Election of Urick successor to highlight Iowa Labor meet
Des Moines hosts the Iowa Federation of Labor four day convention with 300 delegates. J. M. Leonard to preside as A. L. Urick leaves the presidency after twenty five years of labor service. Harry Streif leads bid for president as discussions cover biennial conventions and prison labor reform.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Federation of Labor
J. M. Leonard
Labor Temple
Leonard
A. L. Urick
Urick
Harry Streif
Sioux City
Federation
Organized Labor
Iowa
Brate
Take Plenty of Time to Eat Says a Cure Ad
A dated advertisement warns against eating too fast and links rapid eating to indigestion and constipation. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for stomach fullness and dullness and claims many cases of digestive trouble have been cured. Sold by all dealers.
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Chambern
Bride Ends Life by Inhaling Gas in Des Moines
Des Moines, June 9. Mrs Tony Kales 28 years old died in her room over 200 East Grand avenue by turning on natural gas after packing belongings and writing farewell notes. Coroner called it a plain act of self destruction. She was formerly Goldie Lamphere married December. A note to her husband and a message to her year old son Carl now with an aunt in Stuart accompany the scene.
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Des Moines
Tony Kales
East Grand Avenue
Lee
Kales
Goldie Lamphere
Carl
Stuart
Kalevenious
Raux
Kelly Pool Gambling Case Ends With Fine
In Pierre on June 4 Judge Sherwood in circuit court found Kelly pool to be gambling under state law. George Griffin, a billiard room proprietor, received four months in fall and a $300 fine for maintaining a Kelly pool game.
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Pierre
George Griffin
Sherwood
Kelly Poole
Kenneally Joins Citizens Gas & Electric for Summer Work
Marion Kenneally of Jesup arrives to work this summer with Citizens Gas & Electric. He was star catcher for the Ames college baseball team last season and helped Ames clinch the state championship title through his efforts.
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Marion Kenneally
Jesup
Citizens Gas & Electric Companys
Kenneally
Ames
Tax case targets Rock Island Railroad taxes in Polk county
Des Moines reports that George S. Wright and Addison G. Kistle filed suit in district court to enforce collection of 15,509,400 dollars in alleged unpaid taxes from the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The action, brought in the name of County Treasurer P. H. Martin, seeks interest and a 40 percent penalty, arguing the Rock Island held company owed taxes for five years on moneys, credits and stock valued at 100,000,000 dollars.
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Des Moines
Polk County Board of Supervisors
George S. Wright
Addison G. Kistle
Council Bluffs
Chicago, Hook Island & Pacific Railroad Company
Ralph Bolton
Great Des Moines Committee
Kistla & Wright
Rock Island
Bolton
Council Haaffs
Hugh Brennan
Equity Division
District Court
Parker, Parrish & Miller
P. H. Martin
Polk County
Rock Island Railroad Company
E. 5. Moore
J. J. Qan
F. W. Sargt
Rock Island Railway
Kistle & Wright
Polk Country
Suffragette Emily Davison Dies After Derby Incident
Miss Emily Wilding Davison, a prominent suffragette, died in Epsom England on Sunday from injuries suffered when she rushed the Derby track last Wednesday and halted the king's horse. Her death marks a dramatic culmination of her protest for women’s voting rights.
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Epsom
England
Emily Wilding Davison
Larmore Denounces Saloons and Internal Revenue Law
Indiana speaker M. Larmore attacks the saloon as a national sin tied to the internal revenue act. In a Billy Sunday style sermon at Westminster Church he links liquor to poverty crime and moral decline and urges church unity to abolish the tax law and end saloon influence.
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Larmore
Indiana
Westminster Presbyterian Church
United States
Internal Revenue Law
Jarmore
Washington
Temperance Lectures Emphasize Civic Duty in Vote
A speaker urged citizens to use their vote as strong power for reform and framed it as a civic duty, equating ballots with the saloon advocates. Mr Larmore then spoke at the Y M C A about temperance, drawing a large audience with a message aligned to the evening lecture.
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Larmore
Elam v Bradbury & Webb Amended Petition Granted
In the case William M. Elam versus Bradbury and Webb Judge C W Mullan grants the plaintiff leave to amend petition and the defendant's answer stands as the answer to the amended petition. The defense began its case Friday. The administrator of the Washington Myers estate filed the final report Saturday. Lore Alford's action against F P Faulkner Faulkner & Co and C C Wolf has been dismissed as to Mr Wolf.
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William M. Elam
Bradbury & Webb
C. W. Mullan
Washington Myers , Estate
Lore Alford
F. P. Faulkner
F. P. Faulkner & Co
C. C. Wolf
Mr. Wolf
Holton Denied New Trial After Fur Coat Theft
Dubuque Iowa June 9 H A Holton convicted thief who stole a valuable fur coat from Stampfer department store and jailed in Little Rock Ark has been denied a new trial. He likely faces sentencing early next week. A young woman confined in the county jail with Holton was discharged. her home is Council Bluffs.
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Dubuque
H. A. Holton
Stampfer Department
Little Rock
Ark
Holton
Council Bluffs
Prescott Murder Trial Postponed in Mason City
The trial of Louis Prescott on a wife shooting charge was postponed to next Wednesday at his request. Officers seek two men who were with Prescott on the day of the shooting. Mrs. Prescott remains in critical condition but has regained consciousness and the danger of death has lessened.
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Mason City
Sia
Louis Prescott
Prescott
Plans Prepared for New Movie House in Waterloo
A Waterloo and Cedar Falls Union Mill official reports architect W T Eberson of Chicago has nearly completed plans for a new movie house by Butterfield and Heiman across the mill race. Eberson will be south for ten days, delaying a conference on the lease with J M Hamilton. Ira J Hoover is in the east awaiting the architect's return to finalize the plans and specifications.
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Waterloo and
Cedar Falls Union Mill Company
W. T. Eberson
Chicago
Butterfield and Heiman
The
Majestic
South
Waterloo
Ira J. Hoover
J. M. Hamilton
Corn acreage in Woodbury County rises 10 percent
Grain men estimate Woodbury county will plant about 200000 acres of corn this year, up from 181463 last year despite wet weather delays. Small grain acreage drops about five percent while forage crops increase. Wheat crop is reported to be at its best, and corn shows good emergence and rapid growth.
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Sioux City
Woodbury County
Chalmers
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Iowa Federation OF Labor
Rock Island Company Made
Des Moines Committee
Terloo
Complet
Detroit
Chalmers Company
Bryant Motor Car Co
Jefferson Street
Marzella’s
Dow
Griffin
Emmert
Mayne
Great Monahan
Petticoat Minstrels
Hagerman and Downing
Northwestern Land @ Investment Co
West Fourth Street
Berkley's
Kimball Ideal Laundry Co
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