Governor Gummins Says Not At Variance On Tariff Revision
Governor Gummins aboard an interview states he is not at variance with the president on tariff revision. Other items note American Cigar filed a certificate in New Jersey increasing capital stock from 10 million to 20 million. Portugal signs commerce treaties with Italy Switzerland and Germany, favoringGermany, the battleship Louisiana exceeds its 18 knots endurance test off New England. Five thousand attendees at Century speedway opening in Washington under Road Drivers and Riders. Carnegie Institute trustees elect Welch of Johns Hopkins to board replacing the late John Hay. Ottawa reports Prince Arthur of Connaught in Japan will visit Canada on return to England. Equity seeks to block merger between Western Life Indemnity and Security Life and Annuity in Philadelphia. Hill lands on western Mesaba range leased to United States Steel, Grand Rapids filings. NY Stock Exchange seat sells for 383,000, a record. Woolen workers gain 10 percent raise at American Woolen Company meeting in New York.
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Gummins
American Cigar Company
New Jersey
Portugal
Italy
Switzerland
Germany
Louisiana
New England
Road Drivers and Riders’ Association
Washington
The
Carnegie Institute
Welch
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
John Hay
Colonial Office
Ottawa
Ontario
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
Japan
Canada
England
Equity
Western Life Indemnity Company
Security Sife and Annuity Company
Philadelphia
J.hill
Mesaba Range
Minnesota
Unitedstates Steel’ ‘Corporation
Grand Rapids
Mich
New York ‘Stock Exchanges
Stock Exchange
New York City
Lodz
Russian Poland
Zielezna
Journal
Oficial
Paris
Senate
Diaz
Arthur E. Valois
Counsul
United States
Railroad and Express Company
Overland Limited
Ahsay
Wyo
House Committee On Insular Affaire
Cooper
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
American Woolen Company
Keloge
Amsterdam
N. Y
War Department
Corbin
Bates
Army
MacArthur
Thomas J. Dunn
New York
Tammany Organization
McDonald
Colorado
Illinois
Thomas S. Ballantine
Pekin
Madison
Wis
Assembly
Wa. F. Chadsey
Brooklyn
Niles, Mich
Hens Laying Profitable Venture Amid Sailors’ Return
The Portland Oregonian notes more men have sailed up into poultry farming than almost any other line, with mathematics, political economy, and biology all suggesting high profits. The piece contrasts the busy ship trade with the poultry business, implying strong economic rationale behind hen keeping.
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Portland Oregonian
Discovery of dyomis rodent in Brazil challenges extinction claim
Researchers report the dyomis, a rodent once thought extinct, is common in parts of Brazil. A Berlin museum specimen long billed as the sole extant example has diminished in perceived value as new populations arise.
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Brazil
Museum of
Berlin
Recognizing Opportunity proverb echoes in modern view
A clipped proverb notes that opportunity knocks at every door and few recognize a chance when it appears. The saying underscores how timely chances are often missed as people hesitate or ignore potential paths to success.
Thorough naval wedding at Didsbury noted in Gentlewomen
An account in the Gentlewomen describes a lieutenant's wedding at Didsbury with a striking detail as two submarines brought up the rear of the bridal procession, making it perhaps the most thorough naval wedding on record.
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Didsbury
Words of Wisdom Letter Boosts Dodd's Kidney Pills
Westfield I Dec 18 Special AW sufferers with Bright's Disease are urged to read a minister G L Good letter praising Dodd's Kidney Pills. He says he was sick for years, weighed 105 pounds, then took sixteen boxes and gained to 165 pounds, becoming healthy.
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Westfield
Bright
G. L. Good
Dodd
Weathers
Tam
British Diet and Habits Shift Over Thirty Years
A historical note reports British dietary and lifestyle changes. It states people now smoke about one third more tobacco than thirty years ago, consume sugar about half again as much, drink tea 40 percent more, and shows a general decline in intoxicant consumption.
Pigeon's Nest Blocks Bath Pump at Brigh ton
A large centrifugal pump at a Brigh ton England bath stopped, and investigators found a pigeon's nest with two eggs in a pipe. The bird crawled through a six inch diameter horizontal six feet then bent into a six feet vertical section to reach its nest.
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Brighton
England
Bath
Paint Keeps Out Bacilli
Oil paints have a marked different effect upon various bacilli of disease, as tests in Paris have shown. The germs of tuberculosis, especially, are much affected by paints. They do not thrive or live on a painted surface as they do where there is no paint to cover wood or metal.
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Paris
Clergymen lament salary uncertainty in prayer
In a Cleveland Leader note the Rev Dr Poundengell states there are no more notices to read yet reveals Deacon Nocoyne has informed him that the Lord alone knows where his salary for the year will come from. The brief item ends with a call to prayer.
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Poundengell
Nocoyne
Cleveland
Guards Drill on Boulevard in San Francisco
Report notes extra electric lights on Van Ness Avenue to aid night drills by the National Guards. The item also includes assorted advertisements and short quotes from products and personal notices, reflecting a busy urban paper blend of civic logistics and consumer notices.
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van Ness Avenue
San Francisco
National Guards
Birds and creatures that craft and hunt in nature
A survey of curious animal skills from birds sewing leaves into nests with woven threads to crabs tanning with cloth, fish hunting flies by water jets, farming ants growing mushrooms, mussels hosting sheltered apes, and candied birds guarding against snakes with fireflies.
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Tallor
M. D'Herculais
McClure's December number features strong fiction and famed contributors
The December McClure's up-to-date issue showcases holiday fare with a Jack London story and six other short tales. Leading pieces come from William Allen White, Ray Stannard Baker, and Rev. Charles D. Williams, with White praised as a national oracle on public men.
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McClure's
McClure’s
Jack London
William Allen White
Ray Stannard Baker
Charles D.williams
Feeling in His Art Sparks Notable School Recitation
A visiting singing teacher attends a district event where pupils recite verses. One young boy, Johnny, draws attention with expressive gestures. The teacher praises the delivery as well rehearsed, then asks about the gestures, and the child quips it’s the hives not the gestures.
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Johnny
Soldiers of the Common Good in Everybody's Magazine
Charles Edward Russell defines soldiers of the common good as sociological pioneers working to promote welfare. The December issue features moving tales and opening chapters of his new serial while Bart strengthens the Christmas number with exceptional fiction.
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Everybody's Magazine
Charles Edward Russel
Everybody's
Bart
Not Hich Financiers. Ade’s literary hotel encounter
George Ade listens to a compliment and recalls a Chicago summer resort tale. A modest hotel landlord asks if Ade is a literary man, and the exchange ends with the landlord joking that literary men are glad to pay in advance, since they are accustomed to it.
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George Ade
Chicago
Mes
Ade
Atom Ping
Dr Mitchell’s New Novel Serial in Century After Paris Stay
Dr S Weir Mitchell, aged seventy five, wrote a short novel this summer praised by The Century editors as one of his cleverest works. Set in Paris forty years ago, it promises absorbing and amusing narration in the vein of Adventures of Francois and A Madeira Party. Serial publication starts in February.
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Dr. Mitchell
S. Weir Mitchell
Century
Paris
Francois
Madeira
A Brave Response And An Irish Leader Parable
A frenzied politician addresses constituents as auditors react with signals of discord. Judge Dolan recalls an Irish leader’s pre battle quip about fighting or running, illustrating the crowd’s ambiguous yet lively reception to eloquent claims. A proverb notes a swollen head masking a contracted heart.
Duel Ends in Knife Attack as Two Men Fight in Webster City
In Webster City Henry Ingartson, 19, and Vernon Farrar, 19, clashed over Miss Della Knight after Farrar warned of a thrash. Farrar stabbed Ingartson on Seneca Street, twice, once near the heart. Ingartson fell unconscious but recovered as Farrar, bloodied, went to the Knight home. Farrar was wounded but not life threatening. Ingartson survived.
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Webster City
Henry Ingartson
Della Knight
Ofohn Knight
Vernon Farrar
Illinois
Knight
Vernon
Della
Farrar
Miss Knight
Ingerman
Ingertson
Senecca Street
Henry
Children in Factories in Iowa Shine Light on Violations
Des Moines report shows the state labor commissioner’s office removing children from factories during the past week. Violations are concentrated in the eastern part of the state where youths of school age are found in dangerous work. In several cases children work alongside their fathers in the same room and compete with them for jobs.
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Des Moines
State Labor Commissioner
State Isior Commissioner
Missing Nebraska Man Sought After Wife Arrival
Nebraska man Dunlap missing after his wife arrived from Stuart Nebraska. Shelby Moffett a meatcutter long-time resident here, left town days ago and has not been heard from. He allegedly misled his wife about his location, notified her via letters routed to Dunlap, and she traveled to find him. local reports confirm his disappearance and search implications.
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Dunlap
Stuart
Neb
Shelby Moffett
Moffett
Missouri Valley
Arrest a Deserter from Fort Leavenworth
Constable Stewart arrested John Tannahill on a telegram from Fort Leavenworth stating he deserted from Company M Sixth Infantry in July 1903. He was taken to Fort Crook.
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Missouri Valley
Stewart
John Tannahill
Fort Leavenworth
Tannahill
Company ‘M. Sixth Infantry
Fort Crook
Dodge Mayors orders raid gambling dens and slots
Mayor Bennett issues strict orders to police to confiscate slot machines, close all gambling institutions and saloons, and enforce a broad dragnet against disorderly characters. Authorities will raid resorts and dives to enforce closing laws across the city.
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Bennett
Large Fire Destroys Structure in Atlantic Masgena
A major blaze in the southeast part of the county wiped out a 33,000 fir structure near J. H. Yinger’s room, possibly a warehouse, or between it and an adjacent restaurant. The fire’s origin remains a mystery and investigators are examining the site for clues.
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Atlantic—Masgena
J. H. Yinger
Pioneer Engineer CLINTON L. M. Clark Dies in Death
Clinton L. M. Clark, justice of the peace and veteran engineer of the Chicago & Northwestern, died suddenly of apoplexy. An old-time employee who entered Northwestern service in 1877, he was a Civil War veteran and a prominent Odd Fellow.
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Clinton L. M. Clark
Chicago & Northwestern
North- Western
Altman Suicide Stuns Sioux City Real Estate Man
Thomas EB Altman a 42 year old well known Sioux City real estate man killed himself by shooting in the rear of a saloon. He ended his life with a revolver bullet to the heart after entering the saloon and taking his own action.
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Altman
Sioux City
Thomas
Pleads Guilty to Robbery in Tama Murder Case
Roy Hull, indicted for the murder of Daniel Leary of Tama, pleaded guilty at arraignment in a district court in Toledo. Hull faced charges connected to a crime from a few weeks earlier and entered a guilty plea in the case.
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Robery
Marshalltown
Roy Hull
Daniel Leary
Tama
Toledo
Cutting Case is Dismissed in Iowa Court
Sioux City Iowa the state case against Fred H Cutting formerly a banker at Oto Iowa and now connected with a Chicago insurance company for embezzling 4700 from the First National Bank was dismissed in district court after a jury had been secured. County Attorney Whitney moved to dismiss citing lack of sufficient evidence and those who urged indictment failed to provide proof.
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Cutting
Sioux City
Fred H. Cutting
Oto
Sow
Chicago
First National Bank
Ce Lyons
Whitney
Seven Years Ago Kidney Pills Cure Rochester Woes
William A Franklin of Frank Nig Palmer Chemical Co Rochester N Y recalls kidney failure symptoms from seven years prior. He credits Dean Kidney Pills with easing backache, fatigue, and irregular kidney functions after three dozen tablets, sold for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
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Rochester Chemial
William A. Franklin
Frank Nig & Palmer Chemical Co
Rochester
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Gold Mining Report From Abyssinia Discovery
A British explorer returns from Abyssinia saying four months were spent in a hitherto unknown region along the Blue Nile. He describes a mining operation washing gold and reports vast quantities of gold in the area with thousands of natives employed.
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Abyssinia
Blue Nile
Agony of Sore Hands Cured by Cuticura Soap
Mrs Minnie Drew of Roxbury Massachusetts writes that cracked and peeled hands caused intense pain preventing housework and cooking. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment her hands are entirely well, expressing gratitude to the product and doctors.
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Cuthura
Irs
Minnie Drew
Dana St. Roxbury, Mass
Different Views on Neighborly Contributions
An Observer of Events and Things notes that a neighbor’s small contribution may seem minor, but if the contribution comes from the flea itself it is not regarded as insignificant. The remark humorously contrasts human perception with a comic twist.
Defiance Cold Water Starch Promises Time and Money Savings
Advert reads that Defiance Cold Water Starch offers 18 oz per package at 70 cents, claims no iron sticking and no harmful chemicals, contrasts with 4-pound rival packs, warns against 1202 packages, and urges buyers to demand Defiance stamped as 16 oz to avoid waste and irritation from sticking.
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Defiance
Misplaced comma enchants milk supply tale in journal
A British Medical Journal item notes a curious passage about milk and a cow offering to take a reader to a cooled milk room. The piece highlights unusual advertising by Successful Farming in Des Moines and a free hunting gun offer for hustling subscribers in a prominent U.S. paper.
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Des Moines
British Medical Journal
Ges
Moines
United States
First Bike Sulky on Grand Circuit At Detroit 1892
An archival note recalls Ed Geer3 as the first reinsman to use the bike sulky on the grand circuit during the Detroit meeting of 1892. The fragmentary text mentions various advertisements and midwestern trade lines from the era, including references to cures and household goods.
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Iowa Falls
Arsenal
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Manson
R. Peterson
Elsworth
Spencer
Woodbine
R. N. Hendricks
Crrows
Vaudevire
Ottumwa
Union Station
Ben &. Swisher
Glesuit
Peter’ Schleck
Mcjslleland
Schleck
House of Representatives
Iowa
Haseen
Washington, D. C
Cummins
William H. Love
Congress
Baltiore
Jess
Pottawattamie County
R. A. Brown & Co
W. A. Smith
Pottawattamie
Harrison Counties
Brown & Co
Smith
thearrison-Rottawattamie County
Arthur R. Chase
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Missouri School of Mines
Rolls
Cornell University
Ithaca
J. B. Chase
Mount Ayr
A. R. Schrimplin Fam
Miss Bertha
Don Amando de Ces_pedes
San Jose
Costa Rica
de Cespedes
W. J. Davis
Hamilton
Davis
State University of
Towa
Towa City
Christine Haavik
Roland
Lewis Larson
Ames
Sit
Nebraska
Tehiog
Drus Guts
Sue
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Dr. Kina
Rentine
der. H. Kliss, Ltd
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