Cattle quarantine test case reaches Iowa courts
A test case over state power to block tuberculous cattle imports unfolds in McGregor and Des Moines. Fifty head shipped from South St. Paul were quarantined after tuberculin testing revealed five diseased and six suspects, prompting arrest and replevin actions as the state seeks to enforce quarantine rules.
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Waukon
Crawford
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Wolfe
Milwaukee
Cedar Rapids
River of Wonders Aboard the Amazon Quest to Iquitos
The New York World notes Colonel Roosevelt’s Brazil interior journey and a 2150 mile Amazon run to Iquitos Peru. Booth line captains O L Beck and J W Couch recount river wonders pests perils and peculiarities including the vulture bat smell bug and blood drawing bites.
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Roosevelt
Brazil
New York World
Amazon
Peru
Pacific
Panama
Colon
New York
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Mississippi
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O. L. Beck
J. W. Couch
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England
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Denis
Old Robert
Brooklyn
Beck
Liverpool
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Couch
Capt. Beck
Tragic Philadelphia Funeral Fall Traps Mourners in Cellar
A funeral party of about 50 mourners, including Katie Sieg al, sank into the cellar of Mrs Yetta Sieg al at 1312 South Seventh street after a floor collapsed. Gas escaped. police and undertaker helped lift mourners to safety as the body was re placed in the coffin and taken to the cemetery.
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Philadelphia
Yetta Siegal
South Seventh Street
Katie Siegal
Frick tops bid for Velasquez Pope Innocent X painting
Henry C. Frick reportedly offers 500000 dollars and may raise to 600000 for Velasquez Pope Innocent X in Rome. Owner Prince Alfonso Doria Pamphili refuses to consider the bid. Washington notes a Sevres dinner plate from James Buchanan Henry gifts to Mrs. Wilson.
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Velasquez
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Pope Innocent X
Rome
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Washington
White House
Buchanan
Wilson
James Buchanan Henry
Annapolis
President Polk
Wheatland
Lancaster
Benny
253 Marriage Licenses In One Day, Chicago
Chicago issued 253 marriage licenses in one day on June 1, a drop of fourteen from the same date last year. The total included couples from various neighborhoods and the city clerk’s office noted steady demand for license services.
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Chicago
Young Mexican envoy Manuel del Campo at conference
In Niagara Falls Ontario the six month old Manuel del Campo son of Martines del Campo an attache to the Mexican delegation appears defiant in a posed photo. The infant is the youngest member of the group sent by Huerta to the A B C conference at the Clifton house.
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Duckworth
Thurber
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Niagara Falls Peace Conference
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Ont
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Huerta
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Subdue an Outlaw Stallion Near Payette Idaho
S D Thacker of Payette was attacked and seriously injured by an imported Percheron stallion he had purchased. Thacker, with G Tracey, was driving a second horse when the stallion reared and struck him, stamping him. Tracey drove on to end the attack and eight men later captured the animal and brought it to town. The stallion had previously resisted handling for two years.
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Ida
S. D. Thacker
Thacker
8. G. Tracey
Ati
Tracey
Woman Drops Assault Charge After Court Spanking Admission
In Jamaica New York Mrs Louis Laparcone twenty one told the court she disobeyed her husband and he did right to spank her and she withdraws the assault charge against him in a domestic dispute.
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Jamaica
N. Y
Louis Laparcone
Fables Slang of Two Urchins in a Moral Tale
A quirky parable contrasts Wolgar and Rufus from childhood to college. Rufus thrives on bravado and public success, while Edgar remains dutiful and overlooked. The piece satirizes upward ambition, parental pressure, and social cliques ending with a moral about rough scrappers earning a ride through life.
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Edgar
Meroe
Alma Mater
Rufus
Ito
Tidvar
Patsy
Wdgar
Eiveryone
Wilgar
Holgar
Pretty Beads Made of Salt Craft Project
To make salt beads heat two handfuls of salt, warm one cup of cornstarch, and mix. Add one cup hot water colored with water colors to form a paste. Shape beads with the paste, ready a cushion to press a pin through each bead. Create uniform beads or graduated sizes on a string.
Between Devil and Deep Sea Phrase Origin Discussed
The article examines the saying between the devil and the deep sea as likely Scottish in origin rather than tied to Pictish versus Briton conflicts. It notes the reference may be obscured and hints at a link to the Gadara swine tale from the New Testament.
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Scotland
Anti Gambling Law Quelled by Crimson Gulch Holdout
In Crimson Gulch Three-Finger Sam explains the town’s anti gambling rule as a method to stop a novice winner from taking all the money, showing how the law was used to break up games when a tenderfoot started to win.
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Crimson Gulch
Three-Finger
Sam
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