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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1913
Page
6
Senator Hoke of Georgia urged an amendment to grant the president power to enforce tariff rates on all commerce with nations that refuse reciprocal tariffs. The move would arm the federal executive with a strong leverage against trade partners.
The Portland arrives in Seattle July 17 to kick off the annual celebration marking sixteen years since gold was first found in the Klondike. The event recalls the July 1897 voyage of the Portland to Milfott Bay laden with Klondike gold dust from El Dorado.
The article describes potlatch as a gift ceremony among Northwest tribes. It explains the word’s meaning and how the feast ends when the host gives away possessions, earning respect. This year’s Beattie celebration runs July 16 for three days with chiefs and shamans presiding.
Washington June 40 An heat wave relief was forecast as the weather bureau weekly bulletin said the central plains would break tomorrow and a cool wave would move slowly eastward. Woolstock Man Killed by Car in Iowa Incident
Pastor Russell speaks in St Paul on Were there not ten cleansed What God approves What God hates The Redeemer as the Good Physician The sermon links leprosy to sin and divine remedy Jesus as the redeemer shows forgiveness of sins and two classes of sinners saved The mass through Messiah s Kingdom and the Gospel Age church are outlined
Salt Lake police concluded Frances Williams Ekman, a twelve year old found dead in a trunk in Ogden, was murdered by her mother Mrs Augustus Wimen. Post mortem found no sexual assault. Police say motive involved concealing an illegitimate child from former husband C Lt Anderson and note the child’s $1560 life insurance may have influenced the crime.
Washington June 30 The senate finance committee extended the data for the new sugar tariff to March 1 2014 while advancing the rate of a cent a pound. They did not amend the schedule to keep sugar on the free list May 1 1916 and approved a stamp tax on cotton futures.
Chicago June reports a blistering heat surge pushing the toll past forty with ten deaths in a single day, hundreds of prostrations, and strained hospitals. Four drownings blamed on heat include Hammond Indiana and incidents on Cedar Lake and Flint Lake. An all day effort in Leavenworth, Kansas failed to locate escapees Richard Osborne and Walter Layman from the federal prison.
Montreal June 30 jack Johnson the negro pugilist accompanied by his white wife Lucille Cameron Johnson left for Havre on the Asiantine steamer Corinthian. Immigation officers will watch his progress Europeward until beyond their jurisdiction. He said he would not forfeit his Chicago bail bond and aims to box to recoup losses. He plans to be in Chicago in November for his appeal on a white slave conviction. Johnson took two automobiles a limousine and a touring car.
A Moscow School graduate invented a device to paint several scenes on one canvas and change decorations with lighting. A panel at Moscow Artistic theatre showed autumn tones in sunset light and a moonlit nymph as light shifts. The method relies on complementary spectrum colors and could render wallpaper a different color in day, twilight, and night.
A bronze bust of Kentucky poet Madison Cawein was unveiled at Louisville Public Library. William Dean Howells praised Cawein for shaping simple natural observations into living, intensely beautiful verse that resonates with readers through time.
Sioux City reports Charles S. Corey secretary of T. S. Martin Dry Goods Company was fatally injured and other party members were severely bruised when Coreys car skidded and overturned at South Sioux City Nebraska. Corey was taken to a Sioux City hospital and a skull fracture is suspected.
Seven Iowa colleges are represented in the MacBride Lakeside laboratory scholarship program. Recipients include Morningside, Leander Clark, State Teachers, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Grinnell College, and Drake University. Parsons College and Coe College were appointed but could not attend summer study.
R Sparrah, a wealthy Armenian from Sioux City, hired a livery team from Ross Brothers. John Fleck, in charge, demanded $25 for alleged cruelty. Fleck knocked Sparrah down, causing a head injury. Sparrah died after collapsing near the post office. Fleck jailed.
Four infants died due to hot weather in Council Bluffs Iowa on June 30. The infants were Florence Springer at Sperling farm, Frank Bencel two weeks old at Fourteenth Street and Twenty first Avenue, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Her shaw at East Broadway, and a child of Mr and Mrs Houston at an unspecified location.
A blaze at the Oregon Lumber company plant in Dee Oregon caused an estimated 500000 in losses. Anson Phelps Stokes a noted financier died in New York from apoplexy compounded by heat. A Minnesota farmer killed his wife then himself near Lake City. George Townsend a Chicago railway promoter died by suicide in the Missouri River at Kansas City. President Wilson approved a railroad merger plan under Sherman anti trust law per Supreme Court directions.
San Diego dispatch reports 35 Americans plus 115 refugees aboard the Benito Juarez arriving from Mazatlan and Guaymas. Smallpox rages in Guaymas, food is scarce, troops harass locals. Five walkers arrived after a 250 mile trek escorted by troops, robbed, and left to fend for themselves. Yeber family of Guaymas, among the wealthiest on the west coast, seek indefinite U.S. stay due to the epidemic.
Mrs J Borden Harriman of New York has been named by President Wilson to the new federal commission on industrial relations. She will be the only woman among its members and will focus on age related labor questions.
Baseball scores from American and National leagues, Western and Nebraska leagues, list results for Detroit, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines, Wichita, Denver, Premont, Grand Island, Kearney, Columbus and Hastings. Highlights include team names Mitchell Agnew Dubuc Stanage Pierce Archer Brown Kling Sweet Sleight and more, with run totals and pitching pairings.
Commodore Wilbert E Longfellow of the United States volunteer life saving corps said during an address at Columbia University that rolling a nearly drowned person on a barrel is dangerous and often deadly. He urged artificial respiration as far more effective than the barrel method.
The article describes experiments on a large British vessel under construction using a gasopline electric plant on the bridge deck. The system would provide lighting and wireless telegraphy in emergencies until the vessel submerges, though the device would be used only in emergencies.
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