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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1904
Page
4
The Herald notes it will mail regularly to subscribers until a definite discontinuation order is received and all arrears paid a sale. Announcements of club and society engagements obituaries and singular notices will be charged at 5 cents per line for each insertion.
A mosaic of Iowa editorials questions minority power to alter the constitution while calling out reformers LaPollette Vanisant and Cummins. The Marion Register and Cedar Rapids Gazette debunk motives and flag newspaper tactics as Bailey’s Tribune critiques provocations from Britt Tribune and Glidden Graphic.
A Hardin County town tale recounts a letter from a whiskey house asking for names of local whiskey users, prompting a humorous list of prohibitionists. The Hardin County supervisors held a session with several bills, likely to adjourn in January as Chairman August Neuman retires. Mr. Marks to join, Stevens tipped as next chair. The Herald praises Neuman’s honesty and notes tariff schedule debates as typical council concerns.
Secretary Wilson's eighth annual report to the president lauds farming wealth with $2,000,000,000 in past four years and rising land values. Iowa corn yields near 100 million bushels worth about 100 million, enough to fund battleships. The corn crop is said to rival national debt payments while cotton, hay and wheat follow, with potatoes and barley at peak production and rice promising record output. The report concludes American farmer wealth outpaces gold mines, underpinning national prosperity, per the Register and Leader.
The Vinton Bagle contends Gov. Cummins is sometimes overstepped by public men yet remains the day’s most misrepresented figure. It blames a class of newspapers chasing recognition for false portrayal.
The passage extols Scott's Emulsion as a healthy fat source for babies noting that fat aids bone and nerve cushioning. It claims fat babies are content and well cared for, contrasting with scrawny infants who fear rough contact and hunger.
In Hardin county Iowa a broad array of heirs and claimed owners are named in a district court filing by A Clark challenging title to 242 acres in sections eighteen and seventeen. The petition cites numerous deed records, married and single grantors, and alleged defects in chain of title. The notice asks to correct the real estate description and bar interests, with a January 1905 next term and December 16 1904 filing deadline. The ad includes publication instructions and local notices.
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