Vote It Des Moines Republicans Should Unite Now
Des Moines notes urge Republicans to vote for their preferred U S senator and party candidates on election day. They promise peace and fairness from the state central committee, with a call to support the entire Republican ticket from Taft to constable and to avoid quarrels within the party.
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Republican Party
Congress of the United States
Des Moines
United States
Lacey
Cumming
State Central Committee
Bryan Fairness in Des Moines Speech Critique
Reader letter from Webster of South Dakota in the World condemns William Jennings Bryan for alleged selective reporting on tariffs. The letter accuses Bryan of masking Russian and foreign oil duties and contrasts with 1894 and 1896 tariff positions and free silver rhetoric.
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Des Moines
Bryan
Russia
Standard Oil Company
Mr. Bryan
Webster
S. Dak
Takes Rap at Tightwads In Old Home Week critique
The Knoxville Express denounces merchants who refuse to fund public celebrations though they profit from the event. It mocks callous benefactors as tightwads while affirming Old Home Week will succeed regardless. The piece jokes about money grifts and overworked excuses.
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Knoxville Express
Knoxville School Board Votes to Dismiss Afternoons During Home Week
Knoxville Express urges the school board to suspend afternoon sessions for Old Home Week. The letter argues a temporary dismissal would aid pupils and teachers within ten miles without harming country schools.
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Knoxville
Knoxville Express
Roosevelt Urges Elect Taft and Republican Congress
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Hon. William B. McKinley praising seven years of progressive legislation. He urges electing Taft and a cooperative Republican Congress to continue policies on irrigation, commerce, food safety, anti-trust and national development. He calls for broad citizen support and partisan harmony for lasting policy.
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Sagamore Hux
Oyster Bay
Congress
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Department of Justice
Panama Canal
Philippines
Navy
Consular Service
Naturalization
District of Columbia
Forest Service
Oklahoma
Alaska
Taft
Mr. Taft
National Committee
Hitchcock
Prisoner Classification at Arizona Territorial Penitentiary
The Arizona Republican lists December 31, 1907 prisoner demographics: Whites 112 male, Mexicans 249 male, 1 female, Negroes 24 male and 1 female, Indians 20 male, Chinese 1 male. Total 408 with only two women.
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The
Arizona Republican
Territory
Money to Loan At 5 54 and 6 Per Cent
A. B. Gookin & Co. advertise money to loan with options at 5 54 and 6 percent. Loans appear available with optional payments through the firm.
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A. B. Gookin@& Co
Iowa Liquor Law System Declared Invalid
Judge McPherson rules Iowa has had no lawful liquor licensing system for 25 years and no person may lawfully sell liquor as a beverage in Iowa. In United Breweries of Chicago v Civic Federation of Davenport, the ruling voids the mulct tax and blocks saloon operations, calling it the most sweeping liquor decision in Iowa history.
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Davenport
Smith McPherson
United States Circuit Court
Iowa Maulet Law System
Audge ‘McPherson
Iowa
Towa
United Breweries Company of Chicago
Rersys
Civic Federation of
McPherson
Amendments to State Savings Bank Chariton Capital and Directors
Amendments to the articles of incorporation of the State Savings Bank of Chariton Iowa were approved at a January 20 1908 stockholders meeting to increase capital from 15000 to 25000 and directors from five to seven. At a February 24 meeting the changes were carried by a three fourths majority and certified by Chairman P V Van Arsdale and Secretary John Culbertson. Notary G W Larimer witnessed the certification on April 1 1908.
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State Savings Bank of Chariton
Iowa
Chariton
P. v. “VanArsdale
John Culbertson
P.V. VanArsdale
John. Culbertson
Traveling Man Saves Ill Passenger on Eastbound Train
Sam A. Garber recounts aiding a sick woman aboard an O R N train from Pendleton to Le Grande Oregon. He gave Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy with whiskey and rubbing, and the passenger recovered before arrival at Le Grande. Williamson Drug Co. sells the remedy.
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N.R. R
Pendleton
LeGrande
Ore
Sam A. Garber
le Grande
Tax Payers Urged to Prevent Delinquent Payment Penalties
Public notice warns that the final tax payment is now delinquent and penalties will be added on October 1, 1908. Residents are advised to come early to avoid the rush and consult Wright, the County Treasurer, for details.
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OFP
Wright, Co
Treas
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Chariton Patriot
Lewis Publishing Company
Chariton, Iowa
National Republican
William Howard Taft
Ohio
James S. Sherman
New York
Thomas T. Anderson
Indianola
Warren County
John H.anundson
Mason Quys Cerro Gordo County
B. F. Carroll
Bloomfield
Davis County
George W. Clarke
Adel
Dias County
W. C. Hayward
Scott County
John L. Bleakly
Ida Grove
Ida County
W. W. Morrow
Afton
Union County
H. W. Byers
Harlan
Shelby County
John F. Riggs
Sigourney, Keokuk County
Supreme Court
H. L. Bosquet
Marion County
Nathaniel S. Ketchum
Marshalltown
Marshall County
Alexander Mardis
Corydon
Wayne County
Congressional
William Petershepburn
Clarinda
Page County
George McCullock
Hameston
J. H. Darrah
Lucas County
Republican County
Frank P. Wright
Lincoln Township
GEQ
W. Wiltsey
Gev
F. Carpenter
A. D. Gray
Sheriff
Chas
Lyman
L. B. Bartholomew
Tetter
Chamberlain
D. H. Beach
Midland City
Als
Williamson Drug Co
Constable
Bryan’s ‘‘Fairness
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Wm. B. McKinley
Republican Congressional Committee
St. James Building
N.Y
Chas. E. Fluke
Oppenheimer Block
France
R.O. Miller
Chariton Rg. B
D. L ‘Lucas
Ascref
Satan Sanderson
By Hallie Erminie Rives
Will Jones
Yates
Cal
Fern ‘Scott
J. ‘Hayes
Kelley
Misa Ida, Nelson
Robt. Poingett
R.A. Hasselquist
P. M
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