News of a Week in Condensed Form at Home and Abroad
Brief items from around the globe include Claude Graham White winning the Boston Globe prize in the harbor flight to Boston and back, and Congressman Fowler of New Jersey being endorsed for the U S Senate. Grace Van Studiford files for bankruptcy in New York with debts of 20901 and assets of ten dollars. H Rowland Clapp of Baltimore appointed receiver for Baltimore Company. Albert W Harris travels via prairie schooner from Los Angeles to Omaha, arriving around October 1. Lloyd W Bowers dies in Boston at 51 from bronchitis complications. Champ Clark vows to drive Missouri mules down Pennsylvania Avenue if elected Speaker. Florence Pardee killed in automobile crash, others uninjured.
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Claude Graham White
Boston Globe
Boston
Fowler
Fifth
New Jersey
United States Senate
Kean
Grace van Studiford
New
H. Rowland Clapp
Baltimore
Baltimore Company Type Company
Albert W. Harris
Chicago
Omaha
Los Angeles
Cal
Lloyd W. Bowers
Champ Clark
Moberly
House of Representatives
Missouri
Pennsylvania Avenue
Florence Pardee
George C. Pardee
California
Wrecks, lynchings, and crimes across headlines
A freight train wreck near Williamsburg Kentucky kills the engineer and fireman. A Bulllivan Indiana printer Ray Orr is shot dead while waiting for a car near Shelburn. Will Sharp and Bob Bruce are lynched in Tiptonville Tennessee after a failed attack on white children Sallie and Callie Downing. Canada reports a wheat crop drop from 1909. A London demographer testifies in the Crippen case about sex of the victim. An ex-treasury clerk is charged with a 1907 theft of 173000. Diamonds are stolen from a Winnipeg hotel. A North Denver student, Ariona Stivers, dies by suicide under note about faith. A large Negro Baptist convention opens in New Orleans with about 7000 delegates. The Walsh estate inventory values drop to six and a half million. Charles A Goodwin is nominated for governor by Republicans and Taft is endorsed. Mexico grants a beer factory tax exemption in Sinaloa. Barah King of Brooklyn wins a hobble skirt race. Found pennies worth 800 near Mount Freedom New Jersey.
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Louiisville & Nashville Railroad
Knoxville
Tenn
CineInnutl
Williamsburg
Shelburn
Ind
Ray Orr
Bullivan
Will Sharp
Bob Bruce
Tiptonville
Sallie
Callie Downing
Canada
Augustus J. Pepper
University of London
Crippen
Hilldrop Crescent
George W. Fitzgerald
Chicago
Sub-Treasury
United States
Royal Alexandria
Winnipeg
Mat
Countess of Antrim
Ariona Stivers
North
Denver
Col
Oklahoma City
New Orleans
Washington Artilery
J. G. Morrin
Helena
Ark
National Convention of Negro Baptists
Thomas F. Walsh
A. Oeborn
Connecticut
Charles A. Goodwin
Hartford
Taft
Washington and nationwide election results and misc events
Surviving Crocker Town Brigade members held a reunion in Washington. Maine voters favored Plaisted for governor with a large plurality over Fernald. Republicans Hida and Guernsey and Democrats McHenneidy and Gould won seats. Democrats also elected a majority of state legislators. A vast forest fire near Lynden, Washington threatens Whatcom County towns, destroying ranch homes and costing about 1 million dollars. Miles Poindexter won a primary for U S senator over Burke with no postprimary majority report until December. Six congressional investigators plan December meeting in Washington. Chicago meat-packers indicted for restraint of trade. bonds set at 30,000 each. Coast guard and ferry accident yields survivor statements. Eucharistic congress in Montreal closes with vast crowds. Czar contributes to Moscow Orthodox church in Passaic. Episcopal convention tackles hymn removal. New York banking thefts and Chicago anti trust cases surface amid broad political news.
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Crocker
Washington
Maine
Piaisted
Fernald
Hida
Guernsey
McChncuddy
Gould
North Wood Clearing
Lynden
Whatcom County
Wash
Miles Poindexter
Thomas Burke
United States
Congress
Congressional Investigating Commission
Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Landis
Montreal
Mount Royal
Russia
Passaic
N. J
George P. Williams
American Sunday School Union
Philadelphia
Greenland
The
Episcopal Church
Cincinneti
Legate
Vancnatelli
Que
George W. Donaghy
Arkansas
Frederick W. Plaisted
Augusta
Hudson
New York
John B. Scanlan
Walt Mason
Kansas
Baden Baden
Misa Ethel Watson
St Louis
Thomas Finnegan
Dallas
Tex
Adolph Rathbarth
Martin Rothbarth & Co
Herbert
Mercantile National Bank
Whitman
Rothbarth
Des Moines Fraud Swindle Involving Gypsy Women
One of Iowa's largest fortune telling swindles emerges as John Huser, a Hast Des Moines retiree, reports losing 4500 to two gypsy women who promised to greatly multiply his savings. Detectives will raid gypsy camps and with Huser's assistance pursue arrests.
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Des Moines
John Huser
Hast
Huser
Horse Kills Rider in Auto Crash Near Neola
Lewis Drier, son of a prominent local farmer, was instantly killed when his horse reared and fell on an automobile carrying Miss Gladys Sexton and other theatergoers en route to Ontario. Miss Sexton was severely injured, receiving hoof bruises and cuts from broken glass. Drier’s neck was broken.
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Neola
Lewis Drier
Gladys Sexton
Neoli
Drier
Ontario
Young Driers
Miss Sexton
Ammonia Explosion Kills Engineer in Mason City Plant
William Belk, engineer, was killed. Oscar Tradley, assistant engineer, slightly wounded. and C. B. Locke, electrician, seriously injured by the ammonia condenser explosion in the Decker & Sons packing plant refrigerating department.
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Mason City
Wiliam Belk
Oscar Tradley
C. B. Locke
Decker & Sons
Epidemic Paralysis Strikes Orange City Area
An epidemic of paralysis spreads west of Orange City, causing multiple child deaths. Two children of N. Roghart are affected, along with one each from T. Van Bruiggen and Geo. Gouena families, with several other children seriously ill nearby.
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Orange City
N. Roghart
T. van Bruiggen
Geo. Gouena
Trial of Gov Carroll in Des Moines Set for Monday
Gov B F Carroll faces a criminal libel charge filed by former state board of control chair John Cowaule. The trial is scheduled for Monday September 19 and may be continued to a later date.
Local notes from Charles City to Atlantic City coverage
The itemized regional report recounts events from Charles City and Boone including church fundraisers, a bank stake sale, a survivor’s family, a fatality in Mississippi, a Sioux City grand jury gambling case,学校 enrollments in Orange City, Wright county fair results with higher receipts, a Cedar Rapids Gazette reporter’s accident, a fatal fall at Blairsburg school, the first Bohemian presbytery’s six state scope, and Miss Della Weeks named nurse for an Iowa G A R delegation train to Atlantic City.
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Upper Iowa
Charles City
Christian Ghureh Missionary Alliance
Boone
First National Bank of Nashua Tins Ech
C.D. A
M. W,lis
H. M. Wallaser
John H.bratby
R. G. Dun & Co
Sioux City
Bratby
L. C. Lessenich
Chicago House
Orange City
Christian Reformed Church
Wright County
Association
Joe McCormick
Cedar Rapids
United States
Presbyterian General Assembly
Iowa
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
South Dakota
Della Weeks
Naional G. A. R
Atlantic City
N. J
H. A. Dyer
Iowa G. A. R
Nominations Lineup and Local Notes From Iowa State Headlines
Over 110 nominations for state county and congressional offices must be filed by October 2 for ballot placement. Socialists nominate John Smith of Sioux City for Congress. Judges Gilver Gaynor Hutchinson and Mould filed for the Fourth district bench. Frosts reported with little damage, warmer spell forecast. Farmers optimistic about corn crop as ears fill out. AG Byers says rear lights not required, side red lights suffice. Iowa Methodist conference to meet at Fairfield, with invitations from Oskaloosa and Newton. Iowa Wesleyan University president Schell raises 2750 for new heating plant. Supreme court docket shows many requests for immediate reversals amid lighter submission for next term. August postal receipts show a $1,026 year decline from 53,757 to 54,784. Gardner Cowles and wife return from three months in Europe with Stuck-Blager and others. Des Moines man dies by gas asphyxiation during family trouble.
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Secretary of State
Eleventh District
John ©. Smith
Sioux City
Congress
John F. Gilver
Frank Gaynor
Wiliam Hutchinson
David Mould
Fourth Judicial
Towa
Browne 15 Winner Congress, Boutell Lost in Illinois
In Illinois primaries Frederick H. Gansberger defeated Congressman Henry Sherman Boutell for the Republican nomination in the Ninth district. Foss narrowly led in the Tenth. Englehardt held a lead in incomplete counts. Most Cook County Republicans were renominated. Cannon won easily in the Eighteenth. Lorimer supporters and indicted figures fared well in general. Browne, Broderick, and Shuttles won. the Legislative Voters' league fared badly across Chicago precincts.
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Chicago
Frederick H. Gansberger
Henry Sherman Boutell
Congress
Georges E. Foss
G. P. Englehardt
Lake County
Foss
Cook County
Copley
George W. Conn, Jr
Woodstock
Ira J. Copley
John C. McKenzie
Elizabeth
McKenzie
Frank
Lowden
Cannon
Joseph G. Gannon
Henry GB. Downs
Rainey
McDermott
Lorimer
Willian Lorimer
General Assembly
Teven
Browne
Broderick
Lea O'Neil Browne
la Salle
John Broderick
Sang
Taft Says Progressives and Regulars Now One Party
Beverly Massachusetts dispatch reports President Taft will treat Progressives and Regulars as Republicans in federal support. A Norton letter to an unnamed Republican leader cites withholding patronage from hostile lawmakers, but after recent primaries supports uniting the factions. Senators La Follette Bristow Dalliver Cummins and Representative Hubbard were named as affected.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Norton
Town
Congress
Ita
la Follette
Bristow
Dalliver
Cummins
Hubbard
Towa
Joliet Population Climbs By 18 Percent In 1910 Census
Joliet shows a population of 34,670, up 11,917 from 29,253 in 1900, reflecting an 18.1 percent increase. Cleveland records 560,663 residents, rising 178,805 from 381,768 in 1900, signaling broader urban growth.
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Joliet
Washington
Cleveland
Ohio
Was Graduated 79 Years Ago Newark Man Turns 100
William Rankin of Summit New Jersey the oldest living college graduate in the United States marked his centennial birthday on Thursday celebrating a century since his graduation 79 years earlier in Newark New Jersey.
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Newark
N. J
William Rankin
Summit
United States
Injured Conductor Credits Dean's Kidney Pills recovery
George Hahn a West Chicago Indiana railroad conductor says a wrecker accident left him with kidney trouble and back pains. After doctors failed to help he used Dean's Kidney Pills and recovered. he praises the product and urges readers to remember the name. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y sells them for 60 cents a box.
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George Hahn
N. W
Arbor Ave
West
Chicago
Saya
Dean
Hidney
Dean’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo,n
Not the Time for That Scotsmen Objected to Whisky Conver sation
Owen Seaman of Punch attended a London Authors' club dinner with a reading and a panel discussion on humor. A three character sketch features a bluebottle and two Scots men amid whisky drinking, as one Scotsman questions if a fly is a bird or beast. The other warns against mixing good whisky with religious conversation.
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Owen Seaman
Punch
London Authors’ Club
Mr. Seaman
Salah
Aerial Postcards Debut as Novelty for Collectors
Paris correspondence notes a new craze in postcard collecting the aerial missive. Serial cards would be dropped from aircraft with a request to forward to the destination via post offices. Cards would record flight altitude and aircraft position with a photo of the aircraft.
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Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
M. Millerand
Paris
London Globe
English In London on the Lusitania Deck
Senator Capew notes that London English is hard to understand and recounts a Bloomsbury lodging scene. A museum visit leads to a tea request met with a sharp landlady response about pronunciation and the kettle. The exchange highlights differences in spoken English in London.
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London
Senator Capew
Bloomsbury
British Museum
Museum
Prominent Men Endorse Postum Over Coffee For Health
A Southern public school superintendent recalls his mother’s long heart and stomach issues from coffee. After trying Postum at a merchant’s recommendation, the family switched and observed marked improvements. He notes her headaches lessened and her general condition greatly improved.
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Postum
Agehe
Rover
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General News
National Packing Company
J. C. Burrows
William Lorimer
Iowa News
James Bennett
Little Sioux
George Jenni
Dubuque
Lena Lawrence
St. Bernard's Hospital
Council Bluffs
F. J. Waldron
Buena Vista
Bessie Burritt
B. L. Burritt
Marshall Town
Kerns
Perry
Latter Day Saints
Western Town
W. G. Frayer
Prairie City
Grand Jury
Marshalltown
James Hardy
Aneceleve
Marshall Telephone Company
Jerry Hart
Sac City
Hart
Byers
Greene County
Supreme Court
Gardner Cowles
Register
Europe
Ireland
Scotland
England
Holland
Belgium
France
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Stuck-Blager
Lisbon
Linn County
Desjiondent
W. M. Boydston
Iowa Telephone Company
Illinois
Boutell
Carl—Cannon
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