Ackley World’s Wide Riff on Politics and Rail Policy
The item surveys a Waterloo banquet speech by Sadve Van Wagoner and riffs on Iowa politics. It critiques railroad ownership advocacy, party unity, and youth influence, noting Roosevelt's task in taming protectionist senators. It praises the Bible’s stance in education and mentions Sioux City’s wind, the capital’s capital-city debate, and financiers in Pierre and Mitchell.
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Sadve van Wagoner
Boles-Jacksonian Democratic Club
Waterloo
Des Moines Register
Inita
Atdea
Lowai
Great
Democratic Party
Lyon County
Confidence in local banking boosts town growth
Two Waterloo banking associations report annual meetings with eight percent earnings for the year. Their steady growth aids housing and progress in Ackley, while local officials praise the institutions for building the city and supporting laborers to buy homes through installments.
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Waterloo Building and Road Associations
Ackley
Mischievous War Talk By High Navy Officers
The Times reports concern over several recent declarations by U S navy officials urging a larger fleet to prepare for possible war with Germany. It questions how such warlike talk shapes public opinion in Germany and mirrors what Germans would say if their leaders warned of imminent conflict.
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Burtfard Gonn
United States Navy
Germany
Sore Fact Than Education in New York Tribune
The common school system has been the boast of Americans, yet enlightened teachers see progress lagging pride. We have developed facts but not the teaching that would produce able, useful men and women for life’s spheres.
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Edison
Thomas A. Edison
New York World
New York Tribune
The Plundertaug of Inaia and Toda in India’s British Rule
A fragmentary and biased note by a Republican writer denounces British rule in India, alleging widespread plunder and famines as legacy. The text claims current policy serves British manufacturers, citing scarce timber and ore as evidence of exploitation and misrule.
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Inaia
Toda
India
Near and Far: multiple local notices from Independence era
A compilation of brief items: towns debating early closing, Scarlet fever cases in Independence, Iowa State Dairy Association meeting in Cedar Rapids, Clarksville opera house opening by Beggar Prince Opéra Company, Carnegie library funding in Perry, joint lodge installation in Union, a proposed $60,000 gym at State Normal School Cedar Falls, Mason City plants closed by union pressure, a new dam builder in Nile project, and commentary on 1904 coal duties and insurance losses in Illinois and Pittsburgh newspapers.
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Barkersburg
Éleetrleight
Quinwell
Independence
Iowa State Dairy Association
Cedar Rapids
Clarkaville
Beggar Prince Opéra Company
Perry Hate
Car‘negie
Independence Asylum
Hardin
Franklin
Mitchell
Floyd
Marshall
Wamed
Man in the White House Acrostic Admired By Adoring Verse
A National Magazine acrostic by Frederick Lawrence Knowles extols a presidential figure as brave, dutiful, and firm. It lauds public virtue, law, and trust between ruler and ruled, contrasting praise with flattery from foes. Also notes a generic notice about settling accounts with Denten & Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Frederick Lawrence Knowles
National Magazine
Raochman
Roush
Fashionable Party Attire and Angling Verse Echo 1838 Notes
A Dakota paper piece recounts a society party with vivid costume notes for Misses Boning Latroke Merchison Wakiroot Tally Ross and Frarmomerly, plus humorous family moments and a Kipling poem in London Times. The collage blends fashion satire with nostalgic verse and Home Companion extracts.
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Dakota
Ita
Mary Boning
May Latroke
Marlon Wiloughby
Mixa Jennie Merchison
Ella Wakiroot
Pautene Tally
Florence Ross
Vinnie Frarmomerly
Remarkable Escape From Death at Sherydon High
Seven hundred children evacuated a burning high school in Sherydon, Iowa, with no injuries as the pressed brick building burned down causing an estimated 76000 in losses. School leaders organized swift egress ensuring every pupil exited safely amid flames.
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Sherydon
Towa
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Tecken
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Agricultural Department
Picble
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Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
the Treasury
Extree
Nile
Egypt
A. C. Parkinson
Cooo Rapids
J. W. Dowkes
Indiampolla News
Aldrich
West
Pittsburg
Denten & Johnson
Pal
Ackley Markets
Tramma
Matthew
Papa
Mama
Charlie
Wotan
Kipling
London Times
Rudyard Kipling
Wales
Thay
Whatatar
Aemi
Christendia
Aria
Beanstalk
Jack
Ogres
Merce
Gianta
Tally
Frederick Mitchell Moorae
Nix's
Friz & Paulus
Rite & Paulus
Purcell
Price
G. A. Maune
Fom
Ocean of
Baga
Tao
G. H. Kerr
Heyrens
Bakker
Hubbard Monitor
Redcliffe
Symington
Hepate
Osnade
Orel House
Couru
Lowe
Fabie
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