Council Bluffs water franchise votes down plan
In Council Bluffs the election on renewing the water company franchise ended with a large majority against the proposal. The plan would have kept the Missouri River water and imposed high prices, with limited city water use and weak reporting requirements. Municipal ownership ideas surface, but no clear action. Voter turnout was only two thirds of the usual election, signaling broad indifference to the city’s water future.
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Council Bluffs
Connell Bluffs
Waterloo
Council
Jay
Blut
Missouri
Cattle and Hogs Market Trends Amid Ranger Competition
Chicago market report shows tight cattle receipts lifting good to choice prices while common cattle weaken. Texas range cattle pressuring native grades as northwestern grassers arrive. Hogs hold steady with strong demand and higher bulk prices. sheep decline slightly though Idaho lambs sell well. Conover & Swanson.
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Chicago
Texas
Brill
Mozey
Idaho
Conover & Swanson
History and state news briefs from August events
A collage of obscure state notes covers August happenings, including waterworks debates and a $10,000 project, teacher shortages in Council Bluffs with pay boosts to attract staff, and historical anniversaries from 1837 to 1897. Local anecdotes describe a coon exhibition in Anamosa, a dynamite accident near Iowa City, a girl injured by a hairpin, and a Des Moines negro department store plan tied to Metropolitan Mercantile Realty.
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Des Moines
Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company of
New York
Birthday of Charley Sanford Diehl Highlighted
This obituary notes Charley Sanford Diehl born August 1854 in Flintstone Maryland. He moved to Chicago, joined the Chicago Times, reported Sioux campaigns of 1876 77 and the 1881 winter campaign, joined the Associated Press in 1888 and rose to assistant general manager with headquarters in New York by 1893.
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Charley Sanford. Diehl
Press ‘Association
America
Flintstone
Noid
Chicago
Chicago Times
Wilburn, Storey
Times
Diehl
Associated Press
Association
San Francisco
New York
Wit
Notable retirees and local notices from the era
Dr Winfield Scott Chaplin retires from the chancellorship in Washington after decades of service. Mr and Mrs William H Leavitt move from Denver to Paris and plan indefinite residence. Mrs Dew and former Miss Ruth Bryan celebrate a golden wedding in Vienna while visiting Lincoln. A fatal accident claims Clifford Finders and a horse dragging scene near Ferguson. Tama County honors July bounty payouts for pocket gophers totaling about 32 dollars from 372 animals. An Indian by the name G H Chuck catches 78 gophers in three days using 20 steel traps. James Simshower nets 4 wolves for a July bounty of four dollars.
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Wiliam H. Leavitt
Denver
Paris
Leavitt
Wiliats Dew
Ruth Bryan
Vienna
Lincoln
Dew
Andersonville Post
Tama
G. H. Chuck
James Siinshower
Standpat views from a Sac county farmer
A Sac county farmer criticizes progressive and standout political theories and shares personal price history. He argues reformers fail to deliver results, citing wheat and corn prices, nails, farm equipment costs, hog prices, and a Perry Iowa primary law critique as evidence of political manipulation and unfulfilled promises.
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Sac County
Piagenaller
Schaller
Sac
Steel Trust
McCormick Self
Usonestro term offered as American designation by Esperantists
The article notes Esperantists suggesting Usonestro for America tied to President Roosevelt with derives from USNO initials. It mentions Elihu Root vacationing near Clinton New York, at his country home by Hamilton College, and describes Root’s former homestead and show gardens in Clinton.
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Roosevelt
America
United States of North America
Elihu. Root
Clinton
Utics
Root
Hamilton College
Hamilton
George AdeF ables Hebi im 52 by Russell
The fragment mentions George AdeF ables Hebi im 52 and credit to Russell. It presents a terse note likely a literary or biographical item with limited readable context.
The Experimental Wife and Her Household Clinics
A man endures a wife obsessed with home remedies and private clinics. She parboils his feet, feeds him asbestoslike “Ho kopoko,” and forces experiments on their son Herbert, while the husband clings to the hope he’ll become a star.
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Weslal
Tao
Shark
Arthur
Hubbard
Lizxie
Mater Jess
Sas
Herith
Herbert
Matinha
Rlde
Mothers’ Club
Eie
Bliss Caroxan
Watt
Angel
Diverse Notes From Early 20th Century News Briefs
A collage of short items mentions Miss Alice Richards aged fourteen as Livermore Falls High School’s youngest valedictorian, Ruby Rosser winning a $1000 American Humane Association prize for Black Beauty dramatization, and Mrs. Lena Brandenburger preparing for a ten mile Mississippi River marathon swim next fall. It notes Judith Indianapolis juvenile court chief, a woman judge admitted in 1896, Helen Cannon’s walking records with a pedometer, and Cosimo Wagner planning retirement from Balteuth festival control with successors. Also referenced are Elvin Burritt, the Paris Peace Congress, Turkish impaling practices, Manitoba soil descriptions, and Edison’s Kinetoscope origins.
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Livermore Falls
Alice HL Richards
Ruby Rosser
Butler
American Humane.association For the
Lena Brandenburger
St. Louis
Helen W. Rogers
Juvenile Court of
Indinnapolis
Europe
Catherine W. McCullough
Lymston, IL
Supreme4 ‘Court of the Nation
Pher
Law College
Northwestern University
Helen Cannon
Cosimo Wagner
Bal- Teuth
Siegfried
Fritt
Louise Reuss Belce
Aincer
Peruvian Silver Mines High Altitude Origin
A note on the Cayloma silver mines in Peru, said to lie between 14000 and 17000 feet, possibly first worked by the Incas. A brief mention of Channel Islands dialect and washing decanters guidance concludes the fragment.
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Cayloma
Peru
Tiia
Channelstands
Channel Islands
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