May Musical Festival In Huron Expands to Two Concerts
The Commercial Club adds a matinee and two evening concerts from Friday the 22nd through Saturday evening to replace an Aber deen date. Prices are 1 dollar for the afternoon, 1.50 for evenings, with a 3 dollar season ticket. Emil Oberhoffer conducts an all star program with soloists Sibyl Sammis Garnet Hedge Grant Hadley and Alma Johnson Porteous.
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Aberdeen
Commercial Club
Huron
Oberhoffer
Chicago
Emil Oberhoffer
Europe
America
Sibyl Sammis
Garnet Hedge
Grant Hadley
Alma Johnson Porteous
City Council Meeting Votes Contracts and Reports
The city council met in regular session Friday evening. Finance committee chair assured finances were sound. The street committee was authorized to hire a private dumping ground for city refuse. Water works chair reported on fire protection and pumping plant condition. Parks committee outlined work on the new park and season plans. A permit was granted to 8 W Montague to build a cement block livery barn on Wisconsin street. The board of health was reappointed: Dr Taylor S P Malone and J C VanSyckle. The council adjourned after routine business.
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Wright
Water Works Committee
Coucil
Foot
Committee On Parks
Frank S. Webb Dies After Illness in Huron
Frank S. Webb died at his home Friday night after a long struggle with inflammatory rheumatism. He settled in Huron in 1883, worked in coal with his father, then in the mercantile business. An officer in Huron Home lodge of the A. O. U. W., he belonged to the Presbyterian church and was active in good deeds. He leaves an aged father and mother and a wife. The home will be open Sunday 2 to 4 pm, a funeral at 5 pm, Odd Fellows will accompany the body to the depot about 8 pm, and the interment is at Jaynesville, Iowa, Tuesday morning.
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Frank S. Webb
Webb
Frank Webb
Huron Home Lodge
Presbyterian Church of Huron
Odd Fellows
Jaynesville
Iowa
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promised Worth Its Weight
Cedar View Mississippi merchant B G Stewart endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills. He says buyers get value equal to the weight of the box when suffering from constipation malaria or biliousness. Sold under guarantee at H Wheeler’s Drug Store for 25 cents.
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B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Dr. King
H. Wheeler
Sixty Thousand in Line for New York Catholic Centenary Parade
Sixty thousand Roman Catholic laymen marched in New York to conclude a week of centennial celebrations for the diocese. Brigadier General Thomas Barry led the procession as thousands of pedestrians filled Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street to the reviewing stand before disbanding. Prominent participants included business leaders and judges, with Catholic firms granting half days for workers to join the event.
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New York
Diocese of
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-seventh Street
Thomas Barry
Catholic Club
Thomas F. Ryan
Thomas A. Emmett
John W. Goff
Justice Davis
O’gorman
Supreme Court
Rourke Cochran
Eugene Philbin
John D. Crimmins
David McClure
Republican House Currency Conference Planned for Tuesday
Washington reports a conference of Republican House members to discuss financial questions Tuesday evening after the sundry civil appropriation bill is disposed of. The aim is to consider currency legislation with no forced measures. Most hope the second Vreeland bill passes, while the conference may limit action to appointing a commission. A subsequent meeting may address anti trust law modifications and injunction regulation per Civic Federation recommendations.
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Washington
Vreeland
Civic Federation
Eleven Dead In New Aveline Hotel Fire at Fort Wayne
Fire at the New Aveline hotel killed eleven and left several unaccounted for. A revised list names J. B. Miller, J. E. Ellis, Isaac Hirsch, William Pitcher, R. B. Johnson, Joseph Deviney, Charles Benjamin, and two unidentified bodies, with EH. M. Matthews seriously injured and under hourly threat. Firefighters, militia, and volunteers combed the ruins through the night as a dry half century old building burned rapidly and trapped guests.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
New Aveline Hotel
J. B. Miller
Sheboygan
Wis
J. E B. Ellis
Carson, Pirie, Scott & C O
Chicago
Isaac Hirsch
William Pitcher
Duluth
R. 8. Johnson
Pana
Joseph. Deviney
Philadelphia
Charles Benjamin
Detroit
Mary Burkett
Mishawka
Ralph H. Hopkins
Six Die in Brooklyn Fire at Humboldt Street
A major blaze at 17 Humboldt Street in Brooklyn killed six people and wounded four. The Abrams family on the third floor perished after attempting to escape by jumping from windows, while others were saved by nets and firefighting efforts.
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New York
Humboldt Street
Brooklyn
Abrams
Charles Abrams
Anna
Mrs. Abrams
Sadie
Carrie
Robbers Confess After Mexican Police Nab Them
In Mexico City police detain Luis Cutting the chief clerk of the Welle Fargo Express offices and Rodolfo Alvarez alias Rodriguez the express messenger who vanished. Both men confess to taking sixty three thousand dollars found in Cutting's rooms after several days of incommunicado detention.
Soldier Buwalda Held After Shaking Emma Goldman’s Hand
In Fort Mason guardhouse San Francisco Private Buwalda of Company A First battalion of engineers is under arrest after detectives identified him as the soldier who shook hands with Emma Goldman and pledged aid. He will be court martialed.
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San Francisco
Fort Mason
Buwalda
First Battalion of Engineers
Emma Goldman
Cleveland Improves After Digestive Illness Not Alarming
Former President Grover Cleveland shows steady recovery from a digestive illness while staying at the Lakewood hotel New Jersey reports indicate his condition is improving and not alarming as he remains away from his Princeton home.
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Lakewood
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Lakewood Hotel
Defends Negro Soldiers in Senate Speech
Senator Bulkeley defends the Twenty-fifth regiment’s black soldiers against charges of shooting up Brownsville Texas on August 13 14 1906 during an extended senate speech.
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Washington
Senator Bulkeley
Senate
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Brownsville
Tex
Wells-Fargo clerk Edward Steiber held on charges in Chicago
Edward J. Steiber a money order clerk at Polk street station for Wells Fargo Express is under arrest for examination of his accounts. He is charged with appropriating $50 but officials estimate the shortage could reach from $1,000 to $10,000.
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Chicago
Edward J. Steiber
Polk Street
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Thanks Court for Life Sentence in Jones Killings
Joseph B. Blunt a Battle Creek liquor salesman was sentenced to life in Jackson penitentiary for shooting and killing Mr and Mrs Homer Jones the victims being his wife’s parents. He whispered much obliged as the judge imposed the term.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Joseph B. Blunt
Homer Jones
Jackson
Blunt
Woman Nurse Burned to Death in Rochester
Miss Bessie M. Tracy twenty seven a nurse at the state hospital in RochesterMinnesota Junction Wis fatally burned when she was filling an alcohol store with which to warm her hands and overheated the vessel in the hospital incident reported May fifth downtown Rochester details remain unclear.
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Rochester
Minn
Bessie M. Tracy
Minnesota Junction
Wis
Snappy Base Ball Defeat by Local Youths Impresses Fans
The local Commandries lost to the visiting boys 9 to 5 in a Sunday game just north of the railroad track. The lineup featured Clarence Dunning Adolph Neth Barton Roberts Don Vance Wm Peterson Searles Harry Neth Fred Eckles Bert Perkins and Albert Peter as a youthful, new-to-fans squad gaining early recognition.
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Commandries
Commandry
Huron
Clarence Dunning
Adolph Neth
Barton Roberts
Don Vance
Wm. Peterson
Searles
Harry Neth
Fred Eckles
Bert Perkins
Albert Peterson
Survey Starts on Huron Gas and Electric railway project
Cross & Mack civil engineers arrive in Huron with twelve men to survey the Huron Gas and Electric railway to Aberdeen. Local promoters back the venture with stock subscriptions and right of way workers report farmer encouragement.
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Minneapolis
Cross & Mack
Huron
Huron Gas and Electric Railway
Aberdeen
Insurance agents listed for prompt loss payment
For insurance that insures and pays promptly without discount call Eben W. Noyes or W. J. Rossman, agents for the Columbia Fire Insurance Company.
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Eben W. Noyes
W. J. Rossman
Columbia Fire Insurance Company
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Fourth Street
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