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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
2
The item lists Bell Phone contact lines for the business office editorial rooms and calendar department. It notes subscription rates by carrier and mail, change of address procedures, and post office classification. Names editor L G Parrott and the Waterloo Iowa masthead location appear, with scattered stray numbers and addresses.
The list shows seven parties with varied platforms led by Taft and Bryan as the main contenders. Other tickets include Sherman, Kern, Chafin, Hisgen, Watson, Debs, Gillans, and Munroe. The piece notes voter independence, leadership disputes, and recalls past promises affecting farm prices and political trust. It also covers a Republican Blackhawk County convention calling for delegates to Des Moines in September 1908 to nominate a new Supreme Court judge.
The New York Tribune discusses the proposed government guarantee of bank deposits, critiquing it as impractical and risky. Taft argues it would tax prudent bankers to cover others’ recklessness, undermining safeguards and rewarding speculative banking. The piece warns depositor confidence would erode without stronger regulation and explains Bryan’s motive from Nebraska's bank failures. It also notes dangers of higher interest attracting risky lending and cites a historic example of a national bank offering high rates leading to deposit flight. The column concludes with praise for stringent oversight rather than guarantees. It shifts to Pure Seed Investigations, highlighting vitality and purity concerns in Clover, Alfalfa, and Timothy seeds and references Iowa bulletin No. 33 on improving seed standards.
A collage of historical notes lists battles, births, deaths, laws, and expeditions from 1790 to 1838 with references to Musgrove Mills British defeats Crockett birth, Washington District Court cases, Dissenters Marriage Act, Wilkes expedition, Santa Fe, and Kearny actions.
A farmer wary of price swings resists political change while Adm. Seaton Schroeder's career highlights and a parishioners memorial recount a death, faith, and resilience amid community loss. The piece blends oblique political sentiment with a eulogic funeral tract, noting Schroeder's naval service and civic roles, and ending with an advertisement for wallpaper.
One week's experience hints Champion Chafin may run one of the most exciting minor league campaigns of the prohibition cause.
Des Moines Aug 17 Invitations sent to Republican conference attendees indicate a record crowd may attend the August 25 meeting. Replies show widespread interest from candidates, newspaper men, and county chairmen across Iowa, with tickets allocated at headquarters. Prominent Republicans not on the list will receive tickets if available, but priority goes to those named in the general call. NOVIA SGOTIA CELEBRATES Nova Scotia marks the 165th anniversary of parliamentary government with ceremonies in Halifax featuring officials from Canadian provinces and a monument unveiling at the Provincial Building.
A circular extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh, claiming internal action to destroy the disease's foundation and build strength. offers $1000 for any uncured case and urges readers to request testimonials. Also mentions the 30th annual New Jersey labor conference in Trenton with delegates and ongoing proceedings.
Notice to farmers from Elmdale Mills offering elder making machinery improvements. Describes a hydraulic press with 2,000 bushel capacity and a knuckle joint press handling about 30 bushels per run with 140000 pressure, gasoline engine on site. Contact F M Trich at Waterls Route 2.
The Hadley antitrust suit seeks to wipe out a proposed 300 million dollar lumber merger. It targets about 100 companies across Missouri and potentially Arkansas Texas Kansas Oklahoma and others. The filing asks for denial of corporate rights franchise forfeiture of licenses and possible confiscation of property to penalize alleged misuse. Bar Harbor Horse Show opens with promise of top Maine shore attraction drawing from New England summer colonies. Master Bakers convention begins in Brooklyn with 1000 delegates debating trade conditions machinery apprenticeship limits and employment bureau plans.
Buffalo figure Fingy Conners, longtime chairman of the New York state Democratic Committee, rose from dockworker to a leading political operator, allied with Murphy in Tammany control. His bold 75,000 to 160,000 NY prediction and Denver convention clout marked him as a central figure in a volatile party scene.
A Memphis origin rumor describes a humorous campaign fundraiser in which every donor of $1 or more receives a button and beluga receipts. Tennessee and Kentucky have adopted the method to challenge others to contribute. The novelty is said to be spreading nationwide.
The Sherman nomination celebration in Utica August 17 will feature a large Republican gathering. Delegations from Albany Troy Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and other cities join a program with a parade automobile procession speeches and an electrical display. Speakers include Secretary Root Senator Burrows Congressman Sherman Mayor Wheeler and President Stryker of Hamilton College.
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