Pure Food Bill Advances. Wage Debt Limitation Debated
Des Moines reports the senate committee on agriculture favoring passage of Newberry’s pure food bill with a 1906 exemption for stock bought before July 1 1906. Wright’s bill targets wage assignment and prevents pay day advances from exploiting workers. Senate also moves to establish uniform municipal accounting and sets up a nonpaid advisory group. A Harper resolution urges Congress to enact a national pure food law and informs state lawmakers to urge action.
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Senate Committee On Agriculture
Newberry
Senate
Dunham
State
Auditor of
Supreme Court Affirms Drainage Case Ruling
The Pottawattamie Harrison drainage dispute from the district court in Pottawattamie County ends with the supreme court upholding the county court and affirming the county supervisors contract actions. R A Brown sought to stop contracts for the drainage ditch and lost on appeal.
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Pottawattamie-Harrison County
District Court
Pottawattamie County
Supreme Court
R. A. Brown
When good nurture is noisy it is almost as disagreeable as ll nature
The fragment hints at a moral reflection on upbringing and nature, suggesting that excessive or loud nurturing can be as troubling as natural flaws. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
Pig Out, Car In: Farmer Clarifies Roadside Pork
A passerby asks if the pork on the road belongs to the farmer. The farmer replies that the pig is his, noting a motorcar had just passed by.
Iowa Senate pushes direct election of U.S. senators
Des Moines February 7. Senator Lewis of Page County introduces a resolution to convene an interstate conference in 1906 to secure a constitutional amendment for direct popular election of United States senators. Five delegates from each state would be appointed. $100 is appropriated for expenses. resolution referred to appropriations.
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Des Moines
Lewis
Page County
United States
House of Representatives
Iowa
General Assembly
State of
Executive Council
Committee On Appropriations
Des Moines Coal Miners Brace for Impending Shutdown
Des Moines district miners prepare for a possible April 1 shutdown as Illinois talks influence Iowa contract talks. Mines will run at full capacity in Feb and March to stockpile, with up to 150 mines and 14,000 workers affected and railroads, dealers, and steam plants gearing up for potential curtailment.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Illinois
Ilinois
Policeman PD B Waite Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances
May Have Been Poisoned. Boone coroner investigates the death of Policeman PD B Waite who collapsed Saturday after becoming seriously ill. He had requested a leave of absence days earlier and suffered from heart trouble with family noting serious health spells.
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Boone
B Waite
White
Convisions
Lawson calls on Sunmins for proxy committee to reform life insurers
Thomas W Lawson of Boston asks Gov. A. B. Cummins and four other leaders to form a committee to receive proxies for New York Life and Mutual Life. He says the panel would attend annual meetings to vote for directors and protect policyholders, potentially saving 30 to 40 percent of costs for about 7 million policyholders.
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Des Moines
Thomas W Lawson
Boston
A. B. Cumming
America
New York
Mutual Life of
Cummins
Johnson
Minnesota
Lawson
House of Representatives
Governor Cummins
State House
E. J. Ridgeway
Everybody's Magazine
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Broward
Florida
Monnett
Ohio
New York Life and Mutual Life of
Iowa
New York Life
New York Mutual Life
Passes for all to be provided passes for all
Des Moines IA February 9. A pass bill, the Hanna legalizing act, will be recommended to the Iowa House by the committee on railroads and commerce. The bill requires all railroads operating in Iowa to furnish transportation to Congress members in the state, state officers, general assembly members, and convention delegates, with a fine for noncompliance. Hanna says the measure legitimizes current railroad practice.
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Des Moines
House of Representatives
Committee On Railroads and Commerce
Iowa
Congress
General Assembly
Hanna
Governor Cummins Announces Reagan Nomination Bid
Governor Cummins says in Des Moines he will seek renomination for Iowa governor. He tells the Register and Leader that he has decided to run again and will publish a letter to Republicans outlining his reasons, with details to follow soon.
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Des Moines
Cummins
Register and Leader
Iowa
Register
Bailey Receives Life Sentence for 1904 Murder
Edgar Bailey, convicted of killing a non union hackman in March 1904 in Kansas City, was sentenced to ninety nine years at the Missouri penitentiary. Governor Folk twice saved his life as Bailey faced the gallows amid petitions from ministers and labor unions. Bailey, once editor at LaPorte Illinois, smiled at sentencing.
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Bailey
Kansas City
Edgar Bailey
Hackman
Missouri
Folk
Edger Bailey
LaPorte
Ila
Doud Exposes Stoge Frauds Before Meat Producers
J M Doud of Doud & Co Chicago exposed alleged disreputable methods by Chicago commission houses and the Chicago livestock exchange in a speech before the Iowa Corn Belt Meat Producers Association. He accused crippled hog speculators of manipulating prices and asserts commissions profit from shippers through exclusive privileges. He urged cooperation to end the system and noted abuses including forged readings and alluded to convictions of six men. The meeting followed by adjournment and the association endorsed rate regulation bills and expanded markets while raising funds to prosecute abuses.
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Des Moines
J. M. Doud
Doud & Co
Chicago
Chicago Commission
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Iowa
Doud
Commission
Kavanagh
Mr. Doud
Commission Houses
Corn Belt Meat Producers’ Association
American National Live Stock Association
Testimony Against Reed Smoot Closed in D C
Protestants wrapped up their case against Senator Reed Smoot of Utah before the privileges and elections committee. Smoot’s counsel Worthington said he would call 100 to 200 witnesses. C A Smurthwaite of Ogden testified the Mormon church presidency threatened ruin and reduced his salt price from 8 to 2 due to church differences.
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Washington, D. C
Reed Smoot
Utah
Committee On Privileges and Electiors
Worthington
Smoot
C. A. Smurthwaite
Ogden
Mormon Church
Bomb Kills Twelve People in Prussian Siberia
A Lokal Anzeiger dispatch from Kat towitz reports a private house destroyed by a bomb across the Russian frontier. Twelve bodies are seen among the ruins with many more feared dead.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzieger Today
Kattowitz
Sibeia
Sileo
Weather Themed Date Plea Echoes in Quirky Exchange
A playful exchange imagines planning a ride on a pleasant day with a lighthearted twist. It considers alternative timing if the forecast changes, illustrating a whimsical approach to dating plans and weather.
Lawson Seeks Proxies for Life Insurance Bodies Probe
Thomas W. Lawson met with Governor Johnson to form a committee of governors and others to probe New York Life and Mutual Life. Johnson stayed on the committee, while Lawson said he has proxies to control voting and hinted at a secrets with a card up his sleeve.
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Johnson
Lawson
St. Paul
Minn
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Capitol
Chicago
New York Life
Mutual Life Insurance
Mr. Lawson
Broward
Florida
Frank S. Monnett
Ohio
Fremont Older
Sanfrancisco
Mutual Life
Mutual
Associated Press
Castro Prepares for Scrimmage War with French
Feb 10 report from Willmstadt Curacao says Castro is gathering an army to defy the French republic. A traveler notes low sympathy for Castro, reluctant soldiers, and belief Castro is ill prepared. Passports for US Minister Russell may be issued. Castro is thought to muster at most 160,000.
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Willmstadt
Curacao
Venezuela
Castro
Russell
United States
France Presents Rare Gobelin Tapestry to Alice Roosevelt
Washington February 8 Miss Alice Roosevelt received a wedding gift from the French government a Gobelin tapestry titled Justice offered by M Jusser and the French ambassador in this city President Roosevelt had signaled European powers to send modest gifts but France prepared a special valued piece for the daughter of America's first citizen the tapestry is a rare government made work.
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Alice
Washington
Alice Roosevelt
Mies Roosevelt
M. Jusserand
Roosevelt
America
Countess de Castellane Seeks Divorce Pattern
London February report confirms the Paris Exchange Telegraph that the Countess de Castellane seeks judicial separation from her husband on grounds of infidelity.
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Countess de Castellane
London
Paris
Exchange Telegraph Company
Kaiser's Gift to Alice Roosevelt Bride Bracelet
Emperor William plans a gift for Miss Alice Roosevelt on her wedding day a beautifully crafted bracelet that will be artistically wrought and presented in Berlin on February 6 News notes reveal royal generosity toward American guests during the royal wedding season.
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Kaiser
Alice
Berlin
Emperor William
Alice Roosevelt
Lost 72 Pounds and Recovered From Kidney Trouble
Dr. Melvin M. Page of Erie Pennsylvania recounts a severe kidney illness in 1895 after excessive iced drinks. He details weight loss from 194 to 122 pounds, sharp back pain, headaches, dizziness, and eye weakness before Dean's Kidney Pills cured him. he has weighed 188 pounds since 1896. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. A knife and fork in one is sold by artificial limb dealers.
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Melvin M. Page
Page Optical Co
Erie
New York
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Patent medicine notice and cigar ad blend
An advertisement promotes a cold cure with laxative bromine quinine tablets and features a return policy by W. Grove. It also endorses Lewis' Single Binder cigars, claiming quality value from the Peoria Illinois dealer, highlighting factory origins and smoker appeal.
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W. Grove
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria, Ill
Philosophy of Will and Action in Classical Thought
A philosophical note argues that if all means are permissible, the ability to will and to act merge into a single faculty. It examines implications for moral agency and the relationship between intention and execution.
Missionary Fund Collection Stirs Patron’s Defiance
A churchman and evangelist toured a country village where proceeds from a fundraising collection would fund missions. A known anti missionary, rumored agnostic, refused the collection box with a sneer, only to be provoked when the box was thrust toward him with the plea that it was for the heathen.
Public Din ner Story of Hull and Gilbert Stuart
A Boston town dinner honored Isaac Hull and he posed for a Gilbert Stuart portrait. Stuart chattered about English success and aristocracy. Mrs Stuart entered from the kitchen in apron and kerchief and asked about a leg of mutton prompting Stuart to reply to his wife to ask her mistress.
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Isaac Hull
Boston
Gilbert Stuart
Hull
Stuart
Marquis
Postum Helps Western Woman End Coffee Health Woes
A Western state woman and her husband quit coffee after years of nervousness heart trouble and asthma. She reports full recovery after switching to Postum Food Coffee, praising its taste and health benefits and noting the product contains no drugs.
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Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Welfville
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