TERSOO Evening Courier overview and editorial notes
The page compiles newspaper staff credits, editorial content on state game warden selection, child labor laws, and civic notes. It includes discussion of Iowa game regulation needs, potential warden candidates, and calls for modernized laws alongside broader public notices about local developments such as a new Waterloo hotel proposal and suffrage activities.
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Tersoo Evening Courier
Associated Presa
Hartman Company
Sepuuy West Park Avenue
van C. Hartman
Im W. Pterson
Bec'y Treas
Gen. Mgr
New York
Tribune
Alfred B. Lukens
Chicago
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ALW
Allen
Evening Courier
Trail
St Waterloo
Waterloo
Brasch
Europe
Protetico Evening Courier
Pendon
Trafalgar Building
Northumberland Avenue
Austrican Express
Haymarket
Dawe's Steamship Agency
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Paris
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Carcet
American Express
Scribe
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Gt. Petersburg
Nevsky Prospekt Foreign Postagh
Mirror shock reform tale and Iowa child labor push
A Chicago judge orders a bailiff to show a suspect his own mirror visage to deter drunkenness and urges viewing yourself as others see you. The National Child Labor Committee campaigns for Iowa and national reforms including an eight hour day for under 16 and no employment for messengers under 21 after 2 p.m.
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Chicago
National Child Later Committee
New York
Tawa
Towa
Omo
American Bar Association
No Easy Sailing for Shankland Bill in Iowa Capital
Davenport Times notes the Shankland bill faces stiff road in Des Moines as legislators from urban counties head to the capital. Webster City Freeman-Tribune jokes Frank Gotch’s retirement rumor. he’ll likely stay active until knocked out.
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Davenport
Iowa
Webster City
Freeman
Tribune
Frank Gotch
Frank
Hope as a Driving Force Behind Life and Society
The passage extols hope as essential and pervasive, fueling perseverance in business, politics, love, invention, and daily toil. It notes both its constructive powers and its potential to tempt risk, sustain schemes, and delay consequences, concluding with a buoyant cheer for hope.
Road bond story shows clean, cash saving method
The Sedalia road district rebuilt fifty-two miles of rock roads at an average $3,600 per mile funded by a $200,000 bond issue. Inspections are farmer-led, contracts by the cubic yard, with no graft seen. Completion aimed for Aug 1 next year and debt retirement within a decade.
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Rock Roads
Sedalia
Boosters’ Club
Rock Road
Curtis Hill
Telford
Road Construction Costs Spark Political Debate in Sedalia
A Sedalia dispatch reports Pettis county building a mile of rock road for 31183, prompting letters from readers asking how permanent roads were built so cheaply. Respondents say politics are kept out of road building. in nearby Jackson county a half million dollars funded eight miles of rock road last year.
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Kansas City Star
Sedalia
Rock Road
Pettis County
Boosters’ Club
Jackson County
New Rock Road
Railway heads predict good year for 1913
Chicago dispatch reports that four railway presidents forecast a favorable year ahead for the industry and the nation. In a symposium from the Railway Age Gazette the executives cite normal crop conditions, economic stability, and safety measures as key factors shaping the outlook for 1913.
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Chicago
Railway Age Gazette
Friscoines
Tetteg Kruttschnitt
Mainte Hanes
Caw
Southern Pacific
Congress
Ll. UL Mudge
Rock Island Lines
Iowa Birthday Marked By Two Constitutional Trials
Des Moines Register and Leader notes Iowa’s birthday as Congress admitted the state sixty-six years ago. It recounts two constitutional conventions 1844 and 1846, the vote counts for and against, Ansel Briggs’ 1846 victory, and the state’s early population milestone near 1850.
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Des Moines Register and
Iowa
Congress
Iowa Territory
Hose
Ansel Briggs
Iowa Voting Milestones Through 1900
The excerpt notes past Iowa election turnout with key figures and governors. It cites Samuel Kirkwood as a Republican winning in 1859 and 1875, Baren R. Sherman in 1880s, Horace Bolles in 1891, and peak totals around 530 355 votes in 1900. It also remarks on potential 600 000 voters if growth continued.
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Samuel Kirkwood
Kirkwood
Baren R. Sherman
Horace Boles
Iowa
Mexicans Begin Leaving Country
Mexico City reports thirty thousand Mexicans migrated to the United States last year. Press commentary splits between warnings of false promises by northern employers and views that ongoing revolutions left workers with no jobs except conflict. Some observers see possible economic benefits from reduced unrest.
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Mexico City
United States
Whaling Ship Gayhead Returns From North With Oil
The whaling bark Gayhead under Captain Wing returned to port from a seven month blubber expedition in the north with 350 barrels of sperm oil from eight whales. They report observing a volcanic eruption at Katmai last June from 200 miles away and 160 miles off shore, noting plentiful whales and visible sea birds and fish.
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Gayhead
Captain Wing
San Francisco
Katmai
Whale Was Cut From School and Explosions Veer Toward Gayhead
The Gayhead vessel reported a whale cut from a school near the bark then blubber being processed when a muf fled explosion shook the sea followed by six additional blasts. A black cloud and fiery yellow column appeared on the horizon as volcanic dust blotted the sky and sank life from the area for 48 hours. Captain Wing, with Arctic experience, said the event was volcanic in origin and disrupted their cruise for the night and into the following days. It was over a month before details reached the crew.
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Captain Wing
Arctic
Wing
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