Parcel Post Rules New System in Effect Next Year
Des Moines dispatch reports the Post Office Department announces a nationwide parcel post system to start Jan 1. Goods up to eleven pounds and six feet in length and girth may be mailed to any address with zone-based rates from 5 8 cents per pound for the first zone to 12 cents for continental reaches. Insurance costs 10 cents per parcel, with indemnity up to 500 dollars.
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Des Moines
Alaska
Philippines
Builders Council Hold Election
After a three days convention the Iowa State Building Trades council adjourned in Marshalltown electing Gus Brooks of Des Moines as president Harry Z Williams of Marshalltown first vice president J H Sweeney of Des Moines second vice president J L Lewis of Des Moines third vice president P L Donahoe of Des Moines secretary treasurer and W N Clifford of Cedar Rapids organizer The next meeting place will be chosen by the executive committee with a recommendation that Sioux City be selected if the council there affiliates with the state organization.
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Marshalltown
Iowa State Building Trades Comc
Gus Hrooks
Des Moines
Harry (Z. Williams
J. H. Sweeney
J. L. Lewis
PL. G. Donahoe
W. N. Clifford
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Birdsall Indicted in Liquor Case Involving Indians
Dubuque. One federal grand jury indictment targets W. N. Birdsall, a Waterloo attorney who represented parties charged with selling liquor to Indians on the reservation at Tama. It is alleged he offered a bribe to the government investigator seeking clemency for his clients.
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Dubuque
Federal
W. N. Birdsall
Waterloo
Birdsall
Tamu
Mount Pleasant druggists admit liquor nuisance charges
Mount Pleasant druggists T Waugh and M Drummond pleaded guilty before Judge Smyth in district court to liquor nuisance violations. Each defendant was fined 500 dollars and costs.
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Mount Pleasant
F T Waugh
M. Drummond
Smyth
Lutherans Plan Purchase of Prospect Place Sanitarium
A German Lutheran syndicate plans to buy Prospect Place in Cedar Rapids to convert it into a sanitarium. The property is owned by James Carlton Young of Minneapolis. New Iowa postmasters nominated by President Taft include Charles Bmirth Clarence Lewis W. Sley Charles O Siarry Walker Hubert A Gardner and W. tl Vance. In Boone a runaway cab killed Mrs. John Schultze and injured her son while her father J B Prutzmen was knocked down.
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Lutherans Plan
Cedar Rapids
New Iown
Des Moines
Taft
Iowa
Charles Bmirth
Clarence
Lewis W. Sley
Oxford Junction
Charles O Siarry
Walker
Hubert A Gardner
West Point
W. Tl Vance
Winterset
Boone
John Schultze
J. B. Prutzmen
Vernon, Kans
Robbers Blow Bank Safe in Local Heist Attempt
Robbers looted the depot and seized tools used in an attempted robbery of Warmers' Security bank. They blew open the safe but were frightened when almost touching the money. Local authorities investigate the incident and seek witnesses.
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Percy
Three Mountaineers Arrested for Wilson Blackmail Plot
Newark authorities report three Jersey mountaineers Warren Dunn Jacob Dunn and Seeley Davenport jailed for a scheme to extort $5,000 from President Woodrow Wilson. The men sent seven letters over a month threatening death if the demand was not met. Delaware Valley investigators tracked the plan to a rural post box near Wharton and captured the trio in the Ramapo area.
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Newark
Farmera
Ramapo
New Jersey
Essex County
Jnit
Klert Woodrow Wilson
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Trenton
N. J
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Bermuda
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Postoffice
Cortelyou
Philadelphia
Secret Service
Louis G. Beekman
Francis Butler
Clinnton Larabee
Wharton
Lake Hopatcong
Dover
Neekman
Inspectora
Warren Dunn
Jacob
Seeley Davenport
McCarty Defeats Flynn In L A Title Bout Stop
In Los Angeles on December 12 Luther McCarty defeated Jim Flynn in the sixteenth round of a planned twenty round heavyweight bout. Flynn suffered a brutal beating, was twice knocked to the canvas, and referee Charles Eyton stopped the fight to prevent further harm. Flynn is out of the heavyweight contention, leaving McCarty and rivals to stake a claim atop the division.
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Cal
Jim Flynn
Luther McCarthy
Pueblo
Charles Eyton
Flynn
Potter
Luther McCarty
Jack Johnson
Pugillam
Quigley Held for Grand Jury Action in Perjury Charge
Indianapolis December 13 William H Quigley business agent of the Carpenters union Detroit is held to await the federal grand jury investigation for perjury after denying writing a letter to Hiram Cline the union organizer Evidence includes handwriting and signatures questioned by witnesses and a register entry at the Grand Hotel on December 2
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Carpenters’ Union
Detroit
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Quigley
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RK. G. M. Ross Herbert
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Cline
Grand Hotel
Senator Shively Loses Toe After Refusing Anesthetic
Washington section reports Indiana Senator Jamin F. Shively had one toe of his right foot amputated at a local hospital after irritation led to blood poisoning. He refused ether or chloroform, and during the procedure smoked a cigar.
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Washington
Sec
Ben
Jamin F. Shively
Indiana
Shively
Author James Otis Koler Dies at 64 in Portland
James Otis Koler known for boys books died in Portland on Wednesday at age sixty four. Writing as James Otis he authored 1461 books for boys, shaping a prolific career in juvenile literature.
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Portland
James Otis Koler
James Otis
French aviator breaks world altitude record at 6801 meters
Roland G. Harris, a French aviator, shattered the world altitude record for airplanes on Wednesday by reaching 6,801 meters or 19,082 feet. The previous accepted record stood at 17,881 feet.
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Roland G. Harris
Great Britain protests free tolls for American ships
Britain filed an official protest with Secretary Knox against free tolls for American ships in an American canal. The note argues the exemption violates the Clayton Bulwer and Hay Pauncefote treaties and asserts Taft erred in supporting such exemption. Sir Edward Grey prepared the note, delivered by Ambassador Bryce with Mr Mitchell Innes.
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Washington
Great Britain
Knox
Edward Grey
James Bryce
Mitchell Innes
Taft
Cite Editor for Contempt in Roosevelt Quote Case
Bolsa Idaho December 12 The publisher and editor of the Horse Capital News must explain to the Idaho Supreme Court why they should not be punished for contempt for publicizing Colonel Roosevelt's views on a court decision that kept Roosevelt electors off the official ballot R Sheridan publisher and C Broxon managing editor were ordered to answer the citation within ten days
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Bolsa
Idaho
Horse Capital News
Supreme Court of Idaho
T Roosevelt
R. Sheridan
C. C. Broxon
Largest dress smuggling plot uncovered in New York
Port officials declare over one million dollars lost to a grand jury indictment. Mrs Antoinettes Haldron, thirty five, of thrilety is arrested. Gowns valued at $16000 found in her trunks. Several New York and Boston dressmakers named, more arrests expected.
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New York
Match Trust Faces Fine For Violating Child Labor Laws
Madison Wis Dec 11 A Wisconsin prosecution against the Diamond Match company marked the most far reaching case under child labor laws with fines totaling 18900 dollars the maximum allowed per violation. Transfer Stock Exchange Seat New York Dec 12 John H Reynolds Jr seat posted for transfer sold at 56000 versus 58000 last week. Nine Believed Dead In A Snowlide Cordova Alaska Dec 12 A snowslide on Copper Mountain carried away eleven buildings of the Great Northern Development company nine men believed dead.
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Wis
Wisconsin
Diamond Match Company
Prue
Transfer Stock Exchange
New York
New York Stock Exchange
John H. Reynolds, Jr
Frederick Lewison
Cordova
Alaska
Copper Mountain
Great ‘Northern Development Company
Johnson and White Marriage Sparks House Fury
Fiery congressional speech denounces Jack Johnson's Chicago marriage to a white woman as "black slavery" and warns that legal wedlock across races will threaten national peace. Johnson’s lawyers seek to withdraw from the case as marriage records are challenged.
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House
Jack Johnson
Chicago
A. Roddenberry
Georgia
Ilinois
United States
Iit
New York
Mr. Roddenberry
Johnson
South
Law
Lucile Cameron
Battle Craft Sinks Ship In Night Collision
Plymouth Dec 12 An unknown steamer with her entire crew sinks in the English Channel after colliding with the 30 000 ton British dreadnought Centurion The disaster occurred in darkness Tuesday as the other vessel tried to cross the Centurion s bows at 20 knots and disappeared before aid could reach it
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Plymmouth
English Channel
Gets 25 Years as Wife Slayer
Rockford Illinois December 18 Fred Wheeler was found guilty by a jury of poisoning his wife. The penalty was twenty five years in the penitentiary. The jury was out all night.
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Rockford, I J
Fred Wheeler
Two Aliens Are Reprieved in Virginia Case
Richmond Va Dec 18 Governor Mann reprieved Floyd Allen and Victor Allen until January on representation by their attorneys that evidence bearing on the case had been recently found.
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Richmond
Mann
Floyd Allen
Victor Allen
Roosevelt Chosen to Lead Progressive Party in 1916
Chicago officials report Theodore Roosevelt unanimously named as the 1916 Progressive presidential nominee at the party national conference amid religious fervor. The decision followed an evangelist’s address praising Roosevelt, as Roosevelt asserted leadership would emerge from events of the next two years. The party vows to run on its own tracks for social justice without alliances.
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Chicago
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin Fay Mills
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Pee Colsenum
Progressive National Party
Cal
Theodore Hoosevelt
Hotel la Salle
Delay for Peace Meet Postponed by Late Turkish Delegates
London December 13 The first session of the Palkan peace conference was postponed as Turkish delegates could not reach London in time. Sir Edward Grey warned in the House of Commons that terms may be hard to reach. The Balkan situation causes anxiety as Austria and Serbia drift further apart from a workable settlement.
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London
Palkan
Edward Grey
House of Commons
Balkan
Turkey
Uma
Austria
Servia
Cudahy to Receive 2.6 Million from Fathers Estate
John P. Cudahy will obtain 2.5 million dollars through a settlement of his father's estate. His attorneys announced the figure from Kansas City Missouri on December 18. Cudahy said he was satisfied with the settlement.
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J. P. Cudahy
Kansas City
John P. Cudahy
The Ravages of Tuberculosis in Iowa Ad Campaign
An Iowa ad declares 250000 cases of tuberculosis in the state and promotes home treatment with climate unnecessary. It urges readers with lung troubles to request a free booklet from M. S. Hyman in Des Moines for information on at home remedies. An old-timer quip notes the eye opener joke.
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Iowa
Hyman
Dept. D
Utica
Des Moines
Towa
Adv
Tired Blood Struggles with Nervous Nerve Strain Headline
An 1918 advertising item promotes Tonitives as a cure for nervous disorders linked to tired blood. It claims neuralgia melancholia and sleeplessness arise from blood weakness and prescribes Tonitives to restore red blood. The notice mentions price and mail order from Buffalo, NY.
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The
Tonstives Co
Te Tonitives Co
Buffalo, N. X
New Way to Get Money in Church Appeals
A humorous tale notes ministers raise funds for mission work while an old southern preacher outsmarts thieves. He jokes to his flock that those who stole Mr Jones' turkeys should not contribute, prompting generous responses from the congregation.
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Popular Magazine
Not to Be Caught Comic Exchange Across Hedge
A brief, humorous exchange between a farmer and a boy over a hedge noted in the Weekly Telegraph. The farmer warns the boy not to be caught there again as the lad tries to flee, replying that he has not been caught yet.
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Weekly Telegraph
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