Review of Vet Is Postponed in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa February 22 Friends of the Oregon primary bill secured postponement of review of Governor Carroll veto until March 8 at 10 o'clock. Democrats faced standpatters while progressives and Democrats split 59 to 38. Bills for park commissioners in cities, building bonds, and pensions for firemen and police were discussed or advanced. Senate moved to examine health rules with a legislative commission to study the state health laws and report next session.
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Des Moines
Baecial
Friends of the
Oregon
Carroll
Griggs
Harding
A&d
Fraley
Parksi Des Moiness
Senate
State Railroad Commission
Neal
Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
van Law
Brown
Iowa Senate
Exterminate Foes Then Kill Each Other at Cape Hayti
Government troops in Cape Hayti killed one soldier and wounded ten after wiping out rebels. Gen. Gilles and President Simon arrived to halt the rioting.
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Cape Hayti
Gilles
Simon
Washington pays tribute to father of country birthday
Washington observes the 179th birthday of George Washington with a nationwide tribute. In the capital practically all clerks were given a holiday and President Taft traveled to Alexandria to join the Washington Memorial association of Masons for a ceremonial banquet this evening.
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Washington
Father OF Country
D. C
Taft
Alexandria
Washington Memorial Association of Masons
Iowa Legislature Debates Reforms and Bills
The Iowa House tackles health, reform, and finance bills. A new women’s reform bill seeks an institution and $81,060, potentially closing Anamosa’s adjunct reform facility. A caucus deadlock ends without a Republican gathering. Debates include a monument bill, mulct law fines, and a plan for a state inquiry into liability laws. The Dabney special election bill fails, anti-treating passes, and guaranty of deposits dies in the House. The Senate backs an income tax amendment.
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Ason
Iowa
Neal
Railroad Commission
Perkins
Anamosa
House Committee
Ritter
Ripley
Henry H. Bush
Shankland
Town House of Representatives
Towa Senate
House
Roosevelt Busy Chicago Day To Speak At Many Venues
Roosevelt delivers first talk at the Auditorium on Nationalism and Democracy and plans a packed schedule including meetings with journalists, Boy Scouts, students and teachers, Hull House visit, an armory audience, and a final Union League Club banquet before departing east Thursday morning.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Auditorium Theater
Boy Scouts
Board of Trade
Hull House
First Regiment
Union League Club
East
J P VanPatten Dies at Davenport
Davenport Iowa Feb 22 J P VanPatten prominent Davenport wholesale grocer died of heart failure at 78 He served as vice president of First National Bank and was president of J P VanPatten & Co for 50 years The longtime local business leader passed away this morning
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Davenport
Iowa
J. BP. VanPatten
First National Bank
J. P. VanPatten & Co
Prayer Suggested to Break Iowa Senatorial Deadlock
Des Moines Iowa February 22 Judge Edmund Nichols of Billings Montana sends a letter to Lieutenant Governor George W Clarke urging adoption of a Montana house prayer. He quotes the prayer and asks Iowa to cast nets on the other side to end the deadlock and unite Democrats behind the majority choice.
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Des Moines
Edmund Nichols
Billings
Mont
George W. Clarke
Senate
Montana
Rocky Mountains
Albany
Denver
Revolutions for Socialism in Lower California
Mexicali, Mex Feb 23 Independ ent of other Mexican revolutions the insurrection centers on a socialistic aim to found a utopia in Lower California where money and bloodshed are banned. Leaders Leyva and Bertholdt say success depends on socialist and Industrial Workers of the World support. Bertholdt says secret aid was sought in Los Angeles and with US cavalry Captain Babcock confirms the plan aims to a socialist commonwealth with workers supreme.
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Mexicali
Mex
Mexico
California
Insurrectos
Leyva
Bertholdt
Industrial Workers of the World
Los Angeles
Army of Liberation
Conrad Babcock
United States Cavalry
Lower
Black Hand Bombs Hit New York Tenements
A ninth Black Hand style explosion within a week rocked East 62nd Street tenements. Nine injured as residents scattered from beds and a boat dealer, Tose Calderella, recovered a threatening Italian letter demanding $1,000. In Chicago a wealthy Waterloo man, Henry Austin, was critically injured when a switch engine backed into his car at Mulberry Street. He was trapped for hours before rescue.
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Chicago Great Western
Mulberry Street
Henry Austin
E. Swank
Austin
Austinville
Mr. Austin
Fannie Flickinger
New York
62Nd Street
Tose Calderella
Indiana Bill Tests Marriage Romance Versus Science
Indiana House debated a bill requiring male marriage license applicants to present a physician health certificate. The measure, backed by Dr. J. N. Hurty and ministers of Richmond, passed 33 to 1 amid Gov. Marshall’s opposition for fear it would rob marriage of romance.
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Indianapolis
Ind
House of Representatives
Coble
Dubois
Redgood
Lafayette
Indiana
Marshall
Richmond
J. N. Hurty
State Board of Health
Bank cashier seeks funds after president’s disappearance
Des Moines reports Kel ley bank cashier E M Eggleston urged depositors to obtain receipts as the bank closed after the president E J Penfield vanished and was not in custody in Watertown South Dakota A Sunday supper and program for the Westfield Sunday school will be held with supper at 5 30 and program at 8 led by Mrs J O Davis Mrs A W Lee and Mrs Joseph Apieton
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Des Moines
E. M. Eggleston
Kelley
E. J. Penfield
Watertown
S. Nc
Penfield
Weatfield Sunday School
Westfield Sdhool House
J. O. Davis
A. W. Lee
Joseph A>pieton
Lafollette seeks probe on naval secrets leaks
Senator Lafollette urges a senate inquiry into published charges that U S naval secrets are disclosed to Argentina via contracts for two battleships built domestically. He filed two resolutions to obtain information from the state and navy departments about which private shipyards secured the Argentine work and whether officials arranged the deals.
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Washington, D. C
Lafollette
Argentine Republic
Senate
Departments of State
Pavy
Supt Minkel Named Waverly Successor in Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Iowa February 22 L H Minkel superintendent of the Waverly schools was elected to succeed R B Crone in Fort Dodge He will assume the post April 1 and begin work then with duties starting immediately after the election as planned in this city.
Washington's Birthday Observed Across Gotham and Nation
New Orleans unveiled a monument to Jefferson Davis on Washington's birthday with a parade of Confederate veterans and guards. In New York, business paused as patriotic events marked the holiday with prayers, parades, and dinners by historic societies. Clinton, Ta., hosted the G E Moray Consistory reunion with 21 candidates initiated and many visitors.
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New York
Washington
Gov. Dix
Hebrew Infant Asylum
First
New York Mounted Rifles
Sons of the Revolution
Weaveil Davis
New Orleans
Jefferson Davis
National Guard
Life Agents Meet Concludes Fifteenth Annual Convention
Des Moines Feb 22 The fifteenth annual convention of the agents and managers of the Central Life Assurance Society of the United States closed this afternoon at Hotel Colfax Colfax. A banquet was held this afternoon. Smoke Martin Standard cigar.
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LIFE
Des Moines
Central Life Assurance Soriety
United States
Colfax
Four Sisters Reunited After Sixty Years Separation
Iowa City Iowa February 22 separated sixty years ago four sisters were reunited at Elgin Iowa last week at the home of one. The kinwomen Mesdames Paulsen Blooming Prairie Gregerson Elgin Jacobson Vinton Ja and Engretson Elgin gathered after years of absence because of Mrs Gregersons illness.
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Iowa City
Elgin
Iowa
Paulsen
Blooming Prairie
Minn
Gregerson
Jacobson
Vinton
Engretson
Adjutant General Hutchings Faces Border Disorder
El Paso February 22 Adjutant General Hutchings in charge of border safety warns of a serious situation as Juarez unrest attracts thieves and brigands trying to enter the United States. He vows little mercy for the undesirables as several El Paso dwellings were looted by Mexican thieves who escaped back across the border.
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el Paso
Hutchings
United States
Juarez
Woodyard Slightly Worse At Ridge Farm Home
Danville February 22 A telephone message from Isaac Woodyard foreman of the Vermillion county grand jury reports he is slightly worse at his Ridge farm home. Doctors forbid visitors amid his near sixty years.
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Danville
Isaac Woodyard
Vermillion County Grand Jury
Ridge Farm
Auto party tumbles 25 foot embankment injuring two women
Pittsburg Feb 22 An automobile party of six went over a 25 foot embankment at West Liberty near Hers this morning. Two women were dangerously injured while four men including the chauffeur escaped injury and vanished. The car turned turtle into a creek pinning the women under water. they were rescued with difficulty.
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Pittsburg
West Liberty
Lorimer Day in Senate Sparks Crawford Charge Debate
In Washington on February 22 Senator Lorimer opened his speech addressing Crawford’s accusation he sought to organize Illinois legislature against Governor Deneen. He argued the political reality required cross party cooperation to elect Speaker Edward Shurtleff, and said Deneen attempted to influence votes with patronage threats. He noted 17 of 24 Republicans who backed Shurtleff had previously supported Hopkins for senator.
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Washington, D. C
Lorimer
Senate
Young
Washington
Senator Young
Iowa
Senator Lorimer
Mlinois
Crawford
Illinois
Deneen
Edward Shurtleff
Shurtleff
Hopkins
Curious death from freight car door crush in Hamburg
John Frick of Yorktown Iowa was killed while en route to his new home in Linn, D. He was riding with his belongings in a freight car when he locked out of the door as the engine switched. The sliding door crushed him and death was instant.
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Hamburg
Fen
John Frick
Yorktown
Iowa
Linn
Western trip much enjoyed by Black Hawk official
H B Cropper secretary of Black Hawk Coffee and Spice company returned from a five week vacation in San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Houston and San Antonio Mrs Cropper accompanied him and stayed longer in San Antonio.
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H. B. Cropper
Black Hawk Coffee & Spice Company
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Cal
Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Cropper
Clinton County rural carriers hold annual convention in Clinton
Clinton la Feb 22 Special The annual convention of the Clinton county rural mail carriers road superintendents and other officials meeting is being held in Clinton today. This afternoon a good roads meeting will be held at which time H P McDonald of Ames will speak.
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Clinton
Clinton County
H. P. McDonald
Ames
Flying buzz saw injuries menaces James Green at work
Marble Rock Iowa February 22 James Green was sawing wood when the buzz saw loosened and flew off striking him in the head. He suffered the loss of one eye and serious facial injuries. He resides in Marble Rock with his wife and six children.
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Marble Rock
James Green
Mr. Green
Temperature report for February 22 at 7:30 am
Temperature readings show a minimum of 14 degrees above zero at 7:30 a. m. The data, marked by Buchanan Optical Co., records 12 night measurements with partial illegible entries for the period.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
Big Graft in Baseball Prompts Fairy Tale Tone
The St Paul Dispatch reports on a claimed scheme where the National League allegedly receives official baseballs free and a $500,000 bonus from the manufacturer while club owners pay $15 per dozen for the leather covered balls. The piece argues this arrangement benefits the league and harms clubs.
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St. Paul
National League
Sporting Goods Company
al League
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