeated.
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New York
Denmark
Dr. Cook
Maurice F. Egan
North Pole
Egan
Copenhagen
Cook
Explorer
Fiala
Anthony Fiala
Osbon
B. S. Osbon
Arctic Club of America
Fire Rescues Thrill New York Residents
Sensational rescues marked a East yard street apartment fire in New York on December 23. Fire on the fourth floor fed on oil soaked woodwork as residents fled via ladders and airshafts. One man clung to a window sill and was swung to safety by firemen and police.
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New York
East Yard Street
Gustav Linnell
Mann White Slave Traffic Bill Favorably Reported
Washington reports the Mann white slave traffic bill was favorably reported to the house by Chairman Mann. The committee notes the bill does not seek to regulate or punish prostitution and contrasts its powers with state police authority, relying on federal commerce powers for interstate matters.
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Washington
House Committee On
House
Mann
Congress
Friedjung libel trial hinges on forged documents
Vienna reports evidence at the trial of historian Dr. Friedjung suggesting he was misled by forged papers. Efforts for settlement are underway but Friedjung refuses to withdraw his accusations or accept plaintiff terms.
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Vienna
Friedjung
Friedlung
Arizona Has A Blizzard
Heaviest snowstorms in Arizona halt Santa Fe freight traffic in the north and disrupt Southern Pacific trains farther south. Passenger service operates with difficulty amid severe winter weather.
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Los Angeles
Arizona
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Bronze tablets honor aid after southern Italy quake
In Naples on December 28 the Italian naval league will present bronze tablets commemorating the earthquake disaster and aid to sufferers by America. The tablets, funded across Italy and Italian colonies including New York, honor United States vessels and crews who aided in rescue and home restoration at Messina and Reggio. Similar tablets will go to other foreign ships that helped.
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Naples
Italy
America
Italian Naval League
Crowinshield
United States
Messina
Reggio
New York
Texas timber deal transfers large property to Houston buyers
In Polk county Texas a 4000 population town a 34 mile railroad and 143000 acres of timber transfer from William Carlisle Lumber Co to J M West R C Duff and others of Houston for 6 million dollars. Onalaska is deeded over while Beaumont & Great Northern railroad runs Trinity to Livingston. In Olympia Washington teachers in public schools are barred from opening exercises with prayer or reading the Bible per Attorney General Bell opinion to the state superintendent.
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Houston
Tex
Polk County
Texas
William Carlisle Lumber Company
J. M. West
R. C. Duff
Onalaska
Beaumont & Great Northern
Trinity
Livingston
Barz Bible In
Olympig, Wash
Washington
Bell
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Five Thousand For Woman's Slayer In Paris
Paris authorities offer five thousand dollars for the killer of Mme Gouin widow of Jules Gouin governor of the Bank of France. Her body was found under a train near Paris last Thursday and the family raises the reward to six thousand dollars for the murderer.
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France
Paris
Mme. Gouin
Jules Edouard Gouin
Bank of France
Korean Premier Stabbed in Seoul and Other Political Assassinations
A global wave of political violence reports the stabbing of Korean Premier Yi in Seoul and the bombing of St Petersburg police chief Col Karpoff. An Indian chief magistrate in Nasik and a Roumanian premier are also noted as assassinated or wounded amid anti-government unrest.
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Seoul
Korea
St. Petersburg
Col
Karpoff
Bombay
British India
Nasik
Arthur M. T. Jackson
Yie Chamm Yong
Marquis Ito
United States
Japan
Col. Karnoff
Secret Police
Viborg
Michael Vosskressensky
Baku
India
Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson
Presidency of
Jackson
British Indian Service
Washington
State Department
Bucharest
Roumania
Station Operator Murdered at Redwater Railway
North Bay Ont December 23 station operator W J Dugon at Redwater on the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway was killed when an intruder became boisterous Dyson attempted to eject him and another man struck Dyson with a club crushing his head the killer fled Percy Rockefeller son of William Rockefeller convalesces in Greenwich Conn after appendicitis operation two weeks ago.
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Man Grushes
Red Water
Ont
North Bay
W. J. Dugon
Redwater
Temiskaming & Northern Ontario
Here
Dyson
King
Greenwich
Conn
Percy BE. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Warriner sentenced to six years for embezzlement
Charles la Warriner former treasurer of the Big Four railroad pleaded guilty to embezzlement in the common pleas court and was sentenced to six years in the Ohio penitentiary. He faced two counts for embezzling 5000 dollars and grand larceny of the same amount with a disputed 643000 shortage.
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Cincinnati
Charles la Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Wasdmansee
Common Pleas Court
Ohio Penitentiary
Jeanette Stewart Ford
Edgar
Cooke
Chicago
Warriner
Hunt
Crowds view Leopold II funeral in Brussels
Torrential rain and wind greeted the royal funeral as King Leopold II’s cortege left the palace for St Michael and Ste Gudule cathedral. Business halted nationwide while mobs gathered along the route, filling sidewalks, windows, and balconies to witness the pageantry.
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Brussels
Leopold II
Royal Palace
Cathedral of
St. Michael and Ste. Gudule
Smuggling Frauds Expose Sleeper Trunk Ring
Chicago authorities arrest Mme. Mae K. Weber known as Mme. Whitney and Mrs Kathryn Schwarz at 1521 Michigan Avenue for profiting over 200000 worth of Paris gowns and laces in a country wide sleeper trunk smuggling scheme. Nine women and four New York dressmakers are jailed, twenty seven dressmakers indicted by a federal grand jury in New York.
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Chicago
Mae K. Weber
Mme. Whitney
Kathryn Schwarz
Michigan Avenue
New York
Federal Grand Jury
Taft Invited to Lincoln and Washington Birthday Celebrations
President Taft receives numerous invitations to Lincoln and Washington birthday events. A committee of Masons from the Alexandria Washington Blue Lodge, linked to George Washington, invites him to a Masonic memorial launch in Alexandria, Virginia, for a grand Washington monument project.
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Lincoln
Washington
Taft
Alexandria-Washington
Blue Lodge
George Washington
Alexandria
Navy plans $42 million for ships 1910 to 1913
The navy department estimates Congress will fund $4 430 476 for vessels under construction from 1910 through 1913 with $30 732 563 for hulls and $11 697 913 for machinery. Current year outlay is $24 620 755. 1941 projected at $13 376 220. 1912 and 1913 combined $4 534 501.
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Washington
Congress
Navy Department
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