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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
1
Attorneys for transportation companies contest a state rate order claiming the law fixing fairs rates at 10 cents a mile is unconstitutional. Railroads may refuse to implement the rate, risking daily fines, while awaiting court action.
The largest rural school conference will be held at Teachers College Cedar Falls on July 18 with over 1,500 teachers at summer school and about 1,000 more expected from across the state. A. M. Deyoe will discuss recent rural education legislation, C. G. Colegrove will address The Farm and the Farm in Civilization, and H. H. Seerley will speak on The Need of a New Vision.
Keokuk elected officers for the Southern Iowa Editorial association with Harry Keller as president and K F Baldridge as vice president. Leon Reporter notes the winter meeting venue and a Sioux City controversy over equal rights. Sioux City printers win wage arbitration settling at two dollars weekly change. journeymen sought twenty four dollars per week. Waverly visitors from Hawaii looked to buy Holsteins for a Kamala ranch, but C A Nelson refused to price them, claiming the cattle belong to Iowa.
A discussion between 17 and 11 year old boys over a revolver found on a wall led to an accidental discharge. The older boy handled the weapon and it fired, injuring his brother in the right jaw and shoulder. The incident involves Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Blackwood as the children’s guardians.
Mount Ayr church trustees announce readiness to construct a new church building valued at 16000 dollars replacing the old Christian church building which stood on adjacent property. The conveyance and possession details are being arranged as part of the project.
Col. Martin M. Mulhall testified before the Senate lobby investigating committee recalling his ties to the National Association of Manufacturers and Republican campaigns. He described meetings with labor leaders in 1902 1903 and said the Baltimore fire influenced his view of manufacturer labor relations. He noted most interviews with secretary Marshall Cushing occurred in Washington taxicabs, noting the lack of taxis at the time.
Washington July 14. Secretary Garrison ordered Col. Holwin P of the Fourteenth Cavalry at Fort McIntosh to demand the release of 360 cattle and 90 horses held by Mexican revolutionists.
A large ice house and transfer port at the Erie Railway yard in Marlon Ohio burned, causing about $60,000 in losses. The blaze, deemed incendiary, started July 144.
A fragment hints at a convention in Los Angeles on May 14 involving Ghinaga and a wing endeavor. The readable lines suggest Chicago or event notes but are garbled.
Mrs. Holth Rigby, wife of a prominent doctor in Liverpool during July, admits six months of militant suffrage arson. She described nightly bombings and fires, claiming at least 200000 in damage, while her husband opposed suffrage. She named targets including mansions and letters urging votes. She expressed willingness to die for the cause.
A series of brief notices reports a tornado like electrical storm in Bilgo Alabama darkening the city, two alleged dynamiters released on bonds in Leavenworth, a banana stalk shipment to Galveston for factory fiber use, a fatal dynamite accident near Bayfield, and Newport England details about Vin £100,000,000 baby and suffragette Mackworth fined for mailbox vandalism.
A Guaymas dispatch reports 400 Mexican soldiers drowned in a naval clash with state forces as Huerta loyalists reportedly repelled an assault. The brief note cites a July date and mentions constitutional troops’ heavy losses in the river action.
July crop report from Washington lists totals for leading cereals at 4.929 billion bushels, down from 5.662 billion last year. Corn acreage shrank to 106.884 million acres, with oats and barley also lower. winter and spring wheat forecasts are mixed, and overall grain harvest lags 1912.
Bodies of two ten year old children Ida and Ligon, stepchildren of Jennie Yates, found in a creek near Troy. A mob forms at the jail as Jennie Yates is rushed to Memphis to prevent violence. Neighboring boy recalls seeing the stepmother seize a child and drag it toward the stream.
Brig, Pa July 14 Secretary of the Navy Daniels attended the Perry centennial as guest of honor. He spoke in the afternoon at the public dock near the brig Niagara and later at the home of Mrs. Chartea H. Alrong. About 20,000 people witnessed the event.
Kubas resigns from the Colonial Trust Company board in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Kuba also resigns as a director from the Commonwealth Trust Company.
A fragment notes events in France with mentions of Yohrenn and Blay, Hayre, and Jack in To. July 12. The readable items hint at local notices or social details from a historical page.
Naples and Naples gulf flood amid rains and mud from Vesuvius. Northern mountains report snow and freezing temperatures. Measina Straits hit by violent storm and floods. Cosenza bears hurricanes with shocks and rumblings. Regions fear repeated seismic events after a recent earthquake.
The Interstate Commerce Commission lambasted the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad for mismanaged finances and control over trolley net and related New England railways. It found the line wasteful and projected a 1912 dividend of six percent and a surplus of 1.794 million if it had operated like peers.
Ninety four percent of 76 689 voting members from the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors back a strike in the eastern railroads wage dispute. The Eris railroad says it will discuss wages and conditions but refuses a general pay raise.
Pittsburgh July 2 The suspension of the First Second National Bank of Pittsburgh led to potential criminal action by the government. The bank reported deposits exceeding 86 090 000 and is linked to W S Kubn president. Subsequent moves targeted other interests associated with the Kubns amid the bank closure.
A New York resident, John F. Marlin, reported a jewelry theft in Paris on July 13, valued at $32,000. The thief stole items from her hotel room on Place Vongome after she left wrapped in a handkerchief on the table.
The report notes strong interest from the United States in Canadian lands and forecasts a bumper crop across Western Canada. Weather has been ideal with abundant rainfall and warm growing conditions, suggesting a splendid wheat and oat yield in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Experts predict favorable weather to sustain growth over the next four weeks.
In Harrison New Jersey a lumber yard superintendant Hueselman died when a heavy timber pile toppled as a worker on top warned others and fell. Bieselman narrowly escaped injury, but the accident sent him to St. Michael's hospital in critical condition as bystanders and trolley passengers aided the rescue.
A chemistry expert explains Coca Cola’s popularity as a mix of mild stimulation and mental lift. He cites caffeine and mild effects on alertness, comparing Coca Cola to tea and coffee, and notes laboratory work by Holling and Wood supporting reduced fatigue.
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