President Wilson Appeals for Readiness in Des Moines Rally
President Wilson drew a monster crowd in Des Moines at a coliseum stop on a Midwest tour advocating national preparedness. The mayoral committee organized the Des Moines gathering, placing extra seats and flags as the audience joined in a flag salute and a band played America. He reiterated calls for rapid army and navy buildup and endorsed the continental army plan, noting the navy’s need for greater size though not quality. The Des Moines committee earned praise for securing the event, the city’s reputation for decisive actions evident in hosting the stop.
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Des Moines
Wilson
Middle West
Iowa
Davenport
Iowa City
Grinnell
Newton
Iowa National Guard
Mississippi River
Hawkeye State
America
Greater
Iowan Invents Electric Gun
A. L. Clark of Dubuque has invented and patented an electric machine gun operable by a distant operator. The device features new gun construction aimed at defense against invaders. Military experts regard it as a major recent advancement, noting its lightness and low cost.
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Dubuque
A. L. Clark
United States
Postmaster Held for Shortage in Hamburg
David D. Darby postmaster was arrested by a deputy U S marshal and taken to Council Bluffs on a charge of embezzling public funds. He posted $600 bond for his April grand jury appearance and returned home. Federal officers claim his shortage totals $381.
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Hamburg
David D. Darby
U. S
Council Bluffs
Darby
Mount Pleasant Theft Suspect Arrested in Salt Lake City
Oscar Bruhn, a driver for Adams Express, disappeared after a $2,200 cash package went missing. Salt Lake City officers report Bruhn confessed to the theft and will be brought back to Mount Pleasant promptly.
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Mount Pleasant
Oscar Bruhn
Adams Express Company
Salt Lake City
Hotel Destroyed By Fire At Clarinda
The Oak Park hotel and Summer resort at the entrance to the state hospital grounds in Clarinda was totally destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at about $7,000 with partial insurance coverage.
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Clarinda
Oak Park
State Hospital
Bonds Voted for 90000 School Bonds in Alta District
Alta consolidated high school district votes 90000 in bonds for a new building. Women voters cast 40 yes to 1 no in the election.
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Alta
Alta Consolidated High School
Iowa to Observe Baby Week Nationwide March 4 11
Iowa joins national Baby Week observance from March 4 to 11. General Federation of Women's Clubs and the Children's Bureau of the Labor Department issue broad plans. Iowa State University extension division assists with lectures and materials for local groups.
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Iowa
Iowa City
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
The
State University
Good Roads Plea at Iowa Short Course Week
Dean C. F. Curtiss of Iowa State College addressed 1 200 students at the opening of Iowa's short course and farmers' week urging permanent road building to retain Iowans and their money. He warned that poor mud roads drive residents to other states and hinder highway construction.
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Ames
Dean C. F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
Iowa
Iowa Farmers in Hamilton County Hit by Severe Corn Loss
Webster City reports Hamilton county suffers a historic corn crop loss. 90 000 acres planted. typical good year yields 50 bushels per acre at 50 cents. This year about 20 bushels per acre, cutting potential revenue to 900 000 dollars from 2 200 000. Total loss 1 350 000 dollars across 2 000 farms, average 675 dollars per farm. Despite the drought, farmers remain prosperous and unemployment is near zero.
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Webster City
Hamilton County
Must Operate Railroad in Appeal to Iowa Board
Atlantic Southern Railway owner Atlantic-Robert Abels must run his line while his appeal against the Iowa railway commissioners' decision is decided by Judge Martin Wade in federal court at Council Bluffs. The commissioners ordered Abels to strip and sell equipment but keep the line open. Abels appealed and sought a federal injunction to bar state officials from forcing operation.
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Atlantic
Robert Abels
Atlantic Southern Railway
Iowa Railway Commissioners
Martin Wade
Council Bluffs
Abels
Cedar Rapids Plans for New Coliseum Drive Private Fund Campaign
Cedar Rapids boosters push a fund drive to raise between 125000 and 200000 for a new coliseum. The venture aims for an initial fixed revenue of about 8500 annually from rentals for armory uses and events. About 25000 has already been subscribed as business and professional men work to reach the goal.
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Cedar Rapids
Seed Corn Loss From Ames Fire
A blaze believed to start from an overheated stove destroyed the Ames Seed company storehouse and 1 500 bushels of seed corn valued at over 6 000 dollars. Insurance coverage totaled about 4 000 dollars leaving seed stock among the state’s choicest unrecoverable.
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Ames
Ames Seed Company
Story County Bridges and Roads Spends Highlight Funds
Story county reports spending 58 046 11 on bridges and culverts and 22 735 84 on roads over the past year. This places the county near the top for first class bridges and culverts, with most road funds drawn from the motor vehicle fund.
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Nevada
Story County
Set Aside Railroad Sale In Albia Court
Judge D. M. Anderson set aside the Southern Iowa Light and Rail Road Co. sale in district court here. Stockholders found the $73,000 price unsatisfactory. The property will be offered again at public auction on May 3.
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Albia
D. M. Anderson
Southern Iowa Light and Rail Road Co
Father and Son Held in Keokuk Jail
Johnny Page a 17 year old boy was arrested for malicious mischief and two days later his father J W Page was taken into custody on a robbery charge. Both confessed to the alleged offenses.
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Keokuk
Johnny Page
J. W. Page
Fire destroys dry goods stock at Newton store
Fire leveled the dry goods stock of M. A. Carrier in Newton causing about $20,000 in damage. The local fire department aided by citizens prevented spread and saved the two story building, with part of the loss insured.
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Newton
M. A. Carrier
M M Crookshank Dies in Los Angeles at 77
Former Grinnell banker M M Crookshank died in Los Angeles at age 77. A Grinnell Central City and Des Moines Valley National cashier, he left Iowa in 1896 after a career as a banker in Grinnell and Des Moines.
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Grinnell
Los Angeles
M. M. Crookshank
Santa Ana
Crookshank
Central City
Valley National
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa's Oldest Methodist Celebrates Ninety-First Birthday
Miss Alzina Hanchett, aged ninety one, claims status as Iowa's oldest Methodist. She has been a church member for seventy nine years and remains hale though blind.
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Iowa
Ackley
Alzina Hanchett
Iowa Farms Tenants Rise Through Census Counts
A historical Iowa census review shows farm numbers increasing from 185,351 in 1880 to 228,622 in 1900. Tenants grew from 23.8 percent to 37.8 percent, the highest share recorded, as the move toward larger farms took hold.
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Iowa
Ames
Brewers Doing Big Business In Cedar Rapids Area
Cedar Rapids and Vicinity show a thaw in the long dry spell with a local bank clearing 6949 checks from a Milwaukee brewing company with a branch at Rock Island. Average check was 12.59 dollars totaling about 7500 dollars in a week. Some beer was sent to smaller towns in the neighborhood.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Brewing Company
Hock Island
Rock Island
Will Enforce Law Against Sale of Patent Meds by Non Pharmacists
The Iowa State Board of Pharmacy vows prosecutions for selling patent medicines containing poison or alcohol by anyone other than registered pharmacists. The Iowa State Retail Merchants Association disputes the law, but the board cites attorney general backing and says warnings have halted sales. If warnings fail, prosecutions will proceed and the association says merchants to continue selling until then.
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Des Moines
State Board of Pharmacy
Iowa State Retail Merchants’ Association
Merchants’ Association
Pharmacy Board
Iowa University Lab Produces Carbolic Acid To Save State
The University of Iowa pharmacy lab has begun manufacturing carbolic acid and Lysol to avoid war price shortages. At about one dollar per pound, this production saves roughly $125 monthly and uses student labor under instructor supervision to gain experience.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa's Champion Grain Grower Show Sparks State Records
Wayne W. Polk of Sidney wins the state crown in ten car, thirty ear and bushel classes at the Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers show. Victor Pierrot of Lee County secures grand champion single ear as judges hail a bushel of exceptional quality exceeding prior winners.
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Iowa
Ames
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Wayne W. Polk
Sidney
Victor Pierrot
Lee County
Butter Output Could Rise Fourfold in Iowa
Des Moines Iowa state dairy commissioner W B Barney says Iowa butter output could quadruple if all counties matched Bremer County production. With best dairymen methods, the average cow could yield fifty more pounds, potentially raising state yearly output to 482,601,636 pounds worth about 159,780,490 dollars at 30 cents per pound.
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. B. Barney
Bremer County
Broken Rail Causes Wreck North of Garner
A broken rail on the Rock Island branch near Garner caused three box cars and a passenger coach to tip, scattering butter and eggs along the track. The cars were wrecked and the coach toppled. no serious injuries reported, but rail damage delayed traffic for hours. The incident is attributed to the broken rail.
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Garner
Rock Island
Yeggmen Try Bank Robbery at Sham Shambaugh
Five to eight yeggmen attempted to rob the State Savings bank in Sham Baugh eight miles south of Clarinda. They were frightened away by a hastily formed sheriff's posse. The robbers failed to take nearly $3,000 in cash plus checks and drafts. The bank building and safe were badly damaged by explosives. The gang escaped in an automobile.
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Clarinda
State Savings Bank
Shambaugh
Here
Zep bombing raid kills 54 and injures 67
An official London statement reports 54 dead and 67 wounded from the Zeppelin raid on Monday night with 220 bombs dropped across Derbyshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire and Staffordshire. Berlin's admiralty says German airships bombed Liverpool Manchester Nottingham Sheffield and other sites, sustaining defensive fire but all returned safely.
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London
Derbyshire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Staffordshire
Berlin
Sayville
Liverpool
Pickenhead
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield
Humber
Great Yarmouth
Humberone
Banker Munday Is Free on Bond After Wreck Case
Charles B. Munday, previously sentenced to five years for conspiring to wreck the LaSalle Street Trust and Savings bank, was released on $15 000 bonds via a writ of superseders. Judges Dor rance, Dibell, D J Carnes and J M Neihaus issued the writ in Ottawa Illinois. The case, on a writ of error, returns before the appellate court at the April term.
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Chicago
Charles B. Munday
LaSalle Street Trust and Savings Bank
Dorrance, Dibell
D. J. Carnes
J. M. Neihaus
Second District
Appellate Court
Munday
Ottawa
Ill
Indue
S. C. Stough
Keating Bill Passes House Amid Southern Opposition
The House approved the Keating anti child labor bill by 3387 to 46. Only two Republicans voted against it, with 45 opposing from southern states including North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Texas and Tennessee.
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Washington
House
South
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Texas
Tennessee
Population Gain in Iowa Cities and Counties
Des Moines February 5 reports show 91 of Iowa's 99 counties gain population over 1910, totaling 138,267 new residents. The state's population reaches 2,209,992.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Census Department
Financiers Reassured on German American Ties
London February 5 report says financiers in Frankfurt have been assured by high quarters that German American relations will remain friendly.
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London
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Frankfort
Chimes and Clocks Silenced Across London
By order of naval and military authorities police halt chimes and hourly strikes on public clocks from sunset to sunrise as a precautionary measure in London dated February 3.
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London
Stay Generals Who Yield
Paris reports General Beck and another Montenegrin general assassinated by Montenegrins opposing capitulation to Austria.
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Paris
Rome
le Journal
Beck
Austria
Wilson outlines war preparedness in Chicago speech
President Woodrow Wilson framed government manufacture of war instruments as part of a broader preparedness program during a Chicago Auditorium address and four related stops to Milwaukee. He said no man can say if the U S will enter the war and praised civilian support while noting rulers, not people, drove it. Crowd of 37 hundred officials and citizens listened as he spoke from a flag adorned platform.
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Chicago
Woodrow Wilson
Auditorium
Milwaukee
Wilson
United States
America
Europe
Explosion at New Jersey plant kills two, injures four
Two killed and four injured in an explosion in the Howe Rubber plant engine room in New Brunswick New Jersey. The blast follows a boiler failure reported at the facility.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Howe Rubber Company
Peking
Yun-Nan
Yuan Shi Kai
Berlin
Champagne
Vosges
War Office
Lens
Fire damages Savage Arms plant in Utica NY
A fire destroyed several buildings of the Savage Arms company in Utica as the firm fills war contracts for England. An investigation is underway to determine the fire’s cause.
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Utica
N. Y
Savage Arms Company
England
Mine Convention Adjourns and Delegates Return
The 1 222 delegates to the United Mine Workers of America convention depart Indianapolis after adjourning. Most voted to reconvene in Indianapolis in 1918.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Mexican Chief Slain by Ex Villa Troops Near Chihuahua
Former soldiers from the Villa army of the north killed Gen. Thomas Ornelas, ex commandant at Juarez, who was shot dead near Chihuahua City, El Paso reports dated February 3.
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el Paso
Tex
Villa Army of the North
Thomas Ornelas
Juarez
Chihuahua City
Morgenthau Plans Return From Ankara
Washington reports Henry Morgenthau American ambassador to Turkey will return to the United States at the State Department's suggestion. The move follows diplomatic developments and aims to facilitate U.S. policy considerations during tense regional events.
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Morgenthau
Washington
Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
United States
State Department
Zeppelin L-19 sinks. three ships lost in North Sea raid
The British paper reports 35 more deaths from the Zeppelin raid in British waters. The airship L-19 reportedly fell in the North Sea after a bombing attack, with the crew of the King Stephen rescuing some Germans while refusing to take on more enemies aboard. The Fischer collier also sank in two minutes from a bomb.
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London
North Sea
Franz Fischer
Singland
Fischer
King Stephen
Martin
Grimsby
Coast Artillery
Germany
Ameland
Holland
Wilson train flash through Des Moines fraught with danger
President Wilson's train tour from Chicago to Des Moines included a near tragedy in Grinnell where the special backed into a crowd of about 3,000 as six children were knocked down. He ordered the train to stop and addressed crowds in Davenport Iowa City and Grinnell before arriving in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Chicago
Ilinois
Iowa
Grinnell
Wilson
Davenport
Iowa City
Morgan Goes to England aboard Rotterdam
J P Morgan sailed for England on the Rotterdam accompanied by Benjamin Strong governor of the New York Federal Reserve bank. Morgan and Coa acted as commercial agents for French and British governments overseeing purchases worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Reports of ties to another Allied loan were denied.
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New York
J. P. Morgan
England
Rotterdam
Benjamin Strong
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Morgan & Coa
Mr. Morgan
British freighter Chasehill sinks in mid Atlantic
Reports confirm the sinking of the British freighter Chasehill from New York January 13 for Havre with a cargo of supplies for the French government. Its crew was rescued.
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London
mid-Atlantic
Chasehill
New York
Havre
Ship Sunk by Zeppelin Kills 12 in North Sea Raid
London report says the British collier Frank Fisher was sunk by a Zeppelin on February 6 with 12 crew killed. Three survivors were rescued after landing at Hartlepool aboard a Belgian steamer as the airship rained shells on the vessel.
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Zeppelin
London
Frank Fisher
Hartlepool
California Posse Kills Man at Elizabeth Lake
The body of George S. Mason, killed by a posse, was removed from the ranch house at Elizabeth Lake. Mason had shot and killed George Curtis and wounded two other men.
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California
Los Angeles
Cal
George S. Mason
Elizabeth Lake
Mason
George Curtis
Blast Kills Fourteen On Towboat Boiler Explosion
Huntington W V Feb 4 Fourteen people were killed when the towboat Sam Brown of the Mononghela River Consolidated Coke and Coal Co was destroyed by a boiler explosion.
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Huntington
W. Va
Sam Brown
Monongahela River
Senate Approves Clarke Amendment on Philippines Withdrawal
Vice-President Marshall cast the decisive vote as the Clarke amendment passed the senate setting a withdrawal from the Philippines not sooner than two years and not later than four. The measure allows the president to extend this period and permits retention of coaling and naval bases if independence occurs. An amendment to guarantee sovereignty through U S action or treaties was adopted by 49 to 31, while recommit efforts failed 60 to 29.
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Washington
Marshall
Senate
United States
Philippines
Congress
Kenyon
Iowa
Clarke
United States Free 245 From Liner Appam
Two hundred forty five passengers on the British liner Appam held by a German prize crew were told they may land in the United States. The ship and remaining people stay aboard while U S authorities determine status and possible landings for the rest. G D Tagliaferri, a Nevada naturalized citizen, will land with the group.
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Old Point Comfort
Appam
Great Britain
United States
Washington
G. D. Tagliaferri
Nevada
Turks to get U S note
Austria furnishes proof none of its submarines sank the Persia liner in the Mediterranean and the United States dispatches a note to Turkey seeking proof of its submarines innocence to conclude the Persia matter if Turkey agrees.
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Washington
Austria
United States
Persia
Mediterranean
State Department
Turkey
Wilson speaks in St Louis on upholding American rights
President Wilson addressed about 15 000 inside the Coliseum and 30 000 outside in St Louis warning Missourians to uphold American rights and ideals. It was his final Western trip speech with plans for another possible tour debated by advisers urging a southern swing.
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St. Louis
Wilson
Missouri
Willard to Fight Moran in March at Madison Square Garden
Willard, the heavyweight champion, was matched to fight Frank Moran in a ten round bout on March 17 at Madison Square Garden New York. Willard will receive 47500 dollars.
Two Die In DeKalb Boiler Explosion
In DeKalb Illinois on February 5 Charles Read foreman of the Creamery Packing company pipe testing department and Floyd Snider of Chicago were killed when the boiler they were working on exploded.
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DeKalb
Charles Read
Creamery Packing Company
Floyd Snider
Chicago
Steamer Prinzes Juliana Strikes Mine Near North Sea
The Prinzes Juliana, traveling between London and Flushing, hit a mine in the North Sea and was beached at Felixstowe Suffolk. All passengers and crew were rescued.
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Liverpool
London
Flushing
North Sea
Felixstowe
Suffolk
Knox Divorce Granted to Mrs Katherine Knox in Pittsburgh
Mrs. Katherine McCook Knox, wife of Hugh Smith Knox son of the former secretary of state, was granted a divorce in Pittsburgh on February 4. She charged cruel and barbarous treatment by her husband.
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Coliseum
Kowans
Pharmacists —Association
Baltimore American
English
Judge Stough
Auditorium Theater
Morgan
Clarke Amendment
U. S. Frees
Vienna
Surs
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