Wall Street's Decline and Mulhall Squeal Explored
The piece surveys Col Mulhall's motive for exposing a powerful US business network and notes rival theories of personal gain or vengeance. It then traces a sharp Wall Street retreat from boom years, citing lower seat prices, fewer million-share days, and rising investment alternatives. It concludes with a divorce filing by a Ames farmer's wife after a long May-October bathing pattern.
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Mulhall
Colonel Mulhall
Col. Mulhall
United States
Manufacturers’ Association
New York World
Press Publishing Company
Chicago Tribune
Ten
Iibly
Washington
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Tear Ames
Death at Gettysburg fifty years after clash
The Gettysburg reunion in ox reveals a surgeon general noting only four deaths since arrival among the aged veterans. He muses that dying on that consecrated field fifty years after the war offers benediction and a peaceful end surrounded by old comrades and foes.
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Gettysburg
Reuvuion
Aince
Tate
Lfe
Jim
Leaders of Yesterday and Getty Faces Stitch Iowa Pride
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune comments that Woodrow Wilson holds Democratic congressmen to his terms, a critique of party leaders. Marshalltown Times-Republican recalls Gettysburg veterans facing sun and slopes, noting enduring dangers for old soldiers. Davenport Times exhorts glory of Iowa, stressing no state representatives are named among honored names.
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Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Woodrow Wilson
Marshalltown
Getty
Davenport
Iowa
Muifal
Hawkeye
Ja Naim
Extravagance and the American economy
A critique of excessive spending in modern America contrasts past excess with present habits. The piece argues extravagance now includes costly luxury purchases and oversized public works, urging top-down economizing before financial distress spreads. It cites large government buildings, rail investments, and municipal bonds as examples fueling wasteful spending.
Forty Years Ago in The Courier July 2 1878
A Waterloo society round up describes Mrs J H porne litt hosting a large party with 200 guests, band music, luminated mansion, and rich toilettes. It notes Fourth of July plans led by William M Carpenter with county grange vice presidents. Also mentions Uncle Jim Rownd, property updates, officials traveling to San Francisco, and Mayor Lichty’s health proclamation.
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J. H. Pornelitt
Senator Leavitt
Cedar Falls Arrests For False Pretenses In 1803
Twenty years ago on July 1 1803 M and C J Fields of Cedar Falls were arrested by Sheriff Hoxie and brought to the city on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. Bonds set at 1500 secured for preliminary examination before Justice Mosher.
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C. J. Fields
Cedar Falls
Hoxie
Fields Bros
Mosher
Weather and social rank in old news notes
The piece reflects on heat eroding social rigidity and fashion, noting that hot weather loosens caste norms and makes snobbery harder. It cites Cedar Haplds Gazette and Laurens Sun fragments about attire, comfort, and a return to simpler tools like an old grain cradle seen in Strickland's blacksmith shop, hinting at nostalgia for past farming methods.
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Cedar Haplds Gazette
Laurens Sun
Strickland
Mouse Trap Quotation Controversy Attributed to Emerson
Sioux City Tribune notes a long disputed “mouse trap” quotation once linked to Emerson. The piece cites teachers ministers and writers who used the quote, expresses chagrin at the correction, and mentions a liberal reward offer for the true author identification.
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Sioux City
Emerson
Mystery over who authored famous Emerson quote
A short quotation about bettering a craft led readers to a trail of attributions. West Publishing traced the line to Mrs. Sarah S. B. Yule, who published Borrowings in 1889 crediting Emerson and suggesting she copied it into her notebook.
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Emerson
West Publishing Company
Sarah S. B. Yule
Mother's Friend Aids Safe Childbirth According to Ads
An advertisement promotes Mother's Friend as a remedy easing childbirth pains and nausea. It claims the external application relaxes abdominal muscles for easier labor and reduces distress, touting its popularity among thousands of women and urging readers to buy at druggists or write to the Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta.
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Cupid
Ec Jally
Bradfield Regulator Co
Lamar
Alloe
Valparen
Atlanta
Emerson Note Confirms Authorship Of Noted Quotation
A newly reconstituted excerpt from Emerson manuscripts and Mrs. Yule testimony place Emerson as the author of a familiar saying about a broad beaten road to a craftsman's house. The note, once doubted, is linked to his lectures and revised in an address from the original source.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Easy Slippers and Other Amusing Snippets
A collage of quips from American and British sources. Jokes cover money, real estate profits, a missionary tale, a cannibal chief, and a Britons versus Americans note with a playful tone. Ends with a travel anecdote about a fine collie dog.
Scottish Shepherd Sells Collie as Yankee Bets Too High
In a village scene a Scot refuses to part with his collie Jock while a Yankee offers high for the dog. An English tourist later buys the dog for less, sparking exchange about value. The article also notes agriculture, Nesbit’s July August hours, and a local classified ad plug.
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Jock
American commission splits into five groups
Paris July 2 Members of the American commission on agricultural organization cooperation and rural credits have organized into two groups which will visit eighteen districts of France to study various farming methods. Most agree on certain practices and aims.
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Paris
Tvo
France
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Baar
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Agescy
Paris Boulevard
Americas
Lzpeene Oils
Berfin
Coter den Banien
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Portioe
Portage Pee Pel Ann
4Th Street
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Lafayette Street
F. A. Latier
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
America
Urael
The
Courier
Black Hawk County
Uncle Jim” Rownd
Uncle Jim
Waterloo
William M. Car
D. H. Hollenbeck
J. Tennyson
H. B. Hoxie
MM. Farrington
Marshal
BE. G. Miller
H. J. McCord
I. M. Hay
Hayig
H. B. Allen
George F Ward
San Francisco
Lewis Lichty
Enterprise
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F. J. Eightey
Epworth League
M. C. Brown
Naperville, Ill
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Mr. Brown
Otho Ferris
A. N. Ferris
C. J. Miller
Orange Township
A.C. Page
D. 8. Wright
Normal School
Ilii« Hols
Chicago
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Detroit Free Press
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Riisnes Stee Ee
Basie
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New
Bears
Castoria
Dr. Nesbit
Ewe
MO Ag Flour
Waverly
MR. Geo. Hunt
Bremer Ave
F. H. Latier
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Lafayette Building
4Th St. E
C. M. Wray
M. D
Natl Bank Bldg
DR. I
Bazard
Black Hawk Bank
D. A. Waterbury
Russell-Lamson Block
E. T. Jaynes
Black Hawk
Franklin St
Fhones
Carl Bickley
Cecil Bickley
West Fourth Street
F. C. Liffring
Lafayette Bldg
Te.nt
Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Emwood and Western
T. A. McManus
Commercial Bank
the Ralston
Lamson Building
DR. Bodwell
Osteopathic
Jas. L. Henderson
Bridge St
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