Sunday’s Broncho Buster Fred Seifert Story
Fred Seifert known as Sunday or Broncho Buster, born near Waverly, Iowa, spent years as a cowboy and later became a reforming revivalist guarding tabernacles. He recalls riding a bucking horse at the Chicago World’s Fair and now portrays himself as the Former Broncho Buster Now Savior of Souls while riding rough bronchos to keep rowdies away from the tabernacle. He lives in tabernacles and travels with the Billy Sunday circuit, praised for calmness with crowds yet fearless against troublemakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Seifert
Billy Sunday Tabernactes
Waverly
Cedar Rapids
Marshalltown
Fred
West
Seifert
Iowa
Chicago
Fred Hod
Buffalo Girl
Laver
Boulder
Tabernacle
Iowa Cities Test Milk Supply Tuberculin Test List
The government compiles cities requiring tuberculin tests for cows supplying milk. Iowa names Council Bluffs Marshalstown Ottumwa Dubuque Cedar Rapids Waterloo as test cities, while Fort Dodge Burlington Davenport Sioux City Muscatine Clinton and Des Moines are exempt. State Food and Dairy Commissioner Wright sent the list to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Marshalstown
Ottumwa
Dupuque
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Burlington
Davenport
Sioux City
Muscatine
Clinton
Des Moines
Washington
Wright
Oldest Knight of Pythias in World From Ackley
G F Breithaupt of Ackley Hardin county Indiana, longtime hotel keeper for 35 years, is claimed as the world’s oldest Knights of Pythias member. He survived the S S Gelden Gate sinking of 1852 and recalls California days with Bret Harte Mackay Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythias
G. F. Breithaupt
Ackley
Hardiut County
Knights of Pythias
S. S. Gelden Gate
San Francisco
Hoston Construction Company
Golden Gate
Wells, Fargo & Company
Breithaupt
California
Bret Harte
The
Sierras
John Mackay
Jacquin Miller
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Golden Gate Lodge No. 3
Iowa to Become a Major Packing Center Say Dubuque Experts
A Dubuque packing plant plan aims to boost Iowa as a stock feeding hub. Local dairy and grain farmers, plus German Lutheran congregations in central Iowa, show strong wealth and land growth. The Dubuque Telegraph cites higher hog and cattle values with local processing, Panama Canal prospects, and nearby markets. A new pipe organ contract at Eldora's St Johns Lutheran is highlighted with Rev C E Guenther serving as organist.
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Iowa
Chicago
Towa
Sycamore
Dubuque
Dyersville
Wisconsin
Ohio
Panama Canal
St. John'’s Litheran Church
Pidera
Germany
Eldora
Iowsa
C. E. Guenther
Old Kangaroo Building in Keokuk Demolished
The frame Kangaroo Building at the foot of Johnson street in Keokuk has been condemned and ordered torn down by the city council. It stood at its present site for over forty years after moving from uptown and was originally erected on Main street between Second and Third, later relocated to the levee in 1868.
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Johnson Street
Keokuk
Main Street
Second
Third
Corporate filings show 5,240 active in Town
Secretary of State report tallies 5,240 corporations filing reports, over 6,000 legally dead or out of business, and about 2,500 that failed to file any report at all.
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Secretary of State’s
Immi gration Inspector Dr P L Prentiss Named
Dr P L Prentiss new immigration inspector at Chicago is an Iowa man and former Iowa legislature member elected three terms from Decatur county. Appointed by Gov Cummins to protect Iowa interests at the St Louis exposition, he then joined federal service after resigning. He served first at Vancouver then Port Huron, mainly preventing entry of Chinese and other undesirables.
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P. L. Prentiss
Chicago
Iowa
Decatur County
Cummins
St. Louis Exposition
Federal
Vancouver
Port Huron
Baehr Born in Iowa and Returns to Cleveland Gov Role
Herman Baehr born in Keokuk Iowa in 1868. He defeated Mayor Tom L. Johnson ending eight years of Cleveland leadership. Educated in scientific schools in Germany and New York, he became an expert chemist and is now county recorder in Cleveland.
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Herman Baehr
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Keokuk, Ta
Scientift
Germany
New York
Carpenter Federal Judge Named To Chicago Bench
Chicago Judge George A Carpenter, chief justice of Cook County Circuit Court, has been chosen by President Taft to succeed the late Judge Solomon H Bethea on the United States District Court in Chicago. Carpenter will sacrifice income, earning 6000 less yearly than a federal judge, and will serve a life tenure.
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Chicago
George A. Carpenter
Circuit Court
Cook County
Taft
Solomon H. Bethea
United States
Carpenter
Tuley
Twenty-first
Busse
Cullom
Charles RB. Morrison
Newell as background figure in Ballinger Pinchot clash
Frederick Hayes Newell, head of the United States Reclamation Service since 1907, appears among the Ballinger Pinchot figures as an advocate of Pinchot’s views without loud protest. His notable works include the Pathfinder dam on the Platte and Roosevelt dam on the Salt River. As a mining engineer and hydrographer, he formerly served with the U S Geological Survey and collaborated with the chief forester on irrigation plans.
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Washington
Frederick Hayes Newell
United States Reclamation Service
Newell
Pinchot
Platte River
Roosevelt
Salt River
Arizona
Tion
Hare
United States Geological Forces
Beauty and the barrel rule the coming of age tale
A grown woman declares harsh discipline for boys reaching adolescence, proposing they be kept out of sight from 14 to 21. The half-grown brother listens with stony calm as she mocks male development and a family’s scandalous past. The narrator reflects on rules and their grip on identity.
WAS A CASE OF EMERGENCY IN DAYTON A MAGAZINE STORY
A fragment from a Dayton scene shows Wilbur Wright discussing an imaginative aeroplane story full of errors. A Trotwood resident George Ket tle bursts in with a package for his wife, prompting a telegraph office gag. Various quips and bits follow, including a rector, a judge, a doctor, Kipling, and a parade of strange lines about heredity, cigars, and gossip.
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Wilbur Wright
Dayton
George Kettle
Trotwood
George
Harvey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa Cities
G. F. Bretthaupt
C.E. Guenther
Corporation Report
Igwan
Baehr
Carpenter Federal
Fpinchot
Newel
Reclamation Service
Frederick H. Newell
Olet de Samuel Tarr Berl
Fochelle
Sale
Aise Sud
Ba Sadia
Apni
He. Witnergeren
Ie Certaur Companys
Castoria
Bears
Bitham
Sam
Sixteenth Foot
Kipling
Boston
Dept
Iowa City
Stella
Bella
Childran
Western Canada
Dollivar
Laws
Emlaranta
United Stes
Alliver Cranesty
Mali ‘Grund
Poe
Ibung
Ananda
Iti
Ava
Canada
Thas Realen
Olide Leen
Stenda
Coriain Breen
Paitien
Yatca
Wests
Mknr Informa
Ottawa
Can
Bennett
Omaha
Webs
Sarestyeu
Carter
Carters
Watson Fr. Foreman
Este Ingion
D.C
Matt Preck
Austersburg
Dauphin Co
Tan
Cascas Rels
Chas.e, Condon
Lewislon
Quifflin Co
Sterling Remedy Company
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Elotel and Surgical Institute At
Buffalo
Usok
Womp’s Dispansany Mapical Association
R. ¥. Fierce
M.D
N. Y
Pierce
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