Crop conditions split on South Dakota farms a Mitchell view
Mitchell South Dakota July reports show mixed results for small grains. Elevators owner A H Betts says wheat uneven with some fields half crop while oats and barley fare better. Druax notes fair wheat, macaroni wheat blighted, oats strong, barley fair. Gleason reports heavy overall wheat but some drown out. French calls oats strong and barley fair. Gilfillan praises above average small grain and late corn, with a generally optimistic outlook.
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Mitchrell
S. C
South Dakota
Wowr
He Betts
Mitchell
Druax
Martin Gleason
E. French
W Gilfillin
County Yard
Loomis
Grain yields, gym plans, and Armour Plankinton notes
Crop prospects in Armour S D Douglas county show fat wheat 20 to 25 bushels per acre and oats to 75 bushels. Corn stands well after wet spells. The fire department plans a youth gym in the new hose house. Rev Flanagan named a committee of one to select four others and draft by laws. Milwaukee names Armour Plankinton towns Corsica and Stickney. Armour roller mills prep to shut for 80 hp engine upgrade and build a 20000 bushel elevator.
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Armour
S. D
Douglas County
Flanagan
The
Baptist Church
Milwaukee
Armour-Plankinton
Corsica
Napoleon
Stickney
Armour Roller Mills
Pilgrimage of Hoboes Reaches Aberdeen During Harvest Season
The Aberdeen, South Dakota, Pilgrimage of hoboes began with 100 plus gathering at the rail junction. They camped for the day and night, visiting potato patches and nearby brick yards for wood and water. A German brick burner lost most of his clothing. a fellow worker lent him part of a suit while he bought new clothes. Local authorities warn the city will be overrun by visitors until harvest ends.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Louis Lager
Aberdeen Qoute
Weather brings bumper crops in Howard area
The report notes two weeks of warm weather boosting crops. Wheat oats barley and spelt look safe from rust barring hail. Hay yields are very high and abundant potato crops also look strong with good yields ahead.
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Howard
Carnegie library plan rejected in city special election
In a July 21 election in a New Jersey city the proposal to establish a Carnegie library was decisively defeated. Property owners opposed the plan citing tax concerns while local ladies led the campaign. the measure will not be reconsidered.
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Canton
Carnegie
Sweden-Norway Union Crisis Report Demands New Terms
The Swedish special committee reports against adopting the government bill as is and urges negotiations with Norway for dissolution of the union if Norway’s Storthing seeks repeal. It outlines terms including frontier fortifications, reindeer pasture rights, transit trade protections, and a $25,000,000 readjustment fund, with arbitration favored but not essential.
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Stockholm
Riksdag
Norway
Storthing
Sweden
Japs Welcome Taft In Japan Reception At Yokohama
Secretary of War Taft and party receive demonstrative welcome in Yokohama as city streets and harbor glow with decoration. American officials and Japanese imperial representatives greet Taft and Miss Roosevelt aboard the Manchuria before a formal reception and departure for Tokyo.
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Yokohama
Taft
Japan
Griscom
Legation
Miller
New Chiang
Imperial Household
War Department
Manchuria
Miss Roosevelt
Tokio
German in Hard Luck
After thirty one years in the United States August Pfaff a Cleveland resident was arrested by German authorities during a visit to his hometown Haecking Germany A letter to his son says Pfaff came to America at sixteen lived in Cincinnati returned to Germany for military service escaped and came back to Cincinnati before settling in Cleveland He has been jailed two weeks and faces a prolonged confinement possibly ending in a fine.
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Cleveland, O
United States
August Pfaff
Haecking
Germany
Pfaff
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Japan
Russia
England
Europe
Minnesota
Seattle
No Whitewash Planned After Bennington Disaster
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte promised there would be no whitewash and that no scapegoat would be named as the Bennington disaster is investigated. A telegram from Captain Drake says the Bennington was floated and is at the wharf while a thorough examination proceeds. Mrs. F O Young, sister in law of Commander Lucien Young, says he warned that the boilers on the Bennington were weak and not run at full capacity.
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Washington
Theavy Bonaparte
Navy Department
Drake
Cincinnati
F. O. Young
Lexington
Lucien Young
Bennington
Young
Heroism Shifts Death Sentence for Oregon Sailor
Emil Totterman, once slated for execution August 1 for stabbing Sarah Martin in a New York lodging house, has had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Higgins. Totterman, a sailor on the Oregon noted for bravery, was aided by Admiral Clark and others who interceded on his behalf following his service in the Cape Horn action during the Spanish war.
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Oregon
Santiago
Albany
N. Y
Emil Totterman
Higgins
Totterman
Sarah Martin
New York
Admiral Clark
Cape Horn
Torpedoes for Orient flotilla grows to six more ships
Navy Department orders torpedo boats Biddle Barney Bagley Shubrick Thornton and Tingey to join five already in the Philippines. The enlarged Asiatic flotilla will place the United States second only to Japan in torpedo strength in the region.
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Navy Department
Washington
D. C
Biddle
Barney
Bagley
Shubrick
Thornton
Tingey
Philippines
United States
Asiatic
Japan
Komura Emphasizes Japan US Ties and Peace Aims
Baron Komura Japan’s foreign minister arrives in New York en route to Portsmouth talks with M. De Witte. He stresses Japan’s peaceful aims, denies the yellow peril, and praises Roosevelt's plain living and high thinking while predicting mutual flourishing with the United States and Europe.
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New York
China
Russia
Baron Komura
Japan
Portsmouth
Nhs
M. de Witte
Marquis Ito
Witte Sets Sail After Paris Visit
Russia s peace plenipotentiary M Witte completes talks with Premier Rouvier and officials in Paris before sailing from Cherbourg to New York. The semi official statement says no negotiations occurred, only general conversations during his stay.
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Paris
M. Witte
Rouvier
Cherbourg
New York
Witte
Paris is Earthly Headquarters of the Devil
Macon Missouri July 27 A local preacher declares Paris is the earthly headquarters of the devil presenting a bold religious claim amid contemporary rumors and church discourse in the region.
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Macon
Paris
Mitchell Sentenced in Portland for Using Office to Benefit Law Firm
United States Senator Mitchell, convicted of using his office to aid the law practice of Mitchell and Tanner, is fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months penal servitude. Pending Supreme Court review, execution is deferred. bail set at $2,000.
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Portland
Ore
United States
Mitchell
Mitchell & Tanner
Supreme Court of the United States
Yellow fever outbreak reported with dozens of cases
New Orleans reports about fifty cases and eight deaths from yellow fever since first appearance. Approximately fifteen cases are under treatment as detention hospitals fill. In Alabama four cases are noted on the steamship Columbia arriving from Colon and sent to quarantine.
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New Orleans
Alabama
Fort Morgan
Ala
Columbia
Colon
Three Vermont towns found to lie in Canada
Newport July 27. Three northern Vermont towns with 4500 people Richford East Richford and Stevens Mills are established as Canadian. A joint US Canadian boundary survey by J. B. Baylor P. W. Staples and Ottawa engineers mapped a strip several miles long and up to one mile wide belonging to Canada. Richford hosts a Chinese detention station. future boundary adjustments may compensate Canada.
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Uncle Sam
Newport
Vermont
Canada
Richford
East Richford
Stevens Mills
J. B. Baylor and Sons
P. W. Staples
Washington
United States
E. C. and
FE. Rainboth
F. W. King
Ottawa
Canadian
Koch On The Stand In Hoch Murder Trial
Mankato Minnesota July 27 The defense makes rapid progress with witnesses in the Koch murder trial Dr Koch testified last night about his movements the night of the murder repeating his earlier alibi Cross examination continued until two this afternoon with no change in his story Prosecution friends anticipate a surprise from General Childs the lead state attorney aimed at breaking the alibi The case may go to the jury by Friday night or Saturday morning
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Mankato
Minn
Koch
Ixoch
General Childs
Ten Die In Humble Oil Fire Disaster
Ten bodies were recovered today from a large oil field fire in the Humble field near Houston Texas. All the victims were identified as Negro men. The financial loss is estimated at eight hundred seventy five thousand dollars.
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Texas
Houston
Tex
Humble
Hayes Donaldson Surrenders to Police After Mother Persuasion
In Anne Arundel county Hayes Donaldson, charged with killing Patrick Cummings, surrendered to Curtis Bay police after his mother Hayes Donaldson urged him to turn himself in. A hearing is scheduled tomorrow as crowds gathered, hailing him as a hero. The killing occurred July 16 near Hammond's Wharf after a quarrel with soldiers from Fort Howard.
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Baltimore
Hayes Donaldson
Anne Arundel County
Patrick Cummings
Engineer’s Corps
United States Army
Curtis Bay
Donaldson
Austin S. Dowler
Hammond
Coffee in Negro's Face. St Louis Waitress Receives Letters
Miss Matties O'Brien, the Union Station waitress who threw hot coffee in a black man's face after he demanded service ahead of whites, is flooded with congratulatory letters from across the country. Many Southern senders include money, with Arkansas travelers sending 25 dollars and a Confederate veteran contributing one dollar.
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St. Louis
Matties O'Brien
Union Station
South
Arkansas
Duff Green
Miss O'Brien
Bank official sues for return of stock and deposits
Chicago July 25. Co C Wolf cashier general manager and owner of the State Exchange Bank of Parkersburg Iowa filed a federal court bill seeking an accounting and the return of his stock certificates and $24000 in certificates of deposit alleged to be fraudulently withheld American Trust and Savings Bank and E H Prince former board of trade operator now in bankruptcy proceedings are charged with involvement.
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Chicago
Iowa
Co. C. Wolf
State Exchange Bank of
Parkersburg
American Trust and Savings Bank
E. H. Prince
Board of Trade
Elevation of Augistine F Schinner to Superior Bishop
Milwaukee July 25 Very Rev Augus tine F Schinner was today elevated to bishop of the newly created diocese of Superior Wis The ceremonies were conducted in St Johns cathedral and were most elaborate.
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Milwaukee
Augustine F. Schinner
Diocese of
Superior
Wis
St. John's Cathedral
Quiet War Front Shifts with Reconnoitering Skirmishes
Fusan reports three months of unusual calm in the war, with no major front engagements. Only reconnoitering expeditions by both sides occur, suffering small losses, marking the quietest period of the conflict.
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Fusan
Father heroically rescues children as house fire kills twins
In Pittsburg on July 27 a gasoline stove explosion ignited a blaze at Levi Titus’s home. Twins Harry and Meyer Titus, age 7, died from suffocation. five other family members were seriously burned, two fatally. The father, after rescuing two children, collapsed from smoke but firemen saved the rest. the 3-year-old Elsie faces doubtful recovery. Mrs. Titus is severely burned and may die.
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Pittsburg
Levi Titus
Harry
Meyer Titus
Meyer
Titus
Elsie
Prosecution Looms Against Beef Trust Reps in Pa
Harrisburg July 27. State Dairy and Food Commissioner Warren moves to prosecute Pennsylvania representatives of the beef trust on charges that meat sold in the state contained preservatives. Ten samples from several counties form the basis for the cases to be filed in Harrisburg with no indication yet of the first company to be targeted.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Beef Trust
Dairy and
Warren
Nu shima Island Vanishing as Sea Encroaches
July reports from Kobe describe Nu shima rapidly sinking after emerging ten months ago. The highest point is now ten feet above sea level, the island’s circumference has shrunk to under two miles, and it may be submerged within weeks. The eruption began November last with rumbling and volcanic smoke, forming a small island that grew briefly before vanishing.
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Kobe
Nushima
Japan
Bonin Island
Appraisers reveal bigger estate of Frank G Bigelow
Milwaukee officers report supplementary assets totaling 155000 boosting the estate value to 440000 while liabilities near 3000000. The assets include stocks bonds life insurance and mortgages according to the former banker Bigelow estate records.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Frank G. Bigelow
Bigelow
Unhappy though Rich Wall Street Broker Wife Kills Self
Mrs Charles Marshall wife of a prominent Wall Street broker shot and killed herself in New York today. She moved in influential social circles but no motive for the act has been found.
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New York
Charles Marshall
Wall Street
Otto Bernheim Er Dies by Suicide at Hotel Seville
Otto Bernheim er, 35, of Bernheimer Walter cotton brokers, reputed wealthy, died by self-inflicted gunshot today in his apartments at the Hotel Seville New York. His death follows no immediate disclosed motive and prompted police inquiries.
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New York
Otto Bernheimer
Bernheimer & Walter
Seville
Fear Governor to Discipline Appointees Over Drink and Swear
Lincoln July 27 Trepidation grips Nebraska appointive officers as Governor Mickey plans to summon many before the class to inquire into drinking and swearing. Reports say such privileges may be curtailed and the governor opposes dancing card playing and all religious amusements. He has never attended a theater.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Mickey
Weather Bureau reports favorable crop conditions nationwide
The weekly crop report notes hot and dry spells in parts of the mid Atlantic states and Kentucky but generally favorable temperatures. Corn growth is rapid with widespread excellent condition. winter wheat harvest near completion. spring wheat advancing well. oats harvest underway. Some localized damage from rain shortage in New England and the plateau regions, with smut and desiccating winds mentioned in select areas.
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Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Middle Atlantic
Kentucky
Tennessee
Pacific Coast
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Texas
New England
Georgia
Alabama
Kansas
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakotas
Washington
Weather reports favorable for corn and hay growth in Iowa
Des Moines July 27 report from the bureau of crops and weather notes a week of strong corn and hay progress after heat and humidity. Some areas saw two to three inches of rain but most of the state stayed below normal. Pastures, potatoes, and garden crops are doing well with good prospects for apples and a promising berry and grape crop.
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Des Moines
Bureau of Crops and Weather
Nebraskas Weather and Crop Bulletin Highlights Wheat Harvest
Lincoln Nebraska July 27 The weather and crop bureau reports weekly temperatures near normal with hot days to 99 degrees and showers across the state. Winter wheat thrashing is rapid with excellent crop prospects while oats harvest advances with good quality and fair yields. Haying is widespread, corn tassels begin, apples drop, potatoes suffer from dryness.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Weather and Crop Bureau
Smut and blight apparent in South Dakota crops
The South Dakota weekly crop report from Huron notes cooler than usual weather with warm spells, light showers, and little crop interference. Smut and some blight affect early wheat, while oats barley and spelt progress well. corn tassels and silks. potatoes flax and millet grow, though lowlands suffer.
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Huron
S. D
South Dakota
Missouri River
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