Iowa Teachers Urge Rural Academy Plan and Higher Wages
Des Moines reports President E J B Beard of the Iowa State Teachers association urges rural academies to keep country youth from city temptations. The executive council backs a $40 monthly teacher wage, a state pension fund by teachers, and a mandatory medical inspection law. Professor H G Campbell blasts college athletics as advertising and accuses university presidents of ethics breaches in recruiting players.
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Des Moines
E. J. B. Beard
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Beard
Iowa
Association
General Association
H. G. Campbell
Morningside College
State ‘Teachers’ Association
Campbell
Alumni of State University of Iowa hold Des Moines banquet
Hy Yesterday Ang and former students attend an alumni feast at Savery House Des Moines Nov 5. Speakers praise Iowa State University, stressing scholarship and the need for college life to connect with the world and curb lax attitudes among students toward liberal arts study.
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Des Moines
Oines
State Unirsity of
Iowa
C Savery
Geas
University Fe
Carroll Wright
Lowa univiTsity
Lowa
Destines
Asell
F. C. Easton
J. B. Weaver
Itman
Amos N. Currier
Two Men Hurt in Chicago Train Smoking Rule Riot
A Chicago Transit riot broke out when the Elo fitted Railway Company tried to enforce a no smoking rule aboard a car at Porty-fourth avenue. A smoker clashed with conductors and two private detectives, with bystanders intervening. One man nearly went through a window as police removed the offender.
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Chicago
Porty-fourth Avenue
Smok
Eir
J. D. Attley
Joseph . Francis
Ken
Pellagra in corn spirits discussed by physicians
At the national conference on pellagra in Columbia on November five physicians declare pellagra involves not only ordinary corn products but distilled corn liquor as a contributing factor. They warn pellagra may affect animals such as horses, cows, and hogs as well as humans.
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Jumbia
U S. C
Pellagra
Taft Makes Georgia Stop with Luncheon at Thunderbolt Club
President Taft travels through central and southeastern Georgia enjoying autumn colors and a stay at the De Soto hotel in Savannah. He sails the harbor, tours the auto course, and dines on waffles quail fried chicken sausage steak ham and grits at breakfast before heading back toward Washington.
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Thunderbolt Club
Savannah
Taft
Georgia
de Soto
Thunderbolt
Mr. Taft
Washington
Missionary Society Convention Reports Funds Totaling $686000
The fortieth annual convention of the General Executive Committee of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church closed in Pittsburg. The coming year will see $686,476 allocated for foreign mission work. Des Moines received $70,000 and Topeka $48,500 for branch support of missionaries worldwide.
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Pittsburg
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
New England
Des Moines
Topeka
Kan
Illinois university expels three students over hazing
Urbana announces that University of Illinois council expelled F. D. Wheeler a Sterling Illinois sophomore civil engineer for hazing. H. P. McGregor a Champaign chemical engineer and R. K. Doherty a Morris engineer were dismissed for the rest of the academic year for the same offense.
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Urbana, Ill
Council of Administration
The
University of Illinois
University
F. D. Wheeler
Sterling, Ill
H. P. McGregor
Champaign, Ill
R. K. Doherty
Morris, IL
North Dakota Fastest Dreadnought On Water
The North Dakota is described as the fastest battleship of the dreadnought type afloat. tests on the Rockland measured mile reported a maximum speed of 22.25 knots and an average of 21.83 knots, exceeding the best performances of sister ship Delaware and the British Bellerophon.
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United States
Rockland
North Dakota
Rubber Firms Merge In $40 Million Deal In New York
Papers filed in Trenton on November 5 report the Inter-Continental Rubber company merging with the Continental Rubber company of America to form a new Inter-Continental Rubber company with an authorized capital of 40 million dollars. Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is among the signers of the merger certificate.
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Trenton
N. J
Inter-Continental Rubber Company
Continental Rubber Company of America
United States
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Engineer Killed at Post in Milwaukee Fast Mail Incident
Sioux City Iowa reports engineer John Smith was instantly killed near Charter Oak when a broken driving rod on the Milwaukee fast mail locomotive struck him. The accident occurred November 5 and details describe a fatal railway incident with immediate death.
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Sioux City
John Smith
Milwaukee Fast Mail
Charter Oak
Woman Acquitted of Murder in St Paul Case
The jury in the Mina Arbogast murder trial returned a not guilty verdict for Mrs. Mina Arbogast charged with killing her husband last May in St. Paul.
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St. Paul
Mina Arbogast
Simpson College Receives $20000 Gift for Gymnasium
Indianola Iowa November 5 Dr Charles Eldred Shelton Simpson College president announced a $20000 donation from William Buxton Sr Harry K Hopper and F C Ligter three Indianola businessmen who owned timber in Canada The land sold for an $80000 profit with one fourth donated to the college The gift will fund a proposed new gymnasium described as a sure go.
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Indianola
Charles Eldred Shelton
Simpson College
William Buxton
Harry K. Hopper
F. C. Ligter
Canada
Simpson
Shelton
CHOOSE BISHOP COADJUTOR IN DUBUQUE MEETING
Suffragan bishops met with Archbishop Keane to pick three names for a new coadjutor bishop. It is believed Bishop J J Keane of Cheyenne will be chosen, over Bishop Carroll of Helena. Attending bishops included Davis Davenport Keane Garrigan Scannell Bonacum.
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Keane
Dubuque
J. J. Keane
Cheyenne
Wyo
State dairy chief launches oleo crusade in Iowa
Iowa State Food and Dairy Commissioner Wright has begun a fall campaign against oleomargarine makers coloring the product. He already secured evidence against two manufacturers in Albia and Knoxville and will prosecute them. Coloring oleomargarine is an indictable offense and grand juries and district courts will handle the cases.
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Wes Moines
Food and Dairy
Wright
Albia
Knoxville
Traveling Men Protest Rock Island Passenger Ban
Traveling salesmen oppose an Iowa Rock Island order forbidding passengers on freight trains, arguing the rule cuts travel range and hurts their ability to reach distant markets after years of using mixed trains.
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Des Moines
Iowa Division
Rock Island
General Dodge Re-elected President at Army of the Tennessee Meet
Columbus coal company report notes General Grenville Dodge of Council Bluffs Iowa was reelected president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. L D Montgomery, also of Council Bluffs, was chosen as vice president for the coming year.
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Dodge
Columbus, CO
Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Grenville Dodge
Council Bluffs
L. D. Montgomery
Wheat deficit unlikely for now says secretary
Washington November 5 Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department says the steady US population rise will not overtax farmers soon and no grain imports are needed for bread. He cites a 7.25 billion dollar yearly farm output and hopeful prospects for wheat, aided by durum wheat expansion.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Woman Leaps to Death After A Suitor’s Desertion
Celia Dubenstein, 19, rushed from the ninth floor of the Card building at St. Clair avenue and East First street, Cleveland, to the sidewalk below after reportedly receiving a letter from New York saying her sweetheart married another. She was killed instantly. her parents live in Russia.
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Russia
Gil
Cleveland
Celia Dubenstein
Card
St. Clair Avenue
East First Street
New York
Robbers Board Hamburg American Steamer Prince Joachim
Robbers boarded the Hamburg American liner Prince Joachim at a New York pier and forced open the purser’s safe, escaping with $7 000 in gold.
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New York
Court blocks Oklahoma seizure of interstate liquor shipments
Judge Cotterall of the United States district court in Guthrie reaffirmed that state officials cannot interfere with interstate liquor shipments. The ruling restrains state officers from seizing shipments before delivery to consignees, reinforcing federal control over commerce.
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Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
Cotterall
United States District Court
Greek Rebel Leader Caught in Athens Coup
Athens reports Lieutenant Tibaldos who led the revolt against the government and his companion Lieutenant Dimoulis were arrested. All principals in the uprising are now in custody.
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Athens
Greece
Tibaldos
Oficer
Dimoulis
Cook Prepares Polar Data for Copenhagen Submission
Dr. Frederick A. Cook began compiling data from his polar expedition for submission to the University of Copenhagen. He aims to finish within a week and avoided discussing related issues such as the North Pole controversy or Mount McKinley. The State Department refused to cable permission to inspect Cook's records when presented to Copenhagen.
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University of Copenhagen
New York
Frederick A. Cook
Cook
North Pole
Mount McKinley
National Geographic Society
Pole
Washington
State Department
Egan
Copenhagen
Tailor L Rosenthal Falls Down Elevator Shaft
Des Moines reports L Rosenthal of Cass Rosenthal tailors New York fell six stories down an elevator shaft in the Savery hotel and is believed fatally injured. He was a member of the Cass & Rosenthal firm.
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Des Moines
L. Rosenthal
Cass & Rosenthal
Tailors
New York City
Savery Hotel
Hog and cattle market report from Chicago on Nov 5 1909
Hogs receipts 14 000 left over from yesterday. Market slow at yesterday's average with light hogs 7 35 to 7 90, mixed packers 7 45 to 8 10, heavy shipping grades 7 45 to 8 10, rough 7 45 to 7 65. Cattle 2 000 steady. Sheep 8 000 steady to 10 higher.
Second Report of Chicago Market Receipts and Shipments
Chicago market logs report estimated receipts today around 14 000 with official receipts yesterday at 14 078 and shipments yesterday. Officials left over yesterday total 2 354 while tomorrow’s receipts are forecast near 8 000 as market conditions are slow and prices ease. Shipments include light, mixed packers and heavy ship’s grades with porkers and pigs priced in the mid to high seven to low eight range.
Market Cattle Receipts and Price Ranges
Estimated receipts show 200 Market steady with beeves at 3 90 to 9 10. Cows and heifers 2 00 to 5 70. Texas steers 80 to 4 85. Stockers and feeders 8 00 to 6 00. Western cattle 4 25 to 7 40.
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Texas
Market Receipts Mixed as Livestock Prices Rise
Estimated receipts show strong demand with higher prices across categories. Native sheep bring 26 to 485, Western sheep 275 to 499, yearlings 450 to 735, lambs 450 to 735, and western lambs 475 to 70, reflecting an overall market uptick.
Chicago Hog Market Mixed Grades Steady to Active
Early on November 5 1909 hog market in Chicago shows more activity and a steady tone with mixed packers at 740 to 8074 and heavy ship grades 74 to 812 percent. Cattle steady while sheep show strength reflecting overall demand and supply conditions.
Grain Company Furnishings Bid Dates in Chicago
Beach Wickham Grain Company furnishes details for a bid at 544 and 546 Postal Telegraph Building in Chicago dated November 6, 1909. The notice lists the firm as supplier and gives date and location for the upcoming bid.
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Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
John A. Babcock Case at North American Live Stock
A case involving John A. Babcock is connected to the North American Live Stock Commission Company at U S Stock Yards Chicago. The matter concerns a dispute over stock dealings and charges arising in Chicago.
Corn Show Prizes Reach 20000 Dollars in Iowa Exposition
Des Moines officials announce premiums totaling 20000 dollars for the Iowa Corn Growers association exposition in the Des Moines Coliseum from November 29 to December 11. The exhibit will award prizes by four sections northern north central central and southern with judges drawn from leading corn experts nationwide. The list is the largest yet for a state event, rivaling the national exposition.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Des Moines Coliseum
Weather Too Hot for Corn Impacts Iowa Cribs
In Mason City and across the region farmers report corn cribbed for harvest is molding and heating due to heat. Many cribs have been emptied so corn can be spread on the ground to dry causing substantial losses at Manley Plymouth Rock Falls Swalesdale Clear Lake and other towns where dealers have already bought some corn.
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Mason City
Manley
Plymouth
Rock Falls
Swalesdale
Clear Lake
Boone murder case delayed as state witness fails to appear
State's main witness did not show for John McFarland's preliminary hearing in Boone Iowa. The prosecution submitted evidence and the case was continued for one week. McFarland remains free on bonds set at 10000 dollars, which he has not secured.
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McFarland
Boone
John McFarland
E. J. Morse
Ten Year Old Sentenced to Six Years in Theft Case
Ottawa Ontario reports Cyril St Armand of Thurso aged ten received a six year sentence for horse stealing. The case highlights juvenile crime penalties in the era and notes the youth's age at sentencing.
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Ottawa
Ont
Cyril St. Armand
Thurso
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Grain Market
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