Man Found Dead in a Coal Car Near Shores Facility
Coroner reports John Riley, about 35, found face down in a coal car while unloading at Shores Fuel & Transfer. Exhaustion from hard work and lack of food, plus chronic heart trouble, are suspected causes. Relatives unknown. body at O Keefe & Towne awaiting claim.
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Shores Fuel & Transfer Company
John Riley
L. A. Watkins
Watkins
Hin
Riley
the Shores Company
Waterbury
O'Keefe & Towne
Des Moines Food Commissioner Won't Debate Over Milk Tuberculosis Risk
Des Moines, October. W. Barney, Iowa state food and dairy commissioner, refused to debate Secretary Sumner of the Iowa state board of health on whether milk from cows with tuberculosis is dangerously exaggerated. Barney stood by his claim that the danger is overstated and that tubercular milk is safe unless the udder is lesioned. The health board chief rebutted, saying Barney ignores scientific findings, prompting medical boards to criticize his statements.
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Des Moines
Iowa Health Board
Waterloo
Barney
Wooden Shoes Marked by Medieval European Princes
The article notes that during the ninth and tenth centuries the greatest princes of Europe wore wooden shoes. It highlights the footwear as a distinctive trait of royal fashion and provenance in early medieval courts.
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Europe
Debate Over Inviting Evangelist to Public Schools
A Waterloo school board and Superintendent A W Chamberlin consider inviting evangelist W A Sunday next month. They likely will bar talks during school hours but may allow outside hours discussions. Chamberlin argues public schools must stay separate from politics and religion to protect all students.
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A.W. Chamberlin
Pmblic
Supt
Chamberlin
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Taft Opposes Ellis Island Expansion Plans
President Taft after an Ellis Island inspection urges tougher penalties on steamship lines for bringing undesirable immigrants and opposes enlarging Ellis Island capacity. He backs diverting new immigrant flows to other Atlantic ports to match labor demand and development goals.
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New York
Taft
Ellis Island
Congress
Williams
Atlantic Seaboard
Pledge of Sunday Choir Restates Attendance Commitment
The article presents a pledge for chorus members during Union revival meetings. It clarifies the pledge is a best effort to attend or provide a substitute when possible, not an absolute promise. Signers commit to report their number if a substitute is secured.
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Tabernacle
Mansfield Withdraws as Foss Becomes Sole Democratic Governor Candidate
Reston Mass October 19 Frederick W Mansfield withdraws from the race leaving Congressman Foss as the only Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
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Foss
Massachusetts
Reston
Mass
Frederick W. Mansfield
Congressman Foss
Sheriff admits fear of Dietz in deputy shooting case
Hayward Wisconsin October hearing shows Sheriff Madden feared Dietz and did not serve warrants. Dietz family faces trial for the murder of Deputy Oscar Hiarp as Myra Dietz Madden recalls seeing no gun in Dietz children. Miss Dietz prepares for court while sugar prices drop five cents per hundred pounds.
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Dietz
Eloret
Bretz
Rubin
Diets
Thorbahn
Myra Dietz Madden
Walter Burk
Earp
Ashland
Wis
Inora Dietz
Arentson
Miss Dietz
Hearst Takes Political Stand in Independence League
In New York on October 19 the Independence League held two mass meetings in Manhattan and Brooklyn led by John J. Flopper, William Randolph Hearst, and Hubert Stewart. Hearst rails against Root Roosevelt influence and says he cannot back the Republican ticket, while noting Roosevelt’s delayed action and the Democratic line-up remains weak.
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New York
New York State
Independence League
Manhattn
Brooklyn
John J. Flopper
William Randolph Hearns
Hubert Stewart
Gener
Henryt
Tancoin
Root
Joosevelt
Hoosevelt
Woodruff
Aldrich
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Colorado
Jetus-cating
Pennsylvania
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Sohn Riley
Herbert Myrick
Northwestern Orange Judd Company
Orange Judd Northwest Farmstead
Myrick
American Agriculture
James J. Hill
American Railways
Northwest
America
Iowa
Calhoan Co
Drainage Guthrie Center
Park Pella
Water Works
Pelle
Focahontas Co. Ie
Sac County
Winnebago Co
Ind. Dist
Maple Grove
Polk Co
U. S
Postal Savings Depositories
Investors Securities Company
Municipal Bonds
Flynn Building
Kinbuarrass
Mansfield
Hearst
Independence Leagun
Huis At Methieds of “Jesses" Roose
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Evening Courier
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W. H. Hartman Company
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