Minnesota and Northwest Seek Navigable Minnesota River
A regional meeting in Mankato will form a permanent group to push federal funds for deepening the Minnesota River to allow small freight steamers. About 150 invited businessmen expected. Congressmen Hammond Doris and Volstead among anticipated attendees. state senators Works and Caller appointed to plan organization and assess federal control. The gathering opens at 1 p.m. at theSoulaugh with potential hospitality from the Mankato Commercial Club.
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Mankato
Minn
Minnesota River
Belle Plaine
Hammond
Doris and
Volstead
S. D. Works
Caller
Shakopee
Soulpaugh
Mankato Commercial Club
Northwest Briefs Highlight Regional Events From 3 States
North Dakota and Minnesota items report college funds near $3,000 forwarded to the state treasurer, a rare pelican sight in South Dakota, a filled sink hole near Kabekona, a $2,000 death settlement in St. Cloud, Windom restricts dice games for cigars, Red Wing chosen for a Minnesota education meeting, a Kasota farmer’s carbolic acid accident, a Windom water works bid, and Sartell voting to incorporate as a village with William Sartell likely as mayor.
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Aberdeen
Normal
The
ST. Onge
S. D
Felix Cardinal
Bemidji
Minn
Minnesota & Iowa Railway
Kabekona
ST. Cloud
Kate Yaeger
Great Northern
Yaeger
Windom
Rochester
Southeastern Minnesota Educational Association
Winona
Red Wing
ST. Peter
Charles Schwartz
Kasota
Not Guilty of Arson in Madelia Trial
Henry Weinberg of Madelia was acquitted in a district court trial on an attempted arson charge. The state’s key witness, Louis Seamins, testified he was hired by Weinberg to start a fire at the clothing and dry goods store on September 21, with motive of inflating insurance.
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ST. James, Minn
Henry Weinberg
Madelia
Weinberg
Louis Seamins
Attempted murder fail comes to light in Janesville incident
Mrs. John Hurlbut of Janesville reports a stranger knocked and fired a revolver at her face through an open door. The unknown man fled into darkness. Police in St Peter and Janesville seek to determine whether the act was an assassination attempt or a cruel prank.
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ST. Peter, Minn
John Hurlbut
Janesville
Hurlbut
Waterway plan fight to spark large Washington convention
The inland waterways commission irate at the Memphis deep waterway convention. They condemn the resolutions committee for blocking cooperative action with the forestry and irrigation bureaus. They push for a major popular convention in Washington next January with President Roosevelt likely to endorse it in his annual message to Congress.
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Washington
Inland Waterways Commission
Bureau of Forestry, Irrigation
The
Waterway Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
Will Jerome Push Ryan Case Defining Obliquity
New York October 14 Possibility of criminal prosecution in the Interborough Metropolitan traction merger case surfaces after a long talk between District Attorney Jerome and Public Service Commission Chairman Willcox. Jerome hints at proving moral obliquity of Ryan and associates rather than criminal intent. Governor Hughes stance on a special state lawyer remains uncertain.
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New York
Interborough - Metropolitan Traction
Jerome
Willcox
Public Service Commission
Ryan
Hughes
Lynch Three Negroes Lynched in Mississippi
In Tunica Mississippi three Black men were taken from the jail by unknown attackers and lynched. Two bodies were found hanging from a Telegraph pole near the depot early today, the third believed dead from buckshot, all arrested Wednesday for a Robinsonville burglary.
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Tunica, Miss
Robinsonville
Rockefeller gifts $600000 to University of Chicago library
John D. Rockefeller again funds the University of Chicago with a 600000 gift to the memorial library fund in a letter from his son. The donation would ensure the building, with the condition that by April 1, 1908 the university must raise 200000 for the library.
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Chicago
John OD. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
Oil King
Board of Trustees
William Rainey Harper
Wisconsin sheep sent to Northern Wisconsin for experiment
Sheep raisers from Wisconsin ship carloads of sheep to Northern Wisconsin for winter feeding. W. W. Wilson, a large stock farmer near Ashland and brother of the Secretary of Agriculture, receives thousands of sheep, a government auspice experiment, aims to test winter grazing in the region.
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Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin
W. W. Wilson
Wilson
Chicago Commission House
Benson Miss Nellie Cashman Resigns as Swift County Superintendent
Nellie Cashman, superintendent of schools for Swift County, tendered her resignation to the county board this week, with the effective date set for November 13.
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Benson
Minn
Nellie Cashman
Swift County
Prominent Jamestown Talk Warns Neglect of Colds
At a mothers' convention in Jamestown Dr Hartwell urged prompt care for common colds, claiming three fourths of today’s dread diseases start from colds. He promoted Concentrated oil of pine with glycerine and whiskey, noting risks from bulk oils and imitate medicines.
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Jamestown
Hartwell
Old Pastor Is Here Rev W S Sweet Arrives in La Crosse
Rev W S Sweet and his wife visited La Crosse for a farewell stop before departing March 29 for China. A former pastor of the First Baptist Church, he founded Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam and has expanded Chinese mission education. He preached at both morning and evening services during the visit.
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W. S. Sweet
City
Rev. Sweet
First Baptist Church of
la Crosse
China
Orient
Sweet
Wayland Academy
Beaver Dam
Wis
First Baptist Church
Marriage Merchant Leaves Milwaukee for Black Wolf
Cupid surely had a bite today as Rev Samuel Moldenhauer known as the marriage merchant, who ran a marriage bureau from Kewaskum to Milwaukee, left for Black Wolf to lead a small Lutheran congregation and continue his operations. He claims other ministers in his faith formed a combine against him and drove him from the city.
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Milwaukee
Cupid
Samuel Moldenhauer
Kewaskum
Black Wolf
Fond du Lac
Defendants’ lawyers face Magill verdict leaning to fourteen years
At the Magill trial's close in Decatur Illinois Oct 14 the state attorneys privately conceded defeat and scrapped seeking capital punishment. They expect a fourteen year sentence for Magill, signaling a likely severe conviction outcome.
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Decatur
III
Magill
The College Girl's Rescue
An editor quotes a professor on college education for girls noting that true learning is humility. A tale about a vain Vassar girl stranded on rocks ends with a shellback’s blunt reply about gratitude and getting rescued. The anecdote satirizes pretentious speech and the value of practical aid.
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Vassar
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bad Judgment in Chicago News Dialogue
In a Chicago News excerpt a child asks a poignant question about a baby’s origin, with the mother affirming the child’s inquiry. The exchange highlights themes of innocence and family concern in a brief, domestic moment.
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William
Chicago News
Wisconsin Dedicates Andersonville Monument Ceremony
Arrangements for the dedication of the Wisconsin soldiers monument at Andersonville Georgia are complete with an expected 200 or more Wisconsin attendees. The program begins after 10 a.m. with a prayer, Gen C R Boardman to speak on Wisconsin in the Civil War, Levi H Bancroft to discuss Wisconsin heroes who died in confinement, and shaft transfer to W R C D G James who will hand it to Gov Davidson for presentation to the Nations Woman's Relief Corps. The party departs Madison tomorrow at 1 05 p.m.
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Andersonville
Wisconsin
C. R. Boardman
Wisconsin National Guard
Levi H. Bancroft
Richland Center
Shaft
W. R. C. D. G. James
Wisconsin Andersonville Monument
Daviison
Davidson
President of the Nations’ Woman’s Relief Corps
Rockwell E. Osborne
Madison
Cities along Rock River seek federal funding for river development
Rock River cities led by Jefferson Wisconsin plan a movement to urge Congress for a large appropriation to develop the river into a commercial channel. Development begins as Crawfish river joins the Rock in the city center. In earlier years steamboats navigated the Rock up to Jefferson's Main Street bridge before the dam era.
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Jefferson
Wis
Rock River
Congress
Janesville
Fort Atkinson
Watertown
Ilinois
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Northwest
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Tical
Ryan Case
Lynch
Baptist Church
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