Shonts First Job on an Iowa Farm for 50 Cents a Day
Theodore P. Shonts later chosen by President Roosevelt to oversee the Panama Canal project once worked as a youth on A J Campbell’s Centerville area farm in Iowa earning 50 cents a day plus board. Campbell, a retired farmer living in Lincoln Nebraska, recalls Shonts as a bright, sturdy boy who helped plant an Osage orange hedge and worked through harvest seasons to pay his own way.
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Roosevelt proclaims Lassen Peak forest reserve in California
President Roosevelt designates a new Lassen Peak forest reserve in the northern Sierra Nevada covering about 100000 acres. Nearly 84 percent of the area is forest with over three and a quarter billion feet of merchantable timber mainly yellow and sugar pine and red and white fir. Elevation ranges from 8000 to 10400 feet and current grazing by 125000 sheep and 10000 cattle will continue.
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Bicycle Tour Aims for All States Record Ride
C. C. Murphy aged 21 and N. Darling aged 20, both of Jackson Michigan, arrived in Stamford Connecticut on bicycles. They are on a wager to ride through every state in the Union and return to Michigan in eighteen months.
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Three nations as future world peace allies
The London Spectator argues Britain America and Germany should form a natural alliance not just on paper but in fact, predicting such a bloc would rival a European federation in securing world peace.
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Roosevelt Asked to Settle Equitable Life Trouble
Humorous verse from Harper's Weekly urges taking domestic disputes to Washington and to Teddy Roosevelt. It parodies the president’s role in resolving public and private frictions, including insurance troubles and spousal quarrels, through federal mediation.
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Moderate improvement in trade noted by Dun review
New York June 17 R G Dun Co Weekly Review of Trade reports moderate improvement in commercial conditions with conservative progress. Retail sales rise on light-weight wear, fall and winter orders rise, pigments and textile manufacturing improve, steel mills busy, and failures show 220 in the United States and 25 in Canada versus prior year.
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Longy Sunday School Association elects officers
Ottumwa Iowa June 17 officers elected at the fortieth annual convention include President A F N Hambleton OsKaloosa first vice president J A Lapham Osage second vice president N G Mawn Chariton recording secretary W T Clemmer Council Bluffs general secretary B F F Mitchell Des Moines next year convention to be held in Council Bluffs banner counties awarded gavels Cerro Gordo Crawford Hardin Jefferson Linn Monona Wright
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Council Bluffs
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Des Moines
Susan Atwater Gillette Dies in Kenosha Widow of Judge Gillette
Susan Atwater Gillette widow of Judge Gordon Gillette and an original daughter of the Revolution died at her Kenosha home at age 5 due to old age. She was a daughter of John Atwater an aide to General Washington who served as a bearer of dispatches between Washington and Lafayette. She recently received a medal of honor from state and national chapters.
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General Bates Leaves St. Louis for Washington Command
Major General John C. Bates, in charge of the northern division in St. Louis for seventeen months, has departed for Washington to become the senior member of the general staff with headquarters there.
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Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana and nearby states
The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms across Illinois Indiana and neighboring areas with cooler temperatures. Winds shift from southerly to variable, and nearby regions in Michigan Wisconsin and Town experience similar showers storm chances with cooler conditions and fresh variable or southeast winds.
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Chicago Markets and Grain Prices Across Commodities
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show wheat at July and Sept. levels, corn and oats trading in midrange, and pork lard and ribs listed with daily highs lows and closes. Livestock quotes report hogs cattle and sheep prices with receipts and range figures from Dunning Stevens and east Buffalo firms.
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