Becker's Trial Set for Sept. 12
The trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the Rosenthal murder will begin Thursday September 12 before Supreme Court Justice John W. Goff in New York. Becker refused to plead and sought a mid October date for a fair trial. Detectives met Rosenthal witness Thomas Coupe in Liverpool, who said he would not return to America as a witness.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Supreme Court
John W. Goff
Dix
Rosenthal
Court of General Sessions
Becker
Justice Goff
McIntyre
Whitman
John Doe
Liverpool
England
Thomas Coupe
Elks Club
New York City
America
Coupe
Roosevelts Visit Draws Large Crowds in Mt Zion
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to 2500 3000 people at Mt Zion sixteen miles from Fairfield on the Des Moines Keokuk branch. A party of about fifty people traveled by auto to hear him for thirty minutes and returned to Fairfield before eleven. He defended the progressive movement and urged support for direct primary and working men compensation laws.
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Colonel Roosevelt
Mt. Zion
Des Moines Keokuk
Rock Island
Fairfield
Keosauqua
Mt. Pleasant
Keokuk & Des Moines
Mt. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New Progressive Party
New Party
Progressive Party
Roosevelt pleased by Vermont election results
Ottumwa Iowa dispatch reports Colonel Roosevelt expressing pleasure at Vermont results reached on his private car. He cites ballot difficulties and lack of progressive nominations as harming the third party and notes relatives and church ties, including Rev Batchelder’s career and family relocations.
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Ottumwa
Roosevelt
Vermont
Mr. Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Taft Hosts International Chemistry Congress Delegates
President Taft and Mrs. Taft welcome about six hundred foreign and near a thousand American chemists to the eighth international congress of applied chemistry in Washington. The day includes social events and remarks on advances in manufacturing chemistry. Columbia University will host business sessions with foreign delegates touring the country afterward.
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Washington
Sept
International Congress of Applied Chemistry
Taft
William H. Nichols
International Congress
Vegetable Growers Convene in Rochester Under Hall
The Vegetable Growers' Association of America opens a three day meeting in Rochester New York with President H F Hall of Boston presiding. Sessions cover irrigation plant breeding greenhouse problems and the general culture and transportation of vegetables.
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Rochester
N. Y
Vegetable Growers’ Association of America
H. F. Hall
Boston
Mass
Roosevelt Delighted by Warm Iowa Reception During Tour
Keokuk Iowa Sept 4 Colonel Roosevelt spoke in Iowa as part of six set speeches. He battled heat and throat irritation but was aided by a physician with oxygen tanks. He noted his nose glasses are replaced by gold rimmed spectacles and praised Missouri as a pivotal progressive state.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Connecticut
Missouri
Merckens Elected Grand Lodge Officer in Des Moines
In the Grand Lodge meeting of Knights of Pythias in Des Moines on September 4, John H. Merckens of Fairfield was elected Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. Other officers elected include Arthur C. Savage of Adair as Grand Chancellor and Clem F. Kimball of Council Bluffs as Grand Vice Chancellor.
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Des Moines
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Arthur C. Savage
Adair
Clem F. Kimball
Council Bluffs
John H. Merckens
Fairfield
Benton Humbert
Paving Progress Around Court House and Court Street
Brick and wood block paving around the courthouse and Court street up to the railroad is finished and being rolled today. Hot asphalt will fill crevices, with a half inch of sand spread afterward. Concrete work will start on North Main street later this week as Court street north of the track is completed.
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Court House
Court Street
North Main Street
Funeral of Mrs. Batchelder Today
The funeral for Harriet Gearhart Batchelder who died earlier this week was held at 701 South Fourth Street at 4:00 p m. Ministers W E Parsons of Parsons College and W W Montgomery of the Presbyterian church led the service. Batchelder born 1831 in Grandville Pa moved to Illinois at age eight and later taught school. She married Joseph Batchelder of Peoria Ill on May 29 1855 and the couple later moved to Albia where Rev Batchelder led the Presbyterian church.
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Ladies
Joseph Batchelder
Peoria
Ill
Albia
Town
Batchelder
Presbyterian Church
Plans for hospital opening in Jefferson county
Plans for the dedication and formal opening of the hospital are being finalized for September 17. Notable speakers from Des Moines and Spencer are expected, with local and distant guests. The event aims to be engaging for the general public with non technical talks and newspaper invitations extended to all county residents. Invitations available at Dr. J. Fred Clarke's office.
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Kepford
Des Moines
Great Tuberculosis Authority
Munger
Spencer, Jr
Fairfield
Science
Jefferson County
J. Fred Clarke
Notice to defendants in quiet title suit in Iowa court
In District Court of Jefferson County Iowa Chancery No 1912 William C Hawk plaintiff vs Robert C Braden et al defendants You and each of you are notified that on October 15 1912 there will be on file in the clerk s office the petition praying to quiet title to the north half of the southwest quarter of section 25 township 73 range 9 eighty acres If you fail to appear and defend before noon on November Term 1912 the 4th day of November default will be entered and a decree rendered as prayed for No costs claimed if decree taken on default
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Robert C. Braden
John L. Braden
Dennis Bowlby
Mary E. Sefton
James H. Lewis
John A. Brown
James W. Anderson
Jacob H. Allen
W. P. Brazelton
William P. Brazelton
Edward G. Guest
E. G. Guest
Thomas S. Mealey
Jane Mealey
Samuel Mealey
Blaine Mealey
George Mealey
Clarence Emry
Charleton Emry
Lawrence Emry
Chester Emry
Jessie Emry
Rufus R. Cassady
James E. Cassady
Jackson G. Cassady
Albert Cassady
District Court
Said
William C. Hawk
Fairfield
Jefferson County
Iowa
Fourth Iowa Cavalry in Happy Reunion
The 4th Iowa cavalry Company M held its 19th annual reunion at Four Corners, Four Corners at Gus Smithburg house. Twelve members with families plus fifty friends attended. Only about forty of the original 175 enlistees survive. A picnic dinner followed, with Rev. Sandene opening in prayer. Officers elected for the next year were E. P. Taylor president and J. S. Gantz secretary treasurer. The group voted to hold the next reunion at Glasgow.
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Co. M, 4Th Iowa Cavalry
Four Corners
Gus Smith
New Hardware Store for Fairfield city plans to open
Richardson Bros of Delta Iowa announce a new hardware store on Fairfield's east square, opening about October 1 in the former room next to Higley Gaumer drug store. Homer Richardson says the town's public improvements and prosperous look drew them, and he will move his family here once a residence is found.
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Richardson Bros
Delta
Iowa
Fairfield
Higley & Gaumer
Messrs. Richardson
Homer Richardson
Evening Tribune
Richardson
Fred Spray
South Sixth Street
Walter
Fred
Fairfield Youth Seriously Hurt After Train Incident
Fred Spray, fifteen, of southwest Fairfield, was seriously injured last night while attempting to alight from a rapidly moving freight train in the railroad yards west of Fairfield. He was found at the scene and transported for medical treatment.
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Burlington Road
Fred Spray
Suf
Thankful mother praises Chicago specialist for son’s recovery
Mrs Emma Burdock of Albia Iowa recounts how her son suffered severe nose and throat trouble until Dr Shallenberger in Chicago treated him. Since consulting the specialist the boy is now well and hearty.
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Shallenberger
Chicago
Emma Burdock
Albia
Lowa
Mary Ek West Returns to Work After Short Hospital Stay
Mary Ek West, a student at Wes leyan Hospital in Chicago, returns to her duties today after a two week visit at the parental J. A. West home.
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Mary Ek. West
Wesleyan Hospital
Chicago
Ill
J. A. West
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