Iowa Official Records and Suffrage Campaign in Iowa
A special Des Moines report covers an Iowa statehouse records study by Dr. Benjamin F. Shambaugh, urging archiving reforms. notes on the Iowa experiment station dairy bulletin. and the rise of woman suffrage activity led by Miss Mary G. Hay with the Iowa Equal Suffrage association convention in Des Moines October 16–18. It also reports on the Supreme Court term, Texas governor’s thanks for Galveston coast aid, quail season details, and student housing expansion at the Agricultural College.
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Texan
The
Agricultural College
Des Moines
Statehouse
Benjamin F. Shambaugh
Department of Public Archives
Iowa
Mary G. Hay
National Suffrage Workers
Miss Hay
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Evelyn H. Belden
Sioux City
Ina Light Taylor
Ocal
Willi
Carrie Chapman Call
National Organization
Texas
Shaw
Galveston
State of Texas
Austin
Joseph D. Sayers
Beardshear
State Agricultural College
Supreme Court
Pottawattamie County
W. R. Green
State Teachers’ Association
W. E F. Chevalier
Red Oak
C. J. Shelton
Indianola
Carrie Goodell
Wayne County
W. R. Harper
University of Chicago
Newell Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
Mary A. Blood
Columbia School of Oratory
Chicago
W. H. Council
School of Agriculture and Mechanics
Normal
Ala
Council
Booker Washington Milk Dealers Organiuc
W. S. Kenyon
Fort Dodge
B.P. Birdsall
Clarion
Eleventh Judicial District
Kenyon
F. W. Bicknell
Parlor matches banned in Garretson and Mondamin hotels
Manager Kent orders removal of parlor matches from Garretson and Mondamin in Sioux City hotels. Old sulfur matches to be issued at counters after a close call with a guest’s skirt fire in the Mondamin parlor. The incident ends the crackling match era in both houses. The note also lists Iowa game seasons, university enrollment growth, a boiler contract, clergy assignments, and a veterans reunion in Cedar Rapids.
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Kent
Garretson
Mondamin
Sioux City
the State University
M. E. Hurley
Iowa City
Twentieth
Iowa Veterans’ Association
Cedar Rapids
China Court Fleeing to Shansi and Fear of Allies
Washington Oct 9 The effort to bring the Chinese imperial court back to Peking failed after a week of diplomacy. The court will remain in Shansi and use telegraph links to Shanghai for business, citing fear of allied forces and epidemic risks as the reason for not returning. Viceroy Yu is impeached over anti foreign leanings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Washington
State Department
St. Petersburg
Liu Kun-Yih
Chang Chih-Tung
Shansi
Tai Yuen Fu
Tal Yuen
Gov. Yu
Shensi
Shanghai
Empire
Wdeking
Tai Yuen
Berlin
Germany
Li Ngan Fu
Berlines Tageblatt
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Tageblatt
Kwang Su
Yamaguchi
Taku
Alfred Gaselee
Count von Waldersee
Imperial Pleasure Grounds
Purple City
London
The
Times
la Ko Chiao
Lu Han
Pei Tang
Tong Shan
Kai Ping
China
Daily Telegraph
Canton
Mirs Bay
Deep Bay
Gen
Tong
Miners to Meet in Scranton for Wage Increase Vote
President Mitchell calls a convention of anthracite miners from three districts to Scranton on Friday, October 12, to decide on the operators’ ten percent wage increase. Representation is one vote per 100 workers on strike, or one delegate may represent up to 500 workers with a five-vote cap. Mitchell and leaders expect acceptance and return to work, signaling an end to weeks of strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mitchell
Scranton
Arleton
United Mine Workers
Hazleton
Brothers
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
D. Nicholls
ET Oreas Duffy
John Fahy
N. B
Shamokin
U. S
L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas Shoe Co
Brockton
Mass
Singer Sewing Machine exhibits at Paris Exposition
The Singer Manufacturing Company displays its famed sewing machines in Group XIII, Class 79 at the Paris International Exposition. The Grand Prize honors Singer for design and efficiency, continuing a record of international awards, with further salesrooms nationwide inviting readers to view the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singer Manufacturing Company
Broadway
New York
Singer
Singer Sewing Machines
Paris
Chicago
United States
California's Splendid Showing at the Paris Exposition
In a Paris letter Mr. Wim H Mills of California describes California as the orchard of the world and credits irrigation and favorable climate for fruit abundance. He praises a panorama of California forests and displays of prune orchards and fruit to impress French fruitgrowers and the Exposition audience.
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California
Wim. H. Mills
Paris
Southern Pacific Company
Mariposa Grove
France
Republic
Germany
Vaca Valley
Engagement Breakover Revealed In Pearsons Weekly Tale
A girl in gray recounts how her fiancé deceived her by breaking promises to quit smoking drinking clubs gambling and other habits she urged him to reform. She ends the engagement after discovering he hadn’t reformed any habit despite assurances.
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Pearson's Weekly
Brown
Chen L
Poet Questions What Genius Is
The Atlanta Constitution quotes a poet saying he just finished a sonnet and a love song while his wife jokes about meat prices and fair odes. He asks what genius is and she replies that it is daily acts like asking the butcher to call again and evading the rent man, sung to the Sunday refrain.
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Atlanta Constitution
Sundey
Passenger train collision kills Dr. B. Welcher at La Cona
A Burlington road passenger train derailed just south of La cona at high speed, killing Dr. B. Welcher of Milo. Injured are Maggie A. Kidd Richland Ia head injury serious. Roy M. Culbertson Danvers Ill minor head injury. C. M. Buchanan Fairfield Ia head injury. James Kersey Amo Ind head injury. Miss Spurgeon Orient Ia right knee and leg bruises. R. M. Mead Milo Ia left wrist back and head injuries. George Bruce Corydon Ia back injury. Brakeman Vance multiple injuries.
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Burlington Road
Lacona
B. Welcher
Milo
Maggie A. Kidd
Richland
Roy M. Culbertson
Danvers
C. M. Buchanan
Fairfield
James Kersey
Amo
Ind
Miss Spurgeon
Orient
R. M. Mead
George Bruce
Corydon
Vance
Widow Kerr Sues for Life Insurance in Manilla Case
Mrs. Jessie Kerr of Manilla sued Modern Woodmen of America to recover 3000 on her late husband James R. Kerr’s policy. A Council Bluffs federal jury ruled for the order, denying the claim that Kerr’s death was self inflicted after his arrest on a bigamy charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Kerr
Manilla
Woodmen of America
James R. Kerr
United States
Council Bluffs
Kerr
Wreck Kills Three Workers in Chicago Line Collision
Engineer Peter McMoon of Ottumwa Fireman Lyman Sprowl of Creston and an unidentified man died when their engine was buried in a wreck at Afton on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy. The crash, caused by a misread order in a collision between two freights, killed the three men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter McMoon
Ottumwa
Lyman Sprowl
Creston
Afton
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Washington weather bureau weekly crop report summary
The report notes crop retardation from heavy rains with some corn damaged but overall favorable conditions for fall seeding and pastures, flax clover and millet injured yet vegetation largely unscathed by frost, indicating ample returns for the season. Burglars shot Thomas Taylor in Denmark after demanding cash, wounding his arm though not fatally, then fled.
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Washington Weather Bureau
Thomas Taylor
Denmark
Mero
Destructive Iowa Storm Hits Sharps and Newmarket
A violent low pressure storm in Page County nearly destroyed Sharps. The depot two churches a railroad water tank box cars loaded corn cribs and half a dozen dwellings were blown down. One man was hurt by a buggy overturning on him. The storm also struck Newmarket demolishing a few small houses.
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Sharps
Page County
Newmarket
Man slain by daughter after frenzied assault near Lamotte
Henry Schaeffer 60, drinking heavily, tried to kill his wife and daughter near Lamotte in Jackson county. The daughter defended her mother and struck her father with a club, killing him. Coroner's jury exonerated the daughter. Other items note numerous local obituaries, post offices, bank approvals, and civic developments in Iowa towns.
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Henry Schaeffer
Lamotte
Jackson County
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State Library Commission
Alice Tyler
Chariton
Eldora
State Library Association
State University
the Methodists
Northwest
M. E
Spencer
Algona
Robert Smylie
F. E. Davida
Census Bureau
Delaware
District of Columbia
Hoers
Cape Town
Wepener
Rouxville
Vicksburg
Orange River Colony
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Junior Order of American Mechanics
National Council
State Supreme Court
Joliet
Ill
Illinois Steel Company
Pressed Steel Car Company
Evansville
Howell
J. F. Freeman
Geneva
New Corydon
Journal and Advertiser
South Africa
Field Marshal Roberts
Holling Mills
Columbia
Susquehanna Tron & Steel Company
Owensboro
Tolton Powell
Jesse Jones
Sorgho
Powell
Jones
John Boyd
Henry Atl
Frank H. Smiley
Maurie Defenbach
Smiley
Unger
Phoenix
Ariz
Jerome
Tonto Basin
Williams
Globe
Ollows
Iowa State News
Society
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lizzie Anderson
Union St
Salem, N. J
Sarah Swoder
West St
la Porte, Ind
Port Huron Traction & Engine Company
Frank C. Robinson
5. N. Pierce
Cedar Falls
Charles City
Prussia
Adair County
William W. MecKinright
Crystal Lake National Bank
Crystal Lake
Sheldon
Muscatine
Scotland
Thirtieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Fort Madison
Towa Library Association
Chanzil Bluffs
BT Posters’ Association
A. J
John Krohn
Clinton
National Storcd Company
J. Ut. Deming
Tabor
Tabor College At Tabor. Rev. Robert Hassall
Keokuk
England
Keokin Isa
D. Freeman Ellsworth
Midora
Lehizh
H. A. Corey & Son
E.R. Kirk
Old Kirk
Presbyterian Synod of
Kirkwood Boulevard
Davenport
Mason Croft
Mason House
Colfax
Benjamin Horner
Johnson County
National City Bank
Lupia E
Waltham Watches
American Waltham Watch Company
Waltham, Mass
Dr.Bull
Dr. Bull
W. L
Caton Mass
the Pure © Grain Coffee
Ns Ce
Ania
Ostet A
Dino
Chigago
Omaha
Rockeford
Dubuqu Waterloo
Dodge
Corner Bluffs
Maes
H. Hanson
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
W. Adams
Oklahoma
Morgan
Adress Dick T. Morgan
Perry
Auituudtes
E. Fay Manilla Roofing Co
Camden
N. de Rops
Green's Sons
Atlanta
Drougaists
ESU i Manonnae
AN. Kaa
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