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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
3
Ames January 25. Enrollment at Iowa State College hits a new high with 2,131 students on registrar Herman Knapp s rolls plus 732 short course students who completed work before the new semester. The 1912 record is surpassed by 235 students.
A Denver telegram reports Henry Maloney of West Gate seriously injured and Crist Decker cut and bruised when two touring cars collided and the Iowa men were hurled twenty feet down a bankment. L Elkeman of New Hampton was thrown through a windshield but escaped with minor cuts.
London January 27 Premier Asquith announced in the House that the vote for women in Great Britain is dead as the bill will be withdrawn. He repudiated charges of trickery and said the cabinet regrets they cannot keep their pledge to women.
Militant suffragists gather near Parliament Square while Premier Asquith plans a noon cabinet meeting on the franchise bill. Police deploy two thousand officers to guard Parliament and protect MPs amid threats of abduction and potential violence.
Jefferson County Medical Society held a well attended meeting in the hospital laboratory. Dr Edward J Wehman of Burlington presented a paper and demonstration on blood examination diagnosis worm parasites sleeping sickness and the tri china microbe. Visitor Dr Mahler of New London attended as part of plans to attract top experts for future programs.
In Mason City on January 24 George Staroplovich a Montenegrin and two friends watched a moving picture of a battleship. He believed he saw his brother in the film and fainted when the brother was shot down and killed. He was carried out and revived.
Mason City January 25 two young women Anna Mitchell and Ollie Pickett are charged with forgery and held at Council Bluffs. They are wanted here on charges of cashing checks totaling 25 dollars.
Cedar Falls January 25 The arrival of an expert mill architect marks the first step toward a $100,000 flouring mill. The Union Mill company will erect the structure, adding to its existing 2,000 barrel capacity plant.
From Manila comes word of a clash at Taglitsi where Moros battled Philippine scouts and constabulary detachments. Captain Patrick McNally and six scouts were killed. Lieutenant William Townsend and Lieutenants Gochrun and Whitney plus nineteen enlisted men wounded. Townsend and Godru have serious injuries.
New York figures led by Jean D Rockefeller Jr foray into humane study of the social evil. The Bureau of Social Hygiene, formed in 1911, hires George J Kneeland to survey vice in New York City and Abraham Flexner to study European methods. Plans for a permanent commission and published reports aim to win public support for a practical curb.
Mason City reports Cerro Gordo county farm earned 16109.78 last year from 233 acres owned and 320 acres rented. Inventory valued at 70382.45 with gains of 7107 this year. There are 15 inmates at the county hospital and 17 at the county home.
The body of John Paul Jones, first admiral of the American navy, was laid to rest in the new crypt beneath the naval academy chapel in Annapolis during simple ceremonies. Secretary of the Navy Meyer, French Ambassador Jusserand, and Governor Goldsborough attended.
Nome Alaska January 27 John Johnson won the Solo mon derby from Nome to Solomon and back sixty five miles driving a team of Siberian wolves in six hours and one and a half minutes Oliver Blanchford finished second driving Missouri bird hounds in the same race
Dan Wymore 53-year-old farmer near Montezuma attempted suicide by taking carbolic acid while temporarily insane from financial worries. His wife summoned a doctor who saved him. he is expected to recover.
Keokuk announces Elma Habrich as the city's first visiting nurse. She has been engaged by philanthropic citizens to assist the poor and will begin duty February 1.
A statement for fifty four eastern railroads reiterates willingness to submit to arbitration over higher wages and better conditions. Thirty thousand members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen among these roads are casting a strike vote.
Miss Julia Marlowe, star of BE. H. Soth ern Shakespearean company, was struck by ptomaine poisoning but, despite illness, fulfilled her engagement in St. Louis. Physicians ordered rest until complete recovery, with an understudy ready to take over during her convalescence.
In Calcutta the report notes males experience lower fatality from consumption than females with mortality roughly halved for men compared to women.
Three firemen were killed when the Elks' building in East St Louis burned to the ground. Lieutenant John Connors Fred Ford and Joe Cornies entered to fight the blaze and were killed when the first floor collapsed sending them into the basement.
A bomb exploded in the hands of a twelve year old boy on an East Side street. It tore off his hand and shocked bystanders smashing windows and causing a panic in which a man was injured in the crush.
Winnebago Neb resident W H Chapman says Foley's Honey and Tar Compound cured his two children’s severe coughs without a doctor, saving a 25 cent bill. Ad promotes non opiate remedy from L S Bradshaw Co. Also a NY Lyceum theater anecdote about a little girl asking when the lion would appear during The Lion and the Mouse.
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