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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
1
Capt. Godfrey L. Carden reports Russia shows strong demand for American machinery and goods. He urges active canvassing for orders, using American ships to speed exports. The note highlights the scaly bark hickory as a promising local crop with untapped potential.
Bulgaria's parliament passes a tax of about three dollars on men 30 and older who remain unmarried. Tirnova has a historic ritual of humiliating bachelors on the first Monday in Lent with inflated bladders. Bachelors protest the practice, offering to pay the tax but seeking to overturn the chastisement.
Imports and exports rose in September with the largest gains in materials for manufacturers. Increases in foreign-supplied commodities ranged from 40 to 200 percent, while very few raw materials fell. The text argues the exports reflect skilled American labor and support port activity.
Chicago business men recently back from Oklahoma City call it the Minneapolis of the southwest. They wonder what a Minneapolis of the southwest would be without a St. Paul of the southwest to push it forward.
The Area Club of America notes aviation pilot as the formal term while locals push for aviator. Chicago embraces the concept of the ideal husband as part of a boastful display, signaling a notable public interest in the figure at the center of the discussion.
The excerpt riffs on Lieut Shackleton choosing peril over a city omnibus and imagines miles of endless night at the pole. It casts a humorous, city-bred youth as feigning fear while welcoming a wild polar voyage with the crew.
Davenport coal dealers won a decision by the Iowa state railway commission directing the Milwaukee road to accept coal loaded in Davenport by other carriers. The commission ruled the interstate shipment ends when the original carrier places the load on interchange tracks and collects payment, after which the dealers may dispose of the coal as they choose locally or to other cities.
In Springfield Illinois the annual convention of the Illinois State Teachers Association opened with a general session tonight featuring addresses by Gov. Deneen, Aurora's C M Bardwell, Francis G Blair, and A E Winship of Boston. In St Louis the Missouri State Teachers Association begun its forty eighth meeting at Central High School with President B G Shackelford presiding.
Des Moines reports John Sundberg of the Iowa Corn Growers Association is in the city to wind up the seventh Iowa corn exposition which closed over a week ago. Despite light attendance, corn growers are expected to come out financially ahead though profit figures will take days to confirm.
Mrs. Proctor of Portland Mills Indiana and Dr. Cutburgh of Tangier were fatally injured in an automobile crash at Sylvania. Police report a serious wreck with several injuries and ongoing investigations underway.
Eight or more people injured when a large touring car carrying a family party overturned near Missier Loop, a site noted for frequent accidents, in Texas on December 27. Local authorities responded to the crash and transported the injured for medical care.
Chicago Dec 27 Charley H Whit ington inventor of the first automatic grain binder died at his residence in Janesville Wisconsin He was born in Middlebury now Akron Ohio
Jury delivers verdict in Lehman case after lengthy deliberation. Proceedings concluded with a formal verdict at the courthouse, marking a resolution in the monitored plaza ordeal.
Annual event lists premiums up to 10 000, with entries across Barred Plymouth Rocks White mouth Rocks Buff Plymouth Partridge Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes Buff Wyandottes Rhode Island Reds Brown Leghorns White Leghorns Buff Leghorns Light Brahmas Black Langshans Buff Orpington White Orpington Cochins Cornish Fowl Mottled Houdan Cochin Bantam Black Orpington White Minorcans Partridge Cochins White Cochin Bantams Black Cochin Bantams Black Minorcan and many more. Pigeons Fantails Pouters Homers Maltese hens Chinese owls African owls English trumpeters Russian trumpeters and other mutiple breeds listed. Eyes Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes KH Reds Leghorns Mediterraneans Asiatics Polish Dutch French English bantams Games ducks geese.
Dr J A Wintrode head of Citizens National Bank of Winterset Iowa shot himself at his desk. The event occurred just after the bookkeeper left and cashier found him with a revolver in his right temple. Ill health and gallstone fears cited as motive. family set for Christmas feast while city mourns.
The Kansas State Music Teachers Association, formed a year ago, held a lively convention in Wichita with about 60 leading musicians attending. A concert tomorrow features only works by Kansas composers, led by president Charles David Carter of Wichita.
Joe Little aged 24 a miner at Olivet mining station near Oskaloosa IA died by his own hand using a shotgun. Dispondency over a relationship with a woman is cited as the cause.
A misunderstanding of orders caused a street car collision in Waterloo Iowa injuring five men. Cedar Rapids residents Ed Hoff J F Darraw and Frank Konen along with motorman Ed iunt and conductor Clarence Nigpert were hurt.
William Hoath a pit foreman at the American Brick and Tile company suffered severe injuries after a twenty foot fall at the plant in Mason City Ja. He was crushed by broken ribs and struck by frozen clay pieces and tools as he tumbled to the floor.
Elizabeth Newman of Waterloo is reported as a magazine writer known by the pen name Tay wan grvested up by ug the name of her Y 9.8 Shook for.
The 1910 convention will run three weeks with about 1000 delegates and 2000 visitors from across the United States. Meetings will be public at the college or auditorium with delegates from Cuba Hawaii and Porto Rico. California plans to bring a large delegation and present a bear to Senator Cummins.
Des Moines press club prepares a large December 30 banquet at the Savery hotel in honor of Congressman J A T Hull and Senator A B Cummins. Nationally known figures will perform in skits echoing Washington Gridiron style as editors and publishers from across the state are invited. About 150 plates are expected.
The Clarinda vote approved a per cent city tax to fund the Iowa & Southwestern railway by a four to one margin. The line will run from Clarinda to College Springs and Blanchard with construction to start by April 1, 1910. The Engineering Construction & Securities Co. led the drive for the plan under contract with the Clarinda Commercial club, aided by C. A. Rogs and Charles Judd.
Stoughton J Fletcher, millionaire owner of the Fletcher National Bank of Indian Bools Ind, is dead. One of his daughters is Mrs Booth Tarkington wife of the author and playwright.
Fire at Rock Island railway supply house in Eldon Eldon Ja on December 23 destroyed the building. Loss estimated around £1000. It is the third fire within a week targeting railway properties.
Professor Bowmen notes corn and small grain growers share interests and that a consolidated exposition would boost prestige. The corn show last year impressed small grain members and predicts bigger turnout next year as four million acres of corn compare with nine million acres of small grain in Iowa.
Des Moines reports Secretary of State Hayward found several railways operating in Iowa under foreign incorporation have not paid filing fees despite years of business. Roads named include Burlington and Santa Fe. Milwaukee and Illinois Central joined 1886 permit provisions. Rock Island paid 113000 and Great Western 96000, while others resist.
Des Moines reports low demand for census enumerators with about 100 needed. Applications to the Commercial club must be in by January 23. The county exam in Des Moines February 6 decides eligibility for Des Moines and Polk County. Census work begins April 15 with districts canvassed in about ten days. pay 3 cents per name, potentially $40 to $50 in some areas. Duplicate applications to Cam Culbert, district superintendent.
Marshalltown Iowa December 23 A 72 year old LeGrand resident Mattie Olson identified Frank Novak of Quarry as the suspect in an attempted criminal assault on the elderly woman. Olson described Novak clearly and led officers to bring the prisoner from the county jail.
A report from Boone Iowa dated December 23 states engineer John H Frampton a lifelong friend and coworker was found dead in a large shed next door to the Frampton residence.
A man named Hilde died instantly after a fall from a Milwaukee railroad building near night time. He was found lying below the structure with a broken neck and fatal injuries.
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Fragmentary text appears to promise cures and dull warnings from doctors and a remark about self-discipline and temper. No clear event or person stands out beyond generic medical advice and aphorisms.
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