Hitchcock Hitchcock Named Postmaster General in Taft Cabinet
Buffalo Center Tour reports Hitchcock Hitchcock has accepted the postmaster general job in Taft's cabinet. The announcement is expected after Taft completes his full cabinet, with officials saying Hitchcock was chosen for his ability to advise the president elect. no public statement was obtained from Taft or the Republican National Committee.
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Hot Springs
H. Hitchtock
Taft
Ars
Hitchcock
Hitchcock Ready to Advise Taft on Post and Party
As national committee chair Hitchcock has deep postal and party knowledge. He traveled to Washington with Charles H. Boynton for dinners with the committee and will likely stay in frequent contact with Judge Taft during the new administration.
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Republican National Committee
Hitchcock
Taft
Charles H. Boynton
New York
Washington
National Committee
Actress Elects Death By Self Inflicted Gunshot
Eleanor Merron Cowper a noted actress and playwright shot herself in her St. Regis room and is not expected to survive. She left letters to her lawyer Judge Herbert B. Royce and to John Hood of West Forty-seventh street outlining her intent. Cowper was linked as protege and partner to June James H. Warlick, who had killed himself in Middletown, New York. A life history found among her effects focused on her stage career.
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New York
Eleanor
Merron Cowper
St. Regis Hotel
James H. Warlick
Middletown
N.Y
Hermit Author Found Dead in Riverside Cottage
Dr. John Norvis, a reclusive author nicknamed the hermit of Riverside, was found dead in his small cottage amid his books. Police say no immediate foul play is suspected. age details and exact cause of death were not disclosed.
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Chicago
John Norvis
Biy Little Cottage
Riverside
Norris
Iowa State News Head of Drake Music Conservatory Stricken
Des Moines reports the death of Dean Frederick Ho ward head of the Drake Conservatory of Music. He died in his apartment from gas gastritis after being found in bed by friends. Ho ward came to Drake University eight years ago from Denver and revitalized the music program and facilities including Howard hall. The body will be interred in Leicester Massachusetts per his will.
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Drake Music Conservatory
Des Moines
Dean Frederick Howard
Drake Conservatory of Music
Ridgman! Boulevard
Dean Howard
Drake University
Denver
Drake Conservatory
Howard
Iowa Mystical Society
Leicester
Mass
Pres. Hill M. Bell
Bandit Robs Newton Depot Agent and Holds Him Prisoner
Early Thanksgiving morning a bandit robbed Newton Rock Island station agent B. W. Yates of about $54 at the depot. He forced Yates to hand over the money, marched him along the tracks, and locked him in a box car until the westbound limited train halted. The engineer stopped after spotting a block at Newton. the crew then notified Des Moines for clearance. Yates was later released by the night track driver after hearing his cries.
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Newton
B. W. Yates
Rock Island
Des Moines
Yates
Denison Hospital to Be Sold to Catholic Church
A movement seeks sale of Denison hospital to Rev. Father Farrelly of St. Rose of Lima church who will place the facility in Catholic hands and use funds for charitable purposes. An option on stock is held and stockholders approved selling all shares to him.
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Denisou
Denison Hospital
Denison Improvement Company
Father Farrely
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church
John O'Connor
Father Farrelly
Jim
Denison
Large damages suit filed against Wright County over bridge death
A major county damages case seeks $20,040 for the death of Clarence Schaffer after a steam threshing outfit crossed a county bridge last fall. The administrator of Schaffer’s estate accuses Wright County of failing to keep the bridge in proper condition. The suit, one of the area’s largest in years, will be heard at the December district court term and may move to federal court.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa Falls
Wright County
Clarence Schaffer
Tax Revisionists Conference Planned for Des Moines
Bionx City official John H. Jackson announces a Des Moines conference from December 8 to 11. Jointly hosted by the Iowa Tax Revision association the Des Moines Commercial Club and the Greater Des Moines committee. Topics include taxation of mortgages national and state banks terminal rail properties corporation stock and a state tax commission plus road and waterways improvements and state promotion funds.
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Capital City
Bionx
John H. Jackson
Iowa Tax Revision Association
Des Moines
Commercial Club of
Greater Des Moines
Iowa
Young wife perishes in Mount Ayr fire tragedy
Mrs. Monroe Newton, 42, who resided on a farm three miles from Mount Ayr, died trying to recover belongings as a fire overtook her home. Caught under heavy timbers, she rushed back into flames and was burned beyond recognition. The recent bride lived with her husband on the rural farm.
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Mount Ayr
Monroe Newton
Newton
Will Bequest Promises Church Parsonage Funds
The will of the late Mrs Eliza A McConnell probated in district court leaves 53000 to the First Methodist church for a new parsonage on Court and Fifth streets. The gift is conditioned on the church raising 2000 within two years.
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Burlington
Eliza A. McConnell
First Methodist Church
Court and
Fifthi Streets
Ferret Unearths Taxable Property Worth Quarter Million
Judge Hen McCoy of Oskaloosa uncovers a quarter million dollars in taxable property including moneys credits mortgages and contracts in Wisax. In contact with the board of supervisors the effort reveals $141,962 of property with three years of unpaid taxes. The remaining balance awaits county auditor assessment.
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Ferret
Atarshalltown
Hen McCoy
Oskaloosa
Wisax
Board of Sapervisors
Epworth Institute May Merge With Colfax Assembly
Des Moines reporters note Epworth League workers in Iowa plan to merge the state Institute with the Colfax assembly next year. If approved the institute would be part of the Colfax week programme, backed by official league endorsement. The move introduces an educational departure from the usual Colfax entertainment schedule with two prominent Methodist educators directing institute work.
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Epworth Institute
Des Moines
Epworth League
Iowa
Epworth Assembly
Colfax
League
Bank Moves Into New Quarters With Guarded Haul
The First National Bank occupies its new building described as one of the state’s finest. A haul of 175000 in currency was protected by armed guards in front and rear of the dray during the move from the old bank.
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Marshalltown
First National Bank
Grinnell College Receives Alumni Gift for Park Project
The article notes a $10,000 donation toward erecting a grand Kluaid on Wardfield, Wardfield Town college athletic park, with half from an unnamed alumnus. A $5,000 gift condition required matching funds, prompting seniors to pledge $2,500 and juniors to raise $2,600. Canvassing suggests all pledges will be met.
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Grinnell
Wwinnell
Wardfield
Town College
Athietiy Park
Foot and Mouth Disease Threatens U S Livestock
The Department of Agriculture warns foot and mouth disease could ravage Pennsylvania and other states. A bulletin by Dr. D B Salmon and Dr Theobald Smith explains the contagion, its spread by cattle, people, and equipment, and the high mortality risk in cattle.
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Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
D. B. Salmon
Theobald Smith
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Europe
138 Miners Dead in All at Marianna Shaft Explosion
Pittsburg Pa Nov 30 Twenty five bodies, most mutilated and some dismembered, were recovered from the Pittsburg Buffalo coal company mine at Marianna forty miles south of here where an explosion killed many. Officials say 135 men went to work, with estimates the death toll will reach 138 and exceed company estimates by about fifty. At least one fourth of the victims are Americans.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company
Marianna
Here
Vicims
Taft to preside over national conservation conference
Judge Taft will preside at a December 3 joint conference in Washington with the governors on national conservation. The gathering of leading commercial, financial, and political figures is expected to rival Roosevelt's White House conservation meeting held last May.
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Taft Wii
Washington, D. C
William H. Taft
National Conservation Commission
White House
Roosevelt
Wife Slayer Executed in Auburn Prison
William Robert Brasch, Rochester wife killer, was electrocuted in Auburn prison early Saturday after Governor Hughes declined to intervene. He murdered his wife Roxanna by pushing her into the Drain canal at Rochester on the night of June 15, 1900, to wed May Gilmore of Defiance.
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Auburn
William Robert Brasch
Rochester
Hughes
Brasch
Roxanna
Drie Canal
May Gilmore
Floods Hit Guthrie Oklahoma Homes Submerged
A severe downpour in the Cottonwood river basin caused the Cottonwood and its tributaries to overflow in Guthrie Oklahoma. Several hundred homes are partially under water and about 2000 people are homeless as of last night. The river stood one foot higher than ever before and was rising ten inches per hour.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
Women Own Almost Half of Pennsylvania Railroad Stocks
New York Nov 80 women own 47 percent of the railroad's stock valued at over 148 million dollars. Nearly half of the road's semi annual dividend totaling 9,437,029 dollars will go to women.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dinner in Honor of Frank Hitchcock in Washington
Dinner in Washington honored Frank H Hitchcock chairman of the republican national committee. Officers and executive committee members hosted with associates presenting a gold watch as a testimonial. Toasts praised Hitchcock’s campaign work and touched on amusing campaign features.
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Hitchcock
Washington, D. C
Frank H. Witchcock
Republican National Committee
Lamphere found guilty of arson in Gunness murder case
Ray Lamphere was found guilty of arson in the Belle Gunness murder fire at La Porte Indiana. Judge Richter sentenced him to an indeterminate two to six years in the Michigan City state penitentiary. Defense plans a new trial motion and possible appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court.
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Worden
Indiana Supreme Court
Lamphers
Lynching Report From Tiptonville Three Stinebacks Executed
Three Stineback brothers Marshall Edward and Jim were hanged in Union City Tennessee after being arrested for fatally shooting Special Deputy Richard Burrus and wounding Deputy John Tall during an arrest near Tiptonville. The incident followed a disturbance at a religious meeting near Tiptonville on Saturday night. In New York Hannah Elias death noted as a social tabloid item. John R. Platt, former glass manufacturer who sued Elias in 1896 for 685386, died at his daughter’s home on his eighty ninth birthday.
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Union City
Tenn
Tiptonville
Reelfoot Lake
Richard Burrus
John Tall
Marshall Stineback
Edward Stineback
Jim Stineback
Hannah Elias’ “Angel
New York
John R. Platt
Hannah Elas
Supreme Court
Her
Murder in New York Apartment Ends Family Tragedy
William Kallebran of Jersey City shot his brother Leo and their mother Mya Victoria Kallebran in a New York apartment. The shootings occurred after Leo refused to give money. Kallebran, who came with Albert Troguuwyos, was arrested soon after the murders.
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New Yorki
William Kallebran
Jergey Cly Iriday
Leo
Mya
Victoria Kallebran
Kallabran
New York
Kallebrun
Jersey City
Albert Troguuwyos
Cummins Named U S Senator After Death of Allison
Ian Gav reports A B Cummins was elected United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B Allison. Cummins received 106 votes while Porter a Democrat had 9. three Republicans did not vote. Cummins addressed the joint session and urged end to factionalism in Iowa.
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Dea Moines
Ian Gav
A. B. Cumming
United States
Cummins
Porter
Iowa
William B. Allison
Gav. Cummins
Ponting Sinks in Storm Off San Fernando Coast
A coasting steamer Ponting carrying many laborers from Narvacan to Pangasinan struck a rock and sank Friday night off San Fernando in Union Province. About a hundred passengers and crew are believed drowned. The steamer Vigcaya rescued five survivors.
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Hundred Crown
Manila
Ponting
Narvacan
Pangasinan
San Fernando
Union Province
Vigcaya
Tornado Dead Number 21 In Western Arkansas Reports
Western Arkansas reports revise early tolls from Monday’s tornado with higher property damage expected. Known dead rise to about 15 with around 17 more deaths reported without names. several injured, and continued casualty tallies forthcoming. Slayer of Husband Sentenced in Vermilion, South Dakota. Christiana Clark convicted of second degree murder for her husband’s death last August sentenced Friday to three years and ten months hard labor.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Moniay
Christiana Clark
Despondent Chicago Man Dies in Gas Suicide
Stilts Haugen aged 40 at 797 North Worty First Avenue died at home from inhaling illuminating gas. Despondency over inability to provide a large Thanksgiving dinner for his family is believed to be the cause.
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Chicago
Stilts Haugen
North Worty Flrst Avenue
Prayer for Higher Tariff Widely Shared in Midwest
Unclear OCR text notes prayers for higher tariff policies across Kansas and Missouri with reference to religious gatherings and a day of prayer. Mentions Joplin and Protestant groups. Context suggests a regional appeal rather than a formal policy report.
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Joplin
Kansas and
Missouri
Ano
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