02 Feb 1912
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
1
Aurelia Sentinel weekly notices subscription details posted for Cherokee County readers. Advertising rates listed per line with display options and special yearly contracts.
The piece notes Carnegie arguing no tariff on steel due to U S production gains, while Iowa congressmen mostly vote to keep the tariff. It claims Hubbani supported removing the tariff, and urges true representation to back removal.
The discarded politicians of Iowa dictating postmaster names is causing trouble for Taft supporters. They acknowledge the difficulty for the president and suggest his interests are better served through other methods. Supporters who back Taft prefer more decisive actions over small, compromised moves.
Close friends say Roosevelt would accept the presidential nomination if offered but will not campaign actively. If he confirms this stance he could secure the nomination and win, avoiding rivals who lack his broad vote total. A Roosevelt nomination would likely lead to another Republican administration.
A Newark shade tree commission enforces strict rules protecting street trees. Unauthorized cutting, injuring, removing, or attaching devices to trees is forbidden without written permit. Interfering with commission work or placing animals near trees is prohibited. No tying horses to street trees or allowing them to damage trunks.
The author urges wide parkways with curving streets and plentiful trees to create long sweeping vistas. Narrow straight lines of trees form a roofless green tunnel, harming views of earth, sky, mountains, or sea and lowering property values.
The text argues the designer must balance beauty with practicality, preserving meadow breadth and simplicity. It cites drives, flower beds, worn greensward, and flat terraces that ruin naturalness, insisting on harmony with surrounding topography and avoidance of artificial regular plantings.
William Mur Tis argues for neatness and decency in private premises as essential to attractive villages. He says cleanliness in cottages and palaces matters, noting centuries of thoughtlessness and inequality and urging wide remedies beyond a few who have begun to seek them.
Brainerd H Warner hosted a reception for Washington’s prominent figures. Late in the event he, unsure of a man by the door, asks Rudolph Kauffmann who the distinguished guest is. Kauffmann replies that the man is the caterer’s head waiter, easing the moment.
A letter argues Arbor Day planting in city parks should be stopped as wasteful and frowned upon by park superintendents. It claims school grounds are better suited for planting, urging the activity be limited to juveniles where trees are needed.
Veterans of the Second New York Zouaves, largely firefighters from New York Brooklyn and Williamsburg, gathered at the Union Square Hotel for the regimental fiftieth anniversary. They recalled sixteen hundred men marching 1861 to Washington, enduring twenty nine major battles, with 711 losses, and a famed Bloody Angle flag capture.
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