Iowa Announces Levy Cut and Corn Outlook at State Fair
Des Moines Aug 10 The state tax levy is fixed at three and a half mills down from four with increases in property valuation. The Iowa crop bureau reports corn will reach about 75 percent of a full crop with rye hay and pasturage also strong. A live stock show replaces horse show at the state fair grounds in Des Moines in November. Old Soldiers' Day events, suffrage headquarters, and various civic notices follow with nominees and regents named.
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Nowra
State Fair
Des Moines
State
Iowa
Bureau
State Fair Grounds
West
Chicago
Fair
A. B. Storms
State Agricultural College
State Industrial School
Army post contracts awarded for Des Moines project
Maj. R. B. Turner authorized 20 building contracts in Des Moines totaling 419,470. Awards include S. A. Robertson for 15 buildings 203,500. Co. E. Atkinson five buildings 81,988. J. J. Hanighan plumbing and gas piping 40,000. Riddle and Landlon electric wiring 3,982.40. Work to be completed by July 1, 1904. total planned 81 buildings with 47 contracted or begun.
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Maj
R. B. Turner
Des Moines
S. A. Robertson
Co. E. Atkinson
Webster City
Strange Apple Fruit Grows Directly From Tree Trunk
W. F. Warnebold of Jersey Ridge reports a horticultural oddity at his fruit farm. Apples develop sessile on trunks and large branches with blossoms appearing on the trunks last spring. Fruit remains attached and matures, sometimes only three to four feet from the ground, seemingly nailed to the wood.
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W. F. Warnebold
Jersey Ridge
Mr. Warnebold
Fort Dodge relatives learn of Chihuahua murder case clemency
Word reaches Fort Dodge that John D Rich’s Mexican wife has been released from Chihuahua prison after the state supreme court found the 14 year sentence for murder was based on insufficient evidence. Rich, son of wealthy Fort Dodge parents, married without his wife’s kin knowing and was killed in a jealousy dispute.
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Fort Dodge
John D. Rich
Chihuahua
Mexico
Supreme Court of the
Rich
Iowa farmer to win prize for best ten ears of corn
At the Iowa Grain Dealers association meeting in Sioux City Will Co. Whiting announced the Iowa Louisiana Purchase Exposition commission has decided to offer a magnificent gold and silver trophy standing 18 inches high to the farmer producing the best ten ears of corn this year.
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Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Sioux City
Will Co
Whiting
St. Louis
Iowa
Heavy Rain and Hail Wreak Havoc Across Iowa
Dispatches from Logan, Woodbine, Atlantic, Mason City and Clear Lake note the season’s heaviest rainfall and hail. Willow Creek flooded Mason City forcing hundreds to flee homes, with narrow drowning escapes reported. Atlantic’s Walnut Creek overflowed drowning cattle as a wide strip south of Mason City faced complete crop destruction.
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Logan
Woodbine
Atlantic
Mason City
Clear Lake
Fatal Wabash Train Wreck Near Pony Creek
A freight wreck on the Wabash at Pony Creek crossing 17 miles south of Council Bluffs killed three men and left one missing. Five were injured, including a severely hurt worker. The engine struck a cow on a sharp curve, derailing the train and demolishing about half a dozen freight cars. The dead were taken to an undertaker in Council Bluffs and the injured to Mercy hospital.
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Pony Creek Crossing
Council Bluffs
Pony Creek
Mercy Hospital
Cashier Hutchinson Returns to Reopen Pisgah Bank
E C Hutchinson the cashier of the defunct Pisgah bank has returned from western Nebraska where he went to arrange a land deal for his father M A Hutchinson of Council Bluffs. He plans to reopen the bank in a few days and says creditors will not lose a cent.
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E. C. Hutchinson
Pisgah Bank
Nebraska
M. A. Hutchinson
Council Bluffs
Iowa Fruit Outlook Reports Poor Apple Crop
Reports from about 50 counties to Secretary Wesley Greene of the State Horticultural Society indicate a discouraging fruit season in Iowa. Apples are projected at less than half a crop while grapes are expected to reach roughly an average yield by the end of July.
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Iowa
Wesley Greene
State Horticultural Society
Greene
Pension Expenditure highlights for Iowa Nebraska district
The annual United States pension office report for the Iowa Nebraska district based in Des Moines covers the year ending June 30. It shows total old soldiers pensions disbursed of 7 504 281 48 with 5 052 120 48 going to Iowa and 2 100 236 27 to Nebraska, the rest to pensioners in other states.
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United States Pension Office
Iowa-Nebraska
Des Moines
Iowa
Nebraska
Union
Ackles shoots two men at Atlantic home after quarrel
H W Ackles shot Isaac Allen and Jack Maher at his Atlantic home after a quarrel. Ackles says the young men were intoxicated and attacked him, and he fired in self defense. George Lines was with the victims and escaped.
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H. W. Ackles
Isaac Allen
Jack Maher
Ackles
Atlantic
George Lines
Allen
Maher
Death of Finley Burke Noted Iowa Lawyer in Council Bluffs
Finley Burke, a prominent Council Bluffs lawyer, died at Mercy hospital after an appendectomy. He was a leading figure in Iowa law and politics in western Iowa, though he never held public office.
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Finley Burke
Council Bluffs
Mercy Hospital
Burke
Iowa
Grading Camp Fatality Near Malvern
Ed Campbell a half breed Piowa Indian killed Pluse Print a full blood Creek at a grading camp near Malvern. Print pursued Campbell with a knife when Campbell seized an ax and drove it into Print s skull.
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Campbell
Malvern
Print
Seven Italian Workmen Killed in Devon Railway Wreck
A Great Western line wreck near Devon five miles north of New Hampton killed seven Italian workmen. A freight train broke in two and rolled backward into a gravel train, causing the disaster.
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Devon
New Hampton
Great Western Railway
Longtime Iowa couple celebrates sixty third wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs C H Blossom of Waverly marked their 63rd anniversary. He is 88 and she 86, among one of Iowa's longest married couples.
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Iowa
C. H. Blossom
Waverly
Camden
Logan
Stuart
Arlington Hotel
Comptroller of Currency
First National Bank of
Perry
Corning F. Goodwin
Clinton
Loran Waldo Reynolds
Boone
Chicago
James F. Morgan
Ottumwa
D. Carr
Marshalltown
Blaine
Lyon & Healy
James Miles
Macedonia
Caldwell
Wash
Cherokee Board Increases Farm by 120 Acres Near Institution
Chairman Crownie reports the board of control bought 120 acres west of the current institution farm for 85 per acre, total 960 acres now. Rent to be paid to the state in 1908 reduces actual price to about 82 per acre. Additional land is sought at Eldora Mitchellville and Anamosa for butter production sandstone vein found for cannon base and a cob pipe factory nearing completion in Anamosa.
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Crownie
Board of Control
Institution
General Assembly
Cownie
Eldora
Mitchellville
Industrial School
Anamosa
Des Moines
Anamosars
Iowa City to sue over board of review salaries
City Solicitor McDonald finds a 1902 code clause requiring the board of review to be paid from the county treasury. Iowa City seeks $600 a year for four years, claiming refunds for salaries paid to the board. If the county refuses, suit against Johnson County will set a precedent for other Iowa cities.
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Johnson County
Iowa City
Iowa
Board of Review
Towa City
McDonald
Board of Supervisors
Early Maquoketa Link to Gen Chandler and 1857 revolt
Special correspondence notes a volume from Harvey Reid detailing Gen Samuel Chandler of Maquoketa tied to the 1857 Canadian revolt. Chandler was sentenced to death, sent to Van Diemen's Land, escaped on a Yankee whaling voyage, and later resided in Maquoketa. His daughter Jessie traveled 1400 miles to Quebec prompting a reprieve. Jessie Chandler later married Jesse Wilson in Maquoketa.
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State Historical Department
Harvey Reid
Jackson County
Samuel Chandler
Maquoketa
van Dieman’s Land
Chandler
Jessie
Cov
Arthur
Quebec
Miss Chandler
Jesse Wilson
van Tieman’s Land
Blockhouses in War and Franklin County Events
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge praises blockhouses for protecting lines of communication though they were not used in the civil war as opposed to the Spanish war. Franklin county settler celebration planned at Hampton on September 15 invites leaders tied to the county's early development. The Orange City divorce case Connell versus Connell heads to the supreme court with alimony granted. Elmer Printy arrested for buggy theft faces parole discussions amid health concerns.
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Grenville M. Dodge
Iowa
Army and Navy Journal
West
Grant
Franklin County
Hampton
Union
Connell
Orange City
Supreme Court
Elmer Printy
Keokuk
W. B. Ochiltree
Fort Madison
Soldier Home Commander Proposes Pension Reform for Veterans
Commandant C. C. Horton of the Marshalltown Soldiers' Home urges amendments to the Reysion law to reward temperance with staged pension increases after a two month period of sobriety. The report notes 102 deaths in the biennial period ending June 30, 1903, and 760 inmates as of that date.
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C. C. Horton
Soldiers’ Home
Marshalltown
General Assembly
Col. Horton
Badges For Veterans Authorized For Encampment Trip
Assistant Adjutant General Dr Newman of the state G A R has prepared a department badge to fund part of the Iowa veterans’ expenses for the San Francisco national encampment. The design features a white cross bar with blue Iowa lettering, a buff ribbon with the G A R badge replica, and a Gov Cummins likeness in a silver shield. The reverse bears Iowa’s coat of arms.
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Newman
Iowa
San Francisco
Gov. Cummins
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The Alien Law and Naturalization Requirements
Gov Cummins is urged by the department of state to apply a March 3 act clarifying that naturalization records must show the applicant opposes anarchist views and unlawful violence against government officers. The governor should inform Iowa courts with naturalization power of these additional points effective since June 2, expanding prior provisions.
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Gov. Cummins
Department of State
Washington
Act of Congress
United States
Iowa
Iowa colonel lauds England in Portsmouth speech
Col. Al Swalm of Iowa serving as Nottingham consul says England’s wartime friendship will be remembered. He recalls aiding the Oregon in Montevideo when coal was scarce, recounting a Scotch offer to let the ship take 800 tons, signaling warming Anglo American ties.
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Col
al Swalm
Iowa
Portsmouth
England
Nottingham
Montevideo
Oregon
Iowa Dairy Report Reports Strong Year for Milk and Butter
State Dairy Commissioner Wright notes reports from creamery men farmers and others indicate excellent dairy conditions in Iowa. More milk is produced and more butter made than last year or the year before, aided by good pasture. Prices have fallen slightly due to higher output but are offset by the increased milk and butter production.
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Wright
Iowa
Sacramento Man Recovers Civil War Sword in Des Moines
John Whicher of Sacramento visited the Des Moines statehouse and recovered the sword carried by his father Isaac W. Whicher a captain in the fourth Iowa infantry. The sword had been given to Adjt. Gen. Baker and was later located by Maj. Hume after Whicher and Capt. Amos Brandt visited the adjutant general’s home.
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Sacramento
Cal
Statehouse
Des Moines
Isaac W. Whicher
State
Fourth
Iowa Infantry
Whicher
Adjt
Baker
Amos Brandt
Adjutant General
Maj
Hume
Wreckage Fatal to Circus Workers in Michigan Collision
In Durand Michigan twenty three men died and many injured after air brakes failed causing a Grand Trunk collision between Wallace Brothers circus trains. Five elephants and several camels perished in the wreck.
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Michigan
Terrifying Kansas Storm Kills Two, Injures Many Across Mines
A Kansas storm near Pittsburg on Saturday left Michael McMullen and Antone Sarto dead and over 50 injured. The region’s mining districts suffered vast destruction to homes, tipples, and camp buildings along an eight by two mile strip between Devlin Miller and Morgan shafts. A separate hailstorm struck northwestern Iowa around four PM the same day causing crop damage and livestock losses in Hamilton county.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Michael McMullen
Antone Sarto
Devlin-Miller
Frontenac
Morgan Shaft
Sioux City
Iowa
Hamilton County
Judge Declares English Proficiency Required for Natualization
Albany judge in county court rejected 60 naturalization applications and set a precedent by stating he will refuse papers to applicants who cannot speak English sufficiently to be understood. He pledged to demand essential citizenship questions and deny the papers if responses are unsatisfactory. He added that five years in the United States without speaking the language shows unfitness for citizenship.
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Albany
N. Y
Clifford D. Gregory
United States
Violence, lynching debate prompts Roosevelt letter from Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt commends Indiana Governor Durbin for his stance on lynching and mob violence. He stresses swift, certain penalties via due process to prove law can handle crime without delay. Also reports four youths drowned off Ash Point, Rockland, two saved.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Gov
Durbin
Indiana
Rockland
Ash Point
Henry K. Crocker
Frank IF. Veazie
Raymond G. Hall
Charles W. Holmes
Shirt Waist Shopping Rules From Brooklyn Store
A shirt waist department head urges customers to try on waists in the store in front of a full length mirror. She argues try ons reduce returns and save time and money, noting many look better in person and that trims like silk appliques can alter appearance.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Politeness Lesson Tricky Job Hunter Defeat
A Louisville Courier Journal tale recalls Medart a master mechanic on a Kentucky railroad who valued courtesy. A young man seeking work learns real manners by first misreading the office door then being gently corrected with a sharp exit to Halifax.
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Medart
Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mr. Medart
Tom
M. M
Modart
Halifax
Soup from Tomatoes and Milk with Bay Leaf
A recipe blends canned tomatoes or fresh tomatoes with bay leaf and onion simmered ten minutes. Milk is scalded, thickened with flour and butter, then stirred in with a pinch of soda and salt. Serve immediately to prevent curdling. source notes caution. Also included is a juvenile cruelty cartoon caption showing a boy crying after a brother eats jelly, from the Baltimore American.
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Detroit Free Press
Reversible Manners and A Affable Mr Tiffington
Detroit Free Press notes social wit in a brief column. Euphemia and Eustacia discuss affability and value of decorum. A hint for the overworked urges housewives to cut routine ironing and instead read, ride, or call friends. Shell Combs advice covers cleaning with charcoal and chalk to revive polished shells.
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Tiffington
Eustacia
Detroit Free Press
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