Currency Bill Move Sparks House Conference Actions
Washington may 26 republican members were urged to stay for a potential currency bill vote. Conferees from both houses meet behind closed doors on the Aldrich Vreeland proposals amid talk of an asset currency compromise. Leaders warn adjournment without emergency currency action could imperil the majority.
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Washington, D. C
Francis Burke
Aldrich
Vreeland
Senate
House
Congress
Bartholdt
Missouri
House Committee On Public Buildings
Taft and Bryan Seek Publicity on Slush Funds
Washington May 25 Taft received a telegram from William Jennings Bryan proposing that leading candidates unite to urge Congress to pass a bill requiring publication of campaign contributions before an election. Taft replied that he had urged passage of the bill in a letter to Senator Burrows and had stated he hoped it would pass.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Wm. J. Bryan
Congress
Burrows
Committee On Privileges and Elections of the
Senate
House
Getting Into Band Wagon Burlington Liquor Dealers Urge Compliance
Influential Burlington liquor dealers pledge to obey court hours and conduct rulings. They issue cautions to all saloonkeepers to conform to the court decrees, aiming for safer, compliant business operations.
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Burlington
Weather outlook for Iowa Illinois warm with storms tonight
The forecast covers Iowa and Illinois with continued warmth and generally fair conditions. Local thunderstorms are possible tonight or Wednesday. sunrise is at 4 20, sunset at 7 15, and the moon rises at 2 44 a m.
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Iowa
Illinois
Iowa Educator Geiser Leaves for Oberlin College
Dr Karl C Geiser of the Iowa State Normal school political science department has been elected to the chair of history at Oberlin College Ohio He will sever ties with the normal at the end of the summer term leaving Cedar Falls Iowa May 26 for Oberlin news notes his eight years at the Normal school and move to Oberlin College
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K. C. Geiser
State Normal
Oberlin College
Cedar Fails
Karl C. Geiser
Iowa State Normal School
Oberlin, O
The
Normal
Johnson Warns of Two Evils Threatening Liberty
Minnesota Governor Johnson spoke at the Tuscaloosa state university commencement on Landmarks in American Liberty. He warned that centralization of federal power and centralized predatory wealth threaten the republic, urging that inherent powers remain with states and the people.
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Birmingham
Ala
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
State University
Tuscaloosa
Johnson
Iowa City Man Dies Sudden in Hotel Lobby
Edward Breese aged 85 dies suddenly in hotel lobby during coughing fit in Iowa City. He was a veteran of the 22nd Iowa regiment and had lived in the city for 55 years.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Edward Breese
22Nd Iowa Regiment
Storm hits revival tent in Creston injuring woman
A severe storm in Creston Iowa damaged the Evangelist Biederwolff revival tent. The center pole snapped as ushers collected offerings, sending the canvass down on frightened attendees. Mrs August Smith suffered a broken leg and was the only serious injury.
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Creston
Evangelist Biederwolff
August Smith
Foreigners invited to witness Radzius execution in Pottsville
At Pottsville Pennsylvania on May 26 a crowd gathered in the county prison yard to watch the hanging of Felix Radzius a young Polish convict who murdered a woman and a child in Shenandoah. Foreigner spectators were urged to attend to warn their countrymen about the crime and the severe punishment.
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Pottsville
Felix Radzius
Shenandoah
Theft Part Of Frat Ritual Says Student Plea
Ann Arbor police report a Kansas City student George Van Brunt claiming he was forced to steal as part of a secret society initiation. He and Thomas Wanty of Grand Rapids were jailed after a Sunday incident near the Pipe and Bowl club where officers say a red light theft was attempted and a struggle occurred with other students fleeing.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
George van Brunt
Kansas City
Justice Doty
van Brunt
Thomas C. Wanty
Grand Rapids
O'Mara
Wanty
Children In Awful Ride In Pottsville Crash
Seven teen children aged 6 to 14 were injured and several killed when a truck emptied of control on the Reading road sped down a steep grade. The truck collided with a car at the foot of the hill, destroying both vehicles.
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Pottsville
Reading
Big pure food show opens at Ottumwa convention
Retailers at Ottumwa Iowa crowd the hall for the tenth annual Iowa State Retail Merchants association convention. The show is the main attraction and draws hundreds. Officers are to be elected Wednesday afternoon with a contest for secretary between Ira B. Thomas, the current state secretary, and Fred Beaner of Des Moines.
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Ottumwa
Iowa State Retail Merchants’ Association
Des Moines
Ira B. Thomas
Fred Beaner
Michigan launches all Big Gun battleship in Camden
The first class battleship Michigan was launched today at the New York Ship Building Company yard on the Delaware. The eight 12 inch rifles and steel hull mark it near the English dreadnought class with a length of 450 feet and speed target of 18.5 knots. Notables present include Assistant Secretary Newberry and Governor Warner. Sponsor is Miss Carol Barnes Newberry.
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Camden
N. J
Michigan
New York Ship Building Company
Delaware River
Newberry
Interior
Garfield
Warner
Washington
Wolverine State
Carol Barnes Newberry
Closing arguments in Jerome dereliction case heard
Elizabethtown New York May 26 The closing arguments on dereliction charges against District Attorney Jerome were heard by Commissioner Hand Franklin Pierce counsel for the complainants argued that conditions in New York country are a hundred times more dangerous to society than murder and that the continuation of Jerome’s conduct in public prosecutor’s office is a grave calamity.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
William F. King
Jerome
Hand
Franklin Pierce
New York
Strikers March On City Hall To Seek Mayor’s Help
In Cleveland on May 26 the striking street car workers voted to keep the strike and march as a body to City Hall. They petition Mayor Johnson to intercede and end the walkout as additional desertions reduced the ranks and some workers returned to duty.
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Cleveland, CO
Johnson
Iowa Man Chosen As Bishop Of The Methodist Church
Baltimore reports indicate on the sixteenth ballot Dr. Robert McIntyre of Los Angeles was elected bishop. Earlier ballots chose Edwin H. Hughes of Green Castle Indiana and Wilson F. Lewis of Sioux City Iowa on the fifteenth ballot, with no election on several prior ballots. The conference also elected Rev Charles W. Smith of Pittsburgh on the twelfth ballot.
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Iowa
THE
Methodist Church
Baltimore
Robert McIntyre
Los Angeles
Edwin H. Hughes
Green Castle
Ind
Wilson F. Lewis
Sioux City
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Chas. W. Smith
Methodist Conference
Charles W. Smith
Pittsburg
Divorce Decree Granted in Vanderbilt Case
Justice O Gorman signs an interlocutory decree granting Ellen French Vanderbilt a divorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The order confirms referee David McClure report and grants custody of seven year old William H Vanderbilt to the mother.
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New York
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
O’gorman
Supreme Court
Ellen French Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
David McClure
Wm. H. Vanderbilt
Floods Recede After Million Dollar Damage In Dallas
Dallas reports Trinity River level dropping after floods caused over one million dollars in damage, at least three deaths, and 4000 people left homeless. Guthrie Oklahoma also sees floodwaters receding with no new deaths, death toll at eight, homeless returning home.
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Dallas
Texas
Trinity River
Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Troops to Stay in Cuba for Now Amid Talks
Washington May 26 The result of conferences between President Roosevelt Secretary Taft and General Bell decides not to withdraw any US troops from Cuba at the present time. The House adopted the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill and sent it to the President.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Taft
Bell
United States
Cuba
House
Military Academy
Florida Monitor Battles in Historic Live Fire Test
Norfolk May 26. The Monitor Florida will endure gunnery tests in lower Chesapeake Bay tomorrow with the Monitor Arkansas firing heavy rounds and torpedoes shot at her by the torpedo boat Morris. Quimby and crew trust the Florida will withstand armor strikes and torpedo attempts as volunteers man hazardous positions in this experimental naval test.
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Norfolk
Florida
Chesapeake Bay
Arkansas
Morris
Hampton Roads
Quimby
Navy Department
Preacher A Peeping Tom Arrested in Elkhart
In Elkhart Indiana Reverend Solomon L Gingerich a Mennonite college professor from Goshen and Iowa City was arrested on a Peeping Tom charge after peering into a room where a woman was disrobing. He admitted guilt and is considered possibly temporarily insane with an otherwise exemplary record.
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Iowa City
Elkhart
Ind
LaPorte
Solomon L. Gingerich
Mennonite College
Goshen
Martin Ludwig
Gingerich
Record-setting $300 million Burlington mortgage bonds issued
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway announced a March 2 meeting created a general mortgage issue of 4 per cent bonds totaling $300.6 million. It surpasses most railroad issues and only US Steel’s $304 million exceeds it. The bonds retire or refund $170 million in outstanding Burlington bonds and plan for future contingencies.
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New York
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Unite States Steel Corporation
Burlington
Presbyterian Assembly Reviews Home Mission Efforts and College Gifts
The Presbyterian general assembly in Kansas City reviews home missionary work among laborers immigrants and Indians and discusses church colleges gifts from John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. It notes large receipts despite unsettled finances and outlines new plans for evangelistic and labor department growth amid southern legal disputes.
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Kansas City
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Assembly
Church
Committee of Colleges
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Presbyterian Colleges
General Assembly
Cumberland
Labor Department
Department of Church and Labor
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