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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Dr.. Frederick A. Cook Came to the
City for a Five Hour
Stay Last
Night.
CENTRAL WESTERN TOUR
Left for Indiana at 1 O'clock This
Morning and VIII Return to
kahoka On
Friday.

DR.. Frederick A. Cook, self pro
nounced discoverer of the North Pole
and noted arctic explorer, was in Keo-
kuk last night for five hours. The
lecturer and scientifically denounced
finder of the top of the world arriv-
ed here at TAO from Pennington
where he made an address during
the day and left at 12:45 for Merom,
Ind, where he will lecture this even
ing.
Dr. Cook met with no one while in
the city and stayed in his room at
the Hotel Keokuk until train time.
The explorer is at present making
tour of the middle west and has COM
pleted part Of his itinerary at
Bloomington and Aurora in Illinois.
From his engagement in Indiana, he
will go to Bethany, Mo-, thence to
Kahoka on Friday of this week and
Saturday he will be at Unionville.
Chautauqua lecturing in Iowa, Hi
nois, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas,
also parts Of the Dakotas and Ohio
has been taking the greater part OF
the doctors time G. w. Baker OF
Topeka, Kan, accompanies or goes
in advance of the lecturer as the case
might be, booking lectures.
Acknowledgment that the doctor is
making good thing" out of his lee
turing, was made by the advance mar
today. "Of course DR.. Cook is max
rig money from his lecture tours but
he is trying more to prove his claim
tlat he reached the pole circle ane
that instruments used by explorers II
the pole regions are incapable OF reg
istering because Of the climatic con
ditions''
Scathing denunciation is being made
by Cook of Peary, the other pole eS
plorer, in all of the lectures.
The audiences who have greete'
DIR. Cook in all of his tours have beel
large and some of them enormous, &C
cording to Mr.. Baker, the advanc
agent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
WOMEN SERVED
ON THE JURY
Court Had to Adjourn on Account of
Circus But That Was

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 23-Two
prominent club women and suffragists
were members of jury of six, in
Guiding two retired capitalists, a
plumber and builder, in the municip-
al court, where William Evans was on
trial on the charge of stealing dupli-
cate machine Mrs. May Arkwright
Hutton, forewoman of the jury, re-
turned verdict of mot guilty" after
20 minutes elaboration. Prosecutor
Dill and Moyie Wicks, counsel for
the defense, addressed the arbiters as
.'ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
while Justice George W. Stocker,
presiding, referred to them as gen
tlemen of the jury" The hearing oc-
cupied several days and was continued
after session of more than three
hours, when Mrs. Hutton and Mrs.
A. P. Fassett, the other member,
expressed a de- ire to attend the cir
Gus. Mesdames Hutton and Fassett
were the first women to serve on a
jury in Spokane. Mrs. r. A. Wellman
of Spokane, is the first woman sum
moned to serve on the September
panel in the Spokane county superior
court. The panel contains the names
of q women in this county.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
ADJUSTMENTS.
At podaes'.

A picture of great Importance will
be shown at Dodge's tonight, 1t is an
eliminated Newspaper of great hap
penings and doings of the world at
glance. it is called the "Vitagraph
Monthly of Current Events We per-
use our newspapers, are struck at
once by the headlines of what is tax
ing place in the world, and wish we
were fortunate enough to witness
them. Tonight is your chance Tor this
film is perfect marvel In its variety
and in it's excellence. A head-on col
lision will show you how such exciting
events take place, and yet you are
cool and comfy while you view it.
You can view the American Athletic
Association events held in Pittsburgh,
life-like pictures of President Taft,
with his lovabfe smile just as large as
if is on 'Billie's" face; and the TWEEN
tieth century wonders; National Avia-
tion flights. Besides all OF this
Marathon at Americas great pleasure
ground, "Coney, Down the Bay" You
will be delighted with this. Don't miss
IT,
A Kalem subject THE Promoter
or Plunge in High Finance ID
rip roaring comedy and one that is
bound to please all.
Bertie's landlady Is on rampage.
She wants her money but BERTHE Is
broke. At dinner that night one OF
the boarders, would-be stock hrok-
er, explains the mining stock game to
Berthe. The same evening the broker
and two friends visit Bertie's room
for quiet poker game, BERTHE Win
ming all the money decides to go in
TO the mining stock business and the
next day takes desk with his broker
! friend in the office of the Bonanza
Mining Company Business is brisk,
but much to Bertie's chagrin when
| the closing hour arrives his broker
friend takes the money. A few nights
later BERTHE gives a swell dinner III &
nearby cafe. When the time arrives te
nav the check all the guests quietly
slip away leaving BERTHE to face The
music. Being unable to produce the
necessary funds the manager of the
cafe has BERTHE arrested and his final'
is a cold dark cell in the police sta
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
~v gw.s4sefxsy,iE sSFHEN

And yet there is not that approach Of
the cooler weather of September that
brings haunting reminders o. the de-
cline of the year August is the high
tide of natures life, the full rounded
contamination of her tolls and her
joys and as yet there is no hint of
the inevitable ebb
September and October have
higher pitched chord of color and
sound and a ripper and more abund-
ant harvest. But in the frosts that
set aflame the tree tops there is the
cold forbidding touch of blight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

FINE, LARGE DAY
Weather Conditions Were Ideal for
the Speaking, Races and General
Pleasure Of the
Crowd.

It was fine, record-breaking crowd
of nearly 1900 people who enjoyed
the fifth annual picnic of Ambrosia
lodge, Anti-Horse Thief Association on
Ambrosia's grounds yesterday. BY
wagon, buggy, auto, horse back and
afoot, the Ants and their families
and hundreds of friends sought the
picnic grounds and from the noon
hour until midnight, good time pre-
vailed.
The success of the big picnic is due
to the efforts of A. j. Wolter and his
corps of assistants, no stone being
left unturned which would have furth-
cred the pleasure of the gathering. A
program of races, and games which
would have put the old days of Athens
to shame, was given and prizes in the
interesting and some of them laugh
able contests, We're awarded the first
and second winners.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

of the next regular September term
of said court, to be begun and holden
at Keokuk on the twenty-fifth day Of
September, A. D. 1911, default will be
entered against you and judgment
rendered thereon as prayed for in
said petition.
WILLIAM TIMBERMAN,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23


We have now to announce the most
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on advertising.
1t complies the digest of countless ex-
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1t cites many examples of what has
been done-of what can always be done
by clever and tested maneuvers.
II tells how to do quickly, cheaply and
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and risk.
1t reveals, for the first time, the new
science of Strategy, to which all of our
latest successes are due.
There was never book more inter-
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things to sell.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

An ordinary case of diarrhoea can.
as rule, be cured by single dose of
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has
no superior for bowel complaints. For
sale by all dealers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

II is wors than useless to take any
medicine internally for muscular or
chronic rheumatism. All that is
net ded Is q free application of Cham.
berlain's Eminent. For sale by all
dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
keokuk Attorney Speaks.

Edward w. McManus, the Keokuk
attorney was present and made an
address previous to the races, which
were run. Mr.. McManus told of the
value of the Anti-Horse Thief Asso-
citation, not only to the community
but the great and inestimable good
that the organization has accomplish
e the country over.
Many of the picnicers had taken
their suppers to Ambrosia and the
larger part of the crowd remained
until late in the evening. to dance
and to watch the cancers enjoy them
selves to the strains Of Meister's
orchestra.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
How the Races Went.

The winners of the race and con-
testing events were:
Trio foot race-First prize, Chas
Brown and Emmett Hatton; second
prize, Carl Clemenson and Peterson.
Sack race-First prize, Clifford
Junkins; second prize. Fred Brown.
Young ladies' foot race-First prize
Josephine Mathis; second prize, Kath
arine Hatton.
Fat mans race-First prize. E. II
Reitz; second prize, Fred Shark.
Wood saving race for ladies-First
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
The Lodges Represented.

Warren lodge, A. H. 7. A., had the
largest representation of members
and families present at the picnic out
side of Ambrosia. The othe.' lodges
represented were: Summitvi1le, Mont
rose, Hoosier Green, Charleston and
Valley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23


prize. Louise Moander; second prize,
Mrs. Chas. Anderson.
Tug OF war--Between Ambrosia and
Warren, won by Ambrosia.
Dat binding for ladies-First prize.
Mrs. Chas. Anderson; second prize,
Mrs. Geo. OFT.
Shoe and stocking race for little
boys-First prize, Floyd Wright; sec
ond prize, Ellis Gillespie.
Egg race on horse back-First prize.
Emmett Hatton; second prize, Ed.
Printy.
One Of the comical numbers Of the
program was performance by two
young men, styling themselves, the
"Horribles.' Ed. Hancock and Carl
Clemenson dressed as clowns, hitched
mule with it's head toward the
drivers seat, on an old buggy and
Initiated to perfection, the workings
OF horseless carriage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
A New
Lord & Thomas Book
Clever Maneuvers- Strategy in Advertising

of Strategy worked out into rules of
procedure.
Now come new ways for getting dis
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1t sounds almost impossible, and it tDas
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it since has been done-done hundred
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Any man with selling problem is
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1t will bring to him the digested ex-
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1t marshals known facts, and works
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You will wonder. perhaps, how we
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To convey to all new conception of
our powers and prowcss.
Cut out this reminder; put it In your
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

Buy It now Now Is the time to
buy bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera anG Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t is
almost certain to be needed before
the summer is over. This remedy has
no superior, For sale by al, deaiers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Odd Fellows Excursion.

You do not have to be an Odd Fell
low to go on the big excursion Fri
day September on the steamer Sid
ney, given by the Warsaw Odd Eel
lows, but you will be odd II you do
not take in this enjoyable outing. The
boat will start from Keokuk at $3.50
o'clock in the morning and the fare Is
but so cents for the round trip for
adults.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
August.

Kewanee Star-Courier: In many
ways August is the GROWING month
OF the year. 1t is period of fruitions.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23
Showed Their Skill.


Following is the list of prize win
ners, who gave exhibitions of their
skill in performing household and
farm duties:
Harness and hitching single horse
by ladies: Miss Helen Thos, first
prize; Mrs. John Thomas, second
prize.
Wheel barrow race: Joe Peterson
first; Harold Arvison, second.
Best ten stalks of green corn: AL
bert Moander, first; Ed. Wagner
second
Best ten ears of yellow corn: VIII
liam Leeper, first; Ed. Wagner, sec
ond.
Best half peck tomatoes: Mrs
Albert Moander.
Best loaf of bread, baked by yount
lady: Miss Ada Field of Keokuk
first; Mrs Albert Moander, second.
Longest pumpkin vine: Ruth Meg
chelsen, first; Ed Wagner, second.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

Our first great book was on reason
Why" copy. All good salesmanship-in-
print has ever since been based on it.
Our next was on men-on the value
and rarity Of real genius in selling. On
the need for combining ideas. Since
then there has been crying demand
an over-demand-for men of the requi-
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ing, on the average, twice what they
received before.
Our next was "Safe Advertising" 1t
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experiments. How to let the thousands
decide what the millions will buy. 1t told
how to reconnoiter-ho to slkirmish be-
fore attack. That book has saved adj
vertisers, in all probability, many millions
of dollars.
Now comes the ripe fruit of forty
years of experience, in a thousand sep
arate lines.
Now comes new science-the science
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-23

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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
THIEVING NEGRESS GETS
THREE YEARS in PRISON,
Emma Tibbs Thrice Convicted
of Larceny.

Emma Tibbs, a negress, three times
convicted of larceny from the person,
was today sentenced to a three-year
term in the New Jersey State prison
at Trenton.
Three other prisoners were given
terms of eighteen months in the Cald-
we'll penitentiary, one being woman,
Katherine Tanga, who on March Is
last swore to a complaint before jus
tice of the peace charging man, with
hitting her with his fists. On trial
she swore that she had lied in swear
ing to the Justices warrant and was
arrested on a charge of perjury.
George e.. Pritchard, who married
woman in Bloomfield while he had a
wife living in New York city, received
eighteen months at Caldwell, as did
Joseph Demerio, convicted on a charge
of assault and battery.
Frederick Stoker, who stole a trunk
full of sllverware and clothing from
the home of M. H. Nordlinger, in Mont
clair, on April "a. and fed to Philadei-
phia, where he was captured and
brought back, will spend the next few
years at the Railway reformatory, as
will w. Chamberlain Lamb. who plead
ed guilty to embezzlement.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
BRIDE LOSES LINGERIE.
FINDS UNWELCOME SOCKS

days with relatives in this city, and
on Thursday left here on the 5:35
p. M. train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road for Red Bank.
The train was crowded. When she
reached her destination she picked up
the suitcase which stood at he. feet,
and left the train. The mistake was
not discovered until several hours later.
when the woman opened the case to
remove the valuable. Mr. Wardell has
tened at once TO Red Bank with the
suitcase and notified the agent of the
miX-up Notwithstanding that several
letters bearing Mr.. Warder's local ad =
dress were in the suitcase taken. thus
giving the man direct clue to it's
owner, no word has been received as
Yet giving the identity of the owner of
the case held by the agent at Red
Bank and which awaits a claimant.
The railroad company is making an
investigation and hope to secure a clue
from the clothing in the suitcase. The
Wardells. nevertheless, hold out the
hope that the valuables have fallen
into honest hands and will be returned
without the necessity of seeking the
help of the authorities.
The missing articles include a gold
watch monogram engraved; a gold
chain with diamond setting; a pearl
necklace and several rings.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
BEHIND TIME FOR
WORK, BOY KEEPS
DATE WITH DEATH
Henry Frayne, of East Orange,
Drowned in Old Open
Ditch.

Late for work this morning, Henry
Frayne. II years old, of 167 Clinton
street north, East Orange, met sew
eral younger friends who live near his
open ditch about seventeen feet deep
off Second avenue, in the Ampere. sec
ton of East Orange A short time
after he had entered the water he was
drowned. The youth did not know how
to swim, his comrades said, and they
told him he had better not go in. They
we're:
Peter Higgins, Of 81 Hamilton street;
Charles Fraas. of 10 springdale avenue;
John Bradley, of IS Hamilton street,
and Daniel McGrenera, OF 81 Hamilton
street. who had no school today The
pool is a part of the old water system
of the Orange Water Company.
The boys noticed Henry going down
and started to try and get him out, but
he grasped one of the youngsters, and
4 t'oys became frightened. Then he
p /,
ran for a rake. but John Smith,
carpenter, living at AZ Brookside
aJ'ace. Bloomfield. leaving the house
where he was working, rushed down
to the pool. He dived four times and
found the body at the bottom.
4 BY this time a number of workmen
gere attracted to the scene and the
boy was rolled on a barrel, the men
headquarters was notified and DR..
Bradford w. Giveans was called by the
police. Awaiting the arrival of >tf,e
physician, stimulants were given the
boy, but he never revived. Henry was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Frayne. There are about seveI chill
dren. The drowned boy was particu-
larly bright and was employed in the
Westinghouse works in Bloomfield.
The pool was formerly bridged over
with concrete and Joined with three
wells. Last winter it was dynamited
and the stream was left uncovered, II
since being a favorite spot for swim
ming. Chief O'Neill was unaware of
the fact, and he gave orders today
that there must be no more swimming
there. He sent Reserveman Nicholas
Nolan T. notify the family of the acci-
dent Henry was a member of the
Church of Our Lady Help of Christians
East Orange, and popular among his
associates. The funeral will be held
from thu church and former chums will
act as pallbearers
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
FORMER BOARDER
ATTACKS WOMAN;
DEMANDING CASH
Severely Beat Her as She Was
Going to Sick Child's
Bedside.

Mrs. Julia Mascola. of 23t Hunterdon
street, was held up in her nome today
by Giuseppe Ferrante a former board
er, when, according to her story, she
was dressing in her bedroom to go to
the City Hospital to visit her sick child
there. He demanded money. He de-
manded money. She refused. He hit
her in the face threw her to the
ground and stamped on her with both
feet, she claims.
Sergeant Tenore, of the detective bu-
reau, who lives nearby. found Fer
rante on the corner of Sixteenth ave
nue. and Bergen street. As he ap-
preached Ferrante reached suddenly
for his pocket. The sergeant hurled
himself upon the man and wrenched a
fully loaded revolver from him. In the
wagon, on the way to police hearquar-
ters, Ferrante handed over box of
cartridges, saying:
'As long as you've got my gun you
might as well have these
Ferrante had boarded with Mrs. Mas
cola at 1903 Norfolk street two months
ago, when she turned him otu on
three different occasions he subsequent
ly demanded money from her. getting
SO in all Thursday he called on her
and obtained 81.
Now you get all the money you have
i'm the bank and what you collect from
your boarders and let me have it Mon
day." he is alleged to have saidc but she
didn't
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
WIFE ENDS LIFE
AF TER QUARREL
WITH HUSBAND
s'If Foolish Enough TO Kill Her
self, Her Fault Not Mine,"
Says Bereaved.

When Frederick Bubb. a machinst,
came home early this morning he
found his wife dead in bed, a suicide.
She had shut her door and windows,
turned on the gas and then calmly
awaited death
"A quarrel over the division of the
weeks wages it is said, Is responsible
for the woman's act. Saturday night
when Bubb returned to his home.
499 Warren street, he Is reported
to have refused to give his wife as
much money as she asked for, and the
discussion that followed ended in a
quarrel. Yesterday they did not speak
to each other, and when, about $50
O'Clock last night, Bubb was called out
on an emergency job at the laundry
where he was employed, he did not tell
her goodnight.
The police and hospital records show
that Mrs Bubb about three years ago
attempted suicide by awallowing
quantity of carbolic acid and that her
life was saved by the narrowest Of
margins in the City Hospital That
was when she was married to a man
named Field. Later, it is said, she had
him sent to State prison on a serious
charge. Afterwards she married Bubb.
The latter refused to explai1 the
affair when seen this morning. He said
his wife had everything she wanted
and concluded with the remark THAI
"if she was foolish enough to kill her
self 1t was her fault, and not mine -
The couple had no children.
They had one boarder, an old man,
who had been with then during the
seven or eight months since they
moved to the house at 499 Warren
street. Yesterday morning when he
went to mass, Mrs. Bubb asked him to
bring home a chicken for dinner. and
he did. When Bubp came home this
morning the fowl had been cleaned
and was in the sink ready for cooking.
The last seen of Mrs. Bubb was at
q 80, when Bubh left the house. He
says she had several times threatened
to kill herself.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
Unwitting Exchange of Twin
Suit-cases Causes Embar-
RAISING Mix-up.

BY a mix-up of suit-cases that looked
as near alike as two peas in a pod
Mrs. Isaiah H. Wardell, Of 2s4 Mulberry
street, this city, is mourning the loss
of a valuable gold watch and chain,
several costly rings and miscella-
neuus array OF dainty lingerie that
went astray last Thursday while the
young woman was returning from this
city to Rumson, where she and her
husband are spending the summer.
She, however, by the twin-like APP
pearance of the cases, is the unwill-
ing possessor of suit of mems cloth
ing, new pair of masculine shoes and
other apparel that belong to the mis-
guided one. who walked away with
her feminine lingerie and array of cost
ly Jewels, in the belief that he was
in possession of his own "uit-case.
The loss has made the young WON
an i'll, as the valuables comprised the
wedding gifts. presented to her by her
husband less than year ago
Mrs. Wardell had been staying few
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-05
CAUSES
POsTPONEMENT
OF POLO GAME
Interest in international Games
at MeadOwbrOok Increases. :.
Contest Tomorrow.

NEW YORK, June 5.-The interna-
tional polo game, scheduled for today.
was postponed on account OF wet
weather. The game will be played to-
morrow.
Interest in the match had increased
perceptibly since last week. and the
demand for reservations on the field
exceeded its capacity, while good To-
cations were at a premium. The so
cial element figured extensively in the
first match but today the spectators
went to see the game and not to re-
new acquaintances. The, battle lines in
the second match will be the same as
on Thursday. Betting still favored the
Americans, with odds of three to two