Radium Promises Cure Faces Global Trade Threats
Washington notes the push to protect radium supplies as a vital medical breakthrough. Dr. Howard A Kelly and Dr. Rebt Abbe champion radium’s power against cancer amid fears of monopolies and foreign control. Secretary Lane warns only a fraction of global radium remains in U.S. hands, urging rapid domestic production and a new American process to unlock ore-based deposits.
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Howard A Kelly
Baltimore
Mme. Curie
Kelly
Alfred I. du Pont
Wilmington
Del
United States
New York State
Rebt. Abbe
New York
Philadelphia College of Physicians
Uncle John
John
Bor
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Congress
Bremner
New Jersey
United ‘States
Iife
Boma
Mexico City
Lane
Europe
France
Austria
Germany
Eingland
Coal stockpiles swell as railroads brace for strikes
Des Moines reports railroads building a three month coal reserve ahead of anticipated April and May strikes. Rock Island holds about 100,000 tons at Valley Junction and east Des Moines. Great Western 30,600 tons in South Des Moines. Northwestern large Midwest stock. Clinton Boone Missouri Valley total about 350,000 tons. Wabash and Minneapolis & St. Louis also store tens of thousands of tons in Iowa area plus Burlington and others increasing supplies.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rock Island
Valley Junction
Twentieth Street
Thirty-second Street
Great Western
South Des Moines
Oelwein
Northwestern
Clinton
Boone
Missouri Valley
Des Moines Union
Wabash
Iowa Territory
Minneapolis
Iowa gunman captured in California prison
Fort Madison harvey Lee a notorious Iowa criminal is said to be safe in San Quentin Calif state prison according to Warden Sander. He previously escaped from Marion Linn County jail using dynamite and gunfire killing a Cedar Rapids officer before recapture and a Fort Madison sentence.
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Fort Madison
Harvey Lee
Iowa
San Quentin
California
Sander
Lee
Marion
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Kossuth Editors Meet Elects Officers at Bancroft
Thirteen editors attended the Kossuth County Editorial association meeting in Bancroft. Tom White of the Whittemore Champion was elected president, Sid J. Baclus of the Upper Des Moines Republican as vice president, and Frank Clark of the Algona Advance as secretary treasurer. The next meeting will be in Algona on the second Friday in May.
Indian Scouts Tales From Custer War Revealed
Dr Joseph Dixon leads a six month Rodman Wanamaker expedition to the West's reservations. He presents surviving Custer massacre stories and quotes chiefs like White Man Runs Him and Plenty Coups on the battle, pursuit, and retreat that followed, noting hunger, pursuit by soldiers, and a call for a lasting council after the conflict.
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New York
United States
Halls of Congress
Joseph Kossuth Dixon
Rodman Wanamaker
Custer
Washington
Iere
Wolf Mountains
Black Hills
Plenty Coos
Crow Nation
Valley of
Little Big Horn
Montana
Geer
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Denver
Howard A. Kelly
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MEET
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Whittemore
Buck’ Grove
Charley Clinton
Tracr
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Hag
Cone
Dysart
Reno
Caster
Red Cloud
Bays
Addie
Chief Two Moona
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