Taft Rooseve lt fight shapes Indiana convention
Indiana Republicans split over delegates to the national convention as Taft supporters press for four at large delegates. Both Taft and Roosevelt camps claim a narrow majority with heated floor battles and rival reports to influence the nomination race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
Taft
Harry S. New
Charles W. Fairbanks
James EK. Watson
Joseph D. Oliver
Col. Hoopevalt
Roosevelt
A. J. Baverifdge
Fred Landis
Edwin M. Lee
Charles H. Campbell
Yarge
Col
Committee On
Rossavelt
Letter from Mrs A T praising Dr Siri in Stanhope Iowa
In 1910 Mrs A T of Stanhope Iowa writes from SMTFH thanking Dr Siri of Chicago for curing her long standing stomach and glandular troubles. She recommends others with chronic issues to seek his help and signs the note sincerely.
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Stanhope
Wilbert Shallenberger
Chicagoe
Siri
A. T
SMTFH
Iowa
Cow Interference Turns Golf Round Into Farce
A golfer and friend face a cow on the links as the animal drags a bell. The cow swallows the ball and the chase ends with the first player making a hole in one while the second insists it was thirty two strokes. The judge confirms the cow counted strokes, turning a simple game into a comic dispute.
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Fnally
Weathered notes and letters on a charity manuscript
A set of clipped items shows a forecast themed feature and literary reading guidance titled Choice Literature for Holiday Reading. Letters express polite reactions to radiator issues and a cordial rejection of an enclosed manuscript from Mrs Leeder, with brief holiday charity undertone.
Quips and Small Talk From Curious Household Sketches
A jumble of humorous vignettes and social quirks from a past column. Phrases imagine calls at a house and a shop talk about customs, storage tricks, and daily manners. Names and places are teased with light satire and playful dialogue.
Appointive Offices Under New City Administration
Mayor R. C. Thompson will appoint a chief of police two street commissioners and a city scavenger. The council will appoint a plumbing inspector earning 1000 dollars annually the city electrician at 1200 dollars and the health officer paid 600 dollars yearly. Changes under the new administration are not yet known.
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R. C. Thompson
East Side
West Side
City Electrician
J. R. Rector
B.C. Thompson
Wallace Barber Slipping Toward Death in Michigan
Wallace Barber, 73, aged gunsmith, was taken to the hospital Sunday with a malignant intestinal growth and valvular heart disease. Doctors believe recovery unlikely as relatives in Michigan are notified of his critical condition.
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Wallace Barber
Bourne
Michigan
Mr. Barber
Packer Antitrust Case Moves Through Chronology
Government actions against the meat packers unfold from 1903 to 1910, detailing injunctions, indictments, immunity rulings, and grand jury probes in New York Boston and Chicago. The chronology tracks investigations against National Packing Co and related firms amid Sherman Act enforcement.
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Grosscup
Humphreys
Packer
Federal Grand Jury
National Packing Company
Bill In Equity
Landis
Sears-Roebuck Co
Waterloo
Wilson
Charles A. Roby
Charles T. Wilson
Robynlan
Sugar Magnates Must Stand Trial In Sherman Case
New York March 26 Judge Hand denied the motion to instruct the jury to acquit John E Parsons Washington B Thomas and other directors of the American Sugar Refining company charged with violating the Sherman anti trust law. The trial will proceed with the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining case referenced. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound recommended for lingering coughs as a remedy for cold and flu symptoms.
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New York
Judge Hand
United States District Court
John E. Parsons
Washington B. Thomas
American Sugar Refining Company
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
City Elections See Mayor Re-Elected In Sioux City
Sioux City voters re elected Mayor A A Smith by 132 votes in a tight race amid heavy turnout around 7500. Re elected councilmen F E Wesley and G B Healy with new members Charles Shennessey and Rudolph Beerend joining the city government.
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Sioux City
A. A. Smith
Jonathon W. Brown
Department of Public Accounts and Finance
Wesley
G. 3B. Healy
Charles Shennessey
Rudolph Beerend
Socialista Loet
Burlington
Frank Norton
Frankv. Canny
Frank W. Maskell
Charlesh. Krueger
Henry H. Schears
Roth
Cedar Rapids
Louis Roth
Wm. HH. Stepanek
Fred Lazell
Allan McDuff
Louis Z. Ika
James Hughes
Perjury Indictments in Armour Packery Conspiracy Case Noted
A 1910 special grand jury indicts Thomas G. Lee of Armour & Co for perjury and accuses Alfred R. Orion and three employees of destroying stenographers notebooks. Indictments later accuse ten packers of conspiracy in restraint of trade with a lengthy federal trial that began in December 1911.
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Jay
Thomas G. Lee
Armour & Co
Alfred R. Orion
Attorney Union
Carpenter
Foss Wants His Name on Ballot in Massachusetts Primaries
Governor Eugene N Foss informs Representative James M Curley he is not a presidential candidate but seeks his name listed as a preferential candidate on the Massachusetts primary ballot for April 30. Champ Clark declines to place his name. Miss Isabel Webberkind remains in very serious condition at Pine Street Hospital.
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Washington
Eugene N. Foss
James M. Curley
Massachusetts
Champ Clark
Isabel Webberkind
Pine Street Hospital
Boy Students Complain Of Learning Geibels Poems
A letter among Geibel’s papers from Lübeck schoolboys named Karl Beckrgann and I Klasne complains about learning Herr Geibel’s Hope of Spring. They say teachers require memorizing poets biographies and dates, urge the poet to stop writing more poems, and wish him long life.
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Geibel
Lubeck
Karl Beckrgann
I. Klasne
Herr Geibel
Lehrer Mayst
Gerbe
Megasina
Fireman Tiller badly burned in Manning grocery fire
Fireman Nay Tiller suffered severe facial and hand burns after a gas meter exploded in the basement of the D. J. Manning grocery at Eleventh and Jefferson during a 12:50 am blaze. The furnace area and stock were damaged. Tiller will miss days of duty. The fire origin is suspected to be a near furnace pile of kindling. The structure suffered floor burns and partial collapse of counters. No loss estimate issued. Adolph Block et al sue Theolore Hebrens for 100.95.
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Nay Tiller
D. J. Manning
Eleventh
Jefferson Streets
Tiller
All-Star lecturer Lanham speaks at First M E church
Rev Edwin W Lanham delivered the closing address of the All Star lecture course at First M E church in Waterloo. The Cedar Falls based Chautauqua lecturer discussed The Worlds Battle Ground and drew keen interest from listeners. A license tapwed was issued to Wilbur H Glaw and Clara S Heiser.
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Edwin W. Lanham
M. E
Lanham
Cedar Falls
Monroe Markley
Watertoo
Dr. Lanham
First Presbyterian Church
H. W. Reherd
Waterloo
Wilbur H. Glaw
Clara
Heiser
Waterloo Iowa Ordinance Sets City Officials Pay
Official publication references Ordinance No 740 detailing compensation for Waterloo city officials. It states the pay rates effective April 1 1972 and notes amounts to be paid to specified positions.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Cmcera
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