Modjeska Passes Away at Bay City Island Home
Mme Helena Modjeska renowned Polish tragedienne and star of the American stage died at her island Bay City home after about two months illness. Brights disease with heart trouble was the immediate cause. Present were Count Bozanta her husband Ralph Modjeska and his Chicago based son and daughter in law and Dr J C Boyd the family physician.
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Los Angeles
Mme
Helena Modjeska
Bay City
Bright
Count Bozanta
Mme. Modjeska
Ralph Modjeska
Chicago
J. C. Boyd
President Stickney to Retire
Rt. Paul announces plans for retirement in April and discusses implications for leadership and future direction.
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Stickney
Rt. Paul
Plans for Chicago Great Western Reorganization Tentative
President A B Stickney said the plans for reorganizing the Chicago Great Western railroad are tentative and liable to change many times. He indicated he plans to retire from active railroad work after the next annual meeting. Dickinson Liabilities Grow as broker failure tightens funds beyond initial 390000 estimate.
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Chicago Great Western Railroad
A. B. Stickney
The
Road
Grocer’s Clerk Fatally Shoots Lover Then Wounds Self
In St Paul on April 9 Henry Knipe a grocers clerk fatally shot Miss Alice Thompson after a lover's quarrel and then wounded himself with two gunshot wounds causing almost instant death.
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Sweetheart
Self
St. Paul
Henry Knipe
Alice Thompson
House Hears Noon Adjournment and Pardons Proposal
Des Moines dispatch notes the Iowa house will adjourn at noon with clocks stopped as 30 bills remain and high jinks expected after final passage. Gov Morrison? pardons Uxoricide convict May Pardon for Byers office funded. senate passes tax exemption for bonds. Senate to confirm F F Jones for board of control. Byers office budget boosted by 2000 annually over prior two years amid GOP protests.
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Des Moines
White
Feely
Uxorcide
C. H. Woodward
Decatur County
Fort Madison
Carro
Senate
House
Representative Holmes
Lee
Harding
McDonald
Koontz
Moore
Linn
Sullivan
Hammill
Seeley
Iowa
Jones
F. F. Jones
Villisca
State Board of Control
State Educational Board
Byers
Gillilland
W. S. Furnas Dies. Acme Insurance Founder
W. S. Furnas, president and founder of Acme Insurance, died after months of illness in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The company headquarters were moved from Lisbon recently. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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W. S. Furnas
Cedar Rapids
Acme Insurance Company
Lisbon
Trial Testimony Shocks in Clayton Murder Case
Al Sheeler testified that Red Clayton shot Mel Powers after a quarrel outside a saloon on June 29, 1908, contradicting the defense claim of an accidental discharge. Sheeler’s cross examination revealed tension between the men and he briefly broke down on the stand.
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Sioux City
al Sheeler
Red Clayton
Mel Powers
Sheeler
Clayton
Powers
War Over Mail Orders In Burlington Illinois Exhibit Clash
Burlington merchants resist an eastern mail order firm now holding a free product show in town. They rented a large hall in the same building and display home made goods to counter the outsider exhibit, promising an engaging confrontation.
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Burlington
Elephant Kills Attendant in Des Moines Park Exhibit
In Des Moines the Yan kee Robinson circus elephant Tom slain keeper Charles Bartlow after long absence of his handler. The enraged animal raged through nearly the park, fought forty men, and was captured after hours amid damage to wagons, barns, and a bridge. Bartlow died from crushed ribs and a broken neck following his attack near the east park barns.
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Des Moines
Tom
Yankee Robinson Circus
Charles Bartlow
Ingersoll Park
Park Lake
Bartlow
Queen
Jaore
Saloons Enjoined in Scott County
Permanent decrees of injunction were issued against thirteen Scott county saloons in Davenport Iowa on April 9. The actions, all within incorporated cities, close the properties in prohibition territory. The Civic Federation acted as prosecuting witness in all cases.
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Scott County
Davenport
Civic Federation
Waterloo Banker George Humphreys Dies at 30
George Humphreys assistant cashier at the Waterloo Central bank died from pneumonia at age thirty. He had moved to Waterloo a month ago from Thornton Iowa where he ran a general store.
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Waterloo
George Humphreys
Waterloo Central Bank
Thornton
Boy slain by playmate in Kansas wolf tale confess
Willie Hotchkiss, ten, was reported killed by wolves near Harper Kansas. George Nichols, also ten, confessed to accidentally shooting Hotchkiss and said he invented the wolf story to avoid telling the truth.
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Harper
Kan
Willie Hotchkiss
Here
George Nichols
Young Nichols
Hotchkiss
Remarkable recovery from actinomycosis in Dickson Neb
John McGowan of Dickson Nebraska has spent five months in a Sioux City hospital battling actinomycosis or lumpy jaw. Despite facial paralysis on one side, surgeons expect ultimate recovery. The note also contains an 1886 affidavit about Hall's Catarrh Cure and a Toledo drug firm.
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Dickson
Neb
John McGowan
Sioux City
McGowan
State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Seven Die in Windber Coal Mine Explosion
In Mine No. 37 of the Berwin White Coal Mining company near Windber Pennsylvania seven men were killed by dynamite blasts. The incident occurred on April 10 in Johnstown. Local authorities investigate causes and company responses.
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Johnstown
Berwin-White Coal Mining Company
Windber
Faces in the Heat and One Cool Smile
The piece describes the hot dusty atmosphere and the weary expressions of people on a summer day. It contrasts grouchy faces and sweaty discomfort with a single woman’s placid smile and a cheerful man, noting how mental heat compounds physical heat and urging readers to smile and stay cool.
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Mike
Perry Davis Painkiller Promoted for Widespread Use
Advertisement touts Perry Davis Painkiller for sprains strains colds and cramps with a new 35c size and 50c bottle. It urges readers to keep a bottle at home for emergencies and to request the remedy from druggists.
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Perry Davis
Random shot and local feuds in a Colfax verse
A Colfax Clipper poem recalls careless acts and petty neighborly disputes. An arrow wounds a calf for six dollars and a half, poison harms cats costing a dollar twenty, a balloon encounter ends in legal risk, and the moral warns jokes can wound and end badly.
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Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Modjeska
Cal
Dickinson
John Dickinson & Co
Dr. Pierce
Washington
Wolff's
J. B. Crow & Sons
Maxwell Johnson
Tampa
Fla
Cardui
Cardus
Connor
Board of Control
Assembly
Beast
Edwin A. Nye
J. H. Vaaxge Co
Fort Madison, Iowa
Just
Frey
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