Modest statesmen and curious shocks in 1906 musings
The Titonka Topic observes global and domestic quirks with dry humor. Notes on Russia, Norway, airships, Wall Street brinkmanship, a Chicago professor, a jailed Columbus girl, balloon fads, a West Virginia preacher, ice and coal woes, Canadian Americanization, Japanese critiques of教育, liquid air, the ice trust, King Leopold’s hunting, fortunes of the newly rich, the Gaekwar of Baroda, Edison’s dreams of automotives and phonographs, a Belleville wedding license ruse, and a vast philanthropic bequest praising education.
Are the honest men all dead Buffalo Commercial
A brief quip notes that few honest men remain as inflation pressures rise. The Chicago Record-Herald counters, saying most are still active, attempting to align incomes with the growing cost of Hvlox.
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Buffalo
The
Chicago Record-Herald
Iowa News Briefs Merge Theft Fire and Tragedy Across State
A roundup of Iowa incidents reports two burglaries in Belle Plaine with small cash losses, a Sheldon market gardener’s daughter injured by threshing gear, and a Primghar restaurant fire linked to a gasoline explosion. Additional items include a Burlington youth killed by a train, a mysterious Stanley disappearance, court actions, factory injuries, a Sheldon farm fire, a Mason City Fort Dodge rail dispute ending in ordinance, and a statewide note on Iowa rural telephone expansion followed by an Eldon post office burglary.
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Belle Plaine
J. H. Warren
R. Nicholson
McGrew
Primghar
Mr. McGrew
Earl Lay
John Lay
Burlington
Rock Island
Harmer Mills
Omaha Road
Sheldon
Rose Anderson
Jasper County
Rose
Newton
Clements
Mount Pleasant
John Cone
Parsons Bandcutter and Self Feeder Company
Zewton
Richard J. Johnson
Williams
A. J. Norton
Traer
J. H. Smith
Stanley
Dakota
Marshalltown
W. H. Stout
Ocean Park
Cal
Smith
Stout
William Wilsonberger
Wainsborough
Stelle
Hall of
Thomas Stevenson
Easton Boulevard
Twenty-ninth Street
Des Moines
Court of
Fritz Hinze
Alexander Ferrys
Earle Murphy
Bast Twenty-fifth
Maple Streets
Lambert
Henry Nick
Tomahawk
Wis
Fonda
Grady
Mason City
Austin
Minn
Marion Jones
St. Paul
Mayne’s Grove
Iowa Falls
Jones
George S. Dick
Red Oak
Iowa State Normal
W. H. Bender
G. W. Newton
Charles A. Fullerton
Henry C. Cummins
Misses Sara Riggs
Elizabeth Hughes
Ida Fosenbeck
Mamie Hearst
Laura Bowman
Emma Lambert
Alison Aitchison
Lulu Borquin
Elizabeth Kaye
Great Western
Fort Dodge
Clarion
Stickney
Iowa
United States
United States Census Bureau
Telephone Clearing House
Clearing House
Eldon
E. T. Roland
Obbers
Northwest
Dakotas
Penza
Wilkesbarre Baseball Club
New York State League
John H. Sharrott
Minnesota
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Germany
Iron and Steel Institute of London
Rhine
Duesseldorf
Coblense
Dallas-Texas & Pacific Railroad
Mesquite
Grand Army of the Republic
R. B. Brown
Zanesville
William H. Armstrong
Indianapolis
E. B. Fenton
Detroit
John Ireland
W.W. H. Johnson
Lincoln
Neb
France
Biwabik
B. A. Lamason
Bank of Ankeney
Fred O. Murray
Buffalo
N. Y
Physicians Defense Company
Fort Wayne
Ind
Kansas
Montana Board of Equalization
W. A. Clark
San Pedro
United Verde
Superior Mills
Ypsilanti Paper Company
Ypsilanti, Mich
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
International Policyholders’ Committee
New York
Mutual Life Insurance Companies
Warsaw Telegram
London Jewish Chronicle
Labrador
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Chicago
Garfield Park Bank
William Mohney
Three Rivers
Mich
Olin P. Farr
Livingston
Mont
Me . Rae
Citizens’ Bank
Farr
W. W. Williams
Georgia Bank
Russia
Ann Arbor
Inneapolis
Charles
New Orleans
Voliva
W. F. Woolworth & Co
St. Joseph
Frank HB. Grimes
State
Eall
R. H. Cadawalader
Louisburg
Kan
Herald
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Silex
James Robertson
Charles Johnson
Hague Tribunal
Prussia
David R. Francis
St. Louis
Mbertain
Syzian
Itl
Fort Des Moines
Eleventh Cavalry
Fort Riley
Washington Herald
Washington
Scott
Bone
Sullivan
Cleveland
Grand Jury
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Navy
Cape Hoan
Captan A. Cleman
Gener Army
Came Tacoma
Wash
William H. Jervis
Bureau of the Census of Department of Commerce and Labor
Ita
Chas. Smith
Avondale
William J. Bryan
Yar
Dr. Graham
I. T
Ben Stewar
Pers Steward
Kettling Stantly
Ee Sécretary of War
Taft
Signey
Moutenant
South American Quake Tops Week in Chile Damage
A major earthquake devastates Valparaiso and threats loom from successive shocks and fires. Loss of life misreports spread as cables warn of destruction at Los Andes and disrupted communications. Renominations follow in Illinois districts with Cannon and Sterling among nominees. diverse races feature McInerny Caldwell and Rivey as party choices.
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South America
Chile
Valparaiso
Los Andes
Aconcagua
Congress
Cannon
Danville
Ill
Eighteenth
George W. Prince
Galesburg
Uiscrice
William A. Rodenberg
Twenty-second
James J. McInerny
Seventeenth Kinois
John A. Sterling
Seventeenth Congressional
Bloomington
L. W. McNeil
Eureka
Twenty-first
Ilinois
Ben F. Caldwell
Chatham
Zeno J. Rivey
Litchfield
Roosevelt appoints James S. Harlan to interstate commerce panel
The report lists President Roosevelt naming James S. Harlan of Chicago to the Interstate Commerce Commission. It notes Harlan as son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan and cites other 1906-era items from the same dispatch, including naval, rail, and political notes.
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Roosevelt
James S. Harlan
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harlan
John M. Harlan
United States Supreme Court
United States
Denmark
Robb
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
Saratoga
N. Y
James Perry
Baldy Perry
Raynor
N.C
Hester
Clinch Mountain
Clinchport
R. G. Dun & Co
William J. Bryan
Madrid
Poitieres
Paul QO. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago
Pitts Park
George Dewey
The
Order of Founders and Patriots of America
Robert B. Roosevalt
Frank E. Gavin
Indianapolis
Leg Mantle
Butte
Montana
the Rhine and Moselle Insurance Company
Germany
San Francisco
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