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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
4
The article lists candidates for county offices including auditor steward treasurer war clerk and coroner with various names and party notes. It also mentions a street fair and carnival ending at Cornell Bluffs with performers, noting mixed community interest and behavior and reflecting on local sentiment toward the event and Chautauqua.
Henry Codman Potter seventh Protestant bishop of New York died at his Cooperstown summer home after a weeks long illness that began with stomach trouble and led to complications. Born Schenectady 1834 he served as assistant and rector in several cities before becoming bishop in 1887. He married in 1902 to Mrs Albert Corning Clark of Cooperstown and New York City.
Marvin W. Sheppard of the Irish American Athletic Club won the 800 meter race and set an Olympic record for the distance, beating England's top distance runners from the recent Games. Harry F. Porter, also of the Irish American AAC, took the high jump with 6 feet 3 inches, surpassing the Paris 1900 record before attempting the world mark, which fell just short.
The Y M G A relay race ending in Chicago carried the mayoral message from New York to Chicago. William H McCabe of Evanston led the final mile as hundreds of youths aged twelve to twenty-one completed 1600 miles in 119 hours 22 minutes. Ice cream wager tragedy follows Fourth of July feast as Thomas McMillan dies in Hobart Okla. after consuming excessive ice cream. Fred Wakefield dies ten days later after nearly a gallon.
Immigration from all countries fell sharply in June 1908 versus June 1907 according to statements by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. Total arrivals were 41,947 compared with 154,734 a year earlier, a drop of 79 percent.
Drenching showers have stopped the great fires in the Maine woods that caused substantial damage over the past two weeks and raised alarms for village safety in several instances.
Dozen degrees will be awarded July 31 at the summer session of the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. Over 350 attendees. graduates include James Ellis Gow, Don Albert Clark, William Vance McKay, Pamella Pearl Jones, Ralph Chase Muston, Jessie Edith Bailey, Charles Clifton Brink, Jennie Travenia McCauley, Robert Ernest Morris, William Burton Thorburg, James Roy Locke.
Des Moines July 22 Captain FA T Hull dismissed his injunction to stop a Dallas county recount of ballots for the Seventh Iowa district congressional nomination. The ruling ends the Hull Prouty contest and sets the stage for the Dallas count to determine the Republican nominee. Attorney General Byers said the executive council must canvass the votes before the congressional deadline, which would favor Prouty if Dallas cannot be included in time.
Iowa faces a battle as Bell interests merge independent telephone firms into a proposed 20 million dollar system. The push would create one massive company by absorbing small independents, triggering swift moves in Marshalltown Dubuque Nevada Story County and beyond. The campaign aims to dominate state telecom by consolidating terminals and lines in a war to the death with Bell.
Disappearance of a $1000 Adams Express package among three identical shipments puzzles detectives in Des Moines. While two other parcels arrived safely, this one vanished without a trace. Investigators from the express firm pursue clues as work continues on the case.
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