Trappist Monk Timothy Visits Home After 37 Years
Dubuque August 20 Brother Timothy of a monastery near Dubuque returned to his native home in Dyersville for a family reunion, the first visit in thirty seven years since he left the world to become a monk. Mrs Mary Westermeyer hosted at her Dyersville home with two sisters and a Chicago sister in law, the monk and his siblings.
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Timothy
Dubuque
Dyersville
Mary Westermeyer
Anderson
Ryan
Chicago
New Breed of Draft Horses From Crossbreeding Experiment
Ames Iowa Aug 19 The Iowa State College cooperates with the United States government on a breeding project to create a gray draft horse breed. Foundation stock includes gray Shires and Clydesdales imported two weeks ago. The aim is a balanced cross preserving size quality bone feet and action to form a distinctive American draft horse.
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Iowa
Ames
Iowa State College
United States
Train Hits Handcar Wreck Near Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Aug 20 A passenger train on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line collided with a handcar on an embankment at Keystone thirty miles west injuring twenty. Express and mail cars went down the bank. Injured include messenger C T McA lwaine serious, postal clerk F C Myers scalp and internal injuries, several with skull fractures or serious injuries, and others with burns scalp wounds or bruises.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Keystone
Here
C. T. McAl ‘Waine
F. ‘C. Myers
Bag- Sageman Deland
F. W. Stockton
David Reynolds
Marion
Penter
Frank Wicheal
Carl Mershon
Olin
Harry ‘Steinberg
Harvey Wooley
Toronto
Ira Robinson
St. James
Frank Madison
Dubuque
Adolph Johnson
Bridge Gang
State Decide to Refute Hog Money Quote at Fair
Des Moines reports a visitor’s remark that Iowa spends more on hogs than children prompts a state led effort to prove the claim false. Educational lectures on housekeeping and marriage fitness, with Miss Mary F. Rausch joining, will be held during the state fair week alongside a baking contest. questions of education costs are noted as far higher than agricultural spending. The spectacle aims to show girls readiness for matrimony, while young men may seek wives at the fair.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mary F. Rausch
State Agricultural College
Roosevelt Lets No Corporation Escape Punishment
President Roosevelt spoke from Town Hill in Provincetown, urging a national incorporation law and firm action against wealthy malefactors. He emphasized no vindictive prosecutions, defended honest wealth, and called for decisive government power over interstate corporations, while warning against predatory capitalists and anarchist agitators. He planned to pursue enforcement without undue hardship on innocent stockholders as he headed to Oyster Bay aboard the Mayflower.
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Provincetown
Mass
Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Monument
Roosevelt
Town Hill
Paris
Berlin
New York Stock Exchange
United States
Oyster Bay
Prohibition Concession Reached in Davenport Saloon War
A compromise ends the Davenport saloon war with the Anti-Saloon league and German American alliance. Saloons may open Sundays 2 PM to 11 PM, ban women and children, and retain window blinds and door screens. Injunction suits to be withdrawn.
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Davenport
Anti-Saloon League
German- American Alliance
The Six Hundred Ride at Balaklava Heroic Charge
A dramatic retelling of the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava with vivid anecdotes. It recalls a regimental butcher riding bare armed and pipe in mouth, a drunken private joining the raid, and the staggering loss of 673 to 195 horsemen as the 600 are hailed as noble. The piece lauds bravery amid a blunder and preserves the legend of the six hundred.
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Balaklava
Cornhill Magazine
The
Seventeenth Lancers
England
Snake Myths Debunked By Popular Beliefs
A historical note states that snakes lack medicinal qualities and lists common myths. It cites that snake galls do not cure bites, oil does not treat rheumatism or deafness, skins or flesh offer no cure for illnesses, snake heart or blood medicines are ineffective, and a second bite does not counteract the first.
The Modern Restlessness and Social Vim
The London Ladies Meld laments a modern restlessness mirroring ancient Athenians as people endlessly seek novelty only to scrutinize it once found. It notes daily routines of eating drinking sleeping and plodding life, with churchgoing on Sundays and widespread fear of God and the fearful Mrs Grundy.
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Mrs. Grundy
London
Cutting Down Competition I saved $500 this year by moving
A trimmed, attributed quip notes savings from relocation. The text includes a misquoted exchange about a “chopper house” and a remark about a wife outdressing an elderly neighbor. A Lowell quote about sincerity in dealing with oneself appears, suggesting moral reflection rather than news.
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Chopper House
Bonaparte Offends Chief In Cabinet Retirement Hint
The Journal of Commerce reports possible retirement rumors for Attorney General Bonaparte. It notes close interests in the city see his usefulness waning and that a rapid retirement is unlikely. Roosevelt would dislike any sign of weakness in anti trial policy amid questioned legal steps.
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New York
the Journal of Commerce
Bonaparte
Charles J. Bonaparte
Roosevelt
Glenn Proposes Obedience to Test Law Till Legislature
Governor Glenn of North Carolina, before departing for home, held a conference with A. H. Thom, general counsel of Southern Railway. He proposed two steps: pause testimony until appeals are decided by federal and state courts, then have parties choose a course. and that railroads support the 244 cent rate and, if unsustainable, appeal to the people of North Carolina for correction. Thom said he would present the ideas to Southern officials and report back promptly.
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Southern Railway
New York
Glenn
North Carolina
A. H. Thom
The
Glean
Supreme Court of the United States
Thom
Evidence in a Mining Case Trials Testimony on Bullion Claim
Denver August 21 defense in the Lost Bullion Spanish Mines case continues to examine witnesses to prove the property near Silver City New Mexico is a real mine not a limestone cave as the government contends. Expert testimony from both sides presents opposing views on the mine’s nature and value.
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Denver
Bullion Spanish Mines Company
Silver City
N.M
Wage scale conference on two cent yardmen differential
Denver August 21 railroad officials and labor leaders meet to decide a two cent wage differential for yardmen and switchmen on the Colorado and Southern line. R G Ingram of the Southern Pacific is the spokesman for the railroads while P H Morrissary of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will lead the trainmen's side. In a separate dispatch from Louis, France an American victim of an auto accident, Joseph Grentz, died after a car struck a peddler. the car wrecked and the driver suffered a fractured skull and was hospitalized in grave condition.
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Denver
Colorado and Southern Railroad
R. G. Ingram
Southern Pacific
California
Chilf
P. H. Morrissery
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Louivpre
France
Josephgrrntz
Fritg
Insect Drops Railway Chief in Wisconsin
President A J Harling of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul road is confined to a high summer home in Oconomowoe Wisconsin with a slight attack of blood poisoning. The ailment is believed to be caused by an insect bite.
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Oconomowoe
Wis
A. J. Harling
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road
Baseball Scores Steam Through Rough Night Across Leagues
American League results show El Loux 3 to 6 over Chicago 4 to 1 with Detroit 3 Boston 0 and Washington 4 New York 2. National League cages New York 2 to 6 and Boston 9 Pittsburg 8. Brooklyn 9 Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 1 St Louis 2. Western League Omaha 3, Lincoln 4 in 14 innings, Bronx City 2 Des Moines 1, Pueblo 0.
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Detroit
Boston
Land
Washington
New York
On Cage
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Americana Association
Minneapolis
Columbus
Kansas City
la Haville
Omaha
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