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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1902
Page
2
A political notice lists Democratic ticket names for Iowa offices including Secretary, Auditor, Treasurer, and Supreme Court candidates. It urges citizens to vote, stressing the obligation of every person to exercise the franchise and the lasting principle of democratic participation.
City council has begun steps to straighten irregular streets and improve sidewalks to enhance public pride. It argues for consistent enforcement of plumb lines and condemnation of derelict practices to apply equally to rich and poor, urging persistence until order replaces chaos.
The Marshalltown Herald columnist Brother Ayers shares moral musings on marriage prospects. He notes slim wrists may mask extravagance in wives and creased pants do not prove wealth or brains in husbands, warning both sexes against judging by apparel or waist size.
Commentary notes that Denmark rebuffed the treaty with the United States to transfer the Danish West Indies. It argues that investing the island price in internal improvement would benefit Denmark, while highlighting the Osage nation in Oklahoma as “the richest people in the world” with vast cash holdings and land, detailing per capita wealth and annual interest.
The article cites USGS figures showing 866,163,540 tons of coal used in 1901. It discusses coal abundance, rail and river transport, and waste losses, noting growing demand despite shortages and climate factors. Additional items touch temperance trends and praise for the Sherman Act as a world wonder quote on enforcement difficulties.
In the Rochester Herald and Hartford Times excerpts, Senator Spooner argues the coal combination violates the Pennsylvania constitution and accuses allies of allowing it to slip into the Dingley tariff. The Connecticut Times raises whether Allison’s free trade claim benefits trusts, noting distrust from trusts toward free trade if true.
The Rev. George Harvest rector of Thames Ditton England wandered into a friend’s house where no servant was present He entered an ill old lady’s room and tripped over clothing his clumsiness caused her to laugh angering her guard But her laughter saved her life as she recovered and lived many years to thank him.
A fragment from the Chambera Journal notes tunnels as enduring earthworks and likens them to lasting structures. It contrasts practical tunnel construction with casual shore life at Moray Firth, illustrating Scottish fishing village customs and a comical courtship exchange among locals. It ends with a Gladstone quip on wisdom.
A massive walrus weighing about a half ton was installed in the apological park in New York. The creature, one of Lieutenant Peary’s arctic trophies, marks the first walrus exhibit here. Gorillas and walruses are seldom kept in captivity due to extreme fierceness and transport challenges.
Portions of a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item describe a domestic scene where Mr Snaggy holds a book to deter his daughter from reading it while Mrs Snags forbids her access. The dialogue hints at expectations about marriage and parental influence in a domestic setting.
A collage of antiquarian notes recounts Heron of Alexandria s early self moving shrine device with pulleys and weights, a nod to the first automated mechanism. The piece contrasts this with modern slot devices and Hobank s patent illustration, then shifts to a humorous billing dispute with a grocer. It closes with a Chicago Tribune reflection on ten year cycles in stage life and the constant turnover of minor actors in American theater.
A mix of civic notes and social items: Debates on the mule ta law stir talk while Mrs. Cockran joins the U B church after an immersion near town. Grace Jay travels to Iowa City for an appendicitis operation. Agnes Coryell wed Dr. W Day at his home, witnessed by close friends, then they depart by night train for Clarksville.
The article recounts the 1897 Dingley tariff clash over a sixty seven cent per ton duty on anthracite coal. It cites Senate debates, remarks by Allison Allen and West, Moody’s attack, and the New York Board of Appraisers ruling that anthracite bears the duty, with Republicans voting to adopt the amendment.
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