Idaho News Roundup From Twin Falls To Boise
A compilation of Idaho items reports the Twin Falls post office closures on Sundays, a Burley driver touring to Ogden, the 808 school tally with 52 entering next year, and the Murtaugh Sunday School convention set for June. Other notes cover a Caldwell widow buying large postal money orders, statewide potato prospects, Coeur d Alene kitchen closures, irrigation water abundance, a new large warehouse in Idaho Falls, a 12 000 acre drainage project near Nampa Caldwell, Welser rifle range, Bliss-Rupert steel work, Blackfoot whisky case, Intermountain Good Roads meet in Pocatello, Devils Ladder accident, rising road advocacy, Emmett Fruit Growers market plans, Bank of Idaho capital increase, a rattlesnake bite recover, Caldwell sidewalk damages case retried, Carey act acreage totals, Boise Chautauqua plans, and a Reubins fistfight described as a draw.
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Hmmet
Twin Falls
Coeur d’Alene
Don H. Bark
Idaho
Idaho Falls Register
Nampa
Caldwell
Welser
Bliss
Bliss-Rupert
Thomas Price
Blackfoot
Price
Pocatello
Shoshone Falls
Boise Statesman
Emmett Fruit Growers’ Association
J. W. Tyler
Butte
Montana
The
Bank of Idaho
Boise
James C. Borland
South Boise
Borland
E. C. Jones
Elizabeth Jones
Reubins
Urtlas
Drowning of Six in Utah Lake Adventure
A pleasure party of sixteen from Salt Lake City lost six members when their launch capsized aboard Utah Lake on a Sunday. Ten others were rescued after clinging to the overturned craft, enduring hours of exposure and effort to stay afloat. The incident followed a two hour struggle for survival in rough water.
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Utah Lake
Pearse
Salt Lake City
Denver Chamber of Commerce
Colorado
Vancouver
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company
George M. Stewart
Seattle
Richard M. Arms
Municipal Electric Plant
Mackey Coal Group
Juneau Land Office
United States
Deil Duncan
Ogden
Cache County
Utah
Louis Long
Oakland
Cal
Riley
Portland
Ore
Bend
Denver
James Lynch
L. von Phul
St. Louis
Harold F. Henwood
Brown Palace
George E. Copeland
Victor
Cole
Taft
Western Economic Society
Chicago
Lumber Trust
M. F. Locke
el Paso
Texas
Little Rock
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
MAY PROBE LUMBER TRUST BEGINS IN CHICAGO
A U S investigation into lumber industry conditions opened with a special grand jury in Chicago. Testimony came from Henry A. Sellen Harry B. Munger and George J. Pope as Oliver B. Pagan arrived to assist. The inquiry targets alleged lumber dealer associations and trade restraints.
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Chicago
United States
Lumber Trust
District Court
Fatal High Voltage Accident At Provo Power Plant
At the Murdock power plant near Provo Utah Arthur Dixon age 41 and William Blood age 25 were instantly killed while aiding a transformer move. M 4 Eardley age 27 of Salt Lake City received the shock first and escaped with severe burns. Eardley backed into a live uninsulated line sending current through the transformer and into the others.
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Salt Lake City
Arthur Dixon
Provo
William Blood
Midway
Murdock
Eardley
Dixon
Flood
Hardley
Telephone giants unite as Bell buys Utah Independent
Salt Lake City reports H Vance Lane president of Rocky Mountain Bell purchased the Utah Independent Telephone company holdings for 1 200 000 on Tuesday. The sale puts the Bell company in control of Utah’s telephone business with a forthcoming rate rise foreshadowed by Lane. He declined to specify new rates but said higher investment would require it.
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Chicago
Springfield
L. S. Berg
Berg
New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railway
Soone
Vergas
Minn
San Pedro Harbor
C. W. Caddigan
Minneapolis
Washington
Lorimer
Frank Pierce
Salt Lake
Pierce
Los Angeles
Senate Finance Committee
Supreme Court
Standard Oil
American Tobacco
Wickersham
United States
Taft
William Moore Ede
Westmoreland
England
Salt Lake City
H. Vance Lane
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Utah Independent Telephone Company
Bell Company
Utah Independent Company
Lane
Rocky Mountain Bell
Taft Rebukes Cavalry Colonel Over Jewish Promotion Bias
President Taft rebuked Colonel Joseph Garrard at Fort Mayer for disapproving Private Frank Bloom's promotion due to Bloom's Jewish parentage. Taft ordered a War Department investigation and called Garrard's endorsement narrow race prejudice. The War Department noted many Jews have served as army officers.
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Washington
Taft
Joseph Garrard
Fort Mayer
Frank Bloom
Bloom
Garrard
War Department
Outlaws Executed In Altar District Near Campania
In Nogales Arizona twenty eight Magonistas were summarily shot in the Altar district after a note allegedly signed by Magon urged plunder and devastation. The note was found attached to a saddle of a killed Magonista, and the executions have left the Altar region safe for travelers.
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Nogales
Ariz
Altar
Campania
Magon
Women to Hunt Lions on African Safari
Newport society figures Mrs Carroll and her daughter Dorothy, with Mrs Royal Phelps and her entourage, close their Newport home to embark on a big game hunting trip in the African jungle. Mrs Carroll, inspired by a Roosevelt trip, aims to test her marksmanship.
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Newport
Republicans Elect Portland Mayor in Daily Municipal Vote
A. G. Bushlight, a regular Republican, was chosen mayor of Portland, Oregon, in the municipal election held Monday. His nearest opponent, Joseph Simon, an independent Republican, trailed by about four thousand votes.
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Portland
Portland, Ore
A. G. Bushlight
Joseph Simon
British Steamer Ashore Off This Point
A British steamer named Thist ashore ported at this point after a distressing incident. Hugo cartiés reports a crew of forty aboard with two passengers. The vessel carries a full cargo of bridge material.
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Hugo
Furnaces Reopened at Pittsburg Steel Plants
In Pittsburg, Carnégie Steel and Tones and Laughlin Steel restarted several furnaces that had been idle, bringing production back online on Tuesday.
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Pittsburg
Carnégie Steel Company
Tones and Laughlin Steel Company
40 Years a Bandit Faces Long Prison Term in Georgia Hold-up
A historical review follows the career of outlaw California Billy known as Old Bill Miner. Beginning with stagecoach robberies in California in the 1860s and 1870s he battled posses, served time at San Quentin, and carried out later heists in Oregon British Columbia and Canada. He was recaptured and now faces extended imprisonment in Georgia for a later hold-up, with decades spent as an infamous western bandit.
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Georgia
Gainesville
California
Sacramento
Bill
San Quentin
Miner
Colorado
Sonora
Tua Famne
Milton
Darth
San Quentin Pria 3
Oregon
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Corbett
Canadian Pacific
Mission Junclion
British Columbia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Carter
B. C
New Westminster
Southern Railroad
Pitkertons
Bill Miner
Hig Pals
Quaint Garden Near the University in Chicago
A Chicago garden near the university grew from a plain yard into a genteel Italianate space. A sunlit veranda entry, sundial, hedges, and a lily pool frame plantings from honeysuckles to Shirley poppies and Shasta daisies. The owner favorably recalls the cement pool despite friends fearing clutter. lilies, goldfish, paradise fish and a verse inscription grace the scene.
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Chicago
University
Italy
Darwin
Dorothy Perkins
Parks Mean Much to City
Mr. Burnham of Chicago urged town planners to conserve and expand parks worldwide. He linked nature to citizenship and urged bold, long range plans with beauty as a beacon. He warned that great plans inspire future generations and endure beyond our lifetimes.
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Burnham
Chicago
Hamburg Waste to Fertilize Fields and Roads
Hamburg uses garbage and house refuse as fertilizing material in outlying fields, with remaining waste incinerated. Incinerator products are sold, iron auctioned, and fine cinders applied as road top dressing. Large residues become road foundations and concrete filler between floors and ceilings.
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Hamburg
Germany
Berlin Claims Title as The Cleanest City
Berlin Lokal Anzeiger asserts the city’s reputation as the cleanest and most polite in the world, noting complaints by women about impoliteness while praisingBerlin as the capital with premier status.
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Berlin
Bérlin
Izya
Lokal Anzstzer
Magnificent Distances Tease in Weslington Riddle
An office seeker jokes about Weslington as a site of magnificent distances. He notes the long way you go and what you get, highlighting the town’s reputation through a playful exchange.
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Weslington
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