Johnson Marries Er ic Cameron in Race-Intermarriage Case
Jack Johnson the pegiist secured a marriage license to wed Miss Lucille Cameron, the pair planned a 3 PM ceremony at Johnson's Wabash Faue home with a supper afterward. Authorities say federal officials cannot intervene, and a move to ban interracial marriages may be sought this winter. A police order prevented a film company from filming the ceremony, for which Johnson would have earned $5,000.
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Lucille Cameron
Jack Johnson
Eille Cameron
Miss Cameron
Johnson
Cers
Lost Lewellyn setter with tail loss
A Lewellyn setter missing half the tail is lost. Reward offered for return to 908 Grimes Street.
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Lewellyn
Grimes Street
Local Importers Show Fine Percherons at Chicago Exposition
Maasdam and Wheeler, Percheron importers and breeders, ship sixteen choice horses to the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. Visitors tour two well arranged farms near the city, praising the stock and the Dutch partners' enterprising business.
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Chicago
Maasdam & Wheeler
Burlington Road
Messrs Maasdam
Wheeler
J. G. Maasdam
Pella
Iowa
United States
Bradstreet
Holland
Maasdam
Federal Council of Churches Meets in Chicago
Delegates from 32 denominations gather in Chicago for the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America quadrennial meeting. The event runs through next Monday with public addresses at Orchestra Hall by figures such as Vice President-elect Marshall.
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Chicago
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Hotel la Salle
Federal Council
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute
United States
A. R. Hendrix
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Orchestra Hall
Thomas R. Marshall
Indiana
J. H. Jewett
Fifth Ave
New York City
Francis E. Clark
Frank Mason North
New York
Ottumwa Church Plans New Stone Building
Ottumwa church trustees purchase prime Ot tumwa property in the church district and announce plans to erect a stone church for worship. Rev. Carl A. Sundberg, serving under a year, leads a growing congregation that has progressed to this development. The site was once among Ottumwa’s early hotels.
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Ottumwa
St. Mark's English Evangelical Lutheran Church
Carl A. Sundberg
Robbed and Tossed in River Near Grand Avenue Bridge
Frank Wilson of Marshalltown was accosted by an unknown man near the Grand avenue bridge last evening. He was forced to surrender his money, slugged, and dumped into the Des Moines river before being found. Police investigate the assault.
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Des Moines
Grand Avenue Bridge
Frank Wilson
Marshalltown
Taft Urges Merit System and Stronger Foreign Service
The president defends the merit system in the diplomatic corps, describes a 1909 State Department reorganization, and calls for better salaries and posts. He cites progress in Latin America and Asia, emphasizes commercial diplomacy, and notes efforts to stabilize Central American debt and promote peace through arbitration. He also laments Nicaragua violence and Mexico’s turmoil while praising U.S. naval actions.
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Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Union
Family of Nations
State Department
Department of State
Congress
Department of Site
Department
Col Sular
Cleveland
Foreign Service
Horever
Latin America
Legation
Argentine Republic
Brazil
Peru
Ecuador
Panama
Costa Rica
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Nicaragua
Honduras
Bolivia
Republic of
Colombia
China
Chile
South America
Hukuang
Central America
Panama Canal
Caribbean
United States Navy
Marine Corps
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J. E. Roth
MR. Farmer
California Naval
California
Malaga
Graham
Swift
Walter Baker
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Ohnson
Rank. Light
Fred Light
Dick Gaines
C. W. Wade
Dr. R. C. Sayres
Perry Heflin
C. J. Nelson
J. C. Thorne
Shan Campbell
Chas
A. Norvel
Henry Bureker
William Louden
al Sumner
I. Chaboudez
Paris
H. N. Brandall
M. Chaboudez
America
la Belle
France
Federal Council OF Churches
Taft
of Foreign Relations
Mary
Republic of Mexico
Mexico
Europe
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