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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
8
A Kansas City Times tale follows a young man who crafts a plan to win a woman by outwitting rivals and using his future father in law. He marries after a staged sequence of social hurdles while a skeptical boss contemplates his own life and potential future openings.
President George Harris of Ambergt College argues in Leslie's Weekly that the college ethos favors the ideal of the gentleman over the Christian virtue, claiming meanings are warped and the meek, by character, gain influence not by faith but by cultivated status. He laments the shift from moral to decorative gentility in academia.
Judge Clark ruling decreses Mason Oly-Miany depositors rights as the court holds the bank’s assets nearly exhausted. Claimants argued funds from the cashier’s fraudulent notes were real money, but the decision limits recovery and affects creditors across several institutions.
Council Bluffs voters authorized municipal water works financing on the 27th by nearly two to one. Women cast a record vote with strong turnout and varied precincts showing both sides. A further election will determine contracts the council may enter into as plans for the plant are tentatively accepted.
Marshalltown bank officials reviewed McFarland's belongings to verify life insurance totaling 14,000 across Bankers' Life of Des Moines Northwestern and Equitable of New York. The policies are claimed valid with no effect from any suicide clause. He also held a Monona County Iowa farm equity valued around 25,000.
Six hundred women suffragists paraded through Boone at noon on the 28th headed by Rev Avnashaw with Misses Bendeil and Gostelloe of London. They were famed for their roles in parliamentary protests by English suffragists. A spectacle of 660 marchers drew the whole town.
In Sioux City District Court Judge John F. Oliver ruled Justus beer intoxicating and fined May Laurence, a resort keeper, $300 for contempt and $50 in attorney fees after ruling she sold non intoxitating nearbeer against an injunction from the Anti Saloon League.
A garbled local notice reports a husband and father shot, with mention of McFarland and family at an Ashes Home. Names and places are unclear due to OCR errors, but the item signals a domestic tragedy involving the McFarland/Mershalle line and a bank official A F Baleh in state affairs.
Calhoun county board of supervisors hired W A Burnip to audit county officers for 1905 9 7 3. The grand jury had urged a full county audit but only the treasurer's office was checked. Burnip’s report on Treasurer MecCrary’s office is favorable, confirming orderly conduct of affairs.
The Modern Woodmen of America abandon the lodge deposit claim in Chariton. The $350,000 deposit now joins other claims for pro rata sharing. Woodmen expect about $140,000. receiver Jamieson has ~$250,000 to distribute, covering about 26 percent of total losses with potential additional 15 percent dividend later, totaling around 40 percent.
Servian youth Joseph Hekiman arrived in Ames to enroll at Iowa State College and study agriculture with the aim of returning home to teach his people. He missed the current term classification but spends time in Ames learning about the students and the program. He is described as bright and enthusiastic about the work ahead.
Creston attorney Walter J Locke died October 2 at Cottage Hospital after a four week illness. He underwent surgery for liver and lung issues. initial hopes faded by Saturday. A longtime Creston resident and one of the oldest Creston National Bank directors, he was admitted to the bar in 1882. Survived by a widow and three daughters.
Engineers from the national board of fire underwriters in New York City have begun a survey of all Des Moines business buildings and will inspect the fire department as well. Five inspectors, likely thirty days, will assess fire hazards building laws department readiness and insurance implications.
Mason City reports Mason City Ole Olson a young Norwegian who lived here only months was found dead in bed with gas on door locked and windows down. Authorities call it accidental saying he failed to turn off gas. Some suspect self harm. Olsen’s brother Charley Olsen lives at Hampton. State official H R Wright charged two Des Moines grocers with selling adulterated foods.
A citizen posse led by the sheriff and marshal pursued two alleged bank robbers after they jumped from a freight train at dusk. The gunfight wounded one fugitive in the leg and the pair escaped into the darkness toward a cornfield. Authorities pursue leads tied to a recent heist and a suspected safecracker gang.
A naturalist quotes Darwin and observes Convolvulus tendrils bending toward a shoe and a distant pole. The plant appears to seek light and move with measured, serpentine precision. The account claims plants show sight, noting tendrils advance when toward objects and retreat from light.
George Warden found a 42 Laokia long rattler with 18 rattles near his water jug and killed it, preserving skin and rattles. George Copeland’s sons killed 12 rattlers at a den by Little Hickory creek. Henry Amburger’s hens lost eggs. a dead eight foot black snake with an egg in its stomach was found nearby, explaining the thefts.
The Tit-Bits article surveys well known English authors by height, naming Thackeray at six feet three inches, Arthur Conan Doyle at six two, Cutcliffe Hyne at six three, Hesketh Prichard taller, Keble Howard six feet four and a quarter, and R. S. Warren Bell nearly six feet five, noting post giants in two senses of the term.
The company controlling most Brooklyn waterfront docks introduces electric three wheel trucks replacing horse drawn carts. The new trucks carry three times the load, cut dock repair costs, and speed transport on the piers.
A Philadelphia fire chief praised a German origin recruit after a dangerous blaze. The rookie crawled through flames and, when greeted with praise, quipped that he had not been dead yet, prompting the chief to acknowledge unexpected survival and courage.
A New York mission worker recalls meeting two eager urchins playing with a rubber ball in a tenement region. They improvised their own rules, saying they bat the ball until it bounces, then may swing three times to hit it, illustrating a playful, self governed street game.
The source credits James Finley of Pennsylvania as the inventor of the modern suspension bridge. His first bridge was built in 1801 02 and by 1810 he had built additional structures.
An account of St Pauls Cathedral tracing its origins after the 1136 fire, completion in 1498, and the famed 620 foot spire crowned by a hall. It notes the Lollards Tower, bishop’s palace, Breast church of gray friars, and a school for choir boys.
Mary Dowling of San Francisco reports relief from stomach trouble using Electric Bitters. She praises the tonic as the best remedy for stomach and liver issues and female weakness, noting it invigorates the system and purifies the blood. Available at R. H. Miller's drug store for 50 cents.
An advertisement claims Kodol cures indigestion dyspepsia sour stomach and similar stomach troubles by aiding digestion without constant use. It suggests taking it occasionally only until the stomach can digest food unaided and urges readers to try it today, noting it is sold by all dealers.
An old advertisement touts lolay's Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs and lung illnesses. It claims to cure obstinate coughing, heal the lungs, and prevent pneumonia or consumption, with a yellow package marked genuine.
A humorous health notice touts Br King’s New Life Pills to ward off digestive woes and malaria. It promotes the product as a cure and urges readers to buy at drugstores for personal well being.
A vintage advertisement warns winter is coming and urges curing coughs now with Foley's Honey and Tar. It claims the product strengthens lungs, prevents obstinate coughs and colds, and avoids serious results, from Conner & Co.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for clearing air passages and soothing throat irritation. It claims relief from cough, healing inflamed lungs, and expelling colds from the system, urging customers to refuse imitation in a yellow package.
A mothering appeal touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female illnesses and infertility. Personal letters from Maggie Gilmer and Josephine Hail claim restored health and fertility, urging sick women to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Pairfax Refining Co announces a position for a reliable energetic young man to represent the company in Kossuth and adjoining counties. A team member is preferred. Salary or commission offered by the Cleveland, Ohio firm.
Iowa Land Credit Company of Mason City Iowa reports loan activity on improved farms in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The note emphasizes the Grand Prairie region as highly valuable land and invites inquiries to J. E. Balle of Stuttgart Arkansas for further information.
Low rate farm loans available by application at the Kossuth County State Bank. Wanted: to purchase a small farm of 25 or 30 acres near a good town. Address J. M. Walle Titonka Iowa.
A car load of magazines newspapers pamphlets circular letters or books is sought by a local committee led by Mrs L M Borton Louis McCoy and Mthel Laird to support library needs.
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