Submarine Lake Torpedo Boat makes long coastal voyage
The Lake torpedo boat submarine completed a 825 mile trip from Norfolk to Atlantic Highlands New Jersey at over seven knots without incident. It carried eight crew, used gasoline engines with electric auxiliaries, and could dive to 180 feet with a detachable lead keel for buoyancy. It sailed June 25 from Newport News, stopping briefly to view whales near Barnegat on June 27.
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Lake
Norfolk
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
New York Herald
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Atlantic City
G. M. Evans
Jules Verne
Newport News
Cape Henry
Barnegat
Flower Crests Replace Family Badges in News Fashion
A New York Press note describes girls spending money on flower themed stationery. Miss Mathilde Townsend favors violets while Miss Harriet Wadsworth uses moss rosebuds, with various blooms like pansies and heliotrope appearing in the trend. The piece portrays the fad as democratic and American, a move away from aristocratic crests.
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New York Press
Mathilde Townsend
Harriet Wadsworth
Banana City Nevada Missouri Gains Fame for Flowers and Fruit
Missouri's Banana City in Nevada gains fame for its mild climate that supports temperate and tropical plants, with bananas grown outdoors. The Kansas City Journal notes Nevada is the only Missouri city where bananas are cultivated in the open air.
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Missouri
Banana City
Nevada
Kansas City Journal
Passenger Williams Hoek Vanishes From Ship At Sea
The Hamburg American Line steamer Pennsylvania reports missing passenger William Hoek of Newark New Jersey after he vanished mid ocean on Wednesday morning. He was last seen on the Promenade deck around 4 a.m. after a night of card play and letters. Despite extensive searches, no trace of Hoek or his belongings was found.
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New York
Hamburg American Line
Pennsylvania
William Hoek
Newark
N.ed
Hock
Psitor
Peoria Teacher Dies After Dementia Spell
Miss Mary Murphy, a Peoria public school teacher, suffered a sudden dementia episode before wandering to railroad yards and throwing herself under a switch engine in the Peoria and Pekin Union yards. Her head was severed and body mangled. No cause given beyond poor health.
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Peoria
Mary Murphy
Peking Union
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana and surrounding states
Official forecast up to 8 pm. Illinois and lower pair show little change in temperature with light to fresh east winds. Indiana and near pair show northeast winds. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin expect fair conditions with variable winds mainly northeast to fresh.
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Ilinois
Fowe
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin Fair
Chicago Board of Trade market quotes and livestock prices
July 6 market notes from Chicago and East Buffalo show wheat and corn quotes with highs, lows, and closes. Hogs, cattle, and sheep receive price ranges and receipts. East Buffalo reports slower cattle and higher calves with mixed hog demand and strong yearling lambs.
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East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Best
Local residents visit city amid a day of town exchanges
Several residents from Ainsworth Wayland Wellman Crawfordsville and nearby towns visited the city today including Will Beard Peter Widmer Vernon Sigler and Mrs Hull and daughter Nellie. Others came from Chicago Colorado and Michigan to spend time with friends and attend events.
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Will Beard
Ainsworth
Peter Widmer
Wayland
Vernon Sigler
Wellman
Washington Friends Today
Dr. Hull
Nelie
Crawfordsville
Hull
T. Y. Wickham
Alosworth
BR. T. Wickham
Virginia Walker
Chicago
Thank you to Martha Washington camp for life insurance
C W Jackson thanks Martha Washington camp 1315 Royal Neighbors of America for promptly paying $2,000 on his wife’s life insurance after her death on April 29. Payment was made July 2.
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C. W. Jackson
Martha Washington
America
Electric Bitters Proves Remedy in Dyspepsia Cases
S A Brown of Bennettsville South Carolina reports Electric Bitters restored his wife to health after years of digestive and liver troubles. The ad claims the tonic cures chills fever malaria biliousness lame back and bladder disorders and notes sale through Privento.
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India
S. A. Brown
Bennettsville
S. C
Priventoe
Lost stock and water notice from Wellman Iowa
Strayed. A pair of mules five and nine years old a day mare five years old brand on left hip heavy in foal and one blind pony left my place Saturday evening report to me Shruce Gardner Wellman Iowa 119 31 Notice Water Consumers Water rents are now due and can be paid at the Washington County Savings bank please call and pay
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Shruce Gardner
Wellman
Iowa
Washington County Savings Bank
Annual Meeting Notice for Baptist Young People's Union
Iowa Central sells round trip tickets July 10 11 12 13 at one fare plus 2.00 except from low one way routes 1.33 fare. Return loading from Omaha July 14 extended to August 15 1906 for 60 cents. Details via agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn July 10.
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Omaha
Nebr
Iowa Central
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
Free Lands Homestead Opening in Wyoming July 1906
Government opens about 1 150 000 acres for homesteading with 300 000 to 400 000 acres of prime irrigable farmland. Registration runs July 16 to 31 1906 at designated points. Burlington Route offers low round trip tickets July 12 to 29 via Worland Wyoming for access to the Big Horn Basin irrigation lands. Free folder available from J B Kunath agent C B Q Ry.
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Sam
Burlington
Worland
Wyo
Big Horn Basin
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State Bank of Iowa
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Tore In Beate
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Osteopath
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Ormos
W. M. Terry
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DR. D. Arthaud
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J. J. Kellogg
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Washington, Ia
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Shington
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Cunningham
Ben Kurtz
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Harry Moore
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Yellman
W. EE. Kerr
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Tet White
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Frank Maxwell
Alice Hobart
Br. J. Stewart
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Jessie
Chas
Chance
Tom Davis
Fairfield
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Crone
Muscatine County Institute
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