Peace Pact Tops Imperial Conference Agenda
London May 22 delegates from the empire opened the fifth Imperial Conference to discuss world peace. Sir Wilfred Laurier leads Canadian support for an Anglo American peace pact while talks cover a direct government line from England to Canada Austral ia a subsidized steamship link and an imperial court of appeals. The conference traces to the Colonial Premiers meeting during Queen Victoria’s jubilee.
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John Ball
Canada
Wilfred Laurier
Dominion
Asquith
England
Australia
New Foundland
Imperial Court of Appeals
New Zealand
Imperial Council
Empire
London
Convict Freed for Bravery in Anamosa Rescue
Joseph Howard serving time for forgery at the Anamosa reformatory earned a pardon from Governor Carroll after danger from a boiler explosion. He rushed through escaping steam to shut off the steam and avert disaster.
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Des Moines
Joseph Howard
Anamosa
Carroll
Anamosa Reformatory
Howard
Boy Saves Self After Molten Attack by Schoolmates
In Lockport New York on May 20 a seventeen year old boy was tied to a tree by fourteen year old students who tried to burn him alive. The victim escaped after pranksters restrained him but failed to complete the act as a fire was started at his feet and extinguished.
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Lad
Lockport
N. Y
Avery Vii
India
Explosion rocks Chicago: two dead in Madison La Salle blast
An explosion in Chicago near Madison and La Salle Streets injures or kills several people. Reports state two men are dead and at least seven others injured as debris from a blast at a trolley or lisistine engine site scatters into nearby offices and crowds gather to view the scene.
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Chicago
Madison and
la Salle
Ohio bribe scandal highlights Ohio senator arraignment
Senator Ed gar Crawford of Carroll county pleaded not guilty in a Columbus criminal court to soliciting a $200 bribe from WHE Cook of Springfield, secretary of the Ohio Butchers and Grocers association. Crawford was arraigned with a park felon a woman robber and three burglars.
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Columbus
Edgar Crawford
Carroll County
Whe Cook
Springfield
Ohio Butchers’ and Grocers’ Association
Kinkead
Crawford
Rockefeller firm noncommittal after directors meeting
William Rockefeller stated after a Standard Oil directors and lawyers meeting that he could not announce plans. He said the gathering was the first of many before a detailed plan could be formed. John D. Rockefeller did not attend.
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New York
William Rockefeller
Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
Woman Club Founder Dies in Winnetka at 75
Mrs Con stance auntleroy Runcie of St Joseph Missouri author and music composer who organized the first woman’s club in America died in a sanitarium Winnetka at age seventy five. She organized a club at New Harmony Indiana in 1859 nine years before the Sorosis club in New York. She was the widow of Dr James Runcie an Episcopalian minister.
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Winnetka
Constance Auntleroy Runcie
St. Joseph
Americus
Runcie
New Harmony
Ind
New York
James Runcie
Guard Against Trouble in Seward Over Coal Cargo
In Seward Alaska on May 20 the Alaska Northern Railway sought protection from U S Marshal Whitelesy ahead of the Edith coal cargo arrival. Deputies were sworn in to guard the coal amid talk of a Cordova style plan to dump the coal into the sea.
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Seward
Alaska
Cordova
Edith
Alaska Northern Railway Company
United States
Whitelesy
Valley Forge Camp S68 Holds Thursday Meetings in North Side Hall
J W Scott commander and J Kreme preside at Valley Forge Camp No S68 which meets every Thursday evening in the hall on North Side Square. All neighbors are welcome.
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Valley Forge Camp
Hall
North Side Square
Masonry and Chapter Notice Broad Monthly Meetings
Washington Lodge No. 26 AC BLA M Regular meeting first Friday night monthly led by Kunnath W M J W Morton Sir Cyrus Chapter No 1 ROAM regular meeting Friday night monthly led by James Glassow OP 1 W Morton Ke l Regular meeting every Friday night monthly led by Wyatt Marbourg and J We Morton Washington Chapter No 98 62 P S regular meeting Friday night monthly led by Ranath W M Mrs Myrtle Sec visiting brothers welcomed 24 As
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AC Bla. M
Kunnath W. M
J. W. Morton
Sir Cyrus
Roam
James Glassow
W. Morton
Bethlehem
Kel
Fred
Wyatt
Marbourg
J. We. Morton
Washington
P. S
Ranath
W. M
Mra
Myrtle
Weather Outlook and Missing Woman Report
Indiana and Illinois forecast calls for cooler today with a cooler tomorrow and brisk winds. A missing woman case is updated as authorities report the body of Mrs Mary Jillool found in Lake Peru, Indiana, after she had been missing since last Wednesday.
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Iowa
Krkkkaiom
Indiana
Illinois
Lake, Peru
Ind
Mary
Governors Conference Set For September at Monmouth Hotel
Lakewood New Jersey May 1 after extensive correspondence the annual conference of governors is scheduled for September 12 at the new Monmouth hotel Springlake New Jersey sessions run three times daily over four days. SCotts Michigan May 20 fire devastates business district losses about 75000 engine from Battle Creek Nine business buildings post office three residences lumber yard destroyed. New York May 22 former magistrate James G Tighe found dead in his Brooklyn home gas poisoning with room sealed.
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Lakewood
N. J
Conference of Governors
New Monmouth Hotel
Springlake
Scotts
Mich
Battle Creek
New York
James G. Tighe
Brooklyn
Bergen Street
Tie
Imports Strike Breakers Arrive at Grand Rapids Plant
A special train delivered 135 imported strike-breakers to the Grand Rapids Show Case company plant near a side track dedicated inlet. The workers, from Pullman Alabama, traveled from Pullman to replace striking car shop workers as the plant provisions a month or more of meals and sleeping quarters.
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Grer
D Rapids
Mich
Grand Trenk
Grand Rapids Show Case Company
Pullman
Pullman, AL
Nail Pierces Skull In Accidental House Mishap
Tonawanda New York May 22 William Jo hle three years old lies in a hospital after a clapboard fell from his father while tearing down a shed. A nail in the board pierced the child's skull as he played nearby.
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Tonawanda
N. Y
William Johle
Vermont picks Penton as new university president
Burlington May 19 trustees of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College elected Guy Potter Penton president to succeed the late Matthew M. Buckham after considering over 100 applications.
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Burlington
University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College
Guy Potter Penton
Maimi University At
Oxford, O
Matthew MH. Buckham
Daughter of Barnum Dies After Church Fall
Mrs. Caroline Thompson, 83, daughter of P. T. Barnum, died in Bridgeport from a brain concussion suffered after slipping on church steps a week earlier. She was wealthy and prominent in the community.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Caroline Thompson
P.T. Barnum
Ler Home
Thomson
Contentment and the Noblest Mind in Spenser's Verse
A concise reflection on contentment as the noblest virtue and the mind as its center, attributed to a line recalling Spenser’s poetic spirit.
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Spenser
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