Waterloo West Side School Levy Debate Heats Up
The Courier urges Waterloo residents on the west side to vote Monday on whether to fund a new school building. It notes growing city population and school attendance, argues temporary fixes fail, and warns that proper facilities attract new residents. It emphasizes the district’s need for room and improved equipment to sustain efficient education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
West Side
Peonte
The
Courier
Crossing problem and police flagmen at grade crossings
City clerks report gates at grade crossings fail to satisfy safety needs. Waterloo shows laymen workers lack efficiency after a death. Elevated or tunneled tracks are impractical, leaving uniformed police at crossings as the immediate solution. Police flagmen offered as a short term safety measure.
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Waterloo
Henry Austin
Dividend News and Political Revelations Stir Public Debate
An article notes Pittsburg and Lake Erie's extra 26 percent dividend and $4.2 million stock issue, while railroads face I C C scrutiny. It cites Rockefeller Institute progress on infantile paralysis and praises professors turning into political leaders including Wilson Merriam and Hanna. It laments Lorimer and Sherman factions, urges vindication of John Cownie and mocks standpatters with phrases like Deemer or die and Kenyon or kroak.
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Interstate J Commerce Commission
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Company
Spirit of the Iowa Press Summary of Editorial Views
A digest of Iowa editorials on political dynamics across newspapers. Topics include the Oregon plan’s fate for a Democratic senator, criticisms of Republican papers, faction splits among leaders, Taft second term challenges, and Sunday postal work debates stressing workers’ rest and family time.
Taft Finds Leadership Must Fall to President Alone
Davenport Times states that President Taft, dismayed by his party’s failure to push a legislative program, has learned that in a republic without a prime minister leadership cannot lie with the speaker, a committee chair, or party coteries. The president must assume it himself.
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Marshalltown
Taft
Old Guard
Davenport
House
Senate
Bargain mania echoes from a Boston area tale
The piece recalls a wealthy elderly woman near Boston who hoarded bargains for twenty years, filling her house with clothing, bric a brac, and countless discounted items. The narrator argues that many women share this impulse, confusing marked down prices with genuine need, and warns readers to plan wardrobes and resist shallow bargains.
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Boston
Wesleyanism and the Protestant reshaping of faith and mission
A dense discussion traces Wesleyanism as energizing Protestant faith alongside Calvinism, arguing Wesleyan free agency complements foreordination. It praises John Wesley’s reform of church structure, the circuit rider's legacy, and the First Methodist Episcopal church of Waterloo as a catalyst for future achievements despite delays in dedicating its new building.
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Blahep Quayie
Shakespeare
King Lear
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesleyaniam
John Weasley
John Calvin
Martin Luther
England
John Wesley
God
United States of America
Congregational Church
Methodist Church
Calviniam
Calvinium
Thomas C. Hall
Wesley
Francis Asbury
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Waterloo
Plea for Small Corporations Urges Cooperative Power Growth
Georgia headline notes George Westinghouse at the Southern Commercial congress in Atlanta argues for reforms to corporate control, urging nationwide electricity development from Appalachian water power. He calls for enforced collaboration, sensible regulation, and protection for consumers against high rates while enabling small firms to operate across state lines.
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Atlanta
George Westinghouse
Southern Commercial Congress
South
Appalachian
Federal incorporation and railroad health warning items
A historical discussion notes that large corporations may use subsidiary structures to satisfy state laws, with advocacy for a federal incorporation act to regulate interstate business. A separate item features a railroad health warning from Fort Wayne, Indiana, citing Gov E Bell’s remark on kidney and bladder issues from years of railroading and endorsing Foley Kidney Pills with reported patient improvement.
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Gav. E. Bell
Third St
Fort Wayne
Ind
J. K. Jodern & Son
The School Treasurer
The piece argues against abolishing the school treasurer at this session, noting past resistance amid calls to reform school elections. It highlights the large school fund, roughly 5,000,000, and urges that money be handled by the county treasurer to improve deposits and interest, rather than paying scattered treasurers’ salaries.
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Des Moines Register
King Bee
Cau
Marriage Rules in Scotland and Public Funds Swap
Hold five million dollars of public money at a private swap to accommodate bankers conflicts with community intelligence. Marriage in Scotland allows boys over fourteen and girls over twelve to wed without parental consent, reflecting drastic reform in marital law.
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Scotland
Imagined Republican Ticket Proposed for Presidency
The text outlines a fictional 1900s style Republican ticket with James Schoolcraft Sherman for president and William Lorimer for vice president. It names cabinet picks and rhetorical praise for the party’s revival, voicing pride in a return to Republican prestige and suggesting a broad reformist slate under Sherman.
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Chicago Tribune
Tlinois
Congress
Sunny Jin
James Schoolcraft Sherman
William Lorimer
Sherman
Lee O'Neil Browne
Edward J. Hines
Weyerhaeuser
Old Guard
Republican Party
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Weee Park Ave
Joan C. Bartman
A. W. Peterson
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Tribe
Alfred B. Lukenr
Chicago
Tribune
Iw. Allen
Menegee
So Daily Courier
Europe
Interioo
Lerdon—Foom
Travasser
Northeum
Pace
Boe Feribe
Sertin
Unter den
Rockefeller Institute
Rockefeller
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Charles E. Merriam
Chicago University
Hanna
Des Moines
Lorimer Men
Fnols
Vindication League
James Sherman
United States
Lorimer Gang
House of Representatives
John Cownie
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
Colliver
Oregon
Sioux City Tribune
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
David
Brant
Lafe Young
Kenson
Dubuque
Amon
Eve
O. Stevenson
Westinghouse
Feder
AL Incorporation
Om Royal
Isabel
C. A. Waterbury
Russell-Lamson Block
E. T. Jaynes
Swité
Bisck Hawk Bank
Robert G. Dakin
M. I
East Fourth Street
Lows
T. A. McManus, M. D
Commercial Bank Building
Jerger
Offige
Automobile
Deck & Stewart Auto Tire CO
East Fifth Street
Saints
Ania
Scott
Black Hawk National Bank
Comercial
Fourth Streets
REA Estate
Lawes
Chas. R. Gates
Lee
Wee Eel
Waterloo Land Co
Bridge &T
Galloway Gibson Inv. Co
Iwwa Mausoleum
S. Telesbons
Williams’ Quality Leger Shop
Fourth Street
Bits
J. E. Williams
W. B. McMurray
A Gee
A. G. Reid
Os Peewee
Pike & Knapp
Rooma
Central Iowa Granite Company
Telephone
R. D. Tiffany
Consolidated Service
Black Hawk Bank
C. R. Hoxie
Consolidated Iowa
2. & Scott
Ida M. Scott
Commercial Bank
E. A. Hunt
Ben C. Everall
Marsh-Place
DR. F. C. Liffring Osteopathic Physical
Lafayette
Bodwell
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