Mr Sunday to Lead Meetings in Fairfield in April
Fairfield ministers received a telegram that evangelist William Sunday will begin a series of meetings in Fairfield on April 4. A tabernacle will be erected as a temporary venue, with a stock-company plan to fund expenses and daily collections to cover costs. A mass meeting at the Methodist church will discuss finances and organization.
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Fairfield
William Sunday
Ministerial Association
Chautauqua Association
Sunday
Diverse Curiosities and Historic Odds and Ends
An ostrich yields about three pounds of feathers a year. Some statistician notes hair length of women. Judge Charles T. Woodard does not have a portrait on file. The Bank of England employs about 1,000 people with substantial wages and pensions. Java loses coffee supremacy to Sumatra. Mechanic Falls pulp supplies postage stamp paper for the U S. The Thames froze in 1814 and historic cold extremes are recounted. Sea Helena residents allegedly catch rats for a 2 cent government bounty. Waterloo & City Railway claims 41,000,000 passengers since 1898 with no accidents.
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Charles T. Woodard
Maine Supreme Court
Bank of England
Java
Sumatra
United States
Mechanic Falls
Thames
English
A. G. Wise
St. Helena
London
Sea Helena
Waterloo & City Railway Company
Tube
Find Clears Innocent Man Mount Pleasant Wheat Find
Workmen tearing down a grist mill in Oakland uncover about twenty five bushels of wheat in a forgotten bin. The find supports Ed Deal though three years ago he was arrested for the theft of similar wheat and later released by Justice Vanbeek. Deal is now a night watch at the county jail for Grimes and Zimmer, who are held for the murder of John W Gavin.
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Mount Pleasant
Oakland
Ed. Deal
Justice Vanbeek
Deal
Grimes and
Zimmer
John W. Gavin
Various Humorous Snippets From Everyday Life News
A series of light anecdotes from a classroom on pillow advice to a witty young lawyer in Virginia. The piece includes a Mississippi River era humor about an Illinois Central railroad through a town called Cairo and a talking Kentucky dockside elder who resists railroad work, joking that God made the river for floatage.
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Virginia
Hopkins
Hopinks
Richmond
Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois
Egypt
Cairo
Kentucky Darky
Ohio River
Sambo
Sahr
Mr Squirrel and Mr Crow in a Crow to Pick Tale
A brief children section scene shows Mr Squirrel greeting Mr Crow as they discuss the gossip from a wayside cottage about women debating a "crow" to pick with each other. The playful banter hints at mischief and humor.
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Mr. Squirrel
Mr. Crow
Eldora reformatory boys save buildings from fire
In Eldora Iowa March 10 the reform school boy fire brigade acted with precise discipline at a laundry fire. They followed orders quickly, directed water onto the blaze, and kept flames from spreading before the town department arrived, saving the building from destruction.
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Eldorado
Eldora Reformatory
Riddles and Word Tricks From a Past Column
A compact slate of brain teasers and witticisms. It includes relations like Dick to John, equal world shares, a young lady as sheaf of wheat, a duel, an engraver, a fire engine lesson, and a dancing master with movements for money.
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John
Wonderment as a Party Trick Uses a Signal Word
A magician style trick requires two players know the game. They agree on a signal word such as and. The outside player guesses items touched by the partner who is in sympathy, producing a correct answer like chair when the signal word precedes it.
Quips on Death and Aging from a Busy Doctor
A busy doctor has advantage over other workers as death watches all. It is harder for loafers to locate him. Old age is shown by comfort exceeding appearances. A pretty man looks surprised when women do not rush to kiss him.
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Death
Missouri Pronunciation Bill Prompts Missouri Name Debate
A Missouri legislature proposal seeks official pronunciation guidance for the state name. Public reaction ranges from humor about mispronunciations like Misery to calls for an authoritative spelling and for the correct metro area name Looey or Louis.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Missouri
Arkansas
Arkansaw
Looey
Louis
Widow Anna Ruggles Hangs Self in Waterloo Bedroom
Mrs Anna Ruggles a widowed woman about fifty years old hanged herself to a bedpost using an electric light wire in Waterloo on March 12. Neighbors found her body after she failed to respond to breakfast calls she had expressed fear she would lose her mind since her husband’s death five years ago and wished to be buried in Vermont.
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Waterloo
Anna Ruggles
Vermont
Reform Worker Is Sued in Burlington
Alder man William Roche sues Dr Patterson for $5000 claiming slander at a Civic Federation meeting. Patterson allegedly accused Roche of being shot in a saloon brawl and going to the hospital for typhoid fever. Both men are prominent Burlington figures stirring local interest.
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Reform Worker
Burlington
William Roche
Patterson
Civic F Federation
Roche
Federation
Man's Face is Crushed in Iowa Tragic Stumble
Noble Iowa March 110 Joe K Rich a prominent resident was critically injured when his horse bolted near the railroad as a train approached. The frightened animal reared and trampled him crushing his face. He was taken to Keokuk Hospital after doctors could not save him.
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Noble
Joe K. Rich
Keokuk Hospital
Wayland
Keokuk
Davenport grocer files for bankruptcy amid Iowa brief
Iowa news in brief reports Davenport grocer Jacob D. Goldstein entering bankruptcy. Other items note a potential church expansion in Allison, a postponed murder trial for Edward Hoffman, Tama County pione er Mrs. Julia Smith's death, Burlington voters deciding on a new high school, Sutherland I OOF Lodge building plans, riverman Captain Fred W Wittstock’s death in Dubuque, Mrs Elizabeth Bartlet’s injuries, Richard Schultz’s stolen clothes, Peter McCaffrey’s injuries from a street car, and Davenport Y M C A fundraising aim of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Jacob D. Goldstein
Davenport
Congregational Society
Allison
Edward Hoffman
Julia Smith
Montour
Tama County
Burlington
Sutherland
Fred W. Wittstock
Dubuque
Elizabeth Bartlet
Richard Schultz
Mason City
Peter McCaffrey
Remodeling church sale to Charles City church
The Christian church at Charles City has bought the Universalist church there and will remodel it. In Mason City, fires have increased this week despite a long drought. Nancy McCrosky of Muscatine died Wednesday aged eighty four. In Davenport four places were entered by burglars Tuesday night, believed to be amateurs. J P Schneider of Dubuque paid Chris Graff $300 for the killing of one of his cows.
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Nancy McCrosky
Muscatine
Christian Church
Charles City
Universalist Church
Mason City
J. P. Schneider
Dubuque
Chris Graff
Davenport
Fairfield Iowa to vote March twenty fifth 1907 for city officials
Mayor C J Fulton issues a proclamation calling a city election in Fairfield Iowa on March 25 1907 to elect a mayor city solicitor treasurer assessor and four ward councilmen plus a vacancy replacement for Ward 2. Registration sessions run March 14 15 and 23 with hours from 8 am to 9 pm and 7 am to 7 pm on election day. Voters must be residents ten days before the election.
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Fairfield
Iowa
Sanford Zeigler
Fritz & Droz
F. S. Cummings
Board of Registrars
Mhose
C. J. Fulton
WM. L. Long
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McElhany
India
Ayer
J. F. Lutz
Toledo
Ohio
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowell
Mass
Long Island City
Rocco Pisciotta
Rocco
Children’s Corner
Lincoln
D. G. Higley
East Side Square
Hardware and Cutlery Department
Novelty Store
Chicago
the Tribune
Sou Sidé
Iowa News
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