Pilot Mary B. Green to Retire
Mary B. Green the experienced river pilot and the only woman licensed to command boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers will retire after ten years at the helm. She led the steamer Greenland on the Ohio near its headwaters and saved the craft during the ice floe danger of 1897, guiding the crew to safety. She is wife of Captain Gordon Green, owner of the Green line, and well known among river men for her command on the Ohio Mississippi and Kanawha rivers.
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Mary B. Green
Ohio
Mississippi
Green
Greenland
Ohio River
Destruc
Burglars Escape After Gunfight at Minnesota Northwest
A group of burglars fled an armed break in as an electric alarm warned of their presence in Minnesota and the Northwest. Authorities reported a gunfight, with no injuries, before the suspects vanished. Local police urged anyone with information to come forward.
Lightning Sparks Water Thickens Tracks and Hearts
In Correctionville Iowa on August 28 two railroad section men halted a train wreck attempt by removing timbers from the tracks near a curve. A store robbery in Tower City ended with two suspects fleeing as shots were exchanged with officers. Peter Nelson survived a lightning strike that felled him in his barn. a heart stimulant and medicine revived his blood, sending him toward recovery.
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Fargo
N. D
Tower City
W. W. King Mercantile Company
Correctionville
Sioux City
Northwestern Railroad Section
Here
Tangborn
Corectionville
Iowa
Peter Nelson
Nelson
Changes meeting place for education leaders in 1909
Secretary Irwin Shepard of the National Education Association announced the department of superintendents would meet in Chicago on February 23 and 24, 1909. The Oklahoma City hotel fire forced the change. About 1000 to 1100 principals, superintendents and college presidents will attend.
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Winona
Minn
Irwin Shepard
National Education Association
Department of Superintendents
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Deadwood Mining Chief J B Taylor Killed in Explosion
J B Taylor a leading Black Hills mining man and his assistant Chris Miller died in an accident at the Burlington mine near Redfern. They stepped into the cage to escape a blast when a cage break trapped them and a blast killed them instantly. Taylor had long lived in Deadwood and led the company.
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Deadwood
J.B. Taylor
Black Hills
Chris Miller
Burlington
Redfern
Here
Taylor
Hills
Iowa Falls couple wed after piano mood music at fair
Herbert Black of Webster City, manager of a mov ing picture show, married Miss Laura Robinson last evening at the home of her aunt Mrs Eva Simplot in Iowa Falls. The couple plan to reside in Kansas.
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Iowa Falls
Iowa
Herbert Black
Webster City
Laura Robinson
Black
Miss Robinson
Eva Simplot
Kansas
Reward Offered for Girl's Assailant in Minnesota
All mond Salisbury of Willow Creek offered a reward of 3500 after authorities discussed the case in Mankato Minnesota. He seeks information leading to the arrest and conviction of the unknown man who chloroformed and assaulted his daughter Edith Salisbury aged twenty two last week.
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Mankato, Minn
Allmond Salisbury
Willow Creek
Edith Salisbury
Wagon incident leaves boy alive after wagon passes
In Waterloo Iowa on August 28 a heavy wagon rolled over the head of 10 year old Peter Jensen Jr after he fell from a seat as his father planned to move a barley load to Cedar Falls. The child survived the accident despite the severe trauma.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Peter Jensen
Cedar Falls
Man dies after fall from bridge into creek
J. M. George fell from the Milwaukee bridge over Perry Creek and struck his head on a cross beam, dying instantly. Police found him standing headfirst in the water.
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Sioux City
Towa
J. M. George
Milwaukee
Perry Creek
Railroad Boss Bans Cigarette Smoking at Work
Rock Island railroad superintendent F B Easley issues a bulletin prohibiting cigarette smoking by employees. Violators will be discharged. The notice was released in Little Rock Arkansas on August 28.
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Little Rock
Ark
F. B. Easley
Rock Island Railroad
McCleary Plans Few Speeches Ahead of Primaries
M'Cleary says he will limit public appearances in the Second district before the primary. He will speak Friday evening at Blue Earth and on Labor Day at Revere. An Open Letter No 2 is due next week and will run in city and district papers to aid his campaign.
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Mankato
Minn
James T. McCleary
Blue Earth
Labor Day
Revere
McCleary
Kites Used as Scarecrows on Wisconsin Poultry Farm
Neenah Wisconsin August 28 Jacob Werner protects his chickens on a large Menasha town poultry farm by keeping several large box kites in the air hawks fear the uncanny looking birds after Werner saw hawks retreat when his son flew a kite on the property
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Neenah
Wis
Menasha
Jacob Werner
Werner
The Coming Winner of Commercial Enterprise
Americans pride themselves on the erection by Messrs Selfridge & Company of a large London shop at Oxford and Duke streets. The Portland cement and steel building will cover over eight acres of floor space, with six stories above ground and three below. Completion is targeted for next year, signaling American retailers expanding abroad and linking British merchants with American enterprise.
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Messrs Selfridge & Company
London
Oxford
Duke Street
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Minnesota
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Staetch
California
Fide
H. S
Senator Allison
Allison
Des Moines
LA Crosse
M’cleary
J.S. Arenz & CO
Pearl Street
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