Nixon Waterman at the Graham Lecture
The Graham lecture by Nixon Waterman drew a large audience despite cold weather. Waterman, a famed American poet, read his humorous verses and noted his difficulty recalling his own poems. Eva Livingston introduced him and announced ex Senator Frank J. Cannon will discuss the Mormon question next.
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Nineteenth Century Club
Graham Theatre
Nixon Waterman
Mr. Waterman
Waterman
Eva Livingston
Frank J. Cannon
Utah
Teachers College to Erect Hospital
Cedar Falls Iowa January 13 Plans and specifications are adopted for a $5000 emergency hospital at the State Teachers' college to care for contagious diseases and protect students. Previously such cases were handled by the county. The typhoid fever outbreak of November 1911 lasted under a week and precautions have been taken to prevent a repetition with improved water system measures.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
State Teachers’ College
Record Cold Hits Rail Service With Broken Rails
Last night Sherman Bros drug store thermometer dropped to 10.5 degrees below zero, rising to eight above by noon. Railroads run hours late. sections report broken rails and block signal failures. Burlington limits to 25 mph. Rock Island warns engineers of liability. Engine stalls freeze up wheels. statewide snow delays persist. No. 2 from California cancelled. Coal is scarce.
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Sherman Bros
Burlington Road
Rock Island
California
Petition to Attorney General Cosson on Winfield assault case
Rev D L McBride and E B Siberts of Winfield traveled to Des Moines with a petition signed by 628 residents seeking help to locate and arrest the assailants of Miss Lucy Bowman on December 18 1911. The effort aims to reach about one thousand signatures from nearby towns. Eu gene Bowman accompanied the party. The petition asks the attorney general to aid in finding and arresting the perpetrators.
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D. L. McBride
E. B. Siberts
Winfield
Washington
Des Moines
Cosson
Lucy Bowman
Mt. Union
Packwood
Crawfordsville
Wayland
Olds
Attorney General's Office
Gen'l
Eugene Bowman
Messrs. McBride and
Liberti
C. C. Cosson
State of Iowa
Iowa
Veterinary Board Actions From Des Moines Meet
Dr. Thomas Downing returned home from Des Moines where he attended the January meeting of the state board of animal health and met with the state board of veterinary examiners. A small class of veterinarians seeking licenses was examined by the board. The ruling requires hogs exhibited at the Iowa state fair to be cholera immune at least thirty days before opening. The board meets twice yearly in January and duly. Iowa holds one seventh of the nation’s hogs, with cholera outbreaks noted in Illinois last year.
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Thomas Downing
Des Moines
State Board of Animal Health
State Board of Veterinary Examiners
J. J. Gibson
G. W. Blanch
Belle Plaine
Downing
Board of
Animal Health
Gibson
Pownine
Bianch
Charles Saunderson
Mann
Board of Animal Health
United States
Illinois
Winfield Women Seek Aid From Attorney General
In Winfield Iowa on January 13 detectives sheriff and county attorney visit the Dr Lucy Bowman case with no arrests yet The town women circulate a petition to the Attorney General urging use of his power to find the miscreants who caused Miss Bowman suffering and unsettled the region One thousand signatures secured signaling broad local support.
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Bowman
A Real Countess Lived in Fayette Iowa
Miss Alice Miner McDonald of Fayette Iowa is described as a real countess by birth with bloodlines tracing to Robert Emmett and Ethan Allen. She is set to become an army nurse, a member of the Irish study club, and a friend of Clara Barton.
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Fayette
Robert Emmett
Ethan Allen
New Ross
Miss McDonald
Elisha Miner
Fayette County
Iowa
Clara Barton
National Red Cross
Miss Barton
Red Cross
Kennedy
Oelwein
Meeting to organize Men and Religion Forward Movement
At Second United Presbyterian church in Washington a Monday night meeting aims to perfect the local Men and Religion Forward Movement organization and plan work. Officers may be elected, a permanent group formed, and proposals to hire a youth worker and hold regional conventions discussed.
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Second United Presbyterian Church
Men and Religion
Washington
Conservation Committee
Draft Horses In Demand Boosts Iowa Farm Profits
Iowa farmers can profit from breeding good draft horses as demand rises nationwide. Prices for top draft stock in Iowa run 150 dollars to yield 250 to 375 dollars, netting 100 to 225 dollars per horse. The 1910 census shows first class drafts under 10 percent of about nineteen million horses. Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago was slated to speak on training pure bred and grade drafts at the state college short course, but his address was read by Prof. W. H. Pew due to travel delays.
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Iowa
United States
State Agricultural College
Wayne Dinsmore
Chicago
National
Journal Want Ad Copy Readies Selling Assistance
A fragment from a newspaper want ad notes assistance to sell items for readers. It hints at a service offering help, without detailing terms or contact information. The cut text implies a generic classified function within the paper.
New way to thaw out water pipes
Burlington Gazette describes a portable electric transformer device for thawing frozen water pipes. The system connects to the pipe and supplies heat, melting ice in minutes. It claims effectiveness even for underground sections where other methods fail.
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Burlington Gazette
Northland
Old Jack Frost
Hobble skirts banned and jackets must fit closely
Chicago fashion forecast from the Ladies' Tailors and Dressmakers' Association of America bans hobble skirts for the coming year, requires dresses two and a half yards wide and three quarters wider than hobble, short to three inches from the ground, blue and white colors, whip–card materials, jackets twenty six to twenty eight inches long, empire effects discarded, waistlines at the waist or lower, and collars differing in color from the coat.
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Chicago
Ladies’Tailors and Dressmakers’ Association of America
Five Men To Die At Sing Sing In Mary Hall Murder
Five men Vincenzo Carno Filipo di Marco Lorenzo Calli Sante Zanza and Angelo Giusto face electrocution at Sing Sing after being found guilty of murdering Mary Hall during a November 8 home invasion near Croton Lake. Each sought to shift blame onto others during trial.
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New York
Sing Sing
Mary Hall
Croton Lake
Vincenzo Carno
Filipo di Marco
Lorenzo Calli
Sante Zanza
Angelo Giusto
Hall House
Cedar Falls educator named head of Tennessee state university department
Dr. E. Rall, a Cedar Falls High School and local college graduate, has been chosen to succeed Dr. P. P. Claxton as head of the education department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has led the education chair at the University of Texas in Austin and steps into the Knoxville post after Claxton became national education commissioner.
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Cedar Falls, Ia
ER. E. Rall
Cedar Falls High School
State University
P. P. Claxton
Department of Education
Knoxville, Tenn
Rall
Austin
Texas
Claxton
Stone Woman Called Witch Stoned in Allentown
Meta Immerman a New York seamstress came to Allentown for a barefoot treatment. A crowd branded her a witch, drove her from the Kipps’ home, and stoned her as she was jailed. She spent forty eight hours in custody before release. The Sobers and Kipps display charms and chalk signs to ward off spirits.
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Allentown
Meta Immerman
Immerman
New York
George Kipp
Join Sobers
Sobers
Indigeston
Kipps
Spbere
Mimmerman
Butts Rescuer Struck by Goat During Flood Rescue
William Jacobs a retired butcher from South Haven ventured into floodwaters to save a drowning goat tethered in Glork Park ravine. The goat’s panicked thrashing knocked him into four to five feet of water before he managed to escape and afterward sold the animal.
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South Haven
Mich
William Jacobs
Glork Park
Hunt License Sparks Marriage Mix Up in Quincy
In Quincy Newfoundland's town church the clergyman balked at a license error as Aaron Sigelman and Miss Julia Bernstein prepared to wed. The document allowed hunting deer but not marriage, a detail Sigelman had not noticed when collecting his hunting license.
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Quincy
Aaron Sigelman
Julia Bernstein
Sigelman
Church Ousts Sleepless Pastor in Brooklyn
Memorial Baptist church in Brooklyn accepts the resignation of Rev. Dr. E. B. Shaw after officials deem giving counsel to a young woman in a park at 3 am outside a pastor’s duties. The action ends his tenure as pastor of the congregation.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Memorial Baptist Church
E. B. Shaw
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