Important News Notes of a Week
A compact roundup lists Rev Elwood Worcester urging a Emmanuel college, Capablanca’s simultaneous chess feat, New York horticultural prize winner, Verona NJ mayoral election, Mrs. Robins on Western factory girls, and Aiken’s anti prohibition bill push. Also notes include a Nicaraguan battle, Cusps of London finance bill, and various obits.
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Elwood Worcester
Boston
Emmanuel Healing Movement
Emmanuel
Jennie McCowen
Iowa Conference of Charities and Correction
Davenport
Jose R. Capablanca
New York
Samuel Watermeyer
The
Horticultural Society
John R. Pratt
First Congregational Church
Verona
N. J
Raymond Robins
Pankhurst
Congressman Aiken
South Carolina
District of Columbia
de’ Witt-Clinton Duncan
Vinita, Oklo
Duncan
Doctor's Prescription for a Remedy Mix
A crude medical note advises mixing one ounce compound syrup of Sarsaparilla and one ounce Torfs compound with a half pint of whiskey. Use a table spoonful before meals and at bedtime, shaking the bottle well each time. Claims the remedy is highly effective and restorative after a few doses.
A Close Bond Wife Twins and New Strength For Women's Backs
A testimonial from Mrs. Mary Hinson of Mt. Sterling Ky reports restoring health after backache dizziness and nervous headaches using Dean's Kidney Pills. She credit the remedy with improving eyesight reducing head pains and enabling better mobility. The ad urges readers to remember the name Dean's and mentions Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Z as distributors.
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Mary Hinson
Strother St
Mt. Sterling
Dean
Mrs. Hinson
Dean's
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Z
Cure of eczema praised by Cuticura in a month
An elderly man recalls a six month torment from eczema that covered head to foot. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for twenty four hours he slept soundly and within a month was cured. Boston company ad copy accompanies the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Smith
Mt. Kisco
Potter Ding & Chem. Corp
Solo Props
Boston
Ants bring cousins to the porch in charming mix up
A child named Small Nettie mishears a scene of large ants on a back porch and asks about them. She then discovers small ants among the large ones and exclaims that the aunts have brought their little nieces with them today.
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Nettie
Iowa Hunters Licenses to Bring 80 000 to Fish and Game Fund
Cedar Rapids Nov 8 Iowa sportsmen await how the state will use the large new license revenue. An estimated 80 000 hunter licenses will be issued this year, with about 73 750 blanks already mailed. Nonresident licenses will be few. net revenue should exceed 80 000, joining the fish and game protection fund to fund warfare against violations and potential propagation efforts.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Fish and Game Protection Fund
Fish and Game Warden's Department
New Matron Installed at Town State Teachers College Hospital
The state board of education finance committee has converted President H. H. Seerley’s old home on the college campus into a hospital for sick students at Town State Teachers College. Students may choose their own doctor. Mrs. A. M. Potter of Wilton, Iowa, is named the first matron and will begin her duties.
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Cedar Paris
State Board of Education
H. H. Seerley
Colege
State Teachers’ College
A. M. Potter
Wilton Iown
Crawford County Land Sales Record Price in Denison
In Crawford county farms of over twenty acres set a record price when Ben Smith sold 160 acres near Denison for 175 dollars per acre. The land includes timber and has long been farmed. H Mordhurst acted as fairchaser. a 240 acre sale to Wm McBride of Dow City occurred at 120 dollars per acre. Both properties are well improved. Bishop Keane Opposes Woman's Suffrage in Dubuque interview states home is women's sphere and reforms from home may be more effective than political action.
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Crawford County
Denison
Ben Smith
H. Mordhurst
Wm. McBride
Dow City
Keane
Dubuque
J.F. Weane
Fox's Daughter Divorced in Cruel Treatment Case
Jefferson Mrs. G. M. Miller has been granted a divorce from G. M. Miller on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. The wife, daughter of Representative John Fox of Dallas Center, retains custody of the two children.
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Repy
Fox
Jefferson
G. M. Miller
John Fox
Dallas Center
Mine accident claims Seymour coal worker Magers
Brai Magers, 24, was killed in Goai Mine when a coal car toppled onto him. He leaves four wives and two children and was known locally as an all around athlete and a member of the Odd Fellows.
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Goai
Seymour
Brai Magers
The
Odd Fellows
Woman Found Dead by Suicide Near Mill Dam
A woman, wife of a well known local resident, is believed to have died by suicide after her body was found in a stream near the mill dam. The couple leaves a family including a four month old child. Meanwhile in Dubuque, Milwaukee brakeman Charles First, 18, was crushed to death when a misplaced switch sent a train into standing cars in the upper shop yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nels Jorgenson
Dubuque
Charles First
Milwaukee
Glenwood Youths Dismissed by Council Briefing
J. R. Wilhelm and J. J. Collat two Glenwood youths arrested at a hotel with two Glenwood girls were allowed to return home on the Mills County county attorney's suggestion.
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Glenwood
J. R. Wilhelm
J. J. Collat
Mills County
Farmers Buy New Corn Picker Husker in Butler County
Farmers in Butler County purchase the latest corn feker and husker inventions and have the machines at work in their fields.
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Allison
Butler County
Simpson Receives Gift From Local Businessmen
Indianola's Wm Buxton Sr Harry B Hopper and F Signer donated 20000 to Simpson College announced at chapel by President Shelton. They recently bought timber land in Canada for speculation and said one fourth of proceeds would go to Simpson. The deal closed with 80000 profit netting the college 2000.
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Simpson
Indianola
Simpson College
Shelton
Wm. Buxton, Sr
Harry B. Hopper
F. ©. Signer
Canada
Engineer Killed in Crash on Milwaukee Line
John Smith, a popular and efficient Milwaukee engineer, was killed instantly when the driving wheel broke on his engine during a run in the Sioux City division. The crash halted the service as crews investigated the fatal accident and honored his long faithful service.
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Sioux City
Milwaukee’ Railroad
John Smith
Wedded for Half a Century in Washington County
Mr and Mrs Adam Guy celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their West Chester home after more than fifty years of marriage begun in the city at the United Presbyterian parsonage by Rev Van Atta. The couple has lived in Washington County for over fifty years, forty of them in their present home. Mr Guy is 81 and Mrs Guy 70.
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Washington
Adam Guy
West Chester
United Presbyterian
van Atta
Washington County
Guy
Paroled ex-water superintendent McArthur returns home
Dubuque reports Arthur McArthur Sr., once Dubuque water works chief, paroled after a four year Fort Madison sentence handed down on November 18, 1907. He had been implicated in a $60,000 embezzlement scandal and will arrive home soon.
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McArthur
Dubiate
Dubuque
Arthur McArthur
Fort Madison
Minus the Dark Dance at Iowa City Cotillion
The University of Iowa sophomore cotillion will be held December 17 without the dark dances. The agnimites plan to host the party and will invite guests from Coe College and Cornell.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Gvew
Agnimites
Hisorts
Coe College
Cornell
Former Iowa Minister Weds in Mason City
Announcement of the marriage of Rev. Albert H. Jordan formerly pastor of the Congregational church Mason City now serving a large church in St. Louis to Miss Emma Stewart Bixby daughter of two prominent residents of St. Louis. The second vice president office created by live stock fair directors Captain W. S. A. Smith named to head live stock exhibits. President F. L. Haidn and others re-elected.
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Iowa
Mason City
Albert H. Jordan
Congregational Church
This Place
St. Louis
Emma Stewart Bixby
Sioux City
W. 8. A. Smith
F. L. Haidn
Iowa City Water Plant Start Aimed at Pure City Water
Iowa City Water Company begins a $20,000 filtering plant to ensure pure water for the state university community and Iowa City residents. Construction delayed briefly by a fire that destroyed the Horrybin sand pump.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Water Company
the State University
Keokuk Man Shoots Self to End Suffering
Keokuk machinist Constantine Lieffer, 38 calibre revolver in hand, shoots himself in the heart after sixteen years of ill health. He dies instantly in a coal shed. his wife discovers the body shortly after the tragedy. She mourns a husband and the couple leave behind a bereaved household in Keokuk.
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Keokuk
Constantine Lieffer
County Attorney Appointed In Clarion County
A. R. Ladd of Ladd and Rogers was appointed county attorney by the county commissioners to fill the unexpired term of Bradford Knapp who resigned to take a position in Washington D C.
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Clarion
A. R. Ladd
Ladd and Rogers
Bradford Knapp
Washington, D. C
Washington High forms its first school orchestra
An orchestra organized at Washington High School under Prof. Frank Sherratt of Burlington marks the school's first such ensemble in its history.
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Washington
Washington High School
Frank Sherratt
Burlington
Ths
Dismissal in Eight Suits Against Mabray and Others
Council Bluffs counsel for eight plaintiffs moved to compel defendants J. C. Mabray and others to file cost bonds, and the cases were dismissed after the motion.
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Mabray
Council Bluffs
J. C. Mabray
Acid in Eye by Mistake Causes Critical Injury
Mrs Ti O Clark of Ogden mistook a strong solution of carbolic acid for eye medicine and poured it into her eye. The eye was burned out and her condition was reported as critical.
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Boone
Ti. O. Clark
Ogden
Big Game Hunting In Highlands Ontario Open Season
Article extols Temagami region for moose during Oct 16 to Nov 15 and notes red deer areas around Muskoka Lakes Lake of Bays Maganetawan River Lake Nipissing Kawartha Lakes. Invites readers to request Haunts of Fish and Game by W S Cookson for game laws and maps from Grand Trunk Railway System. The text also includes unrelated fairy tale dialogue and fragmented remarks.
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Ontario
Temagami
Muskoka Lakes
Lake of Bays
Maganetawan River
Heil's Catarrh Cure and Local Patent Medicine Ad
An old advertisement touts Heil's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for a catarrh cure, claims testimonial support from Toledo druggists Waide, Kumovan, and Marvin, and promotes internal blood and mucous action. Also promotes Rough on Rats poison and warns against imitators.
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Sar Jae
Heil
Eicheney & Co
Undersiocd
F. J. Cheney
Tirandelty
Waide
Kmovan
Toledo
Fragmented ad-laden speech with moral quips and product pitches
The excerpt strings together quips on etiquette and insult, mixed with product pitches for WRIGLEY'S SPEARMINT and Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup. It rails at giddiness, warns against imitation blue, and touts virtues of honesty, with cynical quotes about truth and friendship.
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Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
William “Dobson
Canadian Express
Niagara Fells
Grand Trunk Station
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Las Lajas
Los Chiles
Martin Kaufmann
Berlin
Cotton Goods Converter’s Company of
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Speaker Cannon
South Bend
Ind
Danville
Cambria Steel Company
Johnstown
Marvin
Hartford
Conn
Lucinda Treat Goddard
Charles R. Goddard
Yale
Leonard Duenmere
Wasi
Knoxville
Miss
Jesse James
Kansas City
New York Museum
Alva Coan
Alexander Hoenig
Cleveland
American Society of Municipal Improvements
Little Rock
ATK
James Owen
Montclair
Central Conference of American Rabbis
David Philipson
Cincinnati
United States
Albert B. Cummins
Marquette ‘Club
Chicago
Cannon
E. J. Goshorn
Charleston
W. Va
Goshorn
Tolone
Secret Service
Post Office
Estrada
Castillo Chammoro
John Stewart Kennedy
America
Roosevelt
Africa
Htas
Robert
Peary
John D. Rockefeller
Russell Sage
Andrew Carnegie
Jesse James, Jr
James
Missouri Pacific
Koenigsburg
State Department
Mount Vernon
New York City
New York State
Lia
Brenner
Bhave
Timothy Tripr
Greene
National Geographic Society
Robert BE. Peary
North Pole
Stephen G. Porter
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Helen Boyle
Western Penitentiary
Mercer
Billy Whitla
James Whitla
Sharon
Steinheil
Paris
Lefevre
M. Steinheil
Mme. Japy
Taft
Columbus
Dickinson
George Baker
Gov. Marshall
Indiana
Goshen
Mali
Eczema
Johnny
Jenny
Mothera
Carmody
Arthur Johnson
Harris
J. H. Smith
Johnson
Eimis
Scribbler
Philadelphia Record
Edyth
Jack
Perry Davis
Wrigley's
Nsw
Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
Minn
S. Borman & Son, Inc
East Ninth St
Ben. CG Cial Sgencice
Exrugerus
Eya
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