Local notes and editorial views from Pella and Cedar Rapids
The piece surveys early political talk around Justice Hughes and Roosevelt, contrasts farm life with modern wages, and laments educational neglect in Spain and Mexico. It urges strong support for public schools, warns against religious hostility to education, and stresses American birthright in self governance.
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Cedar Rapids
Hughies
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hughes
Taft
Spain
Mexico
Republic
Tragic Thunderheads over Naples Meet aboard the Ship
A narrator in Naples recalls a north European visitor seeking passage to America and the quirks of local life. He notes a sudden intrigue involving a familiar young woman aboard the voyage, plus a Russian political assassination he learned of from a newspaper. The tale blends travel, chance meetings, and ominous news from abroad.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Capri
Ischia
America
New York
Boston
Genoa
Gibralta
Azores
Madeira
Atlantic
Ber
Gibraltar
Italy
Finland
Wniter
Notting
Siberia
The Public Schools a Bulwark of Freedom in Spain
An article titled Spain's National Disgrace cites the Heraldo de Madrid noting 12,000,000 of Spain's 19,000,000 cannot read or write. It reports thousands of villages with no schools, rural areas inaccessible, and attendance at board schools as voluntary, with seventy six percent of...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Heraldo de Madrid
Reform by peaceful evolution promotes Single Tax movement
An ad and excerpt discuss the Single Tax reform as a peaceful solution to social and industrial ills, with tests in Canadian Northwest and in Houston, Pittsburgh, and Scranton. It promotes The Public, Louis F. Post, and offers booklets. Also included are endorsements for Hall's Catarrh Cure and products for children from various suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Northwest
Houston
Texas
Pittsburgh
Scranton
Congress
Louis F. Post
Washington
Ellsworth
Confectionery origins in apothecary practices through centuries
The article traces confectionery from medicinal syrups used by apothecaries 500 years ago to a separate trade about 200 years old. It notes sugar’s high cost, early hand production, and the shift to machinery in modern candy making, with a brief nod to witch hunts and Queen Elizabeth I’s strong ale habits in separate vignettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Ostosugar
Harper's Weekly
Hopkins the Witch Finder Ends Use in England
The piece notes that belief in witches persists in some quarters but the witch finder is no longer needed. Earlier generations of Englishmen provided him with ample work by tracking suspected witches and often sending them far afield for examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkins
Hugo's Long Sentence and Record Longest Lines
The London Graphic notes Hugo's Les Miserables contains a single sentence spanning about a hundred lines and a Water loo chapter with over fifty lines ending in a full stop. It mentions England's longest line under foreign enlistment act coverage approaching six hundred words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo
Victor Hugo
Waterloo
England
London Graphic
Long Lived Ornaments and Timeless Crafts
Discussion contrasts durability of objects and art with furniture and depictions from history. Mentions monuments paintings and busts lasting centuries, while furniture fades. A humorous exchange about talent, marriage, and a neighbor trade joke closes the excerpt.
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Pera
Enghird
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Pella
Sadler Bros. & CO
H. H. Sadler
W. A. Young
Iowa
Marion County
Chee
Ohio City
Toledo
Tlucas
Frank J. Cheney
Cenior
F. J. Cheney & Co
Conan
State
Hall
A. W Gleason
Notary Ponte Hall
Gray
A. S
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Allen
S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N
Newcastle
Scotland
Elizabeth
Bess
Earl of Leicester
Hatfield
Lord Burleigh
London
Kenilworth
London Chronicle
Mrs. Wombat
Geo. Heeren
Elizada
Lee Wue
Pilgrim Mfg, CO
East 28Th St
Auusow Chemical CO
Depl.g
Toren. PR
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