Iowa Idea and tariff talk stir Indiana observer remarks
Congressman Charles B. Landis of Indiana visits Iowa discussions on the Iowa Idea and tariff for revenue. He disputes misreadings of Governor Cummins position and backs protective tariffs while criticizing press portrayal. A separate note recounts a bank dispute involving a former executive who absconded with funds and later offered a partial restitution deal.
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Charles B. Landis
Indiana
Iowa
Cummins
Conference of the
Iowa People
Landis
Republican Party
Ohio
Davenport appoints Lon Bryson postmaster in Roosevelt term
Captain Lon Bryson is named postmaster of Davenport to fill the unexpired term, succeeding George Metzger who was removed. Bryson, a longtime Davenport resident and former Ohio river steamboat captain, has served as county recorder and remains active in Republican politics and river improvement efforts.
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Lon Bryan
Davenport
George Metzger
Metzger
Stewart
Bryson
Metzeger
Roosevelt
Mississippi River
Northern Packet Company
Scott County
Committees of
Congress
Washington
Lon Bryson
The German Cashier's Way
Three years ago the board of directors of the Mayence People's Bank of Berlin promised the bank's cashier a reward or pension for service. The article outlines the bank's management practices and the cashier's perceived obligations and relationship with the board.
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Hermann
Germany
The
Mayence People’s Bank of
Berlin
Holy Show of Des Moines Children Provokes Debate
Mayor Drenton of Des Moines suggests displaying large local families on capitol grounds for President Roosevelt’s stop en route to St Louis to prove little danger of race death. The piece notes Iowa pride and questions the plan's appropriateness amid broader tariff and political musings.
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Drenton
Des Moines
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Capitol
Towa
Mississippi River
Municipal Ownership Debate in Muscatine Water Works Costs
Muscatine grapples with public water ownership after private control taxed property to fund water service. Typhoid linked to supply prompts calls for filtration while suburbs seek extended mains. Nearby cities show mixed results with municipal versus private systems, but the piece warns against assuming universal success of municipal ownership.
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Dubuque
Muscatine
Gye Wills
Davenport
Rock Island
Ithaca
Wanted woman for heavy sewing work at Startsman’s store
Help wanted for heavy sewing at Startsman’s jewelry store. Apply to L Anderson at the office.
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Startsman’s Jewelry
L Anderson
FUR TRAPPERS AND TOM O BEDLAMS IN OLD WILDS
A fragment from a New York Tribune piece contrasts Canadian fur brigades paddling to the lakes with camp life and shortages, followed by a London Chronicle note on Bethlehem Hospital outdoor patients called Tom o Bedlams and the abolition of their brass arm bands in 1675.
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Canaida
Canada
New York Tribune
Tom O
London
Hospital of Bethlehem
London Chronicle
Bishop's Sunday ball tale from Bryn Mawr encounter
The bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania Alexander Mackay-Smith traveling from Bryn Mawr station to preach at Bryn Mawr College meets a boy with a bat and ball. He asks where boys go who play on Sunday and the boy replies they go to Heston's lot behind the dam.
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Pennsylvania
Alexander Mackay-Smith
Bryn Mawer
Bryn Mawr College
Sundar
Heston’s
New York Tribune
Brave Woman Sailor Navigates Ship Through Cholera Krise
A fragment recalls a ship in 1877 with cholera aboard from China to Australia. The captain's wife, with a baby, steered the brigantine Mooiburg to Brisbane after seven weeks at sea. She reefed sails and tended the sick while performing crew duties.
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Bogantine Mooiburg
China
Australia
Brisbane
London
Misprint Turns Customer Wish Into Comical Demand
A restaurant mix up leaves a diner puzzled by a misprinted bill on the back of an advertisement. He reads with pince-nez and quips for a landau and wheellbarrows, provoking a dramatic response amid a busy scene.
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Landau
London
Opposing Roles and Vanishing Box Office Note
A fragmented quotation recalls Nolen and Scrabbes in contrasting roles on a night when one party disappeared with the box office receipts. The text pairs commentary about disappearance with a metaphor about trouble and zest.
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Nolen
Scrabbes
Lincoln counsel on not swapping in crisis old generalships
A historical quotation frames a consumer warning urging to resist swapping Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for a poor bargain. Prominent testimonials claim cures for stomach digestion issues and weak organs, with patients from Ohio to Texas praising health restoration and urging others to seek the remedy.
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Dr. Pierce
Lucy Harter
Jacksboro
Jack Co
Texas
Bright
Dr. Fierce
Hope
Pierce
Ian
Fiexce
Common Sense
He V. Pierce
Buffalo
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