College Notes and Social Busy Week at Pella
College notes recount Mr Warner leaving for home on Washingtons birthday holiday observed by students. Numerous social visits by Misses Cochran Harvey Barnett van der Linden Cunningham Larimer and others. Basketball players named with positions. Lecture by Frank Dixon and a tea hosted by Minnie Van den Berg. Central Ladies beat Washington 6 1. Des Moines missionary conference attendee. John Bufkin dies at nineteen. funeral at Bethel Church. C E social at Rev Van Kersen home a lively evening with puzzles art and a speech misquote concluding the segment.
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Alma
Edna Harvey
Harvey
Messrs
Tysseling
Fennema
Washington
Lois Rietveld
Bess van der Zy
Alethians
Bess
Edith Barnett
Mable Larimer
Knoxville
Bently
Peck
Smith
Mr. Smith
Monroe
Blanch van der Linden
Stella McKinnis
Miss McKinnis
Ollie
Lillian Cunningham
Blanche van der Linden
Ethel Cunningham
Ethel Barnett
Nina Sadler
Mr. Leland
Cook
Leland
Frank Dixon
Minnie van den Berg
North Pella
Edith and
Edna Barnett
Lillian
Mabel Larimer
Kathrine Dowding
Alice Kingsley
Anna Megan
Central Ladies
Pella
John Bufkin
John Akkerman
Senate Ratifies Canal Treaty Amid Wide Debate
Washington notes the Panama canal treaty ratified by 166 to 14 in the Senate with 16 Democrats for and 17 against. Morgan delivered a long speech opposing the pact as details of secret papers and Spooner, Hay Herran era disputes were debated. Bunau-Varilla and Arosemena tied to Panama’s diplomatic turnover as digging and government provisions loom.
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Washington
War
State Departments
M. Bunau-Varilla
Panama
State Department
Pablo Arosemena
Constitutional Convention
Walker
Davis
Kittredge
South Dakota
Panama Canal Territory
Senate
United States Senate
Isthmus
Clark
Mont
Stone
Overman
McLaurin
Martin
Bacon
Berry
Clarke
Ark
Clay
Cockrell
Foster
Gibson
Latimer
McCreary
McEnery
Mallory
Money
Simmons
Taliaferro
Morgan
Culberson
Albert Shaw
Colombia
Navy Appropriation Debate Yields Few Revisions
In Washington the house spent the day on naval appropriation bill with limited progress. Amendments offered by Democrats were largely rejected except for a Charleston navy yard allocation of 656,500 dollars to continue work on existing contracts. A heated debate loomed over a Great Lakes naval training station plan as Cooper faces a point of order. Also, the house authorized printing ten thousand six hundred mosquito destruction directions just before adjournment.
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Washington
House
Charleston Navy Yard
Legare
S. C
Foss
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Cooper
Wis
Ohio
Third Regiment of Infantry Ordered to Panama
Washington February 24 The War Department ordered the entire Third Regiment of Infantry to move to the Isthmus of Panama. The unit will depart as soon as possible on transports Sumner and McClellan from New York to relieve forces there continuing to ship out as needed for the isthmus patrol and defense.
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Panama
Washington
War Department
Sumner
McClellan
New York
Pigeviel
Medjidia Rushes Home to Ottoman Navy from Cramps
The cruiser Medjidia, built at Cramps for the Ottoman navy, departs Philadelphia March 1 carrying its own flag. Captain Ransford Bucknam of Cramps is commissioned as Ottoman captain to take her to sea. Guns from the United States, Bethlehem manufacture, are nearly in place and magazines to be filled for a war cruise.
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Cramps
Philadelphia
Ransford D. Bucknam
Cramps’ Ship Yards
Death of Commander Randall in New Bedford
Commander William P. Randall U S N retired died at his New Bedford home aged seventy one. He served as acting master on the frigate Cumberland in the Civil War and fired the last shot before she sank. He later was executive officer on the receiving ship Wabash during the Spanish War. Albanians Lose 500 In Battle at Salonica.
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Randall
New Bedford
Mass
William P. Randall
Cumberland
Merrimac
Wabash
Salonica
Macedonia
Albania
Shemshi Pasha
Djakova
King Edward Offers to Mediate in Far East War
Paris reporting that during a London interview with Count Benckendorff the Russian ambassador Lord Lansdowne said King Edward was willing to offer mediation if the czar believed it could be accepted.
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Edward
Paris
The
Petit Parisiene
London
St. Petersburg
Count Benckendorff
Lord Lansdowne
Far East
Chicago Grain and Provisions Trading and Closing Quotes
Chicago reports a volatile session as Wheat May plunges and rebounds with a late drop to 1.08. Corn soy oats and livestock also move, with receipts listed from Chicago and other key markets including Kansas City and South Omaha. Prices for wheat, corn, oats, lard, ribs, and live cattle vary, reflecting shifts in futures and cash markets across multiple regions.
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Chicago
Park
British Halt to Thibet Mission Stalls Advance
London Feb 22 Colonel Young husband’s Thibet mission is blocked with General MacDonald’s flying column back at Chumbi. The Tibetan force at Gurn has fallen to about 2000, leaving the next move by the dalai lama unclear amid the standoff. Russia Protests to Powers February 23 Tokyo war aims cited in note accusing Japan of violations of neutral rights and aggressive acts before hostilities.
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Thibet
London
Younghusband
MacDonald
Chumbi
Gurn
Dalai Lama
Russia
Washington
Japan
Chemutpo
Korea
Arthur
St. Petersburg
Origin of Basketball Game and Its Springfield Roots
The article explains basketball originated in 1901 in Springfield Massachusetts with James Naismith as its author. A YMCA professor challenged students to create an indoor game with defined players, leading to Naismith quickly developing basketball that proved to be a popular American pastime.
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Babylon
Springfield
iMass
James Naismith
Young Men's Christian Association
The
Illustrated Sporting News
Bids Wanted for Highway Workers in Lake Prairie 1904
Township Clerk invites bids to work public highways in Lake Prairie township for 1904. Contracts by day for eight hours per man and team or two men and two teams, awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Board may reject any or all bids. Bids due March 1, 1904. CHAS PORTER, Township Clerk.
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Lake Prairie Township
Board of Trustees
Chas. Porter
Japanese Officers Hanged for Bridge Plot in Manchuria
Reported in St. Petersburg on February 24 that three Japanese officers were hanged by Russians after being captured attempting to blow up a Sangari river railroad bridge. The men were disguised as coolies and identified as Colonel Assai of engineers and Lieutenants Zonobiascha and Kacurta of the sappers. Also, Russians fired on the British steamer Ching Ping at Wei Hai Wei, hitting seven times near the waterline. a Russian pilot boat leaving Port Dalny for the Ching Ping was blown up by a mine.
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St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Sangari River
Assai
Zonobiascha
Kacurta
Wei Hai Wei
Port Dalny
Tree species and soils as lightning shelters verdict
The oak, poplar, and pear tree are the riskiest shelters in a thunderstorm due to high electrical conductivity. Beech is safest. Chalk is safest for planting shelters, followed by clay and sand, while loam is most dangerous.
Farms For Rent And Land For Sale Near Pella
Classified notice lists several farms for rent or sale including 80 acres near New Sharon 90 acres at Fifield Station 167 acre well improved 160 acre stock farm and a 16 acre farm sixteen miles from Pella. Also mentions money to loan on good security with contact John G Thomassen.
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New Sharon
Fifield Station
Pella
John G. Thomassen
Counterfeits Signal Fraud Ring with Indian Head Notes
Bank section warns of 200000 dollars in counterfeit Indian head notes. Flaw is a smiling face. original lips turn down. First circulated in Buffalo. many passed west, Des Moines suspected as destination. Counterfeit plate number 236. Married January 29 Canon City Colorado Wilmer Nossaman to Ida Tschudy. They travel to Colorado Springs then ranch near town.
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Buffalo
Express
Des Moines
Canon City
Colorado
Wilmer Nossaman
Ida Tschudy
Colorado Springs
Thomas
Nossaman
Archuleta County
the Times
Weekly Times
Pagosa Springs
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United States
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Wharton Barker
Turkey
Gould
Kansas City
Bed
Western Labs
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Chronicle
Chronicle Weekly
Iowa State Register
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