Chinch bug fight planned for Northwest farms
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Sioux City area farmers will receive railroad supported circulars to combat chinch bugs. Crop expert H G Firinger says railroads will aid by distributing remedies and outlining a dust barrier a log drags along to prevent bug migration from wheat to corn fields.
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Western Newspaver
Yolun News Service
Sioux City
H. G. Firinger
Omaha Railroad
Ratious
Fatal accident mars Crystal Lake celebration
At Crystal Lake near Lewis a celebration ended in tragedy when Elmer Todd of Lewis was crushed under a car as it was moved, breaking his back. He died at Jones hospital. In Cedar Falls Harry Swan drowned while boating. In Mt Pleasant H D Tade of Hilleborough faces a $23 000 breach of promise suit as state treasurer candidate. Nellie Irwin sues in Chicago schools.
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Lewis
Crystal Lake
Elmer Todd
Todd
Frank Smith
Jones Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Harry Swan
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Mt Pleasant
H. D. Tade
Hilleborough
Progressive Party
Iowa
Srillor
Hiss Nellie Inwin
Chicago
Accident Under New Act Claims Cedar Falls Teen
Lyman Wescott aged 17 son of Mr and Mrs Howard B Wescott died after falling into a disinfectant vat at the National Oats Plant while handling fumigating bags. The incident is the first under the new workers compensation act in Cedar Falls.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls
Lyman Wescott
Howard B. Wescott
National Oats
Runaway Team Fatally Injures Epworth Youth
A runaway team hitched to a hay rake fatally injured 19 year old Raymond Mihi son of William Mihi a wealthy farmer near Epworth. He was driving the implement when the accident occurred causing severe body mutilation and internal injuries.
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Dubuque
Raymond Mihi
William Mihi
Epworth
Till County
Bankrupt Trusts Hit Cedar Rapids Shoe Machines
A report from Cedar Rapids describes a major setback to a trust concern supplying shoe attachment machines. The Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers association plans to purchase machines from an independent Porticel firm, while Grey Dealers attend the convention. Town officials and veteran Michael Melnnerny, 42, are noted amid the disturbance. A separate Waterloo incident recounts a bandit attempting a train hold up on the Illinois Central line. The gun misfired during the struggle with a porter. passengers signaled for help and the bandit fled into the woods.
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Cedar Rapide
Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
Porticel
Waterloo
Ilinois Central Trun No. Ps
Engworth
Nipon
Iowa State College expands horticulture program with new greenhouse
Groundbreaking completed for a $66,000 green house complex at Iowa State College. The project, funded by the legislature, supports plant propagation, seed testing, and plant breeding work. Noted professors from Michigan and Harvard join to lead experiments and courses in truck crops, landscape gardening, and cooperative marketing. The state boasts tens of millions of square feet of glass in various plants, underpinning a growing floral industry.
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Tesch Green _House
Ames
Foley Manufas Avi Company
Chicago
Green House
Caese
Mississippi Valley
Charles City
Davenport
Des Mobles
Council Bluffs
Iowa
A. T. Erwin
H.C. Volx
Michigan Agricultural College
Frank C. Cwiley
Harvard University
C. K. Bitch
Colorado
Iowa State College
Alvord approves electric light bonds and county events noted
Iowa notes show Alvord voting 43 to 18 in favor of issuing electric light bonds. Reports cover Interstate Firemen tourney in Harlan, Manning and Harlan winning, Audubon Denison Coon Rapids placing, and Harlan claiming straightaway while Manning wins the association race. Also opened is a $75,000 Scott county tuberculosis hospital for open air treatment with 40 beds on a 112 acre site near the old Frahm homestead.
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Alvord
Harlan
Manning
Audubon
Denison
Coon Rapids
Q Harlan
Scott County
Frahm
Patrick Keenan
Plymouth County
LeMars
Modale
Mandale
EL Miller
W. S. Allen
State Board of Education
Iowa City
State University
Alton Milling Company
P. G Kelly
Chicago
Charles
R. J T. Armil
Devonport
Iowa
San Francisco
Greater Towa Association
George Ji. Wilson
Messrs
TD. Cass
Waterloo
Ralph Dalton
Des Moines
Harry
Swan
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falla
Jack Stevens
Malyers
Senate committee stalls Warburg Fed board nomination
The House banking and currency committee split 7 to 4 to report unfavorably on T ames L Jones of Chicago for the Federal Reserve Board, with Warburg’s confirmation postponed and President Wilson insisting Warburg appear before the committee while Ford discussed business gains and antitrust impacts with the president. The Rucker bill to codify campaign finance publicity passed the House 112 to 19.
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Washington
Fenale
Thamng'd
Jonés
Chicago
Federal Reserve” Board
Pomerere
Hollis
Shafroth
Bee
Maryland
Hitchcock
Republicana
Hétton Op
Paul M. Warburg
Warburg
Henry Ford
Detroit
Wilson
White House
Ford
United States
Paul MM. Warburg
Senate
Federal Reserve Board
Committee On Banking and Currency
Ruckerll
House
Pr Jordan Elected President of National Education Association
U K women win strides for suffrage and equal pay with five of ten vice presidents women. Dr David Starr Jordan elected NEA president for the next year in St Paul Minnesota as Oakl and California chosen for next meeting site. NEA backs merit over sex and supports federal aid for a national graduate university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
National Education Association
Wwe
Association
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Oakland
Cal
Edmund J. James
University of Milneis
Guadalajara Taken in Heavy Battle for City
Guadalajara the capital of Jalisco falls to Constitutionalist forces under Gen. Alvaro Obregon after a 48 hour siege. About 5,000 prisoners taken. federal losses unspecified but expected light among officers. Obregon pursues fleeing troops toward Quataro and San Luis Potosi. reports mention 40 cannons captured. Villa rejects peace parley with Huerta in Washington.
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Guadalajara
Jalisco
Mex
Falisco
Republic of Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Department of the Northwest
Obregon
Quarataro
San Luis Potos
Blanco
Tepic
Blanca
Obrregon
Zacatecas
Washington
Mexico City
Villa
Torreon
General Villa
Huerta
Huerts
Furnace blast at Corrigan McKinney Iron injures many
Cleveland Ohio reports a furnace explosion at Corrigan McKinney Iron Company injuring numerous workers. Six are reported dying and about a dozen taken to St Alexis hospital. The fragment also notes a July Champagne Stakes win by Lady Josephina at Biburg club with two year olds, and a birth announcement of a sixth child and first son for Jan Keherik.
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Cleveland
Corrigan, McKinney Iron Company
St Alexis
Salisburg
England
Biburg Club
Lady Josephina
Wilma Stop
Ran
Longueville
Berlin
Jan Keherik
Gag
Hanly
Wife of Bandits Confesses in Robbery Case
Central detectives in Clarksdale Mississippi report that Mrs Frank Benson confessed to involvement in the Illinois Central Express robbery at Lisleville Mississippi on June 4 1913. She said her husband Frank Benson led a gang that blew the express car and secured about 108000 more than previously stated near the rabary.
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Clarksdale
Miss
Hlinals Central
Frank Benson
Latesville
Migs
American Express
Tha Rabbary
Bear to Evacuate Arctic Explorers From Wrangell Island
Revenue cutter Bear under Captain Robert A Bartlett will sail from Nome within a week to Wrangell Island off Alaska to retrieve 18 white men and four Eskimos including a woman. They had lived on the wrecked Karluk after it sank January 11 following the ship being crushed by ice on Herald Island. The party had moved provisions and valuables onto the ice. attempts to land on Herald Island failed.
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Seattle
Wash
Bear
Robert A. Bartlett
Stefansson
Karluk
Nome
Wrangellsland
Alaska
Island Pines
Herald Island
Mic Souls
Mrs Carman Held on Murder Charge in Nassau County
Freeport July 10 Mrs Penence Conklin Carman was arrested at her home for the murder of Mrs Lulu J Bailey of Hempstead. She is held without bail awaiting examination in Freeport Monday morning. Carman collapsed during the incident and pleaded not guilty.
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Freeport
Petence Conklin Carman
Lulu J. Bailey
Hempstead
Meneath
Carman
Clale
Carolan
Ex Mayor Busse Dies at 45 Sheridan Road Home
Former Chicago mayor Pred A Busse dies at his home 4852 Sheridan road after four and a half months illness of malignant endocarditis. He was born March 8 1866 in Chicago. Friends mourn his death and recall his political career starting in Mastag? at age to vote. Alton Steel Company Falls Into Receivership with 1 000 000 capital due to inability to secure product prices.
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Chicago
Wormer
Pred
A. Busse
Sheridan Road
Alton Steel Company
Alton, Lil
Alton Steel
Custer War Veteran Charles H. Moore Dies in Pittsburg
Charles H. Moore, a veteran who served with General Custer during the Indian campaigns in the Northwest, died at his Pittsburg home aged seventy four. The obit notes his role in the Little Big Horn battle and his long service record.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Charles H. Moore
Custer
Northwest
Macrae
The
Little Ble Horn
Bomb Explodes at Wakefield Manse Ends in Close Call
Daring attempt to assassinate R. S. Stout at his Wakefield Massachusetts home failed as a bomb hurled into the kitchen exploded. Stout and others in the house escaped serious harm after the blast threw sleepers from bed. In Grand Rapids Michigan a separate crash left Gerald W. Donn dead and four injured when a car they rode in overturned near the city.
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Wakefeld
Mass
R. S. Stout
Stout
Grand Rapids
Mich
Gerald W. Donn
J. G. Donn
Blast injures many at McKinney Iron Co plant
A blast at the McKinney Iron Company plant in Cleveland Ohio injures many workers. Six are reported dying as rescuers rush to the scene and aid the injured. The blast occurred during routine operations at the plant, drawing rapid emergency response from local authorities.
Revolt at Blackwell's Island Prison Sparks Fire
A second revolt within two weeks erupts at the city workhouse on Blackwell's Island New York. Insurgents attempt to wreck machinery and burn buildings as guards intervene to quash the uprising.
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Blackwall's Island
New York
Blackwell's Island
Canadian Murderer Hanged in Winnipeg After Trial
Juty Tl John Kraftchenko was hanged in Winnipeg for the murder of Arnold Tanager of Montreay at Plow Coulee. Minutes after mounting the scaffold, he was pronounced dead.
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Winnipeg
John Kraftchenko
Arnold
Montreay
Plow Coulee
Blytt
Treasury and Navy get largest sums in general appropriation bill
The House appropriation committee reported a general deficiency bill totaling 4 585 404 42, with the largest items for public buildings and sites in many cities. The Navy's total is 1 282 273, including four new dreadnaughts Arizona California Mississippi and Idaho.
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Washington
House
Aledo
Ill
Artua
Okla
Beaver Dam
Wis
Benton Harbor
Mich
Customs House
Berwick
Burlington
Wig
Butler
Canton
Carlinville
Gedar Malls
Central City
Chapel Hi
N. C
Edenton
Thomasville
N.C
California
Modesto
San Luis Obispo
Colorado
Glennwood Springs
Sterling
Montross
Florida
Key West
Georgia
Douglas
Dawson
Forsyth
Madison
Sandersville
Waynesboro
West Point
Ilinela
Chicago
Erla
Sixty-third Street
Havena
Highland
Jerseyville
Marton
Spring Valley
Indiana
Kendallville
Plymouth
Salem
Varsaw
Ohis
Coshocton
Delphos
Kenton
Washington Court House
Des Moines
Treasury
Navy
Vera Cruz
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
New York Navy Yard
Arizona
Mississippi
Union
Petras Jury Discharged After Three-Day Deliberation
In Geneva on Friday the Petras murder trial jurors reported no verdict possibility after nearly three days of deliberation. Judge Clifton Irwin discharged the jury, and Anthony Petras was returned to jail where he will remain until retrial on the charge of killing Tressie Hollander. State's Attorney Tyers planned perjury charges against two witnesses.
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Geneva
Qourder
Tony
Petras
Clifton Irwin
Tyers Pays
Triad
Tressie Hollander
Homer Eddy
Anthony Petras
la Casa
Tyera
Ulster Leaders Call to Arms as Carson Urges Mobilization
In Belfast the provisional government warns of Ulster volunteers readiness and Sir Edward Carson vows to mobilize if the British government delays. He urges loyalists to turn swords into action while Ulster seeks peace without surrender. Stetail labor unrest in Pittsburgh ends as 13,000 Westinghouse workers begin returning to work.
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Belfast
Ireland
Provisional Government
Ulster Unionista
Sir Edward Carson
Ulster Volunteers
Edward Carson
Ulster
Alstar
Ener
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Corporation
Legislature to Reduts Tax Proclamation Issued
Governor Cox issued a proclamation altering tax rules and calling the legislature to address the matter. The action follows legislative discussions and aims to adjust current levies, with officials noting potential impacts on Columbus, Ohio.
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Columbus
Cox
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Skate Capital Chat
Iowa News
Gifford Pinechot
Mitchell Palmer
Boles Penrose
Pennsylvania
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T. D. Jones
U. K
Women’s Rights
Pr. Jordan
National Education Association— Warning
Gex Hygiene
Mexico
Huaband
C. Train
SAVE
Bartlett
Lulu D. Bailey
Busse
PTEBS
Navy’ Departments
Edward Garnon
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