Notable Speakers Trending For Iowa Synod Meeting
The Synod of Iowa will host 350 to 400 delegates at the Central church and First Baptist church for a week of sessions. The Women’s Synodical Missionary Society will also meet, with speakers from church boards and educational institutions expected to address attendees. The event features a Sunday conference and a roster of nationwide reputations among planned speakers.
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Dea
Synod of Iowa
Central Church
Aynod
Women's Synodiceal Missionary Society
Ito
First Baptist Church
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
J. W Countermine
W L. Purmort
O. H. Longwell
Aynedd
Jowa Pythians Name Officers at Region Meet
Senator Arthur C Savage of Adair was nominated for grand chancellor by acclamation at the Knights of Pythias region meeting in Des Moines Coliseum. Louis A Wienecke of Cherokee becomes past grand chancellor succeeding JF Cole of Oelwein as term ends.
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Arthur C. Savage
Adair
L.A. Wienecke
Des Moines
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Coliseum
Louis A. Wienecke
Cherokee
JF. Cole
Oelwein
Bree Methodist annual conference closes after five days
Sheniandoah Western laws annual Bree Methodist conference ended a five day session with one hundred ministers and delegates in attendance. Bishop W A Salew of Jamestown presided. Rev J W Reed, the local pastor, was appointed evangelistic worker. Rev W H Austin from Childun becomes pastor. Rev J Eddy, twenty years a pastor and four years a district elder, was transferred to Oklahoma. Rev J F Waddoof Hone was chosen district elder.
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Sheniandoah
Bree Methodist Church
W. A. Salew
Jamestown
J. W. Reed
W H. Austin
Childun
Eddy
Fire damages laundry and two story building near Des Moines
In Oskaloosa and surrounding Iowa, a blaze damaged the United Monarch steam laundry property and an adjacent two story brick building, valued around 1. The second story housed local trades unions and several lodges, with the structure nearly ruined. Iowa stock markets report top cattle prices in Chicago Week and dairy figures show a Holstein cow yielding 45 pounds of milk daily in August, with butter prices at 21.44 per hundredweight.
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Flore
Oskaloosa
Ogskhollogsa Wyre
Monarch Steam Laundry
Trades Unional Assembly
Iowa
Des Moines
Dawn
Chicago
Palle Charles Ao Mark
Tdtmer Living Orthoof
Thin Aity
Fort Dodge to Host Fourth Annual State Day Festivities
Plans for September 12th include free entertainment and band concerts as Fort Dodge prepares for the 4th annual state celebration. Organizers anticipate about 13,000 attendees, with a diverse crowd expected to enjoy activities and community events.
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Fort Dodge
Fu Dodge
Ft Dodge Jg
Death of General MacArthur at Fort Des Moines
Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur, U.S. Army retired, collapsed and died last Thursday while addressing the Twenty fourth Wisconsin volunteers reunion. The unit, known as the Chamber of Commerce regiment, honored its fallen leader at Fort Des Moines.
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General MacArthur
Fort Des Moines
Arthur MacArthur
S. A
Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteers
Chamber of Commerce Regiment
Land at 200 Per Acre Near Eagle Grove
In Eagle Grove area two farms sold at $200 per acre. The latest is a quarter section farm one mile east of town bought by Adolph Bernard of Wigtock at the $200 per acre price.
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Eagle Grove
Adolph Bernard
Ww Igtock
Vermont Republicans Win Big In State Election
In White River Junction Vermont the Republicans claim a strong statewide vote with Allen M Fletcher leading with 26 260 for governor while Harlan Howe 20 380 and Frazer Metzger 15 800 run for third party. The legislature will tilt heavily Republican with 26 Senate Republicans and 176 House Republicans aiming to secure state officers on joint ballot.
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White River
Vermont
Allen M. Fletcher
Harlan B. Howe
Frazer Metzger
Clement F Smith
Fred W Aniter
Repubiicans
Senate
House
Progressive Party
Mie Progressive Party
Tam
Progresaivo Party
Gen Sickles Loses Home Auction of Veteran’s Furniture
New York Sept 6 Unless the Gu rete court stays the order of a lower court the household goods of Daniel F Sickles veteran of Civil War will be sold at auction to satisfy an 8060 judgment for Lincoln Trust Company. The judgment rests on a note given by the aged soldier and the sale was set for today but Sickles secured a stay of execution to appear in the supreme court and show cause why his property should not be sold.
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New York
Gurete
Daniel F. Stickles
Lincoln Trust Company
Sickles
Supreme Court
BIG MEN TO FACE Quiz for Campaign Contribs Probe
Washington, Sept 4 Former Roosevelt aides Loeb and Cortelyou and press figures Hearst and Archbold were summoned to testify before the senate committee as part of the campaign contributions investigation tied to the Reed-Poindexter resolution. Navy men seize a rebel steamer? Glacier sailors captured a small rebel steamer at Corinto during a clash with Nicaraguan forces.
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Loeb
Cortelyou
Hearst
Washington
Asing Pro- Braw
Penrose
Reed-Poindexter
William Loeb, Jr
George 8
Colooel Hoosevelt
W. R Hearst
Jubu K. Archbold
Senate
J. &. Marines
Glacier
Robert G Coman
Coriuto
William Dick Estate Valued At Four Million Dollars
The estate of William Dick sugar manufacturer who died in New York April 5 is appraised at four million dollars. The official appraisal was filed with the surrogate's office on Wednesday.
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William Dick
New York
State Militia Quells Riot Among Convicts
Riot at Jackson prison escalated from Friday with convicts in the bull pen escaping and looting dining room kitchen and rations. Warden called fire department and militia Captain Mackman led guards to shoot resistors as Peter Matool was wounded in an attempted recon. Militia formed squads and recaptured 62 inmates, returning them to cells.
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Jackson
Mich
Simpson
Mit
Fire Department
Mackman
Company L. M. N
Walla
Peter Matool
Promty
Ike
Cure
Iowa Progressives Nominate Judge Stevens for Governor
Des Moines dispatch reports Iowa Progressives in convention nominate Judge John L. Stevens of Boone for governor by acclamation after Roosevelt arrival. The ticket includes FE G Alfison, C F Meyers, N F Baker, Ira Nichols, H A Morey, with congressional candidates chosen by caucuses. The platform endorses the national convention.
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John L. Stevens
Des Moines
John J. Stevens
Boone
Iowa
Judge Stevens
Roosevelt
FE. G. Alfison
Oneida
C. F. Meyers
Elkader
N. F. Baker
U Neas
Ira Nichols
Iowa Falla
H. A. Morey
Waverly
Astricta
BHOOTS A "BLACK HANDER" Duel On Rockefeller Estate
Joseph Drago, a Powantlea Hills workman on John Rockefeller's estate, faced a pistol duel with a "Black Hand" agent in Fountain Square Tarrytown. The blackmailer fled after Drago, defending his wife who runs a fruit store, produced a revolver. The exchange began when the agent demanded $500, and the assailant questioned Drago's Rockefeller employment before shooting.
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Rockefeller
Tarrytown
Joseph Drago
John Rockefeller
Powantlea Hills
Fountain Square
Drago
Dla Frult
Atin
Blast Kills One Injures Six at Chicago Dye House
A dye house explosion at Kraus Brothers and Loewy in West Twenty fourth Place Chicago kills one man and injures six others while causing damage to about a dozen nearby buildings. The blast shattered the two story building as workers, about thirty girls and twelve men, labored inside.
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Chicago
Kraus Brothers & Loewy Company
West Twenty-fourth Place
Morse Back to Life Work After Pardon and Return
Charles W. Morse, once a banker, was pardoned by President Taft and sent to Atlanta. He returned to New York at 49 Exchange Place with his son Harry to run the Live Securities Company, capitalized at over 1 million dollars, and declared he would resume his life work.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Atlanta
Taft
Exchange Place
Illness of Mrs John R McLean in Bar Harbor
Mrs John R McLean of Newport Rhode Island is reported very ill with pneumonia at Bar Harbor. Her son Edward B McLean and daughter in law were notified Wednesday and are visiting Bar Harbor.
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John R. Mclean
Newport
R. L
Bar Harbor
Edward B. Mclean
Auto Faxes Bring State Million
Albany report estimates New York state revenue from automobile and chauffeur taxes at more than one million dollars this year.
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Albany
N. Y
State of New York
U S A Cautions Mexico Over Zapata Clash Triggering Bias
The report says inflammatory Mexican papers incite bitter feeling toward Americans after U.S. marines land in Nicaragua. It notes El Paso and Multi Color claim American support of Zapata and Orozco, stirring peon classes. Refugees flee toward the United States as clashes flare from Cananea to Ojinaga.
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Mexico City
Nicaragua
Multi Color
el Paladin
Weeklire
el Pals
el Paso
Standard Ol
Zapata
Mextcn
Milt Color
Biater Republic
Mexico
Ding
United States
Tan Freds
Tex
Fort Clark
Presidio
Ojinaga
Rebnia
Chihuahua
Cananea
Ratieveht
British Association Opens 82d Congress at Dundee
The British Association opened its 82d congress in Dundee Scotland with the largest roster of scientists ever listed. Attendees included leaders across biology mathematics physics chemistry geology zoology geography economics anthropology and agriculture. Prof E A Schafer of Edinburgh president of the physiology section spoke on the origin of life.
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British Association
Dundee
Scotland
E. A. Schafer
Edinburgh
Four Dead In Rail Wreck At Camp Douglas
Four people were killed when passenger train No. 10 of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway plunged into the Lemon River near Camp Douglas Wisconsin after a bridge gave way in a cloudburst. Every car rolled into the torrent with passengers still aboard as the wreck occurred following a previous safe crossing of the bridge.
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Camp Douglas
Wia
Chicago, St Paul
Minneapole & Omaha
Lemonweller
Thousand Killed in Battle Near Tonaufu
Gov Chao Erh Houn telegraphs that Geo Chang Cho Lin attacked Mongolian forces near Tonaufu, defeating them after a twelve hour engagement. Mongolians suffered about 1000 killed and 700 captured. Chinese seized Hive guons and substantial ammunition.
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Peking
China
Chao Erh Houn
Manchuria
Geo. Chang Cho Lin
Tonaufu
Fifty Die In Western Storm Floods In U S Regions
Fifty persons are known dead after floods swept valleys in western Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia with millions in property loss. towns hit include Washington Beaver Burgettstown Canonsburg and Cherry Valley with victims in Hollidays Cove Colliers and Durgettstown. Rail service between Steubenville Wheeling and Pittsburgh disrupted. repairs to Pan Handle line may take a week.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Washington
Beaver
Burgettstown
Canonsburg
Chartlers
Cherry
Colliers
Hollidays Cove
Cherry Valley
Durgettstown
Steubenville
Wheeling
Pittsburgh
T Io
Taft Welcomes Chemists At Eighth International Congress
President Taft and Mrs. Taft welcomed about six hundred foreign delegates and nearly a thousand American chemists to Washington for the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry. The event emphasizes manufacturing chemistry progress while business meetings occur elsewhere in the week.
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Washington
Taft
William H. Nichols
International Congress
Columbia University
New York
Periled 1 500 Feet In Air
Pittsburg crowd watches Earl Sandt, Curtiss aviator, battle a thunderstorm 1 500 feet above the Ohio river at Hru nets Island Aviation Field. Rain lashes, wind rips, machine hides in a black cloud as a lightning flash tests the flyer for about fifteen minutes before a safe landing.
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Pittsburg
Hrunet
Sandt
Oregon Governor Pins Blame on Officers in Mutiny
Governor Oswald West absolves the enlisted soldiers of insubordination during joint maneuvers near Gate Washington and recommends the battalion officers be discharged after they refused to march back from Oakville to Gate. West planned to walk the route but dropped the plan.
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Oregon
Salem
Ore
Oregon National Guardsmen
Gate
Wash
Oswald Weat
Oakville
West
MISHAP TO CULEBRA CUT Two More Great Glides Reported
Dispatches from Colon describe two additional slides at the Culebra cut as twelve million cubic yards of earth collapse into the work area. The canal commission has forbidden use of the Y M C A building during the ongoing disruption.
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New Orleans
Colon
Culebra
Canal Commission
Man Denies Roosevelt Identity for Dedham Title
In Boston on September 6 a man claiming Theodore Roosevelt was a town selectman and that the American flag was green white and blue failed to obtain citizen papers. He asserted Roosevelt’s identity and questioned Dedham’s local governance.
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Roosevelt
Boston
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
Dedham
Cuba Election Riot Fatal in Martel Battle Near Havana
In Martel, thirty miles from Havana, a political clash left one liberal dead, two others fatally injured, and one conservative wounded. The riot occurred Wednesday amid Cuba’s electoral tensions.
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Cuba
Havana
Martel
Martial Law Declared as Paint Creek Strike Violent
Charleston West Virginia sept 6 martial law was declared by Governor Glasecock in the Paint Creek coal field where miners are on strike. The strike has been carried on with much violence.
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Charleston
W. Va
Glasecock
Paint Creek
Fire destroys National elevator in South Chicago
A blaze at the National elevator of the National Malting Company in South Chicago on Tuesday caused about $200,000 damage. After a hard fight the flames were brought under control.
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Chicago
National
National Malting Company
Cleanest City in World Aix Narrows To Prominence
The article extols Aix in southern France as the cleanest city, a famed health resort with two warm springs producing a million gallons daily. It notes its long history dating back centuries, radiative minerals aiding gout and rheumatism, and a distinctive bathing pavilion offering douche and massage. American visitors, including notable financiers, frequent the baths during summer peaks.
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Viguera
United States
Alwes-Baing
Aix
John A. Sletcher
Leake
S. Ajx Ia
France
Alx
The Ragpicker Bird Trumpeter of Guiana
The trumpeter bird is described as the ragpicker of Guiana woods and swamps, always at work devouring snakes frogs scorpions spiders and other creatures. He is tameable on Culana plantations where he guards ducks and turkeys, defends them from enemies, and aids the flock at night. He is noble in appearance, standing tall on yellow gaitered legs, proclaiming himself protector of the flock.
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Guiana
Paul Jones Strategist and Father of the American Navy
The Boston Transcript notes Paul Jones was not only a daring seafarer but a deep thinker on naval strategy and organization. He is deemed the father of the American navy, though life’s end and adverse conditions limited his opportunity to implement his ideas in action. He served with Russia against the Turks, a navy that proved a difficult school for learning from a great instructor.
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Paul Jones
Washington
Boston Transcript
The Wisdom of Johnny
A playful exchange shows Johnny begging to go out for a treat and promising not to ask for food. His mother relents then he notices pie and cake at home and questions the promise with a cheeky remark.
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Johnny
Couldn't Be Possible in Plunkville Over Flies Claim
A visitor taunts Plunkville residents claiming flies would not stay in a town with daily diatribes in the paper. The loyal citizen resists, insisting the scene is unlikely.
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Plunkville
Why I Was Hard
A terse dialogue reveals a man asserting his wealth came from hard work not inheritance. He notes his money was acquired through effort, while acknowledging legal hurdles with an uncle’s estate.
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