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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
2
A fragment from a political column notes Lincoln's call to make the law a national religion and cites local race chatter. It mentions Oklahoma widow's judgment against a railroad, the Marshalltown paper sale, and July primary filing rules with candidates mounting in Franklin and Hardin counties.
A river birch tree on Pond Fork of Little Goat River in Boone County West Virginia is told to hold the story of Jim Martin, a Woodsman and Mexican War enlistment. As a handspike carved from a fresh birch sapling, he set it in soil, and it rooted and grew into a living monument. Martin fell in battle, his bones elsewhere in Mexico, yet the tree stands as a revered landmark.
In 1840 Benkendorf, a Russian engineer, observed the Lena River in Siberia release a frozen mammoth from a thawing bog as warm weather swelled the river. The flood carried the carcass downstream while the head appeared amid the torrent and the body followed, with hind legs still embedded.
A roundup of Iowa editorials on the new state primary law. The Nevada Representative derides its presidential electors nomination feature as idiotic. Cedar Rapids Republican accuses Cummins press of magnified reports. Iowa City Republican links Davenport election results to prohibition politics. Council Bluffe Non pareil questions Cummins visit as federal meddling. Marion Register estimates primary cost at 260000, doubts value. Muscatine Journal counters, says primary could be worth double 29000 if serving its aims. otherwise costly if it fails.
The wife of the Har lan American editor recounts her week as temporary editor. She notes she cooked for thirteen harvest hands and taught a high school class while others were occupied with duties. She describes a long 600 mile rail journey with multiple carry-ons and kids. She predicts her brief tenure ends when the editor returns Saturday night and she retires to the kitchen.
A comparison of original phrases with expanded rewrites shows how concise proverbs and aphorisms are elongated. The examples illustrate how punctuation and spelling evolve to create more formal or archaic-sounding versions.
Charles B. Hanford presents a lavish revival of Antony and Cleopatra in Iowa Falls on Wednesday April 29. The production features a premiere danseuse and ballet corps a top orchestra leader a chorus director and an expert electrition with novel pictorial effects to enhance the Nile tragedy and reflect his renowned scenic grandeur.
A lyrical fragment recounts a speaker recalling kisses on a beloved brow and tender sighs. The rhyme explores beauty and affection, noting a rosy mouth as more valued than fleeting graces, with playful self‑deprecating humor about onions in the beloved’s case.
Advertisement notes 1600 wallpaper patterns to choose from with savings of 30 to 60 percent. J J Dimwin Co with Mrs B C Beach host a spring opening on Wednesday and Saturday April 3 and 4, 1908. Schultz & Roth offer pure drugs at 40w2.
The passage contemplates equal rights and patience as guiding forces, contrasts demagogues with Lincoln’s rational reform, notes Babylon’s growth, and closes with a father son exchange about money in mining and a benediction on virtuous endurance, ending with Washington’s ideal of an honest man.
An ex Wisconsin governor and publisher, noted for practical ideas, recounts a speech about kindness and practical aid. He tells of Carl Snpeidel, a farmer crippled by debt, seeking advice at a schoolhouse, illustrating how simple deeds and humane action can avert waste and hardship.
A tale follows Carl Supera churning cream into butter then shipping to a Chicago commission man. The narrator notes Carl's struggle with ignorance, a sequence of improvised barrels, and his eventual success with a $28 per pound sale, transforming his life and dairy into a $60,000 enterprise. The piece ends with reflections on industrial mentorship and rural uplift.
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