Iowa Grange Debates Road Graft Proposal At Cedar Rapids
At the Iowa State Grange closing session in Cedar Rapids, members heatedly debated a plan to let township trustees and superintendents bid on highway contracts. The controversy centered on removing contract bans and setting a 12 foot road width, with critics calling it a clever scheme for statewide graft. Resolutions urged direct farmer consumer relations and cited elevator and insurance coops as models.
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Cedar Rapids
The
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Committee On Public
W. J. Lang
le Mars
Farmers of
Iowa
Cooperative Farmers’ Elevator Companies
Farmers’ Cooperative Insurance Companies
Northwestern plans rail extension to Oskaloosa
Des Moines area reports Northwestern Railway pushing a last mile extension between Miami and Villisca in Monroe county. The 1 000 acre tract of fertile land will be crossed, with road work costing about 50 000 dollars. The line includes a 1 400 foot fill and expensive cuts. Extension may continue northeast toward Oskaloosa.
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Monroe County
Des Moines
Northwestern
Miami
Villisca
Oskalousa
Uniform Text Books Desi red Cedar Rapids Grange convention
The Iowa State Grange convention adopted resolutions urging uniform country school books to equalize access with city pupils, condemning the last Iowa legislature for not shifting primaries to September, and calling for better taxation laws. Several hundred farmers plan to send a delegation to Des Moines to push for farm-friendly legislation at the next session.
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Cedar Rapids
Towa
Iowa State Grange
Iowa
Des Moines
Prohibition Bill Backed by Shepherd and Hobson in Congress
Washington dispatch reports 1000 delegates of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti Saloon League at the Capitol demanding a constitutional amendment for nationwide prohibition. Senator Shepherd of Texas announced introduction of a bill in both houses, pledging to fight the liquor traffic to protect homes and children. Representative Hobson did not speak due to a cold.
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Washington
National Women’a Christian Temperance Union
AntiSaloon League
Congress
Capitol
Burley S. Baker
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League of America
Baker
Shepherd
Texas
Hobson
Harvard seniors pick four negro orator for class day
Cambridge reports Harvard seniors elect four Negro students including Alexander L. Jackson of Engelwood New Jersey as their class day orator for 1914. The selection reflects early 20th century college diversity milestones amid national tensions.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Alexander L. Jackson
Engelwood
N. J
Omaha
Neb
City National Bank of
London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Paris
Concord
N. H
Edgar Aldrich
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court of the United States
Los Angeles
Cal
Wilmington
Del
L. J. Moore
Salisbury
Harry Pierce
Newark
Women Seek Slayer at Utah Mine Entry Request Denied
Sheriff Smith refused to grant three women’s request to enter the Utah Apex mine and urge Ralph Lopez, alleged Mexican slayer of six men, to surrender.
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Bingham
Utah
Smith
Utah-Apex
Ralph Lopez
Mona Lisa Found in Florence After 1911 Louvre Theft
Florence reports the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci was recovered after an Italian resident offered it to an antique dealer. The thief, who claimed to act to avenge Napoleon’s Italian thefts, was arrested. France had previously refused all offers to sell, including a rumored five million dollars from Britain.
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Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre
Paris
Leonardo
Lisa del Giocondo
France
Francia I
McDermott Guilty and Expulsion Resolution Filed
After the lobby committee report, Rep Macdonald moved to determine if action to expel Rep McDermott is warranted. The report upholds Wilson’s lobby claims and cites James D McDermott as guilty of grave impropriety unbecoming his office.
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Lobby
House
Macdonald
Michigan
McDermott
Wilson
House Lobby Investigation Committee
James D. McDermott
Vaccination Debate Highlights Vivisection Controversy
Washington reports the International Anti vivisection and Animal Protection congress discusses next gathering site Belgium as delegates push for stricter humane standards. Chicago educator Prof J Howard Moore condemns vivisection without sympathy and urges only humane practitioners with self restraint.
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Washington
International Antivivisection and Animal Protection Congress
Belgium
Congress
Porter BR. Gope
Philadelphia
America
J. Howard Moore
Crane Technical High School
Chicago
Moore
U. S. Ship Vermont Disabled at Sea
The battleship Vermont limps toward Hampton Roads after breaking its starboard main shaft and flooding compartments on the Mediterranean cruise. Rear Admiral Badger reports no alarm as the ship makes eight knots on one engine under convoy of Delaware and the colliers Orton and Jason.
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Washington
Vermont
Hampton Roads
Mediterranean
Delaware
Orton
Jason
Navy Department
Charles BH. Badger
President backs standing committee on suffrage
The president told a National American Woman's Suffrage Association delegation he supports a standing house committee on suffrage but declined to send a message urging Congress to act. A second notice reports Cynthia Buffam charged with murder in Little Valley after arsenic deaths of her husband and child. In France, Ain Galaka battle costs French officers lives and soldiers wounded in Morocco.
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Washington
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
House of Representatives
Congress
Little Valley
N. Y
Cynthia Buffam
Salamanca
Taris
France
Ain Galaka
Morocco
Tampico Fighting Ends After Naval Orders
Rear Admiral Fletcher, head of American naval forces in Mexican waters, ordered rebels and federals at Tampico to stop fighting. He warned he would open fire with the gunboat Wheeling if the order was ignored. Both sides reportedly complied with the directive.
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Mexico City
Fletcher
Tampico
Siv “Inne
Thousands of Ready Homesteads At Government Openings
The rush for homesteads shows strong desire to claim government lands as openings draw crowds. With only a few hundred plots per opening and land prices rising, many aspiring farmers seek Western Canada in Manitoba Saskatchewan or Alberta for affordable options.
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U. S
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Kronprinzessin Cecilie Sails with German Residents Aboard
In Suffolk a been and ish cruiser gathers all town residents aboard the steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie. The assembly lists Germans among the aboard, signaling a wartime evacuation or internment scenario tied to the vessel and local population.
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Suffolk
Cecilie
Bomb Kills Girl Hurls City Stunned at Bottling Office
A bomb delivered to the O K Bottling office at 528 530 West Thirty eighth Street exploded killing eighteen year old Ida Ausewitz and fatally injuring office manager Thomas McCabe. The blast shattered windows as an expressman delivered the device.
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New York
O. K. Bottling Company
West Thirty-eighth Street
Ida Ausewitz
Thomas McCabe
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