Foreign and Domestic Notes From Early 20th Century
Orville Wright sets a new Berlin record with a 1 hour 35 minute sustained flight carrying a passenger. Louis Paulhan wins a 5000 dollar prize in France covering 73 kilometers in an hour. Opium to be shipped from Manila for medicinal use. Mrs. Morris dies in France from a motor accident. Lord Tweedmouth and other nobles die in London. Britain profits from canned meat prices. Detective Delmege is killed in Des Moines City. Packy McFarland and Ray Bronson draw in McDonoughville. Rail revenues rise. Taft prepares campaign. Various political, postal, and economic notes include Porto Rico governor, bank director, mail registration fee rise, dynamited home in Youngstown, and Halley’s comet reappearance.
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Orville Wright
Templehof Club
Berlin
Englehardt
Louis Paulhan
Ospend
Manila
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Washington
Morris
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Fontainbleau
France
Edward Marjoribanks
Tweedmouth
Campbell-Bannerman
Council
London
British War Office
Certion
John Scheizer
Des Moines
Frank Delmege
West
Packy McFarland
Ray Bronson
West Side Athletic Club
McDonoughville
New Orleans
Folk
Missouri
Democratic State Committee
George R. Colton
District of Columbia
Porto Rico
J. P. Morgan
City National
Standard Oil) Bank of
New York
Hitchcock
Charles I. Gibson
St. Ruthers
American Sheet and Tinplate Company
Youngstown
Ohio
Taft
John W. Titcumb
United States Fish Commission
Division of
Fish Culture
Swezey
Halley
David E. Thompson
United States
Mexico
Pan-American Railway
San Geronimo
Mariscal
T. H. Bunch Company
Little Rock
Ark
Imperial Russian Geographical Society
Peary
North Pole
Peary-Cook
Dr. Cook
Minnesota Governor John A. Johnson Dies After Long Illness
Rochester Minnesota mourns as Gov. John A. Johnson, three terms winner and 1908 and 1912 presidential hopeful, dies after intestinal abscess surgery in St Marys hospital. The Democrat, born near St Peter to Sweden natives, rose from editor to national figure and left a lasting political legacy.
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Rochester
Minn
John A. Johnson
St. Mary’s Hospital
Gov. Johnson
Mrs. Johnson
Nora
St. Paul
Gov
Johnson
Minnesota
Thompson
United States
St. Peter
Sweden
Gustav Johnson
Caroline Hanson Heden
Johnsons
Farr
Iowa News Involving Van Beek Theft Land Deals and Local Events
Burlington police seek George Van Beek under a $50 reward from the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Co for the missing former resident and guardian with $12,000 in trust. Southern Iowa land deals total 1,900 acres with Stephenson selling 1125 acres to Shay. Other items include a divorce injunction in Cerro Gordo, Mrs. Ada Osman’s 83rd birthday, a new delivery service in Iowa Falls, and a fire at the Bettendorf meteor automobile factory with losses over $50,000.
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Hiltz
Burlington
United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company
George van Beek
van Beek
van K
Fidelity and Guarantee Company
Ringgold County
Stephenson
J. H. Spence
Delphos
W. Somerville Colby
Clear Lake
Clark
Colby
Cerro Gordo County
Leavenworth
Israel Jenkins
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Iowa Falls
Iowa County
Dan Figg
John Koester
John Rissedt
Ernest Teggatt
Henry Querl
Bernard Wiebold
Henry Hudepohle
Webster City
Commercial League
East Side
Meteor Automobile
Bettendorf
Davenport
Yankee Robinson Circus
Granger
Louis Liebinger
Martha Constantine
Charles City
New Haven
Conn
M. Elwood
Sac City
H. H. Evans
Monona County
Omaha
Sioux City
Des Moines
Ada Elizabeth Osman
Marshalltown
Red Oak
B. F. Shipman
W. A. Irwin
Harry Hough
Vergil Spicer
George Dillon
H. T.thomas
F. L. Owen
Lee Nagle
W. J. Bell
T. D. Murphy Company
Vinton
Michael Donelan
Iowa
James L. Geddes
Benton County
Harriet Lewis Corbet
Congressman Hull
Taft
Mississippi
St. Louis
New Orleans
Hull
Isaac Brandt
East Ninth Street
Dallas County
Adel
John Switzer
Redfield
Jacob Switzer
Shelby County
Ames College
Earl Lindsay
Seventeenth Street
Edwards Congregational Church
W. J. Suckon
Iowa College
Grinnell
St. Joseph's Church
Mason City
Iowa City
N. W. Wilson
Muscatine County Poultry Association
Henry Ostrom
David Donaldson
Washington
Washington County
Harlan
Otto Barnes
Poetic Reverie of Robert Hinckle Messinger on Aging
The text recalls an almost forgotten poet Robert Hinckle Messinger who longs for old wood to burn old books to read and old friends to talk with in a serene old age He also imagines tunes played in long twilights as he dozes and dreams in his easy chair
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Robert Hinckle Messinger
Science and Trade Unite in Practical Pursuits
The text notes science as a cunning old fellow joining with trade to drive progress. It suggests practical outcomes beyond Horatian philosophy, implying cooperation between scientific inquiry and commercial enterprise to advance society.
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Horatio
Zola Prefers Sudden Death Allegedly Fulfilled
A Philadelphia Bulletin note cites a psychologist claiming Zola once wrote in a lady’s album that his favorite amusement was writing and his wish a sudden death. It adds that Zola died suddenly and that those who favor sudden death often see their wish granted.
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Zola
Philadelphia Bulletin
Monopoly Not Desired in Our Own Faults
A reflective note condemns self praise and the pleasure found in others faults, suggesting a humorous self awareness of collective foibles and public faults as the source of amusement. It playfully implies that flaws are easier to recognize in others than in oneself.
New Strength for Women's Backs
A Mt. Sterling Kentucky reader credits Doan's Kidney Pills with dramatic relief from backache dizziness and fatigue. Mrs. Mary Hinson reports improved eyesight nervous headaches and fatigue after using Doan's from the first dose and completing the course. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mary Hinson
Strother
Mt. Sterling
Dean
Mrs. Hinson
Doan
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Napoleon Blucher Window Intercepted Chance Tale
A supposed new Napoleon story by Arthur M. Chuquet recounts an interview at Finkenstein during siege preparations for Danzig. Blucher reportedly left enthused after compliments, only to hear a jibe about throwing Napoleon from a window and altering history.
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Napoleon
Arthur M. Chuquet
Blucher
Finkenstein
Danzig
New York Evening Post
The Root of Altruism, by Chesterton
Chesterton argues altruism rests on three roots justice charity and free will. He asserts a moral law treats all as equal and demands neighborly aid while highlighting the impact of helping or neglecting others over time.
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G. K. Chesterton
Fashionable dressmaker leaves business questioned
Dialogue questions whether the dressmaker exited her shop well. The speaker notes there is no shave in her business and labels her as a fashionable dressmaker.
Doctor's Wife Endorses Grape-Nuts For All Ages Of Diet
A trained nurse extols Grape-Nuts as nourishing and versatile for the sick and healthy alike. She notes it can be softened with milk for babies or the aged, suggests a recipe with egg white and fruit juice, and claims a 10 day trial aids stomach trouble and brain fatigue.
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Wellville
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