Mothers Congress Symposium Captivates Des Moines Crowd
Des Moines May 22. Alice Walton Beatty reports on the Mothers Congress sessions led by Mrs. Birney and Dr. Chrisman. The event draws nearly four thousand, features speeches by Mrs. Hillis and a Washington, D. C. speaker, with praise for Des Moines hospitality and a vast, varied program.
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Mothers’ Congress
Isaac Lea Hillis
A. J. Murray
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Allison
Des Moines
Tramps Acquitted in Officer Murphy Shooting Case
In Justice Tapley’s court, William Saunders and John Saunders were tried for assault with intent to murder Officer Murphy but were freed due to lack of sufficient evidence. The officer testified he fired at the men. no witness saw the tramps shoot back, leaving the court with no grounds for conviction.
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Justice Tape
Murphy
William Saunders
John Saunders
East Hill Defends Territory Against Downtown Invasion
East Hill boys refuse to yield their territory as downtown youths muster a force with rusty revolvers gas pipes and sand sacks. The two sides clash verbally with sharp words. No blood is shed as the encounter ends without violence.
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East Hill
Down Town
Hill
Button Factory Planned for Fairport
Reports say Fairport will host a new button factory after long talks about starting one locally. The town offers conveniences for such a business and rising prospects of a flourishing operation.
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Fairport
Stein Furniture Co Announces Late Style Sale
The Stein Furniture Company advertises a special sale of late style furniture at prices lower than prior. S. G. and P. Stein Furniture Co. promotes reduced pricing on a variety of furniture items.
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Old Reliable
Stein Furniture Company
S. G. & P. Stein Furniture Co
A Famous Killer Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer
An old advertisement touts Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer claiming instant relief for neuralgia lame back diarrhea stomach pains pleurisy sore throat or any pain. Product pitched for all pains and priced at 25 cents with request to ask druggists.
Temperance Union backs city ministers in saloon fight
The Young People's Christian Temperance Union in Muscatine endorses city ministers actions against the saloon. The group plans summer agitation for reform and social purity, with Miss Shontz of Chicago slated to speak June 4, drawing a large audience.
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Young People’s Christian Temperance Union
Presbyterian Church
South Muscatine
Temperance Union
Miss Shontz
Chicago
United States
Muscatine
Kansas Corn Train Delivers Grain to Starving India
A Friday morning procession of two Kansas freight trains carried grain for starving India. Twenty one cars bore banners announcing Kansas corn and a total of 1 009 000 bushels sent by Kansas. The Capital Elevator Co of Topeka loaded the corn and Oklahoma contributed food too.
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India
Kansas
Oklahoma
Capital Elevator Co
Topeka
Bayfield Notes Local Social and Road Updates
Wm Cullip delivers corn to C E Will. John Scott and mother visit Wm Chapman. James Wilson of Muscatine calls on residents. Harry and Arthur Cullip visit Lavasterpool. E Vordermark road supervisor active. A horse buyer from Iowa City seeks horses. Hattie Kirk and Daisy Chapman visit Nellie Brazel. B C R N Ry officials examine depot matters. Mr and Mrs Chas Miller of High Prairie visit Chet Will family. Ejcchelberger family pass through town. Marie Rankin from Muscatine visits C E Will. Henry Meyers of Adams visits Mrs Vordermark’s family. Brazel family visit Chapman kin.
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Wm. Cullip
C. E. Will
John Scott
Wm. Chapman
James Wilson
Muscatine
Harry
Arthur Cullip
Lavasterpool
E. Vordermark
Iowa City
Hattie Kirk
Daisy Chapman
Nellie Brazel
Henry Meyers
Adams
Vordermark
A. Brazel
Ferdinand III Local Notes and Social Items
News is scarce. Cora planting foremost done in this vicinity. Mrs W Bornoff called on Mrs Meyer. John Zoliner has sheep shearing this week. Miss L Krueger helped aunt last week. Miss Cora Christian doing needlework for Mrs Meyer. Clarence was disappointed when she hadn’t written. Miss Kattie Chapman visited with Emma Krueger. Artie negroes night. Mr and Mrs Ed Bartlett Sundayed with Ruthenburgs in Illinois City. Misses Bessie Laura Jillett and Kate Watson attended Sabbath school at French. James Fowler skinned nose on way home from brother’s. Man from Ferdinand Northwestern with three singing girls envied or pitied.
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Cora
W. Bornoff
Artie
Ed. Bartlett
Ruthenburg
Illinois City
Bessie
Laura Jillett
Kate Watson
James Fowler
Ferdinand
Local Notes And Events From The Neighborhood
Carl Sabbath sold a horse to Olds recently. Flowers look scarce for Decoration Day. William Duff works at Muscatine saw mills. Pat Haney and Julius Overhouse visited James Haney's Sunday. Mr and Mrs Jerry Madonna visited parental home last Sunday. Boys plan Saturday baseball instead of Sunday forenoon. John Noble and wife returned from Morriston Illinois. Farmers have finished planting corn and are planting cabbage and tomatoes between showers. Rob Hare captured two burglars near Muscatine. Our Sunday school grows stronger each week. Who will supervise when F A Martin goes on vacation. Mr and Mrs W H Smith Miss Mackey of Springdale Indiana and Wm N Johnson of Quincy Illinois visited Whitcombs. Hired men scarce. employment available at Browning farms.
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Carl Sabbath
Olds
William Duff
Muscatine
Pat. Haney
Julius Overhouse
James Haney
Jerry Madonna
John Noble
Morriston
Ill
Wm. N. Johnson
Quincey, Til
Stanley Whitcomb
William
Dave Browning
British Advance Near Vaal River After Unopposed March
Special dispatch from London dated May 24 reports the British column reaching Vredefort Road at noon, still two days from the Vaal River after an unopposed march. The note mentions a wreck at Akron with three dead and others injured, a death at Waterloo, and notes from the M E General Conference.
Frightful Wreck on Electric Suburban Line
Akron dispatch reports a horrific suburban rail wreck on the electric line near Chicago with three dead and three injured seriously. Brakes failed on the down grade causing the crash.
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Chicago
Akron
Ohio
Divine Dead
Waterloo Iowa May 25 Reverend William S Craft pastor of the First M E church and a well known divine died this morning after one months illness at his home in this city.
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Waterloo
Iowa
William S. Craft
M. E
Hearing Sought to Declare James W. Whalen Dead
Mrs Catherine Whalen seeks surrogate Lills order declaring her husband James W Whalen dead under seven year disappearance rule. Whalen vanished after 1890 Colorado gold success sent funds home then ceased. Relatives contest seeking a $50 000 legacy from a deceased aunt and may produce photos or new evidence.
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Jersey City
N. J
Catherine Whalen
Lills
Jas. W. Whalen
Whalen
Cripple Creek
Colo
Roanoke Sails to Cape Nome Amid Klondike Rush
Seattle May 25 report notes the Roanoke departed for Cape Nome packed to capacity. The Klondike rush is surpassed by the stam pede of two years ago. By today at least 40 steamers and 25 sailing vessels have left Tacoma San Francisco and Seattle for Cape Nome. About 20 000 miners and prospectors are moving northward.
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Seattle
Wash
Cape Nome
Klondike
Tacoma
San Francisco
Cigar Shaped Train Trials Begin at Mt Clare
A cigar shaped train built at the B and O shops Mt Clare begins speed and endurance trials today. Inventor is Frederick W Adams, a veteran Chicago newspaperman.
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Mt. Clare
Frederick W. Adams
Chicago
Last Day for Rio Grande Preferred Stock Subscriptions
Stockholders of the Denver and Rio Grande must subscribe by today to 7 000 shares of preferred stock. Subscriptions are limited to 4 percent of each holder’s current holdings, with larger requests queued after common stockholders have their turn. the opportunity ends today.
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Rio Grande Ptd
New York
Denver & Rio Grande
Girls Run Trolleys For Charity In Champaign
Today is trolley day in Champaign Illinois with girls in costumes collecting fares. The streetcar lines provide service free of charge and all receipts go to the free hospital.
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Champaign
Free Hospital
Memorial Day Exercises in Toledo Schools
Memorial Day exercises are held in Toledo schools with old soldiers from Fort Post and ladies of the G A R and related groups visiting to assist in patriotic activities.
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Toledo
Fort Post
Fair Weather Indications For Iowa Tonight And Saturday
Chicago May 25 Special indicates Iowa will see generally fair weather tonight and Saturday with no significant storms expected.
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Chicago
Iowa
Parley Over Freedmen Aid Secretaries at Methodist Conference
Chicago May 24. The Methodist general conference debated Governor Pattison’s report on changing church society constitutions to conform to last week’s action. A motion to reconsider cut the extra secretary for the Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Educational society. After prolonged debate an amendment exceptions the Freedmen’s Aid society from prior action and allows two secretaries was adopted. Conference adjourned sine die to May 29 and moved to elect eastern and western book agents with publishing agents as last forenoon item.
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Chicago
Methodist General Conference
Pattison
General Conference
The
Missionary Society
Freedmens Aid and
Southern Educational Society
Freedman’s Aid and
Freedmen’s Aid Society
Welch
Wyoming
Freedmen's Aid Society
Army of the Potomac Holds Fredericksburg Reunion
The thirty first annual reunion in Fredericksburg Virginia features Brevet Major General D M M Gregg as president and General Horatis Co King as recording secretary. Notables gather to revisit battlefields and support a national park for the site. President McKinley is invited and expected to speak. an excursion to Richmond is planned.
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Fredericksburg
Society of the Army of the Potomac
D. M. M. Gregg
Horatis Co. King
Brooklyn
Samuel Truesdell
Charles W. Scott
Chancellorsville
Wilderness
Pottsylvania Court House
Todds Tavern
Laurel Hill
Salem Church
Daniel Sickles
McKinley
Richmond
Reform Plan to Restructure City Business Management
At a Waldorf Astoria dinner honoring William F. King the Merchants Association plans to unveil a radical reform in city and state business management. The association, with a vast non-partisan membership of merchants, business leaders, and public spirited citizens, aims to oppose corrupt legislation and government and to combat railroad discrimination while promoting public welfare.
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New York
Waldorf, Astoria
Wm. F. King
Merchants Association
Intercollegiate meet draws 880 entries at Manhattan field
About eight hundred eighty entries, eighty more than last year, are listed for the Intercollegiate Athletic Association meet at Manhattan field today and tomorrow. Georgetown sprinter A F Duffy may be barred, affecting his Paris Exhibition chances. Heavy entries promise most events will span two days and many records may fall.
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New York
Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Manhattan Field
A. F. Duffy
Georgetown
Duffy
Amateur Athletic Union
Water works workers arraigned on meter tampering charges
Clarence M. Wolfe and George W. Piggott city water works employees were arraigned before Justice Prindiville on charges of tampering with meters and defrauding the city. They are held on $10,000 bonds. Several confederates are expected to be arrested.
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Chicago
Clarence M. Wolfe
George W. Piggott
People’s Gas Light and Coke Co declares dividend
Chicago May 25 The People’s Gas Light and Coke Co announces a quarterly dividend of 4 percent payable today. The books reopen Monday next.
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Mothers Congress
Fate
Tom Smith
Chrisman
Sion
A. B. Marshal
Birney
Herman H. Birney
Philadelphia
Harriet Garton
Theodore W. Birney
Mothers
Harlan
Smith
Dr. Chrisman
Woman’s Club
Senator Titus
Sue _ Hill Clough
J. H. St. John
Sawyer
Stein
Wells
Col. Horton
John Eversmeyer
East Hill Boys Bellicose
Muscatine’s Temperance Union Says
Miss Shantz
Bayfield
Ferdinand, III
Genevia
Chicago, Ill
London
Vredefort Road
Vaal River
Akron, Ohio
Divine
M. E. Church
M. E. Conference
Army of the Potomac
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