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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
2
The Republicen catalog notes Humboldt Iowa delivery details. It lists publication as weekly with subscription rates of one year in advance and shorter terms, and states post office registration and classification as second class mail.
The Manson Journal argues the home merchant can meet catalogue pricing by better display and advertising. It cites Humboldt shoe orders and stresses local merchants must advertise to compete with catalogue houses, warning that railways’ rate powers affect state prosperity as Gov. Cummins noted.
The piece praises Mr. Cummins as bold and honest and likens him to the Roosevelt mold. It notes a broad debate on whether manufacturing or agricultural states should dominate policy and questions railway rate power versus natural law. Also referenced are Russian language quirks, forged Standard Oil notes in Indiana, and a rumor about Jim Wilson leaving the cabinet.
Insurance men of the west who read the daily columns of insurance information in The Chicago Record-Herald keep pace with the times and are prepared for all emergencies that have grown into the insurance business. The column With Insurance Men gives in compact form all the latest doings in the insurance world and is conceded by insurance men everywhere to be the best and most up-to-date report published by any newspaper in the United States.
The piece argues wealth harms ambition by dulling incentive and recounts Lincoln's hunger for books and learning. It notes his youth borrowed classics like Blackstone and Washington, and his famed Gettysburg and second inaugural speeches emerged from a life of self-education and access to few books.
Victims of Bright’s disease and diabetes express relief after taking Foley’s Kidney Cuts, claiming it halts incipient disease and eases worst symptoms. A testimonial from Marion Lee of Dunreath, Indiana praises the remedy as offering comfort and cure in days. An advertisement seeks one man and one woman to sell and collect for a county business, offering steady year round pay and sending applicants a 25 cent novelty item.
Frank Gotch visits Humboldt for two to three months after a mixed match in Kansas City with Olson. he criticizes a match with Jenkins and plans a rematch next fall. Rutland and Bodette baseball sides clash, Oxborrow and DeGroote standout. a July 4 rematch looms at Bode grounds. Livermore ships turtles as a new industry, with Thomas and Miller driving the venture and shipping to New York investors.
A wildly comic episode describes Bill Munson fishing below the dam when a fish purportedly carrying Iowa code and a club climbs a tree. After a dramatic misadventure the fish breaks its neck while Munson, split in his antics, moves to lane’s scales with a three quarter pound fish, then reappears downtown boasting a grand tale of riding a fish across the mill pond.
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