Advances in aviation and Irish home rule debates headline the era
The piece surveys rapid aviation progress with Burgess-Wright flights from New London to New York and multi aircraft crossings of the English Channel. It also discusses King George V in Ireland, aims for home rule, Irish leadership divisions, and Senator Kenyon on Canadian reciprocity, plus Iowa revolver regulation as a crime trend note.
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Emerald Isle
Justin McCarthy
Canada
Australia
National Party
Ireland
Parnell
McCarthy
Dillon
Prentice
Gladstone
Canadian Reciprocity Argument Prompts U S Farm Stake Debate
The piece argues that Western Canada seeks reciprocity to export wheat and grains to the United States, urging American farmers to oppose liberal trade and protect domestic markets. It cites U S trade dominance, potential market expansion, and the risk of Canada’s surplus while concluding with a Cedar Rapids Republican remark on alcohol.
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Canada
United States
America
Lethbridge
Alberta
Britain
Railroads Face Two Cent Law Action Doubt in 1910 Report
Iowa railroads planned to challenge the two cent law but recent 1910 reports show six million dollars added to gross receipts despite a drop in net earnings. No interurban railroads reported a net loss.
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Iowa
Chicago ad flood and farmer protest over reciprocity
In Iowa that outcry over Canadian reciprocity comes mainly from leisure farmers while Chicago papers push free trade and reciprocity and carry large ads from importers. The contrast highlights regional views on trade policy.
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Iowa
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Political Rivalries Surround Senator Garst and Taft Alliances
Debate over Warren Garst's stance emerges as he leans toward Taft and tariff reciprocity while Cummins opposes both. The dispute centers on party strategy and potential decoy maneuvers in the upcoming political maneuvering.
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Warren Garst
Taft
Cummins
Supreme Court Rules on Withdrawal from Petitions for Saloons
The court held that electors who withdrew their names from consent petitions cannot later sign a withdrawal from withdrawal and have their names counted. The decision affects appeals from board orders across districts and follows reasoning that a re-added name would come too late to be counted.
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Supreme Court
Boards of Supervisors
The Foolishness of Davenport
The Cedar Rapids Republican urges Davenport liquor dealers to obey the law. It condemns boasting of 150 saloons versus the legal limit of 43 and warns that lawbreakers will face penalties. The paper credits liquor men for pushing to understand and follow the law to curb anti liquor agitation statewide.
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Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Cummins Amendments Opposed by Des Moines Editor
The Des Moines Register and Leader strongly opposes the Cummins amendments arguing they would admit many Canadian manufacturers without reciprocal concessions to American industry. The editorial notes reciprocity is not required and could be enacted by Congress at any time without a formal agreement.
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Des Moines Register
United States
Congress
Saloon funds do little to help Mollie and babies
A Lincoln Journal note says saloons circulate money but rarely benefit Mollie and her babies, highlighting wasted resources and social costs in the community.
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Lincoln Journal
Mollie
European steerage to American peer age spans one generation
The article notes a single generation separates European immigrant passage from the arrival of their descendants in American society, highlighting shifts in status and integration. It mentions lineage, migration, and evolving social standing within the United States.
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Washington Post
Various local Iowa notices and incidents from Jones County
A compilation of 1911 Jones county items including schoolhouse plans in Bellevue, a Dubuque professor injuring wrist, golden wedding near Lansing, consolidation talks for Anamosa Maquoketa plants, monoplane purchase by J Roberts, Muscatine clubhouse fire from lightning, Maquoketa paving pay rates, Henry Helms buying 220 acre Hopkinton farm, Cor nelius Merritt death, double jury order for Dubuque court, family deaths and hospitalizations, Tipton injunctions, Spirit Lake Knights Templar attendance, Anamosa railroad worker death, Cedar Rapids murder suicide, and July county board proceedings with financials and appointments.
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Bellevue
William Steiner
Dubuque
L. W. Yellows
Lansing
Anamosa
Maquoketa
J. Roberts
Clinton
Muscatine
Ddenry Helms
Lou Scumeil
Hopkinton
Cornelius Merritt
Anamosa Sanitarium
Dubuque District Court
Man Found Frozen While Ice Fishing Near Lindsey Bridge
Rural Carrier Bloodsworth reports a man frozen to death while ice fishing near Lindsey bridge last Friday. The stranger, wearing black, used a twelve foot icicle as a pole and died in the cold. Dairy City Bottling Works lost 20 000 cases of red pop in the freeze last Tuesday night. Mr Wm Hahesy was injured by strawberry extract and is recovering. On Backwater, Mr J R Toogood froze the seat of his pants after falling through an air hole last Sunday. He is thawed at nearby property owners’ expense.
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Bloodsworth
Lindsey Bridge
Dairy City Bottling Works
Wm. Hahesy
J. R. Toogood
Wallypop and Mollycoddle Clash in Chicago
A Chicago paper quotes a father boasting his son spends almost all his time in a car. The writer decries idleness and calls the young man a wallypop, worse than a mollycoddle, suggesting he should find meaningful pursuits instead of endless speeding and cigarett es.
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Cedar Rapids Republican
Chicago
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