Martin charges sugar trust graft reach to Philippines
Colorado congressman John A. Martin, a former Missouri locomotive fireman, asserts a wide graft plot involving the sugar trust, the attorney general, and the bureau of insular affairs. He links the San Jose friar estate sale to an agent of the sugar trust following an opinion by Attorney General George W. Wickersham.
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Missouri
Congress
Colorado
John A. Martin
Leugal Trust
Attorney General
United States
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
Philippine Islands
Martin
Pacific Ocean
San Jose
Sugar Trust
George W. Wickersham
Trust
Taft
Marstin
Controversy Over Philippine Friar Lands Sparks U.S. Inquiry
Colorado congressman John A. Martin leads a push for a Congressional investigation into the sale of Philippine friar lands. He asserts the organic law limits land ownership and accuses officials of evasive explanations. Secretary Dickinson and General Edwards travel to the Philippines to probe, while opposing views from the American Sugar Refining Co. surface.
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Committee On Insular Affairs
House of Representatives
Martin E. Olmsted
Martin
United States
Spain
Philippines
Congress
Philippine Archipelago
Taft
Sam
Congressman Martin
Committee of Inquiry
Archipelago
Uncle Sam
United States Ioto Authority
Islands
Acre
San Jose
Isabella
Calamba
Manila
Luzon
Jose Rizal
Rizal
Dillingham Sugar Interests
Hawaii
Sugar Trust
Whisky Trust Gobbles Marshall Iowa Alcohol Firm
The Grop Bulletin notes a whiskey trust reportedly absorbing a Marshall Iowa alcohol company with local impact. Weather in the past week favored haying and corn growth, with light rainfall mostly in eastern counties and improving crop conditions in northwest regions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Drouth
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Wright Biplane Crash Kills Aviator Rolls
In Bournemouth England on July 12 the Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls son of Lord Llangatock and famed for the Dover to France flight was killed when a Wright biplane buckled near 40 feet aloft overturning in a fatal fall.
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Evening Journal
Bournemouth
Eng
Charles Stewart Rolls
Lord Llangatock
Dover
France
Rock Island Worker Killed in Railway Accident
Peter S trein a tank master at the Rock Island round house in Muscatine Iowa was decapitated when his neck was cut by a train coupler he slipped while coupling after a long shift that included Saturday night and Sunday on duty the inquest heard.
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Muscatine
Peter Strein
Rock Island
Eureka Sunday School Ice Cream Social at Church
The Eureka Sunday school plans an ice cream social at the church on Wednesday evening the 13th to raise funds for the church. Everyone is invited to attend.
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Eureka
Building a Parachute for a Boy's Kite
A simple parachute craft uses two 14 inch tissue papers folded flat and cross creased. Threads act as spokes, a cardboard disk centers the sail, and a weighted knot opens the chute when the kite tail is pulled. Attachments include a wire hook or a hairpin clip for release.
Wolfner Buys National Denatured Alcohol Plant
Marshalltown Iowa July 12 William F Wolfner vice president of the National Cooperage company Peoria has acquired the National Denatured Alcohol plant just completed Wolfner says he will start operations late August and that the deal was an investment The company shows 100000 paid up capital and 20000 more invested with the old firm indicating the price covers invested capital and recent building time
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Marshalltown
William F. Wolfner
National Cooperage Company
Peoria
National Denatured Alcohol Company
Wolfner
Whiskey Trust
Local Judge sentences jockey to six months jail
Federal Judge Smith McPherson in Council Bluffs Iowa on July 12 sentenced Luther West alias Tom Rogers a 2 Maybray jockey to six months in Pottawattamie county jail. He overruled motions to vacate judgment by Bert Shores and Ole Marsh.
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Council Bluffs
Smith McPherson
Luther West
Tom Rogers
Pottawattamie County
Bert Shores
Ole Marsh
Nolle Contendere
Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary
McPherson
Clarence Class
Professors Chapman and Bruce Resign from State Teachers College
Prof E K Chapman who has served two years as assistant in the physical science department and Miss Lillian H Bruce who has led physical education for women at the State Teachers College Cedar Falls resign. Chapman will join Wabash College in Wabash Indiana.
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Cedar Falls
E. K. Chapman
State Teachers’ College
Lillian H. Bruce
Chapman
Wabash College
Wabash
Ind
The Pursuit of Happiness Quote
Henry Drummond argues happiness comes from giving and serving others, not from wealth or being served, challenging the idea that happiness lies in possessions or status. He states half the world errs in seeking joy through what they have and receive rather than what they give.
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Henry Drummond
In the Midst of It Conversational Quotation
A Pittsburg Post excerpt features a novelist reflecting on finding the local atmosphere and a brush with a cyclone. He notes getting mixed up with a cyclone after two days of fooling around.
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Pittsburg
Odd wedding tale sparks lively rumor in romance note
In a short, witty romance aside, the speaker contrasts a curious marriage choice. The quip suggests a twist on love and fidelity, with the sharp line implying a surprising previous union altered by the present affair.
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the Sugar Trust
Robertus Love
Thomas
Attor
Ney General
Wickersham
Clarence R. Edwards
Bureau of Insular Affairs Land
Sugar Trust Head
Washington Jb.thomas
American Sugar Refining Company
New York
Congressiman Martin
American R Refining Company
San Jose Tate
Havemeyer
Olmsted
Moorfield Story
Boston
Dickinson
Edwards
Washington
Tala
Frank W. Carpenter
War Dickinson
Carpenter
Dean C. Worcester
TIE
the Grop Bulletin
Gobble
Whisky Trust
Marshall
Iowa Alcohol Company
Tithee
Bruce
Chicago Treachers College
Wright
Lowan
Leave State Normal School
International _Harvester Company of America
One
Chicago, U. S. A
Rostand
Peary
Pear
Russell
Southern Pacific Railroad
Rheta Childe Dorr
Arthur Stringer
Rupert Hughes
P. G. Wadeshouse
Bruce Farson
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