Greeks Return to Savagery in Debate and Politics
A columnist argues Greece’s ancient savagery persists in modern behavior, criticizing Greek civilization, Turkish conflict, and the politics of coalitions. The piece notes Brookhart's senate stance, laments sensational press coverage, and mentions proposed state income and collateral inheritance taxes, plus Des Moines scandals. It closes with a jab at sensational sex stories from South Bend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Haatern
Europe
Tius
Greece
Mediterranean
Persia
Tribute to the American farmer in the Watchman Examiner
Frederick W. Shannon extols the American farmer as the source of national welfare. He praises the farmer for providing food, clothing, and the backbone of national life, arguing the farmer’s labor sustains the country and deserves universal gratitude and honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick W. Shannon
Watchman Examiner
America
Wisdom in Age from Hall on Long-Lived Achievers
The text cites G. Stanley Hall claiming most productive workers live long. It recalls Dandola elected at 84, storming Constantinople at 94, aged 98 elected to throne but declined. Also mentions Newton, Washington, Wellington, Goethe, Humboldt, John Quincy Adams at 83, Gladstone at 83, and their enduring influence despite age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Stanley Hall
Dandola
Dodge
Constantinople
Newton
Washington
Wellington
Goethe
Humboldt
John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Gladstone
House of Lords
England
Shipstead and Strained Times Signal Public Mood
A Duluth Herald piece critiques Shipstead Brookhart and movement figures as signs of strained times. It recalls economic excess, stock speculation, and social tension from 1910s era politics, noting personal strain, societal friction, and lingering fear of upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown Times
Shipstead
Duluth. Herald
Marshalltown
Herald
Shipsteads
Brookharts
League
Wall Street
Beaman
Midland
Associated Packing
Jerry Simpson
Jerry
Brookhart
William Jennings’ Bryan
William J
Chautauqua
Lyceum Oratory
Iowa State Wins Bronze Trophy in National Livestock Judging
Restless Iowa State students celebrate as the team takes first in the Inter Nation Livestock Exposition judging contest. Purdue places second with 3,893 points and Kansas third at 3,869 as Iowa totals 8,970 points to win the high bronze statue. J C Holbert leads individuals with 860 points. F F A Fell is second and L W Grady third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Towa State College
Hawkeye
Purdus University
Iowa
Purdue
Kanaas
Nebraska
Union Stockyards and Transit Co
Iowa State College
J. C. ‘Holbert
FF. A
L. W. Grady
Kentucky
Ohio
Ontario
Buckeye
Dominion
Towa
Kansas
Parochial School Plan for Anamosa Announced
Announcement through Father Keffler confirms four parochial schools will be erected in Anamosa with the aim to open next September. Judge Milo P. Smith and wife celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary at Cedar Rapids. B E B Schreiber promotes a county wide Legion led educational campaign for citizenship and public schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Keffler
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Anamosa
Milo P. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Judge Smith
Jones County
B. EB. Schreiber
American Legion
Legion
District Court
Nellie Morey
Eureka
Morey
Germany
Campaign expense schedules filed with county auditor
Republican and Democratic county central committees filed expense reports. Republicans show $714.00 raised with $415.00 spent on county campaigns and $148.94 cash on hand. $150.00 sent to state committee. Democrats report $145.00 raised, $97.00 spent, and $48.60 in treasury. Individual candidate items list various small sums.
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Adamosa
Eurekas
Republican County Central Committee
State Central Committee
Democratic County Central Committee
Byerly
Carlsen
Clarke
Vezenilik
Morrissey
Stimpson
Dautremont
Gardner
George W. Walker
Lincoln Survives Nebraska Grain Insurance Program
Nebraska has run a hail insurance program for five years covering grain crops. In three years it paid losses, two years ago at 80 percent and this year at 94 percent amid severe hail devastation. No state treasury appropriation. expenses covered by premiums. Local assessors collect applications, county treasurers receive premiums, and county clerks assist with records.
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Lincoln Sur
Nebraska
State Hail Insurance Division
Vanished Touch of a Day by Tennyson
A stark meditation on loss and memory as the speaker longs for a vanished hand and voice. The poem contrasts fisher and sailor joys with the unreturning day and the sea’s mute grandeur.
Trials of a Pup and a Kitty in Hopkinton
F R Tesar extends a Sunday stroll with Bob the bulldog and a jack rabbit encounter ends in a skunk spray. The duo returns home with noses burning and minds puzzled by the foiled hunt and odd odors at the Smokeshop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinton
F.R. Tesar
Bob
McGlade
Tesar
Saturday Blade
Notable Iowa and Wisconsin Local News Recap
An aged attorney John Hutchinson died in Arlington. D. C. Wherry nominated postmaster at Wyomin g by Congressman Cole. Hopkinton to levy 168.6 mills with high Delaware county school tax. Cornelius Scott dies in Manchester aged 87. Marshalltown buys Hampton canning factory. Peter Winninger of Vinton files bankruptcy with 9280 debt. Scott Belden dies in Pennsylvania after long public service. Court terms flag moral concerns with multiple adultery and rape convictions. Mrs. Lottie Heeren found guilty of assault at Independence state hospital. fined or jailed. Tipton forms a country club with golf course plans. Cedar Rapids Denecke firm manages Dubuque Levi store reorganization. Ennis Boggs questioned for private banking losses in Manchester. Hunting accident at Greeley injures Raymond Roland. Greeley rabbit hunt mishap details. Auto accident near South Wayne, Wisconsin results in three deaths and three injuries including Dubuque publisher Gonners and relatives. Survivors unable to rescue others as bridge accident occurs.
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John Hutchinson
Arlington
Cole
D. C. Wherry
Wyoming
Hopkinton
Delaware County
Cornelius Scott
Manchester
Co. H
21St Iowa Infantry
Hampton-Kelly Canning Co
Marshall Canning Co
Marshalltown
Hampton
Peter C. Winninger
Vinton
Cedar Rapids
Monticello December 1902 Personal and Local Notices
Monticello residents record a busy month with births and marriages, including the four months old daughter of Leland Dirks and the 10 month old son of the Ottens. Notable events include weddings for Gena Schneider and Loren Richards, Miss Margaret Yogel and Jed Hasler, and W. H. Petersons marriage to Edna Jones in Youngstown Ohio. The community mourns the death of William Caldwell of Joney county and Otis Griswold at Independence State Hospital.
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Monticello
Monticallo
South Dakota
David D. Cropp
Qeroge Cropp
Mitchall
Epuk Dakota
Osther M. Richards
George Davis
Mra Rundle
Migeting Construction Co
D. Ohnge
Drs
A. Mirlok
George Inglis
Langworthy
Leland Dirks
Wayne Township
John Wy
Crawford
Nebraska
William Caldwell
Joney County
Entirel
Gena Schneider
Jacob Schneider
Loren Palmer
Charles C. Curtis
Margaret Yogel
Jed Hasler
Castle Grove Township
B. 3. Gruenstein
the Reformed Church
William Schodde
Keeler
Cass Center
L. W.lovell
Fairbault
Minnesota
Henry Rickels
Ethel
George
Ospomale Seminary
Rockford
Ilnois
Edna"Thomas
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Mesarg
Tom King
Louis Stuhfer
State Medical College
Margaret Hrnckwon
Scotes
Iowa City
Roy Peterson
Coo College
Cedar Rapids
John Repstein
W. H. Peterson
Joseph Peterson
Wdna Grace Jones
Youngston
Ohio
Palmer Hosford
College of Law
Drake University
Alonzo Hosford
Frank McLaughlin
Northwestern University
Evanston
Illinois
Otis Griswold
State Hospital
Independence
Wyoming
Hand of the Lord or Paw of the Presiding Elder
A Methodist conference adjourns amid disappointment over a ministerial appointment. A kindly brother consoles him by urging him to see the hand of the Lord, only to hear the disappointed brother quip that he sees the paw of the presiding elder each time he looks.
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Kansas City Star
I Am a Little Christmas Seal poem appeal
A historic plea promotes Christmas Seals to support tuberculosis fight. Mal Rose notes seals sold by Chapter FP P BD O and local banks in Monticello, each costing one cent, urging public buy‑in to aid children and health.
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T-B
Mal Rose
Monticello
Monticello High Opens Season With Win Over Wyoming
Monticello defeated Wyoming 53 to 10 as the Monticello girls and boys teams show early teamwork promise for the season. A Philomathean talk on education by Rev. Duckett accompanied senior photo day in Cedar Rapids. Debating prep begins with eleven signups, six eliminated, Ted Koop Theresa Lux Dorothy Bby Raymond Denkhoff Alfrieda Reed named to form a team to meet Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillip Hubbard
Monticello
Wyoming
Manti High Five
Monti High
Cedar Rapids
John Hoult
John
Philomathean Literary Society
Duckett
Manchester
Ted Koop
Theresa Lux
Dorothy Bby
Raymond Denkhoff
Alfrieda Reed
When the Wreckers Are Through
A Cedar Rapids Republican column questions the La Follette bloc's stance on farmers labor and millionaires labeled as special interests. It argues wrecking the economic system harms employment and prosperity, comparing it to Samson and Gaza with Delilahs left after destruction.
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Cedar Rapids
la Follette
Harding
Organized Labor
Gaza
Samson
Philiptines
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Congress
Utterback
Des Moines
Polk County
South Bend
Indiana
Daily Press
Mary J. Holmes
Aas
Republican
Jme W. Walker
Nothng
W. J. Cochrane
Lloyd Soper
John Matthiessen
B. Rhinehart
John Bodenhofer
B. W. Streeper
Glenn, Peet
Fred, Taylor
Lee van Kirk
B. G. Rees
Henry Carlson
Ed Flaherty
H. C. Young
I. V. Danutremont
Tennyson
Pliny
Neighborhood News
Scott Belden
Jackson County
The
Maquoketa Excelsior
Pennsylvania
Fayette County
Springer
Lottie Heeren
R. A. Stuart
Heeren
Tipton
H. R.ripley
L. B. Casterline
Denecke Company
James Levi
Dubuque
C. F. Kurtz
Cedar Rapides
Levi
Mr. Kurtz
Ennis Boggs
Jacksonville
Florida
Miss Boggs
Greeley
Raymond_.M. Roland
South Wayne
Wisconsin
Nicholas Gonner
Daily American Tribune
Anna M. Gonner
John P. Schroeder
Columbia Academy
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Nicholas Gonner, Jr
Frederick Stemm
Elizabeth Hirschboeck
Hirschboeck
Miss Gonner
Gonner
Presiding Elder
ROR Health
Ferretts
Salm
Hugena Hall
Henry
Shover
Nagel
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co
Wrod
Berlin
Thomas Shover
R. C. Rhode Island
Salor Riant
Weal First Street
Monticello State Bank
Paul R. Malta
A. Delacher
Phone
Jones County Trust & Savings Bank
Sals
Cedar
Third Streets
W. J Cochrane
Chnsthr
McNeill Brog
Harm Dirks
Center Junction
Ochoia Hampshire Board of Illnoise
T. I. Platner
S. C
Bray's
Alamosa
International Stocking Mills
Norristown
James Young
J. M. Young
T. R .Young
Harford
Chester
Mike Breen
Poland
Cholerammune
Action Grove
Helgena Bros
Ruth Hanssen
China
J. L. Weber & Son
Stetson Cil Co
Cleveland
Arthur Fairbanks
Thomas Stimson
Henry Che
George van Buren
G. H. Gerdes
Lucetta Alberry
Louisiana
Ludington
Marlowe
Sturs
Byron
Eclipse
Eplinters
Kennie
Fane
Harry FE. Rodman
Mgr
Monticello, Iowa
Jones County Trust G? Savings Bank
Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
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