Sunday Tribute to Lincoln Draws Large Waterloo Audience
Juvenile Waterloo audience of over 7 000 filled the tabernacle for Billy Sunday meetings with around 3 000 turned away. Youth from East and West Highs, business colleges, and James Black store workers packed in as Dr Rodehaver led prayers and praised a growing chorus. Sunday noted decent but not ideal offerings and announced further efforts and daily child care volunteers.
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Abraham Lincoln
Euclid
Lincoln
Abe
Billy
Alyy
Tabernacle
Waterloo
Town
Merica
James Black
Remarkable Fifty Years for Fitzpatrick Family in Greeley
Greeley Iowa November 12 special report The Fitzpatrick family marks their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a reunion in northeastern Iowa. Mr and Mrs Patrick are pioneer Delaware County residents living near Greeley for forty five years. Eleven of their twelve living children attend the gathering. The family includes clergy and professionals such as Rev James J Fitzpatrick and Dr Dennis Fitzpatrick along with legal and banking members. The eldest daughter is married to Judge Martin J Wade and the youngest Loretta Fitzpatrick works as assistant cashier in Waterloo Savings Bank.
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Greeley
James
Delaware County
Tifteen
M. Evangelista
the Visitation
M. Berttte
Holy Ghost Sisters
James J. Fitzpatrick
St. Mary's’ Catholic Church
Marshalltown
M. Theresa
Visitation
Dubuque
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick
Dennis Fitzpatrick
Iowa City
Martin J. Wade
Iowa
Misa Loretta Fitzpatrick
Waterloo Savinga Bank
Waterloo
Bernard
Martin
John Fitzpatrick
John Schacker
Edgewood
Patrick Lavelle
Maurice
Championship of West and East Football Contests
In an early November scene, Yale and Princeton vie for the big eastern contest while Harvard meets Dartmouth in Cambridge. Pennsylvan ia and Michigan clash in Philadelphia with no score at halftime and Minnesota faces Wisconsin in Minneapolis as the western slate unfolds with several regional clashes.
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New York
Wisconsin
Philadelphia
Navy
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Women Cigarettes and Drinks Rise, Says Temperance Leader
Baltimore, Md. Nov. 12 Mrs. Stevens president of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union declared drinking and cigarette smoking are rising among American women in an address before the convention. She based her statement on a personal investigation and urged an amendment to the federal constitution prohibiting polygamy and stricter laws to curb white slave traffic. She also called for a federal law allowing states to regulate interstate liquor shipments.
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Baltimore
Stevens
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
Night Sermon Fragments Offer Moral Pitfalls and Advice
A collection of didactic lines urges practical faith, warns against arrogance, and promotes self improvement. It argues work over leisure, supports education and family life, and cautions against city crime and heavy drinking. The voice stresses personal effort, minority virtue, and relevance of religion and community institutions.
Des Moines Appoints Carroll Ames Young to U S Senator
Des Moines Iowa is the site as Carroll Ames Young is named United States senator to replace the late Dolliver. Governor Carroll's secretary announces Young accepted the post. Rumors swirl of a two senator Des Moines arrangement and future legislative deadlock. Lafe Young, praising his appointment, says no strings on his term and questions future candidacy. Separate talk centers on a speakership battle in the coming general assembly and a bid for state printer.
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Des Moines
Evening Press
Late Young
Daily Capital
United States
Iowa
Dolliver
Carroll
C. C. Nye
Mr. Young
Young
Mafe
Lafe Young
State Senate
United States Senate
General Assembly
Paul Stillman
Jefferson
The
Jefferson Bee
House
Stillman
Explorers Live Where Dogs Die in Arctic Trek
Iowa City scientists Lieutenant F. M. Anderson and Dr. Velhsjalmr Stefansson struggle in the far north. A letter reports pneumonia hitting Anderson and two natives. They began toward a point 200 miles east of Cape Lyons as ten Eskimo dogs perished from cold. The men survived on skins and snow shoe thongs during famine.
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Iowa City
Evening Press
F. M. Anderson
Velhsjalmr Stefansson
University of Iowa
Anderson
Cape Lyons
Accidental Shooting Kills Wife in Gibbs Neighborhood
Kirksville Missouri November 12 Mrs John Moore wife of a jeweler in Gibbs near Kirksville was killed by an accidental shotgun discharge. Moore kept a loaded shotgun in his bedroom to guard against burglars and when removing shells this morning it discharged striking Mrs Moore in bed.
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Kirksville
John Moore
Gibbs
Moore
Captain H. I. Smith Dies at Mason City
Captain H. J. Smith longtime president of the First National Bank of Mason City and Civil War veteran dies at noon. He was a prominent local citizen and a leading figure in the community.
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H. I. Smith
Mason City
Hoening Press
H. J. Smith
First National Bank
Nine million Americans saved an average of 24.77 this year
Washington reports from the Comptroller of the Currency that about nine million Americans in modest means saved an average of 24.77 dollars per person during the year. The findings come from savings bank accounts and indicate broad prosperity, with other measures showing gradual improvement in conditions.
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Washington
Murray
Comptroller
Bethel Denève on Ocean in Montreal Flight
London reports Ethel Lenove, just acquitted as an accessory after the Crippen murder, is traveling toward Montreal while Crippen sits under a death sentence. In Kansas, James Parker, a wealthy farmer, was murdered in his home with robbery suspected as the motive. The Grinnell College football squad spent the night in Waterloo after playing Normal of Cedar Falls. J G Ralston made a business trip to Vinton.
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London
The
Daily News
Ethel Lenove
Crippen
H. H. Crippen
Montreal
Titchinson
Kan
James Parker
Grinnell College
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Irving
St. Paul, Minn
Allz. Alebert
Try
Street Car Strike Looms In Des Moines
Des Moines street carmen threaten a night strike after the company refused to arbitrate a dispute with the union over the discharge of a worker who testified against the company for his sweetheart. The walkout could halt all city streetcars. Also notes Illinois property assessment figures showing taxable property value rising to 590,106,228 with a jump from the previous year.
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Des Moines
Evening Press
Carmen
Whea
Istanois Property Assesset
Springfield
Ski
Countess Tolstoi report of suicide attempt surfaces
A St. Petersburg private message says Countess Tolstoi twice tried to drown herself today. In Tula Tolstoi is believed to have moved toward a Kaluga monastery after last seen boarding a train Thursday. The disappearance of the Russian novelist and reformer shocks observers.
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St. Petersburg
Tula
Tolstoi
Kaluga
Petition Aims to Repeal Mulot Law in Iowa
Perry Iowa November 12 state chairman C Durant Jones of the prohibition party announced plans for a monster petition to the legislature asking repeal of the mulot law. He expects to present the largest petition ever offered to a town legislature with about a quarter of a million names. Speakers are in the field and an aggressive campaign will be pushed.
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Perry
C. Durant Jones
Prohibition Party
77 Miles an Hour for Grand Prize
Savannah Georgia reports the start of a 415.2 mile auto race for a 5000 dollar gold cup and 4000 cash. Fifteen starters began the event with 14 remaining at the 200 mile mark as Willie Harst leading and Nazzaro second, both within eleven seconds of the leader at 77 miles per hour.
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Savannah
Willie Harst
Benz
Nazzaro
Fiat
Paymaster Hines Held Up In Great Barrington Robbery
Paymaster Hines was held up by bandits in Great Barrington Massachusetts and robbed of about 5909 from the construction company's pay roll. Separate item notes New Hampshire population at 430,572 with an increase of 15,954. A Gentleman's smoke San Felice.
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Great Barrington
Mass
New Wampshire
Washington
New Ilampshire
Crippen Case Echoes Reach Alberta and Chicago
A reported Alberta sighting of Mrs Crippen triggers renewed public interest as she supposedly fainted upon hearing Crippen’s death sentence. Bruce Miller, a key trial witness, doubts the Alberta report and insists the Crippen case proved her death or murder in court.
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Bruce Miller
Chicago
Bruce Miler
Dr. Crippen
Crippen
Alberta
Revolution gains headway in Honduras amid unrest
New Orleans November 12 dispatch reports the revolutionary movement against President Davila has gained headway. Valladares loyalists in Amapala have hoisted the flag of Bonilla in western Honduras and declare he shall be elected president of the republic.
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New Orleans
Davila
Honduras
Valladares
Amapala
Bonilla
Made Inspector in Porto Rico
John Hyland of Osceola and Ames College, a civil engineer, has been appointed inspector for a large packing plant in Porto Rico. He will leave for the island about mid November.
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Creston
Evening Press
John Hyland
Osceola
Ames College
Porto Rico
Sundays Prayer for the Home
A faded prayer asks God to bless the home and those affected by poverty sickness and loneliness. The speaker seeks guidance to warn others of hell, comfort travelers and workers, ease rent burdens, and remember mothers who have passed. The tone is devotional and public, urging care for vulnerable city residents.
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Jesus
Court orders revival attendance for drunkenness case
Police Judge Caldwell sentences Tom Knowlen of Marshalltown to attend Sunday revival meetings for one week as punishment for drunkenness. If he defaults he faces a fine of 7.85 dollars and loses about 1.12 dollars per day for the week. The judge hopes the revival will reform him.
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Caldwell
Tom Knowlen
Marshalltown
Knowlon
Knowton
Mason City
Salvation Army
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Princeton
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Vinton
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