Municipal Plant Profits Highlight City Control Debate
A nine month report on the municipal electric light plant argues against selling to private interests and forecasts a city profit of 4000 to 5000 annually after a five to six year payback. It details receipts from incandescent lights water rents and taxes with disbursements and notes ongoing growth in customers and power use.
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Baginninng
Croan
Repulligan
Kat Coa
Aettle
Iowa voices on tariff and reciprocity push across nation
Editor Punk of Spirit Lake Beacon reports from the east on tariff talk. He notes that eastern Republicans fear broad tariff changes and that reciprocity treaties gain support, while Iowa maintains a cautious but growing alignment with national calls for revised schedules and broader trade relations. Local lawmakers and manufacturers weigh Dalliver support amid a shifting national stance.
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Iowa
Punk
Spirit Lake
Tpaushan
Eastern Robutes
Weber
State Senate
Boston
Dallaver
Carl
Dalliver
Jodsmuch
East
Laws
Minnesota
Wiseguaja
Printing plant bolster for Ratherville newspaper merge
A Ratherville based consolidation of the Vindicator and Republican forms a modern printing plant and up to date bindery. The firm plans active road service from early year onward, expanding local employment and spending wages with residents of Metherville, aiming to boost regional advertising and business reach within about a thousand miles.
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Vindicator and Republican
Vindicator and Republican Company
Ratherville
Estherville
Ketherville
Metherville
Vin- Oiostor and Reeproliccaans Co
Lone
Matherville
Pew
Venezuela settlement dispute and woman’s club school training
The article notes a Venezuelan dispute over preferential port duties and an allied powers ultimatum. It calls Venezuela’s minister Bowen’s stance against such concessions, supported by President Castro and the U S. It also highlights a local women’s club pushing for manual training in schools, praising civic engagement and potential wider female involvement in municipal affairs.
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Great
Bowen
Venezuela
Castro
United States
Howen
Uetilbers
Mandal
Groundhog intrusion triggers reappearance remark joke
The fragment colorfully notes Divine Healey Schlatter reappearing on earth and quips about killing a groundhog. It contains a jagged aside about government or local matters and mentions Queensland papers for sale at the office.
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Healey Schlatter
Earth
Political chatter from Sioux City to Johnson County
A flurry of telegrams and editorials from Sioux City Onawa and Johnson County discuss possible candidates for Congress and state office. Mentions Perkins Caldwell Healey Koontz Wade Byington Stadbolt and various local figures with shifts in party prospects and county political plans.
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Sioux City
Des Moines
George D. Perkins
Sioux City Journal
Congress
Thomas
Caldwell
Onawa
Aaurioh Kindall
Mc Nillan & Kindall, Attorneya
Eo H W. Hubbard
Monona County
Addison Oliver
Iowa City
Velegraw
Tran Johoson County
Johnson County
Wade
Byington
Everytoiby
Lowa County
David Brant
Republican
Frank Stebbiga
Gerge W. Koontz
Senator Ball
al Highs
Judge Conner Praised as Characterful Representative
Glidden Graphic lauds Judge Conner as a McKinley type Methodist who serves seven days a week and shapes his congress work by integrity. The piece argues character counts, noting Iowa owes much to officials who combine faith, ability, and duty in public life.
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Conner
Congress
Ibe
Iowa
Movement to Abolish the Senate Gains Stalled Momentum
In Congress urgency for action stalls as one senator’s will appears to block progress. The piece notes the irony of coal baron and groundhog affiliations and hints at Muscatine securing a new courthouse at Wa with a projected cost of $150,000. Obscure references to Dr Hrestov ab Der and tainted fragments follow.
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Asthervilla
Mytherville
Ville
Vindicator
Republican
Congress
Senate
Muscatine
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