Happenings of a Week Recap of Readings and York News
Representative W B P Brownlow nominated for congress in Bristol Tennessee as Republican primary results show. Brig Gen Charles Morton retired from Missouri Department after long service. Mrs Hetty Greene reportedly donated land valued at 500000 to Christopher Columbus University in New York. F M Baker discharged dishonorably from navy for desertion to Aguinaldo’s Filipino army. W Frank Wilson of Buffalo dies on a train near Utica New York. Commodore Hovgaard Danish Arctic explorer dies. linked to Cook tribute plans in Copenhagen and early support for Walter Phelps Dodge’s claims. Paul Morton named president of Pan American Railroad to be headquartered in New York. Louis Graf of Brooklyn, ten, to regain use of a broken neck after nine months.
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W. B P. Brownlow
Congress
Republican Party
Bristol
Tenn
Charles Morton
Department of the Missouri
Omaha
Hetty Greene
Christopher Columbus University
New York City
Dot
F. M.baker
Marines Corps
Navy
Roin
Aguinaldo
W. Frank Wilson
Buffalo
N. Y
New York Central Railroad Company
Utica
Hovgaard
Fredrick A. Cook
Copenhagen
Walter Phelps Dodge
New York
Helen Breck
Pittsburg
London
Willam Waldorf
Astor
America
Mexico City
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Pan-American Railroad
Louis Graf
Brooklyn
Papke Wins Middleweight Title Bout in Paris
Billy Papke known as the Illinois Thunderbolt stops Willie Lewin of New York in the third round of a scheduled 20 round middleweight bout in Paris. The rest of the page covers legislative standoffs over railroad mergers, tariffs, and party cohesion as Taft urges unity, the labor dispute between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen reaches arbitration, navy ship orders, and the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry.
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Billy Papke
Illinois Thunderbolt
Willie Lewin
New York
Paris
France
Papke
Cummins
Iowa
Elas Tc
Supreme Court of the United States
Taft
Rochester
Republican Party
Congress
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
State Board of Arbitration
Uncle Sam
Navy
Navy Department
Delaware
North Dakota
Aljater
F. A. Newell
Reclamation Service
Pallinger-Pinchot
Ballinger
Garfield
Cahnon
Houses of Representatives
Nationwide House Battle Ends with Speaker's Power Dented
Insurgent Republicans aided by Democrats toppled Speaker's grip in a three day clash. The House voted 191 to 168 to expand and elect the rules committee and remove the Speaker from its membership. A 191 to 155 vote kept Mr. Cannot from dethroning the Speakership. Revelations include a Pittsburg council confession and calls for arrests as officials face charges. Roosevelt, in Egypt, warned of a nonpartisan, nonsectional reception back in New York. In Baltimore, police seek George E. Sutton after his disappearance. Fire probe leaders are tied to Huntington arson confessions and a Ken tuckian launch at Sparrow's Point with Nancy Johnson as sponsor. Canadian exploration search and a Massachusetts land bill anchor other items in this varied roundup.
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National House of Representatives
Rnsular
Joe
House
Vermillion, & D
Commission
Pittsburg
John F. Klein
Bir
Klein
Shellal
Egypt
Theodore Roosevelt
Hig
New York
Baltimore
George E. Sutton
Wholesale Fish Association of
Abe Reed
John Earle
Harry McCrum
Carleton Gates
Huntington
Farma
Jefferson Davie
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Kentuckian
George Callawell
Hudson Bay
Canada
John V. Heflin
Coast Artillery
Presidio Hospital
San Francisco
Willis Elder
Walker
J. Pierpont Morgan
Woodland's Lake
Honoluln
Massachusetts
Northwest Mounted Police
Fort McPherson
Mackenzie
Dawson
Fort Rae
Great Slave Lake
Fort Worth
Tex
Oklahoma
United States
United States Supreme Court
Khartum
Holy Land
Franz Hals
Otto Kahn
Bob Austin
Charles Richardson
Marion
Ark
Wiltsey will cases set aside. deeds invalid in ten-year contest
Judge Albrook ruled the Tolman Wiltsey deeds invalid and the property covered by them to go to the contestants. The long running case began after Tolman Wiltsey died and left his estate to relatives while excluding his son Eugene, who later died. undue influence was cited as the basis for invalidating the will and deeds.
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Webster City
Mar
al Brook
Wiltsey
Tolman Kiltsey
Supreme Court
Tolman Wiltsey
Eugene
Eugene Wiltsey
Albrook
Eight Girls Sentenced for Rioting at Mitchellville School
Eight Des Moines Higat girls leaders in the uprising at Mitchellville Industrial School were jailed for ten days by Justice Cope after pleading guilty to rioting and attempting to destroy state property. They praised leaving the school under Miss Hattie Garrison and preferred jail to remaining. They charged Garrison with alleged cruelties and urged removal by the board of control, seeking a new superintendent, preferably a man.
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Des Moines
Higat
Mitchellville
Justice Cope
Hattie Garrison
Miss Garrison
Board of Control
Spring Building Sparks Toledo Construction Boom
Toledo begins spring building season with about ten blocks of paving to contract and two brick blocks under construction. The I O O F lodge considers an opera house with lodge room quarters, potentially becoming one of the city's most substantial structures if suitable quarters are secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Farmer Unearths Potatoes From Last Season Near Clear Lake
George Pitnam, a northern Iowa farmer near Clear Lake, dug up last year’s potatoes from a field where they grew. He found the vines green and the potatoes in excellent condition, untouched by frost due to a protective snowbank that kept them safe through winter.
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Clear Lake
Iowa
George Pitnam
Pitnam
Estherville Milks Lodge Elects Officers for Year
At a Milks lodge meeting in Estherville the following officers were elected for the coming year Exalted ruler J J Clinite secretary N B Egbert treasurer J K Stockdale and trustees G W Sayler G Zeeman W L Kingman Seth Hanchett J Howard and L Ks among those named include N B Egbert and J K Stockdale with J J Clinite as exalted ruler.
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Esthervie
Milks’ Lodge
J. J. Clinite
J. ©. Howard
Seth Hanchett
W. L. Kingman
L. K’s
N. B. Egbert
J. K. Stockdale
G. W. Sayler
G. Zeeman
Prominent Farmer Bets $1000 for Corydon Bridgeport Road
F H Smith a Wayne county farmer offers $1000 cash toward rebuilding the Corydon to Bridgeport highway four miles northeast of here.
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Corydon
F. H. Smith
Wayne County
Bridgeport
Here
Storm Lake Receives Grand Army Monument Donation
H. G. Mittlestgedt donates a large monument to the Storm Lake post of the Grand Army of the Republic for placement in Storm Lake cemetery to honor the unknown dead on the 28th.
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Storm Lake
H. G. Mittlestgedt
Grand Army of the Republic
Iowa Farm Transfers At 150 Per Acre
Chardan C George West sold 120 acres west of town to Frank Fartey of Coon Rapids Iowa for 150 dollars per acre. He then bought the old West homestead for 135 dollars per acre, a property resold ten years earlier for 40 dollars per acre.
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Iowa
Chardan—Cgeorge West
Frank Fartey
Coon Rapids
Old West
Governor Fifty Years Old Passes Half Century
Des Moines reports Governor B F Carroll reaches age fifty as of March 15 1910 born on a Davis County farm his father moved from Ohio in 1893 future life and career noted in brief biographical sketch
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Des Moines
B. F. Carroll
Davis County
Ohio
Iowa County Homes Stewards Organize Joint Association
Elliott heads a Des Moines meeting that formed the Iowa County Homes Stewards association to co operate with county supervisors. J E Corwin praised the move and urged statewide participation. officers named J A Elliott president BE Lunberg vice president A L Houston secretary treasurer. Cedar Rapids August joint convention planned with supervisors.
Des Moines Music Festival Special Rail Rates
Des Moines railroads will offer special fares for the Greater Des Moines musical festival on April 11 and 12. Manager Evans of the Coliseum and Eben E. MacLeod, Western Passenger association chairman, indicate rates will be decided soon. The move could draw hundreds of out of town visitors from surrounding cities and towns.
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Des Moines
John
Evans
Coliseum Company
Eben E. MacLeod
Western Passenger Association
Mrs Fueling Quits Job at Ames College
Agnes Fenling head of the domestic science department at the State college resigns, leaving August 15. The move is linked to opposition to the new educational board’s questioning of faculty. Three other teachers reportedly prepared to resign. Edith Charlden, college extension chart lecturer, has resigned her work ended March 15.
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Fueling
Ames
Agnes Fenling
The
State College
Fenling
New Educational Board
Edith Charlden
Chart
Iowa City to Host First Annual May Festival April 20
Iowa's first annual musical festival, the largest ever staged here, will be held April 20 and 21. Local musical groups join the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and other outside talent for a two day event featuring Gou nods Faust performed by the Choral society and University of Iowa Glee clubs.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Gounod
Choral Society
University of Iowa Glee Clubs
Man Attends Son's Golden Wedding Across Town
Grandpa C. C. Van Slyke walked five blocks from his daughter Mrs Koob to attend his son’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. He celebrated his the $ith birthday days earlier and remained in fair health for age.
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San
Atlantic
Anita
C. C. van Slyke
Elks Plan Celebration for New Home Dedication
Marshalltown lodge No. 212 of the Elks plans a grand dedication of its new Elks home valued at 40000. Grand Exalted Ruler J A Sammis of Le Mars will give the principal address. The lodge expects a class of over 100 new members, reaching a total membership above 600.
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Elks
Marshalltown
Marshall Lodge
J. A. Sammis
le Mars
Telephone Merger Ends Oskaloosa Exchange Era
The absorption of the Iowa Telephone exchange by Home Telephone Co. was completed with the abandonment of the old Oskaloosa office in operation since 1882. The Oskaloosa exchange was among the earliest built in the state.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa Telephone Company Exchange
Home Telephone Company
Oskaloosa ‘Exchange
Plant Move Planned to Mason City
J. S. Cox owner of the opera house property at Esther ville will move to Mason City and buy land to build a plant here as soon as arrangements can be made.
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Mason City
J. S. Cox
Estherville
Widow Follows Husband to Grave in Prairie City
Mrs. William Trip low, a pioneer resident, died at her home. Her husband had died a week earlier, and his decease was the immediate cause of her death.
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Prairie City
William Triplow
River Improvement Association Meets March 29
Ottumwa group Des Moines River Improvement association will meet in Armington March 29 per President Joseph Dain announcement.
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River Association
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Revival Services at Atlantic Draw Large Crowds
Atlantic revival services led by Evangelist C. Co. Smith with choir leader R. D. Roper are drawing unusually large crowds. The union gathering is held in Atlantic with strong participation and noticeable attendance.
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Atlantic
Union
Evangelist C. Co. Smith
R. D. Roper
Trains Derailed Near Green Mountain Claim Dozens Dead
A Rock Island train detour collided near Green Mountain in Marshall County killing about forty five to fifty people and injuring over forty as two engines and ten coaches plunged down an embankment. Firemen and a missing brakeman were reported. officials dispatched surgeons and a special train for aid.
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Marshalltown
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western
Green Mountain
Marshall County
Twin Cities
Chicago
Shellsburg
Hardie
Gladbrook
John C. White
Waterloo
Des Moiines
Gordon
Kansas City
Steele
Sweeney
High Penalty Handed to Mabray in Federal Case
The judge imposed a two year federal term at Leavenworth and a $10,000 fine on John C. Mabray and nine others in Council Bluffs on March 22. Judge McPherzon delivered the sentence in the case.
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Mabray
Council Bluffs
Mar
Leavenworth
Kas
John C. Mabray
McPherzon
Lincoln Reappointed Game Warden in Iowa
George A. Lincoln of Cedar Rapids, state fish and game warden, was reappointed to a three year term by Governor Carroll. His present term expires March 31. Keokuk hosts a Des Moines River survey as Major Rowse and twelve surveyors begin work to assess navigability and practicability of river navigation.
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Lincoln
Des Moines
George A. Lincoln
Cedar Rapids
Carroll
Incoln
Keokuk
Rowse
Free Kidney Cure Recipe Promised By Dr. Robinson
An advertisement offers a free home remedy recipe for kidney and bladder relief attributed to Dr. A E Robinson of Detroit. The copy claims rapid improvement and lists common symptoms while inviting readers to request the plain envelope mail delivery.
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A. E. Robinson
Luck Building
Detroit
Mich
Trolley Car Accident Featured in The Third Act
Abel Stringham cites a trolley car crash as a dramatic example in a playful exchange with a playwright. The dialogue suggests a theatrical scene referencing a past accident as inspiration.
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Abel Stringham
Shakespeare
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promote Clear Skin
For the skin and scalp Cuticura Soap with Cuticura Ointment cleanse purify and beautify the skin scalp hair and hands. Together they dispel itching irritation and inflammation prevent clogged pores and improve facial eruptions. Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Mass offers a free Cuticura Book.
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Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Boston
Mass
The Modern Spirit Paria Observes Dining Table Scene
An observer from Paria notes a fashionable restaurant table with three generations. The man orders milk for his mother beer for himself and absinthe for his daughter highlighting enduring social contrasts.
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Paria
Incubators Boosted by Round-the-Clock Factory Output
The Kiondike Incubators and Eroad ers are strong sellers this season. Demand taxes the factory capacity as workers operate day and night to meet orders. Production continues regardless of weather, aiming to keep up with shoppers.
Rheumatism Cure Claim Prompts Buyer Frustration
In a brief ad style note, Dr. Detchon’s Belief is advertised as curing rheumatism in 1 to 3 days with a promise of rapid relief after the first dose. The excerpt also hints at a humorous conversation about a hat price among newlyweds.
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Detchon
7C Druggiste
Seafaring Jobs Rise as Norway Tops Labor List
A historical note states that relative to population, more people earn livelihoods by seafaring in Norway than in any other country, with Britain following. The passage reflects on labor distribution and maritime work in a global context.
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Norway
Britain
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