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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1906
Page
6
American Republicans Back Tariff Revision Despite Graft Claims
The piece argues that Republicans favor tariff revision along protective lines, condemning high rates as tariff graft. It cites steel protection, watches imported from England resold at U S prices, and asks for reciprocity and fair protection, noting President McKinley as sympathetic to reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Mark Hanna
McKinley
Senate
Ome
Steel Trust
New York
Broadway
Waltham and Elgin
England
America
Chas. A. Keene
West
Panama project turmoil sparks bitter public quarrel
A heated public dispute over Panama reforms pits Poultney Bigelow Taft Lundy and Shonts against each other. Critics denounce leadership and tactics while behind the scenes calls for a practical Isthmian canal solution persist, with commentators urging unity to save the big project.
Honorable Arnold Shanklin Cast as Panama’s Ideal Leader
In Panama the Honorable Arnold Shanklin arrives as American Consul General and is praised as a cosmopolitan diplomat. The piece argues he should be installed as Imperator of Projects Panamaian to bring order, productivity, and peace, noting his politeness and persuasive power over rivals. It calls him the country’s only hope at Panama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultney Bigelow
Taft
Shonts
Lundy
Panama
Poultney
White House
Arnold Shanklin
Arnold
Elegantiarum
Shanklin
Suaviter
Satan
Jim Ham Fish
Missouri
Sunday Eggs For Missionaries In Rural Kentucky
Nonunion hens in Danville Kentucky will lay eggs on Sunday to fund four Cumberland Presbyterian missionaries bound for Japan. Bethel church members began the Sunday egg program led by Mrs Nannie Caldwell Helm, raising $21000 for missions in the fiscal year as hens reportedly lay more eggs to support the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
Japan
Russia
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Nannie Caldwell Helm
Mission Fund
Other Forms of Graft and the Cost of Wealth
The piece condemns graft beyond money theft and exposes heartless shifts by new riches. It contrasts embezzlers with men abandoning families for fashion, urging resilience, courage, and upright conduct despite prosperity and temptation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
Peoria’ Transcript
Sunday Eggs In Kentucky And The Missionary Hen
A Kentucky verse notes Sunday egg laying by hens and the women’s plan to use Sunday eggs for foreign missionary aid. The poem humorously laments Sabbath breaking hens and suggests charitable use of the tainted revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Victim of Jealousy Ends Life After Shore of Tragedy
Mrs Euvene Jones died at her Iowa City home on January 15 following a July shooting by her former husband William Jones in a jealousy fueled crime spree. Jones, already divorced, killed Mrs Jones friend Ernest Danner the same day and remains serving a life sentence in the penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Euvene Jones
William Jones
Jones
End of Steam Era Foretold by Rail Route Overhaul
The Pennsylvan ia Railway plans to abandon steam engines and operate electric motors exclusively across its network. The move, foreseen as the railroad industry has tested electric propulsion for years, positions electricity as superior in speed and all aspects of motive power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Kansas City Journal
The Tribune Reports Local News Brief
A compact Tribune item notes a local development with unspecified officials and place. The brief emphasizes timely community impact and upcoming steps without detailing names or dates.
Whine denial and the psychology of outlook
Palatka Florida column argues that chronic whiners poison themselves and miss present opportunities. It asserts that trouble is often imagined, mood shapes environment, and optimistic thinking brings resilience and success.
Reflections and Social Observations From The Commoner
A collection of aphorisms on growth versus fit, heart and love, sin and resolutions, Santa Claus in hearts, political reform, costs of presents, aging confidence, necktie concerns, gender differences, work versus pay, and changes in wedding and divorce trends noted by The Commoner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
North Pole
Maxims for Prolonging Active and Useful Life
Practical guidance from the Teachers' Sanitary Bulletin emphasizes delaying old age burdens, prioritizing nutrition after forty, and preferring fruits and cereals. It warns against excesses in food and activity, urges regular moderate exercise, and promotes balanced interests and graceful aging in a country setting.
Pleasures Across the Earth Aims and Expenditures
A Madrid statistics book estimates Spaniards spend over 100 million dollars yearly on luxuries with 25 million on cigars 20 million on lottery tickets 13.5 million on bull fights 12.5 million on holidays and 31 million settling wine shop reckonings. A Boston dispatch notes locals spend on baked beans more than costs of two battleships at 6. five million dollars with 68 732 barrels consumed and rising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Boston
Boston Dispatch
Harpers Weekly
License Law for Hunters Surfaces in Iowa Proposal
State Game and Fish Warden Lincoln proposes a resident license law to fund and regulate hunting. Articles cover license issuance, fees, residency proof, possession rules, penalties, and enforcement authorities with funds channeled to a game protection fund. Article nine granting farm-land hunters a license exemption faces opposition and may be removed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
United States
Iowa
Executive Council
Dentist Office Ad Over South Side Clothing Store
Dentist offers guaranteed work with an office above the South Side Clothing store and a residence two blocks east of the Leggett House. Office phone listed as 51 and residence phone as 234.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leggett House
Variations of the Marriageable Age Across Nations
The article surveys ages deemed marriageable in Europe and beyond, noting Austria 14 for men and women, Germany 18 for men with flexible bride age, France 18/15, Belgium 18/15, Spain 14/12 for men and 12 for women, Hungary varies by religion, Greece 14/12, Portugal 14/12, Russia and Saxony 18/16, Switzerland 14/12, Turkey flexible, India 8–12 for girls, China cases, and observes lower ages in warmer climates and poorer civilizations.
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Austria
Germany
France
Belgium
Spain
Hungary
Greece
Portugal
Russia
Saxony
Switzerland
Turkey
China
Tom
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