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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
2
The Waterloo Reporter announces a daily and semi weekly publication schedule excluding Sundays with editors Parrott and Hailor noted. This notice outlines a comprehensive local news routine and print cadence for readers.
Waterloo extends warm hospitality to Iowa State Bar Association delegates for a two day event. The welcome praises the guests as leaders in law and society, urging productive deliberations and generous local courtesy. The article also notes regional election notes and political chatter accompanying the visit.
At the American Bar Association meetings in 1905 1906 and 1907 a push emerged to draft a codified code of professional ethics for lawyers. A committee chaired by Henry St George Tucker and including eminent jurists prepared a detailed set of canons covering duties to courts clients opposing party and the profession. The effort aims to standardize ethical conduct while urging mature deliberation and broad member involvement before adoption in August.
The article discusses adopting national and state codes of professional ethics for the legal profession. It argues such codes would raise standards, reduce public criticism, and enable enforcement, possibly via state law or disciplinary bodies. It cites ambulance chasing issues and urges Iowa to act to avoid being left behind.
A compact list notes events from 1741 to 1900, including Bourbon era Spanish king Philip V’s Madrid birth, Edmund Burke’s England birth, Thomas Davenport’s Vermont invention, Elias Howe’s Massachusetts birth, Zachary Taylor’s death in Washington, and a Grand Trunk railroad wreck in Quebec. Other entries mention Hung Chang’s viceroyal appointment.
Charles B. Landis born July 9 1853 in Butler county Ohio. He moved to Indiana as a youth and graduated from Wabash College. Landis edited a Logansport newspaper and later worked at a Delphi paper. He led Indiana Republican Journalism, served in Congress since 1896, and spoke widely on public platforms. He is brother of Judge Kenesay Landis of Chicago.
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