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Crop report No 7 covers northwestern areas west of the city. The past week has been the most favorable of the season with clear and warm weather in Dakota and Minnesota except for a warm rain on Monday. Small grain is up well, corn is being planted, flax acreage to rise. Seeding ran three weeks from April 1, with ample moisture. Acreage up about twenty percent and harvest forecast ahead of 1907, barley around July 15, wheat around July 25, and coarse grain similar.
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Dakota
Minnesota
V P pick talk stirs papers from coast to coast
Newspapers debate who should be chosen as vice president. References to Governor Fort of New Jersey and Bailey in Texas counties. The tone is speculative and cautious about the selection, noting mixed reactions and the political chatter across multiple cities.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Fort
New Jersey
Columbus
Ohio
State Journal
Texas
Bailey
Denver
Chicago Evening Post
Dayton Herald
Syracuse Post-Standard
Murphy
Potato blossom emblem hints at VP candidate
Providence Journal notes the Republican ticket could feature a vice presidential candidate associated with a potato blossom emblem, a signifier of party branding and regional symbolism. The remark frames the image as a light political aside reflecting campaign presentation.
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Providence Journal
Evans Cruise Ends As Sperry Takes Command
Rear Admiral Evans relinquishes command as Rear Admiral Thomas acts in the interim aboard the Connecticut. When the fleet sails to complete its world cruise, Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry will direct evolutions. Sperry, a top strategist with extensive Pacific and European station experience, is set to lead battleships and cruisers through the voyage to the far east.
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Evans
Connecticut
Thomas
America
Charles S. Sperry
Atlantic
Admiral Sperry
Admiral Evans
Far East
Actor-manager in theater lobby with critic joke
In a theater lobby the actor-manager and a companion observe a pedestrian bowing. The companion asks who the passerby is and learns he is a dramatic critic. The manager quips that the critic mostly writes for free seats.
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Theater of Varieties
Minnesota man Identifies Belle Gunness Photo in St Paul
Rhode of Minnesota states he met and talked with Mrs Belle Gunness in St Paul on Tuesday afternoon after recognizing photographs of the Laporte murderess in newspaper images. He and his wife had seen a strange woman with a friend, prompting discussion of the Laporte murders and leading to a police photo search.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Herman Rhode
Belle Gunness
Laporte
Ind
Mrs. Gunness
Boy Protects Mother Stabbed. Father Attacks Family
In Waterloo Iowa on May 15 Ernest Fidler was critically stabbed by his father John Fidler while defending his mother from assault. John Fidler, 70, struck the son five times in the back and twice in the face. the injuries were severe but avoided immediate death. A second similar tragedy occurred in Buchanan county the prior week, with the burial of Fremont Fleming killed by his daughter protecting his wife.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Ernest Fidler
John Fidler
Littleton
Buchanan County
Fremont Fleming
Winthrop
Lembke Indicted for Forgery in Dubuque Checks
Charles Lembke, once of La Crosse, is indicted by a Davenport grand jury for passing forged checks written on Professor Schocei of Schocei School of Music. The Dubuque transactions totaled about $50. He fled to Davenport where he was captured. Earlier, in La Crosse, he evaded harsher consequences due to influential acquaintances.
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la Crosse
Charles Lembke
Davenport
Professor Schocel
Dubuque
Lembke
Schocei
Similar But Different
An old-fashioned woman taunts a young overdressed woman on the street corner about resemblance to her mother. The young woman insists she is like her mother, while describing her act of making a spread instead of quilting at home.
Gambler John Benner Seized From Train In North Dakota
John Benner, a noted gambler, wrestler, bartender now jailed in Grafton on a charge of escaping from jail in Glasgow Montana. A Walsh county deputy sheriff nabbed him on a Northern Pacific northbound train with a Winnipeg ticket in his pocket after a string of sightings in East Grand Forks. He had been sought for holding up and nearly killing a man.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Winnipeg
John Benner
Northern Pacific
Walsh County
Grafton
Glasgow
Mont
Benner
East Grand Forks
Teacher Dies After Castor Bean Picnic Tragedy
In Los Angeles on May 15 Miss Rappilla Burgroff a Sunday school teacher is dead and thirty children are dangerously ill after eating fruit from a castor bean shrub during a picnic at Arroyo Seco. Several children are expected to die.
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Los Angeles
Rappilla Burgroff
Watertown to elect new five member school board
In Watertown South Dakota an entire new five member school board will be elected at large in a special election set for May 26. This will be the fifth such election this spring for the city schools under the current state law.
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Watertown
S. D
Rapid City
Milwaukee
New Colon
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Gearing Bros
Detroit
Locks
United States Court of Claims
Pierre
Hays
John Clifford
Motive Revealed in Bristol Wife’s Plot Twist
A Bristol wife tells her husband there is a gentleman in the parlor who wants to speak. She laments his cough and fears losing him, then reveals the visitor is a life insurance agent. The husband jokes that illnesses rarely kill, while the wife acknowledges the arranged visit.
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Bristol
Infant Burned in House Fire After Mother's Return
A mother returned to her home to find her baby crying in a blaze that had flared into a mass of flames. She extinguished the fire, but the child sustained serious burns to the arms and head.
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D. Jehlen, JR
City Market
S. Third ST
Northwest
LA Porte
ST. Paul
MAN Knives
Chas. Lembke
Quality House Furniture and Rug House
South Third Street
Vermis
Martin
Royal Wilton
Deadwood
Tillie Riley
Stein-Bloch
Nels Thompson
4Th Street
Nels
Sioux City
Charles H. Rouse
Morningside College
Cummings’ Drug Store
Morningside
Clarence D. Royse
Methodist Episcopal Church
Spencer
Batchelder & Son
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