Iowa Grange Rejects Road Graft Proposal At State Meet
At the Iowa State Grange session in Le Mars proposals to let township trustees and superintendents take part in road contracts sparked uproar. Delegates backed a plan to standardize road widths while urging farmers to cut out middlemen and pursue direct to consumer cooperative ventures.
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Cegar Rapids
Iowa State Grange
Grange
Committee On Public Highways
Won Lange
le Mars
Iowa
Cooperative Farmers’ Elevator Companies
Farmers' Cooperative Insurance Companies
Northwestern plans line to coal fields near Miami and Villisca
Des Moines reports the Northwestern railroad pushes toward Monroe county, aiming to cross 1000 acres of coal land between Miami and Villisca. The 1400 foot fill and other costly earthworks raise the project cost to about 50 000 dollars. The line may extend northeast to Oskaloosa.
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Monroe County
Des Moines
Northwestern
Miami
Villisca
Oskaloosa
Iowa Grange Convention Demands Better Farm Legislation
Several hundred Iowa farmers plan to send a strong delegation to Des Moines to press for improved farming laws at the next Legislature session. The convention also calls for uniform county school books to aid rural students and criticizes the last legislature for not moving primaries to September while backing broader taxation reforms.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa State Grange
Des Moines
Fire breaks out during Masonic banquet in Davenport
A blaze at the Masonic temple during a Trinity Lodge banquet sent smoke through the hall as guests fled to fire escapes. Firemen controlled the flames in about fifteen minutes. Damage from smoke and water projected at 5066 dollars. A defective wire is blamed.
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Masonic
Davenport
Masonic Temple
Trinity Lodge
Fountain Pens Stolen in Keokuk Heist at Hallins & Co
A break in at the stationery store of H Rollins & Company in Keokuk yielded over $600 in fountain pens taken by burglars. No suspects named, investigation ongoing.
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Keokuk
Negress Guilty of Slaying in Bennett Case
Davenport jury returns a verdict of second degree murder in the case of Mrs Winifred Bennett charged with killing her husband George Tarnelt. The jury was out six hours.
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Negress
Davenport
Winifred Bennett
George Tarnelt
Grimes Bay Elected Captain at Parsons College
Fairfield notice that Lester Howard of Grimes LA was chosen as captain of the Parsons College basketball team for next season. Howard, a forward, has played for the Parsons five for the last two years.
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Grimes Bay
Fairfield
Lester Howard
Grimes
Parsons
Howard
Parsons College
Prohibition Bill Touted in Congress by Shepherd Hobson
Washington delegates from the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League storm Congress urging a constitutional amendment for nationwide prohibition. Senator Shepherd of Texas announces introduction of the bill in both houses with Hobson, citing harms of temperance to families and homes while Hobson rests due to a cold.
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Washington
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union
AntiSaloon League
Congress
Capitol
Burley
Baker
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League of America
Shepherd
Texas
Hobgen
Hobson
Harvard senior selects Negro orator for class day
Cambridge Massachusetts December 12 1914 Harvard seniors elect Alexander L Jackson of Hangerwood New Jersey as their class day orator. The move highlights early civil rights era dynamics at a prestigious campus.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Alexander L. Jackson
Hangerwood
Omaha
Neb
City National Bank of
London
Leimmeline Pankhurst
Pans
Concord
N. H
Edgar Aldrich
Supreme Court of the United States
Fhaw
Los Angeles
Cal
Wilmington
Del
L. J. Moore
Salisbury
Yiarry Pierce
Newark
Women Refused Entry to Mine to Intervene in Slayings Case
Tringham Utah December 13 Sherill Smith denied three women permission to enter the Utah Apex mine to urge Ralph Lopez the Mexican killer of six miners to surrender.
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Tringham
Utah
Sherill Smith
Utah-Apex
Ralph Lopez
Mona Lisa Found in Florence After Louvre Theft
Florence reports the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s famed painting, recovered after its August 1911 theft from the Louvre. An Italian suspect claimed the act was to avenge Napoleon’s Italian wrongs, with the artwork and thief now in police custody. France had refused all purchase offers, including a rumored 5 million dollar bid.
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Florence
Italy
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre
Joconde
Paris
Napoleon L
Leonardo
Lisa del Giocondo
France
Francis I
McDermott Guilty Found by House Lobby Committee
After presenting its report the house lobby investigation committee says Representative James D McDermott of Illinois has been guilty of grave impropriety unbecoming his office. A resolution by Representative Macdonald of Michigan seeks house action to expel McDermott. President Wilson’s charge of capital lobby influence is sustained in the committee’s findings.
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Washington
Lobby
House
Macdonald
Michigan
McDermott
Wilson
Lobby Investigation Committee
James D McDermott
Illinois
Motor Police Arrest 13,000 Offenders in Year
The New York police department motorcycle corps, a unit of 23 men, arrested over 13 000 outsiders in the past year. Fines totaled more than 117 000 dollars.
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New York
Motorcycle Corps
New York Police Department
Woman Celebrates 104th Birthday in Cedarville MI
Marie Simpson Clingman marked her 104th birthday at home in Cedarville Michigan. She is reported as the oldest resident of Illinois.
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Freeport
Noc
Marie Simpson Clingman
Cedarville
Ilinois
Vivisection Debate Dominates International Congress
The International Antivivisection and Animal Protection congress in Washington discusses vaccines and smallpox blame. Porter R. Gope of Philadelphia cites vaccination as a cause of disease while Prof. Howard Moore argues vivisection harms public sympathy and urges humane limits.
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Washington
International Antivivisection and Animal Protection Congress
Belgium
Congress
Porter R. Gope
Philadelphia
America
Howard Moore
Crane Technical High School
Chicago
Moore
U. S. Ship Vermont Disabled at Sea Returning to Hampton Roads
The battleship Vermont with a broken starboard main shaft and flooded compartments limps toward Hampton Roads from the Mediterranean cruise, under convoy of Delaware and the collier Orion and Jason. Rear Admiral Badger reports no alarm as Vermont proceeds on one engine at eight knots.
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Washington
Vermont
Hampton Roads
Mediterranean
Delaware
Orion
Jason
Navy Department
Charles E Badger
Atlantic Feet
Hampton
President opposes special message on woman suffrage
The president told a National American Woman Suffrage Association delegation he favored a standing house committee but refused to send a special message urging reform. In New York, Cynthia Buffam is charged with murder in the death of her husband and one child by arsenic and was arrested at Salamanca.
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Washington
National American Woman’s Suffrage Assocption
House of Representatives
Congress
Little Valley
Cynthia Buffam
Salamanca
Tampico Fighting Ends as Foreigners Seek Shelter Aboard Ships
Rebels and federals halt at Tampico after Rear Admiral Fletcher warns both sides. Americans and foreigners are taken to neutral zones under U S guns aboard ships Wheeling Tacoma Chester Logician Kronprinzessin Cetilie protect British and other residents while Terrazas affair sparks protest.
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Mexico City
Fletcher
Tampico
Lionel Carden
Christopher Graddock
Berwick
Juarez
Chihuahua
Luis Terrazas
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Washington
United States
Martin Leteher
Terrazas
Latis
Tacoma
Chester
Logician
Bomb Kills Girl and Wounds Worker at Ok
A bomb exploded Friday in the O K Nothing company office at 528 530 West Thirty eighth street New York killing office manager Thomas McCabe and fatally wounding an eighteen year old girl named Ausewitz windows shattered throughout the building. Separately Dr Gary H von Klein a noted scientist died in Chicago and Arthur Tradiey of Meriden was jailed for three months for manslaughter after a trolley car collision with a passenger train.
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New York
O. K. Nothing Company
West Thirty-eighth Street
da Ausewitz
Thomas McCabe
Magneger
Chicago
Gary H. von Klein
Heidelberg University
Oncs
Middletown
Conn
Arthur Tradiey
Meriden
Bradley
French Losses in Morocco Storm Incident Report
Paris reports the Ain Galaka interior Morocco storm of November 27 killed three French officers and 12 men while wounding three officers and 19 soldiers. The Moora system defeated French forces in the same report.
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Moora
Paris
France
Ain Galaka
Morocco
Free Homesteads in Western Canada Offer Land Rush Alternative
The U S government land openings draw thousands yet few hundred homesteads remain. Western Canada Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta offer 170 acre free grants with a ten dollar entry, six months residency annually for three years. Land favorable for grain cattle dairying timber water and Cree culture flourishes in park districts with trees and scenery. Also available are lands for purchase from railways private firms and individuals at low prices and easy terms. Wheat yields 30 to 45 bushels per acre in 1918 alongside strong crops others follow.
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U. S
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Household and Mental Order in Child Rearing
Froebel calls inward clearness from outward order and ties it to kindergarten work. Montessori echoes the need for organized homes in her Houses of Childhood. A well ordered, punctual household shapes children's mental clarity, regardless of wealth or status.
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Froebel
Montessori
Social line request and tire substitution hint
A young woman asks for a telephone installation and requests a party line despite higher cost amid social obligations. Judge Horechair reportedly advocates substitute rubber in automobile tire production.
Preinventory Sale of Used Office Equipment
Directors table in quartered oak two feet five inches by five feet two drawers with brass pulls and legs, priced at 15 dollars. Quarter sawed oak roll top seven drawer cabinet 25 dollars. Oak 54 inch 7 drawer drop cabinet 1250 dollars. Oak typewriter stand 54 inch seven drawer 10 dollars. Small oak typewriter stand three drawers two dollars. Stenographer's chair cane seat 350 dollars. Clipless paper fastener 7 inches 6 dollars. Dick pencil sharpener 3.70 dollars. Typewriter oil 60 cents. Desk telephone holders new swinging 5. We copy holders new unknown 140 Wes stationery cabinet new 170. Wes improved switching typewriter stands new 230. Wes postal balance scale weighs up to pounds new 310. Wes special roaming sliding glass clear book case one section top and base new 115. Sante electric vacuum cleaner with AC motor first class used will demonstrate 5. 3% hep electric motor 3 amp 110 AC used. Dick side cabinet 1k depth 3 m wide by 3% inches high inside dimensions 4756 dollars. Dick side cabinet 21 inch deep 30 inch wide by 66 inch high inside dimensions 73 dollars.
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Cyelet Press
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Storm Schmidt
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Erite
M’dermott
Speaker
Villa
George
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