Conger resigns as ambassador hints Iowa governor bid
Des Moines reports Edward H. Conger resigns as ambassador to Mexico with widespread talk of a future Iowa governorship. Rumors tie Conger to China and the Canton Hankow railroad led by Morgan interests, and discussions note Roosevelt Savery ties and a lasting friendship with Conger. The piece also recalls James C. Savery, Des Moines pioneer, and local census legal challenges by temperance forces in Atlantic Cass County.
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Russell Woodard
Des Moines
Edward H. Conger
Towa
Mexico
Conger
Iowa
China
Orient
Canton-Hankow
American & China Development Company
J. Pierpont Morgan
Roosevelt
E H. Conger
Mr. Conger
Brazil
Straine T
Atlantic
Cass ‘County
Gilbertson
Carroll
Gov
Cummins
Martin
James B. Bruff
Julian Phelps
Statehouse
Executive Council
Enjoin Issuance of Census in State of Towa
The executive council of the state of Towa has been cited into court to answer a petition seeking an injunction against issuing the census.
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Executive Council
State of
Towa
Steffens Tirade Rumor Damps Iowa Corruption Probe
Lincoln Steffens visited Iowa and planned a strong critique of state politics but deferred judgment. Rumors of a damning article in MacClure's Magazine faded as September's issue lacked such material. Locals hoped for a thorough, careful examination by the renowned reformer.
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Steffens
Lincoln J.steffens
Commonwealth
MacClure
Iowa
State of
Noted Iowan Dead Pioneer Ben F Ebert banker and business man
Ben F Ebert a renowned Iowa pioneer and banker died by drowning near Middlebranch eight miles south of Albia. He built a large fortune estimated up to half a million with heavy life insurance and a will providing for heirs. His brother, former governor of Colorado, left Denver mining interests that returned to Ebert. Born in 1844 in Ohio, he moved to Van Buren County as a youth and later settled in Albia where he conducted banking, real estate, and stock raising for 26 years.
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James Savery
James C. Savery
Des Moines
Savery
Cable, Mont
Wareham
Mass
Saratoga
N. Y
Bavery
California
Mr. Savery
Montana
Woodland Cemetery
W. W. Witmer
Ben F. Ebert
Middlebranch
Iowa
Denver
Coloade
Cripple Creek
Ohio
van Buren County
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Teft College
Towa
Albia
That
West
Wants Life Preserver Law In Iowa River Boats
T H Knotts of this city has started a movement to require passenger river and lake craft to be equipped with life preservers. He notes no such law exists and few crafts carry gear. He warns of potential disasters at Okoboji and other resorts and urges action at the next legislative session.
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T. H. Knotts
Okoboji
Des Moines
F E Haley Dies In Toronto Hospital
F E Haley longtime secretary of the Iowa State Traveling Men's association and state secretary of the Catholic Knights of Columbus died in a Toronto hospital. Born 1862 in Mount Pleasant he trained as a teacher and led New London schools before becoming a traveling man for the Iowa State Register. He shaped the traveling men’s group into a strong national organization. He leaves a family in Iowa.
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F. E. Haley
Iowa State Traveling Men
Order of the Knights of Columbus
Toronto
Canada
Mount Pleasant
City
Howe Academy
New London
Iowa State Register
Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association
United States
Iowan Jap Visitor Entreats Eldora Guests
Eldora hosts Yoshi-Hiro Takasugi a Japanese visitor and grandson of Lord Takasugi. He is related to Prince Tsugari and Takayo Takasugi with ties to Portsmouth peace conference circles. He plans further study in Oxford England after visiting Eldora, aiming to succeed ex-Gov. Kikuchi in Akita at age 30.
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Eldora
W. E. Stanley
First Baptist Church
Yoshi-Hiro Takasugi
Takasugi
Tsugari
Takiyo Takasugi
Portsmouth
Japan
Oyama
Oxford
England
Kikuchi
Akita
Oldest Settler Dead at 90 in Jasper County
Newton Ballinger Aydelatt, Jasper County’s oldest settler and a key contributor to early county building, the first court house, and the locating of the county seat, died at his home in the city at age 90 after a period of decline. He aided local enterprises and served as a justice of the peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Ballinger Aydelatt
Jasper County
Capitalist Elbert Drowned After Runaway Team
Des Moines reports the death of Ben I. Elbert a prominent Iowa capitalist who drowned when his team spooked drove off a bridge into a river south of Des Moines. He carried life insurance totaling more than $306000.
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Des Moines
Ben I. Elbert
Iowa
Elbert
Multiple Local Tragedies and Notable Deaths Reported
A series of incidents across towns includes a threshing crew accident near Barling leaving engineer Albert Hendrick crushed, a grandstand collapse in Walnut injuring several, and drownings in Omaha and near Rosehill. Obituaries note deaths of R. Clancy and Dean McGrath, with other notices of suicides, fires, embezzlement charges, and the destruction of a Burlington business block by lightning.
Debs Strike Aftermath Pins $100000 City Verdict
The Wheaton jury awards Panhandle railroad $100,000 against Chicago for damages from the Debs strike riots of 1894. They find $40,000 in merchandise in transit not to be charged to the city, but the authorities’ failure to curb mobs and stop arson warrants payment. Rioting and car burnings followed the Pullman era clash and growing unrest.
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Chicago
Debs A. R
Frost
Wheaton
Panhandle Railroad
Panhandle
Debs
Pullman
American Railway Union
Lynching of John Moore at Craven County Jail Scene
In Newbern North Carolina on August 28 a mob of about 100 masked men seized John Moore from Craven county jail and hanged him at Neuse river bridge. Moore had attacked George Eubanks’ store at Clarks injuring his wife with a meat ax preceding capture and jail. Bond at Moore's preliminary hearing was set at $300, a factor cited as the lynching's root cause.
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Davenport
August Eplers
Offermann’s Island
Herman Melin
Moline
Ben Brooke
Eneseo
Here
Burlington
Goldfield
Tom Reid
Newhern
N. C
John Moore
Craven County
Neuse River
J. W. Biddle
Moore
George Eubanks
Clarks
Newbern
Charlotte
Newhbern
Suicide by Gunfire At Rev Riley Address In Church
In Minneapolis a man believed to be W Bowen of Sublette Illinois shot himself in the heart moments after Rev W B Riley finished a sermon at the First Baptist church. A $700 draft in Bowen's name was found on his person along with small change. He sat near the rear, then rose, crossed the aisle, drew the revolver from his coat and killed himself.
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Minneapolis
Minn
W. B. Riley
First Baptist Church
W. Bowen
Sublette
Riley
Two Die In Pennsylvania Excursion Train Wreck Near Logansport
Aug 28 Logansport Indiana two persons are known dead Pat Graney engineer and his fireman among the victims. The excursion train returning from Cincinnati derailed three miles southeast of the city with several cars toppled over an embankment. Relief trains with physicians rushed to the scene and many more are feared injured.
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Logansport
Ind
Cincinnati
Pat Graney
Auto kills Man in Remington Area Crash
Joseph Fagot well known Remington business man killed in automobile accident near Rensselaer on Sunday. Car went over an eight foot embankment pinning him under water while his two sons aged 11 and 12 in rear seat unharmed and ran for help. Rescue workers found Fagot dead.
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Rensselaer
Ind
Joseph Fagot
Remington
Fagot
Dynamite blast at Mancani port kills twenty workers
At Mazatlan Mexico on August 28 twenty Mexican laborers died and one worker was injured when a premature explosion of dynamite at the port works at Mancani caused a deadly accident.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Por
Mancani
Naval cadet Uriu gains honor in Russia war
The Free Press reports Admiral Uriu of the Japanese navy began earning honors early in the fight with Russia. A Detroit boy and Annapolis graduate Uriu excelled as a cadet, even while ill he wrote to his instructor about not yet ready to stir.
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Uriu
Detroit
Free Press
Annapolis
Thua
Dodd's Kidney Pills Praised By Jersey Shore Woman
A Jersey Shore reader quotes Mrs. C. B. Farnest praising Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says five weeks bedridden improved to full activity after using the remedy, urging others with kidney issues to try it. The note reflects common 19th century promotional style and cites Chicago Daily News.
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Jersey Shore
Dodd
Mra
C. B. Farnest
Arnest
Sam
Baby Nearly Dies After Itching Rash Healed By Cutienra
Mrs M C Maitland of Jasper Ontario reports her three month old son suffered a severe itching watery rash that worsened to wasting and sleeplessness until the Cutienra remedy soothed him and allowed sleep. She claims one complete treatment cured him. The note ends with a quip about abstinence attributed to a Boston trait.
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M. C. Maitland
Jasper
Ontario
Excursion Fares From Chicago To Philadelphia
Philadelphia and return fare quoted at nineteen dollars with going dates September fifteenth to seventeenth. Liberal limits and stopovers offered. Full particulars available at city ticket office corner Clark Street and Jackson Boulevard Chicago Telephone Harrison 1757. The note ends with a reminiscence of hurried trolley encounters.
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Philadelphia
Return
Clark St
Jackson Blvd
Chicago
Harrison
Popular care and attention draw patrons to line services
The text notes high patron appeal due to attentive service on the line with colored porters in uniform for both first and second class, special attention to women traveling alone or with children, and dining sleeping car service with no excess fare. It lists Chicago departures from Tua Salle Street Station and a general agent in Chicago for tickets and routes.
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Tua Salle Street Station
Chicago
J. Y. Calahan
Adams &T
Women in steady work face female disorders and seek Lydia E. Pinkham’s remedy
A promotional notice extols women in homes and workplaces facing ovarian troubles, backache, and irregular periods. Miss Pearl Ackers and Miss FP cite relief from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, claimed to strengthen female organs and ease menstrual pain, with free advice from Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Owser
Warrenton Street
Tedia
Pinkham
Boston
Mrs. Pinkham
B. Pinkham
Adiivuss
Byna
Mass
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Iowa State News
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Albert Hendrick
Barling
Walnut
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Allison
Louis Busse
C. W. Sherman
Sixth United States Cavalry
Fort Meade
S. C
Samuel Wilson
Ames
Iowa State Agricultural College
E. T. Robbins
Payson
Spirit Lake
John Baker Pearsall
Charles W. Pearsall
Omaha
Charles City
Dean McGrath
Iowa Falls
Sioux Rapids
R. Clancy
Joseph Croskrey
Arnold’s Park
Knoxville
Tra Kendricks
Della Pringle
Fort Dodge
G. V. Patterson
Boone
Wittig
Goodykoontz
Vinton
Rood Noyuse
Fort Bcott
Kan
Ruby Bishop
Cedar Rapids
Benton County
Dean P. J. McGrath
Catholic Church of
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James Killpack
George Cliff
Iowa Telephone Company
Asay Packing Company
Panhandle Railway
Newbern, N. C
House of Worship
Nome
Seattle
Wash
Fred Wing
Boston Transcript
Chicago Daily News
Cutiura
Grand Trunk Railway System
Chicago Tribune
Nickel Plate Road
Toledo Bee
Stegomyia Fasciata
Chicago Chronicle
Allen
Fricke
Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Ward Seminary
Nashville
Tenn
Minneapolis Journal
J. W. O'Brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Love
N. O Picayune
Nashville, Tenn
Frankie Orser
Mliss Pearl Ackers
Miss Pearl Ackers
North Summer Street
Mull's Grape Tonic
Mull
Mulla Grape Tonic Con
Rock Island, Jr
Grape Tonic Co
Rock Island
Drug Atorea
Mull's
Mull's Grape Tonic Co
Rock Inland
Mull’s Grape Tonic Co
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McConnick Bona
Gh Walnut
Phoroughi
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Maems
Astori
RE LY
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Centaur Company
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New York City
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Cuicato
America
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O. Batulo
N.Y
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