Important News Notes Of A Week Condensed For Busy Readers
A digest of notable events from Boston to New York includes Rev Elwood Worcester endorsing an Emmanuel methods college, Capablanca’s 29-opponent simuls, Untermeyer winning a horticultural prize, and various political and crime items. Also reported are strikes, riots, legal cases, and urban governance notes from across the U S.
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Elwood Worcester
Boston
Emmanuel Sealing Movement
Jennie McCowen
Iowa Conference of Charities and Correction
Davenport
Jose R. Capablanca
New York
Samuel Untermeyer
The
Horticultural Society
John R. Pratt
First Congregational Church
Verona
N. J
Raymond Robins
Pankhurst
East
Congressman Aiken
South Carolina
District of Columbia
de Witt
Clinton Duncan
Winita
Ohlo
Duncan
One Dead 60 Hurt In Des Moines Car Disaster
Crowded streetcar No 153 left the tracks at Nineteenth and Woodland in Des Moines on November 6 injuring over fifty passengers and killing traveling salesman W. R. Rodd at Methodist hospital. Motorman A. A. Person jumped clear as brakes failed, investigation points to inefficient brakes and the wreck crushed passengers and destroyed the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
University and Thirty-Fifth
Woodland
W. R. Rodd
Methodist Hospital
A. A
City Railway Company
Frowick
Police Department
Hamery
John MacVicar
Cummins replies he is still a good Republican
In Chicago Iowa senator Albert B. Cummins defends insurgent Republicans who opposed the Aldrich tariff. He argues for party unity, cites attacks by Illinois figures, and urges adherence to the 1908 national Republican platform as the standard for judging votes on tariff reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Society of Municipal Improvements
Little Rock
Ark
James Owen
Montclair
N. J
Central Conference of American Rabbis
New York
David Philinson
Cincinnati
United States
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Marquette Club
Chicago
Cannon
EB. J. Goshorn
Charleston
W. Va
Goshorn
Tolono
Ill
Secret Service
Post Office
Estrada
Castillo Chammoro
John Stewart Kennedy
America
Roosevelt
Africa
Robert BE. Peary
North Pole
John D. Rockefeller
Washington
Russell Sage
Andrew Carnegie
Jesse James, Jr
Kansas City
James
Missouri Pacific
Koenigsburg
State Department
Mount Vernon
New York City
Des Moines
New York State
Brenner
Timothy Tripp
Greene
National Geographic Society
Robert H. Peary
Stephen G. Porter
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Helen Boyle
Western Penitentiary
Mercer
Billy Whitla
James Whitla
Sharon
Steinheil
Paris
Lefavre
M. Steinheil
Mme. Japy
Taft
Columbus
Miss
Dickinson
George Baker
Gov. Marshall
Indiana
Goshen
Ind
Miinais
Canon
Cummins
Iowa Statesman
Opin
Illinois
House of Representatives
Congress
Elgin
la Follette
Republican Party
Wheat and barley prices from Twin City markets report
Minneapolis price notes for wheat No 1 northern 1.27 percent No 2 northern 1.00 percent Dec 1.00 May 1.0314 durum No 1 86c No 3 bar ley 59e No 8 white oats 875 rye No 2 68 Max No 1 1.69 Duluth Nov No 1 northern 1.01 Dec 0.09 May 1.03 South St Paul cattle steers 5.00 6.75 cows 4.25 8.25 calves 2.50 5.50 hogs 7.55 7.70 sheep yearlings 5.00 6.25 lambs 5.00 6.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin City
Minneapolis
Northern
Duluth
South St. Paul
Doctor's Prescription for Simple Remedy
A historical note instructs obtaining two drugs and whiskey to create a restorative mixture. It calls for one ounce compound syrup of sarsaparilla and one ounce Toris compound to be combined with a half pint of first class whiskey. A tablespoonful before each meal and at bedtime is advised, and the bottle should be well shaken each time. the remedy is claimed to be highly effective and felt after a few doses.
In the Same Seat by a Press Editor and Contributor
A magazine contributor, pressed by creditors, asks the editor to send a check for his gas bill. The editor short replies that his own bill is due as well, adding a terse blessing. The exchange highlights financial strain and mutual irony between writer and editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orice
Also Mentioned on This Page
Buffalo Center Tribune
J. P. Boyd
General News
Seth Low
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
William Dobson
Canadian Express Company
Niagara Falls
Grand Trunk Station
House of Commons
Las Lajas
Los Chiles
Maxim
Martin Kaufmann
Berlin
Johnstown
Marvin
Hartford
Conn
Lucinda Treat Goddard
Charles R. Goddard
Yale
Leonard Dunmore
Knoxville
Alva Coan
Alexander Hoenig
Cleveland
Rood
Warren Walker
John Junkin
Clara Rosen
Ottumwa
Supreme Court
Marie Demeres
West Ninth Street
Grand Avenue
Stewart
Yankee Robinson
Che Jungles
Buchanan
Oneida State Bank of
Oneida
Town Savings Bank of
Wellman
Joseph Himelberger
West Third Streat
Y. M. C. A. Fund
Young Men's Christian Association
Team No. 10
Business Men's Committee
Young Jr
Madam Voshti
St. Joe
V. Brooks
Sioux City
St. Joseph
Carroll
Blanche Waterbury
Byers
Iowa Bank Deposit Insurance Company
Bleakley
Capitol
Senate
Fort Dodge
Edinburgh
Scotland
C. F. Dow
C. F. Shelton
Indianola
Pearl Campbell
Ben Murrow
Charles
Murrow
Edward Sallee
Volunteers of America
Northwest
Tenth and Walcutt
W. Q
James N. Casady
John W. Cimdress
Dobson
City Federation Organization
Dubuque
State Board of Control
State Tuberculoais Sanitarium
Oakdale
Sherwin
Hawkeye
Gause
Elemenley
Alabastine Co
Grand Rapids, Mich
Milion Noses
Ooller
Eras Reece
Accs C.&cor
Wao
S. Dorman & Son, Inc
East North St
Oxtel
Aolling
Alfred Ened
Anphorng
Eats Co
Parker
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