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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
2
Water loo Reporter details subscription rates by month or year and carrier delivery, with misread OCR terms. Change of address instructions request readers to notify both old and new addresses. Telephone and office lines are listed for business and editorial matters.
The piece surveys conservative Democrats shifting toward Bryan amid a taft friendly senate, noting Olney’s support for Bryan as rest for the nation. It recalls a homestead anecdote and underscores the Republican Party as stabilizing, contrasting with the Democrats and Independence lines. It cites Governor Hughes at Youngstown and the Toledo Blade’s stance on Taft. It ends with Waterloo’s baseball pennant and cash reserve for 1909.
A long note on Waterloo's building boom contrasts with Cedar Falls growth, urging a public market to aid farmers and noting weather impacts on business and street life. It discusses trees, riverbank care, and shifts in transport from bicycles to autos, ending with a boxing match announcement.
The article recounts the 1816 shift in U S politics as James Monroe becomes the Republican leader, the Federalist party collapses after Hartford, and the era of one party dominance ends with the rise of Democrats and Whigs amid Virginia political dynasty. It notes Madison's refusal of a third term and the transition of power from Jefferson to Monroe.
The Independence party in South Tadies of Erie area selected a bucket head Toha Piske as a school prize for governor with best flower bed. Dr R C Warne of Mitchell lectured on the project. Students planted seeds, weeded, watered, and faced a dry spring and July hail storm. Despite setbacks, the garden prospered, drew visitors, and earned a school park for Waterloo. Volunteers aided by Jeffreys, Hue, Johnson, Mallcoat and others backed by Sherwood’s donation, expanding into a neighborhood pride project benefiting all creeds.
Whitar Reporter hails New York Governor Hughes as a forthcoming national Republican leader. The piece praises his independence, stamina, and conservatism while noting he owes nothing to Wall Street. It urges voters to watch his 1912/1913 trajectory, praising his fitness and appeal to masses.
Cartoonists show William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst as former political lovers who no longer speak when they pass, yet they exchange strong opinions about their past life and what has occurred.
The Republican convention in Massachusetts is expected to name Lieutenant Governor Heen Draper for governor with no opposition. The New Hampshire state convention recently showed the enduring strength of the party machine, particularly the Bastan and Name railroad influence on politics.
In Searcy county Arkansas one of the two Republican counties in the state nearly swept the Democratic ticket for the first time in over forty years. John Q Tilson, nominated for Congress in Connecticut, hails from the Tennessee mountains and Yale graduate. Major John Pf Lacey, standpatters' nominee for U S senator against Albert B Cumming, is a Virginia-born West Virginia native with Civil War service and a long Iow a Town residence since 1855.
The fragment lists dates with events and people from 1779 to 1901 covering founders of Methodism, Congress sessions, ships, battles, treaties, and notable visits. It mentions George Whitefield in Newburyport, York Congress, the Columbia voyage, Harmer’s defeat, Tangier treaty context, a free trade convention in Philadelphia, Matthew Quay birth, a Negro Hotel in Savannah, the KR B Lee steamboat, and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visiting Vancouver.
Cyris Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota, born September 5 1834 in Ridgefield Connecticut, educated at Yale with honors in 1857, studied law, served in Connecticut legislature, edited a New Haven newspaper, then became Yale professor of rhetoric and English literature in 1863 before taking the Minnesota presidency in 1884.
A historic tariff doctrine survives into its eighties as Bryan is described as a trust buster. The note frames the debate over protective tariffs and antitrust policy, highlighting enduring tensions between industry protection and competitive markets.
R H Van Winkle a noted surgeon from Afton was killed by a fast freight. Weezy Brunson, jailed then escaped from Mt Pleasant state hospital. Other notes cover Rev M C Aldrich arriving at Chardon for the year, warnings on radical legislation, a Dubuque biscuit company suit, and political talk by Stephen Whited. Multiple accidents and legal notices, including a farmer killed in Hancock County and a runaway near Woden, round out the brief.
Six indictments were returned by the Folk county grand jury in its second report for the September term. The defendants bound over from the police court faced charges, while a man from Sac County identified as Fred Stephen, a wealthy farmer of Boyer Valley township near Sac City, offered a passerby $2.25 to kill him.
A detailed report discusses sugar imports, duties, and tariff policy in the 1907 fiscal year, highlighting sugar and tobacco import values, duties collected, and the estimated revenue impact. It cites Bryan era critiques of protectionism, the Wilson Gorman act, and Dingley tariff effects, along with local incidents and upcoming events in Fairfield and surrounding towns.
Readers learn that Hall's Catarrh Cure is marketed as a constitutional cure taking internal action to restore blood and mucous surfaces. The ad promises $100 to anyone not cured and cites testimonials. Also mentions Foley's Kidney Remedy and hunting news in Maine and South Dakota Baptist convention notices with dates and locations.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as common sense remedies for dyspepsia and indigestion. It claims tablets supply nerve force and gastric nourishment, digest food, stop gas, and enrich gastric juices, with free trial mail offer. The firm address is Stuart Co., 150 Stuart Building, Marshall, Michigan.
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