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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1916
Page
3
An antiquated snippet details subscription terms and local editorial jabs. It references Ackley World and the old Ackley Enterprise with Lincoln and Bryan quips, plus remarks on public buildings and Republican convention chair Charles E. Pickett amid Hardin county politics.
A collage of opinion snippets on Iowa political sentiment, Harding as likely primary winner, Redmond halting Irish hangings, and a broader defense of peace over war. The piece critiques press sensationalism and argues America seeks peace with honor, noting prohibition and liquor questions in Iowa.
Editors receive floods of prohibition pleas from Washington to Des Moines as leaders argue laws and amendments will not curb thirst. The piece urges personal responsibility over broad measures, noting licensed industries and farmers benefit. It questions wholesale confiscation and calls education to guide youth.
A Boston audience member condemns a Tremont Temple speech urging U S entry into war as treasonous. He accuses the speaker of inciting a mob, labels him a foreigner and hyphenated American, and argues the course endangers the nation amid the Belgium saga and German danger.
Wm. A. Schaper urges Americans to resist pro British influence and disloyal press. He argues America blends English and German lines of descent and warns that the Citizens' League for America and the Allies will vanish as a new dawn arrives.
A newspaper vignette notes the rising price of sugar affecting housewives, praises a sparrow building a nest, and uses the metaphor of a tiny bird to urge purposeful living. It comments on candidates for public favor, the impact of defeat, and skepticism about silos on farms from a large Grundy County landowner.
In a Chicago case a rich bachelor clubman sues for 450000 breach of promise from a pretty cloak model. A Southerner shoots a bachelor friend who allegedly alienated his wife's affections. A young man who inherits 200000 sues for breach of promise while the era clings to the jolly bachelor image.
Hawkeye Press Opinion cites the Cherokee Democrat and the Algona Courier in critiquing Independence Iowa politics and infrastructure. It mocks worn safety posts and a bonded debtless city, questions leadership, and discusses municipal government schemes including the commission plan and a Denver example.
A correspondent asks how to dispose of a felon with doctors recommending a bone injection and prison authorities relying on parole. The piece notes a Memorial Day baseball game between Acklay and Wellaburg in Ackley with arrangements for the event and the infant’s involvement.
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