Fire at Grundy Center devastates barns and nearby buildings
A Monday blaze in Grundy Center gutted the G W Morrison dray barn beside the post office and damaged neighboring properties including a Methodist parsonage barn, Coffman’s coffin house, and several stores. Firefighters battled headway as mains provided water, saving the Morrison home and sparing other structures from worse damage.
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Grundy Center
Fiire
G. W- Morrison
L. D. Coffman
Post
Bisenius & Saucer’s
Thome
Coffman
Morrison
Rifles Rule Gary Election Amid Riots and Martial Law
Gary Indiana election turmoil escalates as Governor Marshall orders 200 deputies and National Guard to assist Sheriff Grant of Lake County. Infantry units stand ready after days of rioting, amid accusations against local officials, including Joseph Martin and Thomas Knott, in the contest for mayor.
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Gary
Ind
Marshall
Thomas Grant
Lake County
Indiana National Guard
South Wend Unier
Calvert
Joseph Martin
Mary
Thomas ¥. Knott
Train telephone tested on Newark to Patterson line
New York officials report a trial of a new wire telephone on trains between Newark and Patterson a success. Inventor Fred La Croix of San Antonio Texas believes the device will be practical for passenger communication and may serve as an automatic brake two miles ahead in danger zones.
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New York
Newark
Patterson
Fred la Croix
San Antonio
Texas
Talephante
Hugs Turn Ugly On Silver Anniversary Night
Baltimore reports an unhappy 25th wedding anniversary as August Stanka, 48, hugged his wife Augustine Stanka and squeezed so hard her ribs broke. He was arrested and awaits a hearing at city jail while she nurses injuries at home after the German festivities turned to fear.
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Baltimore
August Slanka
Augustine Stanka
Stanka
Twins at Windsor Locks Celebrate Birth During World Series Tale
In Windsor Locks a lighthearted tale features Patrick FPF O'Connor recounting the last game of the world championship. Hans Wagner is referenced, and a tow-headed boy asks the question about a home visit. The doctor confirms a boy and a girl were born, both healthy, as O'Connor heads home.
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Uartford
Conn
Patrickk
O'Connor
Pittsburg Pirates
Windsor Locks
Hans Wagner
Patsy
Paddy
Trains Race in Freight War Across Pacific
Tacoma experts report a Milwaukee Road special train with 390000 dollars worth of silk left Sunday night aiming for New York, racing a Northern Pacific train that departed Seattle 21 hours earlier with 300000 dollars worth silk. The chase continues between sea and rail convoys led by Blue Funnel Ganfa and Tacoma Maru equivalents as Milwaukee hopes to win.
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Tacoma
Wash
Chicago
Milwaukee
Puget Sound
New York
Northern Pacific
Seattle
Blue Funnel
Ganfa
Milwaukee Road
Roosevelt to Head African Hunters Group in New York
Washington reports that upon returning from Africa Colonel Theodore Roosevelt may lead a new organization to be formed in New York City titled the African Campfire club. The Union Club banquet on Monday night included notable big game hunters Dr Ramon Guite Major Louis Livingston Seaman and other figures such as Edgar Bronson Bayard Dominick Henry Sampson Sr Herbert Litchfield John Bradley and Royal Phelps Carroll.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
New York City
Union Club
Nimrods
Ramon Guite
Louis Livingston Seaman
Guiteray
African Campfiré Club
Edgar B. Bronson
Bayard Dominick
Henry Sampson, Sr
Herbert Litchfield
John BR. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
Royal Phelps Carroll
Cardinal Gibbons Opposes Woman Suffrage Letter
In a public letter Cardinal Gibbons declares sympathy with the anti suffrage stance and notes his inability to attend a November 1 meeting. Senator Elihu Root also regrets missing the gathering but supports the association's work and cause.
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New York
National League For the Civic Education of Women
Cardinal Gibbons
Four League
James Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Elihu Root
Won't Stand Uncle Joe's Snoring in Sleeper Car
Memphis travelers Mr and Mrs Tamas AL Dulaney of Jackson Mississippi left the Illinois Central train in Memphis after twelve hours of real sleep lost to the snoring inlle Joe Cun non occupant of a berth near them. The porter would not disturb the sleeper and several passengers also abandoned the car at Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Nova
Tamas AL Dulaney
Jaukson
Chicago
Illinois Central
Inele Tae’ Cunnon
Thelra
Tinele Joe
Robber Holds Up Wisconsin Bank In Broad Daylight
A masked gunman robbed a Green Lay, Wisconsin bank this afternoon, taking about $1,000 in cash before escaping. Mrs. Mino Tddy, once a well known local resident, has returned to the area, reportedly having ties to fate in Butler county.
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Mashed Rober
Green Lay
Wis
Teltor
Partners’ Exchanger Bank
Mino Tddy
Butler County
Sudden Death of Horace Coulson Shocks Jesup Community
Horace Coulson, longtime Jesup resident born 1845 in Tully New York, died suddenly after his 63rd birthday gathering. Friends and family mourn as Odd Fellows Canton and encampment, Buchanan Lodge, Golden Links Rebekahs, and local churches honor him with services at his home and cemetery.
Bridegroom of 3 Days A Death by Own Action
Northome Minn Nov 3 To be married and leave a bride of but three days is the story that has just been brought to light by the finding of the Weless body of Nels Olson in the woods about seven miles west of here by a searching party that has been centring the woods for him for three days. A bullet hole through his head and a .38 calibre revolver still clutched in his right hand plainly told the tragedy that had been enacted in the lonely spot to which he had wandered. Olson was married last Tuesday to Miss Esse Parker, a sister of Mrs James Troy, and at the time of his disappearance the newly married couple were making arrangements to leave for Wright county where Olson owned a valuable farm and where they were to make their home. Mrs Olson is unable to advance any possible cause for her husband's rash act and heart broken. Olson was about 30 years of age and apparently in the best of health. He was a hard working man and was never known to be addicted to drink.
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Northome
Minn
Weless
Nels Olson
Here
Olson
Esse Parker
James Troy
Wright County
Iowa Meat Men End Rate Hearing
Chicago November hearing on the Corn Felt Meat Producers association rate complaint against the railroads concluded. Commissioner Charles A Pretty will hear final arguments in Washington in December. The case, begun in 1907, seeks lower freight rates after a 1909 order for regrouping. Railroad plans for a 10 group Iowa division faced objections as of October 21.
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Chicago
Lawn
Meat Producers’ Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles A. Pretty
Washington, D. C
Railromls
Towa
Sires Fight Over Dead Boy's Body Ended in Arrest
Seattle reports an eight year old, Samuel Stewart, confessed to killing his five year old playmate amid a family feud that stretched across generations. The Stewart boy shot the younger child with his father’s rifle at the Stewart home and later boasted of the act to his father. Neighbors intervened as authorities arrived.
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Seattle
Samuel Stewart
Fred Bestaman
Stewart
Bestaman
Burglar Harris Given 20 Years
Cedar Rapids Iowa November 3 Arthur Johnson alias Harris was found guilty of burglarizing Dr J H Smith’s home on May 19 and sentenced by Judge Treichler in Marion district court to an indeterminate term at Fort Madison penitentiary the maximum twenty years Harris aged 29 born 1879 testified his true name and offered no remark. A warrant charging him with burglarizing the Luburger home with a dangerous weapon followed, his attorney moved for a continuance and the case was reset. Officials noted Harris’s arrest on another charge and his calm demeanor throughout proceedings.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Arthur Johnson
Aliss
Z. A Harris
J. H. Smith
Treichler
Marion
Fort Manson
Harris
Arthur T. Johnson
Luberger
Loftus
Don Barnes
Tragedy at South Dakota Education Meeting
Alfred J Voeltz a young book agent visiting the Homestake mine died after a ore car struck him during a tour of the tunnel. He was taken from the site to a hospital where he died minutes later. Voeltz represented the South Dakota Journal of Education in Madison.
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Deadwood
South Dakota Educational Association
Lead
Alfred J. Voeltz
Homestake
Voeltz
Madison
South Dakota Journal of Education
Former Waterloo Resident Dead
Marshalltown Iowa November 3 Special George BE Johnston formerly an engineer on the Chicago Great Western between Des Moines and Oelwein died at four this morning at Liscomb at his sister Mrs P L Marble s home He had lived in Panama for years and contracted malaria There are surviving his mother Mrs Della Waterfield of Raymond his brother W C Johnson of Webster City and sisters Mrs P L Marble and another in San Angelo Texas His mother left Waterloo yesterday for San Angelo and did not yet know of his death The body will be sent to Waterloo for burial.
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Marshalltown
George BE. Johnston
Des Moines
Oelwein
Waterloo
Liscomb
P. L. Marble
Johnston
Panama
Canal Zone
Decettent
Raymond
Black Hawk County
Della
Wm. Waterfield
W. C. Johnson
Webster City
San Angelo
Tex
Waterfield
Marshal County
Arrested on murder charge in Boone case
Jack McFarland, a bartender, was arrested this morning on a murder charge in the death of Edward J. Moora whose body was found April 26, 1906. Police say they have a strong case after a case long shrouded in mystery.
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Boone
Lowa
Jack McFarland
Edward J. Moora
McFarland
Women Propose Militant Ballot Campaign in Iowa
Iowa suffragists plan a militant drive to elect legislators favoring women’s ballots and to storm the state legislature session, echoing London tactics. Dr Anna Shaw opposes methods, but officials expect gains. The lead group includes Alberta Miller, Ruby Eckerson, Lona Ingham Robinson, Mary Carrig, and Evelyn Dame.
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Des Moines
Iowa Evening Press
Iowa
London
Anna Shaw
Alberta Miller
Ruby Eckerson
Lona Ingham Robinson
Mary Carrig
Allison
Evelyn Dame
Albert Lea
Minn
Bigamist confesses past life at county jail
Thomas W. Clark, released on own recognizance for wife desertion, surrendered at police HQ seeking confinement as a bigamist after a revival at the county jail. He admits leaving his first wife in Wisconsin years ago, doubts divorce, and says he now seeks Christian life and forgiveness while continuing to support his present wife and children.
Doty Announces Sale of Waterloo Shoe Store and New Manager
A. A. Doty of Waterloo announces disposal of his interests in the Waterloo Shoe and Leather company known as Doty’s Shoe Store and retirement from the Waterloo retail shoe business after ten years. G. McColm, of Sheldon, named manager of the new store and highly regarded as an experienced shoe man who will relocate with his family to Waterloo. Doty plans to focus on duties as mayor but may pursue further business later.
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A. A. Doty
Waterloo Shoe & Leather Company
Doty
Waterloo
Log Fourth Street East
G. McColm
Sheldon
Clearing House Figures of Today Beat All History
New York reports unprecedented clearing house and bank totals reaching 736 million dollars. The figure tops the January 3, 2006 record by about 50 million, driven by November dividend disbursements and heavy interest activity ahead of election day.
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New York
Alneas
Marooned Finlander Stranded in Waterloo Seeks Ticket Return
A young Finnish traveler en route to Winston Minn from New York to St Paul is stranded at the Julian hotel in Waterloo. He cannot speak English well and says a conductor mistakenly took his ticket during a transfer toward Vinton Iowa via the Great Western. He has funds but not enough to reach his destination and awaits the conductor to return his ticket so he can continue to Winston.
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Winston, Minn
Waterloo
Julian Hotel
Sycamore Street
Great Western
New York
St. Paul
Chicago
Vinton
Iowa
Oelwein
Man In Blue Art Brass
Ucket
Winston
Peary Proven Pole Explorer Receives Gold Medal
Washington November 3 Peary was awarded a gold medal by the National Geographic Society for reaching the north pole. The board unanimously backed the sub committee's report confirming his claim while a further inquiry into whether any explorer reached the pole before 1909 was referred to a panel of experts.
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Washington
Peary
National Geographic Society
North Pole
Society Today
Pole
Cook
Golden Wedding Day Honors W H Colburn Family
Monday, Nov 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Colburn at 168 Elmwood Ave. Relatives and friends gathered for a golden themed celebration with greetings from Rev. W H Rollings and Judge F C Platt. The couple, married in Spring Grove Illinois, long resided in Iowa before settling in Waterloo. Their children H R Colburn, Dr W O Colburn, and Laura Colburn attended, with out of town guests from Nebraska and Wyoming. Various gifts and a late supper were noted. both spouses, aged 77 and 72, remain active and hopeful for more years together.
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W. Hh. Colburn
Elmwood Avenue
W. H. Rollings
First Congregational
F. C. Platt
J. S. Corley
Laura Colburn
Calburn
Spring Grove
Ruth Broadley
Hfe
Ianois
Iowa
Dexter
Reinbeck
Waterloo
Afr
Colburn
H. R. Colburn
Cheyenne
Wyo
W. O. Colburn
Stuart
Neb
Misa Laura Colburn
H. B. Tubbard
J. J. Corley
Anna
No Maize for Pellagra Patients
Columbia South Carolina November 3 A paper by Dr F M Sandwith of London read by Dr J W Babcock of Columbia suggests early pellagra cases without mental symptoms may be treated by excluding maize from the diet He believes there is hope if the brain is attached Mr Bingen agent of the I C at Ackley operated on last week for obstruction of the bowels is reported improving and soon expected to return home
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Columbia
S. C
F. M. Sandwith
London
J. W. Babcock
Bingen
I. C
Ackley
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