09 Oct 1908
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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
1
Waterloo ad from Matt Parrott and Sons promotes low prices and daily restocking with sales noted for every evening except Sunday. The compact notice highlights the Waterloo store and its ongoing customer appeal.
L Parrott editor announces daily and semi weekly subscription rates with monthly and annual options. Change of address instructions requested with old and new addresses, plus editorial and business office locations and contacts.
Spirit Lake Java plans a special October 20 election to decide a bond issue for the water plant amid ongoing disputes over water service and tax support. The Beacon urges voters, including women with separate tallies, to back a public water system they see as essential for health, property values, and progress.
A local poll shows strong Republican backing for Taft and Sherman while small merchants and dry goods firms like Rivkers and Hoff benefit from a sparse firm-name economy. Water works, water policy and prohibition debates frame a survey of city life, rail tightness in wages and prices, and the rise of building and loan associations as the backbone of Waterloo’s development. The piece recounts historic fire engines, early urban firms, and the nine month lending record showing hundreds of thousands in loans funding dozens of homes as the community prospers.
The Marquis of Donegall born October 7 1803, ascended in 1904 as a one year old after his father’s long life and two prior marriages. The infant count bore the title Earl of Belfast briefly. The Chichester family traces to a sixteenth century founder who governed Carrickfergus and held high offices in Ireland.
A yellow-packaged remedy ad text and a political sketch discuss the Prohibition Party adopting a camel as emblem. The piece critiques campaign branding, cites Foley’s Honey and Tar as a cough remedy, and reflects on party symbolism and wartime veteran reunions in Greenwood and Mississippi division events.
A citizen notes Mr. Bryan’s bid for the presidency echoes the idea the peerless one may have been the original model for the aeroplane. It is suggested Bryan could sustain flight for a long while, and that Aa stays in the air most of the time.
A garbled chronology notes events from 1753 to 1895 including New York governance, the American Congress, battles at King’s Mountain and Menkowin, Poe’s death, Sheridan’s Shenandoah raid, and Holmes’ death. It also mentions a Franco Canadian treaty ratification and a late 18th to 19th century sequence with uncertain accuracy.
An account of Andrew Jacksons presidency and its turbulent second term, the creation of the two thirds rule at the 1835 Baltimore Democratic convention, Van Buren as Jacksons chosen successor, the Whig challenge led by William Henry Harrison, and the electoral split that brought Van Buren to the presidency with 170 votes and a narrow popular majority amid sectional shifts.
State news notes the Chicago Northwestern line from Boone to Maple River junction will install the Hall signal system immediately at a cost of 117000. Other items include a fatal drowning of Paul Duffy in Des Moines, Mrs Henry Satin’s death from heart disease, a band test for Jefferson, and various local notices on elections, accidents, and civic matters across the state.
Gov Charles Haskell released a signed history claiming he joined the Muskogee Citizens’ Alliance in 1905 to promote town harmony, learned the group barred union men, opposed it, and withdrew. He believed the organization then faded from existence. Also an ad for Foley’s Kidney Remedy appears.
A 19th century advertisement touts Ball's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Proprietors offer $100 for any failure to cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills. Address F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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