Stormy session ahead as Congress opens in Washington
The Fifty seventh Congress begins amid expected heated debate over many national issues. Proposals from lawmakers across the country foretell radical tariff changes, especially a repeal of the steel tariff championed by Wisconsin's J W Babcock. He argues protection should foster infant industries, not sustain monopolies, and cites America's steel edge due to coke and ore ownership, while Europe lags in production. The session will wrestle with Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines policies and with Canada Britain trade terms. The piece also recalls Civil War memorials, graveyard burials, and the lasting impression of national remembrance.
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Washington
J. W. Babcock
Wisconsin
Committee of Ways and Means
United States
Great West
Republican Party
Great Britain
Germany
Belgium
Europe
Congress
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
Senate
Fame's Eternal Camping Ground
Civil War drama receded 36 years after ending as General Freen in Soribner's comments on vast war magnitude. He notes numerous battles with heavy federal casualties far exceeding other wars, citing Shiloh to Gettysburg and Wilderness. Totals: 93,000 killed by bullets, 186,000 by disease, 25,000 dead from other causes.
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Secretary of War
Congress
Jame
Cieneral Freen
Soribner's
Mexico
Spain
Shiloh
Chickahominy
Antiett
Fredricksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Chickantugi
Wilderness
Spottsylvania
Honor, Algona Post Office and the Enigma
An item lampoons the Algona post office as a focal point of town politics and social life. It jokes about “The Algona Advance” winner of a past puzzle, the office’s influence with Caele Sam, and its role as a hub where editors avert hard times while gum chewers and rag chewers gather.
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Algona
Algona Post Office
Caele Sam
Sam
Algona Post
Uncle Sam
Enterprise in Estherville Faces Rough Start
Estherville's fourth paper, the Enterprise, faces stiff competition from three established local papers. Editors argue that true enterprise, solid business principles, and quality publishing can win advertisers, subscribers, and job seekers, potentially elevating the new paper to parity with rivals in a short time. The piece reflects on rivalry, freedom, and the broader aims of professional life.
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Enterprise
Estherville
Ufe
Bancroft Post Members Endorse Civil Service Postmaster Plan
The G A R at Bancroft held a post meeting last Saturday endorsing the Civil Service postmaster resolutions recently passed by the duties C Taylor post. The vote supported appointment procedures under civil service rules.
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G. A. TR
Bancroft
Dutines C. Taylor
Civil Service
Li Hung Chang Eulogized Yet Nevada Rep Casts New Character
The Nevada representative questions Li Hung Chang's portrayed virtues after his death at Peking in his later years. He notes Li was the most familiar Chinese name to the world, challenging prior press tributes.
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Li Hung Chang
Nevada
Pekin
Russia
Bret Harte
Eiders
China
Mixed Odds and Ends From Public Notices to Boer War Echoes
A jumble of notes covers Li Hung Chang praise and critique, civic growth in Mason City, Kate Shelley’s future as a paper folder, vaccination debates, Frank James in theater, westward cattle fence resistance, local postmaster hints, Chicago diet studies, Lincoln home humane project, bankruptcy repeal talk, political boundary gerrymanders, social customs, and a sharp Boer War proclamation from Louis Botha outlawing Lord Kitchener’s forces with a call to shoot armed English troops.
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Lord Kitchener
Louis Botha
South Africa
Cape Colony
Engagements and sales from Algona business notes
An Algona survey page lists ads and notices about weddings and gifts, coal and fuel offerings, loan rates, robes and blankets, stove wood, and banking interest. Vendors include Diveruy & Puan, Algona Milling & Grain Co., Chane & Clo, Moore Bros. & Felthous, W. J. Crammond, and the County Savings Bank. The items reflect local commerce and social matters in a small town setting.
Diary of a Civil War Soldier in 1862 at Antietam
A diary entry chronicles 42 months of service in the War of the Rebellion from Neanan Bakersville Missouri to camp movements near Harpers Ferry and White Plains. It notes punishments for stealing beans, discipline by Brig Gen Brooks, weather, marching routes, picket duties, and a surprise shift as McClellan is replaced by Burnside.
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Nean
Bakersville
Brooks
McClellan
Burnside
Turspar
Tururspay
Euipay
Roberts
Corp
Berry
Timspay
Weronespay
Rebs
Dam No
Dam No. 4
Fuipay
Crampton Gap
Bucketsville
Harpers
Ferry Gap
Franklin
Ed. K. Verrill
McClellan and Burnside
Jersey Brigade
Bloomfield
Thansway
White Plains
Manassas Gap
Winchester
Ashby's Gap
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Algona Advance
GEO. G. Gall
Foreman
FAME
Fra R. Hicks
Mason City
Kate Shelley
Boone
T. J. Dent
Congregational Church
Aberdeen
S. D
Frank James
A.A. Spaugh
Mannville
Wyoming
Rome
Tto
Chicago
J. J. Kellogg
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Tanners
St. Luke's Society of Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Bol Cousins
Missouri
P. KE
Diveruy & Puan
Big Watch
Algona Milling & Grain Co
Branty
Ltt
Db, Chane & Clo
Central Depot
Moore Bros. & Felthous
Algona ,Milling & Grain Co
Lacy Barn
W. J. Crammond
County Savings Bank
Dingley & Pugh Sigo
The
E. F. Smith & CO
Boston
Algona, Iowa
Lightner
Algony Milling & Grain Co
Dingley & Pugh
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