Iowa Delegation to Detroit Heads Grand Army Meet
Des Moines reports a large Iowa delegation will travel to Detroit for the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Colonel D J Palmer is backed for national commander amid Burlington endorsement. Also noted: bootlegging arrests in Marshalltown and continued Woodmen reform efforts, plus crop prospects and San Francisco exposition plans.
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Des Moines
Iowa
D. J. Palmer
Palmer
Grand Army of the Republic
Casson
Marshalltown
America
Toledo
Towa
San Francisco
Woodworth Clum
Clinton
Clinton Advertiser
Ottumwa
Supreme Court
Wets
A. C Parker
State Insurance Department
Burkit
Insurance Department
Goes Crazy Over Checkers in Terre Haute
Hal Stoddard attempted suicide by shooting but was ruled insane. The incident occurred in Terre Haute Indiana on June 22 with officials citing obsession over checkers as the probable cause of his mental breakdown.
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Checkers
Terre Haute
Ind
Hal Stoddard
Stoddard
Chicago
Washington Porter
Porter
Banana price sparks fatal gun battle in Milner
Milner Georgia June 22 Homer Maddox and Harry Barry are dead after a street gun battle following a quarrel over bananas. The clash ended with both men killed. Police investigated the incident and are reviewing reports from witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana
Milner, Ga
Homer Maddox
Harry Barry
Sylvia Pankhurst Suffrage Pleas To Premier Asquith
Sylvia Pankhurst travels to press suffrage appeals before Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. The protest follows decades of campaigning with speeches and demonstrations aimed at securing women's voting rights in Britain.
London police guard militants in Hyde Park melee
London crowds jeered and mobbed suffragettes in Hyde Park as police escorted women to safety. Meetings were broken up and speakers hustled from platforms amid threats of docking in the Serpentine. Officers used truncheons to disperse rioters and protect spectators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hyde Park
Pellagra Origin Sought To Open Field Hospital
Public Health Service plans a field hospital in Spartanburg South Carolina opening July 1 to study pellagra. Dr R A Herring will lead a team of seven physicians in a 25 bed facility aimed at research with patients receiving care in exchange.
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Public Health Service
South Carolina
Spartanburg
R. A. Herring
Peliggra
Wife Sues Grant's Son Over Widow's Support
Elizabeth Grant sues Jesse R. Grant and United States Trust Co under Julia Dent Grant's will to obtain funds to support her in a manner befitting her late husband. The complaint cites joint residence with Grant's mother and alleged abandonment after her mother-in-law's death. In a separate item, a launch capsized on Oswego canal near Onondaga lake, drowning several including Mrs. George H Adams and her three children.
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New York
Jesse R. Grant
U.S. Grant
Elizabeth Grant
United States Trust Company
Julia Dent Grant
Grant
Syracuse
N.Y
Oswego Canal
Onondaga Lake
Lock
Liverpool
George H Adams
Suffragists Parade Ahead of Miss La Vollette Visit
Mrs Phoebe Carnell aged over ninety has joined the equal suffrage society and will ride in Waterloo Iowa parade June 26 for Miss Fula La Vollette's suffrage address at the Chautauqua. Local women of all ages enlist names to support the cause as a motorcade of decorated cars leads the demonstration. Northeastern Jewish women are urged to participate.
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Waterloo
Phoebe Carnell
Equal Suffrage Society
Fula la Vollette
Farms Party Tour Visits Monona County Farms
A party of Monona county farmers organized by the Iowa State College farm extension department toured the Onawa Whiting and Blencoe area on June 22. The group visited large farms to study dairy cattle feet cattle alfalfa silage and soil and delivered lectures along the route.
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Ames
Onawa
Monona County
Farm Extension Department
Iowa State College
Whiting
Blencoe
Telephone Electricians Vote to Strike Des Moines
Des Moines June 22 James Fitzgerald president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced that Bell telephone electricians in Iowa Nebraska North and South Dakota and Minnesota will strike July 1 seeking a wage increase of 30 cents a day. The strike vote among 3 000 men carried two to one in favor of the proposition.
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Des Moines
James Fitzgerald
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Bell Telephone
Iowa
Nebraska
North and
South Dakota
Minesota
Fitzgerald
Springfield
Millionaire Manufacturer Rescues Four From Fox River
Appleton Wis June 22 Three men and a woman were thrown from an overturned launch in the swollen Fox river. Alfred W Priest a millionaire pulp and paper maker piloted a rowboat to reach the victims clinging to the hull near a dam. Rivermen warned rescue was futile but Priest saved all four from certain danger as they drifted toward the dam.
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Appleton
Wis
Fox River
Albert W. Priest
Millionaire Pulp and Paper
Priers
Health Sunday Observed in Fifty Philadelphia Churches
Health Sunday in Philadelphia saw more than fifty churches host medical leaders from across the country. Experts en route to the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City urged focus on housing, milk supply, infectious disease control, anti vice, child labor, and playgrounds as public health priorities.
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Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Atlantic City
Mrs Nelfie McMahon Dies of Cancer in Colorado
Telegram from Sturgis reports the death of Mrs. Nelfie McMahon in Greeley Colorado from cancer. She had been tried here in 1910 for the killing of Attorney David P. Thomas.
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Nelfie McMahon
Sturgis
M. D
Greeley
Colo
David P. Thomas
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Iowag
Detroit
Sylvia Pankhurst
American Press Association
London Police Guard
Sues
Bell
Bellingham
Wash
BH. C. McMillan
Northwestern National Bank
Canyonville
W. G. Smith
Wolf Creek
Snot
Smith
Max
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