Suffragists Elect Officers at Iowa Convention in Des Moines
Iowa women at their equal suffrage convention in Boome elected Flora Dunlap as president and Miss J B McHose as vice president marking a path toward amending the constitution. Officers faced resistance from old guard over records and funds. The piece also notes Ketcham case stays, road commission prosecutions looming, and two new state banks organized with stated capital.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Boome
Flora Dunlap
J. B. McHose
Boca
Stevens
Miss Dunlap
Ketcham
William H. Ketcham
Algona
E. J. van Wess
Kossuth
L. J. Dickinson
Supreme Court
Algona Real Estate
District Court
Cash Is Still Missing in Atlantic Theft
A pocketbook with $50 cash and an envelope holding $16 277.60 in notes and papers were stolen from F M Josland in Frederick Ia last Monday. The bulk of the valuables was later found near Mayor Burnea's yard intact. inventory confirmed the contents and Josland's claim. Other local items include a youth attacked by a bull, an arm torn in a threshing machine accident, a county supervisor's death, and a man sentenced under the Mann Act.
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Sieteen
Atlantic
F. M. Josland
Frederick
Cardie
Burnea
Marshal McKee
Joslan
Dun's Review of Trade Conditions
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade reports improvement after tariff changes, with expanding trade volumes and replenished stocks. Shortages linger in some lines with labor constraints hindering production. cotton mills have orders for three months, retail demand remains brisk at year high prices, while raw material markets are unsettled. Failures for the week total 281.
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New York
Dun’s Weekly Review of Trade
Two Seized in Fire Plot in Illinois Town
Harvey A. Six and W. U. A. Brady were arrested on a warrant sworn by Adams County State’s Attorney Fred Wolf for conspiracy to defraud Westchester Fire Insurance. They face charges of plotting to burn the Cassiday home in Quincy Illinois.
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Springfield
Westchester Fire Insurance Company
Harvey A. Six
Attornney Fred Wolf
Adams County
WU. A. Brady
Decatur
Marabal H. J. Sloan
Quincy
Cassiday
Jews on Trial and Political Dates in Brief
A brief synthesis notes a ritual trial with a not guilty plea, rebels controlling northern Mexico, and candidates Roger Sullivan plus Mayor Harrison for Illinois US Senate. It mentions education for high school girls, winter snow in Nome, widespread homelessness from a storm, infant care classes in Chicago, and a high profile divorce suit involving Mrs Blake and Mrs Mackay.
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Mexico
Roger Sullivan
Harrison
United States Senate
Ilinois
United State Bureau of Education
Nome
Chicago
Health Department
Joseph A. Blake
New York
New York Surgeon, Has Gled Salt For Separation. Mrs. Blake
Glorence H. Mackay
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
Rinke
The Four Umpires in World Series Call
A noted baseball expert compares Giants manager John McGraw and Athletics boss Connie Mack. McGraw fights for calls and pushes protests while Mackinquists never disputes umpires. The four umpires Rigler Klem Connolly and Egan are described as iron-handed arbiters in the world series.
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Giants
Athletics
McGraw
Mackinquist
Sericea
Rigtfer
Kiem
National League
Connolly and
Egan
American League
Athletics win fourth game to take World Series lead
The Athletics defeated the New York Giants 6 to 1 in game four, taking a six run lead before Giants rallied with six hits late. Bender held New York to two hits through six innings, then yielded runs as the Giants attacked in the final frames. Merkle homered and Shafer tripled for New York. Oldring made a circus catch to stall a run. The Athletics’ defense was flawless as they moved to 3-1 in the series.
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Philadelphia
Athletics
New York Giants
New York
Bender
Giants
Merkle
Shafer
Oldring
New Yorks
Connie Mark
Hig
McGraw
Snodgrass
Texas
Mormons Are Next On WG T U List
Galesburg October 11 Haiti Miss Helen L Hood of Chicago told the fortieth annual Illinois White Ribboners convention that the Women's Christian Temperance Union would target Mormonism as an agent to degrade womanhood The speaker claimed 727000 Mormons held sway in seven western states and urged directing WCTU influence against Mormonism white slavery cocaine and morphine and other institutions of evil.
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Galesburg
Helen L. Hood
Chicago
Linois
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Sells Power to Settlers Government Becomes Dealer
Washington Oct 11 Uncle Sam becomes a dealer in electrical supplies and energy transmission material when the Interior department issues an order authorizing sale of such material to settlers on public lands seeking electricity from government water power plants. The step aids reclamation projects and follows prior government sales of cement lumber and building materials to settlers. The program aims to assist development and to distribute generated power for pumping and domestic use.
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Washington
Sam
Interior Department
Defeat of Civil Service Repeal Defeated in House Vote
Washington Oct 11 by a tight 111 to 106 vote the house receded from conferees and concurred in the senate amendment to the urgent deficiency appropriation bill removing deputy internal revenue collectors and deputy marshals from civil service amid bitter Democratic attacks led by Fitzgerald of New York. Adolphus Busch dead at Langenhwalbach Prussia Oct 21.
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Washington
House
Senate
Internal Revenue
Representative Fitzgerald
New York
Alimony Exemption Question Referred to Treasury
A divorced man earning over three thousand dollars annually argued that his one thousand two hundred dollars alimony reduced his net income below the single exemption threshold. The deputy collector in St. Louis referred the issue to the Treasury Department in Washington for ruling. Kansas City reports a former Cudahy Packing cashier, William C. Lucas, pleaded guilty to misappropriating funds and was sentenced to up to five years in prison, with a shortage cited at twenty six thousand dollars. In Bremerton a navy second class electrician, Earl J. Minckler, was murdered by strangulation. his body was found in a sunken bag after disappearing on a payday.
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Treasury Department
St. Louis
Edward ¥. Daly
Washington
Kansas City
William C. Lucas
Cudahy Packing Company
Wyandotte
Lucas
Cudahy's
Bremerton
Wash
Earl J. Minckler
Navy
New Orleans
Navy Yard
Port Orchard Bay
Port Madison
Minckler
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