Carpenters Begin Sixteenth Biennial Convention in Des Moines
Des Moines hosts one of the largest parades as 5,000 carpenters and joiners join the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America for the sixteenth biennial international convention. Gov. Carroll and labor leaders welcome the gathering amid Iowa pride, corn imagery, and patriotic pageantry.
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Des Moines
Sept
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Juiners of America
J. GC. Walker
Iowa
Nighland Park College
Bach
Chaiman Walker
Ren. Orion W. Fifer
Grave Methodist Episcopal Church
Walker
B. F. Carroll
B. F. Kauffman
The
Des Moines Commercial League
A. Jh. Teiliort
East Des Moines Commercial Club
A. L. Urick
State Federation of Labor
Hk. W. van Duyn
State Board of Labor
Ash
W.O D. Huber
United Brotherhood
J. H. Call
Cedar Rapids
Aravel
Huber
Coliseum
Busines Jones
Terioan
De Witt Fire Destroys Barns and Horses Loss Estimated
A severe lightning storm hit De Witt at dawn Monday burning down the Butterfield barn near town. The blaze destroyed barns gates and grain with seven horses and substantial oats hay lost. E R Butterfield’s trotting horses Brown Hat Caroline and Trade Mark were saved. Total loss estimated between eight and ten thousand dollars.
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de Witt
E.R. Butterfield
Fatal injury after blow near Fifth and Walnut
Des Moines reports a carpenter from Nevada named Thomas Warrion was struck by a man who fled. Harrison was struck and a bystander Garveson suffered a base skull fracture and remained in critical condition at Methodist Hospital.
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Des Moines
Thomas Warrion
Nevada
Fifth
Walnut Streets
Harrison
Garveson
Methodist Hospital
Rock Rapids Creamery Sold to Monticello Buyer
Rock Rapids Creamery in Rock Rapids built and operated by J. P. Younger has been sold to W. J. Purding of Monticello who will continue the business.
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Rock Rapids
J. P. Younger
W. J. Purding
Monticello
Waukon Iron Mines Sold for 200000 in Allamakee County
Waukon Ja Sept 20 Two hundred thousand dollars was paid to the Kansas City Structures Co for the Waukon Iron mines. This embraces the best iron land property in Allamakee county or northeast part of the state.
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Waukon Irion Mines
Waukon, Ja
Kansas City Structuras Co
Waukon Iron Mines
Allamakee County
State
A Plea for the Conservation of Common Sense
Col George Harvey’s North American Review piece defends optimistic American futures, urging restraint and steady policy. It argues government must balance business and public interest, praises patriotism, youth education, and especially the value of common sense as the nation’s greatest resource.
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George Harvey
The
North American Review
Harvey Bays
Spiritualization of Native Religion in Open Country Life
The text argues that religion must be native and rooted in daily living. It suggests that religion expresses life naturally and is shaped by living conditions, which are in turn driven by physical and economic realities. In open country regions, religion should deeply reflect indigenous rural life and its everyday practices.
Poison Killed Her Trembling Crippen Trial At Bow Street
Crowds packed Bow Street as Crippen and his typist Ethel Leneve faced resumed trial for the murder of Belle Elmore with poison. Dr Wilcox testified that a deadly dose from a quarter to half a grain could be fatal, while Pepper corroborated disfigurement of the body by an expert.
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London
Hawles H. Crippen
Ethel Leneve
Belle Elmore
Willian Kenry Wilcox
Efee
Crippen
Wilcox
Augustus J. Pepper
University of London
Bow Street
Chanler Gives All to Diva in Prenuptial Accord
The prenuptial agreement between Mme Lina Cavalleri and Robert Winthrop Chanler was filed in the register’s office. It specifies Chanler will give Cavalleri three farms in Red Hook New York valued around five thousand dollars, plus other New York properties and shares of estate, with a mortgage of 1.4 million, and Cavalleri to receive 20000 annually for life in four quarterly payments. The arrangement states the properties remain separate and under each party’s control.
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New Yorke
Mme
Lina Cavalleri
Robert Winthrop Chanler
Astor Famcily
Stiger
Chanter
Cavatteri
Cole Farm
Chowell
Benna Farm
Red Hook
N.Y
Chunky
Mme. Cavantier
Tana
Bredldings
New York
Robert Winthrop
Hanleroof
Laura Pelioo
Chater
Mae, Cavalleri
Kennon on Murder Trial Ends Life in Hotel
Thomas N Kennon who faced a murder charge in the Hughes case at Doniphan Missouri shot himself in a hotel Saturday after leaving the courtroom. He departed with a note saying Swearing Hes hag ruined me Good-by to all my friends.
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Doniphan
Thomas N. Kennon
I. M. Hughes
Infantile paralysis rises in Pennsylvania counties
Harrisburg reports 68 cases of infantile paralysis across 46 Pennsylvania counties, according to state health department figures released Saturday.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Health
Powers Wins Republican Nomination in Eleventh District
Caleb Powers, eight years a state prisoner for alleged complicity in Gov William Gobel's 1900 Frankfort murder, secures the Republican nomination over incumbent Don C Edwards in Kentucky's Eleventh District. Reported large majority after heated, often violent, campaign battles with supporters clashing at times at Grapevine. one fatal shooting noted amid political fervor.
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Lexington
Caleb ‘Powers
William Gobel
Frankfort
Don C. Edwards
Powers
Willson
Edwards
Grape Vine
Squire Colwell
John Holmes
Kentucky
Grape Ware
Lawsuit Targets Mrs Tingley Over Widow’s Fortune
Newcastle Pa George TL Patterson vice president of the National Bank of Lawrence County sues Katherine Tingley leader of a Theosophist colony at Point Toma Gub to recover 100000 and seeks accounting for 700000 more. He alleges undue influence on his mother Harriet Thurston by Tingley and her aides in a conspiracy to claim her estate and dissolve family claims by promoting universal brotherhood and diminishing the value of his siblings.
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Newcastle
George TL. Patterson
National Bank of
Lawrence County
Katherine Tingley
Point Toma
Gub
Harriet P. Thurston
Tharges
Tingley
Turkey and Russia Form Military Alliance Confirmed
Paris dispatch reports that Turkey and Russia have entered into a military alliance. The Temps notes the convention indicates a rapprochement with the powers in the Triple Alliance, signaling shifting alignments in the region. The article references ongoing diplomatic moves and potential implications for neighboring states and global balance of power.
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Turkey
Russia
Paris
the Temps
Widow Marie Louise Maximilian to Brussels Fall
Reported in Brussels that Marie Louise widow of the late Emperor Maximilian of Mexico is deteriorating rapidly and falling into decline after years of captivity and hardship. Remaining chronicles place her influence waning as public interest shifts to royal affairs.
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Maximillan
Brussels
Engine of Motor Craft Gete Ur AR in Niagara Rapids
Capt Klaus Larsen rode the Ferro through Niagara whirlpool rapids, engine failing near the whirlpool forcing a drift into Dead Man's eddy by Niagara University. He reached shore with help after a tense three miles downstream to Lewiston. Larsen sustained an injured arm but reported full control of the boat despite a deadly surge of waves.
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Niagara Falla
N. Y
Klaus Larsen
Niagara
Lewiston
Dead Man's Eddy
Niagara University
Larsen
Ferro
Tie
New York
Tn Eddy
Devil's Hole
Browne gets nomination in Illinois Republican primaries
In Illinois primaries Frederick H. Gansberger defeated Congressman Henry Sherman Boutell for the Republican nomination in the Ninth district. George F. Foss narrowly missed in the Tenth. Early returns show G. K. Englehardt leading by about 100 votes with roughly fifty precincts to hear from. Most Cook county Republicans were renominated, with solid showings for Cannon in the Eighteenth and McDermott in the Fourth. The jackpot investigation drew renominations, Browne prevailing in LaSalle County.
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Chicago
Frederick Hf. Gansberger
Tfenry Sherman Boutell
Congress
George FE. Foss
G. K. Englehardt
Cook County
George W. Conn, Jr
Woodstock
Ira J. Copley
John C. McKonale
Mlizabeth
Joseph G. Cannon
Henry J. Downes
Rainey
McDermott
William
Lorimer
General Assembly
Republian
Lee’ O'Neil Browne
la Bulle
John Broderick
Sangamon County
Robert FH. Wilson
Shurtleff
Legislative Voters’ League
League
Reading jury convicts trio in fraud plot over street railway
Reading Pa. Saturday jury finds former city engineer Elmer H Beard and contractors Penroga W and Albert H Hawman guilty of conspiracy in a fraud plot tied to the construction of a street railway.
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Reading
Elmer H. Beard
Penroga W
Albert H. Hawman
Rival Sniper Wounds Seguin County Judge
Seguin Texas Saturday Adolph Satdemann rival candidate on independent ticket shot County Judge HB M Wursebach of Guadalupe County and left him seriously wounded as the campaign heated up.
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Ghoots
Hla
Seguin
Tex
HB. M. Wursebach
Guadelupe County
Adolph Satdemann
Cavny Judge
Blast Wrecks Big Airship at Baden Baden
The German dirigible balloon Zeppelin VI suffered a motor cylinder failure in the rear gondola on Wednesday at Baden Baden. Three crew members were seriously injured as the craft lurched and a fire engulfed the airship, destroying the shed.
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Baden- Baden
Baden-Baden
Beon
Taft to Treat Progressives and Regulars Alike in Patronage
Beverly Mass report notes a shift in President Taft policy from withholding federal patronage to Republicans deemed hostile to party pledges. A leaked Norton letter cites opposition by leaders to legislation, naming Senators La Follette Bristow Dolliver Cummins and Representative Hubbard of Iowa as examples. The president now backs both factions ahead of fall elections.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Norton
Jeader
Congress
Praereserves
Wa Follette
Bristow
Dolliver
Cummins
Hubbard
Towa
Roosevelt Defies Foes At New York State Fair Grounds
Former President Roosevelt challenged his political opponents to face him openly at Syracuse. He praised Taft’s public service while stopping short of endorsing the administration as a whole. He broke silence on key Taft era features, arriving with 40,000 onlookers at the state fair grounds.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Roosevelt
Taft
New York
State Fair
Walker Finishes Long Journey From West to Midwest
Oklahoma City reports George Palmer completed an 8,650 mile trek ending at home Friday after starting in September. He walked from De Senter to San Francisco, then to New York before returning to Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma City
George Palmer
San Fran
Ecisco
New Yi
Wilson to Quit Princeton to Run for New Jersey Governor
Dr Woodrow Wilson announced Friday he will resign as president of Princeton University before beginning his campaign for the governorship of New Jersey.
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Col. Harvey
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Grippen
Chanler
Fite Cavalieri
Opera Singer
New Yorker
Gobel
Caesars
Tauts
Danville
Regal
Klaus Landen
Browne
Aerodrome
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