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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1915
Page
1
Advertising rates listed include 20 cents per inch for assented adverts and 15 cents per inch for regular ads with discounts on annual contracts. Reading notices priced at 6 cents per line. Black face or special position ads cost 10 cents per inch. Legal notices charged at legal rates. Thanks notices priced at 50 cents. No objectionable advertisements accepted.
Iowa state fair crowds grow in hogs cattle and farm products with corn as sole exception. The piece urges northern residents and Des Moines promoters to boost attendance and extend access to night programs, noting many farmers travel long distances to see exhibits machinery and labor saving devices.
Critics complain the evening lineup shortchanges visitors with vaudeville stunts and delayed fireworks. Advertising misled attendees about shows and times, leaving out of town guests puzzled as Des Moines residents rallied for better scheduling and fairness. Local voices urge IA fair supporters to fix small issues for greater success.
The piece notes rising use of American slang like deliver the goods in England amid wartime efficiency. It cites the London Globe on this Americanism and asks if such terms will join historical political phrases. It concludes that America will continue to deliver the goods.
Representative Harold Kissinger serves as champion of country newspaper editors in the nine regiment debate. The Illinois General Assembly member emphasizes rural press issues and editor rights within the session context.
A fragment reflecting on the importance of small cities and rural areas to national stability and prosperity. It cites a former ambassador calling out the menace of large cities and asserts that America’s government and civilization depend on the health of small communities.
Residents near Fort Totten watched a test of 12 inch mortars as gunners practiced for a possible invasion. The float target 20 by 80 feet sat 18 000 yards away and vibrations reached six miles. Authorities warned locals to open windows remove wall decorations and brace for falling plaster during firing hours.
Des Moines newspapers and a booster club denounce price hikes while hotels and lodging houses employ a doubling up scheme. Visitors pay the same bed rate yet must share rooms, a practice the boosters accuse of unfairly penalizing visitors from the country and defending the city’s reputation.
A Iowa daily misreported that Wm Weimer placed a valuable clock in New Providence Public School. The correction notes Radcliffe was the original town and that the error stemmed from an exchange-column editor. Weimer supports his hometown but rejects nationwide clock requests.
A compact excerpt notes Americas vast natural wealth and industrial riches tempt crowded European nations. It argues that historical vigilance against nearby rivals has kept any single power from pursuing conquest, framing wealth as a motive in global power dynamics.
The road commission appointed by Governor Carcavan faces criticism for not testing all materials for hard surfacing and for attempting to sway opinion toward concrete. Critics argue the effort may aim to justify its own venture and influence rent policy.
A regional excerpt criticizes a Iowa paper for misreading farming needs. It argues the writer’s focus on “seasonable weather” for corn ignores farmers’ actual requirements and questions the depth of crop and stock knowledge in daily editorials.
A Des Moines commentary mocks booster clubs claims of civic improvement. The writer notes weed-choked sidewalks, severed blocks in suburbs, and jokes about paying goats to clear the city perimeter as a tongue in cheek critique of boosterism and road schemes in the capital city.
On his eighty first birthday Chauncey Depew recalled a 1877 option he held on a sixth of Bell Telephone for $10,000. He consulted a famed telegraphic expert who called the venture a toy and commercially a fake. Depew says he would be a hundred millionare today if he trusted his own faith over experts.
Ames college authorities deny hog cholera burss effectiveness and urge inoculation with pati cholera serums as the only preventive. United States animal bureau cites costly foot and mouth disease spread last winter via serums used for hog vaccination, leaving farmers to choose between diseases.
A Des Moines newspaper notes a large stock of pamphlet fans printed with suffrage and temperance facts. Weather has delayed distribution, leaving many fans stored in dry corners of reform headquarters.
The report of U S commissioners examining industrial conditions and the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations is cited as supporting a growing need for government regulation of transportation and communication and other natural monopolies.
Shaky text suggests discussion of government involvement with larger educational institutions in the country. Names, places, and concrete details are unreadable, but the fragment implies policy or oversight context.
The text notes that only natives of a single country among foreign born residents in the United States voice sharp complaints about President Wilson’s diplomatic stance during the European conflict. It contrasts with many others born in Great Britain France or Belgium who do not accuse his internal conduct or attract secret service attention.
Clergymen in Manchester report greatly increased church attendance, noting weeknight services rival Sunday crowds. A spokesman says the war drives the nation to confront life and death realities, finding fellowship at such times.
Republicans doubt Wilbur Marsh or other wealthy candidates can win citing John J Hamilton’s failure. They argue the bar they fear may be different from a dry barrel. The remark emphasizes wealth from candidates and past results without asserting a final outcome.
The St Joseph News Press notes that Abraham Lincoln combined political shrewdness with statesmanlike direction, while some compare Woodrow Wilson as an equal modern second. Both men understood public sentiment and stayed ahead to guide it.
The Mason City Globe-Gazette reports a clash described as a holy war after a Sunday dispute over a craps game. Tom Parker, a Black man, is jailed with a head wound from a pickax and four others are in custody. The narrative notes the injuries resemble a jack o lantern design.
The article notes Bryan earned 500 for recent chautauqua lectures in which he denounces preparedness. It stresses he would have remained unemployed if not thoroughly prepared for the lecture platform, underscoring the value of preparation to justify the fees.
A suffrage shop will open in Tes Malles around December 1 offering Christmas novelties. Cards favors and Christmas stockings bearing the message Ask Sante to bring the vote to mother will be sold by holiday shoppers. Orders for stockings are being taken now.
Figures by the American Society for Thrift indicate only 2 percent of Americans are independent of a daily income. Sixty six percent of deaths occur without a state, and 87 percent of those aged 65 are partly or wholly dependent on charity.
One by one the superstitions and proverbs of former days are being disproven. Since the advent of modern motion pictures it is no longer true that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives. At least it is not true of that half which attends the motion picture shows.
The remark suggests contentment with an imperfect world and warns against vexing oneself to force a personal creed on others. Fuller’s line highlights the challenge of aligning mankind to a fixed notion of life.
A reflective aphorism on managing anger urges postponement as the remedy. It cautions against quelling anger in a single act, noting initial impulses are fierce and urging careful, deliberate handling to form a proper judgment and end. The fragment hints at restraint and measured response.
The provided source text is severely garbled and unreadable. No clear entities, events, or facts can be identified to summarize into a coherent newspaper card.
The Ledger promises a yearly subscription to the exhibitor from Hardin or Grundy County who shows the best matured dozen ears of field corn at the state fair. Des Moines lacked corn displays this year, and Hardin or Grundy counties are urged to outperform in the future.
The passage calls the reformer a man of one idea, narrow and erotistic, whose sole panacea is a universal cure and who ignores other issues. It compares him to Iowa's aggressive advocates for hard surface road improvements.
Mexican sports fans lament the ban on bull fighting and consider crossing the border to watch auto races in the United States. They argue races are far more perilous than bull fighting, highlighting a shift in spectacle and risk.
Uncle Eben remarks that politics may be simpler if people applied the same effort to public questions as they do to puzzles in a funny paper, urging deeper thought on current issues. The quip contrasts civic debate with lighthearted puzzle solving.
A humorous remark notes that if either party nominates a wet candidate for Iowa governor, early November moisture may snow them under. The line uses weather imagery to critique political prospects and implies a stormy political climate.
Esai proved a smarter business man than most spendthrifts, securing the mess of pottage in exchange for his birthright. The tale contrasts thrift and haste, highlighting a price paid for short term gain and long term consequence.
Chicago August 27 The report by George P West special investigator for the United States Commission on Industrial Relations places responsibility for the Colorado coal strike and its ensuing disorder and suffering squarely on John D Rockefeller Sr and his son and their agents. It accuses them of countenancing wretched mine conditions and using methods to coerce state government while defying federal authority. The document asserts Rockefeller influence dominates Colorado counties, enabling suppression of liberties and earnings, with collective bargaining viewed as a tool to preserve power. The report condemns the Rockefellers for autocratic conduct and links the strike’s failure to broader political power.
Portable OCR fragment shows scattered phrases about publicity and statements. It contains incomplete references to a report and a strike or action but lacks clear entities, places, dates, or a coherent event to document.
The organizers plan a county chair system to survey attitudes toward suffrage, with polls in Lee Mahaska and towns like Dunlap Dow Guy Greenfield Bridgewater Peterson and Des Moines. The effort aims to mobilize women for active support ahead of June victory.
A series of property transfers shows multiple grantor and grantee pairs with parcel identifiers and sums. Notable entries include George PF and Wagner to John for parcel 8 Groot Ww 26 A at 1950, and Wm. T. Haydock to T. Lavady for lots 1 2 7 8 in Black 1 railroad addition to Iowa Palle at 1800.00.
A historic note discusses spark plug placement in engines. Traditional designs place plugs over a valve, but some Mate car makers relocate plugs to the combustion chamber center above the piston. They argue the central position speeds flame spread for more power. An old ledger sale note follows.
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