Agitators and Outlaws in Massachusetts Labor Case
Readers are urged to view the Massachusetts imprisonment of Ettor and Giovanitti as a constitutional rights issue. The piece condemns authorities for detaining defendants eight months without bail and frames the case as an attack on civil liberties by officials and judges misusing power. It contrasts reformers defending the constitution with anti freedom actions by the bench and public office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Ettor
Giovannitti
Republic
Carl Franke and Kenyon in Senate Contest Rumor
The piece notes Carl Franke's presumed bid against Kenyon for the senate seat and surveys Iowa progressives and voters. It cites Governor Johnson challenging Rooseveltism in New York, predicts a bonfire of straw votes on election day, and comments on labor relations, crops, and public sentiment. It ends with a cheery note about avoiding another blue Monday for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Franke
Kenyon
Senate
Iowa
Spirit of the Iowa Press Fragments on Education and Politics
A clippings-style roundup from multiple Iowa papers notes President Bowman suspending students over social excesses and questions about university purpose. Other items critique campaign funding, editorial focus ahead of elections, and state senate elections with reference to Kenyon and Cummins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowman
Cedar Rapids
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Kenyon
Cummins
Mrs Brogan Endorses Chamberlains Cough Remedy
A Wilson Pennsylvania resident Mrs PL MW Brogan speaks from experience praising Chamberlains Cough Remedy as superior for croup and coughs. The dealer Levert isomonty stocks the product and distributes it locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PL MW. Brogan
Wilson
Chamberlain
Croup
Levert Isomonty
Why Be a Progressive Why Follow a Leader in Washington
An essay argues the Progressive cause, contending the world moves forward and civilization advances through reform. It rejects old party standpatism, asserts Theodore Roosevelt as a leader, and urges readers to join a third party for real progress beyond bygone idols. The piece frames the era as a new American independence struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ephraim
Progressive Party
Party of Civilization
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Bacon
Shakespeare
Rocky Mountains
America
Colonel Bryan
John Maynard Harlan
J. Adam Bede
White House
Washington
Woman suffrage shapes California politics and society
In this editorial styled piece from Pasadena, Sarah Ware Whitney argues that woman suffrage has transformed California women from spectators to peers at political tables. She notes women’s roles at Roosevelt and Bryan events, the state supreme court ruling on party tickets, and efforts to mobilize female voters to influence the presidential electoral college, while acknowledging varied activist strands among women voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier
California
Taft
United States
Roosevelt
Bryan
Pasadena
Los Angeles
Roosevelt Party
Supreme Court of
W. CT. U
Rockties
The baby doll lady poses as youth in town chatter
Ruth Cameron writes of a woman known as the baby doll lady who dresses in very short gingham dresses and acts childlike. The narrator admires staying young at heart yet dislikes the pose as insincere, noting her gleeful laughter and staged behavior while warning against living to please others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beecause
Ruth Cameron
Poseur warning and wholesome tips in a small town column
A social column warns against posing for attention noting a baby doll lady as the town joke while praising a clever, pretty girl for avoiding performance. It adds a test about self awareness, then shifts to health advice for children citing Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and concludes with an ad for farmers auction sale notices by Courier advertisers.
Easy slippers and boasting crooks in a comic squib
A humorous item mocks star criminals who brag about their exploits. The Baltimore American quips about safe burglars and their bluster, then shifts to a domestic gag as a distraught wife laments a cat eating angel cake, with her husband offering a reassuring response.
Humorous Quips and Verse Fragments Across 19th Century Press
A collage of witty exchanges and light verse from sources like Browning's Magazine, the Washington Star, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Judge's Library, and Louisville Courier-Journal. It features satirical lines on graft, marriage proposals, education, and chivalry, reflecting newspaper humor of the era.
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Faterloo Evening Courier
Associated Frees
Hartman
Mihi
GO Hammar
W. Petzason
Jeo Y Toras
Gen
Mgr
York
Tibune
Alfred B. Ne
Chicago
Isuz
Euvrop
Europe
Waterlow
Trafalgar Building
North Swaberland Avenue
American Express
Haymarket
Dawe's Steamship Agency
Ay Street
Petre—ic Boulevard Des Capacines
Corner Place
Se Oper
Rin
Unter den
Howe
Mabray
Des Moines
Col
Clapp Investigatiog Committee
Clapp
Johnson
New York City
Labor
William Lorimer
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
Sioux City Tribune
Clapp Committee
Dubuque
Des Moines Tribune
Evening Tribune
Des Moines Register
Laader
Les
Marshalltown Times
Es Moines
Emerson Hough
Sarah Ware Whitney
Cal
Hood
Calumet
Illinois
France
W. H. Hartman
Waterloo Evening Courier
Park Avenue West
George
Browning’s Magazine
Hyer Rupp
Washington Star
George Dinglebat
Laura
Leveland Plain Dealer
Freddy
Judge's Library
Louisville Courier-Journal
Castoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
F.H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Evening Courier
Lafayette Building
4Th St. E
M. Wray
M. D
First Nati Bank
Dr. C. A. Waterbury
Ussell- Lamson Block
E. T. Jaynes
Black Hawk
Franklin St
C. D. Pedersen
Consolidated
Jefferson Street
Robert G. Dakin
Blue Waterloo
Edgar H. Knittle
Natl
Bank
Carl Bickley
Cecil Bickley
West Fourth Street
J. C. Mortonson
Black Hawk National Bank
West Eleventh Street
Black
Waterloo DR. FB
Liffring Osteopathic
Lafayette
Waterloo
DR. Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Elmwood and
Western
DR. Bodwell
Ralston, Urgeecy
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