Market News and Weather Forecast From General Markets Lamson Bros
Iowa and South Dakota weather trends show increasing clouds and showers with warmer temperatures in the southeast. Wheat futures rise on frost risk from Canada and Russia, with light trading and December around 94 3-4 to 95 cents. Corn and oats show limited movement, while pork, lard, and ribs prices edge higher on demand.
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Iowa
South Dakota
Chicago
Canadian Northwest
Russia
H. W
Live Stock Markets and Commodities Across Cities
St Louis market reports cattle hogs and sheep with steady openings and varied receipts. Omaha and Chicago show mixed hog demand, steady cattle, and light sheep activity with price ranges for natives cows steers and lambs. New York stocks close mixed while local markets in Waterloo list grain prices and farm produce figures.
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ST. Louis
Omaha
Neb
Chicago
SPIO
T.qagtaro
New York
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Reading
Wee
Rock Island
Chicago Great Western
Northwestern
Ataeas
Atchican
Waterloo
Wellington
Kansas Turkey
Aristas
Kansas City
Triplets Draw Buffalo Family to Independence Exhibition
Deep human interest surrounds Hanna triplets Iva Eva and Ida born Sept 29 1906 in Buffalo New York. The trio weighing 38 pounds each charm visitors at Independence week sessions in a Forepaugh Sells annex. Their mother rests in the dressing room while their father and a maid oversee sales of photographs and candy as crowds admire the lively children.
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Robert Hanna
Buffalo
N. Y
Independence
Iva
Eva
Ida
Wendt
Boonton
N. J
La Follette Seeks Farmer Vote in Taft Battle
In a Washington report, Senator La Follette leads a push against President Taft for farmer support. A letter to grangers criticizes Canadian reciprocity and the vetoed free trade bill, signaling a strategic bid to influence the reformist Wisconsin senator’s campaign and possible revenge on renomination. The piece notes planned Grange addresses and cautious White House reaction amid mounting progressive pressure.
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Washington, D. C
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
la Follette
Pennsylvania
Taft
Mr. la Follette
Grain Starts From Duluth Signal Lake Trade Shift
Duluth Minnesota reports new grain movements as 108 cars arrived yesterday. Lake traffic expected to rise in coming weeks with October as a probable peak period and November shipments forecast heavy. Duluth wheat stock end of last week stood at 192,321 bushels versus 1,569,308 a year earlier. An old banker quips on a young man’s nerve and a botched elopement financed by a loan.
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Duluth
Minn
Beautiful Waterloo Girl Heads to Chicago for Nurse Training
Miss Besse Hoffman, son of Mrs. W. A. Scott, will travel to Chicago to enter a three year nurses training program at St. Luke's hospital. A Waterloo West High School and Waterloo Business College graduate, she has served as a stenographer at Commercial National Bank for three years.
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Waterloo
Chicago
St. Luke’s Hospital
Miss Hoffman
High School of
Waterloo West
Waterloo Business College
Commercial National Bank
W. A
Besse Hoffman
Scott
Sixth Street West
Jesup Man's Law Drives All Freaks from Iowa Museums and Side Shows
In Jesup Iowa Aug 26 a sensational showscape on farmers day drew Rep. BF Stoddard who proposes a law to ban public displays of deformities or monstrosities. The article outlines his bill to curb freak exhibitions and notes broad editorial support from newspapers and show world. It reports limited violations mostly at Forepaugh and Selig and Ringling style tents, with no serious breaches under the new measure.
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Jesup Man’s Law
Iowa
Jesup
Barker
Stoddard
BF. Stoddard
Buchanan County
Des Moines
Forepaugh
Selig Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Ringings
Gollmar Bros
Forepaugh’s
Waterloo Clammer Finds $240 Pearl
John Peterson of 110 Commercial Street sold a fresh water pearl found yesterday in the Cedar River bed near Cedar Heights for 240 dollars to a Chicago dealer. The pearl weighed 16 grains and was perfectly spherical. Peterson, a longtime clam digger, had previously collected about nine tons of shells this year without pearl finds before yesterday.
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John Peterson
Commercial ‘Street
Cedar River
Cedar Heights
Chicago
Peterson
Ireland Given $100000 by Priests at Ceremony
St Paul Aug 26 Archibishop Ireland received a pledge of $100000 from 260 priests of the diocese at the close of their four day retreat. Rev Thomas J Gibbons of St Luke's church presented the gift saying it expressed the esteem love and reverence in which he is held by his subordinates.
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Ireland
St. Paul
Thomas J. Gibbons
St. Luke’s Church
Astor and Force Yet to Set Wedding Date
New York reports Col. John Jacob Astor and Madeline Talmage Force cruising aboard the yacht Noma toward Newport for a weekend stay. The couple discussed marriage, but Astor said no date had been set.
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ASTOR
New York
Col
John Jacob Astor
Madeline Talmage Force
Long Island
Noma
Newport
Col. Astor
Relay Event Echoes Family Banter in Washington Herald
A Washington Herald snippet features a father inviting his son to join a relay event and the son recalling his relay glory in college. The exchange ends with a playful line about the mother being ready to relay the car.
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Washington Herald
Elgin Auto Race Records Shattered In Illinois Cups
Elgin National road races drew 46,000 spectators as Donald Herr won the Illinois Trophy at 65.6 mph on a 203.35 mile national contest. Hugh Hughes, Mortimer Roberts, and others placed in Kane and Aurora trophies with times around 2 ½ hours. No fatalities occurred amid 18 drivers across three events on the 12 mile Elgin track.
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Colby
Hughes
Mortimer Roberts
Abbott-Detroit
Frank Kulick
Ford
A. M. Robbins
Roberts
Chicago
Elgin National
Elgin
Savannah
Donald Herr
Ralph Mulford
Lozier
Advertised Letters at Waterloo Iowa August 23 1911
Waterloo Iowa post office lists letters awaiting pickup dated August 23 1911. Names include Miss Blanch Atherton Miss Amanda Backhous Mrs Emma Barton Mrs David Baum and many others with numerous Mrs and Miss prefixes plus foreign recipients and a postmaster stamp W R Law P M.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Blanch Atherton
Amanda Backhous
Emma Barton
David Baum
L. D. Borght
Lillian Breithaupt
Harriet Brunes
Marriott Brunes
Will Brusner
Mary Carey
Elsie Cloy
N. Coffin
Minnie Curstis
Fred Crandon
Henry Dunham
Hatty Edwards
Ethel Fried
Bunn Heath
Maggie Herring
Emma Hol Jeck
Lela Hickle
Maud Howell
Maria Jolie
Bell Kinsey
Geneva Kochel
Ia G. Langdon
Anton Larsen
Nick Ludgon
Edw. McDumott
Lafe March
Mary Prven Miller
Pearl Milhone
Margaret McHoney
Ida Morrison
Litetian Morse
Margeret Moshed
George Nelson
Ruth Nicoslas
Frances Parsons
Lucy Quackenbush
Matilda Ray
Wm. Reardon
May Robinson
Jennie Shaw
Lena Shimdt
Geo. Size
Ollie Springer
Charles G. McIntyre
E. Marks
Max Meerson
Paul B. Murray
Arthur Mummert
George Parker
Joseph O. Reilley
Earl Roberts
Rogers & Co
G. W. Roland
E. Rowe
W. T. Rynearson
A. W. Sasse
H. D. Searles
Frank Slepicke
Link Smith
Wilbur Smith
N. G
His Solitary Satisfaction
A fragment captures a humorous exchange about Jawley who chews gum. one speaker notes his jaw is always moving, while another explains he talks to himself in private wishes about what he would say to his wife if he dared, revealing a quirky private habit.
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Jawley
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Louis Close
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United States Steel, Common
United States Steel
Pfd
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Ilinois Central
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Hanna Triplets of
Buffalo, N. Y
Hanna Triplets
Republican Party
Mr. Taft
Greater
New York Clearinghouse
Representative
Herr
Kane County
Roberts, Aurora
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