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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1925
Page
3
An editorial praising President Coolidge’s Christmas message to American youth and their role in citizenship. It argues youths’ virtues rebuke critics and highlights the need for better road funding from farm to market, noting Iowa's tourism and freight context, with a side remark on tax burdens and federal shares.
In a St Joseph Gazette reflection, John Masefield argues tragedy reveals the heart of life by exposing dreadful acts and spiritual trials. He credits agony with exalting insight, shaping character through pain, experience, and knowledge rather than simple pleasure.
A fragmentary note questions the purpose of a road and hints at public debate over its role in shaping movement and access. The text references communication and travel, implying broader concerns about infrastructure and community impact.
The column argues that elected officials fail to curb taxes despite promises while 1924 tax totals rose 2 percent from 1923, driven by state and local governments. Federal taxes fell slightly, but state and local levies surged, tripling since 1913 as the postwar era shifted taxation away from the federal level and toward local authorities. The piece ends reflecting on proposed reforms and the political challenge of tax restraint.
A nostalgic examination recalls young people from a bygone era noted for quirks such as stamp language punctual curfews and travel tricks. It highlights social norms and family cautions that shaped dating habits and daily life in the era.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling against a railroad company after a section foreman struck a coiled snake with a stone, fragment injuring a crew member. The court held the act was not within ordinary employment and that negligence could be proven under the foreman’s scope of authority. The case Kieeman v. Chicago & North Western Ry Co. is reported in Northwestern.
The expedition joins a rescue party of native warriors after a day of escape from ape-men. Lord John Rox ton and companions pledge to aid the tribe against danger while preparing for a future raid. The river camp settles in with fires and the slaughter of a guarded Iguanodon as meat.
Challenging expedition narrative follows roving party under Lord John and Challenger as they encounter ponds of blue clay gas vents and a freshwater plesiosaurus. Ape-men attack from woods. Indian allies hold, with Summers and Roxton among leaders. Dawn breakout marks turning point in a decisive battle.
The jury held the foreman responsible for negligence, ruling it was reasonably foreseeable that a stone glancing off the steel rail could injure someone nearby. The court notes removing the snake before moving the rail was advisable, so the foreman’s error in method does not absolve liability.
Mr and Mrs K C Davis and sons James Leland and Lyle of Lincoln Nebraska have returned home after spending Christmas at the T B Wait home south of Creston. Mrs J J Hess and daughter Catherine Ann of 109 South Jarvis Street also arrived home Monday evening from Omaha where they spent Christmas with Mr and Mrs Thomas Feylon.
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