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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
2
A brief listing shows weekly publication details for Copar Dos Mines Republican with Starr & Haggard as publishers. Subscriptions are outlined for one year in advance six months and three months pricing appears as 1.50 and 6 40 in unclear OCR.
Observers discuss northern settlement in the Dakotas, praising pioneer spirit while noting severe winter, blizzards, and hardship. The piece questions whether continued migration will endure, citing Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin as precedent, and recalling past ordeals on roads and in blizzards.
A reception description notes a fashionable, forward encounter with the era. It mentions men on the far side of the room being barefoot and highlights county leaders present. The piece reflects climate changes, landscape shifts, and a vision of the northwest becoming a home for wealth, growth, and settlement driven by resilient tides of progress.
Howard Elliott asserts freight car shortages stem from a 118 percent staff rise versus 21 percent rail mileage growth between 1896 and 1906. Farm and industrial output surged, boosting freight demand while passenger traffic grew 95 percent, straining Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines and prompting large capital investments and new rail expansions. The note also records the death of Victor Dolliver, a young political campaigner and brother of Senator Dolliver, at Dodge Sunday.
The Senate decision on the Reed Smoot contest for Utah’s seat startled the country as claims supporting Smoot were presented. The outcome favored the Utah ban, signaling a pivotal shift in public and political reaction during the period.
The text describes a political dispute over Senator Smoot and his polygamy stance, noting support from Republicans and opposition from Democrats. It also mentions railroad plans from Sioux Falls toward Watertown led by A B Funk and Senator Maytag, and a dispute over acquiring the Register and Leader to exclude Harvey Ingham, blocked by Gardner Cowles funding.
Fort Dodge band plans a March concert in Humboldt. Emmetsburg’s Col Ormsby buys property in Los Angeles and may live there. E S Ellsworth of Iron Falls claimed Emmet county’s largest landowner with 3700 acres on a Dolliver stock farm. total holdings about 5000 acres. J J Reardon sold the Hesperville Democrat to Frank Carpenter, who had sold to Reardon earlier. Corwith Hustler cites H Page as top rat catcher with 63 grown rats trapped in four settings. Kanawha Record reports Iowa Central line elevators sold to eastern capitalists and Hampton men. Moore Bros Co to operate. Old firm head to Colorado. new firm to keep current agents.
Mr and Mrs James Mayne of Ledyard Iowa celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary on February 14 1907 with forty to fifty friends and neighbors in attendance The couple recalled joys over thirty years filled with family and faith noting four children and modest worldly goods as true happiness.
Special low prices on music cabinets in French walnut mahogany and antique oak. Duett benches and scarfs match your piano. The latest in sheet music always in stock. Yours truly John Mesing.
Travel promotion from The North-Western Line offers low rate second class one way tickets in March and April from all points on the Northwest line. Tours include Pullman sleeping cars through Chicago to San Francisco and Los Angeles. First class round trip tickets with liberal return limits sold daily. Consult nearest agent for rates and routes.
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