Sunday Observance Debate and Ames Scholarship Contest
Local opinion stresses keeping Sunday quiet limits on business and supports public observance. Amid ads for Minter’s barber shop changing hours, the issue prompts calls to close on Sundays. Iowa State College scholarship contest offers 200 dollars yearly for a winning 1st-year student who judges livestock and crops. Previous state fair results prize Charles R. Stega, Roy Igo, and J. G. Boland for top placements.
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Ows
Towa State College At
Agricultural ‘College
West
Liberty Cw
Roy
Igo
India
Wold
J. G. Boland
Williamsburg
Nickel Plate Road Fares and Services From Chicago
Fares to Buffalo and eastern points are listed as 12.25 dollars each way with return, valid July 8 9 10 and an extreme return August 4. Meals in Nickel Plate dining cars offered, with a la carte options. Meal prices range, with six percent on trains. other details include routes to Fort Wayne Cleveland Erie and more.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Ghautouqua Lake
Ft. Wayne
Cleveland Erie
Mikel Plate Road
Adana
Gloomy days in Russia as war fears rise across borders
Dispatches from St. Petersburg report worsening conditions in Poland and the Caucasus with strikes and agrarian unrest. In Georgia anti-clerical action triggers interdicts as Cossacks disperse priests. Erivan notes Persian Mohammedans seeking cross-border joiners, risking holy war in the southern Caucasus.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Poland
Caucasus
Lodz
Georgia
trans-Caucasia
Knoutsa
Erivan
Warsaw Under Siege as Rioters Clash With Police
June 27 Warsaw reports describe disorderly crowds blocking streets Ogrodowa Krochmalna and Wronis with red flags. Police stormed barricades wounding ten. Zelazna street clashes left three wounded. a patrol fire in Central Market killed a boy and wounded three others. Five striking workers were stabbed to death. Proclamations and arrests followed, rain hindering further clashes. Social Democratic and Jewish bands vow continued resistance, though military force is expected to restore order and business stalls remain shut.
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Warsaw
Ogrodowa
Krochmalna
Wronis
Spi
Zelazna Street
Social, Democratic
Quiet lodz under martial law amid riots and mass exodus
In Lodz since martial law began the city has quieted but fear runs high. Reports claim 20,000 Jews left town amid rumors of a massacre. Insurrectionary violence continues with a dozen killed in an attack near an old Protestant cemetery. Troop disaffection noted. one regiment refused to fire on civilians and was redeployed. Total casualties rise with 343 Jewish and 218 Christian deaths buried and over 700 wounded.
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Lodz
Poland
Davenport
Lucinda Ganson
Charles Simpson
Ganson
Sacramento
Captain Tells of Sinking of Ship near Hong Kong
The captain of the British India Steam Navigation steamer Ikhona reports that the Ikhona was attacked by the Russian cruiser Terek on June 6, about 150 miles north of Hong Kong. After a boarding party claimed contraband, the Ikhona was destroyed despite protests, with officers and crew transferred to the Terek before a two hour gun duel sank the Ikhona. Provisions and mass were removed prior to the sinking.
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Singapore
British-India Steam ‘Navigation Company
Tkhona
Terek
Hong Kong
Perlak
Ikhona
France Warns Belgium Amid Fortifications Tension
A scrambled report notes French authorities warning Belgium on June 27 about potential attacks and the necessity to strengthen defenses around Antwerp along the Meuse River. The official warning was conveyed to the Belgian minister, reflecting fears of sudden aggression and rapid fortification needs.
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France
Belgium
Bandon
Tha
Brisaela
Daily Mail Bayh
Hag
Aftacks
Antwerp
Meisex Pobebie Tyra
Alight Ein Raney Tate Item Noted in Odd Text
Fragmentary OCR reads like a garbled note listing amounts and ages with references to six dollars and two Ab Pure or ages. The lines lack clear names, dates, or places, making a coherent event unclear.
Danish Naval Cadets Lose Steamer Clash in Danish Waters
Copenhagen June 27 A Danish cadet training schooner the Georg Stage was rammed by the British steamer Ancona and sank in about ninety minutes Twenty two cadets were drowned fifty seven rescued The Ancona sustained damage and divers recovered one body Fleet Officer Myhre credited the Ancona’s sudden course change for the disaster and said many cadets were swept from the deck while entangled in wreckage rescuers assisted and Myhre himself saved several boys from the rigging
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Myhte
Geore Btage
Ancona
Myhre
Lively Debate Expected Over Sweden Norway Crisis
Negotiations yield a nine conservatives and three moderates plus five liberals five agriculturists and two reformers panel for the Riksdag to study the Swedish Norwegian crisis. The government’s plan for a modus vivendi faces sharp upper house opposition and broader lower house support. Swedish council of state halts discharge of time expired navy men pending crisis settling.
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Riksdag
Norway
Mockholm
Sweden
Crisia
Swedish Council of State
Germany's Morocco Reply Reported In Paris Talks
Paris June 27 a strong impression spread that Germany's reply to France on Morocco reached Paris late last night and would be shown to Premier Rouvier in an interview with Prince Radolin today. Officials kept silent. Diplomats at a British embassy reception believed the reply was in French hands and that the crisis might clear for a definite understanding.
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Paris
Germany
Morocco
Prince Radolin
Rouvier
Italy Urges Peaceful France Germany Solution
Rome semi-officially says Italy, allied with the triple alliance and friend of Franca, is pressing to ease tensions between France and Germany. Italy favors Britain France and Spain Morocco talks and supports an international conference after the factual setup, avoiding harm to Italian interests.
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Italy
Rome
Franca
Great Britain
France
Spain
Morocco
Germany
Founders Off Cape Horn and German Defeat Reported
The Avion arrived from Baltimore with the captain and crew of the German ship Agnes. The Agnes foundered off Cape Horn after a snowstorm. three boats abandoned ship and only one crew member was rescued. A broad search failed to locate the missing sailors. Rebels defeat Germans in the Karas mountains. Merengo leads the attack and captures German ammunition and supplies with heavy losses reported.
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San Francisco
Avion
Baltimore
Agnes
Wénmen
Cape Town
Cape Colony
Merengo
Has
Bisbert W. Amos
Karas Mountains
Africa
Morton Begins Work on Equitable Life Case
Morton, chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Society board, has begun legal proceedings to recover money allegedly misappropriated from the society. The report notes he has also questioned certain premiums and related items, with details constrained by the damaged OCR.
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Morton
New York
arAe
Equitable Life Assurance
Lawson Stakes His Life in Des Moines Note
Des Moines reports Thomas W. Lawson offering to be hanged if the Standard Oil allegations prove false. Other items recap a brakeman’s fatal railroad accident in Ames, a liquor petition ruling, drownings at a Waterloo resort, and religious and civic events across Iowa including a major Christian jubilee and charity hospital funding.
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Lawson
Des Moines
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Wireh & Friends
Cara
Ames
Thomas A. Nutt
Iowa Christian Jubilee Convention
Albert Cummins
George W. Mattern
T. J. Dow
East Des Moines
Bettlerg May Lose the Lands Over Land Grant Question
Government actions in O'Brien County Iowa threaten to cancel titles on about 22,000 acres linked to an old Sioux City and St Paul railroad land grant. Farmers who hold the land claim possession may face eviction and removal of improvements within sixty days as proceedings to reallocate land move forward, threatening homeowner rights and pending patent revocation.
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O’brien
Sioux City
Towa
O'Brien County
Iowa
Sioux City and Ste-Paul
Posuasion
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