Lone Star State Welcomes the President in Ovation
The president’s Texas tour drew cheering crowds from Houston to Austin with Governor Sayers greeting him. He addressed students at Prairie View and spoke briefly in Hempstead Brenham and Elgin while passing through the state’s plains towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayers
Houston
Austin
Prairie View
State Normal School
Hempstead
Brenham
Geddings
House of Representatives
Elgin
Local notices and city visitors mix with Illinois legislative update
The page mixes casual items from Crawfordsville and Iowa City with Illinois politics. Entries name visits to Johnson's bakery and Foley photos, plus Judge salary talks, apportionment bills, and a St. Louis exposition measure. A June 2 prayer event at St James is noted along with business calls in Davenport and Oskaloosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Columbia Pharmacy
Chas. Ross
Crawfordsville
Graham
Harold Hagerich
Iowa City
J. M. Bailey
Biggsville
Ill
Wanted and For Sale Classifieds Snapshot
Real estate and goods ads show rentals and sales around the square. Listings include a Breed home rental via Win Smouse & Co, a house east of Dr Hull, a top buggy with canopy, two Jersey cows, collarette, a lost glove, a found boot, and a house and lot two blocks from the square priced at 1250 with JOURNAL office contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Breed
Win Smouse & Co
Dr. Hull
Journal
Browo
Jersey
R. C. Anderson
Journal Office
Tf House
Tf O. M. Keck
Baseball score roundup from May first games
Chicago reports yesterday’s league results across the majors. Pittsburgh 10 over Chicago 6, Brooklyn 5 over Philadelphia 1, Boston 2 over New York 1. Milwaukee 11 over Chicago 3, Washington 9 over Boston 4, Detroit 8 over Cleveland 6, Philadelphia 9 over Baltimore 4. Western clash Fort Wayne 11 over Grand Rapids 9, Marion 7 over Toledo 2, Indianapolis 5 over Dayton 0, Columbus 8 over Louisville 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
Milwaukee
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
Baltimore
Western Association
Fort Wayne
Grand Rapids
Marion
Toledo
Indianapolis
Dayton
Columbus
Louisville
Horrible River Disaster Drowns Near Katchkarovka
Odessa dispatch from April 26 reports a ferryboat wreck on the Dnieper near Katchkarovka during a sudden storm. Almost a hundred mothers and their babies were drowned while returning from evening milking. only a few on the ferry survived by a boat. Three people clung to a horse that swam ashore. Practically every family in the village was left motherless by the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Odessa
Dnieper
Katchkarovka
Wisconsin carpenters accept wage scale. 100 idle workers remain
In Sheboygan two master carpenters Charles Haack and Charles Bisold sign the union wage scale enabling about twenty men to return to work. About 100 idle. if other contractors persist, strikers stay idle over a wage scale of 24 4 cents an hour. Nearby reports note Annie O Connor suicide. Arbor and Bird day observed in Madison. $10 million plus to be spent on railroad improvements centered at St Paul.
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Avery
South Haven
Mick
Charles R. Parkinson
Deuel & Baker
Robert Crail
J. B
Oskaloosa
R. A. Hutton
Columbus Junction
William
Johnson's
Bertha Walker
Henry M. Eicher
East Main Street
Cedar Rapids
Chas. Olds
Olds
Des Moines
Sheboygan, Wis
Charles Haack
Charles Bisold
London Times S aturday Review buys and stock at Stewart’s
An odd, garbled note lists purchases at Stewart's Book Store and Stewart's Westside Pharmacy. It mentions Pasteur Vaccine Co. vaccines and biological products from French laboratories, with unclear context about availability and publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Saturday Review
Stewart
Pasteur Vaccine Co
Westside
France
Romantic wedding ends with jail arrest and stubborn wife
A LaCrosse man aged 20, married in jail to a snared fiancée, later refused to visit his wife after release. He pleaded guilty to non support and was jailed four months, declaring he would rather serve fifty years than live with her. In Greensburg Indiana a 21 year old man was killed after a dispute with a woman named Davis who refused marriage. Indianapolis arsenal slated for abolition by the War Department dates to 1863 with 76 acres valued around 1 million dollars. 400 thousand of government property stored including 20 000 rifles and 2 500 000 rounds of ammunition.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Louis Skailand
Skailand
Skalland
Greensburg
Ind
John Higgins
Higgins
Davis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Arsenal
War Department
Ohio River
Gould system to take control of Arkansas Midland railroad
Major John J. Horner president of the Arkansas Midland railroad said the line will come under the Gould system within sixty days, likely sooner, after returning from St Louis where the deal was nearly sealed. Scores across major leagues include Cincinnati 16 over St Louis 12, Pittsburg 8 over Chicago 2, and Brooklyn 5 over Philadelphia 4 amid weather delays. Western Association results feature Toledo 7 over Marion 4 and Louisville 14 over Columbus 2.
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Boston
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Chicago
Detroit
Western Association
Marion
Toledo
Indianapolis
Dayton
Columbus
Louisville
Fort Wayne
Grand Rapids
Port Wayne
Conger Formally Welcomed in Des Moines May Four
Minister Conger was formally welcomed at a large Des Moines reception in the Auditorium attended by about three thousand people. Addresses by Judge Josiah Given Dr E B Hutchins John A McCall Governor Shaw and Mayor Hartenhower accompanied Conger’s brief reply recalling the Pekin siege and legation relief. A later capitol reception by the City Federation of Women’s Clubs marked a rare private use of the capitol.
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Tres Moines
Conger
Des Moines
Grand Army
China
Josiah Given
EB. R. Hutchins
John A. McCall
Michigan Legislature Passes Liquor, Road, and Rural School Measures
The Humphrey bill tightens liquor sales in drug stores and bans liquor window displays. Rural high schools and posted hotel room rates pass both houses. A constitutional amendment to fund road improvements is set for voter submission, with a state highway commission and possible convict labor on roads. Railroad tax talks end without agreement. officials in Washington deem quarantine unnecessary amid typhus fears in Mexico City.
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Lansing
Mich
Humphrey
Senate
Washington
Barlow
City of
Mexico
State Department
Austin Receives National Leader Amid Grand Welcome
The day featured a massive Austin reception with over 20 000 visitors as Congress avenue lit up and a parade led by militia and veterans. President McKinley spoke from the capitol portico while belles of Austin greeted him in the senate chamber. Afterwards the president toured the State University before an informal governor’s mansion dinner and a late-night departure to San Antonio. A separate note from Davenport Iowa reports 15 year old John Wymer died in St Anthony’s hospital after losing both legs fleeing a freight train, with traveling hypnotists noted in earlier winters.
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Austin
New Orleans
Congress Avenue
Confederate Veterans and
Grand Army of the Republic
Capitol Building
Senate Chamber
Texas
McKinley
State University
San Antonio
Alamo
Davenport
John Wymer
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Rock Island
Professor Whitney to Lead Osage Lincoln School
Prof. Fred Whitney retires from city schools and accepts principalship at Lincoln School Osage his hometown. He will begin duties next year. Ice cream flavors Chocolate Strawberry and Vanilla at the Hlue Candy are daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Whitney
Lincoln School
Osage
Native stock beef supply promise from local supplier
A local meat producer touts tender beef from their own native stock. They emphasize supplying the trade with nice young meat and note a special effort to ensure quality.
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Albert
Youngs
Dougherty Bros
West Side
the Evening Journal
Orville Elder
Iowa
East Main 8St
W. C. Nelson’s, Jeweler and Optician
North Side
Hospitality OF
Lone Star State
Houston Austin
Tex
Out of
Dixie
South- West
Bayou Teche
Acadiana
Louisiana
Plains of
Lone Sur
South
J. Wilson
Morrison
Sewell
Burnham
George Parkinson
Dr. Pratt
Cynthia Adams
Charles Latchem
Miss Long
Johnson's Bakery
Robert Patterson
Eldon
Illinois
Springfield
House
Circuit
Supreme Courts
Cook County
Henry A. Neall
Coles
State Board of Charities
Kenneth M. Whitham
Mercer
Edward H.thomas
Macon
Hospital For the Incurable Insane
W. W. Watson
Pike
Southern Normal School
John Marshall
Eastern Normal
James P. Wheaton
Cook
State Penitentiary
Charles D. Bent
Whiteside
State Board of Education
State Normal University
B. F. Summy
Name
James C. Sullivan
Alexander
B. Johnson
Champaign
J. N. Hipp
State Board of Health
St. James Church
W. H. Stilwell
Missouri River
Alex Gibson
Indiana
James Washington
T. M. Reynolds
Nan L. Gowpy
Columbia, Monarch and Imperial
F. L. Stewart CO
L. J. Wilmet
Walther
IR. Kay
B. J. Kay
Saratoga
N.Y. R
Body Pharmacy
Stewart Harmacy
Cote
He-Myan
Columbia Harmacy
Ross Hardy
H N. Shafer
Gra Ross
Carl Hodges
Winfield
Grabag
Smoke Bornham
Golden Buck
Sheboygan
Susane
Fond du Lac
Annie O'Connor
Omaha
Oshkosh
Madison, Wis
LaFollette
St. Paul
Gemnt
Gould
State Capitol
Michigan
Wellr
Price
SOC
Ao Gales
Seiaar
Northwest Corner Square
Washington, Iowa
the Reynolds Gallery
Todd Stuart
J.C. Smith
Cash Grocery
H. St
Klein Klothing Ko
Southeast Corner Square
Iown
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