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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
3
Waterloo Reporter offers daily and semi weekly subscriptions with monthly and yearly rates. The ad lists carriers, mail options, and a post office entry class note for Waterloo Iowa.
A fragmented newspaper line lists reporter telephone numbers and department locations including Editorial Rooms and Calendar Department. The text mentions the Corn Belt business office and a White Street reference, indicating internal newsroom contact details.
The former president writes that Republicans should elect Taft, praising his honesty, labor, and judgment. Vermont results, bank guarantee history from 1830s to 1849, and political notes follow, highlighting Taft prospects and party debates across states.
The article highlights Rev Dr Charles M Sheldon pastor of Central Congregational in Topeka living in a modest home worth about five thousand dollars. It notes his health, family, church influence among Washburn college students, and proximity to Tennessee Town, a Black community area. It also previews political commentary on currency reform and the era’s campaigns, mentioning James H. Vahey, William Jennings Bryan, and James Sherman, along with rising socialist votes in Idaho Utah and Colorado.
Events span 1451 Worcester victory over Charles I to 1994 Labor Day observance as a legal holiday. Notable items include 1724 Guy Carleton born, 1743 Versailles treaty, 1804 Preble attack on Tripoli, 1868 Georgia House seating ban, 1885 William M. Gwin death, 1967 Canadian Pacific rail crash near Caledon, Ontario.
Stewart J Woodford a general lawyer and diplomat born in New York City on September 3 1835 led the push for Hughes nomination at the Chicago convention attended Columbia College educated United States attorney in New York he served in the Civil War rising to chief of staff of the department of the south he was lieutenant governor of New York in 1863 ran for governor on the Republican ticket. He later served in Congress from 1872 and again as United States Attorney from 1877 to 1882 and was United States minister to Spain from 1857 to 1893.
Hiram Judson uncovers a cipher in paper strips on his stenographer Miss Alice Cresswell desk revealing a planned stock maneuver. After consulting a cipher expert, he translates the code and learns his son Fred and Miss Cresswell are involved, leading to Judson’s bold move to corner the orange market and reveal the ruse to Alice.
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