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The paper announces daily editions with evenings published excluding Sundays and mornings excluding Mondays, indicating a split publication schedule for city and county readers.
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Newspaper
Telegraph Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1909
Page
4
The paper announces daily editions with evenings published excluding Sundays and mornings excluding Mondays, indicating a split publication schedule for city and county readers.
The Telegraph-Herald states it will not return rejected manuscripts and requires submissions with this understanding. Address business letters to The Telegraph-Herald in Dubuque Iowa.
November 1 marks the births and deaths of several figures. Stephen Van Rensselaer, patroon and statesman born 1745 died 1839. Lydia Huntley Sigourney, author born 1791 died 1865. Jerome Hopkins, governor and composer born 1839 died 189? Note: OCR shows errors in dates.
The article lists sunset and moonrise times, constellations overhead across directions, bright stars by direction with magnitudes, and planet visibility notes. It notes Mercury invisible, Venus setting ~7 pm, Mars ~2 am, Jupiter ~3 am, Saturn ~3:30 am, Uranus and Neptune invisible, a bright comet east of Orion returning after 75 years, Leonid meteors 11th to 15th, Andromeda meteors 25th to 27th, sun in Libra until the 20th then Scorpio.
A Greater Dubuque article heralds national recovery and local expansion. It notes rising real estate values, capital investment, and strong employment including women in sewing and machine work. The city sees a flood of new homes and factories, with Dubuque’s pulse of activity rising.
A lengthy editorial argues Dubuque needs citywide organization uniting business, labor, and civic groups to build a greater city. It emphasizes coordinated effort, rail and interurban projects, and engaging youth through country life and education to foster local industry, health, and independence.
The article reviews Prof Horchem’s park life plan as a solution to engaging pupils in schooling and elevating farm life. It cites Hubert M. Skinner praising the Dubuque experiment and argues the need to return boys from cities to the country, noting poor returns from rented foreign-owned farms.
Massachusetts Democrats weaponize rising living costs as a campaign issue, publishing a price sample comparing 1899 to present. The column highlights beans, flour, roast beef, corned beef, veal, pork, hams, sausages, lard, and cake, arguing domestic inflation outpaces foreign gains and ties to tariff policy. The piece frames the issue as a broader political argument about cost of living.
The speaker laments the bygone country fair with pumpkins turnips and beans, recalling Uncle Ike and Uncle Josh shouting for squash premiums. He contrasts old fairs with modern expos where horses races and bearded acts replace hearty rural displays, ending with nostalgia for simpler times.
The column extols balancing intense effort with deliberate restraint. It cites Alice Freeman Palmer as a model of productive rest and urges readers to pause periodically, relax the mind and body, and avoid overdoing duties to sustain long term achievement.
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