Iowa Crops Hold Up Amid Heat and Dryness
Des Moines July 16. Three weeks of hot weather with occasional rains left Iowa crops in fairly good shape says Director Sage of the weather service. Corn stands well in central and northern Iowa though drought signs appear in the southeast. Oats suffer most. southern Iowa face poor yields. Wheat injury noted but about 80 percent of a crop expected. rye and winter wheat safe. Pastures limited without rain. forage and hay crops small but high quality. Dry spell adds farm fires across the state, including losses at Clear Lake and Reinbeck and a serious blaze at Ledyard.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sage
Iowa Weather Service
Clear Lake
Reinbeck
Ledyard
Iowa Regiments to Council Bluffs Encampment Transport Plan
Adjutant general of Iowa orders transportation for Fifty-first and Fifty-second regiments to the Council Bluffs encampment from August 14 to 21. Companies from Red Oak Corning Bedford Knoxville Glenwood Villisca and Centerville band use the Iowa road. Des Moines Troop A is the only company from the city. Routes include Hook Island, Burlington, St. Joseph road, Northwestern, Omaha, Illinois Central, Iowa Central, North Western, Milwaukee and special from Algona with detachments to Sioux City Boone Hull Fort Dodge Marshalltown Sac City Spencer Algona Perry and Hamburg.
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Des Moines
Adjutant General of
Iowa
Fifty-first
Fifty-second
Council Bluffs
Hook Island
Burlington
Red Oak
Corning
Bedford
Knoxville
Glenwood
Villisca
Centerville
Stuart
Winterset
Oskaloosa
Shenandoah Company
Hamburg
St. Joseph
Troop A
Northwestern
Pitty
Sioux City
Boone
Omaha
Hull Company
Sheldon
Illinois, Central
Webster City
Fort Dodge
Hampton Company
Marshalltown
Fay for Support of Soldiers
In Des Moines on July 15 Governor Shaw received a state draft for 15993.08 dollars to cover quarterly dues for the Iowa Soldiers' Home. The payment reflects an average home membership of 642 for the first quarter of the year, with a deduction of 56.92 dollars for pensions withheld.
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Fay
Des Moines
Shaw
Iowa
County Clerks Association Formed in Des Moines
An association of county clerks was formed in Des Moines with about twenty present from across the state C Pugh of Dallas county elected president. The clerks had not been organized before but had sought state meetings on several occasions.
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County Clerks' Association
Des Moines
C. Pugh
Dallas County
Teen dies after saving brother in Cedar Rapids blaze
July 16 Cedar Rapids report tells of Willie Gardner, 15, sacrificing himself to save his younger brother during a house fire started by a lamp. He returned with a drink for his brother, then fought the flames and was fatally burned, dying from his injuries.
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Cedar Rapids
Willie Gardner
Flood of Bogus New Jersey Money in Carroll Case
A wave of counterfeit two dollar bills issued by a defunct New Jersey bank appeared in Carroll. Patrons passed them to merchants, three men named Flahine Kelley and Sullivan were detained by Justice Lynch as the grand jury investigates. A railroad laborer Bell also dealt with the bills and was jailed. Government agents will probe the scheme tied to railroad workers and green goods tactics.
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Worthicas
Wefkfarson
Carroll
New Jersey
Patrick Flahine
John Kelley
Don Sullivan
Justice Lynch
Denison
Belle
Bell
The Brigade Encampments in Iowa
Orders from Adjutant General Byers set this year’s brigade encampments in Iowa. Dubuque hosts the Fifty-first and Fifty-second regiments August 14 to 21 at Camp D. B. Henderson named for Speaker of the House in Dubuque. Council Bluffs hosts July 23 to 30 at Camp G. M. Dodge honoring the general who organized Iowa’s first militia. Chief exam for officers to follow with a dozen candidates. Colonel Olmsted, retired, to oversee the test after joining the State Normal School military department.
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Adjt
Byers
Des Moines
Dubuque
D. B. Henderson
House of Representatives
Dubwaite
Council Bluffs
G. M. Dodge
Iowa
Olmsted
State Normal School
Woman Prevented Bal Wrock
In Sioux City Iowa on July 18 Mrs Frank Zeurcher a farmer s wife near Osmond Nebraska helped avert disaster by stopping a passenger train bound for O Neill Nebraska after fighting fires on a bridge on the Pacific Short Line She flagged the engine with her apron saving about fifty lives due to a blocked sight line on the bridges approach
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Bal Wrock
Sioux City
Frank Zeurcher
Osmond
Threshers Form Iowa Association To Fix Threshing Prices
Grain threshing machine owners in Iowa form an association to control threshing prices. Local groups exist in most counties and a large majority of owners have joined. They set threshing rates at 2 cents per bushel for oats and barley and a set rate for wheat and rye.
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Threahers
DRS
Iowa
Chinth bug appears in Hurdin County Iowa
Chinth bug has appeared in Hurdin county troubling farmers in Edora with potential wheat and oat damage. A hot wind may worsen corn prospects if it continues, and pastures meadows corn and potatoes need moisture badly.
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Chineh Bage
Hurdin
Eldora
Treasury department promotions listed for Iowa and Washington
Washington July 11 announces promotions in the treasury department. Frank J. moves from 720 to 840 dollars, C. W. Jones from 720 to 900, and Miss Dora B. Lewis from 1000 to 1200 dollars.
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Iowa
Washington
Treasury Department
Frank J
C. W. Jones
Dora B. Lewis
Suicide of Ute merchant found in river
In Sioux City Iowa on July 14 the body of Chris Harm a merchant at Ute was recovered from the Soldier River by boys fishing Harm had been missing after Richard Palmer a banker and prominent citizen filed a $10000 suit for alienation of Palmer's wife and charged Harm with criminal intimacy and swindling
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Bulcide
Sioux City
Chris Harm
Ute
Soldiar River
Harm
Richard Palmer
Palmer
Ten Killed When Nickel Plate Bridge Collapses in Conneaut
At Springfield, Pennsylvania, after 11 pm today, a freight train traversed the Nickel Plate bridge over the valley. The bridge gave way as three loaded cars and about twenty five workers were on it, killing conductor Phil A. Moore, injuring ten, and sending wreck crews to the scene. Engineer William Q Griffith led the train from Conneaut.
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Road Street
Conneaut
Springfield
William Q Grifith
Buffalo
Phil A. Moore
Iowans Chosen President of National Education Association
Detroit July 12 The National Education Association reaffirmed its stance for a national university under federal control. Elected for the coming year was President W N Beard Shaw of the University of Iowa, with C M Eyes of Hartford as treasurer. Thirteen departmental meetings yielded officers and papers on economics in schools by George Vincent, George Gunton, F W Speirs, and R P Halleck.
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National Educational Association
Benrislear
Detroit
Mich
National Educational Association Today
National University At
Washington
W. N. Beard- Shaw
University of Iowa
C. M.eyes
Hartford
George ®. Vincent
Chicago University
George Gunton
Institute of Social Economics
Newark
F. W. Speirs
Philadelphia
R. P. Halleck
Louisville
Coffee Is 10 Go In Free Ruling From Treasury
Treasury Department ruling opens free entry for coffee shipped from the United States to Porto Rico once free trade is proclaimed. Expectation grows that coffee from any foreign country entering the United States will then move to Porto Rico duty free, bypassing the 5 cent a pound tariff on direct Porto Rican imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Washington
United States
Porto Rico
Island
Governor Urged to Proclaim Rain Prayer Day
A Jefferson City dispatch says Missouri petitions urge Governor Dockery to issue a proclamation for a day of fasting and prayer for rain. If rains delay, the drought may cause Missouri crop failures not seen since 1854. Statewide temperatures were extremely high with Jefferson City 107 and Columbia 110 to 112 in the shade. record shade heat 104 at 4 p.m. with possible rise.
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Missouri
ST. Louis
Jefferson City
Dockery
Columbia
Mexico
St. Joseph
Hannibal
Harrisonville
Gtungel
Russians Still Hang bn in Nieu Chwang Harbor Works Progress
A Morning Post dispatch from Nieuw Chwang dated July 8 reports Russians show no plan to evacuate Nieu Chwang, noting calm between Nieu Chwang and Mukden. It cites Russia’s Dalney harbor works, half finished, promising a premier eastern harbor once completed.
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London
Nieu Chwang
Morning Post
Nieuw Chwang
Mukden
Russia
Dalney
Frightful Dearth Warns Crops In Volga Regions
A dispatch to the Daily News from Odessa reports there is no longer a bone of saving any portion of crops in the Volga governments including Amara Saratoi and Kassan and many neighboring districts. Prolonged heat has gripped the area for seven weeks with temperatures from 130 to 160 Fahrenheit.
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London
Daily News
Odessa
Volga
Amara
Saratoi
Kassan
Air Rights and Injunctions Across Public Highways
Bolton Hall surveys a historic, satirical legal strain tracing air rights above streets from 1803 to modern times. It cites Magna, Olathe, and a wave of cases including Munn v Illinois, amid debates on air for travel and rights of way versus property ownership and public need.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Simon Migus
Olathe
Kansas
Magna
Magus
Taresey
Dover
Superior Court
Kent County
Delaware
Pollock
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Hyde
Continental Trust Company
Munn
People of Illinois
U. S. Supreme Court
Commonwealth
Massachusetts Law Reports
Tyne
Mass
Edge Et
Dillon
Mackall
Ratchford
Blackstone
England
United States
Warren Bridge
Charles River Bridge
Pneumatic Tube Company
New York
Bolton Hall
Foolish Taxpayers Critiqued By The St Louis Post Dispatch
The St Louis Post Dispatch laments taxpayer weakness and calls for action against public plunder. Ralph Hoyt argues that many voters are indirectly taxed and complacent, urging that looters in all parties be rejected when honest voters rise in strength to oppose them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louisa
Peter
Paul
Ralph Hoyt
Scoundrelism Triumphs Over City Fathers Deal
The Johnstown Democrat condemns Philadelphia mayor Ashbridge for accepting Wanamaker's 2,600,000 streetcar franchise offer, calling the move a monstrous betrayal and moral degradation that harms the city and Pennsylvania, urging a national awakening of conscience.
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Ashbridge
Wanamaker
City of Philadelphia
Phildelphia
Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Paris
France
Commonwealth
Johnstown Democrat
Supreme Court Musicians and the Constitution
A Paso Robles Independent editorial attacks the Supreme Court as “musicians” manipulating the Constitution to fit diverse audiences. It argues the court holds power beyond Congress and the executive, questions abolishing the court, and cites a quip about contempt to illustrate public feeling.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Bench
United States
Congress
Executive
Alexander H. Stevens
Paso Robles
Is the Monroe Doctrine Dead in a Comatose State
A Republican paper questions the Monroe Doctrine's status noting it seems comatose and likely to be revived by a Democratic President and Congress, perhaps around March 4, 1905. The piece hints at political jockeying and a future policy revival date.
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Congress
Four masted schooner anchors on passing steamer
In the Atlantic a four masted schooner cast its anchor onto a passing steamer, fouling a deck state room and trapping an engineer until the chain broke. The ships separated and the schooner chased the steamer to recover its anchor, an incident witnessed in foggy conditions.
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Atlantic
Meeting the bride who dreams of a lively Los Miserables
Colonel G H M Harvey, publisher, recalls meeting a Kentucky family's young bride who, when asked what she planned to write, replied she intended a book like Los Miserables but more lively and engaging. She expressed bright ambition and literary zeal.
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G. H. M. Harvey
Kentucky
William K Vanderbilt Jr Guards His Idle Hour Home Photos
William K Vanderbilt Jr declares that Idle Hour, his Oakland Long Island home, shall not be photographed without permission. He has authorized photographs from every vantage point and copyrighted the results to protect his privacy.
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William K. Vanderbilt
Idle Hour
Oakland
L. I
Salt Lake Engineer Denied Full Pay Over Tithe
A Salt Lake City civil engineer was paid only 90 percent of his first week’s wages after the cashier explained a 10 percent deduction was tithe for the Temple. The engineer, unaware of the practice, demanded full pay. The cashier said the tithe was optional.
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S “Temple
Salt Lake City
Wonderful Case in Indiana Buck Creek Indiana
Mrs Elizabeth Rorick of Buck Creek Indiana suffered rheumatism and severe pain keeping her from sleep Doctors could do nothing She used Dodds Kidney Pills and recovered fully with no return of pain The report says many Tippecanoe County residents are also using Dodds Kidney Pills and report wonderful results
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Indiana
Buck Creek
Ind
Elizabeth Rorick
Dodd
Tippecanoe County
Royal Pistol Shot in Greek King’s Tournament Rise
King George of Greece has lately taken up pistol practice as an amusement and is developing talent. He defeated some of the kingdom’s best shots in a recent tournament, signaling growing skill and competitive form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Greece
New equipment for the Wabash adds broad vestibule cars
The Wabash will place a large order of equipment into service from Chicago. The fleet includes two baggage cars eight combination passenger and baggage cars thirty coaches ten chair cars three cafe cars and two dining cars. The Pan-American Special between St Louis and Buffalo also gains broad vestibule chair cars cafe library and observation cars.
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Wabash
Chicago
St. Louis
Buffalo
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