Iowa House Plans Debt Limit Clause Not Involved
Nes Moines reports that the Thirty-fifth General Assembly acted within constitutional limits when extending the capital grounds and enacting a budget tied to specific appropriations. Former attorney generals including George Cosson indicated that actions raising questions of indebtedness do not violate state restrictions if funds are raised for defined purposes. Governor Clarke and senators reviewed prior opinions but Cosson declined immediate comment, noting precedents already on file.
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Nes Moines
Thirty-fifth General Assembly
George W. Clarke
George Cosson
Senate
Cosson
Attorney General's Office
Receivership invoked at Jewell Electric Light & Power
Stockholders petitioned, Frank G. Snyder of Jewell appointed receiver to run the Jewell Electric Light and Power company. Preferred stockholders report no dividends as dispute over lighting rates with the council leaves the business district in darkness.
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Webster City
Jewell Electric Light & Power Company
Frank G. Snyder
Jewell
Methodist Meeting At Mt Vernon Discusses Foreign Mission Finances
A joint Cedar Rapids and Davenport district session of the Methodist Church met at Mt Vernon. Finances and methods to fund Blyen foreign mission work were discussed with speakers including F. B. Fisher of New York, general secretary of the Laymen's Missionary movement, and the Rev Earl Taylor among others.
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Mt. Vernon
Mount Vernon
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Methodist Church
F. B. Fisher
New York
Body of Earl Butler Found at Fort Madison Dam
The body of Earl Butler, who drowned with two companions at Fort Madison about a month earlier, was discovered by workmen at the power house and lodged against a spillway of the dam. One companion’s body had been found a week earlier.
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Keokuk
Earl Butler
Fort Madison
Big Dam
Butler
Experiment Channel at State University Hydraulics Plant
Part of a $26,000 legislative appropriation funds a hydraulic channel and gate at the dam now called Dacia to support the university of engineering's hydraulic power plant. The facility will be used for experimental purposes.
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Towa City
Legislative
State University College of Engineering
Dacia
One Hundred One In May Reunion Attends in Algona
Creston man anticipates a family reunion on May 2 in Algona for his father's 101st birthday. Two brothers from New York state, Charles and James, plan to attend the event.
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Creston
M. A. Franklin
Algona
Charles
James
New York State
Will Terms Fulfilled at Monticello Church Donation
Trustees of the Presbyterian church at Monticello have received 7000 dollars from executors of the late Henry Clay Wills. This is the second payment of the same amount. the first was received at Mr. Wills's death about seven years ago.
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Monticello
The
Presbyterian Church
Henry Clay
Will
Mason City Chef Charged With Uttering False Instruments
G M Anderson a Mason City cafe chef was arrested as he prepared to depart the city charged with uttering false instruments. He is alleged to have cashed checks totaling forty dollars at various locations.
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Jast
Mason City
G. M. Anderson
Keokuk District Sues Bankers Surety in Bond Defalcation Case
Keokuk Lee county files suit against Bankers Surety Company of Cleveland to recover 7000 on a surety bond for Bruce Lake. District court term currently ongoing with a former clerk facing imprisonment at Port Madison Penitentiary context.
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Sues Surety Company
Keokuk
Lee County
Bankers’ Surety Company
Cleveland
Bruce Lake
District
Port Madigan
California Backing Wilson On Land Laws Visit
Governor Johnson and Senate leaders respond to President Wilson’s request to send William Jennings Bryan Hogan to Sacramento to counsel on alien land laws. Legislature to assert independence while endorsing a federal diplomat visit and aiming to pass a state law restricting land ownership for aliens ineligible to citizenship. The policy aligns with Washington’s objections but seeks constitutional leeway.
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Sacramento
Cal
Johnson
Wilson
Wilam J. Hrgan
Themiselves
William Jennings Hogan
A. F. Hoynton
Senate
California
United States
Washington
Firemen Granted Wage Increase on Eastern Railroads
An arbitration board under the Erdman act awarded 10 to 12 percent raises to about 45,000 firemen on fifty four eastern railroads. The decision denies two-fireman crews on all heavy engines but allows for a second fireman when needed. Wages are standardized by locomotive weight and a ten hour day or 100 miles per day. Firemen are relieved from engine climbing. The award was unanimous.
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Arbitration Board
New York
Eastern
de Claron
Erdman
Quarry Blast Kills Eleven at Riverside Crestmore Quarry
A premature explosion of 1000 pounds of dynamite at the Riverside Portland Cement quarry near Crestmore, California, killed eleven workers on Wednesday. Five bodies have been recovered, including powder foreman Gus Olsen.
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Silves
Riverside
Cal
Riverside Portland Cement Company
Crestmore
Here
Gus Osen
N. Y. Society Man Dead at 75
New York April 25 Townsend Burdened died of apoplexy at his home Wednesday. He was seventy five years old and with his wife had long been prominent in New York and Newport society.
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N. Y
New York
Child Burn Death Shocks Town
A seven year old girl, Juliet Smith, died in a tragic fire when wind drove a bonfire flame toward the house. Her mother, Mary Smith, watched helplessly as the blaze enveloped the child at their home.
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Juliet
Mary Smith
Aadset
Scutari Captured After Long Siege In Montenegro
Cettinje Montenegro April 24 after a 24 hour final assault Montenegrin troops forced their way into Scutari the fortress held since mid October 1912. The Turkish commander signed capitulation soon after Montenegrins reached the city center. The assault began Monday night with bayonet fighting as the Turks were surprised along the front. Reports vary on whether Essaad Pasha ordered a cease of defenses or negotiations with the Montenegrin commander. some say Turkish troops held out until the last.
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Cettinje
Montenegro
Scutario
Turkey
Essaad Pasha
Tarakesh
Iast
PUPILS WIN POINT. Pittsburgh Strikes Prompt Inquiry
A mass school strike in Pittsburgh against Superintendent S L Heeter escalated as nearly 100000 students roamed the city and Angelina Disera aged three was killed crossing a main avenue by a streetcar. The school board formed a citizen committee to investigate the charges and report back.
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Pittsburgh
S. L. Heeter
Domeastic
Pennsylvania Avenue
Angelina Disera
Fourteenth Street
Borden Heiress Kidnapped in Newark Area
Two elderly women and a seventeen year old girl abducted Ramona Borden from near Pompton Lakes New Jersey. Police issued alerts across New York and New Jersey and charges were prepared for the abductors. The case follows a sequence of incidents ending with the nurse separating the girl from her companion in Newark. A Harvard graduate student, Lucien Tennant, was found dead in Cambridge after a separate incident.
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New York
Jersey City
Hoboken
Newark
New Jersey
Ramona Borden
Gail Borden
Adams Sanitarium
Pompton Lakes
N. J
Healhy
Indiana
Harvard Suicidas
Cambridge
Mass
Lucien D. Tennant
Terre Haute
Ind
Harvard Graduate School
Pope Continues Improvement in Rome on April 44
The pope’s condition continued to improve in Rome on Tuesday. Reports note he is refusing solid food and relying on a liquid diet as he recovers.
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Rome
Andreatlesd
Atomeed Fire Threatens Victims in Pittsburgh Coal Mine Disaster
Seventy miners died in a Cincinnati mine of the Pittsburgh Coal company at Courtney Pennsylvania after a gas explosion on Wednesday. About fifty more are believed entombed behind the cavern and suffocated by afterdamp as rescuers struggle to clear airways and contain a spreading fire. Superintendent Charles Carter led the rescue effort despite his son John’s death and his other son Joseph narrowly escaping. The accident occurred ten miles from Marianas, site of a 250-miner blast five years earlier.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Courtney
Charles Carter
John
Joseph
Carter
Marianas
Congress probes baseball trust in rare May demand
Representative Gailinger introduced a House resolution directing Attorney General McReynolds to conduct a thorough investigation of the American and National leagues as a trust. Detroit center fielder Curus R. Cobb, top batter last season, sparked the move amid spring holdouts and high-spending negotiations, including Tyus's $15,000 bid and stalled offers.
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Washington
Gailinger
Inc‘s
McReynolds
Curus R. Cobb
Detroit
Tyrus
Boy Admits Tragic Double Homicide Near Elgin
A 14 year old boy named Coppes confessed to police that he killed Mrs Manny Sleep and her two children near Elgin Illinois. He described striking the mother in front of the children and tossing her body into a cistern. He then used an axe in the woodshed to crush the skulls of the children and disposed of their bodies in the cistern. The killings followed a dispute after the mother reportedly said she would get about it when he refused a chore.
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Elgin
Herman Gores
Manny Sleep
Coppes
Copper
Levee Cut Prevented as Man Is Shot in Arkansas City
Deputy Sheriff Wise shot and killed Ed Robinson after Robinson threatened to kill the guard and workers and cut the levee to flood thousands of acres of land. Robinson was drinking at the time, and action averted a major disaster in Arkansas City Arkansas on April 22.
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Arkansas City
Ark
Wise
Ed. Robinson
Robinson
Banker Shoate Shot by Unknown in Brainerd Office
In Brainerd Minnesota on a Wednesday a banker named Judge G. W. Holland, aged seventy four, was shot while examining a revolver in the office. The incident details remain unclear and no suspects are listed. The article notes Shoate as a prominent banker and mine owner in the area.
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Shoate
Brainerd
Minn
Yrest
Ten Risk Firms Suspend Business in Missouri
St Louis April 23 ten large insurance firms announced withdrawal from Missouri under the Orr anti trust law after April 30 causing panic among business and financial interests. Home Insurance of Missouri is the largest with over 500000 in annual premiums. Other withdrawals include Globe and Rutgers New York Michigan Fire and Marine Detroit Fire and Marine New Hampshire Fire Philadelphia County Fire Pennsylvania Hartford Phoenix of Hartford California and British American Assurance of Toronto. Merchants and committees seek a solution as officials defend the law despite pressure.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Home Insurance Company of
Globe and Rutgers of
New York
Michigan Fire and Marine
Detroit Fire and Marine
New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company
County Fire Insurance Company of
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania of
Phoenix of
Hartford
California
British- American Assurance Company
Toronto
Real Estate Exchange
Bankers’ Club
Ben Franklin Club
Major
Alice Copeley Thaw Weds Former Countess of Yarmouth
Alice Copeley Thaw, known as the countess of Yarmouth, quietly marries Geoffrey Q. Whitney of Boston at a Congenesa home on Cumberland Island. Whitney is the divorced wife of the Marquis of Hertfort, who inherited the title after Thaw’s divorce.
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Yarmouth
Boston
Brunswick
Copeley Thaw
Countess of
George Carnegie
Congenesa
Cumberland Island
Geoffrey Q. Whitney
Mass
Whitney
Marquis of
Hertfort
Thaw
Grant Ballot to Women Constitutional Amendment Passed
Harrisburg April 24 the Pennsylvania senate approved a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution to grant women the right to vote. The measure had cleared the house earlier and, after its adoption by the 1925 legislature, goes to the people for ratification.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Senate
Fire damages Brooklyn steel barrel factory in 1900s report
A fire at the American Steel Barrel Company factory in Brooklyn caused about $6,000 in damage. The blaze occurred on a Wednesday in April, with Mrs Elizabeth Q Jeslie Bly identified as the principal director.
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Brooklyn
York
American Steel Barrel Company
Elizabeth Q. Jeslie Bly
Prinelder
Old Fashioned Mothers and Teething Soapbox Quips
A fragmentary collage cites the old fashioned mother and supper as pivotal for presidents, plus ad copy for Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and a quip about Mars dogs. It threads in a comic thought on corsets, a celebrity quote from the Horratic Thinker, and a Kansas City Star jab about dry goods ads.
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Mtoe
Winslow
Kansas City Star
No Man a Coward to Himself Says Civil War Vet
A Civil War veteran recalls a comrade who fled at Chattanooga and later appeared in camp uninjured claiming he retreated in good order. The man joked that if he stayed home to fetch the doctor, onlookers would think his wife ill.
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Chattanooga
Cap'n
Dinner Guests Go Hungry at Prince Leopold's Dinner
Prince Leopold, deposed regent of Bavaria, fell asleep after the first course at a dinner. Guests kept quiet by etiquette while servants stopped serving. He awoke after two hours to coffee and conversation, leaving guests starved but unalerted to the lapse.
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Prince Leopold
Bavaria
Safore
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