The Party of Expansion and Progress in America
The essay extols the Republican party from Civil War to modern era, praising national unity, interstate commerce, gold standard, and tax policies. It credits insulation of possessions, labor protection, and world influence, while lauding laws aiding labor, agriculture, and civil service, and predicts tariff reform and a stronger merchant marine. Continued on Page 8.
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Party of Expansion
Republican Party
National Wealth
Panama Canal
Custom House
Party of Progress and Prosperity
United States
Farm Sells At A Record High Price
The 90 acre Richardson farm adjoining the city sold to Mrs. Mary E. Killmer for 200 dollars per acre, totaling about eighteen thousand dollars. The sale ends a long Richardson family possession, with Mrs. Killmer seeking to invest at home.
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Fred Richardson
Mary E. Killmer
Richardson
Record Melon Shipments Highlight Forty Carloads In One Day
The Thompson tract harvest sends forty carloads of watermelons to market in a single day. Top prices reached about $100 per car, with two exceptional loads weighing around thirty pounds each. Louis Schich and Ellsworth Barrett shipped the leading carloads and secured the highest prices. A Salem United Evangelical church quarterly meeting follows with services Friday through Sunday led by Rev. Morlock and Rev. Johnson.
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Ellsworth Barrett
Fulton Journal
Salem United Evangelical Church
M. C. Morlock
J. H. Johnson
For Sale Cheap Farm Wagon And Cream Separator
MoorE and Glenn offer a used farm wagon and a cream separator at low price. Both items show wear from prior use and are sold as is. Interested buyers may contact MoorE and Glenn for details and viewing.
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Moore & Glenn
Funeral Held for Mrs Sarie Copeland in Ashton
Mrs Sarie Vaupel Copeland of Chicago and formerly of Ashton died at an Ottawa Sanitarium after eight months illness from tuberculosis. Born August 10, 1880, she was 28. Funeral services were at the Presbyterian church in Ashton with interment there, leaving a husband Clarence J. Copeland and a large family of relatives.
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Sarie Vaupel Copeland
Chicago
Ottawa
Copeland
Henry Vaupel
Bradford Township
Ashton
Lizzie Heidenthal
Dixon
Clergman
Presbyterian Church
Armstrong
Harry
Henry
John
William
Charley
Wm. Burhemm
Samuel Mall
Mrs M M Billmire Family Spends Saturday in Rochelle
Mrs M M Billmire and her son and daughter spent Saturday in Rochelle visiting relatives and taking in local sights. They returned home cheerful after a pleasant day trip.
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M. M. Billmire
Rochelle
Hartman Kersten and son заверш 3000 mile tour in Maxwell
Hartman F Kersten and his son Edward completed a 3000 mile automobile journey through Illinois Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota with only two tire punctures. They started near Ashton in July visiting Dysart and Winnebago O'Brien and Pocahontas counties and a sister in Lincoln County Minnesota. They traveled with John Neuman of Sanborn Iowa to Elkton South Dakota. The trip included a visit to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines and the trio gave rides to many Iowa acquaintances.
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Hartman F. Kersten
Edward
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Mr. Kersten
Maxwell
Ashton
Dysart
Kersten
Winnebago
O'Brien
Pocahontas
Lincoln County
John Neuman
Sanborn
Elkton
Des Moines
William Jennings Bryan to Speak at Stephens Furniture
Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan plans two lectures Saturday at 2:30 and 7:00, urging all voters to attend regardless of party. A separate report notes discovery of an infernal machine at C. Barth Jr.’s farm, filled with gasoline and matches, intended to ignite the threshing system. authorities deem the act a serious crime and unknown.
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William Jennings Bryan
United States
Stephan
Cme
C. Barth, Jr
Messrs
Rosenkrans
Barth
Wisdom in Humor Puts Bill Bryan Vote Past and Present
Dooley asks Sweeny who to vote for next November at the club. Sweeny replies that only Bill Bryan will do, recalling prior votes twelve and eight years ago and noting generally good times since, aside from a brief rough patch last winter not Bryan’s fault.
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Sweeny
Dooley
Bill Bryan
Fine potatoes on track to Ashton around the fifteenth
A car load of extra fine potatoes will be sold at reasonable prices on track at Ashton about the 15th of this month. The listing includes the contact 282 Brn Venerich for details.
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Ashton
Brn Venerich
The School Opened Monday at Ashton High
The Ashton High School began Monday morning under favorable conditions with full enrollment including seven new freshmen Ada Vogel Blanch Wagner Raymond Pyatt Ray Chadwick Della Neuman Forrest Paddock and Arthur Wagner The total pupils reach 192 distributed across rooms: High School theatre 51 Grammar 38 Intermediate 37 Second Primary 32 and PEIMALY vols cine nese eer OF
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Ashton
Ada Vogel
Blanch Wagner
Raymond Pyatt
Ray Chadwick
Della Neuman
Forrest Paddock
Arthur Wagner
Streeter
Peimaly
High Price Land Yields Good Income
Emory Wolf harvested a twenty acre clover field producing five bushels of No 1 seed and one bushel of No 2 per acre. Clover seed valued at 6.50 per bushel implied about 40 per acre. Zeller and Son with forty acres of timothy hay cut 125 loads averaging over a ton each, yielding nearly 3 1/2 tons per acre. Fred Richardson made a business call in Dixon.
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Emory Wolf
Mr. Wolf
Zeller and Son
Increase in County Real Estate Value for 1908 Reported
The Dixon County board of review reports 1908 real estate in the country totaling 39,154,770 a gain of 1,390,105 from 1907 reflecting improvements. Personal property totals 8,900,880 a loss of 285,240 from last year. Towns Ashton Amboy China Dixon and Viola show gains while others fall. The board, in session since June 15, found only about 150,000 in unlisted property.
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Board of Review
John Trostle
Thomas Long
Ashton
Harmon
Amboy
China Dixon
Viola
Frost At Amboy
Frost sightings were reported by several early risers in Amboy Monday morning though no damage is observed. The frost is described as light with cool nights continuing, raising concerns that the corn crop remains at risk for six weeks or more.
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Amboy
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The
Republican Congressional Committee
Richardson Farm
William Killmer
Larie V. Copeland
Bage
F. Kersten
Wm. J. Bryan Here
Frost
Mens Clothing
Ladie
Bost
A. W. Rosecrans @ Co
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