La Follette praised for labor reform and rail rate stance
The Wisconsin legislature favorite Senator La Follette gains support for a sixteen hour maximum for railway workers with ten hours rest. At a Madison prohibition convention Homer L Castle lauds La Follette and urges continued focus on his leadership. Senator Cullom and others predict future push for railroad property valuation and stricter rate regulation led by La Follette.
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House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
LaFollette
Madison
Homer L. Castle
Pennsylvania
la Follette
Senate
Millionaires and the Senate Debate in Wisconsin Justice-elect Timlin
The New York Press questions whether wealth secures a U S Senate seat and cites Bryce remarks that some men are senators because they are millionaires while others are millionaires because they are senators. The piece explores the tension between wealth and political power in Wisconsin politics as a justice-elect considers barring a multimillionaire from taking a seat.
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New York Press
Timlin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
United States Senate
Bryce
United States
Startling Marshall Field Articles on Estate Tax
Trustees report $17,500,000 in cash and securities as personal property subject to taxation, adding to Illinois stock holdings including Marshall Field & Co. The article notes Field was never assessed above $2,500,000 yet paid tax on more estate than any local resident, implying $45,000,000 in untaxed assets over ten years and a potential $1,500,000 tax gap.
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Marshall Field
Illinois
Marshall Field & Co
Butterflies vs Bees At Lake Geneva Outing Cancelled
Chicago Noon day Rest girls from the Noonday Rest with three hundred members of Fontana summer colony spar over an outing at Lake Geneva. The Ostahishment lease was withdrawn after Fontana protesters claimed the girls work for a living, a view dismissed as conspiracy and discreditable toWORKING people.
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Eveniayr
Wisconsin
Chicago
Lake Geneva
Fontana
Everybody Works the Public Chorus of Public Greed
A literary verse laments how public life is driven by those who bend to public demand for personal gain. It names demagogues crooks and fakers as always chasing the public purse, calling for a decisive end or reform.
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Wisconsin
Josh
Record-Herald
President Roosevelts push to curb coal oil land sales
Wash ington dispatch reports Senator La Follette pressuring Congress through agitation for authority to halt further disposal of coal and oil lands. Spooner proposes a joint Senate resolution allowing examination of public lands to identify resources and withdraw settlements. Government powerless now to stop coal strikes or curb Standard Oil.
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John Callan O’laughlin
Washington Dispatch
Chicago Tribune
LaFollette
Senate
Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Congress
Spooner
Standard Oil Co
la Follette
United States
Iowa county candidate vows careful vote for Assembly
A declared Republican candidate for Iowa county Assembly pledges thrift in public spending and to study proposed measures, promising to vote right if elected. The notice follows a letter from H Boll erup outlining his stance as neither Stalwart nor Standpatter and his independent approach.
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Iowa County
H. BolLerup
Unknown Friends Endorse Chamberlain's Remedy
Readers praise Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for treating diarrhea and bowel troubles at home. Many have hesitated to testify publicly but still recommend the medicine to friends and neighbors. For sale by Iveys Pharmacy.
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Ivey's Pharmacy
Delineator July previews fashion and literature features
The Delineator for July showcases midsummer fashion with color and monochrome illustrations. Highlights include opening chapters of The Chauffeur and the Chaperon about Holland boating, plus Mrs Mary Hinman Abel on Flies and Food. Children stories, household tips, and a local conviction for selling Hamburger steak with sulphurous acid salt, fine $25.
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Holland
Mary Hinman Abel
Edmund Vance Cook
John Steinhoff
Steinhoff, Stevens & Co
Platteville
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Proven Remedy
If your stomach troubles you do not conclude there is no cure for many have been permanently cured by Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. Try them they are certain to prove beneficial. They only cost a quarter. Sold by Iveys Pay.
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Chamberlain
Ivey
Real Estate Listings for J B Reynolds Agency
J B Reynolds Real Estate Agency offers rentals and sales across multiple properties: 125 acres of John Berry farm for pasture, a five room stone dwelling, houses near St Pauls church, Fountain Street homes, and lots on John Pearse property. Additional listings include a seven room almost new house in first ward, a property near the high school, four room house with 1{?} acres, and mineral ranges. Also offered are lands in central North Dakota at railroad fare terms, Northern Wisconsin timber lands, totaling about 3060 acres.
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John Berry
City Hall
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Fountain Street
Lancaster
James Williams
Old Fair Grounds
John Pearse
Joseph Jackson
Will Ross
Josephine Scott
Robinson
North Dakota
Wisconsin
The Eighth Girl
Widower John Walker plans to remarry to guide his seven daughters. Madge schemes to block Cecilia Rayne as stepmother while Tot Benches a kindergartener and Miss Worden, Tot's teacher, hints at guiding Walker towards a suitable home life.
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John Walker
Athough
Madge
Cecilia Rayne
Miss Rayne
Papat
Mr. Walker
Tot
Third
Walke
Wincheon
Tecan
Miss Worden
Wiusie
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Commerce St
Fountain
Gorgen’s
White Market
Chas. Winn
Jone
Martin's Hardware
Alston’s &2. Paints
Prideaux & Bliss
N. T. Martin
the Tribune
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M. D
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B. Brewer
Chicago Ave
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Ilinois
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Thores
U. S. Hotel
Real Estate Agency
J. B. Reynolds
Marzluff Shoe
Frieden’s Shoe Store
P. C. Ealstment
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