Iowa politics and education push for funding
The piece argues for robust funding of Iowa’s State University, Agricultural College, and State Normal, opposing piecemeal support. It criticizes debates over valued policy and calls for liberal, uniform state support to build up the three main institutions and avoid political favoritism or fragmentation.
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Iowa
State University
Agricultural College
State Normal
Worlp
University
Normal School
Towa
March Weather Early Spring Hints Amid Tax Rush
Foster predicts a chilly week with a mild March start and a forthcoming bulletin on spring. Counties report a tax rush as treasurers strain under workload. A four dollar advance buys one year of Daily Forum. Poets mock the man behind the gun while satire notes the gunner and punning fail to spur a run.
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Foster
Daily Forum
Census Requirements Prompt Jolting Refusal Penalties
The article outlines the upcoming census with tight prompts and penalties for sworn enumerators who refuse or falsify returns. It notes a June to July window, possible interpreters in some districts, and a broad scope covering population and agriculture data. It warns against crooked work and predicts jolting results for western boom towns reliant on inflated figures.
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New York
Chicago
Samuel
United States
Sam
Waterloo notes and opinions from the era
The Waterloo Courier recalls E J Dean who once polled sixteen votes as an Independent candidate in Iowa Third District. It cites anti trust views, the governor salary debate, a Swiss salary comparison, and a first Alaska mail by reindeer letter mailed 1899. Misc items: reindeer mail, Fort Dodge event, Breda Watchman editor name changes, Wobert city scales, and a widower’s tombstone epigraph about solitude and a hunter watch.
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Waterloo Courier
E. J. Dean
Congress
Dean
Chicago
Des Moines Register
Switzerland
Iowa
Reindeer
Alaska
Keokuk
Francis H. Gambell
Eaton
Faton
P Oster
Uncle Sam
Rudboldt
Washington
Senator Healey
Fort Dodge
Opera House
Breda
Bia
Dom Paul
Wm. Goebel
William Jennings
Wobater City
Agelo
Domestic life guidance and local business notices from 1900
A fragment from a February Ladies' Home Journal excerpt on marital adjustment underscores the need for patience and communication after childbirth. The page then shifts to Homeseekers notices for Iowa Central Railway excursions dated February 20, March 9 and 20, April 3 and 17, 1900, with agent contact. Additional ads promote pharmacy goods, millinery, cough syrups, globes, candy lines, and fish foods from local merchants.
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Iowa Central Railway
Gee
Ratty
Marshalltown
Iowa
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Ladies’ Home Journal
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