Porto Rico Progress and Citizenship Hope in 1906 Report
President Roosevelt visits Porto Rico and reports on education, governance, and economy. He praises primary and technical schools, local police, and Porto Rican regiments, notes sugar, tobacco, and coffee exports, calls for full American citizenship for Porto Ricans, and urges a centralized insular affairs bureau after five years of American administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Por- Rico
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Porto Rico
Ponce
Erose
Cayey
San Juan
Recibo
Poncé
Ile
Tropic Islands
Porto “Rico
Iland
Board, of Trade
Board of Trade
Chamber of Commerce of
Porto Rican Federation of Labor
Coffee Growors’ Association
Corneli
Department of War
Department of State
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Aristocratic French Cabman
An elderly cabman in St Germain-en-Laye France died revealing he bore the Spanish title marquis de Loz de Gouet Gouraud. Once a man of noble rank his later years were blighted by poverty, leading him to drive a cab to survive.
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Ufe
St Germain-en-Laye
France
Marauls de Loz de Gouet- Gouraud
Bound to Keep Boys Busy in England Council Group
The Burgess Hill England group of council school managers, not allowed to encourage rifle shooting among the boys, will seek guidance from the East Sussex education authority to provide instruction in banding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
East Sussex Education Authority
Insurance panel to reform Iowa state positions rules
The Iowa legislative insurance commission completed its report filed with the Auditor of State and prepared measures for the 1916 session. Proposals include new fraternal benefit rules, uniform fire policies, provisions to require reserves for assessment companies, a state insurance department, possible fire marshal system, and publicity of surplus. No changes expected to be needed for deferred dividends, officer salaries, or agent compensation.
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Des.moines
Legislative Insurance Commission
State Carroll
Iowa
Des Moines Applicants Vie for 32nd General Assembly Posts
Des Moines reports rising interest in state legislative jobs with many seeking positions in the Thirty-second General Assembly. Veterans Hyde and Logan vie for old janitor posts, Tomlinson and others seek roles such as sergeant at arms and assistant doorkeeper. Grace Andrews and Gertrude Marshal aim for rolling clerk roles, while Benedict and Kepford seek chief and reading clerk positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Thirty-second
General Assembly
R. N. Hyde
House
William Tomlinson
Jeff Logan
Senate
Jack Hoefffeinger
Grundy County
Anns
George D. Thomas
Pes Maines
Albert Root
Centerville
G. W. Young
Clarinda
Anthony Burrell
Sailerville
George Griswold
Regh Benedict
Shelby County
A. E B. Kepford
Reading
Dennis O'Leary
Council Blufa
Misa Grace Andrews
Gertrude Marshal
Committee On Railroads and Commerce
Sesson
S.joe Brown
Breeding of the Human Race in Sioux City
City Health Officer Grant J Ross and State Senator John H Jackson push a bill to bar consumptives, epileptics, syphilitics, insane persons, drunkards, prostitutes, and vagrants from marrying in the state to prevent hereditary curse and stately degeneration. Dr. Ross laments lax laws and compares care for breed stock to human propagation. asserts eventual societal ruin unless enacted.
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siouUx
Epi
Grant J Ross
John H. Jackson
Dr. Ross
Not Guilty of Murder in Council Bluffs Case
Emma Rapke is acquitted of shooting Frank Keith Potts in their West Broadway home. Jury deliberated briefly after one informal and two formal ballots, delivering a verdict of acquittal in the district court. Local readers note the swift conclusion of the high-profile trial.
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Council Bluffs
Emma Rapke
Frank Keith
Potts
West Broadway
District Court
Iowa Briefs Silent on Golden Welding and Local Trials
Iowa briefs summarize a string of local items from golden wedding celebrations to court indictments. Notes include a Sioux City murder plea, a bank deposit rise, a Cedar Rapids suit against Vinton, a Manon City death, and a library funding offer. Also covered are a rail padding arrest near Cedar Falls and a Ninth Ward home design piece with architectural advice.
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James Crabtree
Dw Duque
Myron Clark
Sioux City
Clark
Harrison Count
Supervisora
M. D. Trooft
Sioux
Great Wester Cereal Company
Lyon County
Board of Supervisors
Maxwell Longnecker
Stoh
M. Longnecker & Co
Carroll
F. G. Ladd
Cedar Rapids
Barnes &Chamberlain
Vinton
G. B. Dowling
Manon City
Iliess
Bank of Thornton
Iowa
Rudolph Waller
Council Brits
England
Walter
Albert Harrsh
Riverside Farm
Newton
Bright
Hopevale
Jasper County
Joseph M. King
J. B. King
Red Oak
Grand Junction
Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Cedar Talls
W. B. Lib
Cal
Great Wester Way
Sshose
Cir
Onc
Canning
Pottawattamie
Lincoln
Nebb
Charles Beadle
Nebraska
Council Bluffs
Charles Green
Lewis Township
Pottawalawle
Mills County
Ali
Addison Oliver
Onawa
Wiliam Fisher
Fisher
Fisher Governor Company
Town Association of Stationary Engineers
Clinton
Anamosa
Muscatiné
Towa
Marshalltown
Breumonte
Northwestern Railroad
Angia Dashner
Srink
Ernest Meyer
Moville
Aaymow
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Renault
Legislative Insurance Committee
Waterloo
John ‘Leavitt
First Congregational Church of
Presbyterian Agnodical Hospital
Withington
State Auditor
Tse Wat
Bknbabi
Eprron
Iowa Briefs
William A. Redford
William A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Roe Wens
Porcel
Cae
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