News of a Week condensed at home and abroad
A long digest of world happenings includes Charles Smith of Terre Haute aged 81 who died at home. Herman Erenhart of New York set to inherit $100,000 from an Austrian aunt. Lord and Lady Minto narrowly escaped bombs in Ahmedabad. Rescue efforts at the St Paul mine in Cherry Illinois. Labor and politics items feature John Mitchell AFL speech. Hedwig Zinda found murdered in Milwaukee. a deadly duel in Pioneer Louisiana. antitrust and telegraph mergers rumors in New York.
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Charles Smith
Terre Haute
Ind
Herman Erenhart
New York
Austria
Lord Minto
India
Minto
Ahmedabad
R. Y. Willams
F. M. Morris
St. Paul
Cherry
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Committee On Boycott
Hherty
Hedwig Zinda
Milwaukee
Pioneer
Clarence Compton
Sylvester
Albert Owen
Compton
Sylvester Owen
John N. Mach
Associated Ohio Dailies
Ohio
Taft
Tariff Board
Canada
Baltimore
Sir Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas
Europe
Lusitania
Thomas J. Shahan
Catholic University of America
Washington
Roma
Pontifical Court
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Toronto
Wilson
Royaevelt
Josephine Cheuvin
Pacific Coast
Urs
San Francisco
Lake Mills butter contract with navy praised
Lake Mills creamery has closed a contract with the United States navy department to supply 100000 pounds of Iowa butter for sailors aboard warships. The achievement reflects well on the town and state, highlighting the quality of local milk producers and the dairy industry.
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Lake Mills
United States Navy Department
Iowa
United States
Buffalo Bill and Kin in Iowa Heritage Era
Prominent Washington figure Buf falo Bill Cody, born near Davenport, Iowa, is highlighted as a notable native son with pioneering ancestry. Maj John M Burke, long associated with him, is noted as one of the last peace commissioners after the Wounded Knee era. William Conway, Iowa’s first territorial secretary, founded the first western newspaper and authored works tied to 1812 and later graft investigations.
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Towa
Washington
Davenport
Col
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Col. Cody
Iowa
West
Europe
America
Maj
John M. Burke
Jesse M. Lee
Wounded Knee
Burke
William B. Conway
Conway
Alleghenies
American Manufacturer
Pittsburg
Brandywine
Specific complaints puzzle Des Moines booster group
The state railroad commission struggles to define a specific complaint sought by the Des Moines booster committee. Walter Boyt Saddlery Co. complains shipments between Osceola and Des Moines were delayed, but provides no details. Officials demand exact railroad, delivery date, recipient, and sender to pursue any investigation.
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State Railroad Commission
Booster Committee
Des Mothes
Sta Freight Commissioner
E. G. Wylie
Walter Boyt Saddlery Company
Des Moines
Osceola
Commission
Wylie
Railroad Commission
Topeka
Kan
Lewis
Farming at a Reform School Corn Farm
Dep uty Warden Smith displays a 13 ft 8 in tall corn stalk from the 10 acre reformatory farm. The crop is excellent and the farm provides vegetables, milk, and occasional pork to inmates. Open air work improves health and supports modern reformist aims.
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Smith
Iowa State Reformatory
Board of Control
Reformatory
Iowa
Miss Lois Wisner of Eldora gains control by majority
A long Iowa list notes Miss Lois Wisner of Eldora coming of age with a quarter million dollars in her own right and granting Dr N W Emery power of attorney to settle with guardians J D Newcomer and L W Harris. Also reported are a Newton railroad damage suit for 25 000, a Mondamin man found dead near a boat accident, a record husker Iva Brock, a Madrid teacher killed by a moving train, Grange resolutions on express regulation, a Mason City bank building plan, hospital funding for Waterloo, and other Iowa local items including deaths, marriages, and civic notices.
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United States
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Western Union Company
Postal Telegraph Company
Washington
New York
Congress
Wickersham
MacVeagh
Sugar Company
Cherry, Jr
Rumvik
Sweden
Robert Morrison
Brooklyn
Big Four
C. F. Warriner
Grand
Cincinnati
Willam D. Adams
Barbara Tschaykovsky
St. Petersburg
Americias
Deneen
Ilinois
Court of Appeals
Federation of Labor
Toronto
Samuel Gompers
Cherry
American Ice Company
Samuel Grabfelder
Philadelphia
National Jewish Hospital For Consumptives
Denver
James J. Hill
Taft
Harry K. Thaw
City Hall Square
Supreme Court
A. M. Hamilton
Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
Bevidere
William Arnold Shanklin
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Moberly
Tee
Lois
Eldora
N. W. Emery
J. D. Newcomer
L. W. Harris
Hidera
Miss Wisner
Geo. W. Wisner
Lyman FF
Wisner
Roy Coppersmith
Newton
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad Company
Mondamin
Nebraska
Missouri River
Iva Brock
Mecktey
Clofax
Orca
Towa
Raymond Miller
Madrid
Molagona
Boone
National Grange
Des Moines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Colleges of Agriculture
R. H. Coldren
Clarksville
Hampton
Sidney Pitt Sr
Hamilton
Carroll
Gildden
Beatrice Boothe
Milo Blife
Dedham
First National Bank of
Mason City
Schunk
Dubinque
Emil Heston
Libertyville
William Werz
Johnson County Telephone Company
Iowa
Drainage inquiry of northern lowa swamps by commission
I W Keer and G L Dawson, members of the conservation commission, will investigate drainage of northern Iowa swamps. The ditch system was built to facilitate drainage, and the commission secretary will coordinate the study.
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Lowa
I. W., Keer
Conservation: Commission
G. L. Dawson
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Lake Millis Creamery
Hawkeye State News
Winterset
Franciscan Sleters
Waterloo
William Cavanaugh
Armot Ear
Dubuque
Wan
R . Gerlach
Ed B. Cook
Tigger
H. GB. Kaity
Rev. Sternberg
Dale Kremer
Tors
Can
Foster
Morris
National Grange Association
Des Moinesa
Sir Horace Plunkett
Rtci
Department of Agriculture
Het
Ireland
the Americastitute of Architects
Sessior Burlington
L’ Maines
Sioux City
An Or Rapids
Des
George Buttolph
Buttolph
Marshalltown
Esther Seerley
Homer H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Burton Howell
Tiffin
Thestetima
Goldie B.' Martin
Des. Maines
National Gasoline and Gas Association
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Kansas
Leon Lozier
Battle’ Mountain New
Mabray
Lewis W. Stowe
Miles City
Montana
Joe Daniels
Ed Kelley
John Hendershott
Anamosa
William H. Smith
Timber Creek
Mary Anne O’leary
Wisdéonain
Nived
Des. Molney
Detentiy Delmege
John Smelter
Peter Olgon, Jr
Chicago
Western
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