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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1904
Page
3
The article notes a shift in how results will reach the public. Special wires and rapid reporting aim to announce presidential returns via telephone, with speakers highlighting improved speed over prior elections. The piece mentions Mow Yors, Oct. 31, and stresses faster, more reliable results through modern communications.
In New York City a vast Bell system operation in the great Dey Street building readies for rapid distribution of election returns. Special wires will carry results between major cities while local receiving points relay data to towns, with over a million subscribers and their households connected to the telephonic nationwide update.
Texas growers reject imported cotton seed with 400 farmer letters backing native varieties. Dallas Cotton Seed Supply disbands after deeming alien seed only marginally earlier maturing and inferior in yield. Officials urge deep plowing and careful selection to maintain Texas cotton standards.
Audnatore Florida October delegates travel to Tuskahoma to settle joint laws for Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, resolving a $75,000 land claim from a past act and determining disposal of academies and school sites and buildings for both nations.
A Rock Island and Geneseo high school football game at Combination park was abandoned after Rock Island objected to John Warner Orloff Jeffries and Clyde Kiner. Rock Island refused to play if alumni appeared. Geneseo also admitted Kiner’s eligibility but rooters and officials failed to resolve the issue. Rival teams and fans left the field amid bitter tension.
National Biscuit Co will abandon local manufacturing at Davenport to create a large distributing center for Davenport Rock Island and Moline. Oswald Schmidt will shift to Crescant Macaroni works, aiding expansion as demand grows. W. Plum will lead the Davenport office, bringing经验 from Springfield Illinois.
Salvationists and cadets arrive from Texas and the Southwest for a formal war council in Dallas opening at night. The gathering lasts until Thursday and is billed as the year’s leading Army event with Colonel J C Addie Major Potter and Ensign Alfred Sturgeon overseeing. About 200 visiting soldiers expected.
Davenport German Theater delivers a robust comedy as Christian Schober treads the boards in the lead. Behoner sustains constant laughter, while Pension Scighler centers on a boarding house visit to an asylum, with several songs and couplets by the company.
John Pippert of Rock Falls and F J Wright a Hubbard Iowa surveyor are in Geneseo advancing Dixon Rock Falls and Southwestern Electric Railway aims to connect Chicago to Rock Island. They favor a route from Hoop Pole to the city northeast, but Rock Island track crossings and street grids hinder progress. Engineer Shaw expected to arrive soon to aid the survey as they assess westward routes near Geometry street and the old cemetery.
In Cincinnati on October 31 Panolmer burglarized the Hattons’ crude shelter built under weeds beside Restling road and Stone alley. The loot included their marriage license, a tintype, two prayer books, and a beer jug. The couple claimed three weeks in the place named Hatton Fill.
Seattle dispatch reports the steamship Olympic returning from the gold fields faced almost continuous storms from Nome to Cape Flattery. Seven horses were killed by bucking and buffeting during the voyage. Ti J Hogan, a steerage steward, leaped into the sea from the stern aboard the first day out while intoxicated. his body was not recovered.
In Iowa games De Moines-Drake tied 67 Grim el 0 Iowa City Iowa 10 Ames 6 Malvern-Des Moines 0 Ta hor 0 Cedar Rapida Gee 6 Parsons 0 Harlan-East Des Moines 0 Nevada 26 Oak Park 0 Des Moines-North High 12 Indianola 6 Waukee-Iowa Business College 6 Waukee 10 Western games Chicago 6 Milnais 5 Madison-Michigan 28 Wisconsin 0 Minneapolis-Minnesota 16 Nebraska 12 Topeka-Kansas 5 Quadbury 0 Beloit Beloit 6 Lawrence 5 Stanford Stanford University 35 University of Oregon 0 St Louis Christian Bros 36 Lombard Cotere 0 Eastern Games New York Yale 64 Columbia 0 Philadelphia Georgetown 17 Holy Cross 4 Ithaca Cornell 6 Princeton 18 Cambridge Pennsylvania 11 Harvard 0 Middleton Dartmouth 92 Wesleyan 0 Annapolis Navy 0 Swarthmora 9 Norfolk Carlisle Indians 14 Virginia 6 West Point West Point 16 Williams 0
Democrats huddle at their Rock Island headquarters on Eighteenth Street where a fair crowd hears Chairman Cavanaugh. Speeches defend democratic principles, oppose trusts, and urge support for Lawrence H. Stringer for Illinois House while criticizing Republican positions on tariffs and Eastern policy.
New York October 31 W H Bills started for Abyssinia with Lent Loomis, brother of the assistant secretary of state, and returned on the América to Philadelphia. Loomis, tasked with delivering a U S commercial treaty to Abyssinia, vanished from the Kaiser Wilhelm I and his body washed ashore at Plymouth. Ellis, who took the treaty to Abyssinia and met the king, refused to discuss Loomis death, saying he would describe events in a full statement after going to Washington. He claimed concessions of Mamond mines and 200000 acres for cotton expansion, and proposes establishing the Royal Bank of Abyssinia to oversee the country’s finances.
Dr. F. D. Cuppey, first mayor of Thomas, Oklahoma, and vice president of the First National Bank, died here. A Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate in 1900, he built a $20,000 practice in two years and belonged to Masonry and several fraternal orders.
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