Epitome of Week's News Highlights Across Europe and America
A roundup of major events includes Oscar Murray resigning as Baltimore & Ohio president with Daniel Willard elected successor in New York. Clemenceau plans a South American lecture tour and possible U S visit. Banking, rail, and political figures face changes as deaths, coronations, and trials unfold globally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar G. Murray
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
The
Road
New York City
Daniel Willard
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Clemenceau
France
South America
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
United States
New York Club
Charles Zuehlin
University of Chicago
D. O. Mills
New York
Millbrae
San Mateo County
San Francisco
William
Friedrich Wilhelm
Prussia
Prince Albrecht
Brunswick
Agathe von Ratiber Und Corvey
Princesa Zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst
Woodrow Willson
Princeton
Edmund J. James
University of Illinois
Political Sciences Association
Jonathan P. Dolliver
Washington
Robert Bacon
Henry White
President Fallieres
Elysee Palace
Daniel Antonio Maceo
Maceo
Los Angeles
Pinar de Rio
Thomas Murdoch
Reid, Murdoch & Co
Chicago
Wilmowski
Bonn
Germany
Krupp
Turkey
Hilm Pasha
Hakka Bey
Rome
Language reform talks at Iowa Falls meeting fringe
President George E. MacLean of the University of Iowa urged focus on phonetics as a universal tongue idea at the Modern Language Association gathering in Iowa Falls. A tentative push for a Rooseveltian spelling received cautious comment amid discussions by language scholars from leading universities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Junken
Carroll
Junken
Taylor
Shell Rock
Remington
Mason City
Emma Woodbury
John P. Woodbury
First National Bank
Leonard YT. Carney
Hedges, Mont
J. L. Carney
Marshalltown
Miss Woodbury
Carney
Myr
E. Wirick
G.S. Coman
Wiricks
Storm Lake
George W. Kirchway
Columbia University Law School
Iowa City
Maggie Haebn
Mount Pleasant
M. A. Wood
Fifteenth anniversary at Louisiana State University noted
A Columbus style roster of educators and officials marked LSU Baton Rouge’s fifteenth anniversary. Across the nation, a Rock Island wreck near Trenton Missouri killed three and injured forty five, with bodies burned in the fire. A bridge ice jam near St Louis swept away McKinley Bridge construction, likely drowning workers. Charles Morse began a 16 year federal term in Atlanta. A $50,000 philanthropic gift to American University was announced with donor unnamed. H A Mudge elected president of Chicago Rock Island Gulf Railroad. Two white inmates with smallpox moved to the pesthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Rock Island Railroad
Trenton
St. Louis
Charles W. Morse
Millonaire
Atlanta
Central West
American University
Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States
Washington
H. A. Mudge
Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railroad
B. L. Winchel
New Orleans Parish
Wyandottes First Pen Wins at Des Moines Poultry Show
Des Moines hosts a weeklong poultry show where Wyandotte breeder H. W. Ashby tops the egg laying contest with sixteen eggs per pen. Elliott Parmort places second with fifteen from a Rhode Island Reds pen. Numerous breeds win awards, with special diplomas and cups announced on closing night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
H. W. Ashby
Elliott Parmort
Rhode Island
R. BH. West
Altoona
Plymouth Rocks
J. Maland
Jewell
D. L. Boehm
Ft. Dodge
B. M. Brincker
Stewart
Adel Kennels
J. R. Hall
New Virginia
Anconas
T. R. McBirney
Houdans
A. Rust
Webb
T. P. Bond
Nanson Brothers
Lamoni
E. L. Beck
W. C. Bund
Silver Seabright Bantams
Hanson Brothers
Clarksville
Hamburgs
E. BE. Cassady
H. E. Townsend & Co
Albia
American Poultry Association
E. J. Maland
Jewel
H. C. Jacobs
Knoxville
Des Moines Poultry and Butter Company
Halyards
T. H. Hall
Buff Rocks
W. G. Warner
Sev enth street viaduct order to railroads in Des Moines
City council orders railroads in Des Moines to commence work on the proposed Seventh street viaduct after fifteen years of agitation. Roads given thirty days to carry out the order. Jury vindicates Pastor L F McCray and awards him one dollar in a six week trial for slander. Ministerial association to hold annual banquet January 31 at Grace Methodist church with wives in attendance. Iowa State Traveling Men's association shows 4117 net new members in 1909 per L C Deets. New Jewish sanitarium planned at Hast Ninth and Walnut with about $30000 expenditure for Jewish patients. H S Shepherd contractor awarded 43 20 for boring two holes for pliers for East Walnut street bridge. ten more borings to be made as rock was struck at 54 feet. Ethel Palmer of Des Moines seeks to block marriage of Barney Klein to Sarah Goldstone of Davenport, claiming Klein deserted her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Delagrange
Bordeaux
Mme. Gouin
Jules Edouard Gouin
Bank of France
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
National City Bank
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
United States
House
James R. Mann
Ilinois
Committee On
Taft
Administration
Mann
Congress
New York Centralines
Joe Haver
Joliet
Della
George
People’s Coal Company
Industry
Navy Department
John Mitchell
Temple Club
Mount Vernon
N. Y
White House
New York City
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Trinity College
Hartford, Conn
Binger Hermann
Portland
Ore
Francis J. Heney
San Francisco
Hazel
Buffalo
Wright Brothers
Herring-Curtiss Company
Glenn H. Curtiss
Matthew J. Whittak
Worcester
Mass
Kansas City
Laporte
Ind
Mise Maybelle Seymour
Chicago
William Stearnie
Iowa
Grand
EB. Coe
Williams Schools
Thomas
Coe
Iowa Poultry and Pet Stock Show
Des Moines
Plymouth Rock
W. A. Hartman
Winterset
8. A. Bollinger
Davenport
C. M. Scott
Packwood
George Hauser
Union
C. C. Platter
Red Oak
Montgomery County
Logan
Dubuque
Joseph Branderberger
Fort Madison
Henry Schranz
Branderberger
Schranz
Maj
William Foster
Louis Bemis
Spencer
Foster
West
Grand Avenue
Libbie Kalin
Metropolitan Hotel
Fortadison
Waterloo
Cedar River
John Martinas
Muscatine
Dan Roderik
Seevers
Milo Civic
John D. Easton
Iowa State Bank
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Easton
The
Civic League
J. M. Parker
J. H. Egarmayer
Marshalltown
H. L. Anderson
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Kansas
Henry Tobiason
George B. Hippee
Hippee
Twin Cities
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Seventh Street
Shepherd
East Walnut Street
Barney Klein
Ethel Palmer
Klein
Sarah Goldstone
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N. M. Hubbard
Cedar Rapids
Guy Logan
Hal Stenger
Shenandoah
J. F. Barker
Ames
Wiliam McCauley
James
Jobo Hutchings
Bloomfield
Lawrence DeGraff
Polk County
B. F. Patt
First Baptist Church
Sidney
Ohio
Ottumwa
Lewis Small
Mahaska County
Clarion
Mae Huntley
Eewin Lindsay
Emma Nickeleon
Harland Hill
Bertha Stevenson
Albert Thompson
J. M. Beckley
Missouri Valley
Emmet County Farmers’ Institute
Hsbherville
General News
Wyandottes
Rhode Island Reds
Wyandotte
Myerly
Post Office Department
Ire
Palmer, Co
David Palmer
State Railroad Commission
Department of Streets and Public Improvements
Joe Griffin
McHenry
Etta Butterfield
Hough
Oregon
Laula R. Hough
Stock Commission
Fortland
State of Iowa
Byers
George Cosson
Federal District Court
Elizabeth McClintock
Smith McPherson
State Museum
Garver
Morningside College
State Historical Museum
Frank Herriott
Drake
L. F. McCray
McCray
Ministerial Association
Grace Methodist Church
Knights of Grip
Iowa State Traveling Men's Association
L. C. Deets
Hast Ninth and
Walnut Streets
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