Record Floods Reach New Orleans Mississippi Valley
Flood conditions in the lower Mississippi valley worsen as record water levels threaten towns from Lettsworth to Baton Rouge. Levee breaches widen near Torras and Bayou Sara. towns flood, residents seek refuge in cotton gin cases and on rooftops. Relief trains and boats mobilize for the deluge.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Torras
New Roads
Atchafalay
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Lettworth
Lettsworth
Badhjor
Baton Rouge
Aton Rouge
Tidh
Ontchartrain
Bayou Sara
Famous feudist shot near Jackson Kentucky store
Lexington May 4 Ed Callahan a famed Breathitt county feudist was shot as he stood at his Crockett store twenty miles from Jackson. The gunman fired from the same hillside where Callahan was wounded two years earlier. The feudist was riddled with bullets. Italians seize Rhodes as Italian fleet takes Turkish island Rhodes.
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Lexington
Ed Callahan
Breathitt County
Crockettsile
Jackson
Callahan
Rhodes
Rome
Taft presses for square deal in Maryland primaries
President Taft campaigned in Hyattsville and Laurel urging Maryland voters to back him. He attacked Roosevelt over recall of judges and disputed speeches, insisting he seeks only a square deal and deploring the need to campaign as a candidate. He said he fights for a cause, not personal ambition, and warned against changing constitutional interpretation by party.
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Baltimore
Taft
Maryland
Hyattsville
Laurel
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Texas Voters Speak Today As Parties Name Delegates
Texas voters go to precinct conventions across 244 counties to select delegates shaping county and state conventions. Republicans list Taft Roosevelt while Democrats mention Harmon Wilson and Champ Clark. Clark campaign started only recently.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Taft
Col
Roosevelt
Harmon
Wilson
Champ Clark
Clark
New Hartford Residents Govern Themselves Without Police
New Hartford has functioned for a full month without a policeman or marshal as residents appoint their own peace guardians. Mayor I A Villa and acting leader E N Wills recount the shift to self-government under a $1 per capita fee system, with Marshal Burns resigning due to low pay. Wills, previously a Waterloo resident, now leads a town that feels secure without formal law enforcement.
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New Hartford
Elmer Burns
I. A. Villa
Marshal Burns
Waterloo
E. N. Wills
Wills
New Nortford
Turing
Postmasters Called to Join Iowa Association
Ottumwa May 4 postmasters appointed by the president are urged to join the Iowa Presidential Postmasters Association before the Perry meeting. Frank A. Nimocky and Geo C True were elected president and secretary. District vice presidents from 1st to 11th listed with names, including Mrs Lucy B Smith. Resolutions favored limited parcels post on rural routes and higher pay for fourth class postmasters. The convention was the most successful in the association’s history.
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Ottumwa
Towa
W. W. Copeland
Burlington
Robert McNutt
A. L. Hazelton
Counhed Bluffs
A. L. Risely
Rockwell City
Lucy
Ismith
Bronx Rapids
Association
Auto funeral to honor Charles F. Smith in Ottumwa
In Ottumwa Iowa Charles F Smith 37 chief machinist at a local garage will have an automobile funeral tomorrow afternoon. Four city garages will stage forty cars in the procession a gray casket on a gray car with heavy gray drapery will bear the remains to the grave. He had requested not to be carried in a hearse.
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Ottumwa
Charles F. Smith
Horne
Smith
Rebels Defeat Mexican Army At Torreon In Big Battle
Washington reports General Orozco’s rebel forces defeated the Mexican federal army in an eight battle at Torreon. No battle details were released. In San Francisco officials say the War Department ordered the transport Buford to carry Americans and British and Spanish nationals from the west coast of Mexico.
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Washington
Orozco
Torreon
Treasury Department
San Francisco
Cal
War Department
Buford
Mexico
Mara Island Navy Yard
Freight handlers strike across Chicago railroads
Six thousand Chicago freight handlers on twenty four railroads walked out today after rejecting a wage offer. They demanded a 48 dollar monthly increase while the roads offered 2.50. Officials said several roads sought pollen protection.
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Chicago
Wall Collapse Buries Workers in Toronto Shoe Factory
A falling wall at a new shve rstory building in Toronto buried over two hundred workers, most of them women and children, with a score or more believed killed and 20 to 30 feared dead. Fire brigade fought to rescue victims as two bodies were recovered and five injured girls were saved.
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Toronto
Ont
Demand End of Amusement Rules
Minneapolis May 4 A resolution from Benjamin F. Fonsal of Newark New Jersey urged the Methodist Episcopal church to drop its anti amusement rules. The measure said compulsory good behavior is not the essence of religion and that the prohibitory rule is in effective and was referred to a committee.
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Minneapolis
Methodist Episcopal Church
Benjamin F. Fonsal
Newark
N. J
Iowan wins in normal contest at Emporia
Earl Ericson of Town State Normal won first place in the interstate normal oratorical contest held in Emporia Kansas last night. Howard H. Jones of Wisconsin finished second and Earl Shinn of Kansas Normal placed third. Missouri and fins also counted among top finishers.
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Emporia
Kan
Earl Ericson
Town State Normal
Howard H. Jones
Wisconsin
Earl Shinn
Kansas Normal
Missouri
Finois
Arrest at wedding as groom is jailed for embezzlement
At the courthouse in Des Moines on May 4, R. Shepard of State Center was arrested on an embezzlement warrant just as his marriage ceremony began. Bride Mabel Hankin cried and clung to him as officials separated them. Shepard was taken to Marshall County with his wife accompanying.
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Tes Moines
Shepard
State Center
James Loper
Mabel Hankin
Thas
Marshall County
Dex Moines
Lloyd Allen Feared to Threaten Court in Hillsville Slaying Trial
Testimony in Lloyd Allen's trial for the Carroll county prosecutor Foster's murder describes prior threats to "make a big hole in the Carroll county court" and to slay his own counsel if not defended properly. Bevil recounted Allen's oath to resist punishment despite fines, vowing to strike the court with "the biggest hole" any man ever did.
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Wrtheville
Lloyd Allen
Hillsville
Carroll County
N. J. Bevi
Allen
Foster
Bevil
Sumner moves to bar leper from Iowa citizen rights
Dr. G. H. Sumner secretary of the Iowa board of health today filed legal steps to block Herman Hirschfeldt a Bay City Michigan city council member believed to be a leper from Iowa citizenship. He asked the Iowa attorney general to compel Michigan to take Hirschfeldt back transportation costs estimated at 1120 dollars and Hirschfeldt refuses to pay or return to Bay City.
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Des Moines
Tta
G. H. Sumner
Iowa Board, of Health
Troops to Guard Irrigation Canal Movement
Washington May 4 One company of the Twelfth Infantry prepared to leave Monterey California for the Mexican border. It will split between Yuma Arizona and Calexico California to guard the Imperial Valley irrigation canal as it leaves American territory at Yuma and returns at Calexico.
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Washington
Twelfth Infantry
Monterey
Cal
Yuma
Ariz
Calextea
Imperial Valley
Calexico
General Staff
Continuous Flight Ends After Plane Crash in New Jersey
A proposed nonstop air route from Long Island to Philadelphia ended when the aeroplane fell near Elizabeth New Jersey. Both travelers Reid and General Treatty were unhurt, though the craft was wrecked. Architect William Vedicord partners with Charles P. Foster, who will head drafts. they prepare plans for St. Martins Episcopal Church on West Fourth and Denver streets.
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Philadelphia
Marshall
William Vedicord
Charles P. Foster
Foster
St. Mart's Episcopal Church
West Fourth
Denver
Taft to Probe Archibald Impeachment Question
President Taft directs Attorney General Wickersham to support House Judiciary Committee inquiry into Judge Robert Archbald of the Commerce Court for alleged railroad favors and a proposed coal culm bank deal. Charges claim Archbald could profit $25,000 to $40,000 via a one third share. Committee to decide if impeachment proceedings are warranted.
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Washington
Taft
House
Norris
Robourt W. Archibald
Commerce Court
Judiciary Committee
Washuston
Wickersham
House Judiciary Committee
Robert W. Archbald
Archbald
Erie Railroad
Wao. Boland
Scranton
Archhbald
Thehouse
Senate
Travelers' Protective association meets in Davenport Iowa
State convention opens in Davenport with delegates from across Iowa. Debate centers on moving national election day from Tuesday to Monday to help travelers vote. Hotel service improvements and longer bed sheets also discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Travelers’ Protective Association
Iowa
Glenny to Invest 12000 15000 in Baltimore Property
A. K. E. Glenny plans a major upgrade for the vacant Baltimore and Fourth streets site. The project includes three new residences costing 4000 to 6000 each, with excavation to begin Monday. One home already has renters, for gentlemen.
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Baltimore
Fourth Streets
A. K E. Glenny
Chicago strike grows graver as pressmen walkout
In Chicago the pressmen strike deepens as stereotypers quit in sympathy, forcing condensed editions with no ads. Shooting erupts outside a newspaper building at Madison and Dearborn, with arrests and guards escorting loaded newspaper wagons. A separate incident on the North Western elevated line ends without arrests after threats to a street-paper vendor.
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Chicago
Madison and
Dearborn Strets
Fullerton Avenue
Northwestern
Seed corn germination shows high vitality in test
George Bopp of Mt. Vernon township planted 100 kernels from many ears and reports universal germination. Experts at Ames and across the state had warned of low germination rates, but Bopp's outdoor trial indicates all kernels sprouted.
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Ames
George Bopp
Mt. Vernon Township
Bopp
Buried Alive in Sewer Cave Kills Laborer John J. Peters
Davenport May 4 laborer John J. Peters was buried alive when sewer ditch walls caved in this morning and died before fellow workers could free him. Nearby, the body of Joseph Cosgrove, who jumped into the Mississippi after a quarrel with a girl, was found nearby the prior river plunge site.
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Davenport, In
John J. Peters
Joseph Cosgrove
Mississippi River
Union Station Work Suspended by AFL-Disaffiliated Stone Workers
Kansas City May 4 Work on the new five million dollar Union Station was halted today as about two thousand union laborers struck. The stoppage followed a dispute over stone supplied from an Indiana firm whose stone cutters are not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
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Kansas City
Indiana
American Federation of Labor
Temperatures Report May 4 With Historical Comparisons
The record shows yesterday's high at 84 degrees reached by 4:30 p.m. A year ago the low was 40 and the high 67. The text notes various times and numbers from measurements, including 12 night and 76 and 68 readings, with references to an Optical company and Syndicate Block.
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Suppnea Oy Suchanat Optical Company
Syndicate Block
Sents Ewascaesnn
Verang Benwtedee OS
Aging Ottumwa merchant passes away after long sales career
Ottumwa Indiana May 4 Martin Israel a prominent citizen aged 80 died today after a 27 year career as a traveling salesman for a large mercantile firm. He had spent 47 years in the traveling business.
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Ottumwa
Martin Israel
Israel
Boy Dies After Impalement On Picket Fence
Russell Knight, twelve, son of Mr and Mrs John Knight, Webster City Indiana, died after being impaled on a fence while playing near the school and courthouse. He fell and the stake pierced his chest area. he was transported but succumbed to the injuries.
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Webster City
Russell Knight
John Knight
Court House
Jase
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