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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
8
Waterloo Reporter Mad Parrott & Sons offers daily subscriptions for the Waterloo, Iowa paper excluding Sundays with yearly and half-yearly rates in advance. The notice includes change of address guidance and contact lines for business and editorial offices.
An analysis from Chicago experts concludes municipally owned electric street lighting is financially failing, urging purchase from private firms or the sanitary district to save money. The piece also notes civil service flaws hindering reform and discusses Waterloo’s Cedar River beautification plans and a push to appoint a governor's commission to regulate the riverbanks.
Gossip in Des Moines suggests Auditor elect Joints Bleakly will name two Waterloo natives to key posts. Jos H. Byrnes would be deputy auditor of state and Geo. Gallorno security clerk in the insurance department. Byrnes has long served with the current auditor’s office. Gallorno is a trusted newspaper man. Salaries: deputy $3,800 yearly and security clerk $1,500.
Ron G A Feely of Blackhawk county wins re election by over 2000 votes and is praised as a leading Iowa legislator with talks of possible speaker role. Delaware county tax delinquents show limited unpaid properties amid a Republican era. Bladawk county town holds another special election amid spring political activity. State Senator Bearout faces five ballot propositions in New Jersey.
The piece surveys political figures and possible candidacies in 1909 era politics. It notes Taft as Yale's first executive office representative, names figures like Spooner, Littauer, and Hill, and discusses prospects for senators in New York and Connecticut, with Miner details on Taft, Roosevelt era politics, and Hadley’s rise in Missouri.
Ohio Toledo Lucas County notice claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh and offers $100 for every uncured case. Frank J. Cheney sworn senior partner of F J Cheney & Co endorses, notarized December 6 1886. Also lists sales of farm machinery and livestock by Louis Warneka and an ad for furniture items by A D Woodrut & Co.
State brief notes a Dec 8 12 event by the Sac County Poultry Association at Sec City armory with broad premiums. Other items include a Des Moines death case son insurance amid a Ohio case, Ottumwa marriage of Miss McGayie to Lemuel Hendrickson, a Perry depot campaign and local oddities across Grinnell Alden and Des Moines.
San Francisco November 16 Francis J Heney rests as doctors report successful removal of a bullet and stable recovery after an assassination attempt by Maurice Haas Haas later killed himself in his cell Haas bought time to raise funds for a voluntary rescue home in Des Moines with evangelist W A Sunday his tour dates projected through Marshalltown and other Iowa towns The report also details a K P lodge page initiation in Iowa Falls and a series of local incidents including a boy stealing funds and a court dispute over notes to Odd Fellows and Rebolahs plus a dramatic fall accident from a Northwestern train leaving a man with 27 stitches and $300 in cash on his person
An old advertisement extols Sealshipt Oysters praised for superior taste and value, noting higher price but greater quality. It lists multiple grocers and markets and urges readers to sample to see the difference. A separate note cites Texas shippers complaints and an Interstate Commerce case hearing in San Antonio on railroad rate increases from Saint Louis to Texas points.
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