Week's Events Summary Highlights and Rumors
Personal notes report Postmaster Richard L. Ashurst, 72, of Philadelphia missing for days with fears of drowning in Atlantic City. Senator Lorimer’s seat questioned over bribery. Elihu Root urges Senate to bar him. Capt. John Streckfus buys Diamond Jo steamers for summer and winter routes. Mrs Hallie D Elkins renounces her late husband’s will and claims dower for five children. Edward St John of Westinghouse found dead at Coney Island. company cites a ledger shortage. Capt Logan Tucker of the Marine Corps resigns with March 21 effective date.
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Richard L. Ashurst
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
N. J
William Lorimer
Ilnois
Senate
Elihu Root
United States Senate
John Streckfus
Rock Island
St. Paw
St. Louis
New Orleans
Hallie D. Elkins
United States
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
Edward St. John
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of
New York
Coney Island
Terry
Westinghouse Company
St. John
Logan Tucker
Marine Corps
John A. Logan
Secretary of the Navy
Winthrop
Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Pantchenko
Count O'Brien de Lassy
de Lassy
House
Yale
Charles S. de Long
Frederick T. de Long
Chicago
Orient
Inbaraki Prefecture
New York Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
American Breeders’ Association
Columbus
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Communipaw
Kenosha
Wis
C. J. Jacobson
Mary Zahon
Paul Zahon
Somers
Miss Zahon
Cleveland Moffett
Hampton's
Standard Oil Company
Sierra Manila
San Lorenzo
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Tsai Chun
China
London
George V
Germany
Reichstag
Newark
Passaic River
Champaign County
Grand Jury
University of Illinois
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Missouri River
San Francisco
Oregon
Dorothy Arnold
Joseph G. Robin
Alexander II
Russia
Alfaro
Estrada
Ecuador
Galapagos Islands
George W. Elkins
Willam L. Elkins
George D. Widener
Young Men's Christian Association
Jersey City
Central Railroad of New Jersey
The
du Pont Powder Company
James
Manhattan
Senate folds on direct vote of senators and other notes
The unfinished senate business includes direct vote of senators after a long party struggle. The Chicago Garment Workers' strike ends with workers returning under employers' terms. Taft moves toward an Honduras armistice with Davila. Cooper ordered to aid. West Point hazing cadets restored. Lexington winter carnival planned for veterans' memorial funding. A Clifton, Arizona case ends with the jailhouse suicide of Mrs. Chamber. California assembly approves woman suffrage amendment. Wyoming irrigation project contract with private capital sealed. New York gas explosion coroner rules death unavoidable. Brooklyn color works burned. rivers and harbors bill passes Senate.
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Old Guard
Senate
Chicago Garment Workers
Davila
Honduras
Taft
State Department
Cooper
Marietta
Congress
Robert H. Peary
West Point
Academy
Roosevelt
Wright
Lexington
National Patriotic Organizations
Minute Men
Mass
Clifton
Ariz
Jack Chambere
English
California Assembly
George E. Roberts
Wyoming
Wyomuung Central
New York Central Power House
New York
Albert Seagroatt
Joseph M. Huber
Brooklyn
United States Senate
Scarlet fever closes Petersburg IL schools amid public ban
Amid scarlet fever, Petersburg schools and all public religious and social gatherings were ordered closed. The period piece notes a wave of health and civic restrictions, alongside a sprawling digest of national incidents from crime to politics and transport.
Corn seed cautions over partial freezing in Iowa
Professor P G Holden of Iowa State College warns farmers in Ames that an unusual amount of seed corn is partially frozen this year. He urges extensive testing before planting to prevent poor germination and advises against using moldy corn as seed.
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Ames
Iowa
P. G. Holden
Iowa State College
Professor Holden
Tragic Norfolk inquest sparks church uproar
In Norfolk Nebraska Mrs. Henry Stehr followed the small casket of son Karl Stehr into St James Lutheran Church as the Stehr inquest testimony surfaces. Henry Stehr, the boy’s stepfather, nearly faces murder charges after a coroner verdict that the child froze to death from exposure and neglect.
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Sioux City
Henry Stehr
Karl Stehr
St. James Lutheran Church
Norfolf
Neb
Hisses
Stehr
August Braum
Otto Bergfelder
Widow Sues Insurance After Saloon Ejection Death
Cedar Rapids widow Mrs. Martin Mefferd sues Mystic Toilers Insurance for a 32600 policy claimed by her husband who died from a brain concussion after being thrown from a saloon. She alleges agent M W Kent suspended him in 1909 yet kept accepting payments and seeks settlement. also sued saloon proprietor G W Vlach.
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Risk Lodge
Cedar Rapidsi
Martin Mefferd
Mystic Toilers Insurance Company
Mefferd
White Line Highway Boost Lifts River Road Vision
Sidney and neighboring commercial clubs push a new river to river highway from Keokuk Iowa to Nebraska City Nebraska. The route, running through southern Iowa, will be marked with white striped telephone posts and later guide and mileage signs. A Fremont Page Taylor and Ringgold county meeting in Shenandoah January 30 approved support for the road.
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Sidney
Shenandoah
Nebraska City
Keokuk
Iowa
Neb
Fremont
Page
Taylor and Ringgold
Plans for a gigantic dam at Steamboat River Iowa City
Iowa City officials arrange plans to build a large dam across Steamboat River a few blocks north of the town center. Proponents argue vast power could be generated from the waste water now going unused.
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Iowa City
Lowa City
Steamboat Rover
Creamery Board Elected in Clarion Election
Clarion Creamery association stockholders chose T. A. Shilling as president Weirt Johnson as secretary P. Morton as treasurer and E. W. Schroeder as board member The association did business totaling $58 103 02 during the year.
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Clarion
Clarion Creamery Association
T. A. Shilling On
Weirt Johnson
P. Morton
E. W. Schroeder
Farm Land Buys 15000 Acres in San Luis Valley
George H. Paul of Washington buys 15 000 acres in Colorado's San Luis Valley for about 2 000 000 dollars. The purchase signals a major agricultural expansion and ties to Washington investors in the valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
George H. Paul
Washington
San Luis Valley
Colorado
Pneumonia Kills Many in Des Moines December
Des Moines records show pneumonia as the leading killer in December, with 29.3 deaths attributed to the disease. The state health board reported 21,470 deaths in Iowa last year from illness, while typhoid caused 49 deaths nationwide, including fourteen in Des Moines, despite an overall epidemic.
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Des Moines
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Summer
Iowa
Mason City Farm to be First Electric Lighted Farm
The Balmar farm just northwest of Mason City will become the community’s first to be electrified. A contract with Gas and Electric will supply a line to the farm and install a motor powering all suitable machinery. Barns and house will be fully lit. Balmar plans to extend the service to nearby farms at his expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
T. Balmar
Balmar
Gas & Milectric Company
Balmat
City
Garbage Crematory Proposed for Mason City
A plan to install a garbage crematory in Mason City is pitched to Mayor Kirschiman by W F H McGuire of Hobart Oklahoma. He touts a new garbage consuming process with an improved furnace feeding system and notes he recently invented the crematory and secured a 1910 patent.
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Mason City
Kirschiman
W. FH. McLuire
Hobart
Oklo
McGuire
Mrs Wendelburg Wins Divorce From Otto Wendelburg
Des Moines report states Toni Wendelburg was granted a decree of divorce from Otto Wendelburg, formerly a West Des Moines high school professor. Judge DeGraff issued the decree after Toni testified to repeated striking and alleged intimate relations with other women. Otto did not appear in court.
New Packing Plant Planned for Sioux City
Sioux City Packing company will build a $125,000 plant starting in March to double as a large facility replacing a smaller plant destroyed by fire. The new plant will save a killing capacity about two thirds of the Armour plant and will employ between 400 and 500 workers.
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Sioux City
Armour
Sioux City Packing Company
Ancient 1624 church history book owner in Iowa Falls
Joseph F. Green of Iowa Falls owns a rare 287 year old volume printed in 1624 by a London firm. The book titled Histories of the Church Since the Days of Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, Until the Present Age is in fair preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Falls
Joseph F. Green
London
Jesus Christ
Despondent Suitor Shoots Self After Rejected Proposal
George D. Baldwin, despondent over Mrs. Eilla Heselstein spurning his marriage proposal, shot himself through the lungs. He dressed in his best clothes and, kneeling at her feet, drew his pistol and fired.
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Self
Sioux City
Eilla Heselstein
George D. Baldwin
Missionary Stella Paddock Returns to China Mission
Eldora Minn Stella Paddock of Grundy Center has gone back to China where she will serve as a Presbyterian missionary in Hongkong. The young woman enjoyed a lengthy leave in America, was fond of her work, and eagerly resumed her mission duties.
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China
Eldora
Davis Confesses Aid in Kendrick Attack
Jefferson-esse Davis confessed to officers that he helped in the November 24 attack on James Galvin's residence in Kendrick township Greene county. The assault involved breaking doors and windows and caused property damage.
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Davis
Jefferson
Esse Davis
James Galvin
Kendrick Township
Greene County
Jefferson Pioneer Dies in Fairfield County
Mrs. Clark Van Nostrand, longtime Fairfield and Jefferson county resident since 1856, died of pneumonia at age 79. In Corning a large barn owned by F. C. Reese burned for unknown reasons, destroying four valuable horses and causing about $2,000 in losses.
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Jefferson
Fairfield
Clark van Nostrand
Jefferson County
van Nostrand
Corning
F. C. Reese
Fireman sues for 25000 over bridge wreck near Sanborn
Iowa Falls W E Shaffer of Cedar Falls files a damage suit against North Western for 25000 after injuries from a wreck when his engine passed a bridge near Sanborn last July. He was a fireman on the engine involved.
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Iowa Falls
W. E. Shaffer
Cedar Falls
North-Western
Sanborn
Cottage to be built by Eddyville Modern Woodmen
Eddyville camp of Modern Woodmen of America voted to erect a sanatorium cottage at Colorado Springs Colorado. The decision follows a meeting held by the local group to advance welfare and housing for members and beneficiaries.
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Eddyville
Modern Woodmen of America
Colorado Springs
Colo
Cummins on Rates Sees Socialism Before Monopoly Risk
Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa told the New York crowd that the interstate commerce commission shapes future government and national conscience. He warned capitalization inflates rail rates, urged federal oversight, and said lingering reforms may require a tribunal to fix prices, concluding people may favor socialism over monopoly.
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New York
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Senate Committee Interstate Commerce
Cith
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Lightning destroys Missouri State Capitol in fire
Jefferson City reporting the Missouri capitol burned last night with the dome struck by lightning. The fire consumed the building including governor, secretary of state, and treasurer offices, plus state records, totaling about 1 million dollars and leaving no insurance. Inadequate water pressure delayed containment, and local firemen could not reach the blaze promptly.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Capitol
House of Representatives
Storm General in Middle West Blizzard Threat
A major snow and wind storm swept the middle west and lake region Sunday, near blizzard intensity. The system stretched from southwestern Wyoming through South Dakota to northwestern Missouri and east to Indiana, disrupting travel and daily life.
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Middle West
Chicago
Lake Region
Wyoming
South Dakota
Missouri
Indiana
Reorganize Mail Service Inference from Insubordination
Washington February 6 officials report inefficiency and mismanagement in the railway mail service. The issues threaten upheaval and a possible nationwide reorganization of the entire system.
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Washington, D. GC
Deemer Addresses Missouri Valley Business Men
Missouri Valley Commercial club held its annual meeting with Judge Horace E. Deemer of the supreme court as principal speaker. After the address a five course dinner was served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deemer
Missouri Valley
Commercial Club
Horace E. Deemer
The
Supreme Court
Dolliver Memorial Services Held for Senator Dolliver
The First Methodist Episcopal church of Fort Dodge Iowa held memorial services Sunday morning in memory of the late Senator J P Dolliver.
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Hola Dolliver
Fort Dodge
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Thin City
J. P. Dolliver
French Spoliation Claims Stir Taft Trip Debate
Washington nears a stalled omnibus claims bill covering French spoliations, Civil War damages, and navy yard overtime. The House blocked action as opponents staged a walkout, though the Court of Claims supports about 3.6 million dollars in approved claims. Roosevelt’s southern tour looms as lawmakers weigh political implications.
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George Clinton
Washington
House
Court of Claims
United States
Congress
Taft
Valley Forge
Benjamin Franklin
France
West India Islands
England
Great Britain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Roosevelt
Senate
Republican Party
South
New Orleans
Davis
Arkansas
Lorimer
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Aummary FA
General News
Prof
Holden
Mother
Cummins
Rail Commission
Lawa
State House
Omnibus
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