State seeks court action to force railroads to furnish service
Attorney General Byers may sue to enforce a state board order compelling the Illinois Central and Rock Island railroads to supply coal to Cedar Rapids Iowa City interurban power plant. Contempt charges have been filed for ignoring a superior court injunction, but the merits of the board order lie outside that action. The board asserts power to compel service before rates are settled, while railroad disputes over compensation may be decided in court. The central question: can the state require railroads to furnish service first and await rate dispute resolution?
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Byers
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Minois Central
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Okoboji Dam Break Prompts Protective Association Action
Beacon notes a break in the Okoboji Dam offers the Okoboji Protective Association a chance to show value to lake country. Water waste and falling lake levels threaten navigation on East Okoboji. prompt dam repair could gain support from the state fish and game warden.
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Okoboji
How Much Are You Saving
Milwaukee Journal discusses personal finances and saving habits, noting pay day remnants, living expenses, debts, and social outings that deplete earnings. Ringsted Dispatch adds local notes on potato samples, yields, and recent community entertainments including a Hungarian Orchestra at the Presbyterian church.
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Milwaukee Journal
Olson Wedding To Be Held At Emmet Township Home
This Wednesday afternoon Carl H Olson and Miss Anna Olson will wed at the bride’s parents home in Emmet township. Rev B O Thormisgard of Hudson Wisconsin will conduct the ceremony. Olson is a jeweler at Kane drug store and highly regarded. The bride’s family are pioneer settlers and she is a respected young woman. They will reside upstairs over Adams Jewelry store for their home. In a separate matter Geo A Patterson for a stock company closed a deal to buy the Enterprise newspaper and job plant for 5600, allowing old company to keep subscription accounts. Possession given Friday, Patterson to edit. The paper is expected to shift from stand pat to progressive.
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Carl H. Olson
Anna Olson
Halvor Olson
Emmet Township
B. 0. Thormisgard
Hudson
Wisconsin
Olson
Kane Drug Store
Estherville
Adams Jewelry Store
Geo. A. Patterson
Enterprise
Des Moines death linked to alleged criminal relationship
Irene Bly denburg died in Des Moines last fall revealing a criminal relationship. H. B. Dickingon stands trial as an accessory, possibly guilty or not. He has a wife and two children, and the affair shames his marriage and harms his family while the young woman may have believed him single.
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Spirit Lake Beacon
Irene Blydenburg
Des Moines
H. B. Dickingon
Amart
Lincoln Douglas Debates Tale From Ida Tarbell’s Study
The November American Magazine piece presents a vivid account of the Lincoln Douglas debates through Billy Brown a Springfield druggist who knew Lincoln well. It captures public doubt about Lincoln and Douglas’s rivalled records and Lincoln’s resolve to run on principle despite blue mood and low expectations.
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Ida M. Tarbell
Billy
Brown
Springfield
Lincoln
Tinois
Douglas
United States
Senate
Patronize Advertisers and Local Notices Parade
A lengthy editorial appeals readers to buy from advertisers and judge goods by ad presented value. It notes a local frog hunter catching 1285 dozen jumpers for $12.65 and includes a mourning resolution excerpt for Highland Nobles honoring a deceased member, plus assorted real estate transfers and property notes in Estherville.
Road improvement plan for Iowa highways proposed by Col Baker
Col W F Baker urges fiscally cautious highway reform in Town IT. He argues current funds, about 2292000 in 1906, are ample to modernize roads nationwide within years. He backs weekly expenditure reports, an improvement club in every township, and hiring expert road gangs paid by payroll to build twelve to fifteen miles yearly. He promotes road drags, cinders, deep plowing, grading, and drainage to create durable, nearly nine inch solid roadbeds, with four inch tires and drag use reducing maintenance costs.
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W. F. Baker
Board of Supervisors
Pottawattamie County
Iowa
Wealthy apple harvest from Hartley orchard ships cars
T B Flint of Westport township Dickinson county, who began an orchard in 1882 and 1898 planted Wealthy and Patent Greenings, shipped two cars of barreled apples from Hartley on Monday and will send another car next week. The three car loads came from 300 trees. An Estherville woman reportedly kills a chicken by a crude method using spikes and a hatchet. I M McKean, ex station agent for the B C KR Ny line, reportedly died in St Paul after years on the road with a Chicago novelty company.
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Ringsted
John Paugh
Palo Alto
A. R. Keepers
Andrew Anderson
Jess Anderson
Kimmet County
Hartley Journal
T. B. Flint
Westport Township
Dickinson County
Hartley
I. M. McKean
St. Paul the Fore
McKean
Chicago
Estherville
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Abraham Lincoln
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W. E. PaumMavist
Frank Agsh
A. J. Brinkerhofy
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D. J
Hattie Coulson
Perry
A. H
N. J. Nash
Woods
Estheryille
Ridley
B.J
D. R. Alexander
Bemis
Eatheryille
Abargeaidbeis
E. Lucas
Jagood
Simon T
Ivy Osgood
WWOS
DER
Motherville
Schaffer
North Star Land Co
Westbrook
B. F
Theodore Meyer
Lota
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