Sunday Greets Muscatine After Ottumwa Campaign
Evangelist William A Sunday returns to Muscatine from Ottumwa and speaks at the Sunday Memorial tabernacle. He praises Muscatine saloon closure, aims to finish Ottumwa revival with a Christ victory, and notes fatigue after a day of travel and interviews. The tabernacle crowds grow for both afternoon and evening services with the choir and orchestra set for the evening.
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William A. Sunday
Muscatine
Rock Island
Ottumwa
Sunday Memorial Tabernacle
Pearl City
Tabernacle
Wreck on Lake Superior Believed To Claim Clemson
Duluth Minnesota reports the steamer N M Clemson likely sank in last week’s gales on Lake Superior. The Provident Steamship Co vessel with a crew of 22 from Duluth disappeared while bound for coal cargo. Tugs from Detroit were sent to search for survivors or wreckage. The Clemson measured 453? No, 468 feet long and 52 feet beam with 5531 tons. Capt S R Chamberlain commanded the steel freighter.
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Duluth
Minn
N. M. Clemson
Lake Superior
Clemson
Provident Steamship Company
Detroit
S. R. Chamberlain
Congress Reopens and Adjourns in Short Session
The second session of the Sixtieth Congress opens and then adjourns, ending the brief gathering. No further business or votes are detailed in the fragment.
Ovation for Cannon and Sherman as 60th Congress convenes
The second session of the sixtieth congress convened with crowded galleries in Washington. Senator-elect Page took the oath in the Senate, a resolution mourning Senator Allison was adopted, and Vice President-elect Sherman received an ovation in the House. Speaker Cannon was similarly cheered as seven new members were sworn in.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Page
Vermont
Allison
Sherman
Payne
Committee On Ways and Means
House
Cannon
Poison Overdose Tied to Drake Musician Death
Des Moines report questions whether Dean Frederick Howard of the Drake Musical School died from a morphine overdose given to relieve pain or from heart disease. The sensational investigation began today after Howard died on Thanksgiving Day.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
Iia
Dean Frederick Howard
Drake Musical School
Howard
Roosevelt to bear travel costs on Africa trip
The Smithsonian Institute states President Roosevelt will pay all expenses for himself and his son Kermit on the Africa trip. Funds will cover expenses for three naturalists, with Roosevelt not receiving any money from the funds.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Smithsonian Institute
Kermit
Shot at rabbits killed in accidental shooting
Wil ford Cartwright of Hubbard Iowa died from an accidental gunshot while rabbit hunting yesterday afternoon near Marshalltown. He said on his death bed the shooting was accidental and the shooter was Werman Baucher of Peoria Illinois.
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Iowa Evening Press
Marshalltown
Wilford Cartwright
Hubbard
Iowa
Werman Baucher
Peoria
Cartwright
Cummins Delays Debut As Postal Savings Bill Looms
Iowa Senator Cummins may oppose the Postal Savings bank measure unless amended to fit his views. He plans to offer changes to protect rural banking, asserting local banks keep money at home. He waits to be sworn in after Senator Allison’s death and is greeted by insurgent Republicans in the Senate.
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Washington
the Journal
Washington, D. C
J. C. Welliver
Cummins
Senate
Postal Savings Bank
Allison
Lowan
Borah
Brown
Burkett
Dixon
LaFollette
Bourne
Nevada
Dolliver
Burrows
Son's Affliction Drives to Death by Own Action
St Louis December 7 Charles W Blow manager of the American Linseed Company works shot and killed himself today. Worry over the condition of a young son who recently became unable to walk is thought to have driven Blow to commit suicide.
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St. Louis
Charles W. Blow
American Linseed Company Works
Blow
Billik reprieved in Illinois murder case
Springfield, December 7. Herman Billik, condemned to hang on December 11 for the murder of Mary Vizal, was granted a reprieve until January 26 by Acting Governor Sherman.
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Springfield
Ill
Herman Billik
Mary Vizal
Sherman
Bank in Springfield Closed by Government Order
The National Exchange bank, a major Springfield financial institution, was closed today by order of the comptroller of the currency. It was established in 1898 with capital of 100000 dollars, deposits around 2100000, and loans and discounts near a million. Officers listed: President L S Meyer, Vice President A R Baldwin, Cashier E L Sanford.
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Springfield
National Exchange Bank
L. S. Meyer
A. R. Baldwin
E L. Sanford
Davenport Boy on Great Rage in Six Days Race
Sixteen teams race through the six days international bicycle event in New York. By 9 o clock leading riders had surpassed prior records, while Manus Bedell of the Bedell Rupprecht team suffered a serious collarbone injury and retired.
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New York
N. Y
Brocco and
la Brousse
Elkes and McFarland
Manus B. Bedell
Bedell Rupprecht
Dorando
Walter Rutt
Germany
Johann Stol
Holland
Victor Dupre
France
Leon Georget
Norman Anderson
Copenhagen
Carlo Vanoni
Italy
Joe Fogler
Brooklyn
National Athletic Club
Iver Lawson
Chicago
Hardy Downing
C. L. Hollister
Salt Lake City
Frank Galvin
New Milford
Conn
George Wiley
Syracuse
Fred Hill
Boston
Walter Demars
San Jose
Cal
Dixie Yankee
Bobby Walthour
Atlanta
Eddie Root
Francoise Faber
Henri Lafourcade
Maurice Brocco
Roger Labrousse
Pedlar
Palmer
Gordon Walker
Sydney
Australia
Floyd MacFarland
James Moran
Long Island
John Bedell
Menus Bedell
Lynbrook
Emerald Isle
Mat Downey
Patrick Logan
Ireland
Elmer Collins
W. E. Mitten
Davenport
Brakeman Crushed to Death in Rock Island Yard
Council Bluffs Iowa December 7 Carl C Hanson a Rock Island switchman was killed at the station when crushed between two cars His skull fractured he leaves a wife and two daughters.
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Iowa Evening Press
Council Bluffs
Carl C. Hanson
Rock Island Station
Hull Introduces Broad Pure Food Style Bill in House
Congressman Hull of Iowa introduced a bill patterned after the pure food statute making it a misdemeanor to manufacture for sale or transport imitated articles unless clearly branded with exact ingredients. The measure is broad, applying to any commodity transported and sold under interstate commerce rules affecting nearly all domestic items.
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Washington, D. C
Hull
Iowa
President Opens Apple Show Signal Across Nation
Spokane reports that at 10 30 today President Roosevelt pressed the electric button in Washington sending the signal to open the first great national apple show in Spokane Washington December 7 with the event marking the launch of the exhibit and a continental broadcast the article notes the president activated the mechanism from the capital.
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Washington
Spokane
Wash
Roosevelt
Mrs Maybrick Wins Big Land Suit in Virginia
Richmond December 7 The chancery court awarded Florence Maybrick and her mother the Baroness von Roque victory in the land dispute valued at about two and a half million dollars.
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Richmond
Florence Maybrick
Baroness von Roque
Chancery Court
Swedish Consul in Missouri Dies by Own Act in Crisis
A Ekstromer Swedish vice consul at St Louis took prussic acid at his home today. He had been in public notice for a dispute with federal officials that led to his exequatur revocation by President Roosevelt. He was later restored to office and resumed duties. No reason for the death is available.
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St. Louis
Charles A. Ekstromer
Ekstromer
Roosevelt
Church Leaders Debate Birth Rate At Federal Council Meeting
The Federal Council of Churches resumed meetings in Philadelphia on December 7 with a report by Bishop Doane calling for renewed emphasis on family life. He cites decline in birth rate due to eroded marriage sanctity and lack of responsibility, urging legislation to curb harmful devices and ads, prosecute unsafe practices, and improve maternity care and support for women.
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Philadelphia
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
William Croswell Doane
Protestant Episcopal Diocese
Albany
N. Y
E. M. Matthews
Chicago
United Brethren In Christ
Doane
United States
Lambeth Conference of Angelican Bishops
New South Wales Commission
Bishops of Canada
Treasurer Presents 1910 Appropriation Estimates To Congress
Secretary of the Treasury transmitted to Congress the book of estimates for the fiscal year ending January 30. The 1910 appropriations total 824,409,000, exceeding 1909 by 57,900,676, with 1909 at 57,901,000.
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Congress
Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
Ananias Club Victory Prompts Editors Action
A scandal story notes the Ananias Club is two to the good and editors are chosen. An investigation is asked as records are claimed not to be destroyed or hidden. Most are published with others open for public examination and hot shots cited.
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Ananias Club
Roosevelt Attacks Editors Over Panama Canal Deal
In Washington on December 7 the president denounces Delavan Smith of the Indianapolis News and William M. Laffan of the New York Sun for alleged misstatements about the Panama canal purchase. Roosevelt labels their editorials abominable slander and falsehoods in a forceful public letter responding to inquiries about the deal.
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Washington, D. C
Delavan Smith
The
Indianapolis News
William M. Laffan
New York Sun
Sun
Oklahoma Gas
William Dudley Foulke
United States
Taft
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois
Iowa shows fair skies and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Illinois forecast calls for fair weather tonight with warmer conditions, and Tuesday remains fair and warmer. Sunrise is 7 04, sunset 4 20.
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Iowa
Illinois
Norwest
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