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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1902
Page
3
The Ackley World argues for a sanitary sewerage system in Ackley to protect health as water contamination endangers residents. It notes streets and basements flood with water, waterworks exist yet serve only partially without proper sewer lines, urging urgent public action and municipal investment amid civic debate.
A sudden withdrawal of Col D. B. Henderson as the Republican candidate for congress stirs Iowa politics. The editorial laments the move, recalls his twenty years of service and party loyalty, and urges Republicans to unite with Democrats behind Horace Baies. Mentions Roosevelt's Sioux City visit and Rankin's public stance.
The article discusses John Crockett and John Dalton, political operatives tied to Republican and Democratic tickets. It quotes a Manson Democrat editorial lampooning both as “two of a kind,” praising Crockett’s down to earth style and Dalton’s brisk, entertaining stance while promising ongoing loyalty to old allies and Jeffersonian simplicity amid campaign theater.
In a Madison Mall column dated Friday Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska lauds Horace Bates as the greatest living lawyer with unmatched intellect and integrity. He contrasts Bates with an aging political era, predicts a rare house of representatives member, and recalls Webster's 1825 remarks on commerce, navy power, and peace with equal rights.
Pittsburg Dispatch urges growth in civic virtue to curb public corruption in St Louis. It argues that many candidates pursue office for private gain, viewing public office as private property and showing willingness to rob taxpayers or join hold-ups. The piece links political ethics to broader social morality and criticizes entrenched practical politics.
Fragmentary text suggests a note about a United States pact aiming to settle ongoing issues. The garbled excerpt mentions dates and unknown terms, with insufficient readable names or locations to extract clear entities or concrete actions.
Amid Iowa Democratic delegates in Dubuque Horace Boles received the party nomination for congress in the third district. J H Shields of Dubuque led the nominating speech as unity and harmony prevailed at the convention. Boles born in New York 1927 pursued law, served in New York legislature, then moved west, practicing law in Waterloo and later Grundy county while engaging in politics and prohibition issues.
A clipped Boston Globe excerpt proclaims that the American public will never abandon someone’s funds and will ultimately decide by collective will who controls wealth, emphasizing populist finance primacy and distrust of elite control.
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