Ackley World announces changes in ownership and rates
The Ackley World details George F. Althouse as proprietor. It notes the Ackley Enterprise started in 1887 and the paper’s post office registration. Subscription terms include yearly advance at 1.80 and three months at 0.75 with a single-copy price. a call for public virtue and reform accompanies the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Althouse
Ackley Enterprise
Ofice
Mali
Heal
New York
George Westinghouse
Lord Kelvin
Westinghouse
Old fashioned spelling bee and mixed Iowa views gathered
A Galena spelling bee winner is lauded while newspapers mock up to date politics and religious sermons. Notes include remarks on Wilson, Ambassador Pagegate, workmen’s disability act, spring signs, Billy Sunday quotes, Kentucky dry counties, and rare souvenir postal cards from Hobea’s Bargain Store.
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Galena
Awoman
Dubuque
Dubuque Telegraph-Hoerald
Mason City Paper
The Shamrock Song By Maurice Brands Egan
A poetic reflection on the shamrock blooming after April rain, describing emerald shamrock sprigs with raindrops and flowers. The speaker ties Ireland’s heritage to transplanted imagery, lamenting loss and memory as the shamrock’s tears fall on hopeful springtime growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snring
Maurice Brands Egan
Brief Bits of Information From a Bygone Era
A rapid-fire collage of techn discoveries and social notes spanning aviation, German inventions, automatic devices, curling hair tech, a nearly indestructible keg patent, and sugar and oyster production stats. Obscure local reports include a cattle shipment to Maquoketo, a Grundy Center accident, and a jail confinement suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wright County
Vietor Brothers
Schroeder
Maquoketo
E. G. Richardson
Dumont
Cassidy
Grundy Center
Nick Schuler
Clarion
Duncombe
Vash
J. W. Southern
Collins
Russian press crackdown report details closures and penalties
A Soviet era style report from Sr. Pethesburg tabulates 869825 in fines on 174 newspapers and periodicals, 228 issues confiscated, 63 editors imprisoned, and twenty papers forced to cease publication within the past year. It notes a harsh move with Rostov on Don confiscating a recent issue of 4 Paper for publishing a Vienna Telegram rumor about the Servian throne heir arrival in St. Petersburg.
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Lorrimer
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Tinoia
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Taft
Minneapolis
United States
New York World
National Graphic Society
The
Civic Forum of
Col. Goethals
Wilson
Panama
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Commission of Crime
Board of Control
Minnesota Parole Board
Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
Europa
Fred White
U. S
Laws
Iowa
Stuart
F. EB. White
Whitewall
White
Ripa
Hawkeye Press Opinion
Billy Sunday
Pittsburg
Kentucky
Foigt
Lincoln Journal
Mqnor
Louisville
Col. Watterson
Pan Pioneer Press
Ewater
Hobea
Bargalg
Germany
England
Pines
Wisconsin
Philippine Islands
Switzerland
France
Edwin A. Watson
West
Custer
Denver
Port Orford
Pacific Coast
Rome
Fort Dodge
Carontele
Jim Creelman
Lexas Kame Mbere
Litcon Journal
Texas
Rio Grande
Alamo
Russia
Warted Wein
Rentatown Bath
Billville
Philsvephy
Hobson
Big Montgomery
Washington
Alabama
Loute Globe-Democrat
Congress
Ella Higgligon
Hart Schaffner
Marschall
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
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