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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1881
Page
3
The Liberal Job Printing Office reports it has replenished types and materials and can produce work in approved style at city-office prices. With new material and expert workmen they claim strong competition and invite trials, specimens, and estimates.
A busy morning round includes visits by A Diamond and D Farr, plans for new residences by A W Durley and C D Hoffman, a push for ice and meat markets, and remarks on school work, a teachers institute report, and the St Paul extension. Local politics feature a Republican county convention, candidates Dan Padmore and Pred Becker, and prohibition speeches by Robinson. The circus is praised, land-seekers arrive, and depots, depots and depots are discussed amid retail activity and property sales at Floyd Sale Yards and Main and Second streets.
The LeMars Sentinel column rails at Republican candidates while praising Democrats and publishing snippets on sunstroke recipe endorsements. It notes wheat yields from multiple Iowa counties and questions Senatorial loyalties, urging support for Hopkins.
State Superintendent von Coelln spoke to about forty female and eight male teachers with local citizens in Le Mars. He urged oral, interactive teaching, topical reading, and practical arithmetic plus basic geography, stressing understanding words and surrounding objects and noting shifts from traditional text centered methods. The piece also notes local commentary on court cases and agriculture shifts, including Cathcart’s plans to grow rye as wheat prices fall.
A letter from August 18 1881 criticizes the Sentinel for bias toward Irish and Dutch groups, accusing its editor of falsehoods and denigration while urging calm in Plymouth County politics. The writer claims Germans and Irish oppose the Sentinel and predicts a political backlash at the next election.
A series of notices announces candidates for county offices including auditor sheriff and treasurer. Names such as Eprrors Lipenat C. L vy Brne GC Guturie G. Haerling Barrons Lineran and H. S Payn appear as hopefuls, all subject to nomination and decision of the Republican county convention.
Local notices clarify pricing at five cents per line for each insertion. The rate applies to standard classified listings and guidance on billing. No further details on deadline or format are provided in the fragment.
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