Glory in athletics blamed for neglect of study
Denver July 9. William F Slocum, president of Colorado calfers urges balance in physical education. He criticizes the competitive football culture for fostering abnormal physical and mental growth and calls for sport for its own sake and broader academic development. Work stresses home economics training and practical financial literacy for girls in schools.
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Denver
Colo
William F. Slocum
Colorado Calfers
Colorado Springs
Department of Physical Education
National Education Association
Cree T. Work
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Texas
Department of Manual Training
Publi School
Particulum of Arts and Sciences
Work
Buchanan Lady Dies at 98 in Shady Grove
Mrs. Hugh McGuirk aged 98 died at her Shady Grove home after a long illness. Born in England she married Richard Garr then, after his death, Hugh McGuirk. She immigrated in 1856, lived in California years, and spent four decades in Shady Grove. Survived by three sons, Clyde Garr and others. twenty three grandchildren and twenty four great grandchildren. Funeral held at Sunnyside Catholic Church.
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Hugh McGuirk
Shady Grove
Buchanan County
McGuirk
England
Richard Garr
America
Garr
Sunnyside
Cath. Ol
Millard Burke wedding in Waterloo to Les Moines trip
Interment was made Monday morning in St. John's cemetery in this city. At 4:80 Wednesday afternoon Rev. H. W. Reherd joined in marriage Mr. Joel Burke and Miss Mary H. Millard, both of Waterloo. They traveled to Des Moines and plan to stay in Colfax and perhaps westward. The groom, a retired farmer and real estate owner, moves to 219 Park Road. The bride, long time resident and school worker, attends Westminster Presbyterian. After August 1 they reside in the groom's home. Adah Bette Carter wed Chester G. Potter at Rev. Frank Cole's home. both from this city.
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Oelwein
Burke
Finchford
Predicts Short Iowa Corn Crop After Late Storms
Des Moines reports Iowa corn grower president John Sundberg from Whiting forecasts a short crop despite favorable government data. A Rock Island eastbound passenger train was ditched near Mitchellville at 7:30, causing five hours of delays with no injuries. Mitchellville elected Hattie KR Garrison superintendent of the Girls Industrial School, and George R. Eaton was named superintendent of the Hospital for the Blind at Vinton.
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Des Moines
Iowa Evening Press
John Sundberg
Iowa Corngrowers’ Association
Whiting
Iowa
Rock Island
Mitchellville
Hattie Garrison
Hattie KR. Garrison
Ft. Dodge
Girls’ Industrial School
Board of Control
Fitzgerald
Benedict
George R. Eaton
Afton
Hospital For
Vinton
Death mystery cleared in Butte drug feud case
Albert H. Jones and Thomas Hall, both Negroes, confessed to involvement in the death of Jack O’Brien, a machinist, found bound and wrapped in a sheet in an abandoned shaft. They say overdose of cocaine or morphine during a drunken spree led to O’Brien’s death, with a shotgun of details provided by a woman later aiding arrests. Police pursue the unnamed woman as a possible participant.
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Butte
Mont
Albert H. Jones
Thomas Hall
Jack Brien
Jones
O'Brien
O’brien
Hall
Mourners Attack Car During Funeral Procession in Chicago
Mourners stormed a Randolph street car passing a funeral for Vincenzo Tite known as Brodie. Police stopped the attack with revolvers as Grove Murray and David Hill, two motormen, and several mourners were injured by flying glass. The procession moved from Guardian Angels church to Mount Carmel for burial. In the last half century Japan has had 27000 earthquakes.
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Chicago
Randolph Street
Garland Court
James Clinton
Central Detail
Thomas Ciitford
Vincenzo Tite
Brodie
Fifth Avenue
Adams Street
Guardian Angles
Rantolph Street
Tlinois Central
Mount Carmel
Indiana Avenue
John Murray
David Hill
Tariff Bill Moves Through House and Senate
Washington reports the tariff bill shifts as the House accepts the conference, names conferees Payne through Briggs, while the Senate passes the Philippine tariff measure and delays on rules for conference. Debates center on wood pulp duties, open dispute over republicans pledges and the Dingley law, with Taft non-committal amid final Senate passage and anticipated conference.
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Washington
House
Senate
Payne
Newark
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
McCall
Massachusetts
Boutell
Ilinois
Calderhead
Kansas
Fordney
Michigan
Clark
Missouri
Underwood
Alabama
Briggs
Georgia
Washington, D. C
Committee On Rules
House Committee On Rules
Committee On Conference
Townsend
Mann
Illinois
Davidson
Wisconsin
Douglass
Ohio
Mapn
Ohis
Dingley
Randall
Texas
Pou
North Carolina
Henry
Smith
Jaws
Chan
Harrison
New York
Norris
Nebraska
Flint
Arizona
Standard Oil to Produce Butter From Petroleum
Standard Oil plans to dominate dairy markets by turning crude petroleum into butter and other dairy products. A Bayonne plant is envisioned with chemists uncovering a process to make gilt-edged butter as a byproduct. Officials guard the secret, while contracts may be let for a new butter-making department of the works.
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Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Works
Bayonne
Standard Oil
Suffragettes Spark Riot in City Hall Park New York
Two militant suffragettes used a hurdy gurdy and tambourines in City Hall park drawing a boisterous crowd. Sophia Loebinger and Helen Morrhs wore Votes for Women badges and carried The Suffragette, but no copies were sold and no speeches occurred. Police formed a lane to the subway as the pair left.
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New York
City Hall Park
Sophia Loebinger
Helen Morrhs
Boy Sees Mother Slain in Public Library Tragedy
Henry Rife, 86, a lineman, shot and killed Mrs Lida Griswold, 38, librarian and daughter of Judge J A Gilmore, in the Public Library yesterday. Rife then shot himself but survived with minor wounds. The incident was witnessed by Griswold’s 12 year old son, described as aloof from the killer, and investigators note possible resentment and a troubled history.
Sleepers On Tracks Endangering Stranger Near Otis
A 21 year old man, name unknown, was found with a crushed skull after a freight train strike near Otis. companion Frank Florey, from St Louis, said they slept beside the track after being put off near Otis. The man, called Slim, claimed Detroit as home but gave no ID. A coroner and police pursue clues, including notebooks and pamphlets found on him. Meanwhile Thaw’s court case in White Plains draws attention as venue questions loom. An epidemic of cattle disease in Cameron parish, Lake Charles, prompts talk of adjourning court to help combat the spread.
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Cedar Rapids
Otis
St. Luke's Hospital
Frank Florey
St Louis
Florey
Carroll
Iowa
Northwestern Fast Mail
Chicago
South Dakota
St. Louis
Seattle
Wash
Omaha
Slim
Detroit
Nhot
Denver
King
Delivery Clerk Crushed Ankle After Horse Kick
L. G. Haring, a United States Express delivery clerk, was kicked by a horse while on duty one week ago. His right ankle bones were splintered and the limb badly crushed and mangled, forcing him to use crutches for more than a week.
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L. G. Haring
United States Express Company
Road Robbery Claims Huge NY Transit Debt
Receiver Frederick W. Whitridge testified at a public service hearing that the Third Avenue Railway likely lost between 16 and 17 million dollars. He cited old debt near 21 million and a new debt around 27.5 million, noting no evidence of misappropriated funds and that tracing funds from nine or ten years ago is difficult due to deaths of former managers.
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New York
Frederick W. Whitridge
Third Avenue Railway
Public Service Commission
Robert W. Perkins
Ready for thaw treatment in White Plains case
A short note from White Plains New York dated July 9 reports Mrs. Topley Haw, formerly Miss Alice, as part of a thaw treatment item.
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White Plann
N. Y
Topley ‘Haw
Misa Alice
Biplane 6 New Flying Machine Debuts in Winnipeg
Winnipeg inventors E. B. Welsey and W. J. Robertson reveal a two deck steel framed biplane with a pendulum stability system and five columns of compressed air pressure for lift. The craft weighs under 500 pounds, spans 26 feet, and uses a gasoline engine driven propeller with a distinctive steering method adding surface without extra weight.
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Winnipeg
Man
E. B. Welsey
W. J. Robertson
Raids Hit Kansas Joints End in Mass Arrests
A crowd of about fifty six foreign women were arrested at West Mineral Kansas after a raid on local joints. After being refused beer in buckets they held a mass meeting then marched to four joints and wrecked them in a disturbance following the raid.
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Pittsburg
Kan
West Mineral
Burke elected president at Missouri River Navigation congress
Gov John Burke of North Dakota won the Missouri River Navigation congress presidency over Edgar Ellis of Kansas City Missouri after a hard fought vote. The Missouri delegates prevailed two to one and Omaha was selected as the next convention site for December alongside the National Corn exposition events.
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Yankton
John Burke
North Dakota
Missouri River Navigation Congress
Edgar ©. Ellis
Kansas City
Friends of the Missourian
Omaha
Weston makes up time on grueling cross country walk
Edward Payson Weston, the pedestrian, reached Truckee California at 3 15 yesterday morning after a day long meeting. He rested briefly then planned to resume his walk through the day and night hoping to regain the time lost in Utah and across the Nevada desert. Weston is four days behind schedule but expects to reach San Francisco by next Tuesday, aiming to make up two days between Truckee and the bay city.
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Senate
Bradley
Kentucky
Curtis
Kansas
Tobatco
United States
Finance Committee
Towa
Cummins
Iowa
la Follette
Niance Committee
Taft
Philadelphia
Washington
Weston
Reno
Edward Payson
Truckee
Cal
Utah
Nevada Desert
San Francisco
Bay City
Byers Ends New Saloons Byers Ends New Saloons
Iowa Attorney General H W Byers declares resolutions of consent issued before July 4 to open new saloons are void under the Moon law. He says city officials misinterpreted the law and that the saving clause covers only saloons in business on April 15, not those granted permission after that date.
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Des Moines
Carroll
Iowa
H. W. Byers
Davenport
Mississippi River
Byers
Post Card People Talk in Chicago Convention
A national society for promoting the picture post card gathers in Chicago on July 9. Members discuss uniform neck tie pins, renewing national headquarters, buying a new lot and building, and purchasing a printing plant to publish a leading magazine. An up-to-date wire stitcher is also being negotiated.
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Chicago
Briggs House
Catalina Island
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
United States
Imports Increase and Exports Fall Off in U S Trade
Official figures for the eleven months ending May 1909 show US imports for the year ending June 1909 will exceed last year by about 100 million dollars while exports will fall about 200 million below last year. Increases occur mainly in materials for manufacturing and foodstuffs. declines span foodstuffs crude materials for manufacturing and finished manufactures. Principal gains in imports include hides and skins, wool, raw silk, India rubber, sugar, and diamonds and other stones.
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Washington
United States
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