Tuberculosis Life Loss Claimed At 2.5 Years Per Person
A National Tuberculosis Association study concludes tuberculosis shortens the average American lifetime by about two and a half years, with losses ranging from 2.6 years for white women to 5 years for colored women. The estimate is derived from life tables using population data and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company records from 1911 to 1916.
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United States
National Tuberculosis Association
Jessamine
Whitney
Louis I. Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
Miss Whitney
Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Thoughts We Ought to Think on Life and Health
A short aphoristic piece emphasizes life as education not a holiday and urges simplicity, sunshine, happiness in rain, true wealth in enjoyment, justice, and politeness as a gentle aid to well being. It frames good health as a guiding motif.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason on Paper Clothes
The poem pokes fun at frugality and thrift with paper clothes as a satire of consumer desire. A narrator jokes about wearing paper outfits while others chase expensive, fashionable attire, highlighting savings versus status.
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Walt Mason
The Fight on Cummins and Senate Strategy
The piece explains why Democrats push opposition to Cummins and opposed measures after backing the Transportation Act. It notes a narrow Senate GOP majority, a likely Republican presidency, and aims to weaken the GOP by targeting the president pro tempore and key leaders with Iowa as a potential pivotal force.
Straight Ticket Urges Iowa Republicans to Support Harding
The OsKaloosa Herald argues the central issue is defeating Cummins and placing Senate control with supporters of President Harding. It condemns the attack on Cummins over the Transportation Act as dishonorable and calls for a straight Republican vote to change Washington affairs.
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Tammany
Senate
Albert B. Cummins
Harding
Towa
U. S. Senate
Cummins
Washington
Oskaloosa Herald
Settling Cox and Roosevelt Right
Kansas City Star commentary notes Mr Cox’s use of Taft’s league views to attack Harding. Taft clarifies he supports a league excluding article 10 and aligns with Roosevelt, inviting Cox and Roosevelt to heed his stated position. The piece predicts political reactions and credibility tests.
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Kansas City
Taft
Wilson League
Wilson
Harding League
Mr. Cox
Franklin Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Cox
Mr. Roosevelt
Porter Opposes Cummins-Esch Railroad Bill in Senate Race
The piece argues Porter, a Democratic Senate candidate from Town, attacks the Cummins-Esch railroad act while noting labor opposition may color voters. It argues Congress passed the bill with broad support, including 15 of 17 in the Senate commerce committee, and acknowledges President Wilson signed it.
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Wilson
United States
Congress
Senate
Claude R. Porter
U. S. Senate
Porter
Iown
VU. 8
Cummins
Itowa
House of Representatives
Commerce Committee
Robert M. la Follette
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Smith
Thomas Watson
Porter Backed Plumb Plan At Odds With Iowa Voters
Muscatine Journal argues Porter favors the Plumb plan to buy and turn railroads to employees, contradicts Iowa sentiment in June primary, and would betray party principles by aligning with labor and third party positions. The piece defends public ownership as proper for a public service and urges Porter to switch affiliation if he supports the plan.
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Ing
Porter
Iowa
Federal Reserve Bank
Waterloo Courier
Our
Republic
Congress of the United States
Cummins-Esch
Licht
Patform
LaFollettes
Townleys
Farmer-Labor
Towa
Muscatine Journal
Iowa's Cummins Faces Tough Reelection Bid
Arthur Sears Henning reports in Chicago Tribune that Harding will win Iowa by more than 100,000. Cummins, though ill and challenged by labor and radical farmers over the transportation act, is described as a grand old man and influential statesman whose imprint spans major legislation.
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Arthur Sears Henning
Chicago Tribune
Harding
Cox
Cummins
Marding
Esch
Wisconsin
Iowa
United States Senate
Washington
Wheat Slump Triggered by Clerical Error at Board of Trade
A clerk’s pen mistake at the Chicago board of trade caused a huge mistaken sell order of 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. Prices tumbled after dealers learned the overstatement. Rosenbaum Brothers’ Edward N. Glazer said the oversell was about 75,000 bushels when corrected.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
United States Wheat Growers’ Association
Rosenbaum Brothers
Edward N. Glazer
Seven Columns On Official Ballots In Iowa
Des Moines October 16 seven columns will appear on many official ballots in Iowa. There are six presidential tickets and one column for independents. Four third parties name presidential candidates socialist socialist labor farmer labor and prohibitionist, though the latter lacks a state ticket. Senate lists four candidates republican democrat farmer labor and socialist labor. Governor race shows six candidates and treasurer attorney general and rail road commissioner also hotly contested by party lines. District races feature eleven congressional districts with Republicans fielding in all, Democrats only four, plus one socialist and three former labor candidates. Democrats in district eight present no candidate for that seat. Judicial posts number eight districts with Democrats only one candidate. Iowa Senate has 29 seats. Democrats abandon fifteen districts to Republicans while nominating fourteen candidates. Iowa House has 108 seats. Democrats nominate fifty four as many as Republicans.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Farmer Labor
Prohibitionist
Tient
Socialist Labor Party
Iowa Homecoming Plans Highlight November 12-13
Iowa City October 16. Homecoming events set for November 12 and 13 with a big football game as the centerpiece. Prof. F C Ensign named Homecoming chairman as Minnesota prepares to face the Hawkeyes in the final 1914 season game on Iowa field. A Friday dinner for students and alumni is planned, with details to follow.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
F. C. Ensign
University of Iowa Association
Walter A. Jessup
Minnesota
Ben
Hawkeyes
Gophers
Iowa
Gopher
Williams
Jones
Caesar's Baldness Moves Crown to Conceal Head
The account notes Julius Caesar's obsession with his hair loss. He sought a remedy but found none and wore a crown covering the head, which proved painful to wear.
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Julius Caesar
Caesar
Republican ticket list outlines 1920s state and local offices
The document lists a full party slate headed by Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. It names candidates for governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, railroad commissioner, supreme court judges, congressman, representatives, county officers, and hospital board members across multiple counties with designated towns and counties for each post.
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Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Calvin Coolidge
Massachusetts
Albert B. Cummins
Polk County
N. B. Kendall
Monroe County
John Hammill
Hancock County
Walter C. Ramsey
Wright County
Glenn C. Haynes
Cerro Gordo County
W. J. Burbank
Blackhawk County
Ben J. Gibson
Adams County
Fred P. Woodruff
Marion County
W. F. Kopp
Henry County
C. I. Letts
Highland Township
A. L. Griffith
Washington
Harry McCall
J. D. Glascow
Charles M. Denison
Belle Rice
T. A. Michels
George W. Hay
Board of Supervisors
Old and New Cox Slogans
Washington reports an interview with Ohio Governor Jane M. Cox from July 20, 1916. It notes the slogan He Kept Us Out of War as a Democratic campaign argument and accuses Cox of using misleading phrases. The piece portrays Cox as willing to adopt any catchphrase to win public favor.
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Washington
Jane M. Cox
Ohio
Washington Post
United States
Cos
Harding to the Farmers at the Minnesota State Fair
Senator Harding delivers a calm dignified speech to farmers at the Minnesota State Fair praising his constructive agricultural program and contrasting it with Governor Cox’s political harangue. The Sioux City Journal notes the clear difference in qualifications for the presidency and the focus on national agricultural issues.
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Senator Harding
Minnesota
Harding
Cox
Sioux City
Cox’s false claim on Ohio Guard mobilizations exposed
Ohio Governor Cox’s assertion that he never pressed soldiers into an industrial dispute is challenged by official orders showing two mobilizations of the Ohio National Guard in 1919. George H. Clark presents copies of Special Order No. 52 and Canton headlines proving the guard was mobilized for Akron and Canton, contradicting Cox’s sworn statement.
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Columbus
James M. Cox
Ohio
National Guard
Oho Guard
Akron
Canton
Cox
George HL. Clark
Wheeling
W. Va
Cor
Clark
Adjutant General's Department of the State of
Olio
Benson W. Hough
United States
Liquor League
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E. Main Street
Pany
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Are Martin
Germany
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House
Ple
Paris
Old World
Ottumwa Courier
Taggart
Murphy
Marsh
Wm. Sutherland
Roosevelt
the Tribune
Iowa University
Republican
Supreme Court
Silas M. Weaver
F. F. Faville
Webster County
Lawrence DeGraff
Thomas Arthur
Harrison County
LABOR
William Hoster
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