Regulating Saloon Trade Fails In Clinton Iowa
The article notes six saloon keepers arrested for violating state law after a local woman’s husband drank heavily. Cedar Rapids lawyers faced intimidation by the saloonkeepers, and a hotel keeper who aided the lawyer was threatened. The piece critiques regulation as ineffective and argues the episode would be a Prohibition failure if occurred under stricter law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Iso
No man can claim governorship by party service in Illinois
The author argues no one has a legal claim to the Illinois governorship through party work. True nominees must be proven, capable, independent yet receptive to state leaders. Democratic demagoguery is rejected, and strong, widely known leaders should head the Republican ticket with the convention ignoring petty claims.
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Republican Party
Ilinois
Oleomargarine law blamed for sales drop and tax loss
The oleomargarine law, described as a failure, reduced sales by about 50 million pounds over eight months after going into effect. Tax revenue fell sharply from prior levels, with colored oleo taxed at 10 cents per pound and uncolored at 1/4 cent, yielding just 526,103 dollars on 16,000 pounds of colored oleo.
Quantitative Theory Sparks Editorial Reply in The Sentinel
The Indianapolis Sentinel counters a local editorial by arguing Democrats once backed greenbackism and free silver, recalling proposals to print money on paper and repeal the ten percent tax on state bank issues. It asserts the party favored wildcat currency and standard money expansion trends.
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Indianapolis Sentinel
the Sentinel
Democratic Party
Silver dollars and monetary policy cited in 1896 debate
The dispatch discusses silver coinage and standard money arguing Republicans support a metallic standard while Democrats favored free coinage. It notes the Indiana platform backing the quantitative theory of money and claims all silver dollars are universally valued, contrasting Republican and Democratic positions from the era.
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Sentinel
Indiana
Democratic papers mock patriotism amid wartime woes
The Rockford Star criticizes Democratic papers for moralizing during the Fourth of July, arguing their charges about liberty ignore past actions like the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska purchases under Jefferson and Lincoln. The piece mocks opposition and suggests politicians seek fault for pleasure.
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Rockford Star
Philippines
Louisiana Purchase
Alaska
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Old line Democrat defends free trade and party principles
A Dispatch reader argues that true Democrats support free trade and oppose tariffs. He warns that if the party takes an issue on trusts it should focus on tariff impacts, not on suppression of trusts, and insists free trade is the party’s essential principle guiding recent and future campaigns.
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Dispatch
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Growth of Street Railways Sparks National Prosperity
A census era analysis notes street railway expansion from 8123 miles in 1890 to 22576 in 1900 and 4.8096 billion passenger trips in 1900. It credits electricity over animal power for traffic growth, turning street car use from task to pleasure and boosting trade and mobility nationwide.
Tariff Debate Frayed by Trade Statistics
The article discusses the tariff wall argument in Grover Cleveland's era and other campaigns. It notes that U S trade patterns appear affected by the Dingley tariff, with statistics implying limited export sales to foreign nations. The passage ends mid-thought.
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Grover Cleveland
United States
Tariff debate notes growing manufacturing export share
The speaker highlights a shift in exports from mostly agricultural goods to almost half manufactured articles. He credits farmers manufacturers and workers for gains in national trade and supports keeping tariff schedules as they are during a prosperous period, noting changes would come later but not now.
Postoffice Frauds and a Democratic Chief Cited
A political columnist argues postoffice fraud exposure targets the party, naming Mr Machen as the department head, appointed by Grover Cleveland and kept under civil service rules. The piece predicts a cleansing and punishment for wrongdoers, criticizing Governor Pattison’s call to Turn the Rascals Out.
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Postoffice
Machen
Grover Cleveland
Pattison
United States urged to curb opium trade in Philippines
The Philippine commission calls for action against opium sales as use spreads. It cites Japan’s Formosa controls and suggests the United States adopt strict narcotic limits, prescribing small doses to ease habits, and warns England’s record in China and India harms reform efforts.
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Philippine Commission
Islands
Pric
United States
Japan
Formosa
Philippines
England
China
India
Tobacco Experiments Proposed By Professor Wiley
Professor Wiley plans a 30 day tobacco study with a control group then staged exposure to cigars cigarettes chewing tobacco and snuff to measure health effects. The project aims to compare varieties but the editor notes tobacco harm is already well established and the test may not yield meaningful results.
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Prof. Wiley
Lincoln on democracy and ownership of national institutions
A speech excerpt argues that a nation’s institutions belong to its people not foreign interests. It condemns a belief that Europe’s manufacturers and workers own the country and that foreign products should displace American goods. The author links this to American workers facing hardship from competition.
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Lincoln
Europe
Ameribe
The éonoy in Just These Words
Old talks of buying in the cheapest market ignore that cheap labor markets depress home wages and give control to workers earning pennies. The American workman, producing more with better machinery, still faces wage disparities with foreign labor and must support wages that allow domestic production and living standards.
Scoring the Cleveland Administration
Democratic papers claim Mr Cleveland bore the party's burden and that his policy was not as radical as the platform pledged. They argue the tariff bill became law despite the party seeking a broader reform, and blame rests on the legislative outcome rather than the president.
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Cleveland
Democratic Congress
Illinois canal fight pits constitution against 1848 charter
State canal commissioners fight to strip a 1870 constitutional convention of validity and challenge the current Illinois constitution. The attorney general’s filing questions constitutional enforceability, arguing the 1848 charter could be overturned and 1818 would apply. Critics call the move opera bouffe and ridicule the legal arguments.
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Ilinois
Illinois and Michigan
Illinois
Cleveland to Speak at Chicago Aaape Club This Fall
The article notes Grover Cleveland will address Chicago's Aaape club this fall and may announce support for a platform to be adopted by the democracy in the next national campaign. It argues Cleveland would please Republicans and would contrast with Roosevelt, highlighting differences on policy while aligning on financial and tariff issues.
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Grover Cleveland
Aaape Club
Chicago
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Campaign tariff contrast to energize republican bid
The author argues the tariff record of the Democratic and Republican frames would dominate campaign speeches. A strong presentation could secure wins in northern states and potentially Maryland and Kentucky. The piece urges adopting Cleveland as the candidate to center the tariff issue, testing public sentiment.
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Maryland
Kentucky
Cleveland
Social notes from Rock Island area courtesies and weddings
Fragments report visits and travels of locals from Rock Island Moline Davenport and surroundings. Couples wedding at Broadway Presbyterian parsonage in Rock Island and at Sacred Heart church. Residents depart for Bay View and Lake Michigan trips. Religions and social events include Chautauqua guests and missionary plans in Burma. Several moves and retirements noted among local business and public figures.
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Robert
Wm. McConochie
Rock Island
Grace, Daugher
Sarah
Samuel Broomhall
Michael C Dailey
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
J F Lockney
Margaret Broomhall
B F Kuhn
Davenport
Dalley
Upper River Points
The
Arsenal
Boston
Marriages and travels tied to Rock Island residents
The column lists numerous Rock Island people traveling or visiting across weeks, noting marriages in Rock Island and to Black Hawk, with ceremonies by Justice Schroeder. It mentions George L Kile’s home, Rev Williams officiating, and various departures to Chicago Muscatine Glen Haven and California, plus local ads and notices.
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George L.kile
Rock Island
Williams
Titus
Jacob Meyer
Lillie Johnson
Black Hawk
Justice Schroeder
Marriage Licenses Listed Across Multiple Iowa Illinois Cities
A list of marriage licenses shows pairs from Camanche Moline Davenport Kankakee Ottawa Utica Rock Island Morris Morris Iowa and Illinois towns. Couples include Leonard Clements and Luella Bertelsen George Hall and Anna OBrien George Craftnaway and Lorena Fraser Lewis Polland and May Ohlweiler William Matthews and Maggie Raithel Ferdinand Schne ll and Dorothea Senger William E Warre r and Jessie Nyenhuis Uriah Hammond and Daisy Cameron.
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Leonard Clements
Luella Bertelsen
Camanche
Iowa
John M Nordstrom
Augusta Carlson
Moline
George A. Hall
Davenport
Anna O'Brien
Kankakee
George Craftnaway
Ottawa
Ill
Lorena Dick Fraser
Utica
Lewis Polland
Minneapolis
Mine
May Ohlweiler
Rock Island
William Matthews
Maggie Raithel
Ferdinand Schnéll
Dorothea A. Senger
Rock
William E. Warrer
Morris
Jessie May Nyenhuis
William Boland
Minnie Traube
South Rock Island
Uriah H. Hammond
Daisy Cameron
Rock Isl
Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup Cures Coughs
An old advertising claim promotes Dr Wood s Norway Pine Syrup as a cure for coughs colds bronchitis and throat ailments with assurance it never fails.
Advertised Letters at Moline Post Office 1903
List of names advertised at the Moline Illinois post office for the week ending July 16 1903. Anderson Vern Anderson Got Blanchard Mrs Britton Miss May W Copsin Frank Carlyon Charles Dean W B Fribbs Thomas Gustafson Mrs Hogstatt Mrs Hanna rd Johnson Migs Jo Johnson Louis Kavanagh Pe McGee Mrs Norden Miss Kristina Nelson John Olsson August Palmler Nils Reed Miss Edna B Rineheimer Mrs John Swanson Miss Hulda Underwood Mrs W A Wiard Misd Gre Wilson Clara Wilson L. ly GEO H McKinley P M cures croup throat pulm poison?
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Moline
Ill
Anderson
Vern Anderson
Got Blanchard
Britton
May W. Copsin
Frank Carlyon
Charles Dean
W. B. Fribbs
Thomas Gustafson
Hogstatt
Gu Svensson
John Swanson
Hulda Underwood
W. A. ‘Wiard
Gre Wilson
Clara “Wilson
L. Ly
Geo. H. M’kinley
P. M
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Seventeenth Avenue
Des Moines
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Denver
Edward H Sleight
Edna
Lake Nebagamon
Wis
John P. Weyerhaueser
Simon Hirsch
Third Avenue
Mr. Hirsch
Andrew Wallin
Eighteenth Street
New Windsor
Wallin
A W Anderson
Anna Wallin
O. Wallin
Otto Gamble
St. Paul
Fritz Peterson
Moline National Bank
Lake Delavan
T. M Whitmer
Miss Kiser
Tipton
W. E. Crane
Frank W. Walker
Bay View, Mich
Walker
Miss O'Mara
Hartzell
Order For the Redemption of Africa
Republic of Liberia
L. L. Curkendahl
Walker Station
Ohio
John M. Nordstrom
Parmenter
W. P. Ammerman
Hig
McCabe's
Ottumwa
Ross Gould
Peoria
Robert Mullaney
Asa Swift
Emily
C. L. Johnson
Burmah
Rev. W.‘W. Willard
Muthal
Wheescar Bi
John Deere Horhestead
Eighteenthtreet
D. Kohn
Mr. Light and Family
Miss Glatys
F A. Johnson
Kawanee
W W Palm
Esther
Carl E. Bohman
New York City
Mauritz Johnson
Sharon Springs
Kas
Colo
Resira W. Allen
Central Presbyterian Church
McCormick Seminary
Arizona
Daisy Johnson
Reynold Johnson
Trenton
Rock Island Road
A S Wright
Elaina
Bay View
Mich
Wright
Emma Rosenfield
M D Rosenfield
George H Edwards
Colorado Springs
W W Willard
Colorado
Bailey
Mary Anthony
Grace Putnam
J E Gustus
Gustus
Kansas
First Methodist Church
R B Williams
Ed O. Davis
Anna DeVoe
Polland
Charles Ohlweiler
St. A Schmidt's
Harry A Smith
R A Smith
Sedalia
R. A
Newton Crawford
Huron
S. D
Frank Westbay
Grinnell
Ruthven
Crawford
W. F Crawford
Taylor Ridge
Reynolde
Eva Peterson
Paxton, MI
J. H. Wistrand
Wilhelmina Wistrand
Emma Jones
Christopher Jones
Eleventh Street
City Hospital
Joseph Adams
Oscar Bisant
Mason City
Henrietta Hokinson
G. E. Morgan
Woodman
Peabody, Kas
Mrs. Morgan
West
Milt Hartzell
William Titus
Clinton, Town
Minnie -Holm
Lycus
Lows
Ternational Brotherhood of Blacksmiths
Robert J. “Sree
Infer
C. W. Sandstrom
Cleone Sandstrom
Helen Blair
Muscatihe
George H. Hunthon
Michilinda
Ben Keator
Alice Keator
Minhea
W . Me Ochie, Jr
Ellen E. and
Lou J Philip
Glen Haven
R B
Island
Quincy
Paul
Minne Williams
E Adams
Silis
Charles Titterington
Edgington
California
Dickman
Bloomington
Pontiac
F J. Dick Elmore Peterson
Mrs Young
Es Moines
W. T Ball
Catherine Normoyle
Chicafeo
E A Pierr
William E Curtis
Wiliam Butterworth
Gould Hill
Cleburne
Texas
Dean
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