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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1916
Page
7
Oger Featherstone ends a New Year birthday morning with a vow of bachelorhood on the eve of a dinner party where Betty Hurling reenters his life. A playful, romantic awakening follows as a hand slips into his, prompting a reevaluation of his vow and hinting at old feelings rekindled.
New Year in China is a national payday where debts may trigger bankruptcy and households rally to protect clan reputation. Pawnbrokers rise in demand as people redeem or pawn items, with government-backed high interest. Red papered doors and gifts symbolize luck, wealth, and happiness across homes and new year cards. The Farm and Fireside advises farmers how to locate the soil water level, using post hole digging to measure moisture depth. For most crops a water level around three feet below the surface is typical, with alfalfa at one to two feet for optimal moisture.
The Boone parade on October 29 1908 marked Iowa’s first suffrage march. Led by the town band with banners, it drew numerous local suffragists including Eleanor Gordon president Flora Dunlap and Rowena Stevens marshal. Dr Anna Howard Shaw spoke, with Carrie Burghardt and others photographed, reflecting early national suffrage momentum.
In a Successful Farming reprint, arguments against taxation without representation and for women’s suffrage intone the struggle as eastern states defeat suffrage while western states like Kansas move toward equality. The piece urges farm men to support women’s full citizenship in the June town vote of 1916.
Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wichita Beacon, argues that political hysteria and suffrage have no relation. He cites twenty five years of equal suffrage in Kansas showing women vote as intelligent citizens and have raised the level of political discussion. An interview notes women vote as women and discuss governance more seriously.
A Republican voice from Forest City argues that women will gain citizenship and political equality as they enter business and civic life. The piece predicts future suffrage demands will face little genuine opposition as times change and women participate more in public affairs.
In recent Iowa municipal elections women showed strong civic engagement by backing bond issues in Des Moines Fort Dodge and Burlington. Fort Dodge saw 2 071 women vote for a $100000 municipal dam while men totaled 2511. Des Moines and Burlington results supported reform agendas. The Sioux City Journal lauds women as ready to vote on municipal matters and contribute to city progress.
A historical overview explains how nose shapes supposedly reveal traits and fates, citing long noses for merit and power like Napoleon and Caesar, straight noses for seriousness, Roman noses for adventure, wide noses for sensuality, cleft noses for benevolence, curved noses for domination, and pale noses for envy, ego, or heartlessness.
The passage advises on animal husbandry including how to manage horses cattle and sheep. It warns against mixing sheep with cattle in yards and cautions about feeding practices and pen conditions for pigs and lambs. It emphasizes allowing horses freedom to stretch and criticizes wasteful feeding like corn excess for sheep with lambs.
The record of the youngest Juliet shifts to Mary Anderson who first appeared as Juliet on November 25, 1876 at Barney Macauley's theater in Louisville New York Times. Phyllis Neilson Terry debuted at eighteen in 1911 in London while Adelaide Neilson acted as Juliet at least twenty in 1865 at Margate.
Walter Prichard Eaton argues in American Magazine that film has not yet demonstrated the ability to produce truly great acting. He contends the miraculous or great work remains unlikely for movie players in the current era.
Two golfers banter over life’s obstacle as the Detrait Free Press notes a humorous exchange about work being a greater handicap than skill in golf.
A fragment quoting Sir Matthew Hale on flattery and trust. It warns that those who flatter you in person or to others are likely deceivers and recalls the fox and crow fable about coveting what is not theirs.
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