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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1911
Page
8
Dolliver residents share church visits, visits from Estherville and Armstrong, and school notes. Social events include dances, ball games, and Sunday gatherings. Weather hints and crop reports note rains aiding corn and light yields amid grasshoppers.
Mrs G F Reinhardt visited Estherville Saturday and M H Richardson from Wina Minnesota toured Grover and moved the elevator to Farmer's Elevator Company. Andrew Benson drove to Austin Minnesota with family, returning after a visit. Neighbors visited North Belmont Levn home and Spirit Lake day trips. Several incidents include rain praised, Sophia Brunsvold shopping in Estherville, and Young People's Society meeting at FE A Nasby home. Neighborhood updates cover illnesses, autos, silo notes, and local entertainment at Air Dome vaudeville with wrestlers.
Democratic leaders in the House plan to push the La Follette compromise through with a Democratic Progressive coalition while urging Taft to veto any wool revision likely to emerge from the upcoming conference. Senators Crane Weeks and Bartholdt urged the veto, arguing the measure lacks tariff-board data. House Democrats favor a 30 percent ad valorem on raw wool, while a Senate coalition move could fail in the House.
An early 20th century appeal urges landowners to invest in concrete drainage tiling to prevent waterlogged fields. It argues future wet seasons will repeat past poor yields and claims tiling is cheaper now, with quick haulage along ditches and long lasting, frost resistant concrete tile.
The House committee on expenditures of the Department of Agriculture opened hearings into the Remsen board and its reversal of Dr. J. H. Wiley of the Bureau of Chemistry over the denatured soda decision. The panel will also review recent charges against Wiley while testimony cites purchases including two terriers four monkeys eight dog cases an electric griddle a horoscope and a chiffoner over four years. Representative Higgins pressed for itemized expense prints. No further action occurred and the session adjourned until Tuesday.
Dun outlines conflicting developments shaping trade from the Canadian reciprocity bill to Morocco talks and interstate rate decisions in Spokane. He cites moderate iron and steel improvements, but restricted pig iron buying in the East, while broader effects hinge on future relations and policy outcomes. Tobacco Trust Obeys Supreme Court Mandate in Reorganization
The two children of A. T. Par yis in Meadville Missouri died after drinking coffee, likely poisoned by cyanide. Physicians testified, and the deaths along with illness of four others prompted neighbors to investigate the incident.
Ottumwa grocers and butchers will close shops August first and travel to Burlington for their annual picnic.
Iowa briefs summarize local events including a successful fair at Rockwell, a 50th wedding anniversary in Bellevue, a Hinton carnival planned for August, and Miss Caroline Forgrave's reappointment as Dallas county schools superintendent. Also notes silos being erected near Mapleton, a wolf-killing incident near Council Bluffs, a Cedar Rapids death from blood poisoning, and new or resumed offices and projects across the state.
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