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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1924
Page
4
Estherville Iowa paper the Vindicator and Republican. Nichols and Daughter listed as editors and publishers. Paper enters city post office as second class matter dated 08.
The piece argues opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in a cosmopolitan Iowa community, detailing how the Klan’s discrimination against Catholics Jews Greeks and Negroes caused division, shunning, and chaos. It warns against Klan propaganda, defends Masons as falsely maligned, and notes political figures condemning the Klan while predicting a long road to restoring harmony.
An Estherville letter urges business leaders to resist the Ku Klux Klan as a protest against its harassment of minorities and propaganda. The piece recalls Oklahoma’s 1920s rise of the Invisible Empire, cautions against intolerance, and calls for a canning factory and county fair to boost local unity and prosperity. A four year old’s fatal hospital case and a threatening Klan notice are noted to illustrate community peril.
School book sale at Rexall Drug Store and Estherville Drug Co. lists textbooks for each grade with prices. Purchases are cash only and limited to items marked for Rexall or Estherville Drug Co. Readable list includes primers readers spelling and physics among many subjects.
The memoir recalls threshing wheat in Emmet County using an old flail, a December 1863 storm near Spirit Lake, and return to Estherville via pony team. It notes local prices, a store in Wilton, and a July Fourth 1864 celebration with soldiers en route to a picnic. A wild turkey discovery and a notable four-seated nut rig at the event are described.
A local column collects humorous notes on publishers, glass arms, pavements, and odd feats. It jokes about a contractor riding North Sixth street after dinner, hackers of oats, and muses on study versus shovel work. Mentions Mary and Della Speaker of Hancock County, Robert La Follette’s duel-like fight, and Maurice Zalks visiting St Paul with family.
A report to the American Bankers Association from its Protective Committee warns of unprecedented bank crime waves. It notes stronger criminal activity, with yeggmen striking nationwide and warns bankers to not cash checks for strangers. The study cites state crackdowns in Montana and Oklahoma and shows long-term loss figures for members and non members.
A state bank of Granville North Dakota promotes diversified farming among its farmer patrons by purchasing purebred cattle for customers and funding transport to Granville. In Lat County Mississippi banks hire a dairy expert to support loans, cattle care, and feeding, with salaries shared by banks.
A Kansas City Star tale recounts an elderly oil man famed for wit and insight who lampooned a company's grand claim of 2 700 gas users in a town. He clipped the list, deriding the inflated number with a joke about a planet and a bitten hitchhiker, illustrating the mismatch between hype and facts.
Grace H a stenographer wanted a bobbed hairstyle despite her physician sweetheart age thirty two objecting that a twenty seven year old was too old for short hair. After her hair was cut he faced a grim quiet and finally agreed to shave his mustache to please her.
A Southern woman recalls salt shortages during Civil War times. People dug earth floors of smoke houses to extract salt dripped from cured pork and other meats. This informal method served as a workable substitute when commerce had failed.
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