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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1907
Page
1
The race off Jamestown exposition grounds featured crews from the British armored cruiser Roxbury and American battleships Alabama and Virginia. The Alabama team led early, battled the Virginia crew, and won by about ten yards on the mile course. Time recorded was 10 minutes 4 seconds.
In Cedar Rapids on April 30 Mrs. William Jones was struck by a Milwaukee road train while crossing the tracks during a blinding snow storm. Milwaukee reports a separate storm on April 20 delaying railway traffic as the state endures widespread snow conditions.
Salt Lake City reports the street car strike settled. Demands of the men have been granted through citizen efforts.
Telegraphic briefs note The Hague peace conference readiness with Constantin Brun Denmark’s minister to the U S designated as a delegate and Denmark represented at the talks. A unidentified man was killed by a Milwaukee train in Minneapolis as a freight blockade and stormy seas trap steamers off Cape Breton. Gus Frebers after six months in hospital commits suicide, dying from despondency.
National League results in New York Boston 3 1 Cincinnati 0 Chicago 1 Philadelphia 6 Brooklyn 0 American League Boston 2 New York 1 Washington 1 Philadelphia 2 American Association Toledo 4 City St Paul 2 Louisville 9 Milwaukee 4 Minneapolis 4 St Paul 5
Minneapolis wheat and futures for April to July listed with prices for hard and northern grades. Duluth wheat and flax markets show arrival on track prices and May July futures. St Paul yard cattle hog and sheep ranges noted, with quality tiers and top values. Chicago bids for grain and pork futures listed along with butter and poultry figures.
Fire at Charles Bradwell home in Mystic near Ottumwa destroys the house as his wife leaves with her daughter. A boy, four, and a girl, three, and an 18 month old baby perished while a younger sibling and the dying boy were left as neighbors arrived. In a separate incident Carrie Mattison, 20, died after taking poison at Fran Richardson’s farm in Woodbury County.
Report describes a body found near the Sioux river bridge with a note addressed to M. Te Lathe HW Waar Tackeon boulevard Chicago. Witnesses recall a man named Willis Milford, Iowa's Fat Boy, who died in Centerville after a fall from a streetcar. Milford weighed about 250 pounds and was reputed to be the heaviest boy of his age in the state.
A gift to Drake University in Des Moines funds fifty service scholarships of 50 each beginning the new school year. The Theodore Harry Shonis service scholarships support assistantships and a limited number of student workers. Harry Loupe, sixteen, long believed kidnapped from Monmouth Illinois, has been located in Tulsa Oklahoma and says he ran away.
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