Seats in Senate Most Expensive Seats in History
Nearly half a million dollars was spent by senatorial candidates in the first popular U S Senate elections. Total spending sworn with the secretary of the senate reached 460 777 dollars across 31 states with Democrats leading at 242 895 dollars and Republicans at 156 884 dollars. The article lists expenditures by state, noting Georgia saw the largest outlay and North Carolina the smallest among reported totals.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Senate
Georgia
North Carolina
Overman
William Henley
Progresaive
Oregon
BH. L. Hitchens
Ohio
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Idaho
Tillmuls
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Marland
Missouri
Nevada
New Hampshire
New York
North Dakota
Ahtan
Oklahoma
Aeees
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
Republicans Fight to Oust Assistant Postmasters in House
Washington reports the House resisted efforts by Rep Towner and others to remove Republican assistant postmasters from civil service despite objections. The post office bill proposes new offices like superintendent of mails, delivery chiefs, risking GOP aides losing jobs. Towner urged filling new posts with assistant postmasters, but the chair ruled the amendment out of order. debate split party lines. If Senate approves changes, Republican assistants may lose positions. CARD OF THANKS TO NEIGHBORS.
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Washington, D. C
Towner
Post Office
Judges Towner
Hut
Senate
House
Absent voting law could transform Iowa elections
Iowa lawmakers eye a new absent voters plan to help travelers and students vote at the nearest polling place. C R Rohda of Waterloo estimates 8,000 to 10,000 traveling men miss ballots in towns alone. Several states have adopted the system, allowing a voter away from home to cast a special ballot at a local polling place and have it counted where they reside.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Baily of
Iowa
Columbus
C. R. Rohda
Waterloo
Congress of
Minnesota
Wyoming
Kansas
North Dakota
Missouri
Illinois
Wisconsin
Ohio
Nebraska
Massachusetts
South Dakota
Last Chance for Courier Dictionary Offer
Tomorrow is the final day to obtain the Courier dictionary through a certificate offer. Books cost four dollars elsewhere after closing, and readers are urged to clip one certificate now to receive the bonus and the dictionary before the deal ends.
Horton News Wrap: Doorman Danlows Family and New Revival
Horton Iowa winter notes report F R Boyd accompanied his mother to Rochester last Sunday. The youngest child of Mr and Mrs John Donlan is dangerously ill. Harry Swinton moved to the Granger farm. formerly lived near Nashua. Verna Carpenter thanks friends for gifts incl a purse of fifteen dollars. A New Year’s Eve church watch meeting will start a revival series led by the pastor, urging youth to attend.
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Horton
F. R. Boyd
Rochester
John Donlan
Harry Swinton
Readlyn Briefs Show Local Moves and Visits
Readlyn on December 21 reports Ernest Haggemann departed Sunday for Ames Iowa to be away about a week. Mr and Mrs John Werger traveled from Oelwein to assist with Rudy who has fever. Miss Agnes Gregg of Lyle Minnesota visits her aunt Mrs Mayers this week. Tara Kormann spent Christmas vacation with her sister at Kenyon Minnesota.
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Readlyn
Ernest Haggemann
Ames
John Werger
Oelwein
Ware
Rudy
Misa Agnes Gregg
Lyle, Minn
Mayers
Tara Kormann
Kenyon, Ming
Farm produce records set as 1914 totals near ten billion
Washington announces 1914 farm values total nearly 9.873 billion dollars, beating 1913 and 1899 records. Crops valued at 4.044 billion, animal products and livestock at 3.828 billion, cotton and wheat notes, and per acre value averaged 16.44 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Governor Blease Frees 55 More From Prison
Columbia S C January 1 Fifty five New Year pardons paroles and commutations granted by Governor Blease cut the state prison population to 249. The move brings his four year clemency total to 144 with sixteen pardons twenty four paroles and fifteen commutations. Twenty eight of the released are serving homicide terms and the governor signed the grants so they could be home for New Year.
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Columbia
Blease
Fifty Years Ago Wednesday January 4 1805 Lincoln call for 300000 volunteers
Fifty years ago on Wednesday January 4 1805 the newspaper notes President Lincoln issued a call for 300000 volunteers for one to three years. It recalls Sherman occupying Savannah, Union prisoner captures, and local draft meetings led by Provost Marshal W H Curtis. It mentions county bounty of 400 for volunteers and drafted men.
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Abraham Lincoln
Sherman
Savannah
Board of Supervisors
Forty Years Ago Weather, Weddings, and Trials
Forty years ago on Wednesday December 30 1874 the town reflects on a bitter cold snap with temperatures eighteen below zero and a rapid 22 degree fall in four hours. Local names Jacob Riehl A R King George Bloeser John Trainor Luther Brown appear along with notes of sleigh riding and a Beecher Tilton legal matter. Ben E Eberhart and Miss Clara B Stebbins wed at La Porte City December 22. Trial jurors for January term listed include Burnham Hudson Blim Huntington and many more. George W Miller receives a life size portrait from his wife on Christmas morning, a surprising gift.
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J. c. Burnham
Frederick Hudson
Martin Blim
Henry Huntington
W. W. Forty
John Palmer
Twenty Years Ago News Highlights and Obituaries
Twenty years back notes cover Mrs. Parsons death on her way to choir, Paul Davis nearby, and Parsons family link to First Baptist choir. Also 1885- era elections see George B. Rowell as president of the Traveling and Business Men’s association, with Abdill, Weld, and French in officer roles. Weather lore recalls 1854 as a record warm year with Christmas in shirt sleeves. A fire destroys Gilbertville’s old Catholic parochial school. Justice Miller suffers bronchitis. Local marriages include L. Wilson and H. Scheme on Christmas, and C. W. Bruner and Mary Hathaway wed in Waterloo. West Waterloo petitions council for Dry Run relief. Illinois Coal ad ends.
Suffrage in 1915 by Dr Anna Howard Shaw
Dr Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, previews a year of suffrage campaigns across New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Montana and Nevada are cited as newly won states, boosting national suffrage reach. campaigns aim to educate voters and shift suffrage from expediency to a political issue, with broader work ahead in 1915.
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Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Montana
Nevada
United States
West
Congress
Missed by Illinois champion speller William Greenwalt
William Greenwalt, 16, Illinois champion speller from Jasper County, faltered on four of 330 words in a state contest. The article lists misspellings and correct forms such as indigo, legerdemain, witch, and sleight.
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Springfield
Ill
William Greenwalt
Illinois
Speller
Jasper County
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Blakeville
Cedar Valley P. O
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Hudson
Joel M. Lichty
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Byron A. Knowles
Mission Ridge
Belle Island
Andersonville
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Jacob Riehl
A. R. King
George Bloeser
John Trainor
and Luther Brown
Beecher
Tilton
J. FP
Toy
Storm Lake
Wash Brubacher
Ben E. Eberhart
Clara B. Stebbins
G. A. Eberhart
George W. Miller
Parsons
Paul Davis
Ira
First Baptist Church
Order of Eastern Scar
J. Garrabrant
George B. Rowell
Traveling and Business Men's Association
Logan House
Hoff
Ie L. Wilson and
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W. A. Wilson
Benjington Township
C. W. Bruner
Toledo
West Waterloo
Blim Coal Co
Malelatta
Alles EC
Horlich
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the Commercial National Bank
Bluing
Ilinois
C. M. Berkley
Hardware Co
Stolt Shire
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