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Newspaper
Reporter
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
4
The Sioux City Savings Bank case against EH P Stone ends with prosecutors dropping three indictments after friends cover 28 000 of his shortage. The item appears in The Reporter edited by P H McCarty in Boyden Iowa.
Republicans met in convention at Orange City to select delegates for state and judicial conventions. C F Bailey named temporary chairman and committees were formed. McKinley administration support and candidates Hutchinson and Davidson highlighted a report. fifteen delegates to the state convention were chosen. Overholser chaired county central committee. Ireton set as next convention site.
A public altercation in Rock Rapids last Monday evening ended when Mrs. J Burkholtz and Mrs. Bailey exchanged threats and blows. Mrs Burkholtz tried to draw a weapon while Mrs Bailey produced a riding whip and struck her rival multiple times. Bystanders intervened to stop further harm.
The Government Printing Office in Washington is a vast, liberal distributor of documents. It employs about two thousand people to print and bind editions for Congress and the public, with Franked mail and free copies, and produces the Congressional Record with every speech and vote.
On the Hawarden Independent front page a bold claim of Prosperity Returning headlines the South Dakota Republican exchange. The back page lists eighteen other articles headlined Mortgage Sale signaling editor optimism with gold standard prices and local economic notes.
An advertisement touts Begg’s Nair Renewer from M Brink as a guaranteed hair regrowth remedy. It claims to produce new and brilliant hair on heads lacking coverage and urges readers to avoid substitutes.
Washington Democrat Rev. Cathell prayed at the gold convention in Des Moines, asking to be torn from broken cisterns that hold no water. The line prompts speculation about whether he targets beverages or metaphorical prisons, highlighting policy tensions.
The Rock Rapids Review reports the case against L. B. Nichols, charged with larceny for taking a bicycle belonging to E. L. Grout of George. Nichols was bound over to the grand jury under a $500 bond after presentation of sufficient evidence at trial. County Attorney Fisher led the prosecution and Nichols contends the bicycle was only borrowed.
J A Walraven announces his run for sheriff subject to the Republican County Convention. He presents his candidacy as a formal declaration to party members and voters.
The railroad lists trips for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville from May 1 to Oct 1, Grand Lodge K of K events in Clinton Iowa and Buffalo New York August 8 to 12 and 21 to 22, National Encampment events in Clear Lake Spirit Lake and Madison during the season, plus TM Home Seekers excursions to southern and western points on select Tuesdays each month.
A comic exchange follows a supposed easy job as Tyre Dunneary jeers at a partner returning from a farmhouse with a lavish handout. The taunt contrasts confidence with mock entitlement in a playful line.
The treasury department ruled the new tariff law took effect at midnight Friday. The decision was crucial as large quantities of goods were landing at custom houses, making timely enforcement essential.
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