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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1901
Page
3
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The Kansas Legislature at Topeka adjourned after enacting four laws to tighten prohibition enforcement. One bill mandates county attorneys investigate violations, issue subpoenas, take sworn testimony, and face contempt penalties without jury trials. Another allows contempt punishment without jury, and a third lets prosecuting witnesses hire attorneys with near-equal prosecutorial powers, requiring written reasons to dismiss cases.
The state papers praise a new prosperity era in Iowa with high crop yields and farm prices. Farmers visit towns with cash, repaying loans and buying bank stock, while interest rates stay low and money remains plentiful statewide.
A Des Moines banker notes Iowa bank stock mostly owned by farmers and calls current loan rates competitive with earlier 6 to 7 percent figures. Insurance firms view farm mortgages as top investments while manufacturing thrives. Oregon Oregon legislature supports a 1905 Portland Lewis and Clark exposition with Idaho Washington and Utah legislatures joining. The nation faces heavy treasury demands as expo activity accelerates.
The New York Tribune depicts Tammany as a tiger ready to carve Carnegie’s $5,200,000 library gift for New York. The Minneapolis Tribune shows John Bull calling for help as powers respond to the Russian plunder of Manchuria, with China as the target.
A sergeant in Dublin barks orders to new troops as one recruit with unusually large feet never turns. He yells about about face, only to learn the recruit’s boots are so big his feet stay inside them when he turns.
John Starkey, Pinesville’s prosperous farmer, visited Saturday to view Taylor's mule but did not buy. Nellie Emrick has again changed servants, said to provoke the staff toward matrimony. Will Waters fell ill after canned shrimp. Howard Furgeson jokes on caution. Little Georgia the village pet chased by Charley the goat with a near miss, sparking talk of giving the goat a pension.
Washington discussions center on whether disenfranchising large voter groups harms national representation. The Maryland law, modeled on Massachusetts and applying to all races, prompts fears that denying suffrage could skew Congress and the electoral college. Advocates frame it as education driven while opponents warn of party manipulation and unequal power.
Miss Elsie Corey receives word that her brother George Corey, who died in the Spanish-American War while in U S service, has been buried in Cypress Hills government cemetery New York. The letter describes his burial with three volleys at 2:55 pm and taps in the afternoon.
Letter describes Ellendale Minnesota as a developing town on the Burlington line between Albert Lea and Owatonna. It promises a future with ample business opportunities and urges pioneers to investigate. Requests information from agents Thos H Brown and R J Dobell. Sioux Falls Journal carries the notice.
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