Editor Booth Retires From Anamosa Eureka After Years of Service
The article honors Editor T E Booth of the Anamosa Eureka for a long career marked by high minded, conscientious editorial work. It notes his retirement, wishes him health and leisure with wife, and reflects on Iowa journalism, tax issues, aviation deaths, and local political reform debates shaping the year ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.E. Booth
the Express
Booth
Wis
Messrs. Gardner and
Rye
Iowa
Thumb ring proposal sparks mock concern in small town trains
The idea that married men must wear thumb rings to guard impressionable girls at stations is ridiculed as a needless fear. The piece argues that to these girls all men look alike, regardless of marital status, and treats the proposal as a reactionary measure without real danger.
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Paul
London
Palestine
Prohibitionists Call for Mulet Law Repeal and Dry State
The article criticizes prohibitionists who seek repeal of the mulet law yet want statewide prohibition kept. It suggests they forget past public demands and urges readers to abstain from alcohol quietly, noting an upcoming dry future.
Witness in New Brunswick trial identifies auger as property
In a village party case a local character testifies to ownership of a disputed tool. He asserts knowledge of the auger, remarking he has known it since it was a gimlet, as the attorney questions the witness about recognition.
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New Brunswick
Auger
The Miserable Wretch Cruel Treatment in Domestic Row
In Chicago News coverage a court hears a complainant describe cruel behavior by her husband. She recalls he would phone her with remarks then immediately disconnect so she could not respond. The judge questions the evidence amid the domestic dispute.
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Chicago News
Berane
Inaugural Ball Choice Sparks Election Moment
The governor elect Woodrow Wilson faces a defining national dilemma as controversy erupts over who will lead his inaugural ball a clash of politics and gender norms and the implications for his upcoming administration.
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Minneapolis
Woodrow Wilson
Revival of the Spelling School in Manchester Press
The Manchester Press extols reviving old fashioned spelling contests as a vital civic effort urging towns over 350 to host night spelling schools for clergy and teachers. It quips about editors, corruption of orthography in notices, and mocks mis-spellings by clergy and educated writers.
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Manchester
Times
D. D
Balaam
Sweathart
Democratic View Point on Iowa Senate Election Preference
The Burlington Gazette urges focusing on Iowa’s interests over national party bickering noting Gov. Carroll appointed Editor Young to fill the vacancy. It praises Young as capable and progressive for Iowa and argues the legislature should elect him rather than engage in partisan contention, stating the state has had enough politics.
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Burlington Gazette
Dem
United States
Dolliver
Carroll
Young
Iowa
Cummins
Des Moines Register
Mr. Young
January 1881 Monticello items list deaths births and events
The Express records in January 1881 Monticello deaths include Ernest Hickok at 22 from Bright's disease and Theodore Lesinger at 8, plus infant losses for the Davis and Hosford families. It notes births, a snowstorm, a surge of local social calls, a court judgment in Johnson versus Miller, lodge installations, Das Gruenstein’s return to Lake Forest, and church fundraising totals and shipments to Nebraska.
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Monticello
the Express
Ernest Hickok
Bright
G. H. George
County Board of Supervisors
Daniel Davis
Curtis Hosford
Monticello Bank
G. W
G. L. Lovell
M. M. Benedict
Theodore
Frank Lesinger
J. D. Graves
Frank Goes
Peter Dress
Supreme Court
Johnson
Monticello Lodge No
L. Darling
N. G
E. FB
Monnier
W. G
O. B. Rundle
J. A. Doutrick Per
H. Schipman
Siegfried Q Gruenstein
Lake Forest
Nebraska
O.M
Booth's Valedictory Marks End of Anamosa Paper Era
The Eureka announces the 1910 year end transfer of Anamosa's newspaper office from its long time editor and proprietor to Louis Gardner and George F Bye. Gardner to be county auditor and editor while Bye, foreman for twelve years, will lead printing operations. The piece reflects on fifty three years in the same office, praises colleagues, and expresses gratitude and hopeful support for the new owners and staff.
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Eureka
Louis Gardner
George F. Bye
Kimball Union Academy
Meriden
New Hampshire
Matt Parrott
Waterloo
Parrott
O. L. D. Crockwell
John H. Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Owen Lovejoy
Elijah Lovejoy
Mississippi
Alton
Ill
George H., Walworth
Forties
Jones-Jackson
Iowa City
Walworth
Buffalo
Washington
Edmund Booth
Crockwell, Parrott & Booth
Frank W. Booth
Washington, D. C
G. &. Leclerc
Grand Junction
Colorado
New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
Roosevelt
White House
Hite Lona Bo
Gardner
Bye
Monticello Express
Hoe
George G. Bye
Iowa
Anamosa
Jones County
Monticello School Board Proceedings December 29
The Monticello board of education met in special session at J. W. Doxsee’s office. Members present were J. W. Doxsee J. E. Bateman and Dr I M Redmond. Bills were allowed from Contingent and School House funds including Monticello Electric Co Frank Page M Campbell Peter Deutsch Ricklefa McNeill Cross Hardware and adjournment followed.
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Monticello
Board of Education
J. W. Doxsee
Parhens
J. E. Bateman
I’. M. Redmond
Monticello Electric Co
Frank Page
M. Campbell
Peter Deutsch
Ricklefa & McNeill
Cross Hardware Co
J. N. Peterson
Scotch Grove United Presbyterian cemetery meeting set
The annual meeting of the cemetery association will be held Monday January 9 at 10 o clock in the church at the cemetery. Secretary M J McNeilly signs the notice.
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Scotch Grove United Presbyterian Cemetery Association
M. J. McNeilly
A Proposed Substitute for Sibu City Journal
The note questions a proposed title in the Sibu City Journal and suggests an alternative phrase. It critiques the fit of "Cedar Rapids Suits Me" and proposes "Gedar Rapids Makes Me Sick" as a sharper option.
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The
Sibu City Journal
Cedar Rapids
James Remley and Remley Attorneys at Law Ad
Anamosa Iowa announces the general practice of law by James Remley and Remley on Main Street opposite the Easterly hotel on fraternity floor.
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Remley & Remley
Attorneys AT Law
Anamosa
Iowa
Main Street
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