Rush Benedict to be clerk of the house in next legislature
Ames Times notes Rush Benedict will serve as clerk of the house in the upcoming legislature, a continuation of his long tenure. The paper contrasts Iowa weather with California, comments on a Marshalltown liquor case, and mentions other local notes including a Des Moines pure food law flaw and Bill Sunday’s crackdown in Ottumwa.
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Rush Benedict
Des Moines
Bill Sunday
Ottumwa
Secretary Wilson to Remain in Cabinet, Says Supporters
The editorial states Secretary of Agriculture Wilson should stay in the cabinet as he has shaped the department. It lists speakers of the house candidates White Lee Feeley Hacker Marston Harding Dorrah Stillman Sullivan as likely prospects with varying chances.
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Wilson
Department
House
White
Lee
Feeley
Hacker
Marston
Harding
Dorrah
Stillman
Sulllivan
Jail Bird Bill Jef: Des Moines’s Chronic Offender
A Des Moines man named Bill Jef served jail time thirty four times in 1907 for drunkenness and disorderly conduct and has nearly twenty incidents recorded in 1908. The piece quips he may deserve the title jail bird king due to persistent offenses.
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Bill Jeffries
Des Moines
Bill
Iowa Telephone Use Surges With 233924 Phones in State
A rough tally estimates 233,924 telephones are in use in Iowa, roughly one line for every seven residents, signaling a broad opportunity for communication and business outreach.
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Iowa
Paving contractor ordered to repair substandard work
A Cedar Rapids paving contractor must replace a mile of work that failed to meet specifications under the pure food law. The firm previously attempted a cheaper, substandard job and now faces corrective action to comply with required standards.
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Cedar Rapids
School director in Council Bluffs faces student discontent
In Council Bluffs a school director is criticized by girls who say he limits their nights work and interferes with daytime duties. The girls label him harsh and mean, whether they voice it openly or not.
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Council Bluffs
Ma’ams
Suffragette says Denver men joke about vote split
Mrs. Borman Wells speaks at a New York luncheon claiming ridicule but predicts sober use of suffrage when it comes to London. She cites Denver men discussing a allegedly buttonless underwear invention as comic proof of current attitudes.
Ignorance of Bible Questions in Marshall Town Schools
A public school examination in Marshalltown exposed widespread ignorance of the Bible as high school pupils failed to answer any questions correctly. The remark laments the town as an ungodly place.
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Marshalltown
Census 1910 Preparations Mobilize in Washington
Government census office staff and officials in Washington have begun fieldwork and planning for the 1910 census. The nationwide undertaking is described as a major operation requiring a large workforce.
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Washington
Des MoinesMan Pleads For Jail Over Black Eye
A man brought before a Des Moines magistrate on a drunk and disorderly charge asked to be jailed or hanged to avoid returning home to his wife with a black eye. He pleaded for mercy in the courtroom.
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Des Moines
Bankers National Bank
Chicago
National City Bank
New York
N. Y
Valley National Bank
Citizens’ National Bank
Wickersham Seen as Taft’s Attorney General Choice
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune reports Attorney Wickersham of New York is likely to become Taft’s attorney general. Once a lawyer for the Great Northern railway with offices in Sioux City, this past role might raise questions about disqualification in the Freeman-Tribune’s view.
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Wickersham
New York
Taft
Webster City
Great Northern Railway
Sioux City
Freeman
North English district to form English River school masters Club
The North English school district in Keokuk county supplied more teachers than any other district in the state. Next Thursday in Des Moines the teachers plan to organize the English River school masters Club with an initial membership of eighty.
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North English
Keokuk County
Des Moines
Harmony dispute surrounds Anundson state examiner bid
The Cummins faction clashes over the governor's choice Anundson for state bank examiner. Anundson's past support raises resistance in the fourth district while Crogress man Haugen signals support, stirring opposition to harmony efforts.
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Cummins
Senate
Anundson
Mason City
State Bank
Crogressman
Haugen
Disgraceful First Ward Ball at Chicago Coliseum
Aldermen Hinky Dink and Coughlan hosted the annual ball for their constituents drawing twelve thousand attendees. Reports claim the crowd included demimonde thieves and other notorious figures, portraying the event as a morality low point for Chicago.
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Chicago
Coliseum
Hinky Dink
Coughlan
Law Allowing Contest Expenses Under Fire In Congress Race
The contested election law in the state grants $2000 expense money to each contestant and contestee in a congressional contest. In the Hepburn versus Jamison race for the Eighth District the same allowance applies to both sides to carry on the contest.
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Congress
Hepburn
Jamison
Voting cadence critique sparks debate on election costs
A speaker questions frequent elections tied to Congress outcomes and argues against extending contests funded by government costs, urging scrutiny of affordable voting cycles.
Ancient yokel claims unknown age from stone breaking tale
A Saturday wanderer questions an aged stone breaker and learns the man worked various jobs for years. The peddler finally calculates the man’s age at 378 based on old estimates, prompting the reply I be a fearful age. The ancient humor ends with the man’s calm insistence on his uncertain age.
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Sur
Schulin
Farmer Giles
Squire
Wagoner
Cruker
the Inquirer
Dessay
Liverpool Mercury
Scalloped Apple Dish with Cheese in Oven
A Boston Post note describes selecting six apples washed and cored. Slice to remain skin encircled, simmer in a pan with water sugar and butter, then brown and layer with grated cheese before a brief oven finish.
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Boston Post
Korea's early gifts to the world printing mortar and ironclad
The Korea 1324 movable type printing predated Europe by 126 years while Koreans also pioneered the mortar and the ironclad. These early inventions were noted in the Japan Chronicle as influential during the Japanese Korean War of 1502 to 1508.
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Korea
Europe
Japan
Chinese Woman Fates Husband in Winter Mystery
A Chinese woman fans her dead husband in winter as neighbors ask why. She recalls his last words urging patience before remarriage, a detail unfolding into a local scrap-book anecdote.
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Belive
Uli Lam
Move On or Get Run Over Says Success Magazine
The quote urges constant action as nature shows continuous motion. It emphasizes progress over stagnation and advises readers to keep moving to avoid being overwhelmed by change.
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Success Magazine
A Dangerous Operation Becomes a Fretful Fear
An advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a cure for constipation headache biliousness and malaria promising a painless experience with no dangerous operations. Priced 25 cents at all drug stores.
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Dr. King
Old Threadneedle Street Chest to Steel Strong Room
A contrast from the Bank of England museum shows the old oak chest that once held cash notes and papers in the bank's first strong room. Today the strong room is a steel armored, multi ton door protected vault reflecting modern engineering.
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Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
London
Dreams Come True Motive Ends in Move Tomorrow
A New York Press snippet depicts Bertha a colored washerwoman asserting she will move the next day. She says she dreamt of packing a trunk and preparing to leave for a new place as landowner demands rent next week.
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Bertha
New York Press
Angered Mutter Recalls Near Tragedy Over Ball
A Chicago Tribune fragment shows a tense exchange as a mother accuses a boy of nearly harming one of her children with a ball while the boy retorts that the mother has many children and they have only one ball.
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Chicago Tribune
Manufacturing Chords
The exchange references a daughter busy with Beethoven’s works and a pottery place as a playful aside. The dialogue frames a domestic moment tying music and crafts to daily life.
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Boston Transcript
Its Woman Crowning Glory Hair Tonic Advert
The ad touts Dr. Nott's Hair Tonic as essential for women to prevent baldness promote growth and thickness and maintain scalp cleanliness. It claims the product restores gray hair and improves overall hair health, recommending Loughran & Bauer drug store as a place to buy both Dr Nott's Hair Tonic and Q ban Hair Restorer.
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Dr. Nott
Joker Nugget Shocks Australian Gold Field Find
In Australian gold fields the Joker nugget weighed about thirty ounces and sold for six hundred dollars. The owner stumbled on the treasure by accident while resting in his claim and hid it under his coat. He feared other diggers would rush his claim, causing him to laugh and act oddly until the find slowly became known after ten days.
Passing It On Greatness and Patriotism in Paris 1789
Agostino Polidori, great grandfather of Dante Rossetti, recounts being handed a sword during the Bastille storm in Paris. He describes surrendering the weapon to an unarmed person after being urged to fight for his country. The anecdote appears in a life of Dante Rossetti by his brother.
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Agostino Polidori
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Polidori
Paris
Bastille
Palais Royal
Instructed Shade Seeks Post Cards at St Peter
A humorous exchange has a shade asking St Peter for where to buy souvenir post cards. St Peter replies with a curt direction, delivering a dry punchline in this Puck style vignette.
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St. Peter
Puck
Man Loses Hair and Women Mislay It Often
A Yonkers Statesman observer notes men lose hair only once while some women mislay theirs several times weekly, offering a wry take on hair loss habits.
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Yonkers Statesman
Why you were not at the mass meeting of the unemployed
A pithy quip from Puck frames the era's job searches and social humor. The remark highlights a job seeker’s paradox as unemployment looms.
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Puck
The man who is standing up for you soon gets tired
A brief aphorism from the Atchi gon Globe notes that steadfast supporters eventually tire and take a seat, reflecting on endurance and fatigue in advocacy.
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Atchigon Globe
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