Leavitt Argues For the Golle… Falls Teachers College Stand
Roger Leavitt defends Cedar Falls State Teachers College as the Iowa action to cut the last two years of study at the college faces opposition. He cites Seerley, Van Hise, and international experts praising Cedar Falls and warns that removing senior year work would ruin the school and drive away students and talent. He urges approval of a rural teacher training model and preservation of the college.
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Cedar Falls
Roger Leavitt
Jews State Board of Education
Teachers’ College
Ames
Bowman
United States
Pearson
Seer- Jey
Seerley
State University
Iowa
van Hise
Wisconsin
Towa
Wisconsin Normal Schools
Cedar Fails
Fresidert Seerley
Derah Albion W. Small
Graduate School
University of Chicago
National Department of Education
The
Association of American Universities
Towa State Teachers
Ilinois
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Pres. Seerler
Onetario
Canada
Unites States
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Chicago University
Massachusetts
Yeschers’ College
Columbia University
Columbia
State Teachers’ College
Russell
Dean Russell
Iowa City
Prent Seerler
Scho
T Bey
Gettlemen
Trewin
Murphy
Daw College
Medical College
University
Agricultural College
Alumi
Relge
Ita
Dairy Show in Iowa Sees Record Attendance and Plans Next Year
The Iowa dairy show crowd at Dairy Show park totals 34,400 attendees with 17,000 to 18,000 paid admissions as exhibitors prepare shipments to Chicago and Milwaukee. Hugh Van Pelt says 1913 plans include a paved 40 foot street, canopied judging arenas, and expanded attractions to raise the show’s scale while avoiding deficits. A proposal to add a county fair component is also discussed as a future feature.
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Hugh van Pelt
Iowa State Dairy Show
Catle Congress
Dairy Show Park
Calle
Chicago
Milwaukee
van Pelt
Exposition Building
Mormon Temple
Fight on Saloon Petition Sparks Temperance Meetings
Announcements at Grace church mass meetings urged men to register and vote in the coming election. Al F. Gates of the Business Men's Temperance Association pushed exhortations to mobilize neighbors, emphasize full registration, and back a new saloon petition to replace a petition ruled insufficient by the supreme court.
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Grace Church
AL F. Gates
Gates
Supreme Court
County Recorder Ballot Questioned for Expertise and Trust
This 1911 county politics piece argues Black Hawk voters should reelect Charles Plummer as county recorder, citing rising filing totals and fees, flawless existing records, and the need for accurate handling of real estate titles amid growing workload. It urges a square-deal vote for the Republican incumbent.
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Recorders Office
Black Hawk County
Charles Plummer
Charles Phimmer
Plummer
Plumjared
Special Board Call on Heaviest Precincts and Ballot Machines
A special board of supervisors meeting is scheduled for Monday Oct 28 to identify the heaviest voting precincts in the county’s two largest cities and to decide how many voting machines to assign per precinct if machines are used. The move will be led by a majority of board members with notice published today. Registration ends next Monday after three days, and deliberations will cover machine limits and use of Australian ballots.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Durand
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce and Labor
John Lee Coulter
Agriculture
Iowa
Wisconsin
Board of Supervisors
Clergy to Consecrate Iowa's First Suffragan Bishop
Rev G W Hinkle travels to Evanston Illinois to assist in the consecration of Rev Harry Sherman Longley J D as Iowa's first suffragan bishop. Bishops from Missouri Iowa Chicago and New York participate with Olmstead delivering the sermon. Longley will live in Des Moines with a $20000 home awaiting him after the ceremony.
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G. W. Hinkle
Evanston, Ill
St. Mark's Church
Harry Sherman Longley
J. D
Iowa
Hinkle
Christ Episcopal Church
Diocese of
Daniel §. Tuttle
Missouri
T. N. Morrison
Charles P. Anderson
Chicago
Rogers Isreal
Erie
William T. Toll
Charles Tyler Olmstead
New York
Long-ley
Des Moines
Minkle
Evanston
Mia. Hinkle
T. W. Place
Christ Episcopal Chiuvch
Parents Seek Lad Who Left Home
Frank Lambertson an 11 year old son of Mr and Mrs M Lambertson of 212 Ricker Street has been missing from home since Thursday night. He wears overalls gray shirt cap shoes and stockings. He has a full face light complexion blue eyes and has been seen in the city but his whereabouts are unknown. Report to parents or police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Lambertson
Beem Foresees Wilson Victory Despite Opposing Buzz
J C Beem secretary of the democratic central committee says Wilson will carry the county by a large majority despite reports of enthusiasm in Iowa. He cites his travels in the Tenth district where he finds little enthusiasm for Wilson and calls Iowa support a bluff. Major Philpot bull moose candidate for congress asserts bluntly that the claim is misleading.
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Wilson
J. C. Beem
Democratic Central Committee
Fort Dodge Messenger
Iowa
Major Philpot
Bull .Mause
Congress
Ileip
Special meeting of Black Hawk county board on voting machines
Notice to C A Rownd and others of Black Hawk county Iowa that a special board of supervisors meeting will be held October 25 1912 at 10 a m in Waterloo courthouse. The purpose is to decide whether voting machines will be used in the coming general election and in which precincts. Witness Rainbow county auditor October 19 1912.
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C. A. Rownd
Char. Virden
David Boomer
Geo. Johnson
John .McQuilkin
Wills Leland
Matt ‘Demuth
Board of Supervisors
Black Hawk County
City of
Waterloo
Prairie towns urge voters to oppose Wilson in tariff debate
The mayor recalls Waterloo business leaders signing against Wilson over free trade, arguing build ing boom and prosperity justify opposing his tariff stance. He notes Fort Dodge mirrors the sentiment, urging residents of Iowa towns to vote against Wilson.
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Bryan
Waterloo
Wilson
Congress
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Notice of Appointmen t of Executrix in Black Hawk County
Notice is hereby given that Margaret Mulqueen has been appointed and qualified as executrix without bond of the estate of Martin Muldeen, deceased, of Black Hawk county. All indebted are asked to pay promptly and those with claims to present them for allowance to Margaret Mulqueen, dated October 11, 1912, Edwards & Longley, Attorneys.
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State of Iowa
Black Hawk County
Maritin Muldeen
Margaret Mulqueen
Edwards & Longley
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Institution At Falls
Ol. Boek
Finantiel Evangelical Church
Lemars
Owa
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Kin Dso
Temperance
Laymee
County Recorder's of
County Recorder
Recorder
Black Hawk
Potson Kerwin
East Fourth Street
Norfolk
Beem
Vd. Rainbow
Nielsen
Thos. Q. Seabrooke
Eldora & Coq
Howard and
Dolores
Motion Pictures
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