Washington Ruli and tariff clashes loom in Congress
The report cites a joint resolution by Representative Pepper Iowa urging decalogue standards for laws. It notes 28 fierce attacks on the Canadian reciprocity bill in the Senate Finance Committee hearing. Farmers from border states, Gloucester fishermen and paper makers protest antitrust probes into the American Sugar Refining Co. and other refiners.
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Congress
Representative Pepper
Iowa
Christian Party
U. S. Senate Finance Committee
Gloucester
Masa
American Sugar Refining Company
House of Representatives Committee On Rules
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Accidents and Local Battles
Henry Wilkes a 22 year old farmer near Elkador shot himself in a field. uncertain if accident. Slater Mercantile organized with Carl Anderson as manager. Mrs Emma Beckman to be buried in Grundy Center. Fort Madison streetcar collision injures crews. Chicago fire kills multiple babies at Lake Buff orphanage. Creston bridges washed out and crops damaged by hail. Mason City plumbers strike open shop stance. Des Moines and Perry local events include mayors enforcing Sunday closings and arrests. Firing incidents, bank and railway news pepper the state.
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Elkador
Iowa State Post Office
Dubuque
Kenyon
Chautauqua
Willam J. Bryan
Slater Mercantile Company
Carl Anderson
Emma Beckman
Order of Eastern Star of Iowa
Rochester
Minn
Grundy Center
Fort Madison
Cara
Wee
Mary Marilla Hobbs
Methodial Deacons
Lake Buff
Chicago
Centerville
Howard Halden
Walter
Creston
Hall
Cumberland Branch
Ft. Dodge
Mason City
Iowa City
John B. Kemp
Francis Dupree
James T. Monahan
Des Moines
Arthur
Jessa Hendricksen
W. G. Curran
New
City Hall
Opera House
Simeon Sloan
Hilda Baldwin
Hamburg
Sloan
Harry
Spirit Lake
H. A. Schuck
Times-Journal
Oplatutif
Kintzinger
W. G. Crandall
Spencer
Iowa State Dental Society
H. H. Warren
Missouri Valley
Frank Fourt
Fairfield
J. W. Busby
Paton
Valentine
G. Bemble
John J. Dignan
Alden
Harp & Roberts
Cedar Falls
Hugh H. Gilmore
L. C. Clark
Methodist Church
Galyard Johnson
Fenton
Petansa
Art Krause
Johnson
Honge
Nevada
Schneckloth
Marlon, Ta
R. W. Fletiing
People’s State ‘Bank of
Farmers’ Bank of
Manly
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Barnard
Cedar Rapids
Grand Lodge
George
Albarn
Perry
Altona
W. T. Pratt
Swea City
J. W. Andargoti
Travelers’ Protective Association
David Ziegler
Burlington
Thomas Hume
Group 8
Charles City
Morton W. Wilbur
Securety Trust and Savinge Bank
Western Creamery Company
McGregor
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
F. D. Richards
First National Bank
Stag
William F. Mann
Malin
Greely
Marka
C. Durant Jones
Shortley
Superior Court
Howard Haldén
Walter Haldeen
Alonzo Franklin
Algany
Mr. Franklin
N. Y
Olaf Sorenson
Altting
Moingona
Jack F. Ryan
Cty
Pocahontas
William Lange
Polo Rowenwold
Rockwell Ity
Crack Rifle Shot Uses Teeth to Fire Left Stump Markman
Al Winemiller of Wapakoneta Ohio has become famed as a remarkable rifle shooter despite losing both arms. After a 1893 amputation and a 1910 arm mauling he devised a mouth driven loading and triggering system for a .22 rifle, dropping cartridges with his teeth and firing with a delicate taut wire trigger.
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Wapakoneta
al Winemiller
Ohio
United States
Winemiller
Wupek Wheel Company
Acid Sale Rules Under Poisons Act Sealed in Touch Label
London introduces a regulation under the poisons and pharmacy act governing sale of sulphuric acid nitric acid hydrocholoric acid and oxalic acid salts. Vessels must be touch distinguishable from ordinary containers and clearly labeled Not to be taken. Violations incur penalties.
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London
To Get Thin. Paris. New cure for abeady
Paris reports a new method to grow thin by eating five meals daily and taking gentle exercise. Prof Albert Robin, a famed physician who treats crowned heads and aristocracy across Europe, strongly recommends the regimen as a "new certain cure for abealty."
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Paris
Albert Robin
Europe
Rook as Scarecrow in Cheshire Farm Fine
A farmer at Neston Cheshire was fined for tying a live rook to a stake to scare birds. The rook had a broken wing.
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London
Lamb
Neston
Cheshire
Immigrant flow to Canada swells as settlers arrive
The Canadian Immigration Branch reports more than 326000 people arrived in the past year with 130000 from the United States and the rest from the British Isles and Northern Europe. New reception halls open in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta and railways prepare to aid homesteaders of 160 acres. A Winnipeg train carrying 25 families of skilled farmers arrives with machinery horses cattle and even gas tractors. Officials predict monthly gains and rising demand for immigration literature.
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Canadian Immigration Branch
Canada
United States
British Isles
Europe
Western
Plains
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Beanon
Antwerp
Atlantic
Red Star
America-Canada
Gothland
Samland
New York
Rotterdam
Winnipeg
Stong
Why Yes She Got The Note
A gallant yet penniless young man arranged with a gardener to borrow bouquets for his lady. He sent roses to her house and later asked about a note that accompanied them. She denied sending any note, then recalled a crude message blaming her for not paying him with a pair of pants.
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Jones
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Breaking a Hobo's Heart at the Opera House
At the opera house box office manager Gus Hartz faced two panhandlers. One pressed a sealed envelope asking for the price of a postage stamp claiming it was for his mudder. Hartz took the envelope and sent it with stamp to be mailed, then warned the other man’s wife as they departed.
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Gus Hartz
Opera House
Fred
Fred Doan
Panhandler
Cleveland Leader
Mystery of the Lady’s Nurse and Poodle Locklog
A fragment recalls a society scandal as a woman hires a nurse to tend her poodle and her own baby, prompting questions about her latest social stunt. The overheard exchange hints at public uproar over unconventional care arrangements.
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Herselt
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