Blue Sky Measure 22 Aims to Curb Corrupt Promotions
Iowa auditors back a blue sky law to regulate promotion schemes and overcapitalization in corporations. The measure, modeled on Kansas law, would require state approval before promoting any business and seeks to shield citizens from fake promoters while aligning with national insurance and corporate standards.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bleakly
New York
Insurance Commissioners’ Association
Kansas
Mr. Bleakly
Spokane
National Association
Vision of Titanic Foretold by Stead in 1886
A biographer uncovers W. T. Stead predictions from the Pall Mall Gazette describing a Titanic disaster with crowded lifeboats and a doomed liner. The passage recalls a dark beauty aboard and a captain unable to save all, ending with drowning crowds and Stead’s own fate.
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London
W. T. Stead
Mr. Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Stead
Atlantic
Oregon
New York
Thompson
John Jacob Astor
Tom
Prussia Debates Tax on Unmarried Men
The Prussian diet weighs a bachelor tax applying to single men with income over 750 dollars. Unmarried men would pay 10 to 20 percent more tax than married ones with similar income via an income surplus tax. Conservatives back the plan, arguing it seeks fairness as dependents bear costs.
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Berlin
Fleetwood grower denies chestnut blight myth in Chestnut mystery
William D. Becker of Fleetwood, Pa., a large chestnut and peach grower, declares there is no chestnut blight, asserting chestnut trees remain healthy despite rumors. He addresses concerns in the local community.
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Fleetwood
William D. Becker
Worm Ravages Forest Trees As Woodpeckers Decline
Becker reports a small white worm half to three quarters of an inch long bores under bark and girdles saplings. The insect’s excrement traps sap, killing the tree, while woodpeckers decline due to hunting with guns, allowing worm damage to spread.
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Becker
U. S. Horse Wins International Jump and Vanderbilt Cup
The United States tops the International broad water jump at the horse show. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt wins the Nata challenge cup for the third year with Sir James, earning the trophy valued at 850 dollars. Triumph earns second prize for William P. Kearney. Fico, ridden by Lieut. H. R. Adair, bests thirty five rivals. Spes, ridden by Lieut. C. H. Labouchere, takes second place. Deceive wins third for the US Mounted Service School.
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New York
United States
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
James
William P. Kearney
Triumph
Fico
Lieut. H. R. Adair
Tenth
United States Cavalry
Spes
Lieut. C. H. Labouchere
Royal Holland Hazars
Deceive
United States Mounted Service School
Parcel Post Rules Move to Quicken Mail service
Des Moines reports new parcel post regulations set to take effect January 1 expanding nationwide delivery to homes on rural and star routes. Parcels up to eleven pounds or six feet in length and girth may be mailed with eight zone rates from five to twelve cents per pound, insured for ten cents with up to fifty dollars indemnity.
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Des Moines
Rai Way
Alaska
Philippines
Builders Council Holds Election in Marshalltown
After a three day convention the Town Starte Building Trades council adjourned electing Gus Brooks of Des Moines president Harry G Williams of Marshalltown first vice president J H Sweeney of Des Moines second vice president J L Lewis of Des Moines third vice president PP G Donahoe of Des Moines secretary treasurer and W I Clifford of Cedar Rapids organizer The executive committee will select the next meeting place with a recommendation that Sioux City be chosen if the council there affiliates with the state organization.
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Marshalltown
Building Trades Council
Gus Brooks
Des Moines
Harry G. Williams
J. Hi. Sweeney
Des Molines
J. L. Lewis
PP. G. Donahoe
Nes Moines
W. I. Clifford
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Connell
Mayor Delighted by World Series Ball Gift
Boston mayor Fitzgerald, a baseball aficionado, expresses childlike joy at owning the final ball used in the world series games amid a ceremonial gift event.
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Boston
Fitzgerald
Birdsall Indicted for Bribery Aid in Liquor Case
W N Birdsall a Waterloo attorney who represented clients accused of selling liquor to Indians on the Tama reservation is charged with offering a bribe to a government agent investigating the case to secure clemency for his clients.
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Mabray
John R. Dobbins
Iowa
H. W. Byers
Board of Parole
Dobbins
Bedford
Dubuque
Federal Grand Jury
W. N. Birdsall
Waterloo
Birdsall
Helpmate Crew Mass Suicide After News of Mikado Death
British bark Helpmate arrived with a calm captain and an island crew of natives who, after learning of the emperor's death, killed themselves one by one on deck. The captain, alone at first, used a rifle to deter further mutiny and later recruited locals to sail to Hadgona Bay and then to this port.
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Rehavana
Java
Steers
North Borneo
Pelor Island
Zamora
Borneo
Lfe
Hadgona’ Bay
Mount Pleasant druggists plead guilty to liquor nuisance charge
H. T. Waugh and O. M. Drummond of Mount Pleasant pleaded guilty before Judge Smyth in district court for maintaining liquor nuisances. Each defendant was fined 500 dollars plus costs.
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Mount Pleasant
H. T. Waugh
O. M. Drummond
Smyth
Want to Rebuild Trail to Salt Lake City
A reform effort by the Mutual Improvement association urges the Utah legislature to fund improving the old Mormon trail from its entry into Utah to Salt Lake City. The plan links this historic route to a proposed trans continental automobile highway. The trail was the travel path of Brigham Young and followers entering the Great Salt Lake valley in 1874.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mutual Improvement Association
The
Mormon Church
Brigham Young
Great Salt Lake Valley
Murray Trial Ends With Not Guilty Verdict
In Tacoma Washington jurors include three women who kissed and several men who shook hands after the not guilty verdict for attorney J Matthew Murray accused of defrauding a client. His sobbing appeal to the jury and the emotional display by jurors highlighted a sensational court day with a second charge arising from a bar inquiry pending.
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Supreme Court
E. B. Woodruff
Horace B. Deemer
R. L. Duncan
Harry Hector
Duncan
Burlington
Hamburg
HR. R. Fowler
Pottawattamie County
Hector
Tacoma
Wash
J. Matthew Murray
Murray
Lepis Jolts Home War With Stove Amid Family Row
Philadelphia report says John Lepis of 804 Buttonwood Street attacked his wife after she asked for money on payday, spanked two sisters who aided her, then hurled a red hot stove into the street. Police separated him from his pay envelope before detaining him.
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Philadelphia
John Lepis
Buttonwood Street
Liske
Lutherans Plan Purchase of Prospect Place Sanitarium
A syndicate of German Lutherans has arranged to buy Prospect Place in Cedar Rapids from James Carlton Young of Minneapolis to convert the property into a sanitarium.
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Lutherans Plan Purchase
Cedar Rapids
New Iowa Postmasters Nominated by Taft
President Taft nominates Charles Smith Clarence Lewis W. Sley Oxford Junction Charles C. Barry Walker Robert A. Gardner West Point W H W Vance Winterset for Iowa postmaster positions. The action affects multiple towns and redirects local postal leadership.
Gray Haired Baby Born In Kentucky Farming Town
In Whiteburg Kentucky Pine Creek the birth of a baby boy with a full growth of gray hair astonishes local residents. The mother is Mrs John H Craft wife of a prosperous farmer.
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Babe
Whiteburg
Pine Creek
John H. Craft
Estate of J. K. Zimmerman Valued at 1.14 Million
An administrator’s report in Kansas City Mo probate court values the estate of J. K. Zimmerman a Waco Tex cattleman who died in Excelsior Springs Mo October 6 at 1 140 245. Of this 260 000 consists of loans to Texas cattlemen with only a penciled note as record. All loans are gilt edged.
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Loanea Friends
Kansas City
J. K. Zimmerman
Waco
Tex
Excelsior Springs
Texas
Family Seeks Details After Runaway Death
Mrs John Schultze was killed, her son injured, and her father J B Preutzmen of Vernon Kansas knocked down by a horse drawn cab tongue when their horses ran away after an engine whistle startled the team.
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Boone
John Schultze
J. B. Preutzmen
Vernon
Kans
Robbers Loot Depot Then Try Bank Robbery
Robbers looted the depot and seized tools used in an attempted Farmers' Security bank robbery. They blew the safe but fled when near the wealth inside.
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Percy
Farmers’ Security Bank
Fatal Colt Incident Near Jesup Leaves Man Dead
Independence report says C FE Manrose of Littleton, age 45, was knocked down by a bolting colt at a gate near Jesup. The rider suffered a fractured skull and died from the injuries.
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Independence
C. Fe, Manrose
Littleton
Jesup
United Mine Workers District 18 Elects Officers
Unofficial returns show President Rogers re elected and Jack Gay chosen as vice president and secretary treasurer for District No 18 United Mine Workers of America at Oskaloosa.
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Oskaloosa
United Mine Workers of America
Rogers
Jack Gay
Tragic Boat Lake Mills Child Drowns in Boiling Water
Elmer Randall aged two, son of Mr and Mrs John Randall, died after falling into a pail of boiling water in Lake Mills. The mother was scrubbing a floor when the child ran into the room and toppled into the hot liquid.
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Lake Mills
Elmer Randall
John Randall
The Second Coming and Its Practical Hope for Believers
A sermon expounds that Christ will return not in visible spectacle but in likeness to how he ascended, linking the hope of the Second Coming to personal godliness, watchfulness, and obedience. It cites Acts 1 11 1 John 3 3 and Andrew Bonar, urging faithful living and Bible study guided by the Holy Spirit.
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Christ
Mt. Olivet
Galilee
Jesus
New Hampshire
Boston
John
Andrew Bonar
The Secret of the Quiet Heart
A devotional meditation quoting Prov 1 33 and Alexander Maclaren about keeping near to God to find fearlessness and steadiness. It urges staying fixed on the Lord to rise above life’s fogs and avoid being drawn into turmoil.
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Alexander Maclaren
D.D
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A. Y. McDonald Manufacturing Company
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Newton
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Geneva
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