Bread and wheat impact on world trade and real estate
The Buffalo Center Tribune notes that American wheat underpins bread quality and export potential, with Special Agent Davis reporting England’s use of high grade flour and the global desire for U S hard-wheat flour. A US bumper crop could again supply Britain and others with first class foodstuffs, while Army medical promotions and pay reforms promise faster advancement and housing support for officers. Emperor William restoration of Hohkonigsburg castle highlights renewed medieval pageantry and European progress away from feudal conflicts.
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Life
Lfe
Davis
Department of Commerce and Tabor
England
United States
Old World
Fashion at Lux embourg fancy dress ball described
A Boston Globe writer notes Mme Taillion in a Greek costume at a Luxembourg ball, with diamond toe rings and ban dals. The piece humorously questions comfort of rings on feet and suggests Indian toe rings as a vogue, citing collected examples and an ardent admirer of Oriental art.
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Luxembourg
Mme. Taillion
Boston Globe
Dr. Wiley At Bakers Association Speech Draws Food Skepticism
In Atlantic City Dr. Wiley, a government chemist, urged bread making tips to the National Bakers Association. He also argued that anything unfit to eat raw isn’t fit to eat cooked, prompting questions about raw potatoes green corn shelled beans and whether the doctor eats them raw himself.
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Dr. Wiley
National Bakers’ Association
Atlantic City
German pension rule deters strikes by work abstention
One effect of the German old age pension scheme is peculiar. The pension is forfeited if the worker does not work 48 or 49 weeks out of 82 on average, a provision that has acted as a deterrent to strikes.
Japan builds five locomotives at Hyogo Railway works
An experimental program in Japan shows progress as five locomotives are under construction at the Hyogo Railway works. One engine is already completed and in use, with early tests indicating satisfactory operation and potential for further development.
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Japan
Hyogo
Harrison County Spends for Public Roads and Drainage Projects
Harrison County budgets for road improvement and swamp reclamation through engineering drainage plans in Missouri bottoms at Monona and Harrison counties. Projects include Boyer river cut offs and Allen and Willow creek works, with completion anticipated around 1909 and 60 000 acres to benefit, plus a new $100000 courthouse to replace the aging 1876 building.
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Harrison County
Millan
Logan—ain
Missouri
Monona
Harson
Soldier River
J. 8. Wattles
Board of Supervisors
Allen Creek
Pottawattamie
Willow Creek
Harrison
Boyer River
Collins Man Disappears After Creamery Heist
Nevada Frank Meahl, Collins creamery proprietor, vanished after selling creamery property and planning a Cambridge move. Creditors levied on remaining assets as wages and board debts were mailed, while Meahl’s exact whereabouts and motives remain a seven day mystery in Collins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mourt
Nevada
Frank Heahl
Collins Creamery
Jim
Tanystery
Meahl
Sth
Collins
Cambridge
Tie
Great Western
Butler
Iowa Central Lets $612 050 Contract for New Rail Equipment
Iowa Central Railway Company awards contracts totaling about 612 050 for motive power and rolling stock. Six Mogul engines and two Baldwin switch engines go to Mt Vernon Car Company of Mt Vernon Illinois, with 200 box cars and 250 gondola cars, plus bids for thirteen cabooses and steel side cars. Mt Vernon pledges delivery within thirty days and a daily output of 25 cars to meet anticipated heavy traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Central
Marshalltown
Towa Central Railway Company
Ivas
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin
Mt. Vernon Car Company
Mt.Vernon
Ill
Fred Wing
Mt. Verron Company
MAKE DENATURED ALCOHOL Plant Planned for Marengo
Marengo plans the first denatured alcohol plant in the western states. Milwaukee investor Charles W. Cooper mobilized local citizens to form a company with TH. H. Brimmer as president J. C. Baker secretary and O. D. B. Oldaker treasurer. Capital is $10 000 all secured and plans await building on Brimmer’s ground near the greenhouse. The plant will yield 200 gallons daily and use grain fruits and vegetables as input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marengo Distillers
Marengo
Charles WR. Cooper
Milwaukee
TH. H. Brimmer
J. C. Baker
DB. Oldaker
Brimmer
Autoists Must Stop to Respect Horse Drivers Rights
Des Moines superintendent Hamery plans to compel autoists to stop when a rider or driver of a shy horse raises his hand. Cops will receive guidance on state horse-rights law to educate users and enforce the provision across the state. Councilman MacVicar, a horseman, prompted Hamery to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Hamery
MacVicar
Men Escape Jail From Ottumwa Jail Break
William Day and Stanley Wiley, both prisoners, escaped Ottumwa Wapello county jail during supper when Day produced a revolver and the pair fled as trustees delivering meals lunged to stop them. Police sweep through Ottumwa to locate the men and trace who supplied the weapon. Mars is noted as the third such delivery in six weeks.
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Ottumwa
William Day
Stanley Wiley
Wapello County
Day
John Smith
Watt
Wiley
Mars
Mayor Schunk Liquor Plant to Close For Good
Mayor Schunk of Dubuque announces permanent closure of the liquor house bearing his name after an injunction, with claims it was kept open on election day and that his wife held ownership rather than him.
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Schunk Wii
Dubuque
Schunk
Tragic Harvest Prank Ends in Death Near Petersburg
Petersburg farmer Ben Lichtenberg, young at age, died at home after attempting to jump between loads of hay on a harvest wagon. A wagon passed over him during the stunt causing fatal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyersville
Ben Lichtenberg
Petersburg
Hand Crushed by Cogs in Forest City Windmill
Oscar J. Strike, while repairing a windmill, had his hand caught in the cogs atop the tower. He freed it and climbed down, then untied his horses and rode to a physician. He collapsed at the door from pain and loss of blood, but is expected to recover.
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Medical Department
The
Army
Congress
Forest City
Oscar J. Strike
Tie
Notorious Man Is Killed on Burlington Track
Ottumwa area report states Ottumwa resident Benjamin Woods, known as a cocaine "doctor" of "Smoky Row," was fatally struck by a Burlington switch engine. The 55 year old man's body was severed at the hips. He leaves a wife and two children in Sigourney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Ben Woods
Smoky Row
Burlington
Woods
Sigourney
Atlantic Lad Disappears
Atlantic Lad Draper, 14, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Draper of 900 Tevirel street, disappeared on the 4th. He had worked at Marquis mercantile store and was not considered wild. Description: Fred Draper, 14, brown hair, large blue eyes, straw hat, blue shirt, dark corduroy trousers, black shoes and hose. last seen without a coat.
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Atlantic Lad
Atlantic
Brett Draper
Fred Draper
Tevirel Street
Marquis Mercantile Store
Ile
Springfield Riot Spurs Guard Action In Illinois Capital
In Springfield Illinois national guard units patrol amid clashes and a suspected attempt to cut fire alarm lines near the city hall. A court of inquiry clears Private Klein in a railway incident. Arrests and a looming criminal case in Kankakee are anticipated. Negro residents seek shelter as riots shake the capital.
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J. G. Ilein
Company A
Virst Mines Infantry
Hart Nelson
Sankakee
Springfield
Wells
Tvo
Klein
James Miles
Jacob Judson
High
F. D. Dunford
Scott
Timota
Sprinfield
Nelson
Cooper
Kankakee
State
Arsenal
Allen
Spring Streets
Eddy
National Guard
Th Linots
Sixth Infantry
Eighth Infantry
Aged Cobbler Slain in Racial Mob Violence in Springfield
In Springfield on Friday night and into Saturday, a mob set fire to the cobbler Lopez's shop, forcing the elderly Black man William Denigan to flee. He was struck by stones, hanged by a rope, and found unconscious in a tree. Dr. Tuttle said survival was unlikely as a mob violence wave continues.
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Springfield
Lopez
Kate Howard
William Denigan
Nora
Dougan
Plate House
Tuttle
Boone Claim Of Interment Sparks Family Dispute
Terance N. Boone of Webstershare Missouri, a 28th great grandson of Daniel Boone, asserts the reinterment of the famous trapper’s body from Bryan cemetery near Martinsville Kentucky, disputing recent statements by Trey R. McQuire of Montgomery Missouri that the interred body was not Boone’s.
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Louis
Daniel Boone
Bryan
Marlinsville
Terance N. Boone
Webstershare
Trapper
HW. MaqQuire
Montgomery
Toone
Boone
Col
Nathaniel Boone
Martinsvilte
Wright Aeroplane Wrecked After Two Flights at Le Mans
In Le Mans France Wilbur Wright suffers a machine frame tare during a new descent after two demonstrations. He reports no injury and calls the mishap incidental while noting the week repair period and continued experimentation. The first flight lasted eight minutes forty seconds with seven laps. The second flight two minutes featured daring turns before collision with the ground.
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le Mans
France
Wright
Wilbur Wright
Mr. Wright
Disaster at French gunnery school ship Courona
Six killed and eighteen injured when a 164 millimeter gun breech exploded aboard the gunnery school ship Courona off Les Salins d'Hyeres. Recruits were receiving instruction when the breech blew out. three of the wounded are in a desperate condition.
Roanoke Teacher Acquitted After Fifth Trial For Murder
John Richards, a Floyd county school teacher, faced multiple trials for the murder of rival Maurice I. Francis at Roanoke. The first, second, and fourth trials ended in hung juries, the third ended in first degree murder conviction with a death sentence, and the supreme court granted a new trial leading to Friday’s acquittal.
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Roanoke
van Mie
Floyd
John Richards
May County
Maurice I. Francis
Richiards
Supreme Court
Army Men Die in Auto Crash at Presidio
Sergt A H Belgeq and Master Vedrician Sargt CG WL Jones, attached to Presidio military forces, were killed when a runaway automobile crashed between streetcars Thursday. Both men were thrown from the vehicle and died almost instantly.
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San Francisco
Fire destroys hotel and twelve saloons near Idaho line
A Thursday dawn blaze engulfed the Anheuser Busch hotel and twelve saloons at Tatl Montana, near the Idaho border, in Spokane bound western Montana. Firefighters battled the flames as early reports noted extensive property damage and possible casualties.
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Spokane
Wash
Tatl
Mont
Idaho Line
Anheuser Busch
Fleet Leaves New Zealand for Sydney Amid Cheers
The American Atlantic fleet departed Auckland at dawn for Sydney in fine weather. Crowds lined the harbor as excursion boats crowded the water. The flagship led out as shore batteries fired salutes, and the fleet answered with flag dips and cheers. Sir Joseph Ward and officials watched from a government steamer as battleships passed, Kentucky among them, with mutual cheers and bands playing both national anthems.
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Auckland
N. Z
Sydney
Sir Joseph Ward
Sly Joseph
Kentucky
New Zealand
Auto crashes into crowd injuring spectators
An automobile taking part in a hill climbing event swerved into a standing crowd in Algonquin Illinois injuring two seriously including George Rayfield of Chicago and CG Paxton the driver. About a dozen others suffered minor injuries when a tire burst near the finish line. In Long Branch New Jersey Thomas a former banker and racehorse owner was seriously injured when his car hit and wrecked a carriage on Friday night.
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Algonquin
George Rayfield
Chicago
Paxton
Long Branch
N. J
Thomas
Four Chicagoans Drown in Wisconsin Launch Capsize
A Wisconsin ride on a capsizing launch led to four Chicago deaths Miss Mabel Ward Mrs W Heath Z G Pleltter and Ralph Pleltter among nine aboard the craft. The boat struck waves from a passing steamer near the Dells and overturned. William Q Hing 21 of Milwaukee died bathing in the Smoky Hill river at Enterprise Kansas the same day.
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Kithoura
Wis
Wisconsin
Chicago
Mabel Ward
W. @. Heath
Z. G. Pleltter
Ralph
Pfeiffer
Dells
Enterprise
Kan
William Q. Hing
Milwaukee
Smoky Hill
Flanagan Sets New Hammer Throw Record at Queenstown
John Flanagan of the Irish American A. C. set a new hammer record at Queenstown by throwing the 16 pound hammer 181 feet inches from a nine foot hurdle setup on the quay during an exhibition. He declared the effort breaks all records.
Cupid Triumphs at Last in Sacramento Wedding
At five o'clock Friday evening in Sacramento depot, a young man Prof. F P Witzgerald of Stanford obtained a marriage license for Berth Ludwig, recently kidnapped in Chicago by her mother to prevent the marriage. Rev Richard Rodda officiated the ceremony.
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Sacramento
Cal
Overland
Saramento
Showig
F. P. Witzgerald
Stanford University
Berth Ludwig
Chicago
Richard Rodda
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Goyd
Pub
Buffalo Center
Lowe
Emperor Wiliam
Germany
Hohkonigsburg
Schilettstadt
Lower
Asace
Europe
Iowa State News
Ics
Illinois
Dafile
Boone Reinterred
Teddy
Couronne
Fleet
Delle
Wisconsin River
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