True Temperance Beginnings at Home and Sioux City Minister
Reform-minded Reverend Wallace M. Short of Sioux City's First Congregational Church drew national attention by challenging prohibition from his pulpit. He engaged directly with liquor interests and saloon culture, visiting establishments to understand liquor trade attractions while maintaining his pastoral duties in a controversial stance.
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Short
Sioux City
Iowa
Wallace M. Short
First Congressional Church
Model License League
First Congregational Church
Fean
League
Bine
Bartender’s Union
Shippers of Grain Seek Railroads Liability Rule
George A Weiss urged Western Grain Dewiers Association members to press railroads to cover losses from delays in transit and declines in grain value. The secretary called for better scale inspections, road inspector checks, and stricter bills of lading to aid credit and exchange while boosting efficiency and cooperation.
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Mes Molles
Western Grain Dewiers’ Association
George A. Weiss
Wells
Hae
License case appealed Iowa City peddlers argue license unconstitutional
Iowa City pedddlers will carry the License Ordinance to Supreme Court Iowa City July 13 Notice of appeal was filed by Judge Byington counsel for the Iowa City peddlers The license ordinance of Iowa City will be tested in the supreme court The peddlers contend a $330 yearly license for a single horse team is prohibitive and unconstitutional Leading grocers taxes cited range from 10 to 40 The ordinance was upheld in the lower court
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Iowa City
Supreme Court
Byington
Mother Dies Shields Child In Des Moines Runaway Accident
Des Moines July 13 Ole Kelley wife of R. 5. Kelley living near Fort Des Moines died last night at Mercy Hospital from injuries after a newspaper blown under horses caused a runaway wagon. Mrs Kelley suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. she never regained consciousness while the young baby survived.
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Des Moines
Wire
Ole Kelley
Kelley
Fort Des Moines
Mercy Hospital
Modern Brotherhood Convention delegates named for Denver trip
In Marshalltown day one the Fifth Congressional district counties prepare to send seven delegates to a Friday convention of the Modern Brotherhood of America. The main business is electing five delegates to the supreme lodge triennial meeting in Denver from August 2 to 12.
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Modern Brotherhood
Marshalltown
Iowa
Modern Brotherhood of America
Supreme Lodge
Denver
Mason City Schools Unite After High School Fire
Mason City July 8 The high school and Memorial University schools will unite for the coming year after the Mason City high school building was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding and enlargement are expected to take over a year.
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Mazon City Schools
Mason City
Y and
Memorial University S
Mason City High School
Glidden Wealthy Citizen Dies Suddenly
Glidden July 13 A Armstrong noted as once among the town’s wealthiest residents died yesterday in a sudden event. His former property valued around $200,000, but by 1904 he had become penniless and banish noted. He had been operating a 2,000 acre farm.
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Glidden
A. Armstrong
Banly
Arrested at Omaha in false checks case
A Laude man wanted here on a charge of uttering false checks is under arrest at Omaha. Taidsman secured more than $200 in small amounts in two days’ work. Embezzlement charges loom as railway men face similar accusations.
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Omaha
Mason City
Laudeman
Taidsman
Flames Raze Oscoda and Au Sable Towns
Oscoda and Au Sable towns with 1,800 residents are burned as 50 mile per hour winds drive the fire. Key losses include H. H. Land's Sons and sawmill operations over $1.5 million. A relief train derailed en route to Alpena. hundreds flee toward the shore and Port Huron hosts evacuees from Oscoda.
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Bay City
Oxstoda
Au Sable
Kongo
Detroit and
Mackinie
Woodruff
Loud
H. H- Land's Sons’ Company
George A. Loud
Michigan
Fie
Oscoda
Alpena
Lewiston
Alger
Michigan Central
Turner
Detroit & Mackinac
Bolton
Metz
Millersburg
Cheboygan
Chebvygan
Ten Killed by Blast at Frankfort, Frankfort
A blast in Frankfort, Main, Germany, killed ten people and caused extensive damage at a local site. Authorities reported the incident and opened an investigation, with emergency crews responding and securing the area. Investigators are examining the cause of the explosion and any potential links to earlier threats in the region.
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Frankfort
Main
Germany
Indicted Lewis Charged With Fraudulent Mail Schemes
E G Lewis, once publisher of several magazines, is indicted by a special grand jury in St Louis on 12 counts alleging fraudulent use of the mails. The government accuses him of running four schemes to defraud investors, including unsecured notes tied to the Woman's Magazine Building and related ventures. The yearlong investigation involved post office inspectors and more than 50 witnesses, and Lewis has placed his corporations in trustee hands for five years.
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St. Louis
E. G. Lewis
United States District Court
Lewis
Woman's Magazine
Woman's National Daily
University City
University Heights Realty and Development Company
Lewis Publishing Company
Post Office
People's United States Bank
Grand
Trieber
Eugene Stinde
Stinde
Wadge-Trieber
Strnde
Gates Is Cheered by Son Paris Dispatch
Paris July 1 The condition of John W Gates is unchanged following the arrival of his son Charles G Gates Dr Gros said the crisis would develop within twenty four hours and there was a chance for a favorable outcome.
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Paris
John
W. Gates
Charles. G. Gat
Gros
Must Wed to Win Prize in Mattoon Rivalry
Sports betting gimmick in Mattoon promises a $250000 prize tied to a marriage wager. Joel A. Montague, president of Ion State Sayings Bank, headlines the quirky promotion dated July 13.
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Mattoon
Joel A. Montague
Ion Stata
Lessh
Fisher Denies Alaska Land Scandal At Interior Hearing
Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher, a key potential witness, told the House committee examining Alaska land issues that public interests were not jeopardized. He urged prompt correction of any problems and offered to help protect public interests, noting no rights were obtained in Controller Bay.
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Interior
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Walter L. Fisher
House
Interior Department
Guggerheims
Alaska
M .F. Abbott
Dick Toe Dick
Controller Bay
Fisher
Richard
Ryan
R. A. Ballinger
Miss Abbott
Charles Tait
Sugar freight bias eyed in U S sugar inquiry
Philadelphia broker Frank L Neale testified before the House sugar investigating committee. He named tariff policy as mother of trusts and trunk line railroads as the father, accusing discrimination against Philadelphia sugar interests. He argued freight rates should reflect distance from refineries, not city, as trains move goods to markets.
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Washington
Truunk
Trunk Line Association
Frank L. Neale
Philadelphia
Louse Sugar Investigating Committee
Steel
Neale
Philadelpiia
Baltimore
New York
Crippen’s Lawyer Suspended for One Year
London July 18 Arthur Newton, found guilty of professional misconduct in My defense of wife killer Dr. Hawley H Crippen, was suspended from practice for one year and ordered by the divisional court to pay the costs of the inquiry.
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London
Arthur’ Newton
Hawley H. Crippen
Law Society
Son of King George Now Prince of Wales
In Carnarvon Wales on July 11 amid pomp Prince Howard the one year old son of King George and Queen Mary was invested as Prince of Wales. The ceremony followed a grand procession from Holyhead to Castle Square with the king and queen present. The investiture included the traditional act of kneeling and receiving the coronet, sword, ring, and cap, tied to letters patent read aloud before being handed to the king for delivery.
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Carnarvon
Wales
Epfender
George
Mary
Prince Howard
Prince of Wales
Holyhead
Griffith’s
Royal Guards
Castle Square
Prince Presented to People After Ban Gor Ceremony
The prince, amid a fanfare of trumpets, received a religious ceremony conducted by the bishop of Ban gor and a representative minister of nonconformist churches. The king and queen then showed the prince at Queen Eleanor's gateway to the crowd, marking the ceremony's culmination.
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Bangor
Queen
Eleanor
Penn Tablet Unveiled in London Memorial to William Penn
A bronze tablet honoring William Penn was unveiled today at All Hallows church in London with American attendees and dignitaries. Col Robert L. Thompson of the Pennsylvania Society of New York led the ceremony, joined by James S. Beck, William Guggenheim, and RT. Davies the lord mayor, with the sheriffs present. An evening dinner at Stafford House hosted by the duke of Sutherland will follow, with about 7 guests and Penn descendants expected from around the world.
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London
Hallows Church
William Penn
Robert L. Thompson
Pennsylvania Society of New York
Colonel Thompeton
James S. Beck
William Guggenheim
RT. Davies
Stalforg House
Duke of Sutherland
Penn
Emma Hames Weds Again in Paris City Hall Wedding
Emma Hames and mill order Gorgoza were married in privacy at Paris city hall eighth arrondissement with witnesses William Francie Warden Fairchild Blair George Armstrong and Ernest Arnal present. Officiant M Sasishoeuf delivered a brief address. Hames had been divorced from Julian Story in 1907 and the barytone tied to her professionally was also divorced last year.
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Paris
France
Emma Hames
Gorgoza
Oridé
William Francie Warden
Sod Fairchild Blair
George Armstrong
Ernest Arnal
M. Sasishoeuf
Prita Donna
Fran Julian’ Story
Barytone
Alga Neumann de Gogorza
Peavey Grain collapse looms long and costly
Chicago July 13. Liquidation of the Peavey Grain Company, suspended after president James Pettit drowned at Highland Park, may be drawn out. Minneapolis firm may assume all obligations. debt estimated around 1.5 million. Pettit used company credit for personal speculation, with banks and creditors aligning to protect subsidiary interests. Audit planned before July 26 to expose manipulations, while several Chicago banks face potential losses.
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Minneapolis
Chicago
Peavey Grain Company
Highland Park
James Pettit
Pettit
Pattit
Mineapolis
F. H. Peavey & Co
Tig
Peavey Grain’ Company
Wold
First National
Com Exchange
National
Bank of Montreal
Paper
EB. E. Otte
Frank C. Vettore
National City
First National Banks
J. M. Greats
Board of Trade
Jim
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