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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1909
Page
4
Official Papal of Eatherville and Emmat County Senator C Dowell announces his bid for Congress in the Seventh district opposing Cannon. Hull and Harvey Ingham may also seek the race. The piece surveys Republican attitudes, tariffs, and party unity amid editorial lines on Roosevelt, Taft era politics, and paper price hikes.
An Los Angeles Daily Times editorial endorses Cummins Bryanism critics in Iowa while praising Uncle Joe Cannon for defending the current tariff bill. It rebukes La Follette Bryan and other insurgents, arguing that tariff policy should favor industry, workers, and growth over radical reform.
The passage attacks Cummins and Bryan factions in the 1912 race, accusing them of scheming to disrupt the Middle West over tariff policy to advance their fortunes. It minimizes La Follette and portrays prosperity as tied to adherence to a trusted system, warning against deviating from it.
The Times Republican reflects on George Brown once rich through gambling who died amid tragedy as his son and wife’s killer father faced justice. A pawned name and ruined fortune frame a moral warning as Brown contemplates his life and sins from a deathbed.
A bronze haired woman explains her style secrets to an old bachelor on the piazza She relies on two good points hair and feet and spends on shoes and stockings to draw attention And she claims corsets are an absolute necessity The piece notes 325000 people emigrated from England to Canada in the last decade.
An old newspaper advertisement lists Golden Santos coffee 28 cents per pound, Mexican and Maracaibo blend 25 cents, Parah J and W blend 30 cents, Teal Tycoon Japanese coffee 50 cents, and pancake flour plus New York buckwheat flour with various pricing and descriptive notes.
A Harrisburg area road experiment on the Hummelstown pike reports a water gas tar cement and wintergreen blend that resists freezing and mud. It claims low cost per square yard and strong waterproofing, with no contagious disease outbreak in the past year cited as context.
A 1 karat flawless diamond may be worth about $100 while a perfect ruby of the same weight would be at least $200. As size increases the gap widens. A 10 karat diamond might be around $4,000, but a ruby of that weight could reach up to $70,000, a value noted for a unique ruby shown at the Franco-British exposition in London last year.
Government engineers finished surveying a new Puerto Plata to Santiago railway route. The present line climbs the mountain with a cogged third rail. The proposed path would cut gradient to two and a half percent, saving distance, time, and operating costs.
The report notes four to five government schools teaching railway engineering with another proposed at Tien tein. A rail-making plant is planned at Tal-Yuan-fu and all railway districts must plant 30,000 elm trees to supply future ties. Details include Life Insurance agent pitch and a quirky Cholly Knickerbocker line about a valet.
The director earns only 10000 dollars annually while 1300 employees include about 100 women. The first cashier makes twice the director and payroll exceeds 1 million dollars. A Chicago man was arrested for taking and wearing his twin brother's clothes, raising questions about twin usefulness.
An ad offers 50 full size Rexall Kidney Pills boxes free to the first 25 adults who call. It claims quick proof of the remedy’s superiority for kidney and related organ issues, stating the sponsor’s sacrifice to help the afflicted and that one box will demonstrate the pills’ value.
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