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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
4
Washington hosts the first annual convention with many notable women in attendance while President Taft accepts an invitation to spend March in Augusta Georgia with his wife and daughter.
A Huns sian court in Moscow convicting two Jewish dentists and an accomplice of fraud linked to insurance for a dentistry school faces a one year prison term for each defendant amid a breach of professional trust and financial wrongdoing within the dental education sector.
L W Reed of New London Johnson county wins grand championship for best single car of corn in the Iowa State College extension contest. R H Prendfit of Altoona takes grand championship in best ten cars. Kiser Brothers of Eddyville wins best bushel, Roy Redfern of Des Moines county best breed type. Also notes farm foreclosures, church dedications, bridges, accidents and local civic events across the region.
Washington Jan 13 In testimony of financier George F Baker before the house money trust committee he denied a money combine with J P Morgan and downplayed public exposure of bank assets. He praised Morgan as a great financier while warning further combinations could be dangerous.
In New York on January 13 clashes between strikers and strike breakers turned bloody as hundreds joined the revolt. At the Star Knee Pants factory on Lafayette Street union picket Patrick Cartonne was slashed and beaten. Thomas Kenneth lay unconscious in Brooklyn with a fractured skull, while George Evans the detective was struck by a blackjack amid the unrest.
A French column under Col Amedee Cueydon de Dives engaged a Moors force twenty miles east of Mogador Moroc ca on Friday. The clash left about 600 Moors killed and twelve French soldiers dead with sixty wounded. The French troops were guarding southern Morocco lines of communication.
Washington January 13. Congressional friends of her White House days thronged the Congressional Club Friday and greeted Mrs Grover Cleveland at the reception held there in her honor by club officers.
The House Rules Committee will not recommend a congressional investigation of the New Haven Grand Trunk deal in New England after several hearings on the subject.
Edward Wickersham, 77, a cousin of Attorney General Wickersham, fled at the Proctor home in Peoria Mb on Friday. Born December 10, 1836 in Ohio, he was an elderly resident connected to the Wickersham family.
Mrs W J Cleland reports a thirteen month old girl developed a spreading cheek eruption that reached the eye and nostril. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the sores subsided within days with no scarring and no return of the trouble.
A dative of T. at a Scot coast shipyard party recalls the electricians after the contract for the first three steamers with electric lights. Sandy jokes that he could install the electric mashers but cannot figure out how the fire travels along the wires.
Representative Pujo spoke in Washington on currency balance saying it must balance automatically and delicately and resemble the Christmas husband. His wife chimed in with concern over heavy parcels as John reassured that his pocket is lighter now.
A wry note on secrecy and honesty in the workplace. The speaker jokes that a wife can keep a secret only when no one is around to tell it, implying men often hide their flaws by acting as if they are doing the boss a favor. The remark reflects social norms and attitudes of the era toward discretion and duty.
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