Washington Cabinet Wives Lead Social Life in Taft Era
In Washington the cabinet wives shape social life, led by Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Knox. Mrs. Meyer, seasoned by continental society, hosts diplomacy and foreign visitors. Mrs. Knox presides at head of cabinet women with a grand K Street home. The article profiles the Meyer daughters Julia and Alice, Mrs. MacVeagh, Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs. Ballinger, and Mrs. Nagel, noting their backgrounds and roles in official society.
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Washington
George W. Childs
Knox
Lillian’ Smith
A.D. Smith
Pittsburg
Beeo Pei
Meyer
Mosh Reed
MacVeagh
Henry 8. Eames
Chicago
Dickinson
Nashville
Tenn
Yale
Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
New England
Far
Northwest
Pallinger
Edward
Williams College
Richard
Charlie Taft
Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel
St. Louis
Nagel
Anna Shipley
Mary
Edith
Charles
Anne
Man Saves Horses in Bay Rescue Earns Medal
John Patterson, Seattle teamster, risked his life to free horses trapped in the bay after a trestle collapse at Elliott avenue and Stone street. The King County Humane Society will award him a specially designed gold medal for bravery, noting a helper in the water and Patterson’s lifelong bond with horses.
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Seattle
Wash
John Patterson
Elliott Avenue
Stone Street
King County Humane Society
Patterson
King County Society
Humane Society
Man Snoozes At Police Station Then Sinks In Pond
Vincent Tumes, 29, was found sleeping against a Wyoming Street police station wall and rushed to a dispensary when officers suspected poisoning. He later slept in a pond at Nebraska and Chippewa, was taken to hospital, woke on the operating table, and was released as merely sleepy.
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St. Louis
Vincent Tumes
Wyoming Street
Tumes
Nebraska Avenua
Chippewa Street
Charles Kollmeyer
Kollmeyer
Blesbarth
Henry Gawler
White House Budget Costs for Presidential Living
A discussion outlines the White House budget for the current year detailing the president's salary, traveling funds, and encounter costs. It notes dining expenses from state dinners to receptions, staff roles, and the necessity of a large retinue for presidential travel, with Roosevelt cited for bringing personal horses and carriages.
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Senate
House
Congress
White House
Mura
Tate
Eich
Sam
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Taft Daughter Prepares White House Debutante Era
Helen Taft's daughter is poised to become a White House debutante with Mrs. Taft guiding social plan. Gen Bell and Gen Edwards assist the president in shaping invitations as Miss Taft forms friendships at school. The Ep ispal Church background and Murray Bay schooling anchor her ceremonial debut while the presidential pew awaits in St John’s Church opposite the White House.
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Washington
Bell
Clarence Edwards
Aylesburg
Webster
Miss Taft
White House
Episcopal Church
Satterlee
Ethel. Roosevelt
Julia
Alice “von Meyer
Murray Bay
Taft
Union
Roosevelt
St. John’s
Court
Park
Bull Fights Red Lantern and Cowboy Medley
Philadelphia report details a bull trampling a red lantern on Broad street and a dramatic Cowboy Earl Hampton surviving a leg amputation after a brutal snowbound ordeal in Upton Wye. Japan vies with U S and Britain for China piano trade, players and organs, spotlighting global commerce shifts.
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Japan
United States
Great Britain
China
Iowa Regiments to Camp Across State Next Summer
Des Moines reports four miniature armies will encamp in Iowa next summer with four state regiments in July and August. Camp sites are to be chosen within each regiment's territory. Des Moines units will include three troops from Fort Des Moines, a platoon of artillery, a regular army signal corps detail, and staff college officers. Encampment dates set: 53rd infantry July 21, 55th infantry August 6, 56th infantry August 18.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Signal Corps
Regular Army
Staff College
Fifty-third Infantry
Fifty-sixth
Burglar Steals Nearly $5000 From Imogene Bank
Shenandoah The First National Bank of Imogene in Page county was burglarized. About $5000 in cash was secured and the burglars escaped before dawn. The bank vault and safe were demolished though books and papers remained intact. F H Reed serves as president of the bank and another local bank.
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Shenandoah
First National Bank
Imogene
Page County
F. H. Reed
Imogene Concern
Maybray Gang Indicted in Wholesale Swindle Case
A district court grand jury in Potta wattamle county has returned ten indictments against J. C. Maybray and others for conspiracy and larceny. Names of co defendants are not public. Complainants include Samuel Luton Cass Lake Minnesota Joseph P Walker Denver J Hemelbracht Bancroft Nebraska W H Bedford Blackow Missouri Dr C C Van derbeck St Louis.
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Maybray
Cornell Bluffs
Grand Jury
District Court
Pottawattamle
J. C. Maybray
Sarauel Luton
Cass Lake
Minn
Joseph P. Walker
Denver
J. Hemelbracht
Bancroft, Neb
W. H. Bedford
Blackow, Mo
C. C. Vanderbeck
St. Louis
Pasteur Institute Cures at Iowa City
The Pasteur Institute linked to the state university medical college reports its second successful cure this year Miss Hertzler of Burlington completed a twenty day treatment and is cured Dr Albert analyzed the brain of the dog that bit her finding rabies Mr Schuster of Dead Movies was released after three weeks and the biting dog showed hydrophobia in its cage
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Pasteur Institute Cures
Iowa City
Pasteur Institute
College, of Medicine
The
State University
Hertzler
Burlington
Albert
Schuster
Dead Movies
University recruits set spring encampment dates
Lieutenant Weeks announces the university military companies spring encampment from May 29 to June 1. Students will depart Saturday morning and return Tuesday afternoon, delayed by cold and rainy weather. Dows citizens subscribe over 1000 dollars of 4000 needed for an interurban survey from Mason City to Fort Dodge, Wool stock favors the road but would bypass Webster City. St Anthony Grain and Stock Company files Articles of Incorporation capitalized at 10000 dollars to deal in dairy products stock merchandise machinery implements and building material.
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U. S
Iowa City
Weeks
Dows
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Woolstock
Promatera
Webster City
Co-Operative Co
St. Anthony
Rich Sues City for 2000 Over Tree Injuries
B W Rich sues the city for 2000 damages claiming a low hanging tree bough on Lafayette street injured his eye while driving a hack in the early morning of December 17. The case seeks compensation from the city for negligence and medical costs.
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Waterloo
LaFayette Street
B. W. Rich
Arrive on Every Train in Cornell Bluffs Mikes Targeted
Post office inspector J S Swenson has spent two weeks gathering evidence for the district grand jury in the case against J C Maybray, the alleged arch swindler held at Little Rock Ark. The grand jury to be empaneled could indict up to thirty Mikes involved in the scheme.
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Cornell Bluffs
J. 8
Swenson
Post Office
J. C. Maybray
Little Rock
Ark
New Line Into Sioux City Interurban Plan Launched
Sioux City and Nebraska businessmen opened preliminary talks for an interurban railway linking Sioux City with Hartington Nebraska. A conference at W L Prost’s Sioux City Real Estate office drew C T Johnson Peter Askin Ben McClary and others from Martinsburg Hartington and Sioux City. The line would cross rich farming country twenty miles wide and run north from Sioux City paralleling the Burlington Short line toward Hartington, reflecting favorable local commercial interest.
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Sioux City
Hartington
Neb
Nebraska
W. L. Prost
James F. Toy
C. F. Lytle
George C. Call
R. J. Andrews
J. A. Blondell
A. Dean
C. A. Kneedler
J. M Lynch
J. N. Wood
Burlington
Waterbury
Five Want Mayor's Job in Mason City
Five candidates seek Mason City's mayoral post with varied platforms. A F Shotts heads the Republican ticket promising business administration. A H Cummings leads the equal taxation ticket vowing tax reform and restoring mayoral salary. F A Kitschman runs on the People's ticket appealing to labor. W H Nutting factions into Independent aiming for cheaper living and labor votes. H H Harbaugh entered late backing gas light savings and police reform while opposing saloons as the churches' candidate.
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Mason City
A. F
Shotts
A. H. Cummings
F. A. Kitschman
Peoples
W.H. Nutting
Hving
H. H. Harbaugh
Gonl
Vice
Edwin P. Fitch Returns From Europe Visit
Edwin P. Fitch secretary of the State Insurance company of Iowa arrived in New York City after a disappearance last October. He had left Council Bluffs in August for a European trip and wired relatives from Paris six weeks later claiming he went to London for an appendicitis operation. He was later found in Naples by the American consul in February and said he had been ill with fuzzy memories of travel across the continent.
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Edwin P. Fitch
Council Bluffs
State Insurance Company of Iowa
Naples
New York City
Fitch
Europe
Paris
London
State Department
Fire Routs Town Businesses in Cambridge Blaze
A major fire swept the east side of Cambridge's main street destroying J B Green hotel A M Masons jewelry store and a barber shop with little saved from the latter two. Guests escaped unharmed after warning. Origin blamed on an unknown cause. Insurance partially covers losses. a similar blaze occurred three years earlier on the west side.
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Cambridge
J. B. Green
A. M. Mason’s
Ottumwa Fund Contributes Refund to Donors
Ottumwa contributors to the Pinkerton fund that aided in exposing recent crimes which led to John Junken’s confession will receive a prorated refund from the secret service. Of the $1,107 collected, $359 remains after expenses. the committee to reimburse plans to return each donor’s share.
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Ottumwa
Pinkerton
John Junken
Secret Service
Five Thousand for His Eye in Settlement Appeal
John A. Welter, a deaf mute resident of Marshalltown, will receive 5000 dollars for the loss of an eye. The district court entered judgment against the Great Western railway for 5000 dollars, which Welter had valued at 59009, and the case was dismissed after a compromise offer to settle.
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Marshalltown
John A. Welter
Great Western Railway
Welter
Gored to Death by Bull in Madison County
Winterset area resident Sands Austin aged 87 native of New York state was killed by an angry bull about three miles northwest of Barney. Found crushed and dying, he lingered about twenty minutes after discovery. A longtime Madison County resident, his death ends a lengthy life in the region.
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Winterset
Austin
Barney
New York State
Madison County
Aged Pastor Resigns Charge in Nora Springs
After almost fifty years in ministry the Rev. D. J. Mason, formerly Congregational pastor in Nora Springs and now in Forest City, resigned a week ago and preached his farewell sermon to the congregation. Age and poor health prompted retirement.
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Nora Springs
D. J. Mason
Forest City
Archbishop Keane Receives Papal Thanks for Earthquake Relief
Archbishop Keane, through Apostolic Delegate Falconio in Washington, receives the Holy Father's gratitude for funds raised by his diocese to aid Italian earthquake sufferers.
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Keane
Dubuque
Falconio
Washington
The
Holy Father
New Trial Granted in Meser vey Tive Conspiracy Case
Judge Kelley in Mason City grants a new trial to the Meser vey Tive defendants led by the mayor, city attorney, and a prominent business figure who were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct lawful operations.
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Mason City
Kelley
Meservey Tive
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