Dr Crawford to be released on parole after four years
The board of parole in Des Moines plans to release Dr J W Crawford after four years in Fort Madison penitentiary. A government inspector Dr Artemne Brown testified that the girl Maud Stone did not die from Crawford's operation, a claim prompting questions about the original trial and urging governor Carroll to act promptly.
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Fort Madison
J. W. Crawford
Miss Maudé Stone
Lamont
Board of Parole
Artemner Brown
Des Moines
Crawford
Brown
Carroll
City police curb swearing with cards and arrest rule
Foster and Dr W W Carlton push city to end street profanity. Mayor hears of heavy swearing on Mason City streets. Printed cards summarize the ordinance and are used by officers to arrest offenders on second offense. three arrests reported already.
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Foster
Cauxex
Mason
Mason City
W. W. Carlton
Train Fatality Near Pacific Junction Claims Mrs Meyers
Mrs Will Meyers of Glenwood was killed by a train one mile west of Pacific Junction while walking to visit her daughter Hazel 14 who leaped into a creek and survived. Meyers left seven children and her husband, a well known tailor of Glenygood.
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Meyers
Down
Glenwood
Will Meyers
Pacific Junction
Hazel
Three Drownings in Des Moines as Launch Capsizes
A launch owned by Bern Macy, son of G Macy, capsized in the Raccoon River near Des Moines. Three people perished: Mrs Mark Dawson, Bern Macy, and Nina Thomson. A female party member rescued herself by swimming to shore and lay unconscious for nearly two hours before she could call for help.
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Des Moines
Bern Macy
G. Macy
Dubuquer Returns Home After Missing Man Found
A Dubuque man missing since May returns home alive to his wife who believed him dead. A body identified as husband Robert Pegel, buried after floating down the Mississippi, was later found to be the missing man.
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Robert Pegel
Dubuque
Tragic Youths Suicides Mixed With Minor Court News
A 12 year old boy near Guthrie Center hanged himself after his mother rebuked him, using suspenders tied to a barn beam. In Nora Springs a youth was fined fifty dollars and costs for beer theft. D Fremont Pollock left a note and died by carbolic acid. Walter Kautz, 12, drowned on his Muscatine birthday near witnesses.
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Laurel Laidley
Guthrie Center
WI Goat
Nora Springs
Walter Kautz
Mississippi River
Muscatine
Killed Riding Wild Horse In Durant Area
Two tragic sports incidents from Durant area. Renita Lavi Corser, 13, dies after a young horse throws him. injuries blamed on a broken bone protruding through flesh. James Phelps, Rayville outfielder, dies after a snake bite while pursuing a fly ball on the same grounds.
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Renita
Lavi
Ollis Corser
Durant
Harneas
James Phelps
Rayville
Phelps
Man Under Land of Nay: Iowa City Sufferings from Sudden Disasters
In twenty four hours Iowa City residents faced misfortune. Jacob J Metzger, ex street commissioner, was buried under two tons of hay on his farm and severely injured with a broken collarbone and wounded shoulder after a fall. His son Charles escaped with minor bruises. Fred Badie, a young farmer, was killed instantly by lightning while hauling hogs to Thonka. his father nearby was unharmed as the hogs showed no injuries. No marks on the wagon indicated a strike.
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Iowa City
Jacob J. Metzger
Charles
Fred Badie
Thonka
Lawrence Clark
Council, Bluffs
C. M. Shaw
August Haumesser
Arthur White
Mason City
Doris Gardner
Mgr
Andrew Gardner
Goldfield
B. W. Blackwood
Buena Vista Township
Newton
James Vance
St. Joseph’s Academy
Father P. Malloy
Ryan, iI
Riverside Homestead Sold After Ford Estate
Short state items report the Riverside homestead of the late W B Ford sold by B F Mynn. Other items include a Spencer man killed by a pitched ball, a Newton farmer killed from a hay accident, church dedications, silo purchases, and various local property transfers. Burial, mine, and crime notices appear among farm and community updates. Names include W B Ford, B F Mynn, Harry Rubes, Spencer. Newton. Charlton. Glenwood. Thornton. Kellogg. Radcliffe. Council Bluffs. Mason City. Early. Mason City. Oskaloosa. West Liberty. Muscatine.
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W. B. Ford
Riverside
B. F. Mynn
Harry Rubes
Spencer
Lowney Parsons
Newton
Christian Union Church
Charlton
New Baptist Church
Glenwood
Thornton
Joseph Holdsworth
Kellogg
Evangelical Church Haye
Radcciffe
Divorce Viewed As Harmful Yet Unavoidable By Judge Brown
Henry B. Brown former U S Supreme Court justice spoke to the Maryland State Bar Association arguing that divorce when fairly obtained and properly notified to the other side can serve the welfare of both parties. He contrasted this with Cardinal Gibbons’s, and others, harsh view of divorce as a monstrous failing and urged state interests and public morality support the severance only when matrimonial duties have collapsed due to habitual and uncontrollable conduct.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Henry B. Brown
Supreme Court of the United
Sharing Its Profits International Harvester Plan for Employees
International Harvester announces a profit sharing plan to create a permanent employee base of 40 000 plus and boost loyalty. Workers may subscribe to company stock with installments deducted from wages. The firm has 120 million capital, last year earned 8.89 million, 4.2 million paid as preferred dividends and the rest to surplus. Metaseets total 136.69 million.
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International Harvester Company
United States Steel Corporation
Pearsons to Give Away Last Million on Ninetyeth Birthday
Hinsdale philanthropist Daniel K. Pearsons announces he will devote the remainder of his ninety first year to distributing his final million dollars among education and philanthropic institutions in Chicago. He has given over four million to public institutions and declines to name the recipients.
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Daniel K. Pearsons
Hinsdale
Illinois
Thia
Chicago
Pearsons
Hat Dare Ends in Fatal Shot in New York
William Tall and John Clark of New York witnessed a dare involving a peach basket hat and a revolver. Mrs. Mary Foreman, 94, was shot when Clark fired, believing the weapon unloaded. Clark, 27, expressed grief and claimed he did not know the revolver was loaded, setting off a fatal accident inquiry.
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William Tall
John Clark
New York
Mary Foreman
Foreman
Clark
Illinois Labor Union Backs Tuberculosis Fight Aboard
The State Federation of Labor provides reinforcements in the Illinois campaign against tuberculosis. Trade unions will receive 500000 pieces of literature on occupational diseases including tuberculosis to distribute to members statewide.
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Mlinois
State Federation of Labor
Illnois
Millions Gained From Wyoming Coal Land Restorations
Announcement from the Department of the Interior reports that unappropriated coal lands in Evanston Wyoming have been classified as public domain and set for disposal at up to 600 dollars per acre. Investigations traced fraudulent deeds, leading to recoveries and a major value increase in the land, with potential revenue gains of about nine million dollars.
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Department of the Interior
Evanston Land District
Wyoming
Horse Thief Canyon
Department
al Legad
General ‘Land Office
Real Baby for Sale in New York Offer
A two week old baby named Tommy Beach is advertised for sale in New York for five hundred dollars. The note describes blue eyes and dark hair and mentions the father mother and two step-sisters living in a second floor tenement. Milk costs are cited as a hardship and the seller seeks a good home and funds to help the family.
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New York
Tommy Beach
An &Th Avenue
Tommy
Trade and Industry Report Highlights and Economic Notes
Grand jury in Orange New Jersey surveyed union status and hatters voted 1407 to 3 to continue the strike. American Smelting and Refining Company reports net earnings of 7.71 million with a 5.5 million dividend and a 1.843 million surplus. Subsidiary American Smelters Securities Company earns 8.62 million. Minnesota reformatory granite to counties for road work. Great Northern and Northern Pacific to haul free. Northwest crops look good with strong grain hay and fruit prospects. Prof N C Leighton to study Hawaiian water resources for power. South Dakota cities expanding electric lighting. costs range from 41,000 to 4,000? (text unclear) with gas engines used for generation.
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Orange
N. J
American Smelting and Refining Company
American Smelters’ Securities Company
Minnesota
St. Cloud
Great Northern
Northern Pacifi
N. C. Leighton
Geoogical Survey
Hawaiian Islands
South Dakota
Harried
Harrold
Wensington
Southern Banker's Sacrifice in Dothan Fire Ordeal
A dying wife urges preservation of her son from tuberculosis. Banker T W Malone cancels life insurance and orders a deliberate house fire with firemen on standby to ensure containment, destroying the elegant Dothan home and all contents, including piano, as a final act to prevent contamination. The event unfolds in Dothan Alabama with consent of townspeople.
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Dothan
Houston County
Ala
T W. R. Malone
Laura Ellsberry
Montgomery
Malone
Joven
Dynamite as Cure for Degenerate Adversaries
Rev. John Wesley Hill of the Metropolitan Temple endorses dynamite under Chicago University divinity school as the best outcome for American youth. He condemns Prof. Willett's magazine essay on women, calls for integrity and independence, and admonishes scholars to uplift rather than undermine national morals.
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Chicago University Divinity School
John Wesley Hill
New Yorke
Metropolitan
Atlnging Magazine
Herbert L. Willett
Dr. Hill
America
Willett
Newspaper Reactions To Russian Naval Actions In Foreign Press
A compendium of editorials and satirical remarks from Atlanta Constitution Indianapolis Star New Orleans Times-Democrat Kansas City Star Washington Herald and Houston Post criticizing Russian naval conduct and commenting on the Gould divorce case with sharp humor and social commentary. The items lampoon czarist gunnery misfires and poke fun at wealthy Mrs. Gould amid public scrutiny.
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Hoboes
Gould
Katherine Ciammons Gould
Kansas City Star
Atlanta Constitution
Washington Herald
Taft plans vast travel stops from Seattle to El Paso
President Taft outlined extensive forthcoming travels after his New England trip. He will begin from Beverly Mass. in mid September for Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake, and other cities, then to San Francisco, Yosemite, Los Angeles, then by El Paso to meet President Diaz of Mexico. He will attend waterways talks in New Orleans and tour southern states before returning to Washington mid November.
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New England
Lake Champlate
Taft
Beverly
Maso
Seattle
Denver
Salt Lake
Bookame
San
Francisco
Youemite Valley
Los Angeles
New Mexico
Arizona
el Paso
Tex
Dias
Mexico
New Orleans
Georgia
Wilmington
N.gc
Richmond
Washington
Death of General Marquis de Gallifet Shocks Paris
París mourns as General Marquis de Gallifet, former French minister of war and Dreyfus era army head, dies in Paris on Thursday. The respected soldier and statesman, renowned for his role in wartime leadership and later political service, leaves a legacy tied to France’s Francoist and Dreyfus affair era.
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Marquis de Gallifet
France
Dreyfus
Aled
Paris
Thursdex
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Panama Canal
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Nebraska
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