The Republican Problem and International Issues
Senator Cummins discusses a Republican reorganization convention and praises the new president’s independence and sincerity. The piece notes potential 1916 campaign dynamics, Mexican situation critique, cholera loss in Iowa, police actions against street loiterers, and navy secretary Josephus Daniels’ stance. It also mentions a Spokane student’s collapse from overwork, publicity law concerns, European greed, Adriatic port disputes, Iowa wage levels, a firearms ban bill, and Rock Island Railroad plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins
Des Moines
Wilson
Illinois Roads and Iowa Fire and Advertising Issues
An outside opinion condemns Illinois road neglect despite wealth, urging abolition of 4000 road commissions and creation of a state expert panel. A Iowa fire report details losses totaling 4 262 792 with over half from unknown causes, plus a model fire protection ordinance. Also notes advertising bill proposals in Iowa and Minnesota to curb deceptive ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Illinois
Madden
Iowa
Coller's Weekly
Traude
Associated Advertising Eluba
America
Honest boy returns lost roll. rewards noted in Iowa press
A 12 year old, Arthur Yours, of Shamokin Pa, found a roll of bins worth S109 and returned it to George Haines. Haines thanked him and gave a small reward. The item hints at local moral notes as Marshalltown group comments on a thief and a washing machine tied to family duties.
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Dubuque
Marshalltown
Modern Inventions Magazines Shape Minds and Markets
A satirical look at magazines two centuries past and the last twenty years, arguing they advanced breakfast and literature into daily life while funding authors with ads. The piece notes the shift from small ad revenues to lavish page rates, and contrasts literary versus financial magazine success.
Equal rights at the ballot box and social critique voices
A collection of editorial samples from multiple papers cautions on prostitution framed as trafficking akin to historic slave trade, comments on political tickets and leadership, a Webster City note on editorials pay fairness, and a Bath Me. railroaders warning with an advertisement for Foley's Kidney Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon
East
Bath
Foley
Keck-Davis Cigar Store Burglar Finds Note
Centerville Indiana March 13 Jack Keck proprietor of the Keck-Davis cigar store left a note on the cash register telling his clerk where the money was secreted when he went home. A burglar discovered the note and about $20 was taken last night. Keck had gone duck hunting the previous evening and left the note to guide the clerk to the hiding place.
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Centerville
Jack Keck
Keck-Davis Cigar Store
The Evening Chit Chat On Travel Dangers And Fear
Ruth Cameron presents a dialogue on travel safety and fear of hazards. A cast of characters discusses pre travel precautions from hotel elevators to sea life preservers, concluding life is best lived without excessive worry and citing Caesar's line on dying.
Quotations and reflections echo in classroom dialogue
In a schoolroom, Molly and others discuss fate courage and mortality. The Wants-to-be-cynic and the Man-who-thinks debate Caesar and the inevitability of death, citing classic lines about bravery and warnings. Ruth Cameron signs off the fragment.
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Molly
Caesar
Ruth Cameron
Patronage then and now in Washington’s grant system
The Washington Star compares 1885 and today noting fewer visitors to the White House and departments, less crowding in hotel lobbies, and fewer office seeker groups. It argues shifts in national pace, private sector growth, and generous federal pay reduce the lure of government jobs for competent professionals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Washington
White House
Cleveland
Union
Buchanan
Wilson
Nowas
Sam
Uncle Sam
Cascarets Relief Ad Claims Quick Digestive Benefits
No matter how bad your liver stomach or bowels how much your head aches or how uncomfortable you are from constipation indigestion biliousness and sluggish intestines you always get the desired results with Cascarets Clean your stomach liver and bowels tonight and end the headache biliousness dizziness nervousness backache and all
Healthy appetites and prudent candidates attract attention
The passage notes thoughtful constituents seek desirable offices, with many applicants for some posts while past ravenous displays fade. It urges rejoicing in prosperity, competent government service, and cautions against haste for change. An advertisement claims Foley's Kidney Pills aid kidney and bladder issues without habit forming drugs.
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Foley
Mrs Bila Flagg Young Targets Kid Fraternities In Chicago Schools
Collier's reports Chicago's school superintendent Mrs Bila Flagg Young has moved against student fraternities and sororities. She calls them hotbeds of snobbery, un-American and harmful to scholarship, expelling entire groups as part of her reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s
Bila Flagg Young
Chicago
Betsey Trotwood
Cato
Carthage
Danderine Promise as Dandruff Vanishes and Hair Grows
An advertisement proclaims Danderine stops dandruff and hair loss after use. It claims rapid improvement with immediate shine and fullness, promising new, downy hair within weeks and urging readers to buy a 26 cent bottle from any drug store to prove the claim tonight.
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Knowlton
Lovable Student Departs School Amid Social Ostracism
A beloved pupil leaves education after enduring ostracism by self styled moral guardians. The speaker notes the hurt caused by holier than thou attitudes that shun the vulnerable student. The incident highlights the cost of social cruelty on young aspirations.
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Isi
Pris
Courier
Europe
Waresl J
Fle
Fallow
Nee Root
Unter den Linden
St. Petersburg
Nevsky Prospekt
Reassures Enone
Ake
Teaeesel
Mexico
Barclay
Black Hawk County
Josephus Tabiels
Spokane
Austria
House Committee On Commerce and Trade
Rock Island Road Bas
Moline
Waterloo
Ontr
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
Des Moines Register and Leader
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks
Vinton Eagle
Corn Belt
Nature
DR. Pierce
Hileman & Gindt Art Needle
Ihe City
East Fourth Street
Waverly
Geo. Hunt
Bremer Ave
Owa
F. H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Lafayette Building
4Th St. E
Fitzgerald Bros
C. M. Wray, M. D
DR. I
Bazard
Black Hawk Bank
E. T. Jaynes
M. D
Buide
Black Hawk
Franklin
C. D. Pedersen
Consolidated
Jefferson Street
Carl Bickley
Cecil Bickley
DR. F
Ofice
Lafayette Bldg
DE. Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Elmwood and
Western
D. Smith
Nat'l Bank
Town
I. W. Bouldin, M. D
East Fourth St
Crystal Theatre
Lamson Building
DR. Bodwell
Qeteopathic
Sun Floor Syndicate
Miss Hazel Fiddick
Vhone
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