Scouting Ships to Try to Locate the Enemys Battleships
Norfolk arrival reports the fifth division of the Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Sidney A Staunton preparing ocean scouting to locate enemy battleships approaching Cuba from England. The group includes armored cruisers Tennessee Washington North Carolina Montana and scout cruisers Chester Birmingham and Salem with sixteen battleships Delaware and South Dakota among them. Tennessee is highlighted as a formidable armored cruiser.
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Cuba
England
Norfolk
Atlantic Fleet
Sidney A. Staunton
Tennessee
Washington
North
Caroline
Montana
Chester
Birmingham
Salem
Delaware
South Dakota
Staunton
Waterloo Girl Earns Praise in New York City Library Work
Flora Cutler of Waterloo has built a notable library career in New York during four years in the east. Trained at the Library Training School, she specializes in children’s storytelling, elevating reader numbers at branches including Mott Haven and the east end. She will return to the main library as assistant to Miss Annie Carroll Moore, head of the children's department.
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Waterloo
New York City
East
Flora Cutler
Eed
Loa
Cutler
Lows
City
Annie Carroll Moore
Maine
New York Public Library System
Iowa
Miss Cutler
New York
Miss Moore
Mott Haven
East End
F. E. Cutler
Fremont Street
Jennie Girton Walker
Washington, D. C
Lives Two Weeks With the Dead In Cleveland Home
Police report Herman Mielke kept a downstairs room while his wife Anna and three year old Hermina lay decaying upstairs for two weeks. He claimed a quarrel over a dog drove a separation and found a chloroform bottle by her side. The case prompts an investigation. A fire at Concord flats in St Paul killed Mrs Rose Moore, raising the death toll to three.
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Gleveland
Anna
Hermina
Herman Mielke
Mielke
Vining
Michke
St. Paul
Minn
Rose Moore
Concord Flats
Des Moines Gh Ordinance Blocked By Federal Judge
Judge Smith McPherson issued a restraining order preventing Des Moines from enforcing a 90 cent gas ordinance until a hearing. The rehearing is set for next Friday in federal court at Council Bluffs. The order delays the January 2 effective date while the case proceeds. Freight reductions for coal are also blocked by a separate restraining order, with a permanent injunction hearing to follow.
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Des Moines
Evensing Press
Smith McPherson
McPherson
Council Bluffs
Iowa Railroad Commission
CLAIM SALOONS LOST AT RAPIDS
Cedar Rapids Iowa December 31 Evening Press reports the Business Men's Temperance association released an official statement claiming the saloon consent petition was defeated and provides figures to support the claim. Miss Marguerite Fowler left yesterday for DeKalb Illinois to visit a St Marys friend and will attend the January 10 wedding of Miss Lydia Stocking in Rochelle Illinois.
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Cedar Rapids, Ila
Business Men's Temperance Association
Marguerite Fowler
DeKalb
St. Mary's
Rochelle
Lydia Stocking
Rank Statement Shows Loan and Deposit Shifts in NY Bank
New York reports year end shifts with loans rising by 19,451,900 and deposits increasing 12,520,000. Reserve up 905,000 and exit United States deposits down 107,000 while surplus falls 2,225,000.
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New York
United States
Missouri Supreme Court appoints chief justice
Fallaint Chieft Justice Jefferson Clis Missouri is chosen chief justice of the state supreme court in a December 3 announcement.
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Fallaint Chiebf
Jefferson Clis
Fallaint
Supreme Court of Missouri
Des Moines Rail Commission Reports Local Trains Often Late
The Des Moines railroad commission investigates local passenger trains and finds many are late due to neglectful agents and poor posting of notices. They urge prompt on time schedules at stations and plan to push for stricter enforcement to reduce delays.
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Des Moines
Town Board of Railroad Commissioners
Union
Council Bluff
Lusetia
Railroad Commission
Commission
Taps for Frank Gilbert
Frank Gilbert 1837 Vermont native Civil War veteran died last evening at 3 00 at 422 E street cancer death notice funeral set for Monday 2 PM Universalist church Fourth Mulberry Rev Este MecCullom Jones to lead burial in Fairview Survived by wife six Waterloo born children Frances Marden Claude Tiehty Kate Prooks Seth Edward Joseph Gilbert Edward brother Plainfield resident
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Frank Gilbert
Eeech Street
Universalist Church
Fourth and
Mulberry Streets
Este MecCullom Jones
Fairview
Vermont
Suue
Gilbert
Waterline
Waterloo
Frances, Marden
Claude Tiehty
Kate Prooks
Seth
Edward
Joseph Gilbert
Edward Gilbert
Plainfield
Getting Light On Lorimer Fund
Washington reports demand to reveal who funded the slush fund used after the election of William Lorimer. The 1907 law imposes fines on corporations and officers for political contributions, and lawmakers note Edward Hines the Chicago lumberman fostered close ties with Lorimer. telegrams and correspondence show ongoing contact between Hines and Lorimer since 1909.
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Washington
Senate of the
United States
William Lorimer
Lorimer
Holstlaw
Tink
Beckemeyer
White
Torlmer
Senate
Edward Hines
Soning
Sir Hines
Torimer
Hines
Reastor
Congress
Jori
Mer
Deluth
Chicago
Mr. Hines
Three Dead in One Family from Pneumonia
In Dubuque on December 21 a pneumonia outbreak claimed three family members within 24 hours. Edward Meloy died Thursday morning, followed by sisters Sarah Meloy and Ellen Wachenheim, who died Friday within an hour of each other after several months of ill health.
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Dubuque
Edward Meloy
Sarah Meloy
Ellen Wachenheim
People's Mutual Building & Loan Pay Day Adjusted
Monday, being a holiday, pay day of the People’s Mutual Building and Loan Association will be on Tuesday, January 3, 19aT.
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People’s Mutual Building & Loan Association
Italian man gets thirty year sentence for Des Moines killing
Antonio Arabia, an Italian, was sentenced by Judge DeGrat to thirty years in the state penitentiary for killing Jack Olson, a Teamster from Des Moines. The judge condemned indiscriminate shooting and killing.
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Des Moines
Evening Press
Antonio Arabia
Jack Olson
DeGrat
Report Unconfirmed On Mexican Battle Casualties
El Paso dispatch says no confirmation has been received of a report from Chihuahua that federal troops suffered six hundred killed near Casa Colorado. The item notes uncertainty amid the insurrectionary conflict and ends with a classroom exchange about clarity in teaching.
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el Paso. Fox
Chihuahua
Mexico
Casa
Colorado
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