Paper of Story County and Dewey in Focus
Official Paper of Story County notes national topics as Congress meets in two weeks and war tax repeal looms. It highlights election upsets, Sarah Bernhardt tours, and a Northwestern Iowa Horticultural Society meeting in Emmetsburg December 4 to 6 with Prof. N. E. Hansen delivering a paper on Plant Building.
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Axnourt
Northwestern Iowa Horticultural Society
Emmetsburg
Northwest
Iowa
N. E. Hansen
I. 8
University of South Dakota
Drs Moines Register
McKinley
Roosevelt
State House
Washington
Congress
Election Night Racialities and City Edicts Ripple Through Iowa
Boon and Nevada both ratified last night while traveling men failed on election day. Republicans expected to hold a Senate majority of twenty from late returns. Bryan reportedly slept soundly after election. Sioux City schools head Kratz cites tobacco as a major moral ruin for youths. An Iowa firebug scare threatens the southeast region near Nevada with incendiary blazes. McKinney’s live tally places Iowa GOP plurality at 98,364, near the 100,000 mark. Boone city schools face turmoil after officers seized teachers’ whips and rawhides. Census lists Des Moines, Dubuque, Davenport, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, and Cedar Rapids among U.S. cities above 25,000.
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McKinney
Iowa
Weaver
Republican State Central Committee
Department
Washington
United States
Des Moines
Dubuque
Davenport
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
Miss Keith Edits Cambridge Dispatch on Green Paper
The Cambridge Dispatch editor Miss Keith surprised the newsroom by sending a Dispatch to the exchange table printed on green paper. The writer praises her paper and notes her election return elation colorblind jest, adding the paper’s quality matters more than paper color.
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Miss Keith
Cambridge Dispatch
Cambridge
Remarkable nonfatal Kentucky note and statewide items
A scattered Iowa headline list reports nothing fatal in Kentucky, the Iowa State Drayman's Association meeting in Storm Lake, Nevada civil suit claims, Marcus Daly's Montana death, Story City sanitarium plans, praise for Altgeld and denouncement of Meinley in Chicago, a Boone Standard prize tale, smallpox alert on the Northwestern division, census-based congressman quotas, Boone baby shortage satire, and unrelated remarks about baby farming and shortages with local humor.
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Boone Republican
Boone
McKinley Victory Reaffirms GOP Hold On National Scene
Following the recent election, President McKinley secured the largest popular majority in U.S. history for a re election, surpassing Grant Greeley in 1872. The Chicago Chronicle denounces Democratic leadership as populistic and socialistic, urging a return to old line democracy. Business interests shaped the outcome, foretelling a 1904 contest between Republicans and a revitalized Democratic party, with Pettigrewism crushed in South Dakota and Prohibitionists netting small county votes.
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McKinley
United States
Bryan
Grant
Greeley
Jones-Sione-Croker
Chicago Chronicle
Democratic Party
South
Inevitah
Republic
Far West
Republican Party
Croker
South Dakota
Iowa
Story County
Wooley
Henry Villard Dies A Railroad Magnate Of Note
A brief obituary notes Henry Villard, famed railroad magnate, died Monday. The item reflects on his role in railway expansion and the era’s “rainbow chasing” projects. It also references political campaigning and electoral scenes from the era.
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Henry Villard
How Maude Voted
Maude Miller, on election morning, dresses in pride and walks to the polls to vote. She stops at a milliner’s window and spends an hour admiring hats before continuing, thrilled by her day of asserting equality and independence.
Iowa and nation in transition as campaigns shift gears
A stock for society men and a twenty dollar a month clerk as well as the Prince of Wales’ trousers. The Illinois Central plans a new Cedar Rapids passenger station. In county conventions the second ward gains a delegate. other wards and township show Republican gains but not enough for more delegates. Iowa defeats Michigan in a famed football title clash, claiming the championship as McKinley’s cabinet rumors swirl about reshuffles and possible reappointments ahead of a new term.
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Prince of Wales
McKinley
Filling errors in last week’s election returns
The table of returns shows repeated votes for the congressman in several rows inflating Crozier’s tally. Readers paid little attention to the lower figures and scratched votes were uncommon, with overall ticket support aligning with the head of the ticket.
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Aper
Crozier
Congressman
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the Times
Dewey
Sarah Bernhardt
America
Jacob J. Lentz
Ohio
Frank Pettigrew
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska
Williams Wasp
P&tti
Nevada
Senate
Tue
Kratz
Boone City
Kentucky
Iowa State Drayman’s Association
Storm Lake
Marcus Daly
Montana
Clark Brass Band
Story City
Heer
Altgeld
Meinley
Chcago
Boone Standard
William Neal
U. S
Detroit
Slifer
Northwestern
Detroit Free Press
Ames
Ladies Home Journal
H. J
Douglass County
Omaha
C. E. Haverley
Maude
Maude Miller
Denver Post
Illinois Central
Iowa University
University of Michigan
Christmas
Cooley & Jones
Bellamy’s Iron Grasp Cement
Judisch Bros. Drug Store
U. K
Union National Bank
Frank E. Bellamy
Ames, Ia
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