Webb Bill Over President Taft Veto Passes Congress
Congress overrode Taft's veto on the Webb anti liquor shipment bill. The House 244 to 5 and the Senate 63 to 2 overruled, aiming to enforce prohibitions in dry states despite constitutional debates. Bryan urged Democrats to back the override.
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Washington
House
Taft
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
Webb
Clayton and
Qutset
Clayton
Judiciary Committee
Wickersham
Kenyon
Cummins
Kern
Indiana
Supreme Court
William J. Bryan
Cal Miller Marks Eleven Years In Local Drug Business
Eleven years after opening at 218 Fourth Street West Cal Miller begins renovation work to the interior of his theater and drug shop. He tinting and varnishing the woodwork as part of the anniversary observance.
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Cal. J. Miller
Fourth Street West
Miler
Two Young Girls Die in Home Accidents
Cedar Rapids reports two fatalities from home accidents. Lauva McCormick aged two fell into a tub of scalding water and Myrtle Gates aged four was fatally burned when her clothes caught fire from a kitchen stove.
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Cedar Rapids
Lauva McCormick
Myrtle Gates
McCormick
Gates
Farmer ER H Peterson Drops Dead in Rock Island Depot
ER H Peterson of five miles north of Vinton died instantly at 8 30 AM in the Rock Island depot while approaching the ticket window to Norway. The death, due to cerebral hemorrhage, followed a fall that bruised his face. he was about 60, survived by a widow, four daughters and three sons.
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Vinton
H. Peterson
Here
Rock Island
Norway
Mr. Peterson
Waterloo
Ralph Payne
Peterson
Wilson Quits New Jersey Governorship to Become President
Woodrow Wilson resigns as governor of New Jersey at noon to assume the presidency of the United States after two years in office. Senator James Fielder, president of the state senate, becomes acting governor as Wilson departs with reforms including corporation law revisions and the workers compensation act already in place.
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Trenton
Woodrow Wilson
United States
New Jersey
James F. Fielder
State Senate
Wilson
N. J
James Fielder
Public Utilities Commission
Wea
Friedmann to Open Free Clinic for Tuberculosis
Dr. Friedreich Franz Friedmann plans two weeks of free treatment clinics in New York to test his tuberculosis serum. He will invite American physicians to assist in diagnosis and observe outcomes as he offers charity care to the needy, insisting money should not block access to his cure.
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F. F. Friedmann
Berlin
New York
Frederich Franz Friedmann
Friedmann
Friedrich Franz Friedmann
Herlin
Milton H. Foster
United States Marine Hospital Service
Dr. Friedmann
Fire Victims Found In Dewey Hotel Tragedy
Omaha March 1 A night vigil reveals one victim recovered from the Dewey hotel fire. Fire crews police and curious crowds endure the search as 300 workers dig for remaining bodies. The identified victim is Miss Alice Bonnevie sister of the hotel owner’s wife with hair preserved and a burned face.
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Bonnevie
Omaha
Neb
Dewey Hotel
Ttip
UN Gkeore
Misa Alice Bonnevie
Harlan la
Flora Ie
Wilcox
Harlan
Herbert Mcthonnell
Main Street
Crosby
Alice Ponnevie
Engineer Killed in Northwestern Train Collision
A passenger train on the Northwestern branch line crashed head on into a freight at Goose Lake Ta. last night. Engineer Wesley Hunt was killed and Fireman YWermann Schoenschald seriously injured. Passengers were unharmed.
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Goose Lake
Northwestern
Wesley Hunt
Ywermann Schoenschald
Fifth Anniversary Celebrated by Local Resident
Wedar Rapids March 1 Irs Ma ia Southard Jolly a longtime city resident is Friday celebrating her fifth anniversary. She is remarkably well and received many guests today.
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Wedar Rapids
Irs
Maia Southard Jolly
Faday
Remarkable Child Victim Story Moves Commission Debate
The account tells of a 14 year old French Canadian girl abused by a family friend and coerced into giving earnings. Commissioners debate punishment with calls for harsher penalties and a whipping post for white slavers.
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Isingis
Adimius
Dawn Mist to Ride in Washington Suffrage Parade
Dawn Mist daughter of Chief Three Hears will ride at the head of the suffrage parade in Washington on March 3. She joins Alde and other society women in the votes for women pageant to show suffrage embraces all classes. Miss Ines Mitchell and Miss Gladys Winckley appear as heroic figures in historic costumes.
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Washington
Dawn Mist
Three Hears
Ines Mithellaid
Gladys Winckley
Iowa Leads Nation in Farm Animal Record
Des Moines reports Iowa's livestock value leads the nation as of January 3, 1918, with total state livestock value at $393,482,000. Iowa surpasses Illinois and Texas in beef cattle and horses, leads in swine value with $104,640,000, and accounts for over 14 percent of U S swine. Beef cattle exceed all north Atlantic states combined, horses average $112 per head, beef cattle $205 per head, swine $12 per head, reflecting strong demand and wide production across Iowa farms.
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Des Moines
Iowns
Hawkeye
United States Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Towa
Texas
Union
Iowa
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Far Western
United States
Hawkrye
Fire Ends In Multiple Fatalities At Ogden Home
Mareh Tarvey Milsberry attempted to start a fire in the kitchen stove at his home in Ogden. The house burned nearly down and his wife mother in law and three children, youngest a few days old, were seriously burned. Fatalities may result from the incident.
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Ogden, Ta
Mareh
Tarvey Milsberry
5,000 Troops To Suppress Coahuila Revolt In Mexico
In Coahuila 5,000 government troops including General Aubert and 1,200 veterans of Orozco join forces under General Checoe Campos to counter rebel Governor Carranza. Carranza's strength estimated at 2,000 as Alberto Quayardo and irregulars seize mining camps. Villa allies with Maytorena in Sonora. Rail line to Juarez set for soon with Fuentes surrender. Garduna case prompts charges. El Paso reports Lavan dat and seven others executed by military authorities.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Wilson
Checoe Campos
Orozco'a
Aubert
Carranza
Coahuila
War Department
Torreon
Alberto Quayardo
Las Esperanzas
Masquiz
Ahuila
Francisco Villa
Maytorena
Sonara
Agua Prieta
Macozari
Fronteras
Puebla
Vera Cruz
Alberto Fuentes
Aguas Calientes
National
Juarez
Beralon
Rodrigues
Telipe Angeles
Belgium
Miguel Garduna
Garduna
Fuentes
el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua City
Augustin Lavan~ Dat
Abraham Gonzales
Gonzalez
Des Moines Capitalist Flynn Dead in Apparent Gas Suicide
Des Moines March 2 Coroner reports Thomas F Flynn a prominent local capitalist was temporarily insane when he turned on the gas and killed himself in his apartment bathroom. No inquest will be held after a brief investigation. He had shown strange behavior for days leading to the tragedy.
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Des Moines
Thos. F. Flynn
James F. Lee
Associated Press
Lee
Temperature report for March 4 with contrasting highs
The article notes the daily low of 4 below and a high 1 above the normal range. It compares the day to the previous year when the low was below and the high 12 above. The content is obscured by OCR markings from the Ruchanan Optical Co. Syndicate block.
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Ruchanan Optical Co
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