Broad World News and LocalEvents Digest
A roundup of international topics from wireless airship tests over Berlin to Corsican strikes and Paris commerce. Reports note earthquakes in Portugal, missionary trials postponed in Congo, and imperial visits while U S and Canadian affairs touch currency, rail robberies, census hires, and political shifts across Nebraska and Ohio.
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Berlin
Corsica
Marseilles
H.-A. Chauchard
Magasines du Louvre
Paris
Pai
M. Chauchard
Nicholas
Edward
Gawes
Cherbourg
State Department
Lisbon
Washingtons Taft nominates postmasters and Senate briefs
President Taft sent to the senate nominations for postmasters including William H. Reed at North Loup Nebraska and C M Cunningham at Empire Sioux county with H B Cunningham resigning. The attorney general condemns charges against Judge Edward K R Meek and U S Attorney William H Atwell as groundless and aimed at delaying a prosecution for fraudulent mail offenses. Senate business includes tariff work and a readjustment of postmasters salaries effective July 1.
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Taft
Senate
Nebraska
William H. Reed
North Loup
Empire
Sioux County
Gamble
Crawford
South Dakota
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Navy
Meyer
Thomas C. Dawson
Council
United States
Bogota
Santiago
Davenport officers lead aj if and am lodges installed
Iowa news item reports grand lodge officers of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity installed at Davenport. D. W. Clements named grand master, W. H. Hutchinson deputy, H. W. Hughes senior grand warden, D. Becker junior grand warden, C. Bo Narcy grand treasurer, N. R. Parvin grand treasurer, A. N. Alberson grand ruler, ex mayor A. B. Burton of Stony Creek dies of cancer after a lingering illness. Burton served as mayor 1909 02 and city attorney 1894 184s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aj IF & AM
Davenport
D. W. Clements
W. H. Hutchinson
H. W. Hughes
D. Becker
C. Bo Narcy
N. R. Parvin
A. N. Alberson
A. B. Burton
Stony Cuy
Burton
Zimmerman Steel Company
Lone Tree
Monroe National
Monroe’ Savings Banks
A. ©. Warner
Des Moines
Traer
Trent Opera House
Bovey
Congregational Church
Stenzel
W. H W. Parreat
Burlington High School
Grand Opera House
Charles E. Shelton
Simpson College of
Indianola
Blank Book Company
Boone
B. Morgan & Company
Harry Wheeler
Mt. Ayr
Caucil
St. Joe
John Trelore
Ogden
D. Buchanan
Hirat Presbyterian Church
Greenfield
Buchanan
Casey
Eth
State Bankers’ Association
Clinton
G. DB
Bartholomew
Preston
J. M. Reichmann
Grand Mound
Muscatine
Scott
Jackson
Jones
Cedar Counties
Charles Mackey
Iowa City
Cal. R. P. Howell
Fifty-Fourth Town Regiment
Floods and wrecks hit Great Western lines and Wyoming dam
A Monday cloudburst caused heavy property damage and train disruption from Shannon City to Des Moines, washing out sixteen miles of track and delaying Great Western services. Similar floods damaged cattle and crops in Ringgold County, while a Creston derailment halted fast trains. Wyoming floods endanger the Pathfinder dam and Douglas sawmills. Lutherans plan church extension work in Canada.
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Des Moines
Great Western
Shannon City
Diagonal
St. Joseph
Ringold County
Yowa
Mount Ayr
Creston
Burlington Railroad
Here
Afton
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Pathfinder
Carbon Timber Company
Douglas
Edson Cut
Union Pacific
Iowa Politician Blodgett Sentenced to Five Years
Des Moines based politician D. T. Blodgett, who sought congress on an independent ticket last fall, must serve five years in the penitentiary after being convicted a year ago of issuing a forged instrument. Harriman sails for Paris after a seasick Atlantic crossing. Rabies scares prompt statewide quarantines in twenty five boroughs and townships, with dogs at large to be shot in affected areas.
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Baron Uria
Japan
Washington
Mtt. Vernon
Gov
Folk
Missouri
Crete
Neb
Burkett
Brown
James J. Hill
Grand Jury
Spokane
Great Northern
M. J. Jordon
Erle. P. Dodge
Altepe Bigarlet
Madigan
Bell
Miller
Bing
Rock Island
Des Moines
Bint
Hattle Creek
Pores Phillips
Michigan
Tate Dairy
Bright
Milk Inspectur TV
Justice Roe’s
He Marrow
John
Frank Shercliffe
Aritan
B- W. Garrett
State ,Board, of Parole
Akay
Miler
Jake Jackson
Reformatory
Anamosa
Walnut
Central
Humboldt
Haton
Creston
Culiwater Company
Willisea
James F. Loy
B. C. Shull
J. Pred Toy
County Recorder
Logan Brooks
Muscatina
Brooks
Dale Shirk
Baldwin
Curts Shirk
Harlan Shirk
Mineral Creek
Barton
Burlington
John Cutler
Lela Shaw
Eildon
B. Pagerland
Northwestern
Marshalltown
Carl Gabriel
Wemming
Gabriel
C. UO. Maus
Oisias
Tifty-fourth Regiment
Iowa City
Marengo
Vanes Worrabin
Logan
Tracy
Boone County
Jones
Tse
Iowa
D. T. Blodgett
Congress
Supreme Court
Blodgett
Harrisburg
State
Five Stock Sanitary Board
Order Vacates Withdrawal for North Platte Project Lands
The secretary of the interior vacated an order of withdrawal under the reclamation act for about 112 460 acres in Nebraska and 12 800 acres in Wyoming, returning land to the public domain. The lands will open to settlement on August 31 and entries or selections begin September 30.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
North Platte Project
Nebraska
Wyoming
Peru Cabinet Resigns Amid Unrest In Lima
The Peruvian cabinet tendered its resignation after a revolutionary outbreak last week, allegedly engineered by followers of the Pie rola party. The sudden political shakeup centers on claimed orchestrations by a political faction in Lima.
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Lima
Peru
Pierola Party
Noted Editor Dead in Philadelphia at 82
Philadelphia remembers Col. Alexander Mc Clure prothonotary of the supreme and superior courts of Pennsylvania a longtime figure in politics and journalism died Sunday at age 82.
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Philadelphia
Alexander McClure
Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania
Uncle and kin jest about the baseball fever spread
A lighthearted exchange shows family members asking after each other and commenting that BIL is afflicted with baseball fever, while others are well. The playful line captures rural or small-town humor and affection within a greeting.
Remedies Touted For Child Skin Disease In 1908
A Yukon Oklahoma mother recalls her two year old son suffering weeks of a severe rash with blistering and intense itching. After doctor visits the remedy Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured him over two years ago with no symptoms since. Prominent women support anti tuberculosis efforts across society and arenas including Mrs Vanderbilt and Mrs Huntington among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lauck
Yukon
Okla
Potter Drug J Chem. Corp
Bole Props
Bosca
W. K. Vanderbilt
Keith Spalding
Chicago
Chicago Tuberculosis Institute
Collis P. Huntington
Borden Harriman
Porto Rico
Albert Norton Wood
San Juan
Mmé
Emma Calve
Olga Nethersole
Englishman's Withering Reply About Pronouncing PT in Names
An American traveler meets an Englishman named Pthorne pronounced Thorne. The American asks why the PT is silent. The Englishman replies by questioning the use of H in horse, then bids to spare moments.
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Pthorne
Thorne
Obedience as Cornerstone of Power and Success
A motivational piece asserts that unquestioning obedience builds life success. It argues leaders gain power by promptly following orders without questioning, claiming only those who accept superior authority rise to top positions.
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Succes
Grape-Nuts Savs Life In Patient Letter
An old Newburyport veteran credits Grape-Nuts with reversing a months long illness and dramatic weight loss. After trials with doctors and distressing solid foods, he improves rapidly and gains health, claiming the cereal made him stronger than ever.
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Newburyport
Mass
Old Orchard
Wellvyille
Pligs
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Norris
Billings
William A. Harr
District of Columbia
Lincoln Territory
Elihu Root
Roosevelt
Union Copper Company
Illinois
George Gould
Little Kanawha
West Virginia
John A. Dix
Seattle
Honolulu
Treasury Department
John M. Bishop
Surveyor's Department
New York
Sioux City
Ienacius McNamee
Notre Dame
Appleton
Wis
Indiana Oratorical Association
Shelton
Omaha
Denver
Dahlman
Lorimer
W. J. Bryan
Canada
Jacob H.schiff
Europe
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Loulaville, Ky
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Toronto
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
McDonald
Wash
Woods
Torgenson
Gordon
Edward Dana Durand
New York State Library
Harvard
Stanford
Germany
John Junkin
Centerville
Bert M.,taylor
Pearl Taylor
Minden
Marcel Prevost
Academy
Victorien Sardou
Wright Brothers
Aero Club of America
Brown Park
South
Iowa News
A. M. Mott
Franklin County
James Nesbitt
Toone
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw
Epoxvike Asylum
Charles Stewart
Algona
Towa
Richmond
Ind
General Synod of
Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church Extension Movement
Cuthura
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