Fort Madison and Anamosa prisons crowded under new parole law
The Iowa parole and indeterminate sentence act has lengthened terms, filling Fort Madison and Anamosa to capacity with over a hundred more prisoners than last year. The parole board faces increased workload and lacks a home finding agent. Some failures to report deaths and investigations into mysterious burials are noted, alongside local crime and disaster items across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Ran ‘Monn
Anamosa
Bord
Parole Board
F. C. Richards
Madison County
Summer
State Board of Health
Maxburg
Sumner
Lowa
Richards
Wallace
International Molders’ Union
Workingmen's Federation
State of New York
Albany
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Car Men of
Manhattan
American Federation of Labor
Meet me face to face Hamsey and the vanished mate
A quirky tale set in a cold storage setting where Hamsey and Ham, paired since the Pilgrim era, drift as Hamsey lamenting loss as Ham climbs a value ladder. Mrs Hee recalls a long bond, lamenting transformation from cents to dollars and the emotional rift that follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Egg
Ham
Monte Cristolle
Plymouth Rock
Ege
Hee
Tam
Plan World Meeting Heads for Washington D C in 1924
World Sunday School Association plans a triennial convention in Washington with 80 features. Statesmen from the United States and other nations, plus business leaders, are expected as speakers and delegates. Sunday school membership exceeds 26 million worldwide. A parade of adult Bible class members and a children’s parade are planned amid demonstrations of organized Christianity. The 1910 Washington meeting is anticipated to be the largest yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World's Sunday School Association
Washington
D. C
Chicago Daily News
North America
Robert Raikes
Supreme Court
America
Pennsylvania Avenue
Jerusalem
Rome
Coliseum
Labor unions and wage changes across cities and industries
The report surveys union payrolls and benefits, with figures for Butte miners, the American Typographical Union, and the New York unorganized women workers. It notes AFL meetings in San Francisco, German building trades tensions, a Boston-Cambridge-Brookline wage bid to 2.80 daily, and guild moves from Washington to Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mont
American Typographical Union
New York
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
San Francisco
Germany
Boston and Maine
Boston
Mass
Culinary and Domestic Workers’ Union
Carriage and Wagon Workers’ Union
Washington
Buffalo
Edison Sees Millennium 2110 Prophesied Prosperity
Laborer to live like Croesus and swreat of Brow to be hanished. Edison forecasts a richer future for the poor two centuries ahead driven by cheap goods, automation, and scientific agriculture. Factories will run with superintendents watching machines. no manual labor remains. Workdays shrink to around sight hours with brain work in pleasant surroundings. Clothes will be so cheap that every young woman can follow fashions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Bicks
Iowa
Harry Payne Whitney
Chapel
Croesus
Thomas A. Edison
Noura
World Meat Prices Rise Amid Global Trends
The article notes a general rise in meat prices worldwide, with increases in fresh, canned, and preserved meats surpassing others. It cites statistics from Australia, Canada, and Europe, including Moscow, showing higher wholesale prices and specific per-pound changes over periods from 1896 to 1909, highlighting beef, mutton, pork, and butter movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Argentina
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Haa
Ausatralia
Axporta
Moscow
Russia
Berth
Pittsburg Man Sacrifices Himself Saving Children
In Fair Oaks a Pittavurg suburb, Charles Rommel was electrocuted while rescuing his two young daughters and a playmate after a street light wire dropped. He freed the children but touched the live end, completing a circuit. Spectators watched in horror as the powerful current killed him after about thirty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittavurg
Crond
Rommel
Fragmented historical dates and events list
A garbled OCR compendium lists multiple dates and events from 1670 to 1907 covering ex communications, colonial affairs, battles, independence recognitions, railroads, laws, and urban fires. It includes excommunication, ordinations, territorial boundaries, sieges, shipwrecks, naturalizations, amendments, and naval conferences with scattered places and figures.
Comet tail dangers urged by Harvard Observatory head
Harvard Observatory director Pickering warns May 18 19 Earth passage through Halley’s comet tail could cause poison gas and meteors to strike the planet endangering buildings and people. He concurs with Flammarion on great public danger from potential collisions. Typhoid Mary released after three years in New York hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard Observatory
Boyes
Edward ©. Pickering
Astronomical Observatory of
Harvard
Flammarion
New York
Fire destroys Melnrich Hotel in Brockport New York
A blaze leveled the Melnrich Hotel at Brockport New York with no immediate word on casualties. In Pittsburg Kansas the city adopted the commission form of government by a 21 vote margin. The Amadan Mining Congress plans its annual convention in Los Angeles from September 26 to October 1.
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Queen Elizabeth
Pope Pivar
Charles II
Virginia
Lord Culpapost
Earl Arlington
Nitschmann
Savanna
America
Denmark
United States
Congress
Corsica
Hornet
Sabine River
Spain
Santa Anna
Alamo
San Antonio
Birkenhead
Simon's Bay
South Africa
Czar
Russia
New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company
Cyrus Meld
California
Lord Cannings
India
Quebec
Nova, Scotia
United States Congress
Arizona Territory
New Mexico
Knights of Pything Lodge
Johnson
George Luther Hathewey
New Brunswick
Gov. McEnery
Loulsiana
Samuel Leonard Titey
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Marshal Serrano
Republic of Spain
Fredericton
Lord Salisbury
Behring Sea Flattery
Dominion
Lord Stanley
Preston
John W. Mackay
San Francisco
Beasemer
Sault Ale
Maine
National Party
Tnlon Bocialista
Philadelphia
Rochgater
Samuel Pritchard Matheson
Rupert’s Land
Hot Springs
Ark
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Indiana
Cumming
Iowa
Hanley
London
Melnrich
Brockport
N. Y
Pittsburg
Kan
Amadvan Mining Congress
Los Angeles
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State of
Burlington
Art Russell
Anderson
Russell
W. H. Henson
Parkersburg
Jewell County
Kansas
Waterloo Union Depot
Waterloo
Alttingle Board of Health
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western
Ll. A. Miliner
Des Moines
Olly Phyalcian Wash
Samuel Calvin
Bleokers
Etzel
Merrill
Star Lodge
K. of P
Gastte Hall
Dows
Peter Why
Raymond
W. H. Butterfield
J. F. Frame
Bourke
D. A
Daniel M. Brewbaker
Dubuque
Laurens
Lars Egertson
Frank G. Clark
Clear Lake
Ft. Collins
George L. Hoel
BH. Contell
Harlan
Great Western
Mason City
C. 5. Wiemer
Hayfield
Minn
Sciola
Ansel Frankel
Nate Frankel
M. Rosenfield
Abe Frankel
Walnut and
Fourth Streets
Hugh Shannon
Baltimore Orioles
Muscatine Club
Northams League
Methodist Episcopal Church
Grinnell
Parsonage Fund
Elizabeth
Sisters of Mercy
Council Bluffs
Centerville
Centerville Hospital
B. G. Woodrow
Glenwood
van Kirk
Paul C. Ayleshworth
B. Hansen
Bricelyn
Cole Storridge Egge
Hamsey
MR Ham
Plan World Meeting
Cambridge
Brookline
Edison
Tomar A
Taft
Niel
Stubbs
Lfe
Charles O'Neil
John C. Pollock
O'Neil
Leavenworth
Mackay
Cincinnati
Augusta Fassio
Connert
Guy Moses
Maple Hill
Raymond B. Fitzrandolph
State Laboratory of Hygiene
A. J. Vogalin
Irvington
N. J
Elrod
South Dakota
House of Representatives
South Carolina
Central Federated Union of New York
Gompers
Labor Party
Bryan
Nebraska
Democratic Party
Vice
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Oyster Hay
New York Ciy
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