Senate Still On Cotton Schedule Warms Chamber
Washington June 6 through three sessions the senate toiled on the cotton schedule. LaFollette finished a long speech attacking Dingley rate changes and answered Penrose about illness shamming. Aldrich defended the finance committee amendments as necessary to carry out the Ding ley law while the chamber sweltered.
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Washington
Senate
LaFollette
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Engineers likely oppose deepening Mississippi channel
A report from the board of army engineers is expected to urge Congress to reject deepening the Mississippi River channel as part of the lakes to gulf Waterways project. The report taps a severe blow to the proposed scheme and signals unfavorable action.
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Waterways
Washington
Board of Army Engineers
Congress
Mississippi Channel
Thaw's Plea Denied Need to Stay in Matteawan Insane Asylum
Harry K Thaw must remain in Matteawan State Hospital for the criminal insane after the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn denied his habeas corpus challenge. He argued Justice Dowling's order committing him after a not guilty verdict for the Stanford White murder was illegal.
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Matteawan
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Thaw
Judge voids Oklahoma revocation of railway charter
Federal Judge Cotteral declared void the state secretary of state's order revoking the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway charter. The action had canceled the charter for noncompliance with state laws after the railway was domiciled in a different state, violating a recent legislative rule.
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Guthrie
Okla
Secretary of State of
Oklahoma
St. Louis
Lutheran General Synod reviews home missions report
In Richmond Indiana on June 5 the general Lutheran synod heard the twentieth biennial report of the board of home missions. It lists 220 missions enrolled 264 missionaries commissioned 36 new congregations organized 50 new churches built or bought about 10000 additions to membership and contributions exceeding 500000 dollars for the two years.
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Richmond
Ind
General Lutheran Synod
Board of Home Missions
Sherman Begins Defense in Miss Parish Case
Mason City on June 5. Defense moves to remove Sheriff Holdren during trial and substitute Coroner Smith, arguing sheriff is officious. Court rejects the motion, cites new law requiring greater sheriff activity. State rests. Defense seeks to impeach the girl’s character and witnesses.
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Mason City
Holdren
Sherman
Laura Parish
Smith
Travel Talk by Lola Waite at Methodist Church Event
Miss Lola Waite of Burlington spoke on Southern Italy at a Junior Queen Esther circle program at the M E church. The evening featured piano solos by Opal Rickey and a duet with Mabel Hrinton, with Edie Bovee closing the musical interlude.
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Methodist Church
Lola Waite
Burlington
Italy
Queen Esther
M. E. Church
Opal Rickey
Mabel Hrinton
A. S. Smith
Miss Waite
Europe
Naples
Bay of
Rome
Ex Mayor Burton Dies After Cancer Battle
Sioux City mourns Asah Burton a former mayor for two years and city attorney for four. A 48 year old graduate of the state university law department he spent his youth in Denmark Iowa and began practice at Elliott before moving to Sioux City in 1886.
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Sioux City
Asah Burton
Burton
Law Department
The
State University
Denmark
Elliott
Gould suit likely delayed awaiting Moran witness
New York June 5 The likelihood of further delay in Mrs Clemmons Goulds separation suit from Howard Gould grew after Supreme Court Justice Gildersleeve named Junius T Auerbach of Boston as commissioner to examine Dr Martin T Moran of Boston for Mrs Gould. Examination of Moran might take Monday and Tuesday, delaying trial until next Wednesday.
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New York
Clemmons-Gould
Howard Gould
Supreme Court
Gildersleeve
Junius T. Auerbach
Boston
Martin T. Moran
Self Cure Fox He Insane Voluntary Patients Best Chance
Atlantic City June 5 Dr Albert Warren Ferris president of the New York state lunacy commission told the sixty fifth annual convention of the American Medico Psychological association that voluntary patients who enter insane hospitals while on the border of insanity do the most to rationalize public attitudes toward brain diseases. He said each patient brought back to sanity in a few months saves thousands of dollars to the state.
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New York
Atlantic City
Albert Warren Ferris
New York State
Lunacy Commission
American Medico-Psychological Association
Apples Vanish from Mrs Morse Household Pantry
Bridget the longtime cook narrates a moral vignette about missing four red apples that vanished after a man brought them. Mrs Morse questions the loss while Bridget hints they were likely placed atop her hot gingerbread loaf, fearing the boy’s stomach strain.
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Bridget
Morse
Youth
Her Little Problem
Perrine Lambert narrates a domestic scene where a bride frets after her honeymoon seeking solitude to ponder which of her former beaus she will marry once her current husband departs. A tender exchange with Jack reveals the bride’s dilemma and emotional distress.
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Jack
Perrine Lambert
Iron Age steamer destroyed by fire off Bar Point
The lake steamer Iron Age of Huron Ohio burned to the water’s edge off Bar Point in Lake Erie. Captain William J. Wiloughby and his nine crew escaped in small boats.
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Burns
Detroit
Iron Age of Huron
Bar Point
Lake Erie
William J. Wiloughby
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Foley
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Fox
Nelipoe
Iowa Gas & Electric’co
CoLtor
Surrey
Wooley Bros
Iowa
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J.J. McKeone
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Harmon
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