Rownd to stay on the Waterloo board in saloon canvass
The Waterloo board and supporters of the saloon petition negotiat e a method to proceed with canvassing the petition. Cedar Falls official Rownd defends his actions and rebuts critics while opponents push for disqualification. The session features debate on bias, legality, and proper process as canvass by precincts begins.
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H. E. Gale
J. &. Hammond
Frank Campbell
J. ©. Darrah
Board of Supervisors
C. A. Rowne
Cedar Falls
W. H. Webb
Court House
Rownd
Coltman
Wer
Waterloo
Rowne
Sullivan
Tasnea
Slung shots new weapon of suffragists
London reports the suffragists adopt the slung shot as a campaign tool. They hurl discs marked for women, with limited early damage though doctors warn the weapon can kill. Actress Jacky Melford faces court for bombing shop windows from a moving omnibus, fined ten dollars or a month in jail, father paying. Fires destroy thousands of letters set by women to mailboxes.
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London
Jacky" Melford
Grinnell Women Vote Today On Suffrage In Legal Fashion
Grinnell Iowa women vote today to decide if they want the right to vote as a body. Polls opened at 7 am and by noon a fair share of ballots were cast. The primary, run by the Commercial Club, limits voting to women with a prominent club woman and a commercial club member as judges. Indications show nearly all Grinnell women plan to vote.
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Grinnell
Commercial Club
Senator Gates of Butler Co. Drops Dead
Des Moines Iowa January 31 Senator Charles Gates veteran member of the upper house died suddenly this morning due to heart trouble He was 56 born in Town and represented Bremer and Butler counties in his third term He collapsed after breakfast at his boarding place 1221 Walker Street and died before aid arrived The senate held no session this morning and may not convene until Monday
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Des Moines
Charles Gates
Gates
Walker Street
Senate
Bremer
Butler
Greene
Des Moines Burglary Suspects Arrested After Raid
In Des Moines Iowa three homes were robbed last night. One man Charles A Thompson was shot while resisting burglars and two teenage boys were later arrested while fleeing the third house. Thompson was reported dying at noon. The burglars gave names Edward Southern and Alex Jones but their identities and addresses are believed fictitious.
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Des Moines
Chas. A. Thompson
Thompson
Hors
Edward Southern
Alex Jones
Rock Island
Ill
Oil prices rise further on opening. Pennsylvania crude at 2.40
Pittsburgh January 31 report shows a continued rapid advance in crude oil values. At market opening another seven cents was added, lifting Pennsylvania crude to 2.40, with Mercer black, New Castle, earning, and Cabell at 1.93 to 2. its peers Somerset and Raglan unchanged.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Mercer Black
New Castle
Cabell
Somerset
Raglan
Last Hearings on Free List in tariff talks
Washington shows the concluding chapter of tariff hearings before the Ways and Means Committee focusing on the free list and Payne Aldrich law features. About fifty witnesses were slated as the panel winds toward a possible finish the next day. Baron Ilkeston Dead in London at 75, former Sir Walter Foster, physician and author on heart diseases.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Baron Ilkeston
London
Baron Tkeston
Liberal
House of Lords
Walter Foster
Vaudeville to Burlesque in Davenport Theatre Change
After three months as a vaudeville house the Lyric Theatre in Davenport Iowa will close this week and reopen next as a burlesque venue marking a switch in its programming and branding.
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Davenport
The
Lyric Theatre
Solicitor McCabe Quits Agriculture Department
Washington January 31 Geo P McCabe solicitor of the department of Agriculture has presented his resignation to Secretary Wilson for an immediate action and it has been accepted Portland Oregon noted in wire service copy Smoke Light Draft Reclar Savarttuemant
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Wcabe
Washington
Geo. P. McCabe
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Turkish orders gut off hope of the powers
Constantinople Jan 31 officers and men on furlough ordered to rejoin within 24 hours. Turkish gov't sends orders for Ottoman plenipotentiaries to leave London for Constantinople. Europe-wide peace sentiment influences Balkan talks as diplomats urge compromise and possible division of Adrianople. Germans pessimistic over Bulgaria's stance and renewed hostilities feared Monday.
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Constantinople
Tehatalja
London
Europe
Balkans
Spirus
Turkey
Adrianople
Ottoman Empire
Maritza
Bulgaria
Macedonia
Berlin
Balkan
Germany
Climate figures for January thirty first
Temperature readings note the day’s record low of 20 degrees and high of 35 degrees. It compares with last year’s minimum zero and maximum 26 above. Data supplied by Buchanan Optical Co on the ground floor Syndicate block.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Birthday Party Like a Funeral Observed in Odd 27th
A young businessman on Lafayette Street marked his twenty seventh birthday with a party that sensibly turned eerie. Attendees included an undertaker, coffin maker, grave hinge maker, tombstone drafter, and an insurance agent. A near fatal incident left the crowd murmuring that fate influenced the gathering, though no doctor or preacher was present to bless the event.
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Lafayette Street
May Decide Fate of Taft and Roosevelt Amendments Hit
Washington January 31 Nearly a dozen amendments pending as the senate resumes Work’s resolution for a six year presidential term. Proposals aim to exempt Wilson Taft and Roosevelt and bar another term for Roosevelt. Bills include two term limits and fraction term rules plus prospective exemptions for current and former presidents. Roosevelt would be ineligible under several amendments while others seek to apply the new term to the next president and not to those already in office. The senate planned a vote during the legislative day of January 30 with a final decision anticipated before night.
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Washington
Senate
Wilson
Taft
Roosevelt
Col
Gallinger
Ita
Hitchcock
McCumber
Williams
Menedoee
Paynter
Dixon
Root
Clark
Arkansas
Oldest Pioneer in Webster City Shoots Self
Webster City Iowa January 1 special report Webster City's oldest pioneer W S Worthington a resident since 1865 committed death by own action this morning by shooting himself while temporarily ingans He was past 83 years of age and had been in very good health for a man of that age.
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Webster City
W. S. Worthington
Waterlooo woman dies of heart trouble at home
Ethel May Pett born March 3, 1901 in Waterloo died this morning at her parents home on State road after a struggle with organic heart trouble. She attended West Waterloo schools and belonged to First Baptist Church. Short services set for Monday at 1:30 at home and 2:30 at Elmwood Cemetery with Rev. E A Valiant officiating.
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Ethel May Pett
George W. Pett
State Road
Meccased
Waterloo
West Waterloo
First Baptist Church
E. A. Valiant
Elmwood
Educational Day at National Corn Show in D C
Educational day with an interesting program of speeches was observed at the nation’s corn show in Washington. About 800 boys and girls participate in the exposition prize winners program and a banquet will conclude the event tomorrow hosted by the local chamber of commerce with James Wilson arriving to preside. Rexaire union made Se cigar advertisement.
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Columbia
D. C
Tan
Chamber of Commerce
James Wilson
Surgeon seeks three square feet of living skin
In Los Angeles on June 31 Dr J H Garrett, a government physician, began a curious appeal for volunteers among jail inmates to donate three square feet of skin to help a patient severely burned in a recent fire. He said women inmates would have nothing to do for 60 or 90 days but recover after skin is appropriated.
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Los Angeles
J. H. Garrett
Jaffa
Mr. Garrett
Treacherous thug kills downtown storekeeper in Davenport
Ernest Daldorf, a Rockingham road storekeeper in Davenport West, was held up last night by a masked man. In the scuffle over the cash register Daldorf was shot three times and died instantly. Clyde Jagger was present as the assailant fled after the confrontation. The attacker wore a dark suit and corduroy cap.
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Daveanport
Ernest
Daldorf
Rockingham Road
West Davenport
Rimert
Clyde Jagger
Jaeger
Lega
Thief Fire Blaze At Chicago Department Store
Michael Roser, 65, restrained by burglars during a midnight break in at a north side Chicago store. He freed himself as flames erupted, dialing fire and police. Loss totaled 75000 dollars. robbers escaped with 1200 dollars. An earlier note says Victor Clement Fisher of Los Angeles was arrested in London on an embezzlement extradition warrant for 12900 dollars.
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Chicago
Michael Roser
North Side
Roser
London
Victor Clement Fisher
Los Angeles
Fire alarm cockroach shocks city crews
An unidentified cockroach crawled into a fire alarm box in Minneapolis triggering an alarm at 3 08 a m and prompting a snowbound fire crew response. The insect was electrocuted when the short circuit registered the alarm and killed the creature.
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Minneapolis
Five cremated in farm home blaze near Richland Iowa
Major Harri s 45, Mrs Harris 30, Arnett 10, Turvis 7, and Mrs Fannie Harris 80 were killed when their farm home three miles north of Richland burned at 1 am. Neighbors found the building a ruin. origin thought to be a lamp flame from an incubator in the basement after the couple returned from a show. Fireman-like efforts failed to save the family.
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Richland
Harette
Glock
Arez Major Harris
Major Harris
Arnett Harris
Turvis Harris
Fannie Harris
Weasley Bond
Harris
Huseband
Victory for Home Rule in Londonderry Contest
In Londonderry Ireland January 81 the Irish home rule party won a close parliamentary seat against unionists. David C Hogg 2899 vs H A Pakenham Unionist with 6841 votes cast from a 5463 electorate. unionist hold from 1900 was broken boosting home rule influence in Ulster. election calm despite feared disturbances as police and ambulances aided voters.
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Londonderry
Ireland
Irish Home Rule Party
Unioniats
David C. Hogg
National
H. A. Pakenham
Marquis of Hamilton
House of Lords
Duke of
Ulsster
Royal Irish Constabulary
Jeondonderry
Mr. Hogg
Fire at Adams Paper building near courthouse
A fire was discovered at 2:45 this afternoon in the Adams Paper company building opposite the courthouse. The blaze’s extent was not yet determined as smoke filled the structure, which occupied a site recently taken over by the Iowa Paper company after a brief reorganization.
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Adams Paper Company
Court House
Iowa
Lompany
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