Rumor and satire from early 1900s papers mix of notes
A collage of local comments and anecdotes about crime, transport, farming, and football misperceptions. It notes a lynching case in Ohio, Nebraska City Press rail service complaints, two farm families per city plot, and a joke about football origins. Mentions a Des Moines temperance paper, Popular Government.
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United States
Des Moines
Constitutional Amendment Association of Theatre of Laws
Amendment Prohibition and Civic Duty Support Urged
A fragment discusses a proposed amendment banning liquor as a beverage and urges submission to a popular vote by nonpartisan voters. It praises selfless state leaders and highlights civic duty. Another note depicts a poor man receiving a coat from sympathetic neighbors, then selling collected coats at secondhand stores.
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Laws
Sunday Evangelist Draws Praise and Criticism at Waterloo
Sunday closed a series of meetings at Waterloo drawing praise for his evangelistic impact while facing criticism for accepting over 8000 in free will offerings. The piece argues his results exceed rivals in cost effectiveness and warns against scoffing at religious effort, noting public amusements divert from such work.
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Billy Sunday
Waterloo
Sodom
Tihe
Wallerloo
United States
Jail, bread and work teach a stubborn youth a lesson
A Shenandoah newspaper column recounts a young man who chose jail over work. Arrested, he faces three meals a day and a cold water diet until he agrees to change. After four days of confinement he accepts labor, realizing street life and mockery offer no future. Judge Castle Laasmus remarks on future deterred offenders.
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Poe
Ixbor
Castle Laramuses
NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES SERVICES AND EVENTS
Services at 11 with Holy Supper after. Saturday service at 7. Wednesday June 4 Ladies Aid meets at 1 30 in the passage. Saturday June 7 small business meeting at 1 30 sharp. all members urged to attend. message from Pastor Kasone urging preparation and thought.
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S-school
Tha
Menting
Kasone
Presbyterian Church Christmas Services Led by New Pastor
Regular Sabbath services at the Presbyterian church with Rev. C. A. Marshall preaching morning and evening. Special music, Sabbath school at 10, Christmas treat for scholars, texts Luke 2 14 and Mark 12 34, choir anthem Yuet Me Rageth Brower, and Miss Brower. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m. All welcome to church and school services, with notes on a New Year message and league activities.
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Presbyterian Church
Marshall
104
la mi
C. A. Marshall
Mpnorth League
Herbert W. Duck
Pator
Baptist Churen New Year Sermons In The Morning
New Year religious services are announced for denominations including S. S. and B. Y P. UL at Kenipole. Members are urged to attend in their accustomed places and bring a companion. Morning worship at UsHarhour and Mt. Olive at 8:00 a.m. All welcome.
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Kenipole
UsHarhour
Mt. Olive
Edict Targets Hitching Posts Over Health Concerns
State board of health bans hitching posts citing infantile paralysis epidemics and urban dustiness. Farmers fear loss of horses and property as towns without street cleaning face enforced removal of posts. Affects nearly all areas with boarded posts and unpaid notices.
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State Board of Health
State Board
California and San Francisco Favored for Panama Exposition
A debate over the Panama Pacific International Exposition centers on California and San Francisco versus Louisiana and New Orleans. Proponents argue California’s wealth, savings, and population outpace Louisiana, making San Francisco the superior site for the 1915 exposition.
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le Levin
Gen Francincd
New OF
Jeans
Panama Canal
California
Louisiana
Trandel
Cungeres
San Francisco
Ihey
New Orleans
Porcuation
Menetacy’ Commission
Californis
Filisiana
Union
Lansiana
Lanisiana
Cmanis
Louteiana
Lana
Salifor
Surrency
Égra
Audouaitat
Katlonntbachy
Congress
Burden Heavy For New Orleans Tax Fight Rages On
The New Orleans Taxpayers Protective Association opposes a state tax to fund a $6.5 million World’s Panama Expo project. A circulating letter cites a total city indebtedness near $340.9 million and bond plans by water and sewerage board at $7 million, with other obligations pushing debt over $40.7 million. The letter urges taxpayers to resist further levies, arguing the city is already overextended and over bonded.
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Gly
New Orleans
Water and Sewerage Board
New Orleana
Champel Avery
Deadest man on earth urges active life after death
Fragmentary obituary style passage finds a speaker urging readers not to linger as a corpse in a grave or box but to seek life in future worlds. It contrasts passive decay with vibrant action and ends with a family note about Christmas reading at the Henry Hamamun home and a fine holiday dinner.
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Corpes
Joan Gottishe
Frank Miller
Jyne
Purrmgut
Menry Hamaun
Family Reunion at Main Street Home for Christmas
Mesdames George Jones and Joe Jones with their husbands from Valley City North Dakota visited Gus Rees' home on Morta l Main Street for a Christmas gathering. Mrs George Jones is recuperating from a recent surgical operation.
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Gus Rees
Mortal Main Street
George
Joe Jones
Valley City
N. D
George Jones
Mrs A G Askey and family visit Red Oak and return
Mrs A G Askey with children traveled to Red Oak to see her parents over Sunday. They planned to return Tuesday morning, with Me Askey following Sunday via Pacific Junction.
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G. Askey
Red Oak
Me. Askey
Pacific Junction
First American Aviatrice and a Boston swimmer noted
A profile celebrates Mrs. Bessica Raiche of Wisconsin as a pioneering aviator and the first American woman to fly solo, detailing her early life in Milwaukee, education in Paris, and daring rise in aviation. The piece adds context with a Boston long-distance swimmer and other feats, and includes an errant medical testimonial from A. Davis.
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Boston
Veverall
United States
Bessica Raiche
Wisconsin
Henry Woodhevse
Raiche
Paris
Darin
Lyent
Keuin
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