Bennie Finds Grandmother After Helping an Old Lady
A newsboy Bennie, orphans with no known parents, helps an icy stranger and earns a home and schooling. The elderly woman offers warmth, baths, and a family, and Bennie embraces the chance to live with her as grandmother, attending school and learning to read and write. The tale ends with Bennie proudly calling her grandmother and visiting the market with her. Tomorrow's story about Animals and the Mirror. The Best Cough Medicine is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, praised in a Marbury Alabama testimonial.
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Bennie
Dickens
Ben
Hennie
Bonnie
McClure
the Animals and the Mirror
Sightless Pigs Fever City Meeting Sparks Temperance Debate
W R Jameson led a Sunday afternoon gathering of about seventy five men at the Y M C A urging questions on police raids of blind pig dens and noting officials may be ahead of officers in enforcing sobriety. Local pastors and business leaders praised the drive to ban saloons and improve Waterloo’s moral climate.
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W. R. Jameson
Business Men’s Temperance Association
Jameson
Temperance Association
John S. Tuthil
L. B. Hicks
I. W. Bess
Bee Bogardus
Etta Plunkett
Eula Archer
Gwenda Green
A. M. E. Church
Waterloo
G. R. Parker
Union Congregational Church
F. Willis Jenks
Charles Jenkins
Chicago
Ed Kistner
Jenkins
Tuttle
Mr. Jenkins
Andy
B. BR. Hix
Phonouth Congregational Church
Temperance meeting closes with song and prayer
A meeting ended after organizers urged a collection and solicitation of stock in the Temperance association. Four young ladies led another song and a closing prayer.
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Ing Paragraph
Temperance Association
Fort Madison prisoners sent to do odd jobs praised by board
Fort Madison citizens petitioned the state board of control to end prisoners’ odd job work in the city. The board said sending prisoners to homes has a strong reforming effect and favors paying them the same wages as free laborers.
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Des Moines
Fort Madison
State Board of Control
Wages Rise in Panama Canal Zone Jobs
Colonel Goethals moved to set a wage scale 25 percent higher than U S pay for similar work after President Wilson signed the executive order. The permanent canal organizations will employ a large force with estimated annual expenses of 3 5 million dollars, subject to possible reductions.
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Panama
Goethals
Wilson
United States
Senators Cummins and Towner Push Bill on Railroad Liability
In Washington on Feb 9 lawmakers introduced bills to curb railroad contract limits on liability for livestock losses. The measure would end fixed valuations that cap recovery and affects stock shippers, noting Iowa's treatment in valuation practices.
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Washington, D. C
Cummins
Towner
Iowa
Rate dispute over horse shipment values up for recovery
A Benton Indiana shipper sought a carload rate using horses value but faced a prohibitive $763 rate suggested by a Des Moines freight agent. The bills by Senator Cummins and Judge Towner propose recovery on the basis of actual value, replacing the scheme that caps at $100 or $160 in finals.
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Finais
Benton
Des Moines
Cummins
Towner
Teacher Arrests Scholar in Boone Smoke Case
Boone Iowa February 9 Supt E G Meredith of the Boone schools saw a high school boy smoking a cigarette on a street corner after school Thursday evening and took him to a justice court. The boy was fined 2.50 dollars plus costs marking the first such arrest in the city.
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Boone, Ia
E. G
Meredith
Boone
Justice of the Peace
Wives Sues Retailers Over Liquor Sale to Husband
Des Moines Iowa Feb 9 Mrs Carrie M Hundredmark sues two druggists and a saloonist for 500 each alleging they sold intoxicating liquor to her husband Harry Hundredmark. The suit seeks damages for alleged improper sales and loss.
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Des Moines
Carrie M. Hundredmark
Harry Hundredmark
Voting Places Scale in Chicago This Year
The defendants in the action are Sol Grund and Richards Drug company pharmacists and Martin Dinuzzo proprietor of a saloon. Chicago will have this year 1 382 voting places because of expected large rate of women.
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Sol Grund and Richards Drug Company
Martin Dinuzzo
Chicago
Ad Blasts Eugenics Shift and Lydia E Pinkham Advice
A vintage advertisement laments a modern trend away from traditional motherhood while touting Eugenics and praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female ailments. It frames maternal health as essential to national vitality and praises compliant wives and healthy children as outcomes.
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Happy
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Marbury
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Heart Songs
Waterloo Evening Courier
Joe Mitchell Chapple
MQ. A
Almon F. Gates
Waterloo Business College
EH. L. Hostetter
China
J. R. Vaughan
A. R. Ferguson
A.W. Chamberlain
J. M. Wilson
Uged
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Shredded Wheat Company
Niagara Falls, N.Y
Evening Courier
Western Union
Vail
Daseeraaite
Neston Lion
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fpoundler Co. Wholesale Grocers
Towa
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