Wheat Returns From Indian Head Farm In 1903 04
Alfred Wilson, farmer at Indian Head N W T, reports two fields yields and costs. Field 1 produced 87 bushels per acre with 32.56 earnings per acre after expenses, plus 24.93 profit net. Field 2 yielded 25 bushels per acre with profit 18.88, totaling 43.78 for ploughing. He notes total on his farms: about 19,506 bushels of wheat and 5,000 to 6,000 oats and barley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indian Head
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Canada
C.seeee
Alfred Wilson
Old-World Oddities and Curious Trials
A bullock roasted for 12 hours over coke in Sunderland remained uncooked when served to 500 poor. At Highgate Court 13 tenants in Sydney Road Hornsey owed no rent as no landlord collected. London converts include Quenton Ashlyn who leaves show business. Seoul reformer Choi Ik Yen sits outside the palace gate awaiting reforms.
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Sunderland
Highgate
Sydney Road
Hornsey
London
Torrey
Alexander
Quenton Ashlyn
Choi Ik Yen
Seoul
Row to Make a Vegetable Garden practical guide by Edith Loring Fullerton
A new home garden book by Edith Loring Fullerton from Doubleday, Page & Co. covers soil, fertilization, planting, cultivation, and table preparation with 350 pages of practical advice and illustrations. It includes a planting table with depths, dates, and maturity, drawn from the author’s personal experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Loring Fullerton
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York City
One Month's Fire Losses in North America
The March fire loss in the United States and Canada totaled 14 715 900 dollars, smaller than the prior four months of 1905 but larger than March losses in 1904 or 1908. The first quarter of 1905 shows a 60 percent drop from 1904, though 1905 was abnormal due to February 1904 Baltimore blaze. In early 1903 the quarter loss was 39 164 800 dollars, 17 519 700 less than the first quarter of the current year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Baltimore
Railroad wage cut protests in Georgia met by unions
In Atlanta Georgia the plan by J Pope Brown to lower passenger rates from three to two cents per mile drew opposition from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers the Order of Railway Conductors and unions of blacksmiths machinists telegraph er boilermakers railway trainmen carpenters joiners clerks and car men. They warned the policy would harm state prosperity reduce railroad employment and wages and hurt service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
J. Pope Brown
Georgia Railroad Commission
Georgia
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers
Thom
Travelers’ Protective Association
Iowa Land Prices Drive Population Drop Claim
Des Moines dispatch reports Wen W. T. Shepherd of Harlan, World’s Fair Commission member, links Iowa’s population decline to land prices at about $100 an acre. He urges lower land costs and state support to attract industry and wage earners, while criticizing bank hoarding and urging manufacturing encouragement. He also discusses proposed state liquor sales and elevated scrutiny of corporations.
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Des Moines
State Census Bureau
Iowa
Wen. W. T. Shepherd
Harlan
World’s Fair Commission
Canada
Weeks
Guthrie County
South Carolina
Guthrie
Carolina
Savery Hotel
Iowa Superintendent Denies Teacher Shortage Rumor
Report claimed Superintendent Riggs sought more assistants and a severe teacher shortage in Iowa. The state official issued a circular asserting the dispatch was unauthorized and that Iowa has its fill of teachers, contradicting the run of letters from western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Riggs
Iowa
Concentrating Mill Added at Iowa City College
An addition to the Iowa City college introduces a new concentrating mill one fourth the size of western smelter mills. Recently received, it has been placed in the old college building and will enhance the engineering course with separate accommodations planned until a new engineering facility is ready.
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Iowa City
Model ore mill demonstrates milling methods at college
A new college mill rising to about 22 feet tall is nearly complete and uses standard timbering methods from regular mills. It is designed to reduce ores and provide practical demonstrations of the milling processes.
Passenger seeks damages in railway wreck tuberculosis case
W B Armsbury sues Northwestern railway for 50000 dollars claiming he contracted tuberculosis after a high speed mixed train wreck. He alleges injuries threw him into the car ceiling and that the lung damage led to his illness, with possible demand for more in an amendment. Federal court term begins May 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Armsbury
Northwestern Railway
Towa Alumni Prospers With Brightening Prospects
Iowa college alumni report record health and growth plans lifting the association toward an 8000 member target as 7000 active members stay connected. Crop notes from Iowa cite cool nights and April showers slowing growth but improving outlook with strong pastures and promising overall farming conditions. Warren county farmers plant more corn with 3000 extra acres. seed germination remains a challenge due to immature harvest and extreme cold. A Fort Dodge father donates skin grafts to save his burned daughter, with 184 square inches removed from his body and limbs to aid her recovery and others helping with grafts.
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Towa
Iowa College
Iowa
Sage
The
Crop and Weather Service
Warren
Warren County
L. Hi, Gratener
Fort Dodge
Wocrart
McCutchen Indicted in Holstein Bank Failure
Ida Grove reports Fred McCutchen of Holstein, once athletic manager at the State University of Iowa, indicted for fraudulent banking. He posted a 2690 dollar appearance bond. Trial likely in October terms. Charge stems from Holstein bank failure led by his father J H McCutchen at E H McCutchen & Co.
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McCutchen
Ida
J. H. McCutchen
E. H. McCutchen & Co
Conductor Links Pat Crowe to Passenger List
Conductor Henry Higgins of the Monticello branch reports Pat Crowe rode from Leonard to Davenport and boarded the Rock Island flyer toward Omaha to see his sister and surrender to Chief Donahue. Higgins says Crowe claimed to have engaged William Jennings Bryan to defend him if prosecuted for the Cudahy kidnapping. Friends here say they spotted Crowe at visits with relatives near Donahue.
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Pat Crowe
Davenport
Henry Higgins
Monticello
Milwaukee
Leonard
Crowe
Rock Island
Omaha
Donahue
Higgins
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Cudahy
Elks Lodge Fined for Liquor Nuisance in Mason City
Mason City report: the Elks Lodge was indicted by the grand jury as a body and fined 300 dollars for maintaining a liquor nuisance. Members were previously arrested at the urging of the local Methodist pastor. The lodge will pay the fine without contest and has closed the buffet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
The
Elks’ Lodge
Famous Case Ends in Portland Mining Suit Verdict
The Portland mining case from Council Bluffs concluded with a jury verdict for Burns. James Doyle had sought over 1 million dollars claiming an interest in the Tidal Wave, Bobtail No. 2 and Devil's Own claims now part of Portland Mining Company property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Portland
James Doyle
Portland Mining Company
Burns
Waterloo Firm Sells Telegraph Franchise at Auction
The United States Telegraph and Telephone franchise with exchanges in 14 counties in north eastern Iowa sold for 55000 dollars to Thomas Casiden of Waterloo at a public sale ordered by a federal court.
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Waterloo
United States Telegraph & Telephone Company
Iowa
Thomas Casiden
Iowa and Nation in Briefs From Des Moines to Davenport
A roundup of Iowa items includes President Storms learning Iowa State College is listed for Argentine student aid, a Des Moines woman gravely wounded by a stray cartridge, a Grundy Center tailor beating his wife, a council Bluffs man decapitated by a train, and a $560 000 case yielding 40 cents revenue. Additional notes cover a Des Moines student suicide, Cornell College music festival May 18–20, and legal actions by the M W A against bondholders. Other notices report a fatal switchman in Missouri Valley, Ottumwa’s railway deal, Oskaloosa coal land sale, Grinnell church meeting, naval academy exam passes, a Northwestern mail fatality in Nevada, and a miniature cyclone in southern Iowa. Read of the Iowa State college board, Avoca death, Harrison county pioneer dies, a Dubuque brake incident, and Davenport cathedral burglary with tabernacle theft.
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Amos
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Storms
Iowa State College
Des Moines
Mary Hardy
Grundy Center
William Koabs
Council Bluffs
W. Linder
Union Pacific
James Doyle
James F. Burns
Sheriff’s Office
Leon Clark
Capital City Commercial College
Mount Vernon
Cornell College
E. H. McCutchen
Holstein Bank
Missouri Valley
Harry Harmon
Northwestern Yards
Ottumwa
Jefferson City
Chicago
Oskaloosa
Mahaska County
George
H. Ramsay
Williams Brothers
Beacon
Perry
Grinnell Association of Congregational Churches
Washington
E. P. Lowry
G. A. Trever
Wisconsin
Naval Academy
Nevada
Arnold Fenton
Northwestern Fast Mail
Lynn Street
Ames
Iowa
Melrosa
Avoca
W. B. Cuppy
J. H. Fensler
Harrison County
Dubuque
Thomas Moore
Hill Street
Davenport
Buryglars
Secred Heart Cathedral
Banirier
Indictments Hit Labor Leaders as Chicago Strikes Grow
In Chicago on May 1 twelve indictments were returned against labor leaders tied to the Montgomery Ward strike. The city saw violent clashes as armed drivers and guards fired in a major shootout on Madison and Franklin streets injuring a man named Charles Lidinsky and a brick attack wounded another. President Roosevelt rejected arbitration efforts and troops readied to assist if summoned.
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Chicago
Clyse
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Deneen
Dunne
Montgomery Ward & Co
Cook County Grand Jury
McEwen
Teamsters Union
Chicago Federation of Labor
Teamsters
Charles Lidinsky
John W. Farwell & Co
Madison
Franklin Streets
Tornado kills twenty one in Laredo and New Laredo Texas
A tornado struck Laredo and New Laredo on Friday night killing twenty one people and injuring many others. Five family members died at the George Woodman ranch adobe home. The Laredo seminary suffered severe damage with miraculous teacher escapes. The storm originated near Lampasas Mexico and caused widespread destruction across the town.
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Laredo
Tex
Bermuda
New Laredo
George Woodman
Lampasas
Mex
Oity Hull
Miners Entombed After Missouri Coal Mine Blast Near Wilburton
Thirteen miners were trapped and likely killed by a gas explosion at Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal Co. Mine No 1 four miles west of Wilburton Oklahoma. The eruption occurred about 1 20 Sunday morning after midnight shifts began. Foreman Steiner, at the surface, died at shaft bottom while tending injured workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilburton
Okla
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal Company
Here
William Ray
Steiner
Bud Cole
Russian Forces Drive Japanese From Tunghusiang
Gen Linevitch reports to the czar that two Russian armies struck the Japanese near Tunghusiang on April 29, forcing retreat from five positions and seizing the town.
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St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Nicholas
Tunghusiang
Lumber Mill Burned at Lemonville Pointing to Major Loss
Lumber mill of the Lemonville Lumber company at Lemonville Texas 15 miles northeast of Beaumont burned Sunday. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars with partial insurance coverage.
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Beaumont
Tex
Lemonville Lumber Company
Lemonville
Naval Commander Stoney Dies at Annapolis
Commander George Morse Stoney of the United States Navy died suddenly of heart disease at his quarters aboard the ship Santee at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was 52 and had suffered ill health for several months.
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Annapolis
George Morse Stoney
United States Navy
Santee
Naval Academy
Three Drowned In Boat Capsize At Cut-off Lake
Omaha Nebraska reports three youths drowned when a fishing boat capsized on Cut-off lake while five friends were aboard. The accident occurred Sunday. details show the remaining two boys were rescued.
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Omaha
Neb
Nurse’s Endorsement of Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy in Newark Letter
A trained nurse Mrs Martha Pohlman of 565 Chester Avenue Newark NJ and Blockley School graduate cites personal and professional evidence praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ailments. She claims rapid improvement after four months and urges others to seek its benefits despite professional caution against patent medicines.
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Martha Pohlman
Chester Avenue
Newark
N. J
Blockley Training School
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Hospital
Hey
Cohtman
Dean
Lydia
Pinklin
WSL
Keribodt
Pinkhamn
Pink
Lydia M. Pinkham
Dizel- Lydia E. Pinkham
End of the Grip Relieved by Pink Pills
Mr. Newman of Sagrada Missouri describes severe grip with deafness headaches and stomach pain. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing his condition after other doctors and remedies failed. The advertisement praises the pills as a cure and notes availability at druggists.
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Mr. Newman
Grip
Theo
William A. Newman
Camden County
Sagrada
Missouri
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National Child Labor Association Committee
Allison
Secretary of State
Sampson
High School of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Waterford
Hawkeye State
Iowa State News
Oklahoma
Chicago Daily News
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Olmsted
Roy
Elsa
Beelil—N, OY. Press
Waller
Texas
Pusheel
Kare
John Meyer
Pienyune
Earls and
Coloises
Ocean Grove
Nod
N. Y
Chicago Tribune
Brend
Life
Sunset Magazine
Pildinam
Lynn
Mass
Pohlman
Carters
Eh Carters
Allekora
Fongbomor
A. J. Tower CO
Blin of the
Fish Hunton
U.S
Towery
Tower Canadian Co
Trinitad
Toronto
Panhandle
American Pastoral Company
P. O. Box
Denver
Colo
Vidaita
RA. Paxton Company
Boston
Masad
Gray
Bample
Seattle
Washngton
C. D. Hillman CO
Seattle, Wash
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