Des Moines to Host Carpenters Union Meet in 1910
Des Moines expects about 3,000 visitors for the international carpenters and joiners convention to be held in September 1910. 1,000 delegates are planned with at least 2,000 attendees from across the United States. Meetings will be public in the Coliseum or Auditorium, with delegates from Cuba, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, plus a notable California delegation promising a bear gift for Senator Cummins.
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Des Moines
International Union of Carpenters and Joiners
National Organization
A. L. Urick
Iowa
American Federation of Labor
The
Carpenters’ Union
United States
Cuba
Hawaii
Porto Rico
San Francisco
California
Cummins
Committee On
Knights of Pythias
Illinois and Missouri Teachers Gather for State Association Meetings
Springfield and St. Louis host annual state teachers conferences. Illinois session opens with Gov. Deneen, C. M. Bardwell, Francis G. Blair and A. E. Winship addressing officials. Missouri meeting chaired by B. G. Shackelford features Otto Heller and Walter Williams with memorials for Harris and Soldan.
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Sprinfield
Normal School Council
Illinois State Teachers’ Association
State House
Gov. Deneen
C. M. Bardwell
Aurora
Francis G. Blair
A. E. Winship
Boston
St. Louis
Missouri State Teachers’ Association
Central High School
B. G. Shackelford
Cape Girardeau
F.H. Kreismann
Otto Heller
Washington University
Walter Williams
University of Missouri
William T. Harris
F. Louis Soldan
J. M. Greenwood
Kansas City
Ben Blewett
MEN OF HARMONY CONVENE IN CHICAGO
Music Teachers National Association opens at Northwestern University Evanston with large attendance. Papers read by Chicago figures Harrison M Wild Adolf Weidig Dr Nathaniel Rubinkan H Augustine Smith and others. Sessions run through Tuesday with concerts and meetings including Capella choir recital and International Music Society gathering.
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Chicago
Music Teachers’ National Association
Northwestern University
Evanston
Harris
Harrison M. Wild
Adolf Weidig
Nathaniel Rubinkan
H. Augustine Smith
Walde
Kentucky Editors Swap Views at Mid Winter Meeting
Lexington December meeting of the Kentucky Press association opened with a welcome by J. K. Patterson of the state university. I Underwood, association president, spoke as editors debated the press and legislature. C. L. Adter discussed tuberculosis in Kentucky. A session on editorials followed, with a university dinner planned and a closing trip to Elmendorf by Haggin.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Kentucky Press Association
J. K. Patterson
The
State University
Underwood
C. L. Adter
Elmendorf
Haggin
Kansas State Music Teachers Convene In state event
Music Teachers of Kansas organized last year hold an enthusiastic convention in Wichita with about fifty state musicians on the program. Tomorrow afternoon a concert will feature only works by Kansas composers. Charles Davis Carter of Wichita serves as association president. Michigan Knights of the Grip hold annual meeting in Lansing with President J. J. Frost leading. 1910 officer elections are scheduled tomorrow.
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Music Teachers of Kansas
Wiehitd
Kans
Dée
Kansas State Magic Teachers’ Association
Kansas
Charles Davis Carter
Wichita
Michigan Knights of the Grip
Lansing
Mich
The
Michigan
Knights of the Grip
J. J. Frost
Man badly injured in fall at brick works
Mason City Iowa December 27 A pit foreman William Booth at the American Brick and Tile company suffered a thirty? fall from twenty feet into frozen clay and tools. ribs crushed though he survived.
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Mason City
William Booth
American Brick and Tile Company
Herfell
Shot Fired at Editor in Cairo Bulletin Window
A sensational incident in Cairo Illinois on December 27 involved a gun fired through a window of the Bulletin striking at the head of editor BE Thielecke. The attack disrupted the newsroom as police began investigations into the motive and suspect.
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Cairo
Ill
Bulletin
BE. W. Thielecke
Development of Central Canada Promises Vast Wheat Returns
An article extols Central Canada comprising Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as a land of lush yields for both homesteaders and purchasers. It notes 100 bushel oat yields and 40 to 50 bushel wheat yields, rapid railroad expansion with Grand Trunk Pacific, growing towns and schools, and the wealth of soil driving a mirrored growth in infrastructure and prosperity. It urges readers to consider homesteading or purchasing and to contact Wanadiah Government officials for information to help build a northern Canada.
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States
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Hnes
Grand Trunk Pacific
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Central
Wanadiah
United States
An Artistic Rebuke on a Smoke Fray
A well known clergyman riding north in a non smoking compartment faced a cigarette lighting by the only other occupant without permission. The reverend gentleman, wishing to smoke, was relieved yet the moment prompted him to draw his pipe and ask if the other man would object to his smoking.
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Gentlman
Two of a Kind Mrs Boggs quarrel over house chores
A brief cartoon caption features Mrs Boggs and Mrs Woggs exchanging jests about husbands who nag over minor home details. Mrs Boggs complains about lace curtains while Mrs Woggs recalls her husband waking at three every morning for two decades in a humorous exchange.
Rheumatism Cure Claim Stirs Doubtful Claims
A dubious tonic claims to cure rheumatism in 1 to 3 days by Dr. Detchon. It promises rapid relief and removal of the cause, with first doses showing strong benefit. The ad also notes a woman’s jealousy motif linked to Trost as a separate line of text.
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Detchon
Mayer Shoes Built Up A Large Milwaukee Seattle Firm
Biographical note on Frederick Mayer founder of Mayer Boot and Shoe Company. Originating from Niernstein Hessen Darmstadt he settled in Milwaukee 1851, started as a journeyman, then wholesale and later manufacturing. By present, Milwaukee and Seattle factories produce 9000 pairs daily, with over six hundred thousand dollars in wages and sixty five traveling salesmen across ninety four states. He is joined by George P. Neves Fred J. Mayer and Adam J. Mayer upholding founder’s thrift and industry. The piece closes with a humorous anecdote about a rector and a touring recruiting officer in uniform.
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Frederick Mayer
Mayer Boot & Shoe Company
German American National Alliance
Milwaukee
Seattle
Niernstein
Hessen
Darmstadt
Wisconsin
R. Subin
New World
One Woman's Good Work in Cuba Ended Bullfighting
Mrs. Jeanette Ryder, an American humanitarian, has spent ten years in Cuba working to suppress bull and cock fighting, reportedly doing more than any other individual to curb the two practices on the island.
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Jeanette Ryder
Cuba
Fletcherized Compliments and Vanishing Vanities
A fragment notes a preference for genuine Russ blue to preserve clothing and whiten whites. It warns against vanities and urges thorough Fletcherization before compliments are accepted.
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Des Moinea
Peter Lambert
Greenwood Park
Lambert
Second
School Streets
Germany
Europe
Summerville
Lee County
Fred German
Lydia Holland
William Wilson
Lincoln
J. Rush Lincoln
Rush Lincoln
Cassie Lincoln
Ames
Byers
Supreme Court
McHeary
Polk County
O'Conner
Allison
Morrow
M. J. Tobin
Vinton
Neilie Selick
Twenty-ninth Street
Plymouth
R. Bishop
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Coliseum
W. E.davis
Berwick
G Redhead
C. Davis
Boone
F. Justice
Grant Chapman
Bagley
J. Justice
Ankeny
B. F. Heller
Altoona
William McArthur
State Agricultural College
Agar Company
Agar Packing Company of
Des. Moines
Farrar
Frank W. Dodson
Polk County Jury Commission
B. ¥. Kauftman
Des Moines Commercial, Club
the Savery
Mannheimer
Deal
Sigmund Mannheimer
Eugene Mannheimer
Cincinnati
Board of Supervisors
Court House
Carroll
N.N. Crawford
Waukon
Marsh
Bert Marsh
Des Moines City Railway Company
Grand View Park
Nineis
Springfield
Missouri
Commercial Teachers’ Federation
Louisville
National Commercial Teachers’ Federation
Gault “House
W. C. Head
F. C. Nupemacher
Focal Board of Trade
A. D. Wilt
Miami Commercial College
M. H. Lockyear
Evansville
Ind
Federation
Trost
Frederick Mayer Beat and Shoe Company
Eltham
Sixteenth Foot
Hildren
Amuelteagr
Genttegen Hindrgreen
Fac Limited
CexTain Company
New York
O. Ry
Bears
Castoria
Uncle Sam
Hale
Dolliver
Ceoustra
Daltylag
Descrip
Imbrana
Ottawa
Con
Wolmes
St.Paul
Inns
O. Mpg. CO
Mijasaswon
Tor
W. N. U. Des Moines
Orsue
Wrigleys
Wrigley
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