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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
2
The Jasper County Republicans urge early, united planning for a strong fall campaign. They call for inclusive consultation of interests, elimination of machine taint, and selection of the best, most popular county candidates to unite all GOP votes and strengthen party organization. Township races this spring should bolster the fall effort. Harmony is the watchword.
Advertisers differ in motive from charitable support of editors to boosting town pride. The hustling merchant uses space to attract trade, stays truthful, earns customer trust, and treats people fairly. Advertising is a vital, commendable, and necessary business practice.
A reflective piece argues for steady acceptance of misfortune and personal prosperity, urging that life’s blessings arise even through tribulation. It condemns constant criticism and praises drawing sunbeams from adversity while insisting the world serves others too. It also calls for accurate mail weighing and proportional freight rates.
Epiror L. J. Anderson notes the Oska loosa Journal reports a pastor entering the Democratic nomination for Congress. The piece hints at tough times for the party as nominations approach.
F J Berry, veteran Chicago horse dealer, warned at the American livestock feeders and breeders convention in St Paul of an imminent horse famine. He predicted a four to five year scarcity of good horses as prices rise and foreign demand increases. Chicago market hosts 20 to 40 exporters with export buyers driving the market.
The passage notes Russia exceeding 100 million people and thriving without regional trade. It argues she could dominate two neighboring powers in trouble, likely forcing the Turk to yield and maintaining dominance in the East through self-sufficiency.
The reciprocity provisions of the new tariff law attract interest from over a dozen countries ready to enter reciprocal relations with the United States. Observers expect this feature to outperform the reciprocity elements of the McKinley era, signaling strong bilateral trade potential.
In the last six months of 1897 America exported 118,683,000 bushels of wheat or about 4,000,000 per week. For 1897 total corn exports reached 186,470,601 bushels, the largest on record, quadrupling the combined exports from 1886 to 1890.
A batch of land transfers described across Richland, Monroe, Kellogg, and surrounding townships includes Curtis Cool to Fred Halt in Clear Creek with $1300. A S Kizer to Isaac and Mary Brookins in Fairview Colfax for $140. multiple parcels in Kellogg and Richland townships totaling around $9000 among Conovers, Coppersmiths, Cragan, and others. notices invite readers to purchase map puzzles from the Chicago Great Western Railway. various ads note cures for consumption and diarrhea, rental spaces, and upcoming Choral Union concert on March 18 with subscription offers.
Items advertise a new American Popular Music monthly, offering sixteen pages of sheet music for three months in exchange for three performers' names and fifteen cents. A weekly Iowa Central Railway Los Angeles tourist car from Marshalltown seats first and second class passengers at five to five fifty, with reservations via agents or Thomas P. Barry. Also a Florida brand letter endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup and colds, signed Gro. E. Wolf, with local druggists Wagley and Smead.
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