Rat With Plague Found On New Orleans Wharf
New Orleans July 29 Rat infected with plague bacilli found on a city wharf after hundreds of rodents were tested. Health officials urged continued rat extermination and stated there is no cause for alarm while England faces rat plague for years.
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New Orleans
White
The
Marine Hospital
William O'Reilly
England
Becaus
City Health Office
Orleans
Georgia
Old Woman of Los Angeles Sent to Hospital
Fragmentary OCR notes describe an elderly woman in Los Angeles beggaring and being sent to a hospital. Details mention coins, a hoard, and references to facilities and staff, with unclear names and places. The fragment hints at a dramatic turn involving care arrangements and ownership of property.
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Los Angeles
Lee Angeles
Tony
Hess Geeven
Schaller
Twe
Pmdehoms
Losqitel
Wulsdu
Minister Williams Faces Trial In Descent Mail Charge
Rev Herman Williams, pastor of Broadway Church of Christ, is to stand trial for allegedly sending obscene matter through United States mail. Williams edits a religious paper called The Door Knobher which targets the so called undesirable people in Albuquerque's Lunderloin district.
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Albuqquerque
WN. M
Herman 2. Wilkams
Broadway Ghurch
Butter and Egg Inquiry Concludes Government Case
Government rests its case in the Butter and Egg inquiry after evidence from a trade bulletin publisher quoting prices set by the board. The board’s directors plan to begin their defense on September 16.
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Me Chcage Better
Eye
Butter and Eye Board
Youth Kills Father in St Louis Shooting Case
Arthur P. Bittner confessed to shooting his father during a ride in a truck with Edward Bittner present. The elder Bittner was wounded with two bullets and hospitalized. The motive appeared to be theft as the son sought about $80 he believed his father carried.
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St Louis
Arthur P. Bittner
Bittner
Edward
Nine Detroit Aldermen Seek Re Election After Arrests
Detroit July 29 nine Aldermen under arrest for allegedly taking money for votes in a street closing case will seek re election. Aldermen Givinan and Rosenthal out on $5000 bail filed petitions. Call Issued for Irrigation Congress Salt Lake July 29 official call for the twentieth annual irrigation congress set for Sept 30 to Oct 3 issued by Francis G Newlands president of the organization.
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Detroit
Givinan
Rosenthal
Salt Lake
Salt Lank
Francis G. Newlands
Senate passes sugar bill in Republican move
Washington July 29 The Senate adopts a Republican sugar tariff bill as the first purely Republican revision measure of the Taft era. The compromise would cut the duty from 1.90 to 1.60 and align with both regular and progressive factions, signaling a potential White House assent if approved.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Meneires
Leite
Felstow
Senate Passes Excise Tax Bill with Wide Margin
The senate approved an excise tax measure 87 to 18 to extend corporate tax rules to individuals in partnerships and adjust income provisions. The bill also included repeal of the Canadian reciprocity act and a $2 per ton rate on white paper. Senator Bornah’s income tax bill was defeated.
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Senate
Washington
House
Senster Bornah
Rescuers Dig Through Coal To Save Trapped Miner
In Uniontown Virginia on July 29 a miner named John P Belcher was imprisoned in Lemontaine No 1 by floods. A rescue party, joined by two other men and several miners, labored to break through a thick coal wall to reach him as hope for escape waned.
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Uniontown
Lemontanine No. 1
John P Bolcher
Belcher
Hope
Five Japanese Captured Near Cajon Valley by Inspectors
Five Japanese were seized by immigration inspectors as they traveled toward San Diego using a compass. They admitted crossing from Mexico overland and were brought to San Diego where they were lodged in jail. Deportation likely to Mexico follows.
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San Diego
Cal
Hi Cajon Valley
Nei Bostonia
Jal
Mexico
Woman Seeks Half of Ewald Million Estate in Missouri Law Suit
Ellen WJ Ewald sues in Louisville claiming common law entitled her to half of Louis P Ewald's personal property. The estate reportedly valued near 2 million dollars. In Canton Canton July 29 a parachute rope failure caused Thomas Heffield of Springfield Illinois to die after a 1000 foot ascent.
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Ewald
Louisville
Missouri
Ellen WJ. Ewald
Louis P. Ewald
Tours
Canton
Thomas Heffield
Springfield
Beach appointment to Minnesota sanitarium chief
Dr. George W. Beach, assistant superintendent of the Towstatic sanitarium, was named superintendent of the Minnesota sanitarium for consumptives at Walker, Minn. Ex President Diaz in Mexico City is seriously ill, with a fatal outcome probable according to a Paria dispatch.
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Beach
Minnesota
George W. Beach
Towa
Walker, Minn
Diaz
Mexico City
Paria
Porfirio Diaz
Over One Billion Exports of U S Manufactures Surpass Estimates
Washington reports the 1912 fiscal year export value of manufactures at 1,021,753,918 dollars. Ready for consumption goods totaled 674,202,903 dollars while goods for further use in manufacturing reached 347,441,000 dollars. The report notes the share of exports from manufactures rose to 47 percent, with oils, copper products, leather goods, cotton textiles, cars, carriages, and automobiles among principal items.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau
Cot Pton
Thoreot
Darrow Trial Nears End In Bribery Case
Los Angeles July 29 the Darrow bribery trial moves toward conclusion with both sides agreeing that less than a week remains to finish evidence and that, after arguments, the jury may retire early next week. Clarence Dirran, the defendant, is expected to testify and then act as counsel in the final stages of the case.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Clarence
Dirran
Atge
Sheppard Leads Texas Primary Race for Senate Seat
Returns from the Democratic state primary show U.S. Senate hopeful Morris Sheppard leading Houston’s Jacob F. Wolters and rival candidates C. B. Rendel and Matthew Zoliner from Rockwell County amid Texas contest returns. In Cincinnati a coroner notes Dillard McCandless at Longview asylum was murdered by a device like a vise, with head injuries deemed not humanly caused.
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Cincinnati
Dillard McCandless
Longview Asylum
Coe Coe
McCandless
Gideons Re-elect Iowan President at 1912 Convention
Gideons members chose Toronto as the meeting site for the 1912 convention. A. B. I. Moore of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was re-elected president. Edgar Oliver of Atlanta, Nels Rylander of Chicago, and the Rev. Lt. GC. Smith of Wisconsin were also re-elected to their officer roles.
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Gideons
Atlanta
Toronto
A.B. I. Moore
Cedar Rapids
Edgar Oliver
Nels Rylander
Chicago
GC. Smith
Wisconsin
York Man Burned to Death near Missouri Valley
Oliver Stafford of Clark Nebraska perished in a farm house fire owned by Mr and Mrs Oscar Graven near Missouri Valley Iowa. Believed he slept through the blaze and was overcome by smoke and flames. Body burned beyond recognition.
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York
Omaha
Oliver Stafford
Clark
Neb
Oscar Graven
Missouri Valley
Masked men shoot two women in Chicago saloon
Five masked men burst into Mrs Helen Banman’s saloon in Chicago. They shot the widow and her daughter, probably fatally, as a son tried to defend the place. The attackers opened fire during the attempted defense.
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Chicago
Helen Banman
Four Persons Drown in Kankakes River Near Kankakee
Four people drowned near Kankakee in the Kankakes river including Laula Burkhalter of Kankakee Mrs. Paul Mastello Vida Hematock and Walter Webster of Hammond Indiana.
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Kankakee
Laula Burkhalter
Paul Mastello
Vida Hematock
Walter Webster
Hammond, Ind
Kankakes River
Iowa news briefs snapshot of accidents and local events
Holstein man almost killed by a falling hay fork. A newborn son of Boyden residents underwent internal surgery for appendicitis. A Marly boy died after a fall from a cream wagon. Officials probe a LeMars shooting as insane. Reinbeck sewer project to finish shortly under a 35000 contract. A Johnson county cow births four calves, a state record. Rock Valley man injured by an auto crank. Inwood reports heavy livestock losses from lightning and several barns burned. Vandals smash two large office windows in Alton. Sixteenth summer session at Tama City teachers college graduates sixty students. Dubuque man missing, presumed vanished. Adel hosts Dallas County teachers institute with speakers from Des Moines. Boone pioneer Fred Robertson dies. first Northwestern train run by his era. Sibley child drowns after falling into water. Mason City conductor injured by bicycle. leg placed in cast. Burlington priest Father Thomas J. King dies of apoplexy. Pitot child nearly dies removing a nose object. Ocheyedan starts anti profanity push. Cedar Rapids farmer Ole Hansen dies after falling from hayload. Eagle Grove theft case fines. Mason City worker burned by scalding radiator. Fremont County area wheat harvest exceeds 200,000 bushels. Adel farmer yields 40 bushels/acre. Sioux Falls Medical Association elected officers at Davenport meeting.
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Chris Albers
Holstein
G. P. Horn
Boyden
Eugene Truax
Marly
M. A. Taeper
John Hart
LeMars
Commissioners of Insanity
Reinbeck
Arthur Johnson
Johnson County
G. Ruoma
Rock Valley
Inwood
Alton Democrat
State Teachers College of
Tawa City
E. I. Mitchell
Dubuque
Mitchell
Dallas County Teachers’ Institute
Adel
Dr. Kepford
A. M. Deyoe
P. E. McCrenahan
Moines
EL Robertson
Fred Farmer
Boone
Linet
Ars. Tall
Elmer Mall
Mason City
James A. Chute
MG & CL
Thomas J. King
Davenport
Mount Pleasant
St. Francis Hospital
Burlington
John Patterson
Pitot
Ocheyedan
Ole Hansen
Cedar Rapids
Ben Sawyer
Ed Sawyer
Iowa Falls
Eagle Grove
J. E. Kneeland
Mason Garage
Clear Lake
A. R. Loomis
Fort Dodge
Loomis Produce Company
Dallas County
W. R B. Kinnick
Near
D. J. Warren
Sioux City
Sioux Falls Medical Association
Ort Dodge
A. L. Stevens
Sioux Falls
S. D
Archibishop Keane Recommends Church Projects At Ryan
Archbishop Keane who dedicated the Ryan church visited Manchester and urged building pews windows and sanctuary while outlining needs to the local church members. A railway rule exam is conducted in Boone with broader tests planned across the system for train service employees.
Church to screen choir at Forest Avenue Baptist Des Moines
Des Moines Forest Avenue Baptist Church moves to screen its choir loft after a proposal to hang a twenty inch curtain around the loft. Mrs George Reln King led the action with a unanimous vote, aided by a deacon and church ladies.
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Forest Avenue Baptist Church
Des Moines
George F. Reln- King
Church Ladies’ Ald Society
Automobile turns turtle near Perry injures Rosander family
Albert Rosander and his wife and young daughter were injured when their car overturned twice near Perry while returning from Des Moines at high speed. Mrs. Rosander suffered a fracture of the fibula while the others escaped serious harm. The vehicle was a total wreck.
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Dallas County
Perry
Albert Rosander
Des Moines
Rosander
Jones to Fight for Prohibition Nomination in Iowa
Jones of Perry plans a tough bid to win the Iowa prohibitionists endorsement for governor as the dry convention opens in Cedar Rapids tomorrow. G A Gordon faces possible challenge from R T Williams of Oskaloosa for a return to the state central committee, per those in the know.
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Cedar Rapids
Durant Jones
Perry
Iowa
Ossip Willeh Fa
G. A. Gordon
Shire
R. T. Willams
Oskaloosa
State Central Committee
FARMER KILLED AS BINDER TEAM RUNS AWAY
A farmer eight miles north of here, Fred Maw, was killed when his binder team ran away. A farm hand, Gus Gertz, suffered serious injuries in a similar accident nearby. Mayor William Anderson expects to accept a Carnegie library donation of 7500 for Jewell, contingent on site and maintenance. In other news, Dr. John R. Hutchinson was named president of Western Iowa Vocational College, and Sioux City faces a merger vote for its telephone companies.
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West Side
Iuly
Fred Maw
Here
Gus Gertz
Ed Gassner
Gertz
Carnegie
Webster City
William Anderson
Jewell
Andrew Carnegie
Anderson
Rarlan
John R. Hutchinson
College of Commerce
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Western Iowa Vocational College
George Calloway
Iowa Farmer Lew Goodman Missing in Williamsburg Area
Lew Goodman, a prominent farmer in the southern Iowa county, disappeared from his home on July 14. A search by 200 men and 4 bloodhounds has yielded no trace.
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Willamsburg
Lew Goodman
Iowa County
Little Child Drowned in Barn Water Tank near Preston
Funeral services were held for the twenty month old daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Lexington who live north of Preston Ta. The child was drowned in a water tank in the barn yard.
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Preston
Puneral
C. H. Lexington
Here
Hite
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Ohio
Losate
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Keane
Ryan
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Northwestern Railway Company
Henry J. Froehle
J. H. Prior
Eugene Anderson
Scharle
Couler
Maquoketa
Keokuk
M. A. Teager
Te- Mars
Teager
John Tart
Red Oak
Ed Sttyman
Robert Lewis
Beulah Lewis
District Court Clerk’s
Dunlap
Frank Randall
Harry
Edsall
Waterloo
Reformatory
Fort Madison
Platt
Henry Meyers
Meyers
Edward Halloran
Illinois Central
Security Savings Bank
Jones
Prohibition Party
Binder
Blonx City
Strong
Sioux City Telephone Company
Iowa Telephone Company
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