Philippine Islands Wonderful Exhibit at St Louis
The Philippine Islands exhibit at St Louis spans forty acres west of the Palace of Agriculture. Insular government funding supports a vast display with Filipino villages, markets, agriculture, forestry, and a major fiber section. Highlights include a timber frame building with a 100 foot tower, a Filipino women’s pavilion, a war exhibit, a Manila meteorological observatory, and extensive fibre and textile displays. Arrowhead Lake hosts fisher villages, fishing equipment, and water transit scenes. A Filipino theater, orchestra, and a Philippine scouts battalion accompany the exhibit, with native buildings and weapons collections showcased.
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Philippine Islands
S. Louis
Aum
Pacific Ocean
Philippine Archipelago
Palace of Agriculture
Meteorological Observatory
Manila
Philippines
Islands
Arrowhead Lake
Philippine Scouts
Why the Widower Loved Her
A Philadelphia anecdote from a visiting Alexandria woman tells of Myra the cook resigning to marry the deceased husband of her em ployer Mrs Richardson. The tale, told in humor, ends with Myra saying she will marry the man who lay in the coffin.
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Alexandria
Philadelphia
Myra
Miss Richarson
Platt Rejoinder Highlights Rising Figure on Birthday
Senator Thomas C. Platt, on his seventieth birthday in Manhattan Beach, commented to reporters about a rising politician. He warned that flattery can bend egos and joked that the man would die for the thrill of reading his own tombstone inscription.
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Boston Fost
Careful Reconciliation Ends in Turbulent Exit
A former employer offers a job again after a boy begs to return. Next morning the broker’s office shows a violent struggle with glass broken, carpet ink-stained, and furniture overturned. Joe appears with a black eye and swollen cheek saying Tommy is gone after their arrangement.
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Tommy
Joe
New York Press
New Office Boy Tommy Replaces Ill Convalescent Joe
A Wall Street broker hired a new lad named Tommy due to illness of the former office boy Joe. Tommy proved to be a fine worker and the broker was reluctant to dismiss him while Joe recovered.
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Wall Street
Tommy
Joe
Loth
Questioning Limiting Debate by House Leader Lovering
Massachusetts Congressman Lovering recalls a session with Reed as speaker when a key measure faced delay. He urged a motion restricting debate to new points, but Reed refused, joking that even tyrannical leadership cannot silence the house to the extent the proposal would require.
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Congressman Lovering
Massachusetts
Reed
Lovering
Tonic Views From Rev Chas M Sheldon On Platonic Love
The Rev Charles M Sheldon of Topeka receives many letters from readers seeking his views on diverse topics. He answers conscientiously, often with humor or epigram. A Buffalo debating club asked his opinion on Platonic love, to which he replied that Platonic love, like tonics, is very exciting.
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Chas. M. Sheldon
Topeka
New York
Special Supplication for Chickens That Sleep Standing
An 8 year old West Philadelphia girl, visiting a farm, is wowed by trees used as roosts and chickens sleeping upright. Back home she prays aloud asking God to bless the chickens that sleep standing up. The moment follows a bedtime prayer and a mother’s gentle inquiry.
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Saya
Philadelphia Press
Yoakum of Frisco Takes A Rest From Work
In Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania railroad office 4 p.m. a friend found president Yoakum reading a newspaper and smoking. He said he needed a long rest after ten years of hard work. The next day he joked that he had already taken the rest yesterday while still claiming to be busy.
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Yoakum
Gen Shermans Friend at Banquet Reveals Maj Schurtz
General Sherman, guest of honor at a banquet, meets Maj Schurtz who had made his shirts. Sherman praises the courage and introduces the man to the receiving line, remarking on the familiar face he could not place. The anecdote is recounted from Lippincott’s Magazine.
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General Sherman
Lippincott’s
Maj. Schurtz
Globe trotter Carpenter recalls Ohio paper days
Frank G. Carpenter, famed globe trotter and correspondent, recounts in the Detroit Free Press how he began newspaper work in Ohio. He recalls a winter assigning in Columbus with a facetious Solon who insulted reporters, prompting veteran Sam Schaffer to respond about the difference between a hired liar and a d d liar.
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Frank G. Carpenter
Globe Trotter
Ohio
Detroit Free Press
Columbus
Solon
Sam Schaffer
Had Boys and Babies on the Brain at a Race Night
A breezy recount from 1900s New York gossip shows Langley recalling boyhood talk overheard near Boston High School about a baby in a quart pot. Collector Stranahan retells an English visitor’s race betting tale, noting an elevator boy overheard a wager on Shamrock and the Englishman’s flight to the seventeenth floor.
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P. Langley
Aeronautical Pironeer
New York Tribune
Boston High School
Stranahan
Sald
New York Sun
Former Des Moines Man Rises in Military Circles
Henry Hutchings, a former Des Moines resident now in Austin Texas, reports he leads the First Texas Infantry of provisional troops. He writes he will meet Colonel J R Lincoln at the Fort Riley maneuvers, tracing his rise to Col Lincoln's guidance during an inspection of Des Moines Governor's Guard decades ago. Hutchings previously served as corporal in the Governor's Guard. Lincoln once captained a Marshalltown National Guard company, and first met Hutchings in Des Moines seventeen years ago.
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Ames
Henry Hutchings
Des Moines
Austin
Tex
J. R. Lincoln
Hutchings
First
Texas Infantry
Lincoln
Fort Riley
Governor's Guard
Marshalltown
National Guards
Governor's Guards
Iowa postmaster appointments and rural carrier changes
Washington Oct 13 Oscar Muhr named postmaster at Raleigh Emmet county replacing Ketchem Rural routes created or amended Ackley Lenna Raisch Rockwell City Frank W Otte Aaron W Davis and Thomas Appleton to Holyoke Mass for construction duties Argo named postmaster at Pleasant Plains Harden appointed postmaster at Vic Council Bluffs postmaster to gain additional letter carrier and E T Wickham named pension examining surgeon at Washington Iowa
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Washington, D. C
Oscar Muhr
Raleigh
Emmet
John A. Ketchem
Ackley
Charles W. Raisch
Lenna A. Raisch
Rockwell City
Frank W. Otte
Aaron W. Davis
Thomas Appleton
Creston
Holyoke
Mass
James W. Argo
Pleasant Plains
Peter J. Harden
Vic
Council Bluffs
E. T. Wickham
Washington, Ia
Audubon Ladies Stage Notable Vaudeville Fundraiser
The Columbian club of Audubon staged a red white and blue decorated vaudeville show at the courthouse to raise funds for the public library. Eight women opened with the Old Maids Tea Party followed by songs, a strong minstrel finale, a Beatrice Nash skirt dance, Apollo selections by banker Frank Leet, and a high quality quartet. A large audience from nearby towns attended, and the event was a financial and artistic success.
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Audubon
Columbian Club
Court House
F. M. Leet
Lowene van Gorder
Maud Duke
Beatrice Nash
Frank Leet
Apollo
W. W. Smith
Vivian Bilhart
Ed Freeman
A. Brooks
Ward Granted Private Cell In Home Living Quarters
Thomas F. Ward of LeMars, fined 12000 for embezzling 30000 from LeMars National Bank, remains in private living quarters rather than county jail. Sheriff says authorities advised against jail due to damp conditions and Ward's health. He is to serve 30 days, then swear he cannot pay and be released under federal statute.
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LeMars Bank
Sioux City
Thomas F. Ward
LeMars
Smith McPherson
United States
LeMars National Bank
United States Court
Lving
Ward
Private confinement penalty described as thirty day sentence
The phrasing portrays a punishment amounting to about thirty days in a private furnished room. The description emphasizes a brief, isolated confinement as the corrective measure.
California man sues for stealing his wife in court
In Sioux City a peculiar suit seeks 3000 damages over a wife's alleged kidnapping. William J. McCrum of Modesto sues Fred Schmidt, alleging Mrs Schmidt and their child were enticed from Tropico and detained, after an attachment on Cherokee town lots and removal to federal court.
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Sioux City
Cherokee
William J. McCrum
Modesto
Cal
Fred Schmidt
Blydenburg freed on bonds after murder arrest
Ebeneezer Blydenburg, arrested in Eldora on murder charges in the case of his wife, was released on ten thousand dollar bonds. The deceased, ten years older than Blydenburg, died May 29 and her remains were moved to Wauseon Ohio for interment. An arsenic analysis from a stomach specimen, conducted by Professor W C Vaughn in Ann Arbor, indicated poisoning could have caused death. Blydenburg, active in Sunday school work, had acquired the couple's farm. his prior wives and life insurance details are noted.
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Eldora
Ebenezer S. Blydenburg
Mich
W. C. Vaughn
Blydenburg
Wauseon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Miss Goddard
LaFayette Avenue
General Interest News From Iowa Towns and Chiefs
A roundup of local notices: Col I G Elston of Sioux City will retire as president of Sioux City Stock Yards with a Swift Armour successor eyed. Clergy moves include Rev Frank G. Smith leaving Dubuque for Chicago. Oskaloosa sees druggist G N Beechler assign stock to H A Emerick for creditors. Aber deen Angus sale at Woods pavilion yields average $153 with some over $300. Allan C Brown jailed for forging checks in Farmington. In Atalissa Charles Trueman fracturing his skull and E C Barker injured in a runaway. Waterloo reports include hog theft conviction for Jesse Hammond, larceny case for Robert Wright, and reform school sentence for Wille Sorenberger.
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Waterloo
Col. F. M. Woods
Jesse Hammond
Robert Wright
Wille Sorenberger
Reform School
Des Moines Man A Sleuth
Des Moines man John McDonald was brought from Tara by Sheriff Oleson to answer a charge of taking a packet book containing 365 dollars from A. B. Collins of Plover who was drunk on a Tara platform. The arrest followed the vigilance of A. L. Tullis, Des Moines insurance agent and former Madison County sheriff.
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Fort Dodge
John McDonald
Second Avenue
Tara
Oleson
A. BE. Collins
Plover
McDonald
A. L. Tullis
Des Moines
Madison County
Mexican War Veteran L. D. Pierson Dies at Home
Anita residents mourn the death of L. D. Pierson an aged Mexican War veteran who died at his Cass county home. He was one of two surviving Cass county veterans of the Mexican war, the other being Mr. Allen of Atlantic.
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Anita
L. D. Pierson
Pierson
Cass County
Allen
Atlantic
Funk to Speak in Hardin County Campaign
Hon J H Funk will address Union on October 16 in Iowa Falls as the first Hardin county campaign speech. Invited by the county central committee, he will speak in support of the independent ticket and discuss campaign issues.
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Iowa Falls
Hardin County
Union
H. J. Punk
Funk
Corn prices at public sale near Roland reflect strong yields
Nevada reports a recent public sale on the R. K. Gaard farm west of Roland where corn in the field sold at 19.50 dollars per acre and the lot was not above average for the region. Story, Harlan, and Hamilton counties are poised to show a good corn crop based on current acreage.
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Story County
R. K. Gaard
Nevada
Roland
Story
Harlan
Hamilton
Boy Sent To Reform School After Conviction
Waterloo report states Will Sorenberger and Leon Schultz were arrested for petty crimes. Judge Blair examined Sorenberger and ordered reform school detention until age 21, with possible discharge. Mother opposes, seeks alternative placement with Minnesota uncle. investigation raises question of guilt balance.
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Waterloo
Will Sorenberger
Leon Schultz
Blair
Reformatory
Reform School
Sorenberger
Minnesota
THIS WOMAN IS A SLUGGER
Clarion reports Miss Jennie Keith a former county recorder candidate who defended herself when two men accosted her party. She struck one man in the face, leaving him with a black eye. Keith is described as above average height and a staunch advocate of equal suffrage.
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Clarion
Jennie Keith
Keith
Lightning destroys Knuch farm barn near Straford
A Webster City report details a destructive strike on the John Knuch farm near Straford. The $1,400 barn burned down with 400 bushels of oats and fifty tons of hay inside, all destroyed. Crops were uninsured and only $700 covered the barn loss.
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Webster City
John Knuch
Straford
Aeronaut Has Close Shave At Carnival Grounds
Onawa October 12 Professor Hall near carnival grounds fell just after ascent as balloon started and suffered serious injuries in the accident.
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Aeronaut
Hall
Onawa
Professor Hall
Hotel Contract Awarded in Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Oct 12 bids for the Crawford hotel erection were opened Tuesday evening. W F Zitterel was deemed the most satisfactory bidder and awarded the contract. Several changes in material and features have been made, so the final cost cannot yet be fixed though estimated near $150000.
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Fort Dodge
Crawford Hotel
W. F. Zitterel
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T. F. Ward
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Dubuque
Frank G. Smith
First Congregational Church
Warren Avenue Congregational Church of
Chicago
Oskaloosa
G. N. Beechler
The
County Recorder
H. A. Emerick
H. Gibbs
Farmington
Allan C. Brown
Keokuk
Atalissa
Charles Trueman
E. C. Barker
Trueman
A. G. Tullis
Ft. Dodge
J. H. Funk
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