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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
2
A chaotic mix of odds and ends from a rural newspaper page. It includes a Lincoln quotation about education, a land drawing notice near Pierre South Dakota with October deadlines, stray editorials about money, a wrestler’s health habits, and rough, humorous chatter from printer’s lore and local notices. The text blends ads, rhetoric, and domestic gossip in a snapshot of a bygone issue.
A poetic tribute to the country editor as a guardian and voice of the people. The piece lauds editors who defend home towns, comfort the afflicted, and shape public virtue, noting editors oversee prosperity and sorrow, influence leaders, and stand as community pillars. It also mentions Clover Leaf’s control of railroad lines in Minneapolis and St. Louis and the Teas Central.
Ackley Journal notes the contract total for construction including plumbing and beating at $12,750, with board indebtedness capped at $12,000. A corrected figure of $11,997 is also cited, $383 below the community approval. The piece accuses grapevine notices of spreading poor space-fillers to Des Moines papers.
Miss Alice Cowie and Miss Anca Sainsbury visit Dumont while Frank Hill and Ed Madigan advertise nearby. Jacob Marken and daughter Vindie travel from Toledo. Dumont wins 4 to 3 over Parkersburg in a Saturday baseball game. Fourth Annual Corn Festival dates proposed as September 34th and 25th. officers elected to manage and hold over.
An engineer at the center claims a patented contrivance that will do the labor of the man down the line. The inventor asserts the invention can move four tons along a 200 mile run. A trial is to be conducted on the Central subscription line.
A sprawling Iowa column notes LeMars waterworks using steam, a farmer dodging a private crossing wreck, Laurel seizing 27 beer cases and whiskey, and Josh Conner hauling 116 bags worth about 2450 at Remaco market. It mentions drought hurt crops, Ottavio Laprovitara’s Des Moines murder arrest, Carnegie hero Howard Butler, scarce Osceola teachers, a Webster City girl finding a $200 pearl, a Schlewig threshing fire, Ames agriculture head resignation, Davenport car contract for 1000 Burlington cars, Ottumwa mayor naming a garbage collector, defamation suit by Mrs J W Hamilton, arrest of ex mayor Pierce for assault, frequent burglaries in Marshalltown, and Wabasha chautauqua receipts of 1880.
G C Penvier describes two successful pig feeding trials at the Illinois Farmers Institute. Fifty head of May pigs weighed from 103 pounds to 241 pounds over 94 days, averaging 1.47 pounds daily gain. Pigs ate oats corn and pumpkins while pastured, with gains of 1.35 to 1.60 pounds per day across monthly intervals.
Algona Courier reports Supt Backus fears a fall teacher shortage and seeks to recruit from several states. He notes higher wages in southern and eastern parts of the state may attract substitutes. Gronen Lison plans to leave his position as switch repairer for Titulos Central to take work in the city.
A scattered set of historical anecdotes traces silver weddings to the time of Hugues Capet in 987, recounting a king’s gift of a wedding ring to aging workers, and weaving in notes on alfalfa inoculation, a village game, and early efforts to treat the insane.
The report cites a flate-back cause for a Georgia tragedy and notes a Missouri case. Dilka led a Philadelphia parade as heavy rain fell near the reviewing stand. Lt. Casper Goodrich, injured in the Georgia blast, was buried in Stone Church New Jersey. Also mentioned are Vienna flood deaths, a Margtrand Sweden drowning, and an ore dock strike unresolved after a mayoral church conference.
Telegraphic items report the cargo steamer Orinoco ashore at Bear Island after sailing from Barbadoes for Halifax via St John New Brunswick. Other notes reveal actress Maud Fealy secretly married to Hugo L Sherwin, Mrs Mamie Welsh dying from gasoline explosion injuries, and C W Meneilly and daughter Vera severely burned by a flammable gas explosion in Minneapolis.
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