La Follette Plans Minnesota Four Day Tour
Minneapolis reports Senator La Follette will spend four days in Minnesota promoting his own ticket and touring major cities starting around April 20. The Roosevelts supporters push for a direct primary while La Follette’s camp plans a state executive meeting to organize the tour and respond to opposing claims.
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WETS CLAIM VICTORY IN MICHIGAN LOCAL OPTION ELECTION
Detroit April 1 local option battles across 25 counties defined Michigan elections. Wet counties Mescola and Wexford stayed dry, while six dry counties shifted to wet, including Avenue Ingham Ogemaw Otsego and Pesque Isles. George B Hills Republican won re election as Grand Rapids mayor. Father W Dunnigan a Catholic priest won Lapeer mayoral race by 100 votes.
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Local Farmer Found Dead in North Dakota County Care
Hazelton North Dakota April. Frank G Bengston a county charge residing on a farm about ten miles southeast of Braddock was found dead at his home by neighbors. The body showed he had been dead two to three days. No indications of foul play or need for an inquest. Buried by the county with Commissioner Andrew Hanson in charge of the funeral.
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Hebron to Get Local Electric Light Plant
Hebron North Dakota April 5 The electric light plant to be installed will be built by local capitalists who have already received three car loads of machinery. Service expected early this summer as snow melts and farmers plan spring work. The town hall is being remodeled to become a comfortable opera house.
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Ward County Abolishes Seed Grain Bonds
Minot North Dakota April 5 Ward county commissioners announce no further seed grain bonds will be issued. Last year the county issued fifty thousand dollars in bonds and only about eighteen thousand dollars was paid by farmers from their crops. The rest remains unsettled as the process ends.
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County Auditor Opposes Seed Grain Bonds In Tax Burden
The county faces heavy seed grain bond costs. It will require public funds to purchase seed, with taxpaying residents bearing much of the burden. County Auditor Larson notes a considerable amount of the land tax remains unpaid, reducing the county's receipts.
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Velva Man Wins 10000 Verdict Over Bad Prescription
A McHenry county jury awarded Ben Boe ten thousand dollars against North Dakota Drug Co for a mistaken prescription filled by a Velva drug clerk. The suit states a vaginal astringent was replaced with bichloride of mercury tablets. Boe’s wife seeks twenty thousand in a separate suit set for later. The decision may be appealed to the state supreme court.
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Man Burns From Gasoline Fire at Parsonage
J P Shean suffered severe burns when gasoline spilled on a brush stove at the Catholic parsonage in Cando on April 6. Flames caught his hands and clothing while he tried to escape. Miss Roach smothered the fire with a carpet, saving his life.
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Rugby City Rejects Phone Franchise Plan
Rugby North Dakota on April 5 voted unanimously against granting a phone franchise after the council deemed the term too long. An ongoing telephone dispute is not closed, with a new ordinance on a shorter term to be introduced within days.
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Linseed Meal Nutrient Weighs In As Food Elements
The report lists linseed meal and bran as food elements with measured pounds per ton. Linseed meal yields 564.4 muscle makers, 6.58 fat forming, and 130.0 pure fat, while bran provides 2234 muscle makers, 1,085 fat forming, and 70.4 fat.
White Hope Lys Morris quits boxing to return to railroad work
Sapulpa Oklahoma April 5 Lys Morris known as the White Hope has quit the ring temporarily, returning to work as a switch engine engineer in the Sapulpa railroad yards. After July 4 1910 he left his engine to pursue a heavyweight title rematch, claiming 20 months with 11 wins and 2 losses. Morris says he will return to defeat Johnson, denouncing current fighters as thugs.
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Ordem Dominates Jahns With Two Falls in North Dakota
Grand Forks April 5 Henry Orde man American champion demonstrated his superiority over Palmer Jahns of Grand Forks by dumping the heavy grappler in one and a half minutes for the first fall and two minutes for the second fall Monday night. Johns has been meeting all comers in North Dakota and western Minnesota and throwing them in record time.
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Johnson and Flynn Expected to Meet in Championship Fight
Jack Johnson returns to Chicago and plans to meet Jim Flynn in a coming heavyweight title bout. Flynn, a Pueblo fireman, is said to arrive tomorrow as Curley moves toward finalizing the date and venue for the match. John W. Maher offers farm loans at lowest terms.
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