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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1903
Page
2
A Second Class mail matter notice indicates official postal processing for Iowa City. The entry records mailing status and routing through the local post office.
A year before the Iowa governor race talk swirls around Governor Cummins. Editorials in leading papers finger him as a potential Senate choice while foes assail his ambitions. The piece accuses stand patters of stoking strife, disputing tariff views and government railway supervision as misdirections in a charged political climate.
A public platform critique argues that some governors in the Middle West are smeared by opponents and compares them to entertainment firms to slander their reputations. The writer calls for dropping mud-slinging and restoring sensible debate among governors Folk laFollete and Cummins and others.
West Branch notes recount a mare’s obedience as she travels to the smith alone after being haltered. Other items mention bell tests at the schoolhouse, visitors from Cedar Valley and Iowa City, barn construction, haying progress, threshing, a dew house foundation, a lake outing, and a runaway colt incident injuring Milo Munger.
The Pawnee Bill Historic Wild West and Great Far East will stage battles reenacting the Boer English and Russian Japanese wars on Wednesday August 3. Soldiers from those nations perform, with careful detail and honest counterfeiting, though spectators may detect a light note of amusement in the display.
Weather favors finishing harvest early next week though hail five weeks ago damaged many grain herds. Timothy hay is average. Miss Anna Rowland attends city events this week. McRoberts visit from Chicago ends. Williams returns from Racine and Chicago with niece Margaret Evins. Marie Tudor returns from Iowa City to visit grandmother. Mary Rowland and Gwen Tudor receive rural school diplomas. Rev Je a Jenkins to lead Welsh church service with communion and Sunday school at 1 30.
Mrs Anna Huder of Pittsburg describes four weeks of illness with typhoid and kidney trouble. She says she was bent double until Electric Bitters restored her health and strength, enabling her to walk straight again. Sold by Henry Louis and W E Shrader at 50 cents.
A pleasant surprise party may be given to your stomach and liver by taking Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They relieve pain and discomfort and provide relief for headache dizziness and constipation at 22 cents at Hendry Louis and W E brader’s drug store.
Public notice announces that a majority of front feet on Court Street between Summit Street and 873 feet east will be graded and brick paved with sandstone curb. A vote on the resolution for the improvement is set for August 18, 1905 at 8 p.m. and costs will be assessed to benefiting property owners as provided by law. F H Dosporg, City Clerk, Iowa City. Jul 24 28 31 Aug 2.
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