New York Carnival to showcase nations in citywide display
New York plans a three month summer carnival from June through September featuring a citywide exhibition of state and national displays across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Floats, parks, and illuminated night pages will stage parades and pageants while New Orleans style floats travel here for the grand showcase. George W. Sweeney lists travel Donts for hotel guests including budgeting, luggage, and etiquette to smooth visitors' stays.
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New York
New Orleans
Portland
Seattle
St. Louis
Kansas City
Podunk
America
United States
Gaynor
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
California
George W. Sweeney
Hotel
Victoria
O. K
N. G
Suffragists use film to push ballots in a tenement drama
The National Woman's Suffrage Association releases a nationwide film to explain why women deserve the vote. Dr Anna Howard Shaw and Jane Addams star in scenes showing a tenement, a bereaved father, and a senator who ignores sanitary pleas until his fiancée falls ill, prompting conversion.
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National Woman's Suffrage Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Lightning a treacherous force with humorous excess
The piece humorously chronicles lightning as a dangerous yet ridiculous force. It recalls Franklin’s kite experiment in a mock solemn tone, jokes about lightning rods and insurance, and lampoons reactions to thunder and sheet and chain lightning with playful exaggeration.
Suffrage Parade Captures City Film Audience
The piece portrays a reforming statesman joining the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and tidying his tenement. Miss Addams and Dr. Shaw greet him in a regenerated flat as a suffrage parade, photographed during New York's recent great demonstration.
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Men’s League For Women's Suffrage
Miss Addams
Dr. Shaw
Statesman
New York
Lawsuit Over Breach of Promise Involving Poems and Wedding Gifts
Mrs. Charlotte Law sues Samuel Meyers of Rockaway Beach for 30000 alleging broken engagement after a decade of proposals. Exhibits include a poem quoted as Exhibit A, an uncut wedding cake as Exhibit B, a canary and a jet bridal gown as Exhibits C and D, with Meyers having married another woman.
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Lott
Charlotte F. Law
Brooklyn
Samuel R. Myers
Rockaway Beach
Companies Operating From Just Across The Line The Cause
State Auditor John L Bleakly said in Cedar Rapids that Iowa loses about 200000 yearly in insurance tax as firms base operations just over the line to evade Iowa laws. He praised the Blanchard law for fire agents but warned of objectionable points and urged permits and exams for agents. State Fire Marshal Ole O Roe noted many old shacks in towns pose fire risks, with blazes often starting there.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
John L. Bleakly
Des Moines
Iowa Association of Local Fire Association
Bleakly
Ole O. Roe
Gruesome skull found on Keokuk area farm
William Brown reports a human skull and several small bones found in a ravine on the B F Jones farm two miles west of Keokuk. Bones bleached by years lie near an old thorn tree. officials say a buried or missing body may be involved and no trace has been found.
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Keokuk
William Brown
B. F. Jones
Crimmins
Crimmings
Eleven Iowa Cities to Hold Exams for Philippine Positions
Muscatine June 29 Eleven Iowa cities Ames Burlington Council Bluffs Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Ft Dodge Iowa City Mason City Sioux City and Waterloo will hold civil service examinations for educational positions in the Philippine Islands on August 28 and 29. Graduates from colleges normal schools polytechnic and agricultural schools are sought. Male appointees' entrance salary ranges from 1200 a year with expenses to the islands and potential promotion up to 2000 as teacher and 3000 as superintendent.
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Waterloo
Supt. Cronin
of College, Normal Schools
Polytechnic and Agricultural Schools
Islands
Cheaper License To Peddling Sparks Statewide Debate
Iowa City June 29 The Iowa supreme court ruled Joseph Glassman local grocery peddler cannot be charged prohibitive license fees. The decision may force municipalities statewide to moderate peddler licenses and curb heavy charges that drove Glassman to shift to peddling.
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Iowa City
Iowa Supreme Court
Joseph Glassman
Glassman
District Court
Supreme Court
Disappearance of Lone Rock Boy Ends Hopeful Search
Ft. Dodge Iowa June 29 Mr and Mrs Hugh Marlow of Lone Rock have given up hope of finding their 2 year old son who vanished two months ago. Neighbors speculate either a speeding driver hid the body or the child wandered off and was swallowed by quicksand as a wide search stretched through the north area.
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Ft. Dodge
Hugh Marlow
Lone Rock
Horses Buried in Sand Near Burlington
A lad named Mosena driving a Kraestner team had his horses buried to their necks when a sand bank near the Ende brewery collapsed as he rested during lunch. Men dug them out. one horse has severe internal injuries and may not survive. Dr. Scott the veterinarian attended the scene.
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Burlington
Mosena
Joseph Kraestner
Sunnyside Avenue
Ende
Murry Iron Works
Scott
Big Gifts For Iowa Wesleyan Endowment Drive
Mt. Pleasant June 29 President Edwin A Schell returned from Iowa conference tour reporting donations totaling 2450 from Havner Peterson Peters on the seventieth year endowment plus gifts from Miss Clara M Phillips and J E Peterson. Schell says 15500 more is needed to reach 100000 by July 1 as trustees Havner Peterson make substantial contributions.
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Mt. Pleasant
Edwin A. Schell
Marengo
West Liberty
Iowa
H. M. Havner
R. G. Popham
J. E. Peterson
New London
Clara M. Phillips
Centerville
Schell
Messrs
Havner
Peterson
Miss Phillips
Madison boy run over by grader in fatal accident
In Ft Madison on June 29 a student named Aloysius was struck by a grader. The incident occurred during school grounds work and the child died from injuries sustained in the mishap. Local authorities investigated the accident.
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Madison
Ft. Madison
Aloysius
Young Sallen Boy Almost Dies In Grader Incident
The fourteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Frank Sallen narrowly escaped death when the road grader he was helping his father operate ran over his legs after he jumped from the moving engine. Doctors say one leg is fractured with torn cords and vessels and other bruises. The Sallen family had suffered multiple injuries that month including a fractured arm and a broken collar bone.
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Frank Sallen
Frank Salen, Jr
Sallen
Catherine Sallen
Navigation to Cease on Upper Mississippi River July 1
Davenport June 29 navigation on the upper Mississippi would practically stop July 1 unless Congress provides funds to operate the government bridge its draw lighthouses and signal stations along the river The needed funds were included in the army appropriation bill vetoed by the president.
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Davenport
Mississippi River
Congress
Government Bridge
Haugen Daughter Weds In Northwood Home Ceremony
Miss Norma Caroline Haugen, daughter of Congress man Gilbert H. Haugen, married James Orrin Elmer Johnson, assistant cashier of First National Bank Northwood, at her father’s house in Des Moines. The couple left for Chicago and a southern honeymoon after an 11:30 p.m. reception. the groom bore a $10,000 wedding gift from his father.
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Des Moines
Norma Caroline Haugen
Gilbert H. Haugen
Northwood
James Orrin Elmer Johnson
First National Bank of
Chicago
Southland
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