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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
4
Joke fans the season as farm probe drew ire
The News mocks a presidential commission on farm life as needless lecturing to Iowa farmers who live comfortably on easy street. A Cass county farmer’s Chicago trip ends with a surprise show plan for his wife, proving farmers need no government “improvement.” The piece also blasts the Telegraph for failing to pay promised prize money to Eastern Star contestants and questions the paper’s business practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Cass County
Chicago
Opera
Atlantic
George
Rock Island Railroad to Spend Two Million on Block Signals
The Rock Island road will invest two million dollars in 1909 to install an electric block signal system aimed at reducing accidents and casualties. The policy under Rock Island management is to provide the best railroad service between the two oceans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Missing Copies Request for Weekly News December 10
The News seeks two copies of the Weekly News dated December 10 and offers 10 cents each for them. The notice requests owners or sellers to contact for fulfillment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the News
Dwtt
A Free Press Defense of Uncensored News in Panama Controversy
The piece argues against criminal libel charges to suppress the New York World and urges united newspaper resistance. It recalls Milton on free printing, notes Panama canal speculation tied to the forty million purchase, and warns that censorship by government weakens an independent press and public discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
United States
Panama Canal
Pulitzer
Junius
Washington
Henry Watterson
Canal
Panama
France
de Lessep
John Milton
John Mil*ton
Government Authorized Prosecutions Against Newspapers
The Register and Leader notes that government authority may bring criminal prosecutions against any newspaper that may excite the indignation of the president. The statement highlights limits on press actions and potential legal risk for publishings deemed offensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register and Leader
SHERM SAYS: Sunday mocks contest and home industry
A Tribune editorial mocks newspaper subscription contests as graft and laments the loud drive for subscribers. It notes the unfairness of the contest, praises home merchants, and reports the first installment of brush pounding in Anita where eager readers surged to submit orders for the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
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Marx
Albert Johnson
Hart Schia
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E. P. Chase
R. K. A. Chase
Congress
Chase
WOME
Telegraph
Order of the Eastern Star
Anderson
Eastern Star
Sherm
Billy
the Tribune
Home Industries
Oransky's
Willi
Jessie Graham
Maine
Annee 8 Eee
Lorenzen
Roy Hedges
Ee A.M. Petite
Chestnut Street
W. U. Hammer
Orangky’s
Phome
A. M. Petite
Atlantas
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M. Brown
Cumberland
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