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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
2
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The Ninth Congressional District Republican Committee calls a delegate convention in Council Bluffs on Tuesday July 24 at 11 a m to nominate candidates for Representative in Congress and conduct other business. Voters aligned with Republican principles are invited. representation is by county with delegates allocated by Roosevelt votes. Glenwood Iowa June 1 194 L S Robinson Chairman.
Editors announce Walter S. Brown as a candidate for county treasurer subject to Republican county convention nomination. Brown puts forward his name for the election and urges party support.
Surveyor announces run for Mills County County Surveyor as Republican candidate, pending decision of the Republican county convention. C. A. Bushnell.
Seth Dean is unlikely to run this year as civil engineering demand keeps him away from Mills county. Bert Bushnell, longtime resident, born to a C B Q engineer, is described as upright and clean. He has worked in civil engineering for railroads and dredging and is deemed fully capable for the county surveyor post.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil argues Cummins should withdraw to avoid splitting the party. It notes Iowa’s 1908 Bryan Democracy influence interests the minority and suggests Cummins could be nominated by the Democratic convention if rejected at the Republican one, a surprising possibility raised by a Mills county Democrat.
Congressman Wade argues the country needs a comprehensive plan to distribute federal offices more evenly rather than focusing on railway and trust legislation. He warns that without broad office creation, reforms may fail to reach the public.
Poetic obituary for Joe S. Trigg editor of The State Register and Farmer, a leading Iowa agrarian writer. The piece lauds his mastery of agricultural prose, compares him to Burns, notes his early life in Rockford Iowa, military service, and intense work ethic that led to his death at 65, lamenting the silencing of a prolific voice.
Senator Gillilland has accepted the Fourth of July address in Peru Nebraska and will chair the Congressional convention in Council Bluffs July 24. He is set to speak at old soldiers’ reunions in Oakland Iowa August 27 and Elliott the following day, and to address the old settlers’ reunion in Villisca in September. The piece notes his rising popularity, then shifts to London concern over American peek-a-boo shirtwaists, arguing starched shirts are needed in England’s climate.
The Sunday night rain revived the region as crops suffered. Strawberries were ruined and berries dried, potatoes and small grain were affected, pastures scorched, and weeks without rain threatened early summer yields. The gentle rain lasted through Monday, much to farmers' delight.
The Omaha World-Herald notes a lighthearted appeal for rain in Nebraska, jokingly asking the Republican party for gentle summer showers after praising past sunshine and spring rains. The piece portrays political flourish as it calls for rain from the party in power.
Walter Brown announces candidacy for county treasurer. A former two terms county recorder, Mills County native, he is praised as capable and honest with a high penmanship and accounting reputation.
A terse assessment states a faction with limited progressiveness could dominate or ruin a political party. The remark weighs the risk of internal power dynamics shaping policy direction and electoral fortunes.
Cruising torpedo boats carry sixty to seventy men in cramped spaces with little sleep or food. Heat is oppressive below decks when hatches are closed during rough seas, engines roaring at full speed as crews endure peril and discomfort.
A Baltimore American reader notes the paradox of a boy kept “indecently clean” by wealth, unable to play rough or dirty as other children. The speaker contrasts privileged childhood with rougher, joyful freedom, revealing class boundaries through a paternal gaze. The poem closes with a provocative claim that the narrator is the boy’s own parent, echoing social critique.
Mell Fitzhugh of Port Ox ford Oregon apologized publicly after drinking on Independence Day and tearing down and abusing a storefront flag. The incident sparked strong public indignation and led to the apology.
Ambulances are in demand and horse ambulances remain a crying need in London. A man who was seriously injured waited four hours in the street before a conveyance could be found to take him to a hospital.
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