Edward Wilder death and world news highlights
Edward Wilder, treasurer of the Santa Fe Railroad, died in Topeka Kansas. Fundraising for Russian relief totals 1,172,639 dollars. Anthracite miners in Shamokin Pennsylvania push for an eight hour day. Rock Island allocates 14,587,000 dollars for railway upgrades. Harvard’s President Eliot deplores immigration limits in Boston. Russia issues a treasury crisis manifesto. Grand jury in Kansas City indicts railways and shippers. Turkish fleet recalled after Turkiye show. Mem sic and Ryan boxed in Denver with Memsic winning. Yale students hear Leslie Shaw on self government. Drake’s former chancellor Craig comments in Denver on Christian Science and diamonds valued at 15,000 dollars. Diamonds stolen from Pasadena hotel rooms. Naval retiree Shock dies in Washington at 84. Fleet surgeon Lewis dies in Honolulu. Salina murder case jury discharged. Joris and three others sentenced to death for sultan assassination attempt. Hoffheimer held on 250,000 dollar swindle charge. Efforts to link James Kendall to Maud Reese murder abandoned. Roosevelt transmits Samoan claim documents to Congress. Plate glass price surge 10 percent in Pittsburgh meeting. Bath whaleback lost at sea. search ended. Colby Wisconsin bank robbed of 4,500 dollars. Don Carr pacing horse sold to London for 9,000 to 10,000 dollars. Princeton defeats Harvard in annual debate on intercollegiate football. Pathologist Theodore De Ecke dies in Utica New York. Brother duel ends with one killed in Jerseyville. Horatio Wood dies of apoplexy in St Louis. Illinois Supreme Court upholds Hoch hanging. Mexican Congress adjourns until April. Washington Park race track to be abandoned for Derby, site to be city lots.
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Edward Wilder
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Topeka
Kas
Shamokin
Rock Island
Eliot
Harvard
Boston
Russia
Treasury
Kansas City
International
George Memsic
Adam Ryan
Chicago
Denver
Memsic
Leslie M. Shaw
The
Yale University
William Bayard Craig
Drake University
James Morgan
Pasadena
Cal
William H. Shock
Washington
David Oldham Lewis
United State Pacific Squadron
Honolulu
Sarah Caldwell
Salina
Edward Joris
Turkey
Samuel N. Hoffheimer
S. W. Straus & Co
Cochrane
James Kendall
Secretary of State
United States
Pittsburg
Cape Henry
State Bank of
Colby
Wis
Don Carr
W. T. Wynans
London
England
Princeton
Warward
Sanders
Cambridge
Mass
New Jersey
America
Theodore de Ecke
Utica
N. Y
Jerseyville
William Andrews
James Andrews
Horatio D. Wood
St Louis
Ilinois Supreme Court
Johann Hoch
Congress
Iowa Libraries Benefited by Carnegie and Youngs Gifts
Iowa public libraries received nearly half a million dollars in gifts during the last biennial period. Andrew Carnegie contributed 210000, while the largest single gift exceeded 250000 from the Youngs of Webster City, bringing Carnegie’s Iowa total to 1478200. Other notable sums were announced for Albia Odebolt Cherokee Des Moines Spirit Lake Grinnell Storm Lake Indianola and more.
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Iowa
Andrew Carnegie
Youngs
Webster City
Carnegie
Albia
Odebolt
Des Moines
Pellall
Drake
Spirit Lake
Grinnell
Storm Lake
Indianola
Tseon
West Liberty
Nashua
Iowa Butter Exports Reach Near Twenty-Five Million
Iowa shipped almost 25 million dollars worth of butter in the year ending Sept 30. More than 92 million pounds were packed and sent out by rail, selling on the New York market at about 25 cents per pound. Much of the harvest likely reached Europe and Britain for royal palates, though tracing beyond the seas remains elusive. The state dairy commissioner provided the shipment figures but lacks means to track exports overseas.
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Iowa
New York
Europe
Great Britain
Liverpool
London
Senator Gilliland backs optional county primary law
Senator Shirley Gilliland of Mills County argues the primary election law should be optional by county. She says she opposed the law in the Senate last time because counties acted before the session and the party refused adoption. County residents fear towns would monopolize offices, while caucus plans let rural voters trade to win occasionally.
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Shirley Gilliland
Mills County
Senate
Gilliland
A Course in Judging at Iowa State College
The animal husbandry department at Iowa Agricultural College in Ames will offer a special short course in judging breeding feeding and management of horses beef cattle dairy cattle sheep and swine from January 2 to January 13. Designed for farmers with little spare time the program will be compact yet information rich with carefully prepared material to maximize learning in a short period.
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Ames
Iowa Agricultural College
Prairie Land Sale in Hardin County Iowa
Eldora Iowa report notes the sale of 120 acres of wild prairie land in Alden township. The land, previously part of Isaac Greenwood’s New York estate, traced to a patent from the United States government for services in the War of 1812.
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Eldora
Hardin County
J. D. Newcomer
Alden Township
Isaac Greenwood
New York City
Mr. Greenwood
Prize for Students at International Live Stock Exposition
Ames The Farmers Tribune of Sioux City offers a $50 prize to Iowa Agricultural College animal husbandry students showing the most proficient work in the judging contest at the International Live Stock exposition.
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Ames
Farmers’ Tribune of
Sioux City
Iowa Agricultural College
Iowa Leads With Prize Steer at International Live Stock Show
CHICAGO Illinois Black Rock an Angus steer owned by the Iowa agricultural college was named grand champion steer at the International Live Stock exposition. The college also earned top honors for the second prize Hereford steer in General Manager.
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Iowa
Chicago
Ill
The
Agricultural College of Iowa
Iowa College
Ackley Girl Receives Letter From Alice Roosevelt
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the president, expressed appreciation for a phonographic record of the Ackley girl’s singing A Yankee Doodle Boy. The recipient noted she would prize the recognition from Miss Roosevelt. The exchange highlights a cordial acknowledgment from the famed namesake.
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Alice
Ackley
Alice Roosevelt
Fitzsimmons Memoir Of Battling The Lanky One
The article recalls Robert Fitzsimmons famed career and a lesser known sparring bout at the Battery D building on the lake front. It recounts Billy Mahone, a Chicago fireman-turned-boxer, challenging Fitzsimmons in a four round match, Mahone’s dramatic entrance, his early dominance, and Fitzsimmons’s dramatic comeback in round three before Mahone is knocked down and carried away.
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Robert Itzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Battery D
Lake Front
Battery
Billy” Mahone
Chicago
Grand Pacific Hotel
Two Prisoners and a Guiding Clergyman Tale
A Boston Herald report recounts Rev. Damon of the Universalist church in Haverhill ministering to two prisoners in a jail. He questions them about their durations of confinement and their alleged crimes, discovering a mix of blunt honesty and curiosity in their responses. A separate note from the London Daily Express describes Forsyth Grant's voyage to Dundee in the Snowdrop where he killed a whale longer than the ketch, harvesting whalebone and oil worth significant sums.
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Mr. Damon
Universalist Church
Haverhill
Boston Herald
Forsyth Grant
Ecclesgreig
Montrose
Dundee
Cape Hooper
lLondon Daily Express
Mrs Hetty Green Grievance On Voting And Business
The 70 year old financier Mrs Hetty Green reportedly refused birthday celebrations saying age excuses foolishness. She questions her business knowledge without voting and admits owning an automobile but not knowing how to operate it yet.
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Hetty Green
Real Fame and the Quiet Debater in College Life
A scene contrasts a famed college football star Harry Halfback with a quiet debater, the latter unseen except on exams. The crowd praises the athlete’s national attention while the other figure remains mostly in the background despite being central to debates.
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Harry Halfback
A Call to Purpose in Life and Duty
A reflective exhortation urges individuals to seek a grand purpose and resist distraction. It stresses personal responsibility for meaning, warns against letting care or pleasure erase aim, and asserts that each person has a good to do as life’s central task.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children Ad
Advertises Mother Gray a nurse at a New York Children’s Home selling powders to treat constipation feverishness bad stomach teething disorders and worms. Claims 80000 testimonials with 25 cent price and free sample from A S Olmsted LeRoy NY.
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Mother Gray
New York
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy
N. Y
Asbestos Described as Heat Resistant Mineral
Asbestos is a mineral silicate of magnesia and lime with iron oxide. It is mined in commercial deposits in Italy Tasmania New South Wales Canada and the United States. Its key economic feature is resistance to heat and destruction by fire.
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Italy
Tasmania
New South Wales
Canada
United States
Farmer Invents Watering Machine Amid Rain Threat of Competition
A farmer, amid a long drought, creates a watering device. The first day he tests it a sudden rainstorm begins, prompting him to abandon the invention with the quip that progress is now driven by competition.
The Kindly Word Poem Passage
A reflective verse on the power of a kind word, describing its gentle breath and its influence on hearts that give and hear. It likens the effect to a bird's song and the coo of babes, rising toward a celestial choir in human kindness.
Brooklyn Doctor's Car Brings Laughs with Motionless Breakdowns
A Brooklyn physician and former car enthusiast boasts of an automobile so highly developed it supposedly breaks down while standing still in the garage. The tale highlights his scientific pride and humorous take on automotive progress.
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Brooklyn
Man credits Dodd's Kidney Pills over patent cures
Jesse E. Mitchell of Washington Kansas a telephone lineman with kidney trouble explains he once cursed patent medicines but after using four boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills his back pain faded he feels renewed and energized at day’s end. He adds a closing quip about preaching and potatoes.
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Washington, Kans
Jesse E. Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Dodd
Guaranteed Cure for Piles Patent Medicine Ad
Advertisement claims a guaranteed cure for piles including itching bleeding and protruding piles with PA ointment. Druggists authorize refunds if the product fails to cure in 6 to 14 days priced at 5 cents.
Lewis' Single Binder promotion in Peoria ad copy
An advertisement praises Lewis' Single Binder straight 5o cigar as best value for a man’s good nature, inviting readers to sample at home. It notes the dealer is Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois and adds a social quip about men seeking sympathy after quarrels with wives.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Mull's Grape Tonic Promises Cure for Constipation
An old advertisement touts Mull's Grape Tonic as a cure for constipation and related ailments. It offers a free full-sized bottle to prove effectiveness and includes a coupon offering one dollar off with immediate sending. It claims to strengthen digestion and cleanse the system.
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Mull
Mair
Druzelt
Tonto Co
Third Ave
Rock Island
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