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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1901
Page
2
Prohibition stirs politics as factions press for ballot changes and altered majority rules. Debate centers on keeping the law, altering petition procedures every three years, and shifting thresholds from 65 to 51 percent. A medical test for the McKinley assassin revealed no poison traces on revolver or bullets. Cummins begins campaign with daily speeches this week.
A lively campaign praises A Q Peterson for treasurer and W J Pollen for sheriff as steady public servants. Miss Pingrey is presented as the county’s first female superintendent of schools, with Klopp praised as Eshterville supervisor. A Jefferson Standard editorial questions temperance policy and saloon outlook.
Press bulletin from Iowa Agricultural College outlines that pure milk is essential to all dairy products. Bulletin No. 69 reports bacteriological findings on the college creamery milk supply and creameries with impurity issues, and notes studies on centrifugal milk purification. Free by application to the Iowa Experiment Station in Ames, Iowa.
A scientist asserts that eating grape skins prevents harm from the fruit. An English regiment in India showed officers fell ill while men stayed healthy until officers began eating skins with pulp. Diet change restoring skins led to health, implying similar benefits from radish greens for stomach comfort.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway offers excursion tickets to Minneapolis and St Paul on October 9 10 11 12 and 14 with return by October 19 at a single round trip fare. It promotes a free set of 17 copper steel and enameled cooking utensils valued at 7 50 with each Majesty Range sold next week at the corner hardware.
An independent widow from Lawrence Kansas denies rumors she will remarry saying she is not desperate and will choose her own suitor. She warns busybodies to stay out of her affairs and stresses she has never stolen any husbands. A separate note offers reward for recovery of barbed wire stolen from Jensen's lumber yard area earlier in the summer. Rental ad follows for a room at Central Meat Market.
Reports from Emmetsburg and Algona detail Willis Boyle recalling old Czolgosz rumors in Alpena Michigan, while Sam Mayne plans to relocate Bancroft business duties to Texas for the Fitzgerald Colony. Chicago sharp practice and ad strategy quotes appear alongside Sioux City school lunches and stockholder news on the Illinois Central takeover.
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