Iowa to sue Union and Postal Telegraph firms over filings
Iowa Attorney General Byers says Western Union and Postal Telegraph will face suits seeking penalties up to two million dollars for failing to file articles of incorporation as required by state law. Dozens more corporations doing business without filings will be targeted.
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Postal Telegraph Free
Postal Telces Moines
General Byers
Ted
Western Union
Iowa
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Byers
Manula
Wa Public Service Corporation
Ate
Neval Byers
Equity
Teign
Roosevelt to Visit Keokuk October 1 Arrives by Rail
President Roosevelt will arrive in Keokuk on Tuesday morning October 1 at 9 o'clock via the Wabash railroad and depart by steamer at 11 o'clock the same day. Secretary to the President William Loeb Jr confirms the schedule in a letter from Oyster Bay dated September 11 1907. Linton handles baggage transfer from train to boat for the presidential party.
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Keokuk In
Roosevelt
Keokuk
Wabash
Wm. Loeb, Jr
L. A. Hamill
Transportation Committee
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Wm. Linton
Iowa Leads In Oats And Wheat In Government Report
Des Moines reports Iowa tops the nation in oats and spring wheat per government figures via J R Sage of the Iowa crop bureau. Iowa leads oats with 65 percent and spring wheat with 80 percent, followed by Illinois Nebraska and others. corn stands lower at about 75 percent. A separate note outlines the burglary case of George B Barker, a long-time offender in Farmington Lyons Clinton and prisons in Anamosa and Jefferson City.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. R. Sage
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Washington
Illinois
Nebraska
Indiana
Ohio
George A. Wells
Kansas
Missouri
Train kills infant near Agency in freight line accident
Sept. 13. James Walter Curtis, 18 months old, son of Mr and Mrs Walter Curtis, of near Batavia, was instantly killed by a freight train of the Freight Agency near Agency Ta. The tragedy struck while the child wandered onto the track.
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Burlington
Curtis
Walter Curtis
Agency
James Walter Curtis
Batavia
Iowan Asks Big Damages in Chicago Tribune Libel Suit
Perry Hedrick former Chicago chief sanitary inspector and Keokuk graduate has filed two damage suits in the circuit court. One seeks 100000 from the Chicago Tribune for alleged libel over sensational arrest coverage. The other sues George A Beckway for 10000 for alleged malicious prosecution.
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Keokuk
Perry Hedrick
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Ill
Perry L. Hedrick
Circuit
George A. Beckway
Giddings Street
Hedrick
Charles S. Babcock
Doctors Indicted in Bremer County Anti-Trust Case
Bremer county grand jury indicts fourteen physicians for violating the late anti trust law amid reports of a physician price fixing and boycotting scheme. Des Moines officials confirm county investigations and potential state support for prosecutions.
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Bremer County
Dubuque
Des Moines
George Cosson
Byers
Waverly
B. Ste
Women Raid Lovilla Saloon Home Sea led Liquor Destruction
Seventeen Lovilla women after an indignation meeting raided Major Cobb's residence in Monroe County Iowa seizing and spilling liquor found there They knelt and prayed aloud after the act describing it as a dramatic stand in the anti saloon conflict This was the area showing intensified protest actions.
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Lovilla
Monroe County
Major Cobb
Cobb
County Supervisor Ousted After Workman Guilty Verdict
In Keosauqua Iowa on September 13 the case of State vs T L Workman found County Supervisor Wm Workman guilty of violating the law by purchasing and selling to the county and he was deposed from office.
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T. L. Workman
Keosauqua
Wm. Workman
Round House Burns In Oskaloosa Fire
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy round house on South C street and Sixth avenue burned this morning in Oskaloosa Iowa causing about 25000 dollars in loss. Two locomotives inside were ruined with melted brass and warped machinery while the building itself was worth only a few thousand dollars. An outside engine was saved by chance due to the fire's quick spread.
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Burlington
Oskaloosa
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Round House
Ban on drinking to be enforced
Ames Iowa Sept 15 President A B Storms of I S C warned in chapel that drinking hazing and smoking will not be tolerated. intoxication can lead to expulsion even off campus and hazing may result in expulsion. smoking on campus is prohibited and faculty rule breakers complicate enforcement. two violent incidents are noted with suspects pursued and a suspect jailed.
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Ames
A. B. Storms
Chapel
Storms
Board of Trustees
Farmers to Take Control of Grain Market
Des Moines reports preliminary steps to form an Iowa branch of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America aimed at wresting grain market control from speculators. G M Davis, linked to the Atlanta Constitution, travels from Des Moines to organize Iowa with national president R F Duckworth backing the plan. The union, started in Texas to control cotton, claims 2,000,444 members and rapid growth. The group operates about 200 cotton warehouses and seeks to raise prices for farm products by expanding into grain markets and influencing Chicago, New York, and Liverpool pricing.
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Des Moines
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of America
Iowa
Texas
G. M. Davis
Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta
R. F. Duckworth
Davis
Farmers’ Union
Raines County
South
Newt Gresham
Gresham
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Charles S. Barrett
Atwater
Order
Chicago
New York
Liverpool
Diamond robber breaks his parole in Clinton Iowa
George B Burrier, a noted Iowa criminal figure, must return to Anamosa to finish a 17 year Clinton district court sentence with more than half unserved. Paroled recently, Barker violated Governor Cummins parole by drinking, Clinton police arrested him and notified the governor. Expectations rise that Cummins will order a rein-措施.
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Clinton
George B. Burrier
Iowa
Anamosa
Clinton District Court
Barker
Cummins
Murderous blow ends life in Iowa wagon incident
Vinton Iowa September 15 Frank Stewart a 20 year old man died at 2 am from a murderous blow struck last night by William Stout a resident near Vinton The crime occurred near Vinton where the dead man and Roy Sheets visited a covered wagon in which Stout and a woman Bertha Montgomery resided The assailant used a jug and a butcher knife in the attack
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Sheets
Stout
Stewart
Irving
van Horn
Vinton
Frank Stewart
William Stout
Roy Sheets
Bertha Montgomery
Electric Bitters Promised Safe Panama Canal Work
Advertises Electric Bitters as a cure for fevers and malaria fears among artisans considering Panama Canal construction. Claims to protect against malarious influence and to cure blood poison, biliousness, and stomach and kidney troubles. Sold by F. S. Shriner for 50 cents. Sept.
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Canal Zone
Panama Canal
F. S. Shriner
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