Republican County Convention Call and Caucus Details
A long notice outlines the Taft era Republican plan for business government cooperation and trade policy. It announces a county convention at the Waterloo courthouse on March 30 1912 to elect delegates to the Third District and State Conventions, with caucuses set for March 18 1900s precincts and delegate allocations per precinct. The document lists local precincts and delegate counts, invites caucus calls, and ends with signatures of M Law Chair and J C Hartman Secretary from Waterloo Iowa.
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Black Hawk County
Iowa
Repubican National Committee
Republican State Central
Republican Congressional Committee
Third
Republican County Central Committee
Waterloo
Said
Cedar Rapids
Barclay
Bennington
Big Creek
Black Hawk
Cedar Falls
East Waterloo
Lester
John W. Sickelamith
Greensboro
Mt. Vernon
Poyner
Spring Creek
Washington
Chamberlain’s
Waterloops
Eidtae
Cedar Falls City
Advertising rates and terms for notices and ads
Advertising rates are announced with a note that prices may change without notice. The section specifies a minimum ad cost of 15 cents and an 8 word ad enables a smaller rate. It invites inquiries via telephone 181 for private exchanges and contract specials.
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Waterloo
The Hold Over Paper The Paper that All Waterloo Reads
The Saturday issue of The Hold Over Paper presents Waterloo readers with a digest of the week’s events. It emphasizes thorough coverage and a readable style, promising a comprehensive weekend read for locals.
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All Waterloo
Marriage and Eugenics Debate in Social Thought
A Sunday advertising copy discusses Charles B. Davenport and Heredity in Relation to Eugenics, contrasting scientific breeding with human marriage. It notes personal beauty, social status, and wealth as rough eugenic factors, argues for broader mate selection through co education, and asserts love remains essential to marriage beyond science.
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Charles B. Davenport
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Davenport
America
England
Iowa Republicans push to unite for Cummins and Taft
A compilation of editorials from Iowa newspapers urging party loyalty and engagement in caucuses to support Senator Cummins and the Republican ticket. They stress turnout, warn against opposition, and critique Wilson’s coalition while noting prairie-state sentiment and potential nominations.
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Iowa
Sioux City Tribune
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Taft
Senator Cummins
Education for Intelligent Mating to Reduce Divorces
The article proposes Experia conducting physical mental and temperamental exams of youths to classify and prepare them for ideal marriages. Eligible individuals would then choose partners aligned with this type, aiming to improve biology and curb divorces through educated mating. The plan envisions fewer unhappy marriages by guiding natural intelligent pairing.
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Experia
Roughnecks and women voters shape future politics
The piece notes Seattle women voters defeating an open town mayoral candidate amid a close margin. It praises women for organizing blocks to push for decent government and argues their method proves the ballot’s value and could spur suffrage progress elsewhere. It also references Taft backing a national board of trade and Nagel’s plan to convene a 1000-strong network of business leaders for a federal charter.
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Seattle
State of Washington
Dreams, borderland thoughts and morning clarity
Ruth Cameron muses on dream impressions, their fleeting brilliance and whether such borderland ideas can be captured for practical use. She considers Coleridge and others, questions if psychology and efficiency studies could crystallize dream insights, and jokes about a forthcoming practical tomorrow.
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Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Dreamland
Rosamond
Ruth
Mistaken Identity and Cemetery Ghost Prank
A collection of brief quotes includes misidentified encounters and a cemetery prank in which Irish friends terrify a man by staging ghostly figures from a grave. The pieces mix humor with a report of a common cold remedy advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
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Foley
H. W. Taggart
Administration Treaty Plans Are Completely Upset
Washington senate approved arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France by a 76 to 3 vote after striking clause 3 about the joint high commission and adopting amendments excluding questions on the Monroe doctrine alien admission education institutions and state indebtedness. The administration’s plan for quick arbitration action is upset as treaties must return to London and Paris.
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Washington, D. C
Great Britain
France
Senate
Joint High Commission
United States
Wolfs by Gift to College Brightens Fayette Drive
Fayette Iowa March reports a thermometer fundraiser for Upper Iowa University debt. Citizens raised 3100 of 55000 and aim to repay by May 1, enabling 40900 gymnasium construction by C G Wolf. Students paraded streets and seized a businessmen’s meeting to announce progress.
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Fayette, Ja
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
C G. Wolf
Parkersburg
Easy Slippers and Awful Exhibition in Old Papers
A collage of comic snippets from period papers includes lines about Easy Slippers as a clever specialty and a jab at a clerk who is a yard worker. It also mentions Eph Hoskins writing hundred-dollar checks in New York, Uncle Eben's bets, Buffon Wray in a box car, and quips about frogeted turnips and government regulation of corporations. The tone is breezy, reflecting early 20th century humor and cross-paper chatter.
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Exra-fie
Elph Hoskins
New York
Eben
Young Eph
Puck
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Republican County Convention
Congress
China
Ananias Club
Stimeon
W. M. Law
J. C. Hartman
Sec
Waterloo Evening Couri Mainhae
C. W. . Bartmann Company
Sag-T-Ty West Park Joos
Fean Mantaiss
Frosidest
Wollier
Mull
Omtende
Courina Tri-Werely Lenday
Europe
Fle
London
Trafalgar Beilding
Cuimberland Avenue
American Haprese
Haymarket
Dawe's Steamship Agency
Green Street
Paris
L Opera
American ExpressBice
Rue Scribe
Berlin
Tater den
Nevsky Prospekt
Spiit
THE
Iowa Press
Des Moines Register and Leader
Roosevelt
Bob
Council Bluffs
Watterson
Teddy
White House
Bob” la Follette
Wilson
Dubuque
Mason City Times
Cummins
the Gazette
Kenyon
Dolover
Charles City Intelligencer
National Board of Trade
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Boards of Trade
Hadies
Taft Vna
Wigttien
Washington Star
Chicago Record-Herald
Pat
Portland Oregonian
Suarante
Lafayette Streets
Waterloo Hardware Co
Sycamore Street
Philadelphia Telegraph
Buffon Wray
Pardner
Chicago Tribune
Sarshim
Leavitt & Johnson Nat'l Bank
Waterloo, Iowa
F.H. Latier
Lafayette Steet and
Fourth Street
Evening Courier
Lafayette Building
4Th St. E
M. Wray
M. D
First National Bank
D. A. Waterbury
Russell-Lamson Block
E. T. Jaynes
Franklin Bt. Bours
Robert G. Dakin
Blue Waterloo
Gerritt J. Bennett
Elmwood and Western
Edgar H. Knittle
Natl Bank
Carl Bickley
Cecil Bickley
West Fourth Street
F. C. Liffring
Lafayette
DR. Bodwell
E. B. Hadley
C. D. Pedersen
Consolidated Bhone
Jefferson Street
A Ee
Ralston
J.T, Burkett
Arco
Tafayetto
Lowa
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