Rail brakemen seek fair pay amid hardship on Rock Island
Editor notes the unglamorous life of brakemen, their age, risks, and limited prospects. Pay on schedule is 4.40 for way freights and 4.16 for through freights, with net earnings near 1 dollar daily after hotel and meal costs. Upon sickness or layoff, many face destitution, prompting a petition to an arbitration board for fair wages and relief.
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Rock Island Road
Railroad Companien
Mons
Rock Island
Arbitration Board
Adams Seeks Second Term in State Senate
Senator HW Adams of Algona visited the city to seek reelection to a second term. The article lauds his pledge to prudent state budgeting and his record on committees including Appropriations, County and Township Affairs, Banks and Banking, and Agriculture. It highlights his farming and livestock leadership, business acumen, and district familiarity, urging voters to endorse him at the June primaries. The paper notes printing shortages and explains editorial separation from political ads. Weather and farm prospects are briefly discussed with expectations of a bumper crop and price shifts in livestock and manufactured goods.
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Adams
Algona
Towa
Adam
Kossuth
Emmet
Guernsey
Wis
Borticntture
Torestry
Iowa Homestead Attacks Campaign Backers in Guben Hill
The Iowa Homestead issues a scathing broadside against campaign contributors to Governor Marding from two years ago. It targets Senator Cummins and J. F. Deems over Esch Cummins bill and a paid advertisement dispute. The piece dismisses the charges as slush aimed to sway Iowa voters before the June primary.
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Iowa
Marding
Senator Cummins
J. F. Deems
Deam
Deems
Aganda
Nomination urged for a steady conservative editor
The pamphlet argues for labor friendly and capital respectful leadership, praising a non agitator stance as essential today. G Melvin Hinshaw resigns from the Iowa News and Telegraph editor post at the Marshalltown Times Republican to take a higher paid telegraph editor job at the Daily American in Aberdeen South Dakota.
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Rerson
G. Melvin Hinshaw
Estherville
Iowa News and Telegraph
Marshalltown Times
Republican
Marshalltown
Telegraph
Daily American
Aberdeen
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NAU Brothers
Cummins
Jahor
B. B. Anderson & Sons
Estherville, Iowa
Alberta
Madame Lyn
M. E. Eldred
Creamery
Cleveland
Heneman Auto Co
R. J. Heneman
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