Happenings Making History In National And Global Locales
Digest of notable events: Dr Calos F MacDonald testifies Thaw is insane and dangerous. James A Flaherty elected supreme knight of Knights of Columbus. M H Carmody named deputy. Mark Twain told to cut smoking for tobacco heart. Charles H Moyer reelected Western Federation of Miners president. Emperor William returns to Swinmunde aboard Hohenzollern. St Louis magnate H Clay Pierce and Mrs Virginia Prickett Burrows wed in London. William Dean Howells reported at Ellott summer home. to sail to Carlsbad with daughter. Caleb Powers rumored candidate for Congress in Kentucky and possible engagement to Eleanor Robson. Leslie M Shaw argues congressmen cowards. Hearst may beat La Follette if Roosevelt, Taft, Bryan die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calos F. MacDonald
Harry Thaw
James A. Flaherty
Philadelphia
The
Knights of Columbia
Mobile
Ala
M. H. Carmody
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mark Twain
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
William
Swinmunde
Germany
Hohenzollern
H. Clay Pierce
St. Louis
Virginia Prickett Burrows
Edwardsville
Ill
London
William Dean Howells
Ellot
Carlsbad
Caleb Powers
Kentucky
Gov
Goebel
Eleanor Robson
York
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Chautauqua
N. Y
Hearst
la Follette
Roosevelt
Taft
Bryan
Vast World News Roundup Signals Turbulent Era
A long list of incidents dominates the report from across nations and states. Black Hand kidnappings in St Louis traced to Chicago without victims found. battles over strikes in Sweden. public beheadings in Paris. repeal of Connecticut Sunday closing laws. Alabama seeks direct US Senate elections. Persia’s deposed shah offered a pension for jewels. Marblehead quarry strike ends after consul pressure. Pennsylvania Democrats nominate for supreme court and state offices. Navy marks anniversary. Oklahoma City murder case ends in a shooting. multiple duels of jealousy and crime in Denver and Denver area. various political moves, trials, and disappearances recur through the sweeping dispatch.
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Black Hand
St. Louis
Chicago
Battle Creek
Mich
Gustave
Sweden
Stockholm
Paris
Connecticut
Alabama House
United States
Persia
Marblehead
Wis
Milwaukee
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
United States Navy
Navy
Will Hendrix
James Russell
Joseph Boren
Oklahoma City
T. J. Halstead
Mrs. Watson
Bessie Brown
Sioux City
Denver
V. McDonald
Checkasha
Okla
Noah R. Marker
First National Bank
Tipton
Ind
Muncie
Missouri
Argentina
Bolivia
International Order of Good Templars
Cleghorn
Waupaca
Pleasantville landmark joins the past amid rebuilding
Across Iowa, towns report changes and events from August plans to retirements. The old green hotel in Pleasantville is being torn down and remodeled, revealing J. Benge 1857 as cornerstone. In Jasper county, Buena Vista Grange and Ohioans hold a picnic at Ira Adamson's grove on August 17.
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Atlantic
Flrst National Bank
Buena Vista Grange
Society of Ohioans
Ira Adamson
Grove
Jasper County
Des Moines Odd Fellows
Mason City
Clear Lake
Mason City Lodge
Odd Fellows
Bernard Mackin
Burlington
Mgr. Flavin
St. Ambrose Church
Des Moines
Father Mackin
Mgr
Flavin
London
England
Lawrence Byers
College of Law
University of Iowa
Rock Island Railroad Company
Indianola
College Town
Amos Bowles
Grand River Township
Adair County
A. B. Heifner
James McGuire
Norwalk
Wm. Angier
Mr. McGuire
William Jennings Bryan
W. M. McFarland
Reformatory Press
Anamosa Reformatory
M. Frankfort
Ida County
Daisy Woods
Bedford
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Calcutta
India
Free Methodist Conference
Iowa
Knoxville
F. P. Haunga
Iowa Falls
Tannier
Oregon
Ackley
Haunga
Far West
Andrew Lockwood
Dougherty
R. A. Holt
Barton
Wic
ABC
William Gray
Leon
Daniel Wilson
Hedrick
Princhogls
Hubbain
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General News
Salzburg
Austria
Edward H. Harriman
Colored Methodist Episcopal Conference
Ethel
Frank R. English
Robert J. Maloney
New Orleans
State Penitentiary
Maloney
Elsie Gasser
John J. Gasser
Cincinnati
Gustave Strohbach
Senate
Russia
Cowes
Mary Copley Thaw
Barcelona
Spain
Alexander Graham Bell
Ottawa
Can
Morocco
White Plains
Justice Mills
Wiliam D. Craig
New York
Mary A. Castle
Waldorf-Astoria
Poy
John 2D. Rockefeller, Jr
Calhoun Harris
Orr Cotton Mills
Anderson, D. C
Diaz
Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Naval Board of Inquiry
James N. Sutton
Mount Vernon
Ben Marci
Schroeder
Vermont
Rosella Neff
Sharon
Boyles
Willie Whitla
Alabama
House
Montgomery
Nairobi
Africa
Navy Department
Cavite
Philippine Islands
Georgia House
Julius Neneth
Morris Canal
Newark
N. J
George Johnson
John W. Moore
Platte City
Marynville
Osaka
Japan
John Haker
Lansing
Luk Wing
Wong Bow Chueng
Iowa State
Commonwealth
Ames
Minneapolis
Garrett Holloway
Nevada
M. L. Wolfe
Mills County
G. W. Estes
Mr. Estes
Assembly
Perry
Gowrie Township
Webster County
D. BE. Cutler
Mitchell County
Osage
Traer
J. P.,boileau
Marshalltown
Iowa Central
J. Johnson
Oskaloosa
Clarinda
Pearl Edworthy
James Edworthy
Capitol Avenue
Chariton
Villisca
Boone
Oscar McCoy
Gertrude Waite
Charles City
Chester Township
Grinnell Township
Independent School District
Fremont
Mahaska County
B. C. Shaffer
Eagle Lake
Nashua
Cedar County
Fifty Fourth Regiment
Charles H. Albrook
Eldora
Indiana
Slayton
Murray County
Minnesota
Albrook
Farmers’ Co. ‘Operative Brick and Tile Company
le Mars
Nate
Q. Kendall
Distri
Towne Homestead
Fourteenth and
High Streets
High Street
Fourteenth Street
Scottish Rite Consistory
Louise Towne Waldron
Elgin
Masonic Temple
Seventh and
Walnut Streets
York Rite
Clinton
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Dayport
Charles Tillotson Jr
Fifty-fifth
Iowa National Guard
Tillotson
Guard
Sergeion
Amos Brandt
Grand View Park
Columbus
Ohio
Delia Hoyt
Feigenmyer
Press Club
Ingersoll Park
Miller
N.B
Harper
Woolsey
Robert Stewart
Hill
Hy, B. Bul
Greater ,Iowa Club
Des. Moines
Kphdy
Polk
James “Hi Lees
Monroe County
Monroe
Appanochhe
Cerro Gordo
Webster
Mahaska
Appanoose
Grand Lodge of the International Order of the Daughters and Knights of Twelve
Hansen’s Hall
East Sixth
Locust Streets
Samuel Bates
Bertha Curley
Eula Fields
Keokuk
Della Bryant
Edw. Robinson
Sentinals
Northwestern
Missouri Valley
State Railroad Commission
T. W. Collins
W. V. Lucas
Santa Cruz
Cal
Chappell
Weather Bureau
Lucas
Weather Man
J. C. Simpson
Iowa State Fair
Iowa Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Board of Managers
Union
Drake
Jennie Robinson
Tripp
Salvation Army
Peoria
Logan
Red
Oak
Guy.b. Logan
Town National, Guard
Red’.Oak
Mra
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