Various World News Items From a Broad 1909 Dispatch
A wide sweep of brief notes from Congress, foreign intelligence, and personal items. Highlights include an airship over Berlin with wireless tests, Corsican shortages due to Marseilles strike, deaths in Paris retail trade, American missionaries delayed in Congo, and Emperor Nicholas to visit King Edward. Also noted are U.S. naval movements, wheat imports to Portugal, Dry Farming Congress plans, Taft appointments, and various legal and political developments across states and nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corsica
Marseilles
H. A. Chauchard
Magasins du Louvre
Paris
ML Chauchard
Grand Lodge
Lord Amphill
Rivatejo
Portugal
Leopoldville
Congo
William Morrison
W. H. Sheppard
Abel
Nicholas
Edward
Cowes
Cherbourg
State Department
Lisbon
Des Moines Weather Floods Hit Iowa Rail Lines
Des Moines reports a cloudburst causing heavy property damage and rail disruption from Shannon City to Afton. Sixty miles of track washed out and trains halted. floods ruin crops and livestock in Ringgold County. Wyoming flooding threatens Pathfinder dam and Douglas timber plant. Lutherans plan church extension in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Great Western
Shannon City
Diagonal
St. Joseph
Ringold County
Iowa
Mount Ayr
Creston
Burlington Railroad
Here
Afton
Wyoming
Chayanne
Wyo
Carbon Timber Company
Douglas
Foleon Cut
Union Pacific
Blodgett Sentenced Five Years for Forged Instrument
Iowa politician Jay D. T. Blodgett, who ran as an Independent on a congressional ticket last fall, must serve a five year term in the penitentiary after the supreme court found him guilty of issuing a forged instrument. Harriman reports seasick travel from New York to Parlin on his transatlantic voyage. Rabba Scare Covers State notes extensive rubles related quarantines as twenty five boroughs and townships face measures requiring muzzled dogs and penalties for running at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
Billings
Nebraska
Iowa
Taft
William 4. Hart
District of Columbia
United States
Burlington
Lincoln Territory
Hlihu Root
Roosevelt
State Department
Union Copper Company
John
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Toronto
Carnegie Foundation ‘For
New York
McDonald
Spokane
Waeh
Omaha
Woods
Torgenson
Gordion
Edward Dana Durand
New York State Library
Harvard
Stanford
Germany
Seattle
Washington
Des Moines
Jay D. T. Blodgett
Congress
Supreme Court
Blodgett
Harrisburg
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Secretary of State
Polk County
Sheffield
Josephine
Bullard
J. M. Kissane
Marcy Hospital
Clinton
Ireland
Michasl Rush
Iowa River
Falls
Kimbel
North Dubique
Bakke
Onawa
Frederick Badtey
Alden
G. V. Whaley
Perry Schools
State Teachers’ Association
Iowa City
Duffy Raymona
Charles Bell
Sanater
Theodore Dreyer
la- Ban High School
Esta
George Arrobbia
Charles Leach
Minneapolis & St. Laws
Arrobbia
Byers
Federal Court of Appeals
St.Paul
Sanborn
Locust Street
Frank A. Weaver
Council Bluffs
Sidney
M. Swearingen
Forest. C. Ensign
State Universality of Iowa
Woodbine Normal School
B. F. Hall
Christian Church of Woodbine
Iowa Federation
Bt. Joseph
George Wohlwend
then-Gar
Ick Theater
Gttumwa
Samuel H- Young
Lafayette Young
Denver
Cal
Swa
Ottumwa
Minton
Heliver
Grand Rapids
Mich
Boy
Etr
Order Vacated On North Platte Withdrawal In Nebraska
The secretary of the interior vacated a withdrawal order under the second form of the Yeclamation act, restoring approximately 112,460 acres of land to the public domain in Nebraska. Lands not otherwise withdrawn will open to settlement on August 31 and to entry, filing, or rejection on September 30, with 12,800 acres in Wyoming affected for a game project. The Peruvian cabinet resigned amid claims the recent revolutionary outbreak was engineered by the Piv arola party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
North Platte Project
Nebraska
Wyoming
Noted Editor Dead in Philadelphia Senator Letter
Philadelphia editor Alexander McClure died Sunday at age 91, a longtime prothonotary and influential figure in politics and journalism. John Norris, head of the ANPA paper committee, sent Senator Root a letter Monday detailing data on the paper duty and urging attention to this newspaper and periodical industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Alexander McClure
the Supreme and Superior Course of
Pennsylvania
Norris
Root
New York
John Norris
Committee On Paper
American Newspaper Publishers' Association
Bie
Mill
Iowa Seed Law Called Class Legislation by Dealers
At the Iowa seed dealers convention in this city BE W Faville editor of the Successful Farmer said the seed purity law is class legislation. He and other delegates urged applying the law to farmers as well as dealers to curb weedseed spread. The group noted fifteen prosecutions last year involved farmer supplied seed and urged reform to hold farmers responsible too. Dairy Commissioner Wright supported extending accountability and the aim to prevent fields from being peppered with weeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly of
Iowa
Faville
General Assembly
H. R. Wright
Iowa Advances Public Health Talks on Venereal Disease Education
The Iowa board of health plans lectures and slide aids for local schools to educate older students about venereal disease. Secretary L A Thomas backs the plan, seeking July board action after input from a prominent school superintendent. The effort follows past bills and WTU support, aiming to break silence and encourage treatment, with education preceding any legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lnipa
Tata
Iowa
Anute ‘Board of Health
L. A. Thomas
Thomas
State Board
W.C.T. U
Clark
Waterloo
Mark
Dr. Thomas
Defiance Starch Promises Better Laundering Results
An old time ad style mixes satire with product pitch. The piece extols home laundering using Defiance Starch to stiffen and finish fabrics, claiming superior appearance and less wear. It also features snips of dialogue on social topics and a note about a congressional grant for trachoma relief.
His Professional Habit and a Smoky Punchline
A clipped dialogue about a sculptor and a professional condition yields a quip on staying in the status quo. The scene then shifts to Lewie Single Kinder, noted for offering the smoker a rich mellow cigar, with a brief, odd aside about a dressmaker gifting her husband Ata.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Berlin
Burkett
Tranitury
Indiana Oratorical Association
Col. Roosevelt
Shelton
Acorea
Dahiman
Lorimer
Senate
W. J. Bryan
Canada
Jacob H. Schiff
Europe
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Louisville
Convention of
Erlurer
Hbel
Indianapolia- Menas
John Junkin
Centerville
Chicago
Bert M. Traylor
Pearl Taylor
Minden
Neb
Marcel Prevost
Academy
Eliott
Harvard College
West
Aldrich
Stone
Henry Mahan
St. Mary's
Ohio
Wright Brothers
Aero Club of America
Brown Park
South
William H. Reed
North Loup Empire
Sioux County
Gamble
Crawford
South Dakota
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Teft
Navy
Meyer
Thomas C. Dawson
Bogota
Santiago
Ury
Japan
Mt. Vernon
Fok
Missouri
Crete
Brown
James J. Hill
Grand Jury
Great Northern
M. J. Jordon
R. A. Jackson
Rock Island
Firat
Geo. Sheah
Duluth
Wash
Sheeta
Junier Sever
Richmond
Ind
General Synod of the
Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church Extension
Lima
Peru
Pivarola Party
Seed Law OF
Leahy
Carroll
Major. H. Rathbun
Mallon
Warren Garst
George W. Clarke
Guy A. Peely
Warren
Wright
Civil Service Commission
Neal Jones
Civil Service
Woodland Cemetery
Crocker Post
Ralph Palmer
Milwaukee Railway Company
Polk County Grand Jury
Afilwaeukeé
Ita
H. W. Byers
Howard J. Clark
Attornney General
Harlan
The
J Bi
I. N. Jones
Taylor County
Oklahoma
Jones
B. F. Carroll
Edward A Bchell
Iowa Wesleyan University
Mount Pleasant
Michael McDonald
Bayard
Grand Army of the Republic
Fort Dodge
Department
State House
Richard Watson Cooper
Hamlin University
St. Paul
Upper Iowa University
Shanklin
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Cooper
Hamline University
E. A. Kepford
Hera
Kepford
Seth R
Dean
uWealey
Clemens
Narion St
Manchester
Gevere
Foater-Milburn, Co
Buffalo
Mr. Saphead
Sirius Barker
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Ata
Peeple
Libby
Vienna
Mae
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