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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1906
Page
6
Local and through freight and passenger trains listed for Chicago and Midwest routes. References to Illinois Central Railroad timetables, schedules for Omaha and Sioux, Fort Dodge, Chicago Express and Local Freight services. Agent notes indicate daily operation with exceptions on Sundays.
A ballot was taken late Tuesday on the proposed primary election bill in the Iowa legislature and the bill was defeated. Regular communication of Fountain lodge A F and A M scheduled for next Monday evening. The 12th annual meeting of the Southeastern Iowa Teachers Association will be held at Ottumwa from April 5 to 7.
A humorous exchange mocks wealthy kin who visit, noting costly supper, polite farewells, and sharp wit about their manners. The relatives leave with smiles and a cigar, while hosts mutter under breath that the rich get a square meal but never a square deal.
Luke Wright, governor of the Philippines, is chosen as the first U S ambassador to Japan. A Democrat from Tennessee born in 1847, Wright has long Philippine service, including date as president of the Philippine commission and governor during Taft’s absence. He married a Semmes daughter and has three sons in military service.
Viscount Ssuzo Aoki becomes Japan’s ambassador to Washington, the first to hold full embassy status after the Tokyo elevation. Aoki, in his sixties, ranks among Japan’s top diplomats with past posts including minister to Germany and twice as foreign affairs minister. He addressed the Hague conference in 1899 and is married to a German lady.
The Countess of Warwick now advocates socialism and aids Will Thorne, drawing praise and skepticism. Once Lady Brooke, a gossip figure linked to Tranby Croft, she delivers large crowds of workingmen with tough talk on an independent labor party. Her noble lineage and philanthropy frame the debate.
Stuyvesant Fish long prominent in railroad affairs rises from clerk to president of the Illinois Central. A Columbia educated college man born to Hamilton Fish, he joins the New Orleans line and climbs to vice president before leading the Illinois Central since 1887. The Fish family, with Revolutionary grandfather Colonel Nicholas Fish, remains socially influential.
A retrospective on Thomas A Edison as he nears his sixtieth birthday. The article praises his inventions from telegraphy to the electric light and telephone, noting Newark Menlo Park and West Orange labs. It cites his ambition to witness further wonders including airships and faster transatlantic travel.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recounts Eli Smith saving 23 men after a Dyea trail snowslide in spring 1898. He used a sharpened stick to listen for breaths, guiding rescuers to buried survivors. His method, learned in Idaho, helped locate two dozen or more victims and saved several lives by morning.
Louisville reports suggest future visitors to the Cabbage Patch shrine may pause for refreshment or inspiration at the Cabbage Patch Inn. The New York World notes Mrs. Wiggs may rent her shanty, the would be lessee seeks a license, and literary figures once frequented famed taverns.
The article argues fur farming offers profits for small capital with realistic returns. It ranks furs by value, citing sea otter as the top but extremely rare, then silver fox as highly valuable. It notes muskrat pelts are low value and emphasizes breeding high class furs over cheap ones.
In a Baltimore American item, a young man named Lofty boasted of being the top gun in the establishment. The boss overheard and fired him, illustrating a self-justified ego leading to dismissal.
A ragged OCR passage quotes praise for local papers with favorable lines from Ames Times and Toledo Chronicle editors, praising an ideal of an evening newspaper and calling Muhalltowna Thines Republican a strong paper with top evening panels in the United States.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Turmeric as a pleasant cathartic that expels colds from the system and cures coughs and bronchial illnesses. It warns against laxative misuse and urges readers to note subscription labels on The Fort Worth paper.
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