Horace Barnes Joins Osceola Democrat as Managing Editor
The Osceola Democrat names Horace Barnes, ex Albia Republican, as managing editor, expected to expose GOP weaknesses. The Prairie City News backs a new high school, citing letters from patrons. A Belgium immigrant case is debated, arguing America lacks free land and warns of landlord power, urging reform and cautious welcome for newcomers.
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Horace Barnes
Albia
Osceola
Horace
The
Prairie City News
Chronicle
Pella
A Time to Save Promotes Welfare and Future Security
A column urges thrift amid wartime prosperity as nations destroy wealth in conflict. It argues the United States will supply goods to warring countries, creating profitable opportunities but warns of lean years ahead. Rural Iowa demographics may have broader saving prospects than crowded cities. It stresses layaway of earnings now to weather future poverty and lower farm prices.
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United States
Europe
Iowa
What Have We to Offer Belgians Who Seek New Homes
Newspaper talk invites Belgians whose homes were devastated by invaders to immigrate to the United States and establish new homes. Belgians are described as frugal and industrious, with lessons on intensive cultivation of the soil. The text suggests Americans could learn from them about thrift and farming.
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America
Europe
Iowa
Belgium
United States
Mfe
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Claims $100 Cure
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co asserts the firm will pay $100 for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notice dated December 6, 1886, in Toledo Ohio. Advertisement urges testimonials and sale by all druggists. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J
A. W. Gleason
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Awakening Farmers on Mail Order Plans
A Wisconsin or Iowa farm tale argues that rapid mail order buying harms local towns and families. The author, Hans Grabus, recalls starting with $50, renting 80 acres, then expanding to 200, and finally seeing hometown business decline as catalogs and mail order goods erode local stores and taxes.
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Hans Grabus
Towa
Hias
Iowa
New York Journal of Commerce
Billy Sunday Sermons Featured in Register and Leader
The Register and Leader publish Billy Sunday sermons with UR. se in coverage highlighting his revivalist ministry and public impact during the period.
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Billy Sunday
the Register
Leader
Billy Sunday Sermons Featured in Des Moines Chronicle
The Chronicle promotes Billy Sunday sermons in Des Moines with big print for easy reading. It urges readers to subscribe to The Register and Leader to read sermons first, offering a special trial subscription of $1.00 for the Daily Register and Leader from now until February 25, 1915.
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Billy
Des ‘Moines
Register and Leader
Daily Register and Leader
The
Chronicle
Why Women Suffer from Kidney Ailments and Pain
An old advertisement outlines women's suffering from backache headaches dizziness and nervousness linked to kidneys. It promotes Doan's Kidney Pills with a local testimonial from Mrs. H. Stone of Newton Iowa, claiming rapid relief from lumbago and back pain. Sold for 50 cents at dealers, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
H. Stone
Race St
Newton
Iowa
Doan
Special Tribune offer to readers for yearly subs
A Chicago Daily Tribune promotion invites readers to subscribe for 3.00 a year or 4.00 for a combined Tribune and Chronicle subscription. The offer targets Pella and smaller Illinois towns, extends to R F D routes, and promotes the Tribune as a premier midwest newspaper with many pages and many writers.
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Chicago Daily Tribune
Chronicle
Daily Tribune
Tribune
Middle West
The
Pella
Town
Illinois
Rev Irl Hicks Almanac 1915 Offers Weather and Earthquake Facts
The Rev Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1915 is touted as a fixed necessity for homes shops and offices across the continent. Prof Hicks concludes his 70th year on this issue and the almanac plus Word and Works magazine can be mailed for 35 cents or a one year package for one dollar from Word and Works Publishing Co 3401 Franklin Ave St Louis Missouri.
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Irl
R. Hicks
Irl R. Hicks
Hicks
Word and Works
Word and Works Publishing Co
Franklin Ave
St. Louis
Tragic Bravery at Sea Honored on Glenalmond Memorial
A marble slab at Glenalmond School recounts Alexander Cumine Russell, a Seventy Fourth Highlanders officer who sacrificed himself during the Birkenhead disaster. Ordered to command a lifeboat, he witnessed comrades struggle against the depths as a sailor clung to the pontoon and a woman urged his rescue, but there was no aid forthcoming.
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Glenalmond School
Perthshire
Scotland
Alexander Cumine Russell
Birkenhend
Russell
Brave officer dives to save sailor in peril
In a boat crowded with reaction and pleas, the young officer jumps overboard to rescue a sailor from the water and guides him to safety before sacrificing his life. A crowd chants blessings as he meets his death, a heroic act remembered in Pearson's Weekly.
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Russell
Pearson's Weekly
His Thrrst. A London Opinion quip on water and restraint
The exchange pairs a husband and wife debating filtered water and a pun on being detained or a friend at a club. The lines hint at social snobbery and everyday humor in a compact LondonOpinion voice.
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London
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the Chronicle
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